Cherry Picking The Franklin Tree

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Podcasting Live. Good afternoon, Blockhead
Nation. Thank you for stopping by.

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

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the podcasting 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'm sitting in here in the Blockhead

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mansion with my dogs doing some dog
sitting, so I want to get that

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out of the way. If the
audio quality is a little bit off,

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or if there's noise and promotion in
the background, that's probably why. So

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to begin with, if you are
new to this episode, new to this

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podcast, I'm glad you're here,
but I've prompted a few of you all

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ready to come by because I've got
something I'm gonna get off my chest on

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this episode. I'm gonna begin with
that there are some positives in this new

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episode that's coming out on Apple TV. I will begin there. I'll start

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with the affirmative you have Black History
Month that I absolutely support, especially historical

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heroes. Charles Schultz had the track
record for being an advocate for human equality.

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All you have to do is look
at the comic strip, and that

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is what I believed when I started
to watch this sneak preview of this new

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episode that's out that's coming out on
Apple TV. You might have seen it

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advertised on your phone. That's called
Welcome Home Franklin. I will start off

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with Franklin is absolutely one of my
favorite characters of all time. I absolutely

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love this kid, and I believe
that the episode. Just looking at the

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sneak preview to begin with, this
is not me dissecting everything about the episode.

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I will watch it when it's released. I saw some good things right

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away about it. I saw that
all Franklin wanted moving into this new town

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was to be included. And just
when you would think all hope is lost,

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a beach ball floats past him in
the ocean. That is absolutely accurate

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when you are depicting the comic strip, because this is how you first meet

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Franklin. Charlie Brown has lost his
beach ball, and Franklin is returning said

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beach ball to Charlie Brown. Again, that is accurate. These are positive

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things that I'm seeing already in this
Welcome Home Franklin TV special on Apple TV

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and sharing the positive and I love
the fact that the first friend he makes

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is none other than America's favorite blockhead. I'm your favorite blockhead, but the

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Numero una will always be Charlie Brown
and Sparky Charles Schultz. So the episode,

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well, the sneak preview I'm seeing
so far before I see this in

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depth is going on and showing that
there's gonna be a big Derby race and

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Franklin or Charlie Brown are using their
skills to create a Derby cart for the

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race. It looks like they're going
to win. I think we're left in

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a little bit of suspense, which
is good, and all the characters being

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shown, so it's very celebratory,
and again that's good in historical context.

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Charles Schultz, when Martin Luther King
Junior was assassinated, received a letter from

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a teacher asking him to be more
inclusive of African Americans. Could you include

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a character that could be portrayed in
this very popular comic strip, Because trusts

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me when I say Peanuts is the
single most successful comic strip in American history.

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There are others that you might love
and adore, but there's not one

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of them in recent history that has
not been affected by or influenced by more

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than Sparky, more than Charles Schultz. There will always be friendly competition in

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the world of Calvin Hobbes or Garfield
or some of the others that came out

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later. All of them, in
some way, shape or form, were

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influenced by Charlie brown Snoopy linus in
the Gang. So this episode looks very

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promising. I'm very excited about watching
the majority of it. Now that I

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have shared the positives of Welcome Home
Franklin, I'm going to share the negative.

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I'm going to share the opposite side, where I continue to see the

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rewriting of Charles Schultz's history. For
the last few years. And I'm saying

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this as calmly as I can,
there has been a false portrayal of Franklin

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that is perpetrated and been spread all
across the internet spectrum. Dealing with the

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Thanksgiving episode where Franklin is introduced into
the TV special and Charlie Brown is making

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Thanksgiving dinner for Peppermint Patty, Marcy
and Franklin who Peppermint Patty and byed herself

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and everybody else out of nowhere,
out of left field, they show up

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at Charlie Brown's house and they are
given a very strange combination of food,

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because what kid could cook a Thanksgiving
Day dinner when there's no adults in the

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background. Now there will be one. The grandparents will be involved, and

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that's gonna bring my negative connotation and
the misconceptions I'm attending to full circle.

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There is a scene and Welcome Home
Franklin where they are showing just liking the

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Thanksgiving episode where Franklin is sitting alone
on the not really alone, but he's

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sitting on the opposite side of the
table and nobody is sitting on either side

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of him. He is included at
the table completely. Now there has been

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this again false interpretation of what's really
happening, because if you look at the

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picture, you would think it'd be
like, oh, Franklin doesn't have to

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sit alone in this new special,
because they're going to invite him to the

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other side and they're all going to
celebrate pizza and grape drink or what root

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beer, whatever their bears are gonna
be. They're brought onto the other side

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and he gets to sit with his
friends on the other side. Okay,

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here we go. First of all, if you go back through the TV

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special. You have to realize that
the chair that he was sitting in was

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for comedic relief. It was because
Snoopy and that chair had had a fight

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earlier. I guess you can call
it a draw. But what made it

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hilarious was the gentleman Lionus and Charlie
brann are helping the ladies be seated first.

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I'm sure that's called chivalry. I'm
sure that's showing manners seating the ladies

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first. A lot of us that
grew up in the South understand that concept.

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And then Franklin sits on the opposite
side by his own choice, and

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he falls into the chair because it's
the same chair that Snoopy fought. That

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was not intentional, That was comedic
relief. And what we have done is

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looked at this one scene in the
entire Thanksgiving episode said, oh, Charles

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Schultz must have been a racist,
because Franklin is sitting on the opposite side

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by himself, God forbid, like
a king, with plenty of room to

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stretch out. He still provided a
spot at the table. But we look

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at that and go all, I
never thought of how non included he was.

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Please cut the freaking crap. I
never heard such bull in All My

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Life. Charles Schultz introduced Franklin into
the comic strip post Martin Luther King's assassination

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by the request of this teacher,
and showed him to be a helpful person,

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providing Charlie Brown his beach ball,
and they become friends. Linus and

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Franklin become friends. He has loved
amongst that cast. And at some point

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Southern Publishers told carl Schultz and I
quote to stop publishing this African American kid

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in your comic strip. What was
Sparky's response? You either print Franklin exactly

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as I've drawn him, or I
quit. How about that? Oh you

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missed that part? Did you?
About Charles Schultz having the backbone to stand

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up for his character? And if
he is so non included in the Thanksgiving

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episode, then tell me, pray
tell why is he allowed at the end

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of the episode when they all go
to Grandma's house. Why is he allowed

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to sit in the back of the
station wagon with all the other friends?

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Oh? You forgot that little part? Did you? You forgot about the

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part that when they're all invited to
Charlie Brown's Grandma's house or Thanksgiving dinner,

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he gets to come along and sits
in the station wagon with everybody else.

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That looks like inclusivity to me.
That looks like human equality to me.

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But you, Apple TV and everybody
else that has falsely believed that Charles Schultz

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excluded this character are believing a bunch
of cherry picking. And I am so

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sick to death of cherry picking of
the Peanuts comic strip. And if you

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want more examples, I will gladly
bring them to you. And if I've

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lost listeners because of this, it's
not because I'm yelling at you. It's

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because I'm sick of this concept.
It's because I'm fired up for all the

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right reasons. Charles Shultz doesn't defend
me, doesn't need me to defend him.

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But I'm gonna keep on fighting this
battle. I'll be the one in

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the left field holding a glove on
my hand and just standing there and going,

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hey, you're missing the point.
Could this be a very positive episode

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of Welcome Home Franklin? Absolutely,
I support it for Black History Month.

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I'm so happy that Franklin gets to
tell his story. But you are telling

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that element incorrectly. It's the false
history of the Peanuts comic strip and of

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the TV show and of the movie
that beautifully depicted Franklin. You got to

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stop getting your hooks into all these
people walk culture and telling the story inaccurately,

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inadequately, and let a historian like
me come face to face with you

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and we'll talk. Hey, did
you hear that's what my wise philosopher once

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said about blockheads? Neither do I
I'm not gonna pretend like I know,

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because i ain't gonna tell you.
I'm gonna go calm down. I'm gonna

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go garble some water, and I'm
gonna get ready for part two. Our

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scripturean for this podcast comes from John
chapter six, verse four. And this

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is the will of him that sent
me that everyone which seeth the Sun and

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believeth on him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at

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the last day. My prayer for
you, blockhead Nations, that we would

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see the indescribable hope there's displayed here
in the chapter of John, that we

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will continue to see his image and
under his tremendous love and his tremendous grace

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throughout the day. That's my gift
to you today, blockhead Nation, Because

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even though you just heard me go
off on quiet a tangent, and I

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still think rightfully so, because I'm
so sick of society and culture depicting the

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Peanuts the way they see fit.
Or maybe you just didn't see it that

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way. It comes down to three
things on this on this podcast. Number

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one, God is King. Number
two, Peanuts is the single most successful

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comic strip in American history. And
number three, I try to convince you

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quite often that mixed martial arts is
the greatest sport under God's hot sun,

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but it certainly has its flaws.
I'm only going to spend time on three

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particular topics. Last week's co main
event and last week's main event. It

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was at the Apex in Las Vegas, so UFC Fight Night. We had

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a co main event that I was
really excited for, which was Rona Do

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Makano versus. And I did mention
in my last episode. I'm not saying

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I got everything right. I'm just
showing to you. I'm conveying that Drew

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Dover is the one that had the
power in his hands. If what Kano

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is going to use his wrestling defense
and he's gonna take it to the ground,

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He's gonna dominate with his jiu jitsu, which that's what he did for

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the first round. Second round,
they all gave a unanimous decision, but

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I think the second round could have
gone either way, as Dober actually did

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connect and what ConA was cut,
I'm not really sure if it was from

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either something accidental or if it was
from a short elbow, but either way,

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Dover was getting in some really solid
punches in there. But again I

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said, whoever's wrestling defense is more
crisp is going to dominate this fight,

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and that was moy Kano all the
way around, especially the third round.

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So when people are frustrated and saying
I don't want to see a bunch of

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guys rolling around ground, you gotta
understand this is the part of the mixed

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martial arts that's coming into play.
If you're not gonna handle somebody with strength

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on your feet, then they're going, as they say to the mattresses,

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it's gonna be grappling. And clearly
that favored money Moakano. And we get

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to his post fight interview, and
again I really don't want to jump the

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gun too quickly and say maybe we
have a new King of Cringe. Most

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would still say that that crown belongs
to Henry Sahudo, and I think that

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will be portrayed when he faces motorab
Da Wallace Villi. But bringing it to

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Whatkanum gets on the microphone, he
literally hijacks the microphone from Daniel Cormier.

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I think we need to be reminded
of something. I don't always like what

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DC has to say in commentary on
the microphone. I think he was a

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better fighter than he was a commentator. But I'm pretty sure that his job

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when he does post fight interviews with
the winner of a fight, his job

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is to promote you. That's not
what happened. Mokano completely steals the microphone.

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I wouldn't even say steals the limelight. He stole brain cells from me.

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I'm questioning if I'm seeing CTE in
action when I'm hearing all of this

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psychobabble coming out of Molicano. I
understand, you want to promote and cut

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a promo. You want to promote
yourself, you want to get known to

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the public eye. But DC was
not even given a chance. Dale Cormier

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had no chance to show the highlight
reels that again promote you the fighter.

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He had no chance to prompt any
questions. As a podcaster, I would

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have pulled the plug a long time
ago and said, hey, we're not

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getting anywhere with this interview. That's
just from my perspective of somebody who is

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a gracious host. If I can't
get the reins back, I take them

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back. Hasn't happened often on this
episode, but that's what happened to Daniel

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Cormier. I think more Conna showed
a phenomenal level of disrespect doing this.

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But when you have let's just dissect
a few things he said. He mentions

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that his dad is in his sixties
and now his wife's having a baby,

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So therefore, what Conna's gonna go
home and get his wife pregnant? And

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all the time me and the little
red hair girl are going, what's this

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got to do with your fight?
It really is hard to defend this level

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of cringe, but it certainly got
everybody's attention. So it's really hard to

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weigh the pros and cons when you
are that animated, and when you say

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that you want to fight, make
money and eventually become part of the swat

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team in America. Okay, thanks
for the ambition, appreciate that. But

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then he says something that is really
hard to defend, blockad nation. He

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uses the F word and church in
the same contact. Y'all that come to

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my show know that I don't curse
on here. I don't want to be

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a stumbling block. If I'm quoting
a scripture of the day. This is

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the personalize for just a second.
If I'm using a scripture of the day,

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I'd better be careful with the choice
of words that I have. This

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is hard to defend when you say
we want people to go to effing church

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and fix what's wrong in America.
I don't know if you've read Revelation,

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it's not gonna get any better.
I don't know if you know if we're

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gonna go scientific, the second law
thermodynamic says, it's not going to get

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any better. Okay, find the
good way you can. And I appreciate

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some patriotism, but once again,
I absolutely defend Daniel Cormier and say that

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he there to promote you, not
the other way around. And I think

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it depends on what Triple C Henry
Sajudo's gonna say when he comes back on

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the microphone. If he's gonna steal
that limelight from Moy Connor, because I

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think you have the most cringe promo
of the year. Something is the best

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promo of the year. Did you
understand what he was saying? Did you

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understand why this even mattered in the
context of his fight with Drew Dover.

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You didn't get a chance to defend, to talk about any of your moves,

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any of your grappling, any of
your submission attempts, any of your

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takedown defense, any of your control
time. Nothing was talked about here,

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but from a marketing standpoint, it
got people's attention, and what also has

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people's attention, This is a lot
to unpackage main event. Wasn't that exciting

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to watch middleweight bout between Roman d'aliesde. I keep getting his name wrong and

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the other guy's name is even hard
to say. The starting I'm of off

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who got the majority of decision.
Now Roman really doesn't have a lot of

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power in his hands. And the
MMA guru on YouTube giving you a shout

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out has said the same thing that
those of you that are automatically getting behind

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Roman don't know enough about MMA because
of who I'm avov is. I think

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the only thing that comes down to
is to these days record. Was he

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had just finished off Jack Hermannson not
long ago. Her Manson's fighting tonight in

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the main event against the up and
coming prospect Joe Pifer. So Roman had

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a lot going for him in this
fight. But then we have a technicality.

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This is where my sport really gets
hard to devent. I'm Avov has

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Roman. This is not even in
a grounded position. He has him in

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a three point stance. Go back
and watch it. He's not down on

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both knees. And there's what Herb
Dean deemed as an illegal kick to the

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head. And we have a toe
ipoke. Okay, this time it's not

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even an eepoke with the gloves because
your hands aren't aren't bent, and your

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fingers are not pointing in a downward
position. This is literally the toe catching

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Roman and the eye. Quite a
warrior to come back from that and continue

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the fight. But this is where
excuse my turn, but all hell breaks

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loose because i'm Avov is told that
by Dean this is an illegal kick,

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and then we're gonna examine Roman.
Meanwhile, a guy who got a eye

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full of finger from i'm Avov not
long ago is Chris Curtis. Chris Curtis's

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cage side, and i'm Avov and
Curtis exchanged words, they exchange middle fingers,

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and i'm Avov's about to jump the
cage and Herb Dean's having to hold

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him back and saying, I will
disqualify you. I will disqualify you.

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It was almost a melee. We
almost had Kabee jumping the cage all over

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again, this time at the Apex. Now to bring it back, a

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grounded opponent getting kicked in the head. If you want to look at what

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the Nevada Athletic State Commission says,
this is actually more under Boxing Commission rules

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is that parts of their legs or
their hands have to be fully on the

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ground. If both knees are down, this is a grounded opponent. It's

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an illegal kick or an illegal punch
to the head. He's in a three

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point stance, He's trying to catch
his wind a little bit and the kick

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catches him in the eye. Is
that, really, by the rules a

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grounded opponent. We've seen this happen. We've seen al Jamain Sterling on the

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receiving end of an illegal need of
the head by Pewter Yawn. We've seen

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Johnny walker get an illegal need need
to hit as a grounded opponent. These

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are clear and very much defying the
rules. This has happened. This one

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becomes a gray area. But either
way, i'm avov has poked Roman in

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the eye, he gets to take
his full time to recover. A'movov's ready

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to throw down with Chris Curtis who
has been poked in the eye by him

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in the prior fight, and that
is an easy, easy narrative to build

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up a fight a rematch between Chris
Curtis and i'moov. So that's a lot

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to unpackage block inad nation, It's
a whole lot. Did we really have

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a broken record here? And don't
think that Herb Dean for one second is

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a pushover. This guy started his
career in the octagon and became a very

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good referee, but he's depicting this
as a grounded opponent. Once again,

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we have the misconstrued into what the
rules are. Do we allow twelve to

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six LM? Do we allow a
soccer kick? Do we allow grounded upon?

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What's considered a grounded opponent If you're
in a three point stance and your

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knees are still up in the air
is then illegal kick. Well, it's

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certainly a chance for him to recoup
when you have an ipoke from a toe

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in the eye, which is unfortunate. So it's a conundrum. This is

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an absolute debacle going on here and
we don't really have a great fight coming

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out of it. But again,
I guess I had my figures wrong when

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it came to Roman, just based
on his last performance against Jack her Manson,

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knowing that i'movov can do this kind
of damage, especially a guy who

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can do damage with his elbows.
So either way, that's to wrap up

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the Komaane and the main event from
the Apex. Moving on to tonight,

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Jack her Manson, the veteran the
Expert is coming in against the most one

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of the easily most promised prospects Dana
White's Contender series, a guy who I

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believe already is a star, but
one day he will be on the lips

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of everybody that's familiar with mixed martial
arts. When you think UFC, most

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you think Connor McGregor. It wouldn't
surprise me if there's a few names out

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there that you would one day associate
with the UFC. One of them would

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be Chill Pifer. Another one could
be Bo Nickel in the near future.

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Another could be Ian Gary. In
my heart, I wish it would be

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somebody like Drew Dover if you will
listen to my last episode the Dover Boy.

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Long story there if you haven't followed
the narrative, but either way,

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we got a great main event tonight, Jack Hermanson versus Joe Pifer, the

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veteran versus the contender, Old line
against young line. In anyways, but

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don't count at her Manson yet because
this guy is a psycho when it comes

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to grappling. If you take it
to the mattresses, you're gonna have an

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interesting night. You got a co
made event between two great fighters. I

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happen to be a huge fan of
fifty K Dan Egay who's getting a chance

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to come back up the rankings against
another promising fighter known as Andre Feely.

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So Phielee versus Egay. Excellent fight, her Manson versus Piper. Super excited

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for this one. I hope you
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