Linus and Anik Caught In The "Crossfire"

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Broadcasting the Live good Evening Blockhead Nation. Thank you for stopping by it once

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

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

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

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My name is Brian Little. We
do have an off for the evening.

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There's no fights going on in the
world of MMA. Some of y'all

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might be tuning into the Rumbles.
Some of y'all are waiting tomorrow for the

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conference championship, so hopefully you'll stick
around. On this part, we'll cover

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one of my specialties, which happens
to be the Pea Nuts, the comic

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strip, the TV series, the
movie. If you are new to this

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particular show, there are three things
that are always talked about. Number one,

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God is King. Number two,
Pea Nuts is the single most successful

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comic strip in American history, and
number three, mixed martial arts is the

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greatest sport under God's hot sun.
We do have a bye week and my

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sport usually it's always fight week.
I got plenty to talk about, but

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in this case, we are getting
closer and closer to the Valentine's Day holiday,

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and maybe I can reveal something to
you that you never realized. There

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has been this discussion in the past
that Charlie Brown knows how to break hearts.

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I will tell you in comparison,
not even close to as much as

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Linus will cause controversy with the opposite
sex. In other words, Peppermint Patty

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and Marcy have this go between where
Marshy's the quiet one in the background.

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Pepermint Patty has this weird love hate
relationship with Charlie Brown. Most people think

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that Lucy and Charlie Brown had some
kind of relationship, which is not true.

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Why it's on cake toppers. That
blows my mind. But if we

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just switch over to his best friend, Linus, there have been more than

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one situation where Linus, I guess
you can say, was caught in the

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crossfire. Many times we think the
only one that was infatuated with him was

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Sally, and it's just not true. Sally would be the one who referred

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to him as her and I quote
sweet Baboo. That's pretty clear because Sparky

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was referred to by his wife Jean
as her and I quote sweet Baboo.

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Therefore it got incorporated into the Peanut
comic strip. So if you start there,

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it's infamous to see that Sally is
infatuated with Lionus, when in reality,

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there was more than that. If
we go back to the comic strip,

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there was a summer camp love and
she is very, very difficult to

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find. If you're using the Internet, let me help you. Instead of

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going to Google, you can come
to me. Her name is Truffles.

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Now, as bizarre as that sounds, Truffles comes back and finds Linus,

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which of course means Sally notices this
new chick on the block, and therefore

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you have a confrontation that leads to
Linus sheltering himself on top of his house.

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You know how they say it's better
to be on your roof than be

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inside a home with a wife who
is crossed. In this case, it's

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Linus who ducks and runs when the
girls start to get into it with him.

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They try to go, hey,
what do you think about this Linus?

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And he's nowhere to be found.
Linus, where'd you go? That's

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the story between Sally and Truffles.
Linus never had any interest in Sally whatsoever.

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No matter how many times they turned
her down. Truffles was a one

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time summer fleeing that never detached herself
from Linus. And then if you look

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into the TV show, Charlie Brown
fell in love and I quote with a

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girl after watching her in a honey
shot after a football game. And when

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they finally meet the girl, because
Charlie Brown can't speak for himself, he

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doesn't have the self confidence to do
it, Linus meets and I quote Mary

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Joe who happened to be carrying a
blanket, and he falls in love with

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her. As the term goes,
you even know her name, you bound

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her. It happened in the episode, So we got married Joe, who's

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Linus very much had an interest in
to which we kick over to the other

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unfortunate story. If we go to
the episode why Charlie Brown, Why where

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Lias's friend Janice is facing Luken.
Now that one is debatable as that's not

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the point of the episode. It's
to bring awareness to childhood cancer and to

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bring awareness to leukemia that was on
the rise in the late eighties. So

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if we're gonna look at these four, Linus is caught in the crossfire in

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every way Linus, being the intellectual, can't stand Sally, had a one

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time thing with Truffles and runs for
the hills, literally hanging on to his

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roof apparently, and then fell off
the roof. You got Mary Joe,

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who he actually was interested in in
the TV show, and then you got

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Janis, who it was never clarified, simply he wanted her to win her

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battle with cancer and ultimately she does. So it still has a feel good

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moment to it. So if we're
gonna get into Valentine's Day, Linus has

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a lot more women who will quarrel
over him. In context, if you're

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gonna look at Charlie Brown, he's
only got a couple of them. Love

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is the little red haired girl,
but does she really ever encounter him.

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The only time I really see it
is in the Peanuts movie in twenty fifteen,

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So I'm throwing it out there.
Linus is a lot more of a

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ladies man, whether he wants to
be or not. Now, to continue

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into the recent comic strip that came
out through the Charles Shultz Museum, We're

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gonna shift here a little bit.
It's still cold out there for a lobby

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that are listening. Maybe it's still
snow weather, maybe it's time for you

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to hit the ice skating rink.
Well, if you need an episode to

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watch, you have Snoopy and Peppermint
Patty and what's called She's a Good skate

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Charlie Brown and this one. Snoopy
is a coach, and quite frankly,

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he is a grumpy coach to say
the least. But even through all that,

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he shows at the end what a
softy he truly is. He's always

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barking demands. He's always demanding more
out of Peppermint Patty to where she forms

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exceptionally well, and he still acts
like he's that crabby coach that this is

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not enough. Stop letting your guard
down. Get ready for the next event

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because that's not far around the corner, and it's like, she goes,

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don't you have anything good to say? In response, he gives a soft

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kiss on her cheek and she smiles
and goes that good huh, coach.

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So, if you're needing something related
to not so much Valentine's but related to

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winter, you find out that Snoopy
really can be interchangeable and be anything.

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But he's actually a very good skating
coach. But in reality, he's more

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of a softing than he lets on. That was one of the most release

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recent comic strips that came out of
the Charles Schultz Museum, So I wanted

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to kind of give that one out
there now if I can, I'd like

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to give one last small little snippet. I've got a lot of you that

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are friends of mine that are in
the Blockhead nation and are saying Blockhead,

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can you give a few words of
advice? Can you give some of those

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motivational moments. Can you take a
snippet here and there and just kind of

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talk to me? You know a
lot about peanuts. Can you just talk

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to your listeners? And I'll certainly
be happy to do that. But while

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we're on part one, can I
just make sure it's within context? Can

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I use something that Linus once used
to get Charlie Brown out of bed and

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back into the real world. I'm
gonna use it if you are hitting a

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rough patch in life, if you
have heightened levels of anxiety, if it's

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Valentine's and you didn't get that invite
from that particular girl, or maybe you

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get that one date and that's where
it ends. I don't know what struggles.

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You might be carring, okay,
and I'm not a licensed psychiatric booth

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like Lucy okay, But if I
can give you one thing to consider.

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Linus was speaking Charlie Brown's language when
he said to him, I understand how

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you feel. You worked hard and
this didn't work out. Everything fell.

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But as he walks away, he'll
look at Charlie Brown and say, but

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did you notice something, Charlie Brown, to which Charlie Brown replies, what's

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that? And Linus, with all
the confidence in the world, clutching his

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blanket, looks at him and says, the world did not come to an

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end. Friends. We know there
will come a day when our life ends.

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We know there will come a time
when this too shall pass. You

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know those trophies one day are gonna
collect dust. I ask you to focus

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on what's most important to you.
We may be close to Valentine's Day.

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But in that statement, Charlie Brown
gets out of bed, he puts on

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one shoe after the other. He
goes out, fully dressed, faces the

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world and enjoys his day. May
I throw that out there. Whatever you

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might be facing now in the moment, you may have to continue to weather

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the storm. I'm going to remind
you again, just as lions did to

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Charlie Brown, the world did not
come to an end. Our scripture in

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for this podcast comes from Psalm one
hundred and eighteen, verse one hundred and

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fourteen. Thou art my hiding place
and my shield. I hope in thy

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word. Reflection from Blue Letter Bible
says the Lord's promises to protect us from

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the attacks of our enemy, the
devil. It is in God's word that

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we find the salvation that gives us
hope to live. I always want to

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share the absolute truth, and I
believe you will find that in God's word.

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Blockhead Nation. As we shift into
just a few quick thoughts that have

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really kind of rattled the cage in
the MMA world. Now, first of

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all, we have a brand new
middleweight champion, Drecis Duplessis was able to

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get the decision over Sean Strickland.
Now I've went back and looked at the

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highlight reels. I've gone back and
seen as much as I can about this

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fight. I've looked at the debates
back and forth, trying to see where

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it's evident and clear that Duplessis did
not win the fight. I know there

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was an act headbutt that Strickland was
not quiet about in response to shifting the

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fight into Dupless's favor. But when
I go back and look, it doesn't

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stop the fact that Sean Strickland is
still a pr nightmare and really nobody is

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safe when it comes to him,
whether it's the LBGT community or whether it's

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the woke culture. He has plenty
to say and he will continue to go

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after you. He's got many bullets
in the chamber for any of those when

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he gets on the microphone. And
this is a guy that's just really harmed

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to control. But in reality,
that fight could have gone either way.

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It really could. And it comes
down to we're gonna have to shift and

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look at the commentary. It's easy
for me to go and look at the

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judges, but something has happened this
last week that's made me go, okay,

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we gotta stop and talk for a
minute. John Annick, a very

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respectful commentator for the UFC, was
on the podcast in the Anak and Florian

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podcast. Now let me help you
those that are not familiar with this.

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John Annik and a former UFC fighter
by the name of Kenny Florian are known

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for doing a podcast together. Now
they're really just creating content. They're kicking

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around some ideas, and John makes
the comment that he is really getting tired

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of the toxicity coming out of the
MMA fan base, and what I see

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as a fan on my end,
looks like he is saying he is about

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to retire from being a commentator.
He's about to retire from the broadcast booth.

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Now hear me out, This is
nothing more than speculation. This is

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basically coming from something called the dirt
sheets. Most of the time when I

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see this, it's coming from websites
like MMA Mania, mma Fighting dot Com.

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These are well known for stirring the
pot, and it looks like they

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are kicking dust into the face of
John Annick simply for speaking his mind.

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Okay, And when we listen to
his casual conversation with Kenny, he hints

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at he's tired of people that come
out on x formerly known as Twitter.

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He's tired of the YouTube comments where
everybody's in attack mode, which, right

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there is your problem. Okay.
If you're looking at TikTok and you're seeing

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the responses coming back, these are
people that are quick to respond and want

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to lash out against somebody like John
Annick simply for saying that he believed that

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dupless Us won the fight, simply
from being as objective as he possibly can.

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It's not up to the commentary,
it's not up to the referee,

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it's not up to the cormt it's
not to us fans. It is up

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to the judges to make the final
decision. This went to a split decision,

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which even in the post fight Sean
Strickland is not quiet about anything and

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everything. Every topic is on the
table. But John Annix simply just says

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he's really getting tired of this and
I quote lowest common denominator and that seems

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to be the phrase that kicked over
the hornet's nest, and everybody's coming out

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of the woodwork and going after John
Anick in a very distasteful way. Now,

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I'm gonna put it like this,
those of you that are Blockcannation fans,

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I know you're out there because I
keep looking at the data every week,

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but there's not a whole lot that
you say. I may have TikTok

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not long ago saying that podcast listeners
tend to be quieter when it comes to

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comments on YouTube. Most of the
time, these are done in a moment

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of anger. They're done out of
compulsion, they are done without any filter

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whatsoever. These are the ones that
speak out with so much passion and so

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much vitriol. And I don't want
to say it's the smarter ones. It's

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not always true, but there is
a very intellectual base for MMA, for

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podcasting, or for any other content
creation out there that just don't swoop in

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and come to the rescue. We
are keeping quiet and allowing for John Anick

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to stand up for himself. And
he sends out this tweet not long ago

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saying that he apologized as if he
offended anybody. I don't believe that John

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ank owns anybody an apology. In
all fairness, it is really hard for

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anyone to fill the shoes of what
who used to be the voice of the

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UFC known as Mike Goldberg. You
had Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg that were

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the Batman and Robin MMA commentary and
the time you could hear Mike Goldberg's if

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you followed him over to Bellator MMA
and it is all over just like that.

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It is not a fair assessment to
say that John Annik belongs in the

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same category. This is a guy
who is trying as professionally as he possibly

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can to fill Mike Goldberg's shoes.
And here we are with all this vitriol

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being thrown back in his face,
and he's also something else. I'm gonna

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remind you again if you're an MMA
fan, he's one of you. He

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is a fan just like me.
He is a fan just like the rest

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of you that are MMA fans.
He loves the sport, he wants to

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be as objective as he can.
And it's not only him that thought,

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hey, Dupless's possibly won this fight. It's also a professional that he shares

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a podcast with, known as Kenny
Florian, who said the same thing.

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There's another professional out there that I
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by the name of Demetrius Johnson,
who also believed that Duplesses deserve to win

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the fight. Chale Sonnen, who
has possibly the most successful podcast in the

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MMA Realm, said, dupless Us, beyond a shadow of a doubt,

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won this fight. So do we
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for them to run it back?
Maybe not, maybe not if Israel Attasanya

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returns, but I'm gonna throw it
here John Annitt threatening to quit over fantoxicity

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coming from this quote least common denominator. I don't think he has anything to

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apologize for. It's the ones who
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in the background that don't say anything, who don't swoop in and say,

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hey, will you back off of
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don't do that very often. We
allow you to build patients, to build

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a backbone, and continue to do
what you do well. I think John

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Ays should just ride this storm out
a little bit further and we'll kick it

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on down the road until he gets
to Anaheim, and that's where we pick

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it up again, and it will
become quickly yesterday's news, rints, wash,

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repeat, whatever direction you want to
go on that one. We have

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a new champion, we have a
former champion, we have one who might

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return. There's still a trifecta that
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division. And I think John Annik
has been more than objectional and been quite

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a fair minded and level headed voice
of reason amongst some of the others out

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there who have no business shouting this
from their couch or even saying this from

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a microphone plugged into a computer,
John Annick, keep doing what you're doing,

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because some of us are still somewhat
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what you do on a weekly basis. So I'll throw that out there just

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simply that even though John Anick is
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while and eventually we'll come back around
to others sports news, we have some

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breaking information that Tom Aspinall continues to
sit it out, not by his own

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choosing, but that steep A Miochic
has made it clear that he wants the

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John Jones fight, that he does
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Now I'm not saying this is exactly
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think too often about how Chris Leban
was told by his coaches before he faced

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Andrews and Silva, do not take
this fight on such short notice. And

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Chris Leban fell into the footnotes of
history as Andrews Silva swept through him and

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Rich Franklin and so many others that
were on his hit list over the next

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ten plus years. All I mean
is I don't want to write off step

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A so fast. I can understand
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or the guy that is considered arguably
the greatest MMA fighter of all time,

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and really because a lot of his
genetics that work in his favor. What

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is that an eighty five centch reach
that he's got. Who else can you

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name that has that reach advantage like
John Jones does? That is just an

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athletic specimen. Who else can you
say that it's been able to do what

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John Jones has done, clean or
unclean. It's just a rough spot for

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Tom Aspinall to be. And so
we have a winner of Almeda versus Blades,

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which I still think Blades versus Aspinall
should run it back and we can

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have a defined interim champion. People
forget about that one quite often. But

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we're hanging out there as we do
this now to have some fun. As

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I wrap this up, there are
no fights going on tonight, but please

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know that there is a treasure waiting
for you next week. It happens to

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be the co main event. Not
to be fair, this is becoming quickly

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one of the little red haired girls
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Now to clarify why she likes him, I started introducing her to Drew

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Dover and she said, ah,
the Dover Boys, I like him already.

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If you don't know, it's not
just that myself and the little red

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haired girl are Peanuts fans. We
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One of the top one hundred greatest
cartoons of old time was called The

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Dover Boys. Okay, if you've
never seen that old cartoon, let me

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help you. It's three guys by
the name of Dover, all to defend

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a girl who is a girlfriend of
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It's a long story. It's a
seven minute spill of three guys who

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are interested in her, and they
have different tactics, but either way,

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they're called the Dover Boys. So
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she said, oh, Dover Boy, I like him already. That's cute

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and it's easy to remember. But
let me just say that Drew Dover,

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who is a serious problem for the
lightweights, who can easily be a huge

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MMA fan favorite, who has thunderous
hands, and who happens to have amazing

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wrestling. We'll be facing a very
skilled mixed martial artist who's trying to hold

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on to his rankings known as Rento
Moikano. You are seeing two very contrasting

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styles in this co main event next
week that has me super excited about the

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results. But I am certainly being
a fanboy in saying I want Drew Dover

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to pull this one out. I
simply happen to like this fighter. I

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respect Renanto Mikano, and if Micano
wins, all I can say, just

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like in the cartoon, con found
that Renano Moikano, or if Dover lows

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is confound that Dover Boy for not
getting the job done, if for not

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making his way into the top ten
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But this is one of those hidden
treasures in the midst of all these great

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fights coming up for twenty twenty four
that you don't want to miss out on

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Blockhead Nation. There's always diamonds in
the rough, and I'm happy to bring

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him to you. I'll go into
more detail next week about moy Kano versus

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the Dover Boy. I'm sorry,
Drew Dover and I will be talking with

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you next week. As I always
say, same blockhead time, Same blockhead. Champl