March 15, 2025

Unique Blurring Of Fact And Fiction

Unique Blurring Of Fact And Fiction

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Broadcasting live good evening, Blockhead Nation, and thank you for

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stopping by. Once again. You are listening to your favorite Blockhead,

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the only podcast in the podcasting world that can somehow

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incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host. My name is Brian Little. Thank

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you for coming by. I appreciate you just understanding that

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there was no power over here at the Blockhead Mansion.

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A week ago. The Dallas Fort Worth area got hit

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really hard, and now it's really the West Texas area

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roofs of neighborhoods and suburban areas. So I'm just throwing

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listens in the downloads coming. So who am I starting

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off the show right away with someone very unique? Somebody

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that the Charles Schultz Museum gave a spotlight too this week,

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because I love when they do. Q and A's makes

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it really easy where you can pull comic strips from

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the fifties and the sixties and the eighties and just

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see how relevant they are. So who's in the spotlight

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this week? Woodstock? Because we really don't know what type

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of bird that Woodstock is. It was asked by a

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fan coming out of California, what type of bird is

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Woodstock based on? And really the answer is, we don't know.

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Woodstock started off as a very descriptive bird going back

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to the fifties, and then as the sixties went on,

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he had a little more in depth to him, but

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by the eighties, we still don't know. So this is

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a quote that came off of the Charles Schultz Museum,

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even Woodstock doesn't know what type of bird he is,

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and in a failed effort, Snoopy tried to help, even

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resorting to a field guide. Some have speculated that he

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might have been of the crow family. He might have

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been a cuckoo. He might have been a Canadian goose

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for all we know, or some type of a warbler

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if you are into description of birds. We just don't know.

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He's not based on any particular kind, which makes Woodstock

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one of a kind. Okay, this is from Charles Schultz himself.

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Woodstock's introduction is as good as a demonstration of how

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some things cannot work until they're drawn properly. The birds

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that appeared earlier were drawn into be realistic and to

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be funny, but they were too realistic. So what Sparky

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does is he loosens up his style, which allows Woodstock

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to gradually develop. So looking at a few of the

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comic strips from the archives, the one from nineteen fifty

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three is very descriptive, where Snoopy is disgusted by the

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bird pulling a worm out of the ground. Early bird

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gets the worm, Snoopy's not impressed. There's one where we

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have no dialogue coming from Woodstock, but he's clearly ticked

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off about something, but he's clumsy and he walks right

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off of Snoopy's doghouse. Then, finally, in the eighties, you

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have one where Snoopy says, I give up, I don't

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know what kind of bird you are, For all I

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know you're a duck. Well that might have been the

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breaking point, because poor little Woodstock all starts to sniffle

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and starts to tug at Snoopy's heartstrings, and he goes

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over and gives him a hug and says, I'm sorry,

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little friend, I was too hasty on that one. I

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guess Woodstock is offended by being called a duck. But

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these are all examples of how Schultz would eventually begin

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drawing the little Birdie that we all know and that

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we all love today. But there isn't a lot of

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clarification on it. So that is the honest truth when

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it comes to Woodstock. But being in the spotlight that

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is fair. Now, another thing I want to address on

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this show. Since this is a show that talks about

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peanuts and mma, it has been brought to Blockhead's attention,

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maybe you should go back and do another tournament bracket

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mean in the past, several podcasts ago, there was a

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time when we talked about, Hey, what would happen if

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we took the females of the Peanuts comic strip and

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put them in the octagon just like they would for

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the UFC. Who would win? And I had a little

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bit of fun with that at first. But here's the problem.

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Knowing the comic strip know in the TV show as

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Blockhead does, even discussing this with the little red haired girl,

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we run into a conundrum. We hit the wall on

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this one because because even if you do, if you

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pair up anybody that is a male character and put

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them in an octagon, your final two fighters beyond the

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shadow of a Doubt are going to be Franklin and Snoopy. Okay,

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why do I say that? I'm pretty sure Franklin can

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take care of himself against any of the adversaries that

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would come his way. Charlie Brown just doesn't have what

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it takes. If he can't get it done on the

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pitcher's mound, how could he get done with the gloves

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on inside of the cage? He can't. Lionus is a

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little bit too much of a philosophical and it would

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need his security blanket. In some way, Schroer be distracted

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by Beethoven. But you know, we laid all these things out,

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but it would come down to the finale. It would

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be between Franklin and Snoopy. And even though that would

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be a good fight, we are convinced that means Blockhead

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and the Little Red hair Girl. We are convinced that

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Snoopy would win because Snoopy has defeated Lucy and others

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in the strip that are considered athletic or at least

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some semi athletic at some point another, whether it was

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arm wrestling or legitimate boxing in the backyard, these have

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happened to Blockhead Nation. If you go to the female side,

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you've always had a struggle for power between the tomboy

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Peppermint Patty and Lucy the fuss budget, and neither one

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of them want to give up power. So if you

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even did a tournament bracket in for any of the

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females in the Peanuts, we are convinced it would come

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down to those two. And because neither one of them

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will go down without swing, because Marcia will certainly never

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turn on Peppermint Patty, and because the rest of the

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crew would become cornermen for Lucy. We are convinced that

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it would probably go to the judge's scorecards for a decision.

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It would be in the hands of the judges, and

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neither one would be satisfied with the outcome. Whether it's

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a majority draw, split decision, it doesn't matter, and they

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will protest it. Lucy will cry foul or somehow Peppermint

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pay would manipulate it to where she won the fight

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even if she loses. So I'm letting you know a

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blockade Nation. As much as I would love to do

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a tournament bracket over here, it wouldn't be maybe a

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one and done thing, but it'd be done in less

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than a month. I mean, you have March Madness coming up,

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you got tournaments that are going on. Anyway, as much

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as I'd love to run a tournament bracket for the

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peanuts inside an octagon, I'm convinced of the outcomes. So

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I don't want to lead you on and insult your

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intelligence unless you feel you you could give me something

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to debate which would end up on the podcast. So

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blockad Nation. If you can think of any other outcome

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other than the males or the females to where it

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would come down to Snoopy versus Franklin, and somehow Snoopy

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would get the win, maybe an underhanded way, but you

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still get the win somehow. And we're convinced that Lucy

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and Peppermint Patty would go to the judge's scorecards. If

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you can give me a legitimate reason why that wouldn't

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be the truth, blockad nation, please reach out. You can

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reach out on Facebook, you can reach out on Instagram,

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you can reach out on TikTok, you can reach out

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on the blog. There are ways to leave comments if

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you want to debate this, the door is open for you.

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Blockad Nation. As we shift into the scripture of the day,

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which is absolutely truth. Our scriptureian for this podcast comes

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from Hebrews, chapter nine, verse fifteen. And for this cause,

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he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by

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means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that

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were under the First Testament, they which are called might

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receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Reflection from Blue Lay

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Bible says, what could Moses and his covenant offer but

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the looming scepter of death? The law which was impossibly harsh,

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was but a servant, bringing those under it to the

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inevitable conclusion of awaiting doom. Yet the mediator of the

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New Covenant is far greater than the law. His blood

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speaks better things than the death and vengeful demand for

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which Abel's blood cried. His blood speaks life, and that

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eternal life, everlasting, is promised to all those who believe.

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Blockhead Nations, So believe, rejoice, take hold of the very

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promised rest of Christ. Just as I put most of

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part one of this podcast into your hands, Blockhad Nation,

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I'm doing the same thing with this one. But if

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I can, I'm gonna give you a couple of examples.

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There was a show that some of you might have

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watched growing up. There was very true crime based called

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Beyond Belief. I believe it ran from nineteen ninety seven

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to about two thousand and two. It had several seasons,

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and let's just say some of those were fiction, but

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some of them were true. For instance, there was an

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episode of a kid who went and played hide and

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seek in a closet and they never saw him again,

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fact or fiction. There was one about a weatherman who

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made up all of these horrible disasters coming upon the

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city there weren't true. He wanted ratings, and next thing

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you know, he's being sued by a listener whose husband

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went out and started protecting his house and died from

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an accident of some kind. So he was being sued

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and which led to him to have a one car rollover.

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That one was fiction, if I remember right. But there's

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even something like Room two forty five where a woman

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checked in and said that I want to check out

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my mother, and she says, this room has not been

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occupied by anybody, so her mother ended up missing. That

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was the whole basis of the show. About four or

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five of the stories that came out, Three of them

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were false and true, two of them were fiction. So

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the line has been blurred between what's fact and fiction

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with that show Beyond Belief and another time that that happened.

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And I promise this will get to MMA in just

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a second, but I want to really set a preface

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for this one. Another time that the line between fact

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and fiction that was truly blurred was a situation involved

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in a comedian named Andy Kaufman. Okay, go back a

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few years. Andy Kaufman had this thing where he would

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wrestle women in the ring, which led to insteps Jerry

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the King Lawler to where they had a real feud

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between each other that there was a lot of addressing

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on is this real or is this not real? Because

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Andy Kaufman would do these moments on the air that

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they're told, please let the audience know that this isn't real,

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and then he would do the exact opposite. It was real.

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They want me to tell you it wasn't, but it was.

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So this was a guy who was such a loose cannon.

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And then he had this segment on the David Letterman

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Show where Jerry Lawler actually gets out of his seat

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and slaps Andy Kaufman out of his seat, and as

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the old says phrase goes boom goes the dynamite because

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then Andy Kaufin starts using profanity you don't use on

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the show on David Letterman and he throws coffee on

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to Jerry Lawler, and the fans are going, is this

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really happening or is this just something they have concocted

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behind stage. The fact is you have very blurred lines

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between fact and fiction. When Andy Kaufman did his segment

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with Jerry Lawler, still debated to this day. Why do

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I bring all these forward about beyond belief from true

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crime or the story of Andy Kaufman who was a

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comedian that flipped wrestling on its ear and put it

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on David Letterman for the world to see and then

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became the babel of a guy who is blurring lines

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between fact and fiction right now, because the biggest debate

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going on in this sport seemed to be not so

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much in the heavyweights as of right now, but in

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the lightweights. Armand Serukion is ranked number one according to

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UFC dot Com in the rankings in the lightweight division,

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where Islam Makachev is the champion. As of last weekend,

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you had a performance of the night by number three

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ranked former BMF title holder Justin Gaichee. So if we

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just go by what the rankings say, Islam Makachev is

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the champion. Armand Serukion was supposed to face Islam for

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a rematch, but was pulled last minute for a back injury,

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which allowed a guy named Renato Waikantist. It didn't even

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last a first round with the champion. So number two

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ranked Charles Olivera has had problems with health, has pulled

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out many times in fights, hasn't made weight for whatever reason,

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so Charles Olivera being ranked number two and then no

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changing in the in the the guards here where gai

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Chie had a phenomenal performance as the co main event

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last week for UFC three thirteen, while everybody's focused on

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Alex Pereira's non activity against the new champion Magovin Uncliath,

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who again not a whole lot of activity in those

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five rounds that happened, But the co main event performance

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of the night is Gey Chee and Visaiah, who stepped

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in last man to face Justin So we just kind

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of have to ask the question that now that the

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talk is Dana White has announced the main event of

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UC three fourteen will determine a new UFC featherweight champion,

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which means that the bout between Diego Lopez and Volkanovsky

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is for the championship because Elia Taporia is to officially

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vacate his title once this fight begins. This is according

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to the owner of the UFC. But since Serukion was

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scheduled to face Islam at three to eleven and he

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pulls out of the fight due to a back injury,

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Dana White made it clear that Arman Serukian will not

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be next in line to fight Makachev. So I'm bringing

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this back where somehow Arman Serukian is getting these interviews

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and sharing his beliefs that the next in line to

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face Islam should be Elia Tapuria, he vacates the title

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and he automatically gets shot against Islam. Is this factor?

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Is this fiction? This seems to be just based on

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what Seruki Is is saying on He's thinking the DIBs

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go to Eliot Taporia. Meanwhile, you also have Gaichi who

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is ranked number three, and of all these names in

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the top five for the lightweight's, the only one that

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hasn't faced Islam Makachev is Justin Gaichie. But now our

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Montserukion has thrown his name into the hat and says

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to Justin Gaigie and I quote, you have to go

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through me for the UFC title. Now block in Nation

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is our Montserukian blurring lines between fact and fiction. The facts,

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according to Dana White, is he's not in line to

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face the champion. Justin Gaichi just put on a performance

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of the night as a coman event and should have

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an opportunity to fight him. According to MMA fans like myself,

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the rankings would certainly allow for ar Montster to use

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that argument that you have to face me first, and

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whoever wins between one of us fights for the title.

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But I'm perfectly okay with the former featherweight champion leaving

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one forty five coming up to one fifty five and

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allowing the fight between Volkanovsky and Diego Lopez to now

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be for the vacant featherweight title so that Elia Taporia

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can face Islam. There's a lot of blurring the lines

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between fact and fiction here, and it all seems to

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be by the hands of Elia Toporia, and I'm not impressed.

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There was a time blockad Nation that I was drinking

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the kool aid for armand Serukion. This Georgian was plowing

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through the competition. But when you didn't face is because

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of a back injury, the sport moves on without you,

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but you are still holding a number one ranking. According

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to UFC dot Com, we can't count on olive Era.

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Gaie Chee is the only one that I know of

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that would be a fresh coat of paint for the

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lightweight championship. A former BMF holder who lost it to

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Max Holloway, which Max falls into both the lightweights and

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the featherweights ranked number two for one forty five and

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ranked number five or one fifty five. So it looks

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like Max is probably gonna have a chance to fight

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Dustin Poorier coming up next. But again, who's to say

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right now? The action going on inside of the octagon

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is at the Apex with Marvin Vittori and Roman dolies Day,

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which is a rematch, mind you. Not a whole lot

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for me to really go in detail about that, But

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it's like, if there's anybody who's blurring the lines between

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fact and fiction trying to work his way into it

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some kind of an angle for a shot at the title,

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it's clearly armand Seruki on who Dave White has said,

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you're not the guy, but Dana White is saying, by

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Justin Gaigie's performance, he should have a shot. So what

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is confirmed as of right now? Blockad Nation not a

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whole lot. It's a whole lot of what's fact and

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what's fiction? Where do we go from here? And I'm

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just as confused as you are. How a guy who

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was a former champion vacates and now this is for

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the featherweight, but he goes straight into a shot against Islam.

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But Serukion is okay with that, but he's not okay

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with Gaichie getting a shot over him. Apparently he lives

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and dies by the numbers that are equated onto UFC

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dot com, which are still in the hands of only

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a few people, a few MMA journalists like Brett Alkamoto

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for ESPN MMA or guys like Ariel Hawane and a

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few other to throw their name into the hat. But

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is that confusing? Yes, do we have anything confirmed, anything

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that's been offered. Who's to say at this point, But

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it seems like Armanserukion is reaching thinking he's got his

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hand in the cookie jar, and all he's touching is

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an imaginary brass ring that will probably be attained by

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anybody who goes against Islam, and even then they'll probably

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not be able to the throne Islam. Makachev, who's pound

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for pound the best in this sport right now, lots

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to take on. I wanted to kind of set all

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that in motion and preface it all with a few

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examples of what's fact and what's fiction. We have some

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of you that are into true crime. We have some

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of you that know the story of Andy Kaufman and

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left everybody scratching their head right now in the world

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of the UFC. That guy is our Monseroukian. What is

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fact and what is fiction? We'll certainly have to pick

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up on this another time, as it will come at

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you next week. Blockhead Nation, same blockhead time, same blockhead channel.