Loading a sidebar widget on its own page

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Anyone have an idea on how to pull this off? I have taken the code from the (nameofthewidgetblock).php and duplicated it in its own page. I just can't get it to render it/process the variables so it is just blank. I've tried including everything but just can't get it to work.

To make it simple, I've been trying to get the dbtech_thanks.php block to display on it's own page instead of the sidebar. Then I would work to add other information to it myself but I can't get to that part yet. The goal here is I want to be able to show the 'trending' content from the thanks/like mod on it's own page.

So far I've got the template and page, and I get the page to load with the layout of the sidebar block (two tabs and a drop down) but nothing else.

Any suggestions here?