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This is on Daunton Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys, as you'll go back to episode number 11 of this podcast, we did a Q&A podcast,
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so this is the second volume of the podcast.
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I've still been getting questions from a lot of you guys.
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I had a bunch of questions left over that I didn't get into in the last one, and this
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is just something that we're going to continue to do, guys.
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So if you ever have a question, even if it's not relevant to what I've just posted on Instagram
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or another social media platform, just ask your question in there.
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And guys, you can always, always send me questions to info@undontid.life, again, info@undontid.life.
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So let's go ahead and get into this week's questions, all right.
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First one, is this ministry only for men?
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If so, why?
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And the very clear answer to this is yes, yes, it is only for men.
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Most of the things that I say are just going to be palatable for men.
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Not everything that I get into is going to be something that a woman would even understand.
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Same thing that I'm not going to fault a women's ministry for focusing on women, okay?
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So that's marketing.
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At the end of the day, you're going after a target audience, a target market.
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Now, I'm not saying that if a woman reads, you know, for instance, either of the podcast,
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but they read either of the devotionals that are on the U version, Bible app that we put
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out.
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I'm not saying they wouldn't get value out of it, but it just wasn't meant for them.
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It was not targeted for them.
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I didn't think of them while I was writing it.
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That's just pretty much the way that it is.
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But here's the deal about the ministry, guys, is if this ministry is truly going to be effective,
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it will have a gigantic impact on women and children, okay?
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You've probably heard me say this before on this podcast or another one, but every time
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that the man is doing well, where women and children are involved, usually, you know,
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the wife and the children, they're everything's going better, right?
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That the household is working better, the neighborhood is working better, the community
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is working better when dad is better, okay?
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And everything that we do here is about making dad and non-dads and just men in general
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better, okay?
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So yes, just for men, but we need the ladies.
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We need to do this for the ladies.
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We need to make sure we are doing things in a very good way so that we can have a huge
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impact, okay?
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Next question, what three people or sources have you learned the most from within the
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last year, okay?
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So really, when I look back at the last year, I've, you know, I've done a lot of reading,
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I've gotten a lot of input from a lot of different people, listen to a ton of different podcasts,
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but if I had to narrow it to three, I would narrow it to Jocko Willink, Ben Shapiro and
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Jordan Peterson, okay?
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So Jocko Willink, especially, it really just started with his podcasts, I think I was actually
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listening to the podcast before I read his book Extreme Ownership.
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So Extreme Ownership is on the 100 books that every modern Christian man should read list.
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That's on our website, but the podcast, it was just so unique in the podcast space because
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it was dark, it was gritty, it didn't have intro, outro music, it didn't have a bunch
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of ads in it.
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And it was just a very, very different thing.
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Again, he talked about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu a lot.
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That was one of the main reasons, if you go back to our Jiu Jitsu podcast, one of the main
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reasons why I got into Jiu Jitsu was just the constant reminder from him about how important
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it was, but also just the life and business lessons that he's learned along the way and
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how he can kind of take that from some of the things that he did within the military.
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And to be honest with you, if you listen to his podcast and you follow him on Instagram,
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you will completely understand what I'm saying when I say this.
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But I hear his voice in my head when I'm thinking about hitting the snooze button in the morning
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or when I'm thinking about putting out on a workout, like I can just hear him in my
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ear saying, why are you doing that?
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Like, is that something you need to be doing right now?
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Get after it.
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Like get up.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Kill, kill, kill.
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Like that's, I just hear his voice in my head.
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So Jaco has had a really, really huge impact on me and I, you know, I certainly hope to
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meet him someday.
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And then also from his book, the discipline equals freedom field manual and something
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he says all the time, just his concept of good, which I read that entire part of his
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book whenever I talked about the best books I read last year.
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I think that was podcast three.
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But just the concept about no matter what happens, like turn it into a, okay, good.
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So, you know, you didn't get the funding you needed good.
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We can keep more of the company.
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You didn't get the gear you needed for an upcoming, coming project good.
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You can keep it simple.
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You know, you got tapped out in class, good.
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You didn't get tapped out in the street where, you know, it really counts.
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So Jaco willings had a huge impact.
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And then secondly, like I said, Ben Shapiro, his podcast is fantastic.
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Again, I don't agree with everything that he says politically.
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He is incredibly conservative and I find myself more on the conservative side on a lot of
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the issues.
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His debate skills are really fantastic.
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So if you've seen any of his YouTube videos of him talking with different students or
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different people in the media, he just doesn't, he doesn't ever seem to lose those interactions.
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I mean, you could disagree with this point of view, but he's never embarrassed and he's
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never really taken advantage of.
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And he just takes these people down whenever they say stupid things and he just doesn't
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let things slide.
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But the kind of the biggest thing that I've enjoyed about Ben Shapiro, because I listened
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to his podcast five times a week and I've listened to him, you know, watch a lot of his
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videos on YouTube.
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The dude is just fair.
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Okay.
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Like, even if you disagree with him vehemently on political issues, the guy is just fair.
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Like he calls balls and strikes.
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Okay.
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So while everybody was swinging from Donald Trump's nuts during the 2016 campaign, just
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because they hated Hillary Clinton, he was calling balls and stripes.
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He had a, a segment on a show called good Trump bad Trump, where he would constantly talk
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about the things he liked that Trump was doing and the things that he didn't like that
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Trump was doing.
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So I just liked that he has intellectual honesty and that's really at the core of everything
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that he's trying to do is he's trying to be fair.
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And so here's the thing is 2016 as, as if we can all go back there in our brains.
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That was the year of the extremes, right?
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Like probably the two worst candidates possible for both of the major parties ran for president
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and then the libertarian president was like a colossal idiot.
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So it was just, it was a very extreme year, but he really stayed true to who he was and
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kind of what he believed in, in a lot of different areas.
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And then thirdly, Jordan Peterson, he obviously did an entire podcast on the Jordan Peterson
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effect that he's having on our culture, read a lot of his stuff, listened to a lot of things
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he said.
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Again, how he handled bill C 16 and of the controversy they're in going on in Canada.
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I think we discussed that in episode nine, if you want to go back and listen to that one.
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But his, his series, the psychological significance of the biblical stories on YouTube, or you
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can listen to it on his podcast was so unique because even as somebody that's heard a lot
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of sermons, but you know, didn't grow up in church, it was just such a unique view on
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how important the biblical stories are to somebody.
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And this is a guy that, you know, he can't really even articulate whether or not he believes
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in God in, in, you know, a binary sense, like yes or no, but he's a guy that's had a tremendous
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amount of thought and he is thoroughly impressed by how much you can check the Bible.
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That's the thing about the Bible.
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We'll talk about a little bit later, I think in, in this podcast, but it's, it's just an
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incredible thing that every single scripture has been torn to pieces and tried to be found
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wanting and tried to be found not true.
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And so he's really dug into that concept and has done well.
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And then of course, his book, 12 rules for life and antidote to chaos is fantastic.
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It's just really, really still selling well, even at this point.
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And then, you know, whenever he took down Kathy Newman in that ridiculous channel for interview,
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that's really gone viral on YouTube.
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The guy is just so sharp. And so that, that's the one thing about these three guys, Jaco
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Shapiro and Peterson is just, they're, they're all so sharp in their own way. And they're
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having a huge impact on manhood across the globe. And it's just really, really cool to
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actually watch that and get a front row seat. So next question.
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If you, if you were a professional wrestler, what would your name be? Okay. So, uh, on
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the jujitsu podcast, I kind of told that Andre Galval story and he gave me my, uh, jujitsu
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nickname, which is Viking.
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So professional wrestler. Okay. I don't know. Some like, uh, I always ought to be funny.
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Like if my nickname was like the white buffalo, if anyone knows me, I'm like super ginger.
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So I'm like incredibly pale skin and incredibly fair skin, but also I'm an okey. So like a
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buffalo and bison. That's kind of like a cool thing we have around here. So I think the
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white buffalo would be funny. Maybe like ginger snaps or something like that. That'd actually
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be pretty awful. That'd be a pretty terrible one. So, you know, we'll just stick with the
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white buffalo. That's, that's what we'll do. Next question. Let's get off of that one.
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All right. When in your life, uh, even if it was a single moment, did you decide to make
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your health and fitness a priority? Okay. So when in your life did you choose to make
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health and fitness a priority? To be honest with you guys, uh, there never really was
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like that exact moment. I was really fat as a kid. Um, I was bullied because of my weight
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and, you know, it's just overweight. And of course I had bright red hair, dark freckles
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on my face. And so I was kind of an easy target. Um, but between my seventh and eighth grade
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year, I hit a growth spurt and then I lost a bunch of weight playing summer traveling
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baseball because even though I was, I was overweight, I was still a good athlete. Still
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played ball in the summers. Uh, and so I was on a traveling all star team. And so I lost
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some weight. And then basically I never looked back. Um, I guess if I were to answer that
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honestly, I kind of have a fear of ever being fat again. Like I think the thought of being
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fat again is so overwhelmingly negative in my brain that I just can't allow it to happen.
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So like even back in ninth grade, I think that's when I started lifting weights. Um,
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and I've pretty much my entire life. I've almost always lifted weights by myself. So
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it's, I don't have that excuse where it's like, Oh, well, you know, my buddy's hurt
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right now. And he's, he's my lifting buddy and I can't really do anything. And so, um,
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I guess what, what I would tell to most of you guys are listening to this too is every
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man's goal should really be to not have that, you know, single moment where it all changed.
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You know what I mean? Because most of the time that's a negative experience. So it's
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like, Oh, uh, I was putting on my pants, uh, to go to a wedding and I literally couldn't
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get them, get them buttoned. So I lay down on the floor and button them up. And then when
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I stood up, the top button like flew off and I didn't have pants to go to the wedding
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or like, Hey, I got to the top of a flight of a flight of stairs and I had only climbed
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a two flights of stairs and I literally couldn't catch my breath. Like some, sometimes guys
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have that single moment in their brain. Like we should never let ourselves get to that
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point. Like ever, you should never be so fat that you have to go buy an entire new wardrobe
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is worth of clothes. That should never happen. Like you should never let yourself go so much
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in terms of your shape where you go to the top of a flight of stairs and you're completely
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out of breath. Like you should never allow that to happen. Okay. Again, if you're focusing
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on physical resilience, that should never happen to you. So I mean, here's the thing
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is, as I've matured in my fitness journey, I just become a whole lot more about longevity
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to me. So health and fitness shouldn't be a thing that you fall into and out of it should
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be a lifestyle. And so for me, it's 100% a lifestyle. So I can look back all the way.
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Since I was a teenager, 15, 16 years old, like I've not taken a significant without injuries,
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like injuries, notwithstanding, I've not taken a significant, significant amount of time off
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from working out. Like I've changed my workouts, I've developed, I've matured, I've focused
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on different areas. And like I'd like I've said before, I focus on pretty much all areas
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of fitness where it's, you know, explosiveness and cardio and flexibility and strength and
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all those different things. But just don't get out of shape. And then you don't have
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to get into shape. Staying in shape is not nearly as hard as getting into shape. And
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everyone that's gotten into shape before knows exactly what I'm talking about. Okay. So there's
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that one. Next question, you won't catch me outside the house without my nine millimeter
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or my 45. Am I not trusting the Lord to protect me and my family? Good question. If you'll
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go back to episode 11, the first Q and A podcast that we did, I was asked, is there ever a time
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God would want us to kill another human? Okay. And so that full answer is in that podcast.
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So I would just urge you to go and listen to that so you can get my full answer. But
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just to kind of give you a quick summary to that question, is we see several places in
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the Bible where we kind of get a direct sense that, you know, God was okay with self defense.
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And that also God doesn't want us to be flipping with human life. Okay. But one thing that's
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very, very specific here is when people talk about killing, they're kind of conflating
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murder and killing, which are obviously two different things. But whenever we get the
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10 commandments for Moses, when it said thou shall not murder the Hebrew word that was
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used or when it even when it says thou shall not kill in some instances, the Hebrew word
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used there actually means murder. It is a completely different word when you talk about
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the word kill. Okay. So for me personally, I am a concealed carry person like I pretty
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much have a weapon on me at all times, unless it's pretty much impossible for me to do so
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without risking being jailed or something like that. So, but here's the thing is I do
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that for me. I do that for my loved ones and I do that for anyone that's in the general
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vicinity of me if something pops off. Okay. Like that's why I concealed carry. I don't
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conceal carry because I'm paranoid or because like, oh, I got like little dicks syndrome
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and it's like, Oh, watch how big this gun I'm going to carry around. It's going to make
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me feel good about myself. Like that's not why I do it. It's because I'm prepared mentally
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and physically that if something goes wrong, that I can't intercede. I'm not trying to
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be like Captain America or anything. But one thing that I wanted to talk about a little
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bit more is there's a scripture that I think is really important here, which is Joshua
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one nine. I'll read it now. Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous? Do not be frightened
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and do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go? Because I think
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what this guy was kind of sensing was this exact verse should tell people like, Hey,
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you don't need to carry a weapon because you know, you don't need to be afraid. God's with
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you. And like I just said, a second ago, I don't conceal carry because I'm afraid. I'm
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I can still carry. So I'm prepared, right? So completely different emotion. And here's
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the thing. I don't have guns in the home for specific purposes of defense, because I'm
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afraid either. Like a lot of people, even if they don't conceal carry, they have guns
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in the home. It's just like, well, if you're Christian, should you just not have guns in
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the home? Like I think that's absurd. And I have those things and I have those weapons
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because we're in a post Genesis three world. And for me personally, I refuse to be a victim
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if there's something I can do to prevent it, right? Like if there's something I can do
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to prevent the the rape or murder of myself or somebody close to me, like clearly, that's
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something that I'm going to intercede and do. Okay. Here's the thing guys, God is in complete
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control, right? There's nothing that happens outside of God's purview. Okay. But in order
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to give us the ability to love, right? He had to give us the ability to rebel and to sin,
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right? That that's what freedom of like that. That's what free will is, right? So in no
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way, shape or form, do I think it is sinful for me to be trained and mentally, physically
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prepared to defend myself or other children and God that are near me? I don't think you
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can make a compelling enough argument that would would make me want to switch my tune
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on that. So there is my answer on that one. So let's go and go on to the next question.
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Okay. We have a couple, or actually, let me back up. We have two homosexuals that sing
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in the choir at my church. Would Jesus preach at my church? Yes. Yeah. Like 100% Jesus would
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come and preach at your church. Like we see that over and over in the New Testament. He
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was hanging out with like the worst of these, you know what I mean? Like he was hanging
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out with the tax collectors. Like he was, he was in those places. Now here's the thing
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though, he may come and preach at your church. And before he vented, like he would probably
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come and preach there before he would visit some of the other bleached white squeaky clean
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churches in town. And you know which ones I'm talking about, right? He would want to
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be in there with the, the, you know, he would want it to be grimy and realistic, not like
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this kind of fake, super bleached teeth version of yeah, everything's great brother whenever
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you're like cheating on your wife and going to look at porn the moment you get home. But
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one thing I do want to say though is because sometimes, you know, when you say something
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like that to him to a question like this, people might think, well, are we just supposed
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to ignore truth here? And absolutely not. And we know Jesus wouldn't do that either. So
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in John 1 14, it says this, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen
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his glory, glory as of the only son from the father, full of grace and truth. Okay. That's
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the big part, full of grace and truth. And I probably talked about this one here before,
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Jesus would not ignore the sin near him, right? Like if he was preaching at your church and
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you had a couple of homosexuals that were singing in the choir and they were, you know,
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outwardly homosexual, he would not ignore the sin near him. But at the same time, he
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would not ignore the heart of the sinners, right? We see that over and over. That is
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a very consistent in Jesus's ministry here on this earth. He was not ignoring sin. He
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was pointing it out. He was full of truth. At the same time, he was using grace with
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the heart of the sinners. Okay. And that's the thing that I think when people read John
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1 14, they think to themselves, well, you know, maybe Jesus is like 60% truth on this
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one and 40% grace or maybe he's 90% grace and 10% truth on this or like that, they
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kind of think of it that way. This isn't like a 50 50 thing. This isn't like if you
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add up grace and truth, it equals 100%. This is Jesus was 100% grace and 100% truth, not
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50 50, not 75 25. Okay. So that is the thing that we have to, we have to remember that
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whether you go to a more liberal church, whether you go to a more conservative church, Jesus
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would point out the sin and then he would also take care of the heart of the center.
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Okay. Next question. How do you believe the religion of sex that is taking over, like
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example, abortion, gay rights, transgenderism, etc, should be handled from a masculine perspective
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and a biblical perspective? Well, okay, guys, well, I guess I just talked about John 1,
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1 14. And that's grace and truth. Like you got to have grace and truth. Like, you have
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to be able to call a spade a spade or like I was talking about earlier, then Shapiro,
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you have to be able to call balls and strikes. Okay. So you're not doing anyone any favors,
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calling what's growing inside of a woman's belly, a useless clump of cells, right? Here
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people talk about that when they talk about the abortion argument, right? And in addition
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to that, you're not doing anyone any favors by categorizing same sex attraction as sinful,
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right? Because just because you have a proclivity to a certain type of a sin, it only matters
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if you're acting on it. Like if you have same sex attraction, that doesn't mean that you're
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inherently being sinful in that area. But in addition to that, not you're not doing anyone
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any favors by telling them that acting on their homosexual impulses is acceptable or
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moral. Like some people think because, you know, we're living downstream of culture right
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now that we have to basically change scripture and change God's perspective on things because
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it's going to make us look weird on Facebook if we comment on it, right? And again, guys,
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you're not doing anyone any favors by playing into the delusion of someone that thinks they're
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a different gender than what their biology would prove. Like that's, that's the latest
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one. And again, in a future podcast, I'm going to do an entire episode on the transgenderism
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and gender dysphoria idea. But the thing is, is playing into someone's delusion that their
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homosexual lifestyle is acceptable and moral, that acting on it is moral, that you know,
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someone who is biologically a boy is, you know, somehow trapped and they're actually
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a woman like we should not be playing into those things. We need to have complete truth
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on those types of things. But also we need to be able to show grace. And here's the thing
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in order for us to be men of God, we have to be men of truth. And we must fight for truth.
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Always, we have to, like, we don't need to twist scripture up to fit what culture wants
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us to say. Okay. If we're going to be bold men of God, and if we're going to be actually
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seeking the lion of Judah, we can't be scared of the repercussions of standing up for truth.
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And guys, I'm saying this in a country where I have no fear of someone busting into my
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studio and stopping this podcast recording because of what I'm saying. There's a lot
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of our brothers and sisters around the world that don't have that luxury. They have to
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be very, very careful about what they say in doing in public. We don't. So boldness here
20:15
is not the same as boldness in, or in, you know, Uganda or in North Korea or even in
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communist China, like it's not the same type of boldness, but we do need to be bold. Okay.
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And again, as always, we do not need to live downstream of culture. Next question. Do you
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think Jesus would have a beer with the guys? Absolutely. Absolutely. Jesus would have a
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beer with the guys. Like, I don't think this one is that hard at all. His first miracle.
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And I'm mainly talking to the Baptist here. You know, you know who you are. His first
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miracle was turning water into wine at a party so that the party didn't have to end. Right.
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So you know, that nothing has been created out of the purview of God. So here's the thing
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that we know about Jesus. He wouldn't get drunk. He certainly would not get drunk because
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that would be sinful. But I truly believe that he would partake. Absolutely. He would
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partake. I mean, do any of you have like, have you any of you listening to this? Have you
21:08
ever had like 25 year old scotch or like older than that? Like that's some of the godliest
21:14
stuff on the planet right there. So, you know, hopefully if Jesus were around, he could have
21:19
beer with you guys, but with a guy like me to have an old single malt scotch that would
21:22
be awesome. But yeah, Jesus would not get drunk, but absolutely he would be able to partake
21:28
in certain things with us without being sinful because that's just who he is. Right. All right.
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Next question is traditional praying to formalized and structured for manly men? Okay. This is
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a very carefully worded question, but it's a very easy answer. No, traditional praying
21:43
is not to formalize and structured for manly men. And here's the reason why inherent in
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this question is the idea that manly men don't do traditional prayer. And that's ridiculous
21:53
because some of the manliest men on the planet are absolute prayer warriors. I mean, think
21:59
about the other ways that you can cultivate spiritual resilience. I think prayer is kind
22:03
about the top of that list, right? But the thing about it is is the traditional representation
22:09
of prayer, uh, the different representations, they're a turn off to men, right? So if a
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manly man's thinking, okay, in order to pray, I've got to like kneel beside my bed and put
22:20
my hands together in a praying motion and put them in front of my face. Like that's kind
22:24
of weird. Like, yeah, I could see how that would be a turn off for a manly man that doesn't
22:28
know the nuances of prayer. And if you pray that way, that's, that's not a bad thing.
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Obviously that's not a sinful thing, but prayer should be presented as a conversation throughout
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the day with God as if he's like just right there with you, you know what I mean? Because
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that's what it is. Like, you don't have to say your prayer out loud. You can say it in
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your head. Like some of the best times that I feel like that I'm close with God in prayer,
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like, or just when I'm driving to my truck by myself, like no music, no podcasts on it.
22:53
I'm just kind of talking like he can hear me, but he can also hear my thoughts. I don't
22:57
have to say it out loud for him to hear me. Right. And so, uh, yeah, I don't think there's,
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there's like a specific way that a guy has to pray, but as long as you're communicating
23:05
with your maker, pretty good way of going about things. All right. Next question. What
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is your outlook on tattoos and why? Okay. So, uh, let me go and give you like my personal
23:15
opinion first, and then I'll kind of get into more scriptural truths around this issue because
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it's pretty straightforward, um, for the most part anyway. But personally, I love tattoos.
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Uh, for myself, I've got about 50 hours of work on myself on my shoulders and arms and
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back. Um, and I have all black and gray. Uh, that's where I tend to stay. I really like
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the black and gray because it's a, it's a lot of detail. Uh, two of my favorite artists
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actually, uh, Jin Shah, JU in space, CHA. He's a guy. I think he's out of LA. He's an amazing
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black and gray artist. And the majority of his work that he does is it, the tattoos kind
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of look like ancient marble statues. So it's like really awesome that he's a great follow
23:53
on Instagram. I actually think he's doing some sculpting now, but those are really, really
23:57
awesome. And then there's a guy out of New Zealand named Steve Butcher. So he kind of
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does some of the most incredible photo realism, realism and color. Like some of his tattoos,
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like if you see him and you don't see the body part, you would think it was like a painting
24:10
or something like that, or, or really just a digital photo. Like that is how incredibly
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detailed, uh, his tattoo work is. But now let's kind of get into really the scriptural truth
24:19
around this because again, if you're a little bit more new school, you don't see tattoos
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that big a deal, but then like our grandparents, like if they saw your tattoos, you'd be like,
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they'd be like freaking out thinking you're going immediately to hell. But let's get right into the
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issue with, with that. Okay. Normally when someone says tattoos are sinful and that Christian
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shouldn't have them. They're pointing at Leviticus. 1928. Okay. Leviticus. 1928. I'm gonna read it
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now. You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourself. I am the Lord. Okay.
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So, but we have to look at the literal translation because that's like the, you know, modern 20th,
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21st century, you know, English version, the literal translation is, and a cutting for the
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dead, you will not make in your flesh and writing marks, you will not make on you. I am the Lord.
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Okay. Here's the thing guys, the word tattoo doesn't really even show up in the English
25:10
language until the 1700s. Okay. So that was not like something, the word tattoo, there was no,
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like, you know, there was no corollary for that 2000 years ago. So the King James version,
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if you go back and read Leviticus, excuse me, if you read Leviticus, Leviticus, 1928,
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and you go back to the King James version, it doesn't use the word tattoo because, you know,
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the King James version was written like in the 1600s. Okay. So most likely, right? Again, this,
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this is most likely this scripture is referring to pagan cultures like the Canaanites and the
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Egyptians. Okay. This is not necessarily a prescriptive for the people of God, because again,
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he was kind of drawing a declaration between pagan cultures like what was going on in Canaan
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and Egypt. Okay. So the one thing that the Canaanites would do is they would cut or burn their skin
25:58
as kind of like a worship to pagan gods, especially if they were kind of mourning somebody's death,
26:03
like if they were, you know, going through the mourning period, they would, they would cut and
26:06
burn their skin as a, as a sign of worship. But also we've even discovered recently that Egyptian
26:11
women were tattooed. I don't think we know that Egyptian men were but Egyptian women were tattooed
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and it was basically like a good luck charm of sorts for their fertility. So they would give
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tattoos of like the fertility goddess and put that on their bodies. So the thing is with the
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tattoo thing is I don't really think it's necessarily super open and shut. I know I kind of alluded to
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it earlier that I think it is it's not super open and shut case, but it seems fairly clear
26:35
that a Christian getting a tattoo is not sinful. Okay. Now unless of course it has a sinful message
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or meaning or something like that. So if you got like a naked chick on your forearm or a pentagram
26:45
on your face or, you know, some sort of bad word, like, you know, that's, that's kind of the thing
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that would probably be sinful. And also in my opinion alone, I think bad tattoos are sinful.
26:53
You know who you are, tribal armband people. So it's just like, you know, it depends on the message
26:58
you're going for. Like if you're being blatantly sinful, then yeah, clearly that's a sin. But
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the act of putting skin a few layers or putting ink rather a few layers deep in your sin skin
27:08
is not a sinful thing in my opinion. Okay. Next question. Intimacy with the Lord is David our model.
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Okay. Now even in this question, I talk about this a lot and and even using the word intimate,
27:22
like men don't like that typically. Like the thing about it is is when you use the word intimate
27:29
for most guys that aren't like nuanced, like they're gonna seem that they're gonna see that as kind
27:33
of like feeling weird. Okay. So let's try not to use the word intimate when we're talking about
27:37
relationship with God. I think that's kind of weird for men to do. But to answer the question,
27:41
like, yes, David really is our model in terms of a closeness to following with the Lord. And so
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the thing about that is that should be an encouragement to us from a couple of different perspectives.
27:52
Number one, how God loved and used a colossal screw up like David was pretty incredible. Okay.
27:59
So I mean, obviously his affair with Bathsheba and then taking her as his wife, you know, having her
28:04
husband killed on the front line. But the thing about it is is we get Jesus from the line of David
28:11
and Bathsheba. Like that is an incredible thing. Like God used David one of David's biggest
28:17
and most recognizable sins. And we get Jesus out of it, you know, several ways down the line. Okay.
28:23
And the second thing, a second way that it should be an encouragement for us rather,
28:27
is how David could still be extremely dedicated to God, even though he's a colossal screw up,
28:32
right? He was so, so dedicated to him. And here's the thing about David. He was a really manly
28:38
dude, like super manly, like great leader of men on the battlefield, like this, you know,
28:43
he's killed lions and bears before. And he didn't have it, you know, with a rifle from 400 yards away,
28:48
like he was killing these animals with his bare hands. But I think David is a good example for
28:53
manly Christian men, especially men that are like on the undaunted life side of things,
28:57
because he shows us how we can be reverent to God without coming off like a pussy.
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Like, I mean, I'm really done with this whole cute cuddly Jesus God thing. Like Jesus, like when
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you see how God is being worshiped by David in the Psalms, it is just incredible and it's powerful.
29:15
And so I just, I just think it's a really good example for us that if we're going to have a type
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of relationship with God and we don't want to be modeled by what we're seeing in the modern day
29:24
church, we should just look at what, you know, David is doing in the Psalms. So what I'm going to do
29:28
right now, actually, is I want to just approve this. I want to read Psalm 46 to you. It's one of my
29:32
favorite Psalms. And it's just, you know, think about this in light of, you know, what you would
29:37
see in a modern, you know, Bethel music or, you know, Hillsong song. So I'm going to read Psalm 46 for
29:41
you. Here we go. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will
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not fear, though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
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though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
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Selah, there is a river whose stream may glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the most high.
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God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns,
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the nation's rage, the kingdom's totter, he utters his voice, the earth melts.
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The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress, Selah. Come, behold the works of the
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Lord, how he has brought desolation on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He
30:27
breaks the bow and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots with fire. Be still and know that I am
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God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with
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us. The God of Jacob is our fortress, Selah. I mean, that is so powerful. That is such
30:45
powerful language. I mean, God, he breaks the bow and shatters the spear. Okay, he is the all
30:51
powerful God. Again, he is not our boyfriend. He is not someone that we want to embrace to our
30:57
bosom. Okay, Jesus is not this dirty blonde here, blue eyed white guy that is going to protect us
31:04
from anything bad happening to us or somebody saying something that we don't like. Okay,
31:09
the different kind of situation. So yes, love David, great, great guy to follow,
31:15
even though he's got, you know, all the warts and everything else, it's something that we can
31:19
learn from. Okay, next question. How do we know that the Bible is true? Okay, so this is kind of
31:25
an apologetics question. So I guess, first of all, we need to make a kind of a difference maker
31:29
here at the beginning. The Bible is not a book. Okay, the Bible is a collection of the ancient
31:34
manuscripts. Okay, so it's commonly referred to as a book, but it is ancient manuscripts that have
31:39
been bound together. Okay, the Old Testament and the New Testament were, you know, probably never
31:43
really meant to be fully combined in the way that they were, but they were combined around 400 AD.
31:48
Okay, and inside of those pages, there's a collection of kind of many different styles of writing. So
31:54
we've got history, we've got prophecy, there's apocalyptic literature, there's law, there's poetry,
32:00
and kind of on and on from there. But here's the thing, guys, this is pretty simple. And the Bible
32:05
was BS, anthropology would have destroyed the entire religion of Christianity entirely by now.
32:11
But the interesting thing is like the exact opposite has happened. Like every year that goes by,
32:17
anthropology kind of further proves the Bible. Okay, because, you know, as we've seen, and there's
32:22
quite a bit of research out there, and I'm not going to go into detail on it right now, but
32:25
there's quite a bit of research out there about people that have said, hey, the Bible is complete
32:30
trash because it said that this people group was in this part of the earth, and we have no
32:35
anthropological data or evidence to show that this people group was in this area of the world
32:40
ever. So thus, the entire Bible is complete, completely ridiculous, which is horrible logic
32:46
and argumentation, but it is something that people say. Okay. But in reality, what happens is
32:53
archaeologists and anthropologists will find different things in these areas that they never
33:00
thought was possible. And then it's like, well, shoot, you know, an archaeologist will go through
33:05
a dig or something like that. And then they find, yeah, lo and behold, these people were here.
33:10
Like what's being described in the Old Testament is absolutely true and absolutely
33:13
certifiably true, right? So there isn't a more scrutinized collection of writings in the entirety
33:19
of human history than the Old and the New Testament, right? So historicity, especially the gospel
33:25
accounts is intact, though. Like there's no one that can make, I mean, you have guys like Richard
33:30
Dawkins and Sam Harris, like they'll come out and say things about the Bible. But the thing about
33:34
it is they can't, it can't be disproven historically. And there's certain things like, oh, well,
33:38
this group of people wasn't in this particular part of the world at this time that we just haven't
33:42
made those discoveries yet. Like those people were in those areas, and there's no reason to
33:47
believe that they weren't. It's just we haven't discovered the evidence for it yet. So one thing
33:52
that kind of helps with with people that are like, really, should I even trust the Bible,
33:55
are books like Lee Strobel's the case for Christ. So it's been turned into a movie. I'm not seeing
34:00
the movie. So I can't necessarily recommend it. But that is a book that is a very easy read,
34:04
but kind of helps you figure out, you know, different things about the Bible, that if it was made up
34:08
and if it was fable, you probably couldn't have gotten much further, you definitely wouldn't have had
34:13
Christianity outside of the first century with Rome doing what they were doing. But yeah,
34:17
case for Christ and also more than a carpenter. Those are a couple of books that I would definitely
34:20
suggest for anyone that wants to get more of a deeper understanding on this topic.
34:24
Next question. I'd like to hear from your listeners that have perfected the nutritious,
34:30
but flexible brown bag lunch, flexible in that you can take it one day, but eat the next day or
34:36
later as lunch meetings pop up. What's a super simple and effective way that I can do brown bag
34:41
lunches? Okay, so obviously, you know, the thing about this one is you have to meal prep. So
34:46
regardless of your job and regardless of your lifestyle, if you meal prep, you should be able
34:51
to eat clean, right? So I do different things where I go out to lunch a lot. And so if I go out to
34:57
restaurants, almost every single restaurant can make you steam vegetables and grilled chicken,
35:01
right? Or some form of red meat that's not terrible for you, right? So that's just something you can
35:07
do. The thing is, is you just, you can't make excuses. You have to be disciplined, okay?
35:11
So if you know that you're going to be eating in the office for five times that week or four
35:16
times that week, and you know that you'll be tempted to, you know, go down the street and go
35:20
to talk Abuelino or go to McDonald's or go to, you know, Cudoba or something like that,
35:24
you just got to prepare yourself, right? So Sunday afternoon, that was one thing that I always would
35:29
do whenever I wasn't doing lunches out so often is I would cook up like five or six chicken breasts
35:34
on Sunday, and I would cook up like a bangload of sweet potatoes, a bunch of broccoli. If I was
35:39
doing quinoa at the time, I would do that. And then I would basically put it either in one big
35:44
Tupperware thing and then just pull some out every day. And then from there, you might put it into
35:50
four or five separate ones. So you have your meals kind of ready to go and just take them to work
35:53
on Monday and put them in the fridge. If you need to put your name on them or something like that,
35:57
do that. You know, if you don't have a fridge at work, like you just take one and you put it in a
36:00
little lunchbox and then you're ready to go, like I'm kind of a weirdo, like I can eat the same
36:05
exact thing for lunch every day and be fine with it. And for some of you that's like, I have, I want
36:10
to have better food and I want to have better options or blah, blah, blah, that belly aching,
36:13
like the thing about it is guys is it's fuel for you. Not every meal should be super satisfying,
36:18
like where you're sitting there like, Oh, this is a great meal in my life. Like some of your meals
36:22
can just be fuel. Like my smoothies that I have in the morning, you know, while I'm on my way
36:26
to work, like they don't taste exceptionally well, but they're fuel. That's what they're there for.
36:30
Now, there are certain meals that I do want to enjoy immensely. And then I obviously,
36:34
you know, go ham on those. But at the same time, I just want to make sure that all of you understand
36:39
that whenever you're not doing meal prep, it's basically a lack of discipline. And you're just
36:44
basically putting excuses in there. So those are ways that you can make that happen. And if the food
36:49
is near you, you can eat well, right? So let's say you have a job where you're traveling a lot,
36:54
maybe you're on the road, you don't have an office job where you can just walk over to the
36:57
break room and get your lunch. If you have a lunchbox, you have all your food for the day.
37:02
Like you don't if you work in the field and oil and gas or construction or something like that,
37:05
you don't have to go to the burrito truck, right? Just just go to your truck and eat what you need
37:09
to eat. So there's plenty of ways to do it. You just need to dedicate yourself to actually doing it.
37:13
Okay, next question. What's the most anti masculine trend you see in the modern church today?
37:18
Okay, without fail and without question, it's modern worship music. Okay, modern worship music
37:24
is the most anti masculine trend that I see in modern churches. Okay, and I'm going to save the
37:28
majority of my opinion here for a future podcast, because I'm going to do a future podcast on this
37:32
exactly and go into a whole lot of detail. Okay, next question. If you had the choice of a single
37:38
superpower, what would it be? Okay, so I thought about this a lot. Like I probably spent a lot of
37:43
time thinking about this question way too much time thinking. But you know, everyone thinks about
37:47
flying and superhuman strength and all those different things. But I literally think about this one
37:53
superpower. If I could just choose one, I would choose teleportation. Like that's exactly what I
37:58
would choose. Now with the caveat that I could like have things and like people teleport with me.
38:04
Like the number of times I've thought about this is actually like unhealthily ridiculous. So I hate
38:08
road trips. I hate traveling. I'm all about the destination. So my wife and I have traveled
38:13
internationally quite a bit like I don't want to be on that plane for 14 hours. Like that's not
38:18
what I want to do. I just want to be where I need to be. I don't sleep on planes. It's uncomfortable.
38:22
I'm not flying in first class. So I can't just like, you know, spread out and lounge out. I really
38:26
wish that I could just like put my arm around my wife, grab our suitcases and like snap my fingers
38:31
and boom, I'm in Rome or I'm in New Zealand or something like that. Like that's what I would
38:35
like to do. So if I had a superpower, teleportation, number one thing. Next question. And I actually
38:40
think, yeah, this is the last question of the day. All right. So how can my ego derail my future
38:45
at my job? Some say parts of the ego are healthy for me. What's the best use of my ego in my profession
38:52
and in my relationships? Okay. So to kind of answer that first part, it can derail you your ego because
38:58
it can make you almost impossible to follow, right? Like maybe you're the type of guy that
39:03
that goes too hard. Like you go too fast. Like everything you do is like super intense, right?
39:08
So the problem with that is, is that you get so far ahead that you when you finally do stop to
39:13
look around, no one is near you, right? No one's there. And you know, you were probably dragging
39:18
some guys along at some point. And then at some point, you just left them all on the dust. And so
39:22
here's the other. Maybe you're just a [inaudible]. Like maybe you're just not very likable, right?
39:26
Here's the deal. If you're a super, super egotistical leader, no one's going to want to follow you.
39:32
Like people want to follow a truly humble leader, not like a fake humble person, you know what I'm
39:37
talking about. But even if you have to work at it, even if humility is not like a natural thing,
39:42
that's something you should work on. But that's, that's one way that your ego can kind of derail
39:46
your job. But here's the deal kind of the other part. I agree with with people that tell you that
39:51
some parts of your ego are healthy. They certainly are healthy. Like you don't want to be a pushover.
39:56
If you have a healthy ego, like you're not going to be railroaded all the time, right? One of the
40:01
biggest indicators of professional success is assertiveness, right? So you're assertive with
40:06
people if you're closing a deal, you're assertive with your management or your bosses or ownership
40:10
when it comes to raises or even getting a job. So if you're super agreeable, you tend to not have
40:17
as good of a career, right? So boldness can be seen accurately as ego. But that's a healthy form
40:24
of your ego. Okay. But if I were to kind of put it in the category of what are some of the best
40:29
ways to use your ego, like use your ego to the for the betterment of others. Because usually when
40:35
someone's ego maniacal and they're only focused on themselves, it's kind of impossible not to look
40:40
like a [inaudible]. Okay. It's almost impossible. And people aren't going to want to follow that,
40:43
right? But if you can pave the way or really blaze the trail for others, or I guess I would say
40:50
this way, if you're the type of person that's a trailblazer, that you're literally clearing out
40:54
space and forging a new road, pave the road wide enough for other people to come along with you,
41:00
right? Like you're already blazing the trail, you're already going a certain direction,
41:04
just make it wide enough for people to be able to come along with you. So one of the books I'm
41:08
going to be reading this year is ego is the enemy by Ryan holiday. And one of the reasons why I'm
41:14
very excited about reading this book is because there's a quote here from the prologue. And I'm like,
41:20
okay, if this is just from the prologue, I really think that it would be fantastic to actually see
41:25
what the rest of the book would entail. I know some of you have read this out there. So I'd like
41:29
to hear your thoughts on this book as well. But here was the quote from prologue. While the history
41:33
books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world and their image
41:38
with sheer almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who
41:44
fought their egos at every turn who has skewed the spotlight and who put their higher goals above
41:49
their desire for recognition. Okay, so ego is one of those things guys that I'm not going to lie to
41:54
you. That's something that I have to fight. That's one of the best ego checks on the planet is jujitsu.
42:00
So if you're feeling really good about yourself, find your way into a local jujitsu gym and get
42:05
rolled up by somebody that's half your size and not nearly as athletic or as strong as you,
42:10
that's going to be an ego check. And the thing is, is you know, it's a journey for everybody. There
42:15
are times where you're you're good with your ego. And I'll just talk about myself just openly.
42:18
There are times where I feel like I'm doing really well, and I have like some natural humility coming
42:23
out in certain areas. And then there's other times where it's just like, I have this nasty,
42:27
nefarious ego that comes out that doesn't man itself manifest itself properly in a setting with
42:34
friends or with my wife or in jujitsu class or something like that. If I freak out because some,
42:39
you know, lower, lower belt or lower striped white belt taps me out or something like that,
42:44
it's just, it's one of those things. Sometimes you can deal with it and sometimes you can. And I know
42:48
for a lot of guys, your ego and your humility is a roller coaster. And if that is the case for you,
42:55
that's something that you do need to get in check, right? Because your ego can be your downfall.
42:59
Like history, the roads of history are basically strewn about with the dead bodies of people that
43:04
had too much ego, right? So we know that to be true. So if you again, like I said, if you've read
43:09
ego is the enemy, let me know what you think of Ryan Holliday's book. And I am really excited to
43:14
read that one this year. Okay. So that's the last question of the day guys, as always, thank you so
43:18
much for sending those my direction. But before I let you go, we're going to do a quick resilience
43:22
boost. So as most of you know, by now we are a men's ministry and our mission is cultivating
43:26
manly resilience. And specifically, we do that by providing content that forges spiritual,
43:31
mental and physical toughness. So today, I want to challenge you all mentally and spiritually on the
43:37
on the resilience scale. And so earlier I talked about, you know, David and kind of his dedication
43:42
to God, I want you to read 10 random Psalms. Okay. So the Psalms that David actually wrote,
43:49
I want you to read 10 random ones. Okay. David is an incredible example of how a man should treat
43:56
his journey with God. And I think that would be a huge boost for you, especially if you're not
43:59
much of a Bible reader. But even if you are reading 10 specifically and reading them randomly, I mean,
44:04
gosh, there's what there's over 150 of them, something like that. So it's just like,
44:08
just just read 10 of them, just pick 10 of them out and make it happen. Okay. So guys,
44:11
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to thank the band August Burns read for allowing us to use their music library for our content.
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The intro outro track on this podcast is their song King of Sorrow, which is off their latest
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record entitled Phantom Anthem. The links to all of this are in the description. I'm your host,
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Kyle Thompson. Remember, keep cultivating mainly resilience, keep forging spiritual,
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mental and physical toughness. Keep seeking the lion of Judah.