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This is Undaunted 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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Psalm 100.
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His steadfast love endures forever.
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A psalm for giving thanks.
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Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
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Serve the Lord with gladness.
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Come into his presence with singing.
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Know that the Lord, he is God.
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It is he who made us and we are his.
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We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
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Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.
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Give thanks to him.
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Bless his name.
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For the Lord is good.
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His steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.
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Guys, like I said from the top, that is Psalm 100.
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And so this is my Happy Thanksgiving episode.
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So here we go.
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So if you're listening to this on time, this is released the morning of
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Thanksgiving of 2018.
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And so that's what we're going to be talking about a little bit today.
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It's going to be a little bit of a shorter podcast.
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So I want to make sure you guys can get to spend some time with the family.
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And I got some suggestions here at the end that may lead you to some other,
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other things that you're going to spend some time with.
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So here's the thing that this podcast is not going to be.
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And I'll just say this from the top.
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This is not going to be a podcast about the history of thanksgiving
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and all the things that kind of go around that.
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I've heard a lot of podcasts with that.
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And I think they're wicked interesting.
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I really, really enjoy them.
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But I just don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel nor do I feel qualified to do so.
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So I'm not going to be telling you about the pilgrims or, you know,
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how they got over here and all the different things that went on.
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There's some great books and great podcasts out there like that.
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I just want to talk about thankfulness in general, because this is something that I do,
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you know, if pressed, I would say that men really struggle in this area.
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So not to say that women don't, but in my opinion, I feel like men struggle with
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thankfulness more than women do.
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And so I'm going to get into that a little bit and we're going to go into a couple of
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different subject matters.
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But the first thing is having a posture of thankfulness.
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And so when the world do I mean by posture of thankfulness?
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So there are people in your life that you know that are just thankful people.
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They're constantly thanking you.
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They're thanking people around them.
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And to you, it might seem like some really minute things, some things that aren't really that important.
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But for the most part, they're just really, really thankful people.
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I'm sure that if pressed, you would be able to think of someone's name right at the top
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of your head, maybe a few people's names.
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But maybe that doesn't describe you.
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So I can say for me, that doesn't necessarily describe me.
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Not to say that I'm not a thankful person, but it's just one of those things that I'm thankful
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when it's polite.
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You know, I say, please and thank you, right?
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You know, I was taught by my mama to do those things.
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And so that's what I'm going to do, right?
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But I don't feel like I always have a posture of thankfulness.
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And this is where I think it comes in for a lot of guys, especially Americans.
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So we're taught that we should be thankful, but also that we should never be satisfied, right?
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So if that doesn't really land with you, let me just kind of put it into a context.
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Let's think of an athletic context when you're younger, right?
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So you have a good game, but it's always all right.
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Now make sure you have a good game next game too, right?
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You know, you went three for four, you had an outfield assist and a stolen base.
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But you know what, it was that fourth at bat, you know, you start thinking, gosh, you know,
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I did really, really good in all aspects of the game.
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But man, I just, I wasn't expecting that pitch.
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I didn't respond to it.
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Well, I rolled over on it and it was an easy ground ball.
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You know, you kind of put yourself in that context where you're like, you know,
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I should be thankful that I had such a good game, but I don't want to be satisfied.
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So there's a part of that that it's pushing us in a certain direction, right?
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We want to attain more.
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We want to attain greater.
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And it may be the athletic, excuse me, maybe the athletic example doesn't really land with you.
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So, so the thing about a work example.
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So you get that promotion, that thing that you, you were really wanting from the beginning,
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but you finally get there.
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And instead of resting on your laurels and are not really resting on your laurels,
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but instead of just sitting there in a posture of thankfulness for a minute,
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it's always all right.
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Well, what about the next promotion?
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Or gosh, what do I have to do to stay in this one, right?
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You don't want to get demoted after you get promoted.
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It's one of those, one of those kind of deals.
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And so it kind of fights us against having a posture of thankfulness.
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And it's not to say that that we can't be thankful or that we're not thankful,
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but we just don't have that as like our modus operandi.
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That's not like our default setting is to be thankful.
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And so that's one thing I want you guys to be thinking about is if you're not wired for
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thankfulness, you know, normally that's okay, because again, it's wiring.
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It's not something you can help. It's just like your, you know, your, your race or your gender.
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It's not something that you can just decide on, no matter what modern society tells us.
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But that's something that's really important for us to think about is if this is not something
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that comes natural to us, how can we cultivate it?
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How can we culture more of a posture of thankfulness?
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So go back to the hundred Psalm.
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So this is a Psalm that's called old hundredth.
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That's what it's referred to in a lot of other places.
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The Psalm has been used in different contexts like in hymnals and things like that.
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You may have heard of old hundredth saying in kind of the doxology,
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but it's really important because of all the things it's telling us to do.
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But it's also giving us a position as to where we are in reference to God
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and the things that we should be doing.
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And so I was listening to the briefing that's Albert Moller's podcast where he basically does,
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I guess the tagline is like Christian news and event or news and events from a Christian worldview,
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I think is what it is. But he pointed this out on his podcast, the Wednesday podcast before
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Thanksgiving, and he was kind of begging the question that if you're a secularist or if you're
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an atheist or an agnostic or something like that, it's what exactly are you being thankful to?
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You know, if you're when one of those families that does the cringe-worthy thing of, you know,
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going around the table before you break bread and saying what you're thankful for out loud and
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you have the pressure of having to come up with something that sounded more grandiose than your
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brothers or something like that. If you don't believe in anything, if you believe that, you know,
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we're highly evolved monkeys that wear pants, that there is no afterlife, any of those things,
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you have to have a, you have to have a direction of your thankfulness because
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Thanksgiving requires personhood. This is the point that Albert Moller was making.
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Thanksgiving requires personhood that we can't just be thankful in general, we have to be thankful
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towards someone, towards someone, directionally, right? And so you might say, you know, even if
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you're an atheist or an agnostic or something like that, that you're really, really thankful for your
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spouse, but that's just another monkey, right? But why would you be thankful towards another monkey?
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Like, what is the posture of your heart to be thankful towards that, right? They're just helping
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you propagate the species. But if we are a theistic society or if we're a theistic person, you know,
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or if we have a belief in God, like if we believe in the Judeo-Christian God, let's say it that way,
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then your thankfulness has to be towards him. Because if you're thankful for a person,
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you have to remember that that person was created in the image of something. That person has the
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Imago day, right? If you're thankful for an invention or something that you own, somebody built
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that thing. And those people were created. And the elements that were used, the materials that were
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used, they were created, right? And they may have not been created for that purpose, but that's how
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they were used. And so so we have to be thankful towards God for a lot of these things. So I really
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want you guys to read through the hundredth Psalm, because and even to be more specific with you,
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you should even start in Psalm 98. So read Psalm 98, read Psalm 99, read Psalm 100. And that was a
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great thing that was pointed out by the pastor at my church that did a sermon over the weekend.
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He was talking about Psalm 100, but he's like, it doesn't just start there. You should really go
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back a couple of more Psalms because it's kind of a crescendo that builds to the Psalm of Thanksgiving,
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of getting thanks. And I thought it was a really, really well done. The audio isn't ready for that
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or the video or otherwise I would share it with you guys. But perhaps I'll remember to do that on
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a future podcast. But in in line with all of this, I know this is a time of year where you got a lot
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of pressure on you for a lot of you guys, right? You have two big family holidays coming up. And I
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can't assume that all you guys out there have super functional families and family situations.
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And I completely understand that. And so in light of all that, I want to kind of help
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encourage you to have more of a posture of Thanksgiving, especially since I know it may not come naturally
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to you because if you're anything like me, so I have two bits of homework for you. Okay. And if
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you're listening to this on the drive, this is something that you can even do out loud with your
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spouse right there or if everybody in the car is asleep, you know, just think through it yourself.
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The first thing is make a list of the macro things that you're thankful for. Okay. And notice how I
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said macro macro things. Okay, you don't need to make an exhaustive excel spreadsheet of I am thankful
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for sandwiches. I am thankful for my water bottle. I'm thankful for my dog. I'm thankful for good
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whiskey. Like you don't have to just go into all the minute things that aren't really affecting your
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life in any broad ways. But I want you to think about all those things through the lens of what
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God has provided for you. Okay, that's the one caveat that no matter what you think about what
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you put down, remember, there's probably a person behind that and that person was created. And even
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if it's just something in general, like I'll, I'll kind of get into my list here in a second,
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that was given to you. And for us, we know that was given to us from a, you know, omnipresent
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and omniscient God. And so I want to list a couple of things for you that I'm really thankful for.
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And I tried to just, again, not be exhaustive. I just want to be macro in a lot of different ways.
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But I just want to kind of break down as I was thinking through this podcast, why I listed these
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individual things. And the very first thing is my wife. And so obviously you're like, Oh, yeah,
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your wife should listen to this later. Like just follow me guys. The thing about my wife
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is with every passing year, she and I will have been married 10 years this coming May.
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With every passing year, I become more and more aware of how much of a blessing it is
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that she is my wife, not just that I have one, mind you, but that she is my wife, that Kelsey
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was given to me to be my wife. Like to a certain degree, she chose me, which I still have no idea
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why. And this is especially pertinent for me right now, because there's a lot of guys that are in my
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circle right now that are having marital issues. I guess is the easiest way to say it. But some
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of them are having insane marital issues, like absolutely insane marital issues. I've got a guy
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right now who I obviously am not going to use his name. But I mentioned him, I think a couple of
12:01
podcasts ago, a guy that I train with the things that his wife is doing to him and their children.
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And it's just it's horrifying. The things that she's saying to him and the things he's having to
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endure, and he's dealing with some of his own head trash all at the same time. And the thing is,
12:23
is I've sat with this guy for several hours talking to him about his situation. And every time he
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mentioned something that his wife did, I'm, you know, reminded of the thought that I don't even
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think my wife has the capability of doing something like that. Now this guy, his wife, I think there,
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there's some mental health issues going on here that that would actually be a clinical mental health
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type issues, which have not been addressed, which is, you know, whole another can of worms that I'm
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not going to open right here. But I just think about some of the things that she says to him,
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and I'm like, my wife had never said that to me. She respects me. She she knows I'm not perfect,
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and she'll be the first one to point it out. But man, that that's a really good thing for me that
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I don't have to deal with that. That my wife, I mean, essentially, she's for me. I know a lot of
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guys who don't have what you would call marital issues, meaning like they're not separated or
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on the way to divorce, but their wives certainly aren't for them. Their wives are for themselves,
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and they just coexist really nicely together. Does that make sense? I hope that makes sense.
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But that's the thing that I never have to question with my wife is even whenever I've done the
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worst things possible to risk our marriage and to risk her trust and all those different things.
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I've always known that she was for me. And that is just an incredible thing for me to realize
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and to be thankful for. So first thing I'm thankful for is my wife. The second thing I would say is
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just my overall health. So I know I talk about physical resilience a lot on this podcast in,
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you know, some of you guys that know me, you know, I work out really hard and I try to take care of
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myself. But here's the thing, guys, is I can eat all the kale in the world and do all the pushups
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and still not be in good health, right? I can control part of that equation. I was given a
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working body and then I keep it working to keep it working properly. But I could get a debilitating
14:11
disease just like the rest of people. So the super fat guy that smokes and all that he and
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I could come down with the same disease. It didn't matter how many pushups I did last year. You know
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what I mean? And so I'm really, really thankful for my overall health because I know I have a part
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in it, but not the biggest part. There's only so many things I can prevent. And so there's so many
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things that I'm interested in and that I like to do and almost all of those things, especially
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hobby related, involve a body that works really, really well, that can handle certain things and
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that it can be resilient. And so I'm super thankful for my overall health. I'm also thankful for all
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of you guys. I mean, the followers of Undaunted Life. So those of you listening to this podcast
14:55
episode right now, those of you that share this stuff around the people that have read our devotionals
14:59
and gone to our book list and bought books off of there and you know, tried to, you know, just
15:04
cultivate these different areas of your life, your spiritual, your mental and your physical
15:07
resilience. I'm super, super, super thankful for you guys. I mean, I get emails all the time from
15:13
guys that just tell me what this content is doing for them. And because to be honest with you, this
15:19
isn't always the easiest thing to do to get one of these episodes out every week. But it's just a
15:25
reminder that there are guys waiting for this podcast to come out Thursday morning, like clockwork.
15:30
They're ready. They're ready to go. They want to hear what we have to say and what we're going to
15:34
be talking about. And I'm just super thankful for y'all's willingness to send me questions for the
15:39
Q&A podcast and that you're honestly curious about the things that that you know, I might say to help
15:45
you in a certain way or how to think on a certain issue or my opinion, even on silly things. I'm
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super thankful for that. Because here's the other thing is you guys are challenging me to
15:55
constantly be thinking about my philosophy on these issues. You know, on some of the Q&A episodes,
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if you go back and listen to them, I've been asked about the legalization of marijuana in my home
16:05
state of Oklahoma. I've been asked about illegal immigration. I've been asked about, you know,
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fundamentalist Islam. I've been asked about everything. And it causes me to ponder these things and
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where I sit on them. Because here's the thing is I don't like having undefined philosophies,
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kind of just hanging out there in the ether. I want to have philosophies that are very cogently
16:25
presentable, right? That if somebody asked me, what is your stance on X? I want to be able to give
16:31
them a quick answer that summarizes my point of view. But then also, if there's follow-up discussion,
16:36
I want to be able to hang, you know what I mean? And you guys help me do that. Because you're
16:41
constantly making me challenge myself to think, okay, what would the guys like? What would they
16:46
want to hear? What would they not want to hear that I can like press them on? What are some
16:50
things that would be important to them? What things are timely to what's going on with these guys
16:55
right now? What are the things I can do? So I'm super, super thankful for you guys. You guys are
16:58
making me better. I'm also thankful for the Forge. So you guys have heard me talk about this. If you
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go back to my podcast about my first six months of doing Jiu Jitsu, the Forge is the gym that I train
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at in Edmond, Oklahoma. So it's a gym that's mainly for Jiu Jitsu, but we're also, we also have MMA,
17:17
we do Muay Thai, Kramagah, those types of things. But I've been training there for about a year and a
17:22
half. And I'm so unbelievably thankful for the relationships I've created in that building. And
17:28
also the things I've been able to learn. So you've heard me talk over and over and over about the
17:34
virtues of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. And you're about to get it again. I mean, guys, if you want to
17:39
cultivate physical resilience, I cannot and mental resilience. I can't think of a better thing for
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you to do. Like aside from those few friends of mine, one that's got, you know, a disease that could
17:50
kill them. And the other one's got, you know, a debilitating bone disorder that would cause his
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bones to be brittle. Aside from guys like that, every single one of you should be doing Jiu Jitsu.
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If your body works, you should be doing Jiu Jitsu. Because here's the thing, and we talked about this
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a lot, but follow me if this is your first time here in this guys connect with other guys after
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they've accomplished something, not before, right? So think about it. If you played football in high
18:16
school, you have your two days and, you know, you're throwing up doing two days in the summer and
18:20
stuff like that. And then you see that guy 15 years later, 20 years later, that was on the football
18:25
team with you. There's not a whole lot that you have to say, because you have a bond together,
18:29
right? If you've watched the band of brothers, like a docu series or whatever that thing was,
18:34
that little 10 episode thing that was done back in the day by HBO. Those guys would sit around
18:40
and chat with one another after these crazy battles. They didn't realize they were writing history,
18:45
but it was just amazing the connections they were able to make with one another, but it was
18:49
after they had accomplished something shoulder to shoulder. The thing that you'll find with Jiu Jitsu,
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even if you go to a crappy school, and I know there are a lot of crappy schools out there,
18:57
the forge could not be considered one of those by any stretch of the imagination. But even if
19:01
you go to a crappy school, you're going to get to know guys in a different way. You're going to get
19:05
to struggle in a way that you've never understood before. Maybe you were a super stud athlete and
19:10
everything, you know, you picked up a hockey stick for the first time and oh man, you scored five
19:13
goals and picked up a basketball and you know, you know, led the team and scoring on the pickup
19:17
game. Like you're just that guy, the guy that everybody freaking hates, but they won on their team.
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That's not going to work for you in Jiu Jitsu. It's just not. I mean, there are some savants and
19:27
there are some guys that get on the mat, but the thing about Jiu Jitsu is it's not really accidental.
19:32
Like, you're not going to accidentally catch somebody in an armbar. You're not going to accidentally
19:38
go into Baron Bolo. You're not going to accidentally do a reverse daily heave on a guy and hold him
19:43
in position, right? These are things that are specific that your body is maybe not
19:49
used to doing or your brain has not even connected that that's a possibility for you.
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But the forge has been such an amazing thing for me because I've gotten to learn so much about myself
20:01
and so much about guys around me that have a similar mindset and we all, you know, we're all
20:06
different bodies, different ages, different races, different physical abilities and athletic abilities,
20:11
but we all end up on the same mat and we're all there for the same reason. We want to get better
20:16
and we want to train in a way that would allow us and all of our training partners to be able to
20:22
train again tomorrow. We're not in there trying to prove something to ourselves or, you know,
20:26
prove something to our dads or whatever our issues are or something like that. We're there for us
20:30
and we're there for the guy across from us. We're there for all the guys in the room,
20:34
so I'm super, super thankful for the forge. And the last thing I'll mention here is I'm thankful
20:39
for my Sunday night crew fight club. So you've seen us post this on Instagram a little bit, but
20:43
I've been even before I started going to full-time classes at the forge. There's this group of guys
20:48
on Sunday nights that get together and we read a book and we discuss it amongst each other
20:54
and the books can range from everything about marriage to about field medicine, the government,
20:58
apologetics, everything. But we get together and we discuss this, we help each other and then we train
21:06
a little bit, we do some sort of a workout and then we train some jiu-jitsu. Most of the guys on the
21:11
mat don't have a lot of mat experience. These are guys that maybe never wrestled, never did jiu-jitsu,
21:15
but they're just getting in there to take care of themselves and take care of their bodies.
21:18
This is an incredible group of guys. The guy that runs it and has basically been doing this
21:24
for the last 10 years, he's very, very specific about community, creating community. Because here's
21:30
the thing about guys is you don't create actual community and trust amongst guys if you just hang
21:35
out a couple of times a year, maybe once a quarter, something like that. You do some sort of big event
21:40
or hey, we all go to a lake house and watch the masters or we all go to this distillery and go
21:46
on a tour or we all go and go to this football game when it's especially cold outside and there's
21:51
nothing wrong with any of those things. But you're not actually building community. You're just doing
21:57
stuff. But when you consistently get together like this group does every Sunday and has for the last
22:03
10 years, man, you get to really, really learn a lot similar to what I was saying with The Force,
22:08
learn a lot about yourself and the guys across from you. But these are the foxhole guys.
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I mean, I don't even know if I've mentioned that here on this podcast, but just the concept of
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somebody being in your foxhole next to you. These are the guys you want in your foxhole next to you.
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You've seen them struggle. You've seen them being bad positions on the mat. You've seen
22:26
them go through hardships. You've seen them deal with things emotionally and spiritually and physically
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and you've been there for all of it. And you're all, you know, forget the pun, you're forging
22:37
yourselves in a certain direction. You're getting better. You're getting tougher. You're getting
22:40
hardened, right? And that's what that's where it all started. That's the reason why I'm at The
22:45
Force today is because I started going to Fight Club and I just loved getting together with these
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guys. And I mean, that's just kind of a general name. It's not like, Oh, you can't talk about Fight
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Club. So don't tweet me. But that that's kind of one of those things that it's just it's it's one of
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those events I look forward to every week. Even if I'm tired of my bodies busted up a little bit,
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I want to go Sunday night. I want to go train with a group of guys and guys, if you're listening
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to this and you're in the Oklahoma City area, we train every Sunday night at The Forge in
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Edmond, Oklahoma, right? It's right there, basically smack dab in the middle of Edmond. Come see us
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seven o'clock. It's a great group of guys. It's more underwhelming than you might think in terms of
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what happens physically to you. We're not all leaving in ambulances or anything like that. But I hope
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that that's been helpful to you guys for me to describe to you some of the things that I'm thankful
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for and the reasons why. And so I know I said that I had a couple of pieces of homework for you guys.
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So I kind of went off on tangents when I was talking about all those different things. But
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the first thing is again, make a list of the macro things you're thankful for. Okay. The second thing
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is share that info. And this is what I mean. So if you're super thankful for your wife,
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tell her that. Yeah. I mean, it's like, did I just blow your mind? Because I should have
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with that one. There's a lot of guys you think something, but then you don't say it. You see your
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wife, you think she looks pretty in that dress and you don't say, Oh, hey, honey, you look really good
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in that dress. I really like that. But especially for something like this, if you feel towards
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you're in any way towards your wife, like I do towards mine, that's something you should share
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with her. And this is something that I share with my wife all the time, especially with my guys
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going through the crap right now. And I've told her, like, babe, I'm so thankful for you. Like,
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you've gotten out of the next two things or at least that I'm going to complain about about you. You
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know what I mean? So, but the same thing is true. If there are if there are guys in your life or
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other relationships, if there are people that, you know, having, I don't know, have it like invented
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something that has really altered your life in a certain way, find that person's email and
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shoot something, shoot a little message to them. A little thank you note. I don't know. Like,
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y'all are smarter than me when it comes to this stuff. Just figure it out. Just share that.
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Don't keep all that thankfulness bottled up. But again, remember, we need to have a posture of
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thankfulness and that posture needs to be pointed towards God. And so when you pray, and I hope all
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of you guys out there do that, whether that's before meals or, you know, before you go to bed or
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whatever the thing might be, always think about the things that you were given. One of the things I
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work into most of my prayers just because it's a good reminder for me is God, thank you for all
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the blessings that you've given us, the ones that we can see and especially the ones that we don't.
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The things we can't see. Because we've got so many blessings. I mean, again, all of you guys are
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listening to this podcast on a smart, a smart computer that's sitting in your pocket. It's a
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super computer, right? Think about all the things that have had to happen for you to be able to just
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even afford that. And living in the country that you live in, right? So again, have a correct posture,
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point all your thanksgiving towards God. And I really think that that will put some parameters
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around this holiday. And guys, before I let you go before we move on, I want to go ahead and reread
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Psalm 100 for you guys, because I want to make sure that this is solidified for you, okay?
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His steadfast love endures forever. A Psalm for giving thanks. Psalm 100.
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Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come into His presence
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with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God. It is He who made us and we are His. We are His people
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and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.
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Give thanks to Him. Bless His name. For the Lord is good. His steadfast love endures forever.
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And His faithfulness to all generations. Happy Thanksgiving, guys. All right, guys,
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before we let you out here, we're going to do a quick resilience boost. As you know, by now,
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we are a men's ministry and our mission is cultivating manly resilience. And specifically,
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we do that by providing content to all of you that for just spiritual, mental and physical
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toughness. And so I want to work on spiritual right now, because we did talk a lot about
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thankfulness and how that ties to the spirit. So I just wanted to do a couple of things for you guys.
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The first thing is just real quick. I told you all that him or that Psalm 100 has been used
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for a hymn before and that hymn is called old hundredth. And so it's also called all people that
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on earth do dwell, all people that on earth do dwell. So I have a little YouTube recording of
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a choir actually singing this. And so I know that not all of y'all are going to be into something
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like that. But it's it's saying to the tune of the doxology and things like that. So it's just
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interesting. So you can see how this song was kind of altered to kind of come up with that. So I
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thought it was at least a little bit interesting. And then also I wanted to share an episode
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of the Jocko podcast with you. So this is podcast episode 139. It's called in darkest times
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start walking. And this is about the baton death march. And so this is about a guy in his
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experience with the baton death march. And it's one of those things that if you're not feeling
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terribly thankful, if you're if you're thinking that you got it rough, you got to listen to this
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podcast episode. Because to hear about what these men endured, it is absolutely astonishing that any
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of us would ever complain about anything. So I'm gonna provide the YouTube link to that episode
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there. And then also if if you have if you're listening to this podcast on Apple podcast or
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Google Play or whatever you're listening to it on, you can just search for it on the Jocko podcast.
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