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0:59 This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.

1:13 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

1:14 Let's get into it.

1:15 Alright guys, I know it's been a while since we have done a Q&A, so we've gotten some questions that have built up over time.

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2:09 Alright guys, well let's go ahead and launch into the first question of the day. Here we go.

2:12 What role do we, as resilient, manly men of God, have in the rectification

2:18 of the degradation that exists in the society that we live in? And so, i.e. the loss of the family unit,

2:24 divorce, infidelity, sexual immorality, gender identity, homosexuality, violence, and mass shootings,

2:29 etc, etc, etc. So I wanted to talk about this one first because this is a huge question, and maybe

2:37 the most important question that we deal with in a lot of times in our lives, because a lot of us,

2:42 I've been asked this question a lot of different ways. I know I'm kind of stumbling into my answer

2:46 here, but I've been asked this question in a lot of different ways, and this was one of the more

2:50 cogent ways that I've seen it put. But for us as guys, we struggle with, okay, we've defined the

2:55 issue, we see the issue, we agree that it is an issue, now what do we do? Right? And the thing

3:02 about it is, I want us to be as actionable as possible. I am always wanting us to find ways to

3:07 where we can actually move towards a solution of some kind. And so, these are going to seem a

3:11 little bit nebulous, some of the things that I came up with, but I really think there are some

3:15 things that you need to get right from a mindset standpoint that will then lead to better actions

3:21 on the back end. So, the first thing that I would say for you to do is actually be resilient,

3:26 right? To actually be resilient. That may seem kind of ridiculous to start there,

3:30 but most of you guys don't even know what that means, and I don't mean to be demeaning, but like

3:34 the definition of being resilient is basically being able to withstand or recover quickly from

3:39 difficult conditions. That's what being resilient is. You know, if you guys have been listening to

3:44 this for any length of time or read the devotional and uvers and any of those types of things,

3:48 you know why I talk about resilience and not strength because strength is something that can

3:52 wane, strengthen something that goes up and down depending on the day, but you can be resilient

3:56 until the day that you die, right? And the thing about it is, is you know, if this is

4:00 withstanding and recovering quickly from difficult conditions, culture is replete with

4:05 difficult conditions right now. I mean, the guy who asked his question, he listed a bunch of them,

4:10 he listed, I don't know, half dozen or so of things that, you know, our pastors certainly aren't

4:14 talking about, I'll go back to his list again, because it was good. The loss of the family unit,

4:17 divorce, infidelity, sexual immorality, gender identity, homosexuality, violence and mass shootings.

4:23 I mean, I think I've heard pastors recently, maybe, maybe touch on infidelity. They kind of

4:30 ignore divorce because if they go into the divorce side, then they obviously have to talk about the

4:33 fact that anyone who's gotten divorced without the covenant being broken, and then got remarried

4:37 that those people are living in adultery, that's kind of an awkward conversation. And people don't

4:41 tend to want to give as much, you know, sexual immorality is an easy one, as long as we don't

4:45 talk about specifics, no one's talking about gender identity, homosexuality is becoming a hot

4:50 topic that if we talk about it, oh, what are we, what are people going to think about us? And you

4:53 don't really hear anybody talking about violence or mass shootings, but for us, we need to actually

4:57 be resilient. But that's why I like beg you guys on a weekly basis, you need to be cultivating

5:02 mainly resilience, you need to be focusing on your on forging your spiritual mental and physical

5:07 toughness. In fact, that's your responsibility. So that that's one thing you could do. But the

5:11 second thing I would say is just stand up for truth, right? I mean, a lot of the problems that

5:16 we're having in that list of things that we've listed up there is that people aren't being truthful.

5:22 I mean, the easiest one's gender identity. Yeah, people that are literally trying to rewrite science

5:27 so that it fits within the worldview. It's absolutely absurd. I mean, it brings me back to John one

5:33 14. I know I quoted a lot, but in the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen his

5:37 glory glory as of the only son from the father, full of grace and truth, full of grace and truth.

5:43 Everyone focuses on the first part, grace. No one really likes to talk about truth.

5:48 Because when you talk about truth, that means somebody's going to be on the wrong side of the

5:51 issue, right? But for us as guys, we have to stand up for that. And the third thing I would say to

5:55 this question is don't take any crap. My goodness, the female, like that's not even a word female,

6:03 like anyway, I'll leave that in there just so you guys can know in case you ever thought,

6:06 I'm a wicked smart guy. I just said female, like on a podcast, but I was going to say more the

6:10 effeminate, the effeminacy that I see out of guys that just kind of let society and their wives

6:17 and people in the church just kind of bull them over. Good grief. Where are the strong men at, man?

6:24 Where are they at? I mean, don't take any crap in this modern society. Be bold, be willing to be

6:31 bold. Don't let incorrect information slide. Even if you're having to debate with somebody or a

6:37 cordial argument that could be considered a debate by an outside observer. Like, let's just be honest

6:43 and just when someone says something that's false, call them out. Like you would have no problems

6:48 correcting a four year old if they said two plus two equal 10, you have no problem with that. But

6:52 all of a sudden, you know, someone says something that's incorrect about abortion or incorrect about

6:56 immigration or incorrect about the gospel. And all of a sudden you're just going, Oh, well, maybe

7:00 they're right. I don't know. I mean, we need to be a corrective force guys. That's part of the

7:06 thing that part of the thing that we're struggling with culturally and part of the reason why we're

7:10 getting, you know, just ran rough shot over is because we're just letting people do it to us.

7:14 We're just allowing it like it's okay. It's fine. I mean, it goes back to that poem that I did an

7:19 entire podcast about about like, you know, hard time makes hard times make strong men, strong men

7:24 make good times, good times make weak men, weak men create hard times. Like it's just, it's one of

7:29 those things that it's because of this continuum. We have so many guys that are just so comfortable

7:34 that they never want to do anything that could possibly be seen as offensive or bold or corrective

7:40 in any way. But guys, if we're going to stand up to culture, we have to be resilient. We have to

7:44 actually be resilient. We have to stand up for truth and we can't take any crap. So there you go.

7:49 All right. Next question. What do you think the proper use of swear words or aggressive language

7:55 is for a Christian man? So some of you guys that have listened to this for a while, I've actually

7:59 answered the first part of this question before. So if you go back to episode 21 of this podcast,

8:03 it was our third Q&A episode. And I, you know, just basically do a good refresher. I kind of

8:09 talked about my opinions and kind of what my experience was with, with cussing and what other

8:13 guys have seen and done. But the three scriptures that I brought up that I think are helpful,

8:16 which I'll go ahead and repeat here are Colossians three eight Ephesians four 29 and Matthew 12

8:22 versus 36 and 37. So I'll re Colossians three eight here. But now you must put them all away.

8:27 Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Ephesians four 29,

8:32 let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths. But only such that is good for building up as

8:37 fits the occasion that it may give grace to those who hear in the Matthew 12 36 and 37.

8:43 I tell you on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every careless word they speak

8:47 before your words, you will be justified and by your words, you will be condemned. Okay.

8:51 So that's the thing, you know, I've talked about that a lot. I talk about how I'm like a reactive,

8:56 you know, swear, right? You know, stub my toe, someone cuts me off in traffic. You know,

9:00 I'm angry at myself. I'm not a casual swear. Like I know, just like say it in casual conversation

9:05 to fit in or look cool. And again, I have a longer answer on episode 21 of this podcast.

9:11 But I do want to talk about the second part of this. And I don't know if this is necessarily

9:15 what the person meant, but the aggressive language part, in my opinion, that is a completely different

9:22 story, aggressive language. Okay. So the thing about it that I feel like a lot of men struggle

9:28 with right now is there's way too many people in their lives, male and female, that are talking

9:34 to them very softly, almost like they're this porcelain doll, that if you were to raise your

9:41 voice and be the least bit aggressive, that they would just poof into a bunch of pieces.

9:47 And they would be soaked in the tears of the person that did it. Just this, this nonsense

9:52 that these kid gloves that we treat men with. Now, I'm not saying you need to walk around and

9:57 be a jerk to everyone that you've ever seen. Like that, that's not what I'm saying. But

10:01 sometimes aggressive language is absolutely warranted, absolutely warranted. And it may rub

10:08 people the wrong way, but that doesn't matter. What's funny, there was actually something that

10:12 came up here recently. So at the church, I go to in Edmond, Oklahoma, there was a guy that I don't

10:18 know if he's been tasked by the church or I don't really even know what this guy's role is. I don't

10:24 think he's on staff. But anyway, there was another guy that met him and they're trying to get some

10:27 stuff going with men's ministry in the church and you know, all that kind of thing. And someone

10:31 suggests, Hey, you should talk to Kyle. You know, he's, he's, he's a guy that's really thought a

10:35 lot about this and has done a lot in this space. So you should talk to him and see what he has to

10:38 say. Now I knew it was going to be interesting conversation. When I sat down and the guy goes,

10:43 well, you were introduced to me as the hardcore men's ministry guy. I was like,

10:47 okay, here we go. It's just like, yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess you could put me in that category

10:53 fairly accurately, but we're just having a conversation. You could tell we were agreeing on

10:57 some points and disagreeing on some trying to find some common ground. But at one point, I said,

11:01 you know, a lot of guys don't really like going to church, because especially if they're mainly

11:06 men, because they walk through the door and they see all these do boy Christians and they're like,

11:09 man, I don't want to be like these guys. And this guy took such offense at the fact that I said

11:15 do boy Christians. Like he was well, well, that's not very nice. I was like, what are you talking

11:20 about? It wasn't supposed it wasn't supposed to be nice. Like these guys shouldn't be do boys,

11:24 but they are. Like they're not taking care of their bodies. Like they're not cultivating physical

11:29 resilience. You can see it. Like if you look at them, like, what do you mean? And he was just like,

11:34 well, would, would Jesus have said something like that? I was like, I sure, I sure hope so.

11:39 I certainly hope that he would. And the thing that he was, is he was so offended that I had used

11:45 something that would be seen as derogatory. And just in the top of my head, I said,

11:50 brood of vipers. And I said that out loud to him. Like he's basically telling me Jesus would never

11:57 say anything derogatory or mean towards anybody. And I'm like, he called a group of dudes a brood

12:02 of vipers. Now, I don't know what the corollary or the comparison would be to what you would say in

12:07 2018 to elicit a response that these guys did. But these dudes wanted to kill him. They wanted to kill

12:14 Jesus for calling them a brood of vipers. And you want to sit here and tell me that Jesus would have

12:19 just tried to use loving language the entire time that he wasn't going to be aggressive in any

12:25 way, shape or form. Do I need to remind you about him clearing the temple about the fact that he

12:30 didn't have a whip on him when he showed up that he went and got one or went and made one and came

12:35 back in an act of pre premeditated aggression and cleared the temple. And you want to tell me that

12:41 he probably wouldn't have said anything aggressive. So here's the thing, guys, if we're going to model

12:45 ourselves after Jesus, that we should model ourselves after all parts of Jesus, right?

12:52 Not just the aggressive parts, but also the grace filled parts. Remember came full of grace and truth,

12:57 both of those things, that's something that we should do. And so my challenge to a lot of you guys

13:02 is take the kid gloves off when you're talking to other men. I don't know if I've ever told this

13:07 story on a podcast before, but back in the day, whenever I was still, you know, really struggling

13:11 with porn and that's something that's probably going to be a struggle for the rest of my life

13:15 in terms of, you know, not going to it. And to be honest with you, I will go years without looking

13:20 at anything explicit sexually. And I know we'll get more into that in a future podcast. I want to go

13:25 and talk about pornography exclusively. But this would have been, I don't know, close to 10 years

13:29 ago, when, you know, I was trying to just basically kick this habit like I couldn't figure it out,

13:33 you know, some people deal with alcohol, some people deal with anger, some people deal with porn,

13:37 whatever the thing might be. And so I go to this group. And I guess it was like a support group or

13:42 something like that or an accountability group. I can't remember exactly how they described it.

13:45 But basically they broke us up into groups of six or seven guys or so. And then we just kind

13:51 of went around in the circle. And guys kind of said how their week was. Now, how they've struggled

13:56 with something or how they've overcome or something like that. And every single guy in the group

14:01 had messed up or acted out is what they said. So, but the thing about it was, as I was sitting

14:07 there as a guy that, you know, was basically looking at porn and masturbating, you know, in my early

14:12 twenties, just doing it like, Oh, this is normal until it became like, Oh, this is probably a bad

14:16 thing. I need to get in under control. But these guys were in a little bit of a different category,

14:20 a little bit more advanced than I was. There were guys that were having affairs. There were guys

14:24 that were acting out on homo erotic, you know, stimuli of some kind. There was one dude that

14:30 was a pharmacist. And he had this habit of like hooking up with random people like there was some

14:37 app where it's like, all right, meet, meet in the Walgreens parking lot. I'll be in the, you know,

14:41 the black van and come on in and we'll just do whatever we need to do. Like this guy ended up

14:46 getting a venereal disease of some kind, a sexually transmitted disease. And he passed it on to his

14:52 wife. Don't worry. It gets better. But he's a pharmacist, remember? So he saw the signs that

14:58 she was having this STD. He gets a prescription and sneaks it into her food. Right. He was talking

15:05 about a crazy story. So covering his tracks, like to an extreme degree, like pretty crazy stuff.

15:11 But the thing I remember most about this scenario was the guy that was kind of leading our discussion

15:17 group was so man, after every guy would admit whatever thing they'd done, he'd be like, Oh,

15:23 gosh, you know, that's that's got to be a tough week. I bet that was tough for you. Man, you know

15:27 what? Yeah, you made it two days without jerking off man. Great. Good job. Good job, man. Try to make

15:33 it three next week. And I'm sitting there like, Are you serious? Is this really going to happen?

15:39 This is how we're going to do this. This is an accountability group. Don't you guys

15:43 think that a little bit of aggressive language could have done some good in a group like that?

15:49 It's this gigantic room of beta males, all of us sinners, all of us in need of help. But is this

15:55 really the way to change? Because these guys come every single week and say the same thing and

16:02 don't change at all. At what point are you going to change the tactics? My goodness. Like I didn't

16:10 understand like I literally went to this group and I didn't go back because I was like this,

16:15 this is some poisonous stuff. This is a contagion that these guys, it's just this contagion of

16:19 effeminacy and weakness. Like I just couldn't take it. And so again, the aggressiveness,

16:25 I feel like there's a place for it. If you're pushing someone away from sin or towards the father

16:32 or away from some sort of horrible lifestyle that could end up killing them or something like that,

16:36 if the situation calls for it, be aggressive, right? Like you don't need to get somebody's face

16:43 and blah, blah, blah. You're going to do this and cuss at them and go all crazy and stuff like that.

16:46 But you might, you might need to get in somebody's face. I got to tell you guys,

16:50 there have been times in my life where dudes that are my in my foxhole, right? My foxhole dudes,

16:55 where they've yanked me up by my shirt and they're like, brother, you're not going to do that again.

17:01 I mean, they could have cordially invited me for coffee and we could have discussed it as rational

17:07 Westerners, right? And come to some sort of agreement of how I would change my behavior going

17:12 forward and all this stuff. And it may have been great. But at that moment, I just need somebody

17:17 snatch me up. How many of my football players out there got snatched up by your face mask,

17:21 by one of your coaches, right? He took his whistle and beat you in the helmet a couple of times to

17:25 try and get you to listen. Didn't that get your attention? Right? And I'm not saying that you have,

17:30 you can only be that way if you're a coach, guys, like don't, don't take this too literally. But,

17:34 but guys, when you get snatched up by another guy, you give them your full attention. And you

17:39 better listen to what they say. So I absolutely, absolutely think there's an appropriate time

17:44 for aggressive language. All right, guys, next question. Do you think Santa Claus takes away

17:49 from the real meaning of Christmas? This one's pretty easy. Yes. Absolutely. I feel like Santa Claus

17:56 is a gigantic distraction from the real meaning of Christmas. And I'll just go ahead and say this,

18:00 I don't know if this is sacrilege or what the deal is. But my wife and I have discussed this.

18:05 Again, we don't have any kids yet. We would, we would like to, but we don't have any yet.

18:09 We're not going to tell our kids that Santa's real. Like, we're just not going to do that.

18:13 Because I mean, first of all, it's a lie. So you would be lying to your kid. And I know some of

18:18 you might be like, well, you know, it's just a white line. We're letting them believe certain

18:22 things. But you know, it's, it's a mythology, right? The Chris Kringle side of Santa Claus,

18:28 not the actual Saint Nicholas, but like the Santa Claus character that pops down your chimney

18:32 and eats all your food and leaves, leaves the presents. Like, it's a myth. And I don't think it

18:37 would be appropriate for you to allow your kid to believe in a myth like that. I think that's a

18:42 little bit weird. And it kind of distracts them away from, from the real reason for the season,

18:46 right? Because here's the things everyone knows the story of Santa, but how many kids grow up

18:51 knowing the story of Advent or even knowing what Advent is, right? I didn't grow up in church. So

18:56 the first time I heard of Advent was like, I mean, good, like maybe three or four years ago,

19:02 to be honest with you, because, because even when I started going to church in high school,

19:06 they didn't do Advent. I didn't know what it was. So I knew that there were like these calendars

19:11 that every day you would like open it up. And there was like a piece of chocolate or something

19:14 like that. But I didn't know what that meant. I thought that was just something to help prepare

19:19 you to get excited for Christmas or whatever the thing was. So, so that's something that's,

19:22 that's kind of interesting. But I really do think it distracts from the real meaning of Christmas.

19:28 And I'm not saying that, you know, you can't watch Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer and your

19:32 elf or whatever your favorite movie is. And, but celebrate it for what it is. It's just

19:36 these stories that are mythological or made up stories, they're, they're fiction stories,

19:40 like don't try to turn it into something that's real. But I do think it kind of sets

19:44 kids up for failure to a little extent. I can't remember who the first person to point this out

19:48 was. Okay, Andy Stanley, it was Andy Stanley that pointed out. He said for most kids,

19:53 they learn about who Santa Claus is and the Easter Bunny around the same time when they

19:59 learn about who God is, right? And so if you think about it, you know, Santa Claus Easter Bunny God,

20:04 well, they learned pretty quickly that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny weren't real.

20:09 But if in their brain it's attached to this other entity called God, like maybe that's going to

20:16 have some issues for them moving forward. Again, we're not putting those on the same plane,

20:21 but it's confusing enough for the kids as it is, right? So I think that's something to really

20:25 consider. But here's the thing for those of you who think I'm like, just hating on Santa Claus.

20:30 What's funny about it is Saint Nicholas, the actual Saint Nicholas might be one of my favorite

20:37 dudes from history. All right, because there's this one story that I remember the first time I

20:41 heard it just dying laughing and I reread it again today and started laughing again. So

20:45 some of you may have heard of this, but I'm assuming most of you have not. So this is about the real

20:50 Saint Nicholas. So I'm just going to read this. This is actually from like the Saint Nicholas

20:54 Society of blah, blah, blah, something or other. So I just basically broke it down to a few paragraphs.

20:58 But let me read this to you. All right. In 8325, Emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea,

21:04 the very first Ecumenical Council. More than 300 bishops came from all over the Christian world

21:09 to debate the nature of the Holy Trinity. It was one of the early church's most intense theological

21:14 questions. Arius from Egypt was teaching that Jesus, the son was not equal to God, the father.

21:20 Arius forcefully argued his position at length. The bishops listened respectfully. As Arius

21:26 vigorously continued, Nicholas became more and more agitated. Finally, he could no longer bear

21:31 what he believed was essential being essentially being attacked. The outraged Nicholas got up,

21:37 crossed the room, and slapped Arius across the face. The bishops were shocked. It was

21:43 unbelievable that a bishop would lose control and be so hotheaded in such a solemn assembly.

21:49 Assembly. They brought Nicholas to Constantine. Constantine said even though it was illegal for

21:54 anyone to strike another in his presence, in this case, the bishops themselves must determine the

21:59 punishment. The bishop stripped Nicholas of his bishop's garments, chained him and threw him into

22:04 jail. That would keep Nicholas away from the meeting when the council ended a final decision

22:08 would be made about his future. The council of Nicaea agreed with Nicholas's views, deciding the

22:13 question against Arius. The work of the council produced the Nicene Creed, which to this day many

22:18 Christians repeat weekly when they stand and say what they believe. So anyway, so basically Santa

22:24 Claus, or who we're going to say St. Nicholas was a gangster, which is pretty awesome. He

22:29 disagreed with what this guy was saying, this heresy that was saying that he just literally

22:33 couldn't control himself and he walked across the room and smacked him. So no, I'm not advocating

22:37 that if you get into a debate with somebody and you don't like what they've said, that you should

22:40 go and smack them. But if I was in the room and saw it happen, I'd probably laugh. So moving on.

22:45 All right, guys, next question. Did the college football playoff selection committee get it right?

22:50 Okay, so as you guys know, the college football playoff for this year has been set with Alabama

22:55 being number one, Clemson number two, Notre Dame number three and OU number four. And so no,

23:01 in my opinion, the college football selection committee did not get it right. And so some of

23:06 you may think where I'm going with this, but let me just kind of give you my top six to kind of

23:11 give you an idea. These are who I think the best six teams in the country are in order. Okay,

23:17 number one, Alabama, number two, Georgia, number three, Clemson, number four, OU, number five,

23:25 Notre Dame, number six, Ohio State. Okay, so in my opinion, obviously, I know Georgia is a

23:31 two loss team until you Clemson and Notre Dame fans out there, you're like, what, they're undefeated,

23:35 why would they be better? I honestly think right now that Georgia would smash Clemson OU, Notre Dame

23:41 and Ohio State. Again, we'll never know what like we have no idea why I can't remember who Georgia

23:46 actually got got hooked up with in the bowl game. Oh, was it Texas? Anyway, yeah, I'll look it up

23:51 later. Who cares? But the thing about it is I think they're clearly the second best team in the

23:54 country. Yes, they lost to Auburn earlier in the year. It was not it was not a good looking game

23:59 that they lost. But they took Bama to the brink, right? I mean, absolutely to the brink. So in my

24:05 opinion, I think that Georgia should have been in it. However, I don't think that you could have

24:09 gotten rid of OU. I think OU did what they had to do. They were a one loss team. They played in

24:14 a terrible conference. So again, OU was the best team in a horrible conference. But but in my

24:19 opinion, it would have been weird for Georgia to be in there above OU with the two losses. So I

24:24 understood it. But I guess if I were predicting this, well, let's look at how the actual matchups

24:31 are going to go. So we got Bama versus OU. I think Bama wins this game fairly comfortably. But I

24:36 don't think it's going to be this route, right? If I can take you back a few years to where Alabama

24:41 and OU met the sugar bowl, it was a letdown for Alabama, because they were thinking they might be

24:44 in the national title game. And then here they are having to play OU in the sugar bowl. And then

24:49 I can't remember that quarterback's name for OU. I know you guys are freaking out right now. But

24:53 is that guy that literally had like one good game his entire career? And it just so happened to be

24:58 in the sugar bowl against Alabama that year, if they had played nine more times, Alabama probably

25:03 wins all night of them, but they just had this one night where things just worked out in their favor.

25:08 But the thing about it is you just can't doubt a team that has Kyler Murray on it. You really

25:12 just can't Bama when they have struggled with it's with quarterbacks that can, you know, extend

25:17 the play a little bit, get out of the pocket and make some things happen. But I think Alabama wins

25:22 the game fairly comfortably. And then in Clemson versus Notre Dame, I am not a believer in Notre

25:26 Dame. I think they suck. Here's the thing. Clemson and Notre Dame, neither of them have really played

25:30 anybody. But I think Clemson is the real deal. Their defense is absolutely insane. Gosh,

25:35 who did Notre Dame play to my Notre Dame people out there? Shoot me an email. Who do they play this

25:40 year? But what were their impressive victories? Right? I just don't see it. This is just another

25:45 time where Notre Dame that plays outside of a conference gets into something because they

25:49 basically didn't play anybody and they're going to get into this. I think Clemson's going to smash

25:52 Notre Dame. I don't think it's going to be close. I think they're going to smash them. So I got

25:56 Bama and Clemson in the title game. I know Clemson got one over Bama a few years ago, but I got Bama.

26:01 I mean, until until otherwise proven, Bama is the best team in the country. They have the best

26:05 coach in the country. They have the best coaching staff in the country. Everything they do is

26:09 incredible on top notch. So until further notice, Bama is the team to beat. And I predict that they

26:15 will win in January. So it's going to the next question, which is kind of tied into the previous

26:19 one talking college football is here, which is do you agree with Kyler Murray as the pick for the

26:23 Heisman? So no, I do not agree that he should have won the Heisman. So again, here I am in Oklahoma,

26:29 I can actually like feel the heat from the people outside with the pitchforks and the in the torches

26:33 and everything like that. But but here's the big thing, right? It was awesome. It was, you know,

26:37 to attack a by Loa and Kyler Murray, that was those are the only two options. The Ohio State

26:42 quarterback was really not in this. He was just a guy that they needed to hang out in New York while

26:45 the other two were vying for this spot. Really, it feels like those two are kind of one A and one B.

26:51 They feel really, really close. But this is why I would have given it to Toa. Toa actually took 200

26:58 less snaps than Kyler Murray this year, actually a little over 200 less snaps and Kyler Murray.

27:04 Okay. So can you imagine what two of stats would have looked like if he had played 200 more plays?

27:11 200 more plays. Think of the passing yards, the rushing yards, he's not much of a rusher.

27:16 The touchdowns, just think about that, because you kept seeing these side by side comparisons

27:20 of what their offensive numbers were in the year. It's like, is nobody going to take into account

27:24 the fact that he took 200 less snaps? Anybody? Is anyone going to talk about this? And because

27:28 here's the thing is I've heard a lot of people, especially around here in an OU country, people

27:32 downgrade what Toa did because of how good Alabama is. But you can't just do that in a vacuum, right?

27:38 Because do we also downgrade what Kyler did because he's being protected by the best offensive line in

27:44 the country? I think I think OU clearly has the best offensive line in the country. I think they've

27:49 had it the last two years in a row. So do we downgrade what he's been able to accomplish?

27:52 I mean, do we downgrade Murray because he played against the trash, big 12 defenses all season?

27:59 Like name aside from Texas, who is pretty good, name a good defensive team in the big 12.

28:04 Like you can't do it, right? So so again, it feels like they're kind of one A, one B. I wasn't,

28:11 I wasn't mad. I figured Kyler Murray would win because, you know, to a kind of late in egg,

28:15 he was a little injured in the SEC title game and then was knocked out of the SEC title game.

28:19 I think if he went in there and threw for 250 yards and, you know, threw for three touchdowns

28:23 and they won comfortably against Georgia, then we're probably sitting here talking about Toa

28:27 being the Heisman Trophy winner, but that's just not how it worked out. So for my money,

28:31 I would have voted for Toa, but absolutely, I can see the argument for Kyler Murray.

28:35 But this is something that's really important that I think we need to bring up, which was not

28:39 related to this question when I got it, which is the hack job that was done by the USA today

28:45 within hours of Kyler Murray being announced as a Heisman Trophy winner.

28:49 So for those of you who don't understand what happened, Kyler Murray, he's 21. I think he's 21

28:53 years old right now. So a USA Today article came out from a guy who I'm not even going to name

28:58 because he's not important about some homophobic tweets that Kyler Murray sent out when he was

29:05 15 years old, 14 or 15. It was one of those. We'll just go with 15. When he was 15 years old,

29:11 he apparently used a homophobic slur, what is considered a homophobic slur, the F word towards

29:17 some of his friends. And the thing about this I felt was incredibly inappropriate is that

29:25 this was a hack job from the beginning. This guy's article was ready to go.

29:29 It wasn't like, Oh, Kyler Murray popped up on his timeline. He got a notification from somebody

29:35 that, Oh, this random kid won the Heisman. And then he's like, Oh, I don't know who this is.

29:39 So let me just go to Twitter and plug in his name. Oh, let me just scroll through six years

29:43 worth of tweets. Oh my gosh, he said the effort. I don't like I'm going to destroy this person.

29:49 They had it ready to go. The gun was loaded. They just had to take the shot. And we and we live

29:55 in this outrage culture now where listen, I'm not saying what he said is appropriate. I did an

30:00 entire episode on this podcast about why I stopped using that word, right? Go go back and listen to

30:06 it. It's the only episode that's been edited by iTunes, right? The title has been edited by iTunes.

30:12 But at the end of the day, guys, this is this was a hack job. And just ask yourself, if you were,

30:18 if you were absolutely taken aback and offended by what this kid did, I want you to go back to when

30:24 you were 15. And think of the things that you said, think of the things that you did, the things

30:30 that you thought, the philosophies that you had, the opinions that you had. And if you still

30:35 act like that and have those opinions now as an adult, I have some serious misgivings about

30:43 your future and it being positive in any way, shape or form. We all evolve. And we all look back

30:50 or should look back on who we were five, 10, 15, 20 years ago and be like, Oh my goodness,

30:55 what a freaking idiot I was. And again, here's the thing guys is as a 32 year old,

31:01 I don't want to look back on the things I did when I was 25 and think that I was doing it. Okay,

31:05 because whenever I look back at the age of 25, I'm like, God, what is stupid more on you work,

31:10 much less 15. My goodness, can you imagine what what life would be like if everything you did

31:18 as a 15 year old was recorded? Because we have social media now for most of you guys listening

31:22 when you were 15, there may not have even been the internet, you know what I mean? And so like,

31:27 there was none of this, you know, stream of consciousness that you could just put out in a tweet,

31:31 right? And so again, I think Kyler Murray was unfairly maligned in all of this. He said something

31:38 really stupid and offensive whenever he was a kid, he wasn't directing it towards a homosexual

31:43 in a derogatory way. I bet he regrets saying it. I bet he doesn't say it anymore. But I just

31:49 didn't like that. It made me want to root for the guy, right? Because I don't have any problems

31:52 with the guy. Like, do we really are we really going to root against him now? Are we going to root

31:57 for him to not be the next Bo Jackson? You know, are we going to root for him to not play baseball

32:01 in football? Because he sets something stupid six years ago in a tweet. Goodness, man, it's just

32:08 tough tough time to live guys. So if you've got if you've got bad posts in your passive

32:13 social media, perhaps you should hop on that and get to scrubbing. So here we go. Next question

32:17 is smoking cigarettes on Christian. Okay, so I got this question actually a really, really long

32:22 time ago. And I couldn't really figure out a way to sneak it into any of the other episodes. But

32:26 just like with a lot of other things, the Bible doesn't mention smoking directly. Okay. So I think

32:32 on another podcast, I was asked about weed and kind of went into some different ideas about that.

32:36 But the thing about it is, is we can surmise things from the from the Bible that kind of give

32:42 us clues as to what God how God would feel about something, right? From the very beginning,

32:46 this is clearly not a salvation issue. So if your pastor smokes, I don't think that means

32:51 you need a question whether or not he's going to be going to heaven. So that's the first thing.

32:55 But I feel like the easiest thing for us to look at is in 1 Corinthians and chapter six. And so

33:01 I think this gives us some hints as to where we should be looking when we're looking at this

33:06 issue. I feel like this is the most helpful. So let me go ahead and read 1 Corinthians chapter six

33:10 and we'll start in verse 12. And then we'll we'll skip down to the end here in a little bit. So let's

33:14 start in verse 12. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are

33:19 lawful for me, but I will not be dominated by anything. So that's verse 12. And so there are

33:26 other some some other translations that may say it a little bit better. This is from the English

33:29 standard version. But the thing about it is, is do you know anyone? Or do you know very many people

33:34 that smoke cigarettes that isn't mastered by them? We just think about that. Most of the people that

33:41 I know that smoke cigarettes, including some very, very, very important people in my life,

33:46 they're mastered by them. Like they're absolutely not in control. And so that's kind of the thing is,

33:54 you know, I've talked about on this podcast, how I drink whiskey and all smoke cigars and I'll do

33:58 things like that. But I've never been out of control. Like I've never felt like, Oh gosh,

34:04 I have to have a drink today or I have to have a cigar today and I'm just not going to be able

34:07 to get through. I kind of in this in this habit where if I'm having a bad day, I make sure I don't

34:13 drink or have a cigar. Like I make sure of it, because I don't ever want to get that mental thing

34:18 where, okay, I was really stressed out and I was really freaking out and then I had some whiskey

34:22 and then, Oh, okay, you know, everything calmed down. I should be able to calm myself down,

34:26 right? I should be able to have that amount of control. And again, for those of you who aren't

34:29 familiar with the difference between cigarettes and cigarettes, cigarettes, you inhale into your

34:33 mouth and also inhale into your lungs with cigars, you you don't do that. And I know that to be true

34:38 in terms of the difference between how dangerous those things are for you from a health perspective,

34:42 because that a lot of life insurance companies, if you've ever been underwritten for life insurance,

34:47 for a lot of the big ones, you can have up to 24 cigars a year and be considered an on smoker,

34:53 right? So one cigar every couple of weeks and be considered an on smoker. But if you have like

34:57 a cigarette this year, you're considered a smoker, right? So that's kind of the difference. But

35:02 then we can kind of get down a little bit further into first Corinthians chapter six and we get

35:05 even more clues as to where God would probably sit on this issue. So I'm going to read verses 19

35:09 and 20, or do you not know that your body is a temple, the Holy Spirit within you whom you have

35:14 from God? You are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

35:18 So this scripture has been talked about a lot. And a lot of people that tend to smoke or do things

35:25 that are damaging to their body, they'll be like, well, what about people that eat, you know, a lot

35:29 of food? What about people that don't eat healthy? What about this? What about that? And and the thing

35:34 is, is I would agree with them. If you're not honoring your body, because you're just eating crap

35:39 all the time and drinking gravy to wash it down, that's a problem. Obviously, we've talked about

35:43 taking care of yourself and being gluttonous and eating things that are not good for you.

35:48 I think those things can get into the sinful category. But I think the the cigarettes issue is

35:54 is pretty straightforward. I mean, socially now, just think about it, when is the last time you just

35:58 had a buddy that was like, Hey, will you come outside with me so I can smoke a cigarette? Like,

36:02 we don't really see that anymore. Obviously, you'd be hard pressed to find a restaurant

36:05 where you can smoke indoors anymore, even in countries where that was just kind of a thing. I

36:10 remember years ago, whenever they banned it in Ireland, and that was like some sort of crazy thing.

36:14 But yeah, I think smoking cigarettes is on Christian. I don't think it's something that you can do

36:19 and claim that you're glorifying God with your body and honoring the price that was paid with it.

36:24 So there's my answer on that. All right, next question. I would like your predictions on these

36:30 upcoming UFC fights. Okay, so there's actually, okay, there's, there's a lot listed here. So,

36:35 let's just start at the top. So it looks like these are fights as early as this weekend, if you're

36:41 listening to this on time and someone's through February and next year. So, but okay, so let's

36:46 offer the first one. So this is actually a fight that's this weekend. This is Kevin Lee versus Al

36:51 ia Quinna. And so this is December the 15th, and it's going to be on big Fox. This is actually the

36:56 last fight card on the Fox deal. So the UFC signed a deal with Fox years ago, and it's been a long

37:03 standing deal, but yeah, they have a new deal signed with ESPN. And so this fight is actually the

37:08 second time these guys have fought. So interestingly enough, a lot of people don't really realize

37:12 that I think they fought in like 2013 or 2014 or something like that. So it's been a while,

37:16 and it's at lightweight. It's at 155. But in my opinion, I think Kevin Lee is going to win this

37:20 fight. I think Kevin Lee, he was a meteoric rise. He had that interim title shot against Tony

37:26 Ferguson, and he looked good in that first round, and you know, got got submitted in the second round.

37:31 You know, but he had some complications. He had staff infection going into that fight.

37:34 It's super impressive guy though, like he is an incredibly impressive athlete. He's still really,

37:40 really young. Alia Quinna actually won the first fight by decision. But as good as Alia Quinna is

37:46 and as tough as he is, Kevin Lee has gotten considerably better than this fight. Alia Quinna

37:51 is certainly better. But Kevin Lee, Kevin Lee's on another level. And if this wasn't like the most

37:56 stacked division in the history of mixed martial arts, Kevin Lee would probably already be a champion.

38:01 And so let me just run down actually this division from one through 10, because this is just an

38:06 incredibly deep division. I mean, when I think back on the last 25 years or so that I've been

38:11 following mixed martial arts, I can't remember a single time when there was a single weight class

38:16 that was this stack. So let's go from top to bottom. So the champion right now is to be

38:19 Nurmagomedov, the number one contender. So the first ranked guy is Tony Ferguson,

38:23 number two, Conor McGregor, number three, Dustin Poirier, number four, Kevin Lee, number five,

38:28 Edson Barbosa, number six, Justin Gachey, number seven, Anthony Pettis, number eight, Alia Quinna,

38:34 number nine, Nate Diaz, and number 10, Michael Kiesa. So Michael Kiesa is actually technically

38:39 at 170 now. He's actually going to have his first fight at 170 here in the next month or so.

38:43 But he's still technically at 155 or if he gets rocked up there, 170 might come right back down.

38:48 And here's the other thing. There's a couple of wild cards kind of lurking in the 155 pound

38:53 division. One is Cowboy Soroni, whose next fight is going to be at 155 because he fought at 174

38:58 a while, but he's going to start cutting back to 155. And also, I'll know if y'all watched over

39:03 the weekend, but Max Holloway, the 145 pound champion. He absolutely destroyed Brian Ortega.

39:11 I mean, one of the most impressive striking performances I've ever seen. And Dana White has

39:17 basically come out and said he's tired of seeing Max go to 145. This is a guy that is a huge 145

39:22 pounder. Like the cut that he has to make to get down to 145 is pretty substantial. And Dana White's

39:27 just he's kind of over it, right? He's beating the guys he needs to beat at 145, basically save

39:32 for Frankie Edgar. But if he's added in there, he goes basically right to the top. He's right up

39:37 there with with Habib, Tony and Connor. So really, really deep division. So this is a fight that

39:43 has implications for that division. So that'll be a fun one coming up this weekend free on Fox.

39:47 So the next fight they're asking me about is Chris Cyborg versus Amanda Nunes. And so

39:51 this is on December 29th, the last card of the year that UFC 232. And so this is for the women's

39:58 featherweight title. So this is the 145 pound title. So if you're not aware, Amanda Nunes is

40:02 the 135 pound champion, the Bantamweight champion. And Cyborg is the current featherweight champion.

40:07 So Amanda Nunes is actually going up to fight Chris Cyborg. And so Amanda Nunes has just been

40:12 destroying people off. She of course destroyed roundarousie. Chris Cyborg is undefeated has never

40:16 never lost. And she's never actually looked bad inside the octagon. You know, probably when

40:20 her most impressive victories was over Holly home. But in my opinion, I don't see any way that Chris

40:26 Cyborg loses this fight. This is not a fight that's going to go to the ground. Both of these women

40:30 love to stand and bang. And so but the thing about it is is Chris Cyborg walks around probably at

40:35 about 175 pounds, 180 pounds or so. She is a huge human being. She's a big woman. And so

40:43 she has to make a pretty substantial cut to get down to 145 as well. And Amanda Nunes,

40:49 when you talk to people that have fought her or sparred with her, they say she hits like a man

40:52 that she's absolutely just a brutal, brutal striker. But again, if you've ever seen cyborg fight,

40:58 she just doesn't get rocked by anything. She doesn't seem to ever be hurt. I think Amanda Nunes might

41:03 be the hardest fought she's ever had other than Holly home. But I really don't see any two ways

41:08 about it. I think Chris Cyborg takes this pretty easily. All right, so let's get into the next fight

41:12 here. It's actually on the same card as cyborg versus Nunes. And that's John Jones versus Alexander

41:17 Gustafson too. So oh buddy, this this fight has been, we've been patiently anticipating this fight

41:24 for years. This fight actually is the second time they fought, they fought back in 2013. And again,

41:30 I think I've talked about this on a previous podcast. It was the best fight I've ever seen.

41:34 It was just an incredibly, it was the greatest fight in UFC history, I think, is what I said is

41:38 either that one or the Rory McDonald, Robbie Lawler fight. I can't remember which one I said,

41:42 just one of the greatest fights ever. It's going to be for the lightweight title,

41:46 which if you're confused, Daniel Cormier currently has that title in hand. But apparently,

41:51 as soon as the cage door closes and those two are inside, Daniel Cormier will be stripped of the

41:55 light heavyweight title. And then this this title will be up for grabs between these two men.

42:00 So if you think back to that first fight, Gusafson, in my opinion, won the first three rounds and

42:05 lost the last two, I've re watched that fight a couple of times. And I still think that I still

42:10 think that Gusafson should have won that decision. There was actually one judge that gave four rounds

42:15 to John Jones, which is absolute hogwash. Alexander Gustafson is the only guy to successfully take

42:20 John Jones down in his entire career. It's actually, it's pretty incredible what happened. But the

42:26 first time there was a lot of, I guess, John Jones didn't really train that hard. Apparently,

42:31 he was partying the week of the fight. He just wasn't taking this, you know, Swedish guy seriously,

42:36 and he went in there and got busted and almost lost his title. So I think it's just an incredible

42:41 fight. But neither one of these guys has fought for a while. Obviously, John Jones popped after he

42:46 fought DC, ended up, you know, again, basically snitching and getting out of a long suspension,

42:51 and Gusafson's been injured. But in my opinion, I think John Jones wins this fight, even though I

42:55 think Gusafson won it the first time around. If Gusafson had been a little bit more active here

43:00 recently, I'd probably have a different opinion, but he's been out for quite a while. And so is

43:04 John Jones, but John Jones is just a different animal, different dude. So I think John Jones,

43:08 again, gets his title back. All right, next fight they have me picking is Henry Sehoodo versus TJ

43:14 Dilshaw. So this is a fight coming up January 19. So this is going to be UFC Fight Night, I believe

43:19 this is the first ESPN card. And so this fight is actually for the flyweight title. So

43:24 Sehoodo is the newly crowned flyweight champion. That's 125 pound champion. And TJ Dilshaw is the

43:30 Bantamweight champion and 135 pounds. And so if you're following this for any length of time,

43:33 Henry Sehoodo actually beat Mighty Mouse a few months ago and took his title. So Mighty Mouse,

43:41 Demetrius Johnson had defended that title over and over and over and over and over. No one was

43:46 even getting close. And then Sehoodo beat him by a very narrow margin split decision. And then,

43:52 you know, Mighty Mouse was traded to one championship. And we got Ben Askrin, we like I'm the UFC,

43:57 the UFC got Ben Askrin. And so this is basically one of those fights where it's kind of a foregone

44:02 conclusion that if TJ Dilshaw goes down there and wins the 125 pound title, that the UFC will

44:07 actually fold up that division. So they will have their third double champ, first being Connor,

44:12 second being DC, and the now would be TJ Dilshaw. So I think it's a really interesting fight because

44:18 Henry Sehoodo obviously he's an Olympic gold medalist wrestler, UFC champion. He's a big 125 pounders.

44:24 So I think TJ Dilshaw and him will be about the same size by the time they fight. This is an

44:28 interesting fight because it's the first time that TJ Dilshaw has gone down to 125 pounds. He

44:33 swears he can do it. But I just got to tell you, when I see him weigh in at 135, I don't see any

44:37 fat. Like I just don't see it. So he's gonna have to lean down in a couple of other ways,

44:41 because that's, you know, another 10 pounds. And that's a lot. But they seem pretty confident

44:45 that he can get down there. But guys, in my opinion, I think TJ Dilshaw takes this fight.

44:49 TJ Dilshaw is the most underrated fighter in all of mixed martial arts. And that might be crazy

44:55 to you to hear that because he's a champion and he's defended his belt. You know, he knocked out

44:59 Cody Garbrent to take the belt and then knocked him out again in a more impressive fashion to keep

45:03 it. But this is a guy that I don't think should have ever lost the belt. I think he won his fight

45:07 against dominant crews three rounds to two. So he never should have lost his belt. It took him

45:11 years to get back to a title shot, even though he was active in fighting the entire time.

45:16 TJ Dilshaw is on another level. And so I think it's incredible what he's done. And it's incredible

45:22 that he hasn't gotten the respect that he deserves. But I think he takes his title and they close

45:25 down to the vision. Next fight is on January 26. So this would be the next week at UFC 233.

45:31 It's currently Robbie Lawler versus Ben Askrin. And I say currently, because I got to be honest

45:35 with you, I don't even know that this fight is going to happen. Ben Askrin has been talking a

45:40 lot of trash about Colby Covington, who is the interim champion right now, we think had 170

45:45 pounds. But then Kamaro Usman has looked really, really good. And he actually won more recently.

45:49 So I think the UFC might actually drop Robbie out of this fight and make Ben Askrin fight

45:55 Colby Covington or Kamaro Usman for an interim title. I really think that that might happen.

46:00 So I mean, we'll see. But let's assume this fight actually happens. I think Ben Askrin wins

46:05 his fight. Excuse me, which, which you might think is a little bit crazy because Robbie Lawler is

46:09 a former champion. I know he's got, he's had really good luck against wrestlers. Ben Askrin is

46:14 obviously a pounding wrestler. But Robbie Lawler's just had knee surgery. He looked like crap the

46:19 last time he fought against RDA. So I think Ben Askrin wins his fight. But in my opinion,

46:25 I would really have to think about if he ends up fighting Colby Covington or Kamaro Usman.

46:28 I may have a different opinion, but as of right now, I think he beats Robbie Lawler.

46:31 All right. Next fight is Israel Adasanya versus Anderson Silva. So that's on February 9th of

46:36 next year at UFC 234. Essentially, this is the number one contender match. It's going to be in

46:41 the same card as Robert Whittaker versus Kelvin Gastelam. So they're going to be fighting for

46:45 the middleweight championship. But Israel Adasanya is kind of he's called a style binder. He's

46:50 he's seen as really the next big thing. The UFC is pinning a lot of their future hopes on this

46:54 guy, which is why I think they're giving him Anderson Silva. So Anderson Silva is the goat of this

46:59 division, the greatest 185 pounder ever defended it the most times, most incredibly. But hasn't

47:05 been infected that active. He's popped a couple times later in his career. His skills of obviously

47:10 diminished. But if Israel Adasanya can get a get a win over Anderson Silva, then this obviously

47:15 catapult him a little bit. So I'm one of those people that I didn't really like that. Apparently

47:19 Dana White offered Anderson Silva the same opportunity as Israel Adasanya, which is Anderson Silva,

47:23 even though you're not really anywhere near the top of this division anymore, if you win,

47:27 you get a title shot. But I think they just got that to get him to take the fight because I think

47:31 the UFC is pretty comfortable with the fact as am I the Israel, Israel Adasanya is going to win

47:35 this fight. I think it's going to be brutal. I think at some point he's going to toy with Anderson

47:40 Silva. I don't think Anderson Silva can hurt this young kid and the kids not going to be

47:43 dumb enough to allow Anderson Silva to get off the shots that he wants. Anderson Silva might

47:49 try pulling guard, excuse me, he might try pulling guard or doing something like that, trying to get

47:53 him on the ground. But I just don't see this going well for Anderson Silva, which I'm not sad about

47:57 because I don't like that guy. And then the last fight they wanted me to predict is Robert Whittaker

48:01 versus Calvin Gasolam. So this is a long awaited middleweight championship. So Robert Whittaker

48:05 hasn't fought since he was injured against Joelle Romero and Calvin Gasolam. They both were on the

48:11 ultimate fighter and did some things. This fight doesn't really have a lot of own behind it. Neither

48:16 one of these guys really talk trash. They're not really big names. I got to be honest with you,

48:20 like, I know exactly who Robert Whittaker is, but I have some, I sometimes have have the trouble

48:25 remembering his name. And I follow the sport like crazy. But in my opinion, I don't see really a

48:30 scenario where Calvin Gasolam wins this fight. Calvin Gasolam didn't beat Chris Weidman. And

48:34 Chris Weidman has should have been in here. But then Chris Weidman obviously got finished by

48:38 Jockaray here recently, blah, blah. To those of you who don't even watch him and may you're like,

48:41 what is this guy talking about? Get to the next question. Don't worry. We're almost done with

48:44 this question. But Robert Whittaker is an amazing fighter. If Joelle Romero can't beat Robert Whittaker

48:50 and he fought him twice, I don't think Calvin Gasolam's gonna win. Joelle Romero is a mutant.

48:54 He's a cyborg from the future. And he couldn't even beat Robert Whittaker. So it looks like sometime

49:00 next summer, we're gonna see Robert Whittaker versus Israel Adasanya probably in Australia,

49:04 which will be absolutely incredible. Okay. So for all you MMA haters out there, I'm done with the MMA.

49:08 So we're gonna move on to the next question here. What time do you wake up? And what is your go-to

49:14 morning routine? So I know this isn't probably the best thing to do, but it changes every day

49:19 when I wake up. So let me just take you through a normal week. So Monday, Wednesday, Friday,

49:24 I don't train jujitsu in the mornings. Well, that's probably not the best way. Let me start with

49:28 Tuesday and I'll wrap around to Monday. So Tuesday morning, I normally train jujitsu at 6 a.m. And

49:33 same thing, Thursday morning, we train ghee on Tuesday and no ghee on Thursday. So on those days,

49:38 what I will do is I will wake up at about 5 15 and I'll get to the gym around six,

49:42 train for an hour, and then I'll come home and lift. Now on Wednesday, I will just wake up,

49:48 I don't know, maybe six, six, 30, and I'll go into the garage, get a lift in early, maybe do some cardio

49:55 or some stretching, and then get on with my day. And then Friday, depending upon how I'm feeling

50:00 from Thursday, because Thursday nights, I do usually two jujitsu classes back to back.

50:06 So just basically take you through my Thursday, I do jujitsu at 6 a.m. I come home and lift and

50:10 it's usually a deadlift day. So it's a pretty difficult lifting day. And then that evening,

50:14 I do two jujitsu classes. So a lot of times by Friday, my body's looking for some recovery.

50:18 So I may sleep in a little bit on Friday, maybe sleep until like seven, seven, 30,

50:22 and then get on with my day. Saturday is my relaxation day. That's like my Sabbath day. So that is,

50:28 I stay up late Friday night and I'll watch shows or movies or something like that. And

50:32 my wife knows, do not wake me up Saturday morning, unless the house is on fire. And even at that

50:36 point, you might you might think about it twice. So that's the day where I sleep in. So I'll sleep

50:42 to nine, 10, maybe after that or something like that, really kind of get caught up a little bit

50:46 on my sleep. Sundays, obviously wake up early and go to church and do those types of things.

50:50 But then background of Monday, Sundays, I will typically do two jujitsu classes. I'll do one

50:55 o'clock in the afternoon and then seven o'clock in the evening. And so usually by Monday, I'm

51:00 looking for a little bit more active rest as well. So Monday, I will typically wake up around six,

51:05 30 or seven and do yoga or some sort of stretching routine or something like that. So I know that

51:09 was a little convoluted, but you know, I'm not jocko willing. I'm not waking up at four o'clock

51:13 every morning, no matter what. So but I say pretty consistent. It's usually only if I'm sick or

51:19 taking an active rest week where I'll get a little bit more sleep, sleep in a little bit more. But

51:23 that's my typical morning routine. All right, next question. You constantly demol strong holds

51:28 whether a man is imprisoned by the language he uses or the lies he believes. How did you train

51:33 yourself to always look for and spot it and how to how do you consistently tear it down from a

51:39 place of humility instead of pride? So again, this is a question just talking about demolishing

51:45 strongholds and things in your life. But again, I think that a lot of this comes down to to inner

51:50 weakness. Okay. And so I'm not saying that the Holy Spirit doesn't have a role in this at all.

51:55 But I think for the most part, God has given us the ability to overcome a lot of the things

51:59 that are problems for us to demolish the strongholds ourselves. And where we are weak, he is strong,

52:05 and we can depend on him. But I think for a lot of us, we just go straight there. And we're not

52:10 allowing God to teach us a lesson through the struggle that allowing us to struggle a little bit.

52:15 And so I think the easy thing towards the end of that question is, you know, how do you make

52:20 sure you do this from a place of humility instead of pride is obviously knowing where you're getting

52:23 it from, because no matter what God's accomplishing it, right? Because he's either helping you through

52:29 it directly, or he gave you the skills to begin with to be able to work through it yourself, right?

52:34 So either way, he's in the equation. So I think that was pretty easy. That could be a kind of

52:38 complicated question, but I just wanted to kind of get through that a little bit quicker for you

52:41 guys. Our next question, where will Manny Machado and Bryce, Bryce Harper sign? And so obviously,

52:48 for you baseball guys out there, there are some huge fish on the pond during the winter

52:52 meetings in the off season. And there's none bigger than Manny Machado and Bryce Harper.

52:56 I can't remember an off season that was like this, where you had two players of this caliber,

53:01 both hitting the free agent market at the same time. So both of these guys are in their primes

53:07 and entering into some of their best years. They're both 26 years old. And both of them are going

53:12 to get like mega mega paid. So I think a lot of people consider Manny Machado to be a little bit

53:18 of a better catch than Bryce Harper. For some of you, maybe you've never heard of Manny Machado,

53:22 if you're just kind of a lay baseball fan, most people have heard of Bryce Harper. But you know,

53:26 Bryce Harper was obviously a celebrity basically from the time he was 16. He was, you know,

53:30 was a cover sports illustrator while he was still a teenager, made his MLB debut incredibly young.

53:34 So just he's just been around. But there's been a lot of speculation about where these guys would

53:40 sign. So Bryce Harper has obviously played his entire career with the Nationals. Manny Machado

53:44 played his entire career with the Orioles until he was traded mid-season to the Dodgers.

53:48 And it looked like the Dodgers were maybe going to try to keep him around. But I guess it wasn't the

53:53 the merits that we all thought. But let me start with Machado. If I'm putting a bet down right now,

53:58 I say he signs with the New York Yankees. And I've got a good buddy that's in Yankees fan. He's

54:02 like, no way. But he's signing a 10 plus year deal, right? He'll probably sign a 10 year deal. It'll

54:07 definitely be over $300 million. But I just don't see two ways. I don't see another way around it.

54:13 I don't see another team basically getting in there and giving him the money that he wants.

54:17 Apparently he's very fond of New York. One of his mentors is Alex Rodriguez, who is still on the

54:22 payroll with the New York Yankees. And so that's there's just too much smoke here. But I think if

54:28 the New York Yankees don't sign him, I feel like the Phillies are lurking. They've already said that

54:32 they're down to spend and spend recklessly this offseason. So, you know, they might dangle a $350

54:38 million carrot in front of the guy and he might sign. But I really think he goes to the Yankees.

54:41 But now for Bryce Harper, this is a guy from the beginning that I didn't think he was going to stay

54:47 in Washington. It just didn't make sense. You know, it's kind of to be determined whether or not this

54:51 guy is actually a winner, because it's so hard to be a position player and win an entire series or

54:56 a playoff for your team that just doesn't really happen. pitchers can kind of do that. And you know,

55:00 Allah, Madison, Bungarner, when they beat the Royals. But for Bryce Harper, I thought forever that he

55:06 was going to go the Cubs. He's he's really good friends with Chris Bryant. They're both from Las

55:10 Vegas. But the Cubs actually sorta have money issues, which seems ridiculous because that team

55:15 basically prints money. But if I had to put a bet down right now, I would say he signs with the

55:20 Los Angeles Dodgers. The Washington Nationals have come out and basically said they don't

55:25 assume that Bryce Harper will resign. The Yankees have basically ruled him out if we believe that.

55:30 There's not really a place for him on the Yankees roster. They already have like five or six outfielders,

55:34 and it doesn't make sense that Bryce Harper would play first base. So I think the Dodgers are going

55:38 to make that push. I don't see Bryce Harper going to a smaller market than Washington DC.

55:43 I know a lot of Cardinals fans. I love my Cardinals fans out there. But this idea that Harper is

55:47 coming to St. Louis does not make any sense just because he tweeted once about how much he likes

55:51 Bush stadium like five years ago. That doesn't mean he's going to want to play in St. Louis regularly.

55:55 This is a big market guy. He's a big market personality. And it doesn't really get bigger than Los

56:00 Angeles. So I think the Dodgers will pick him up. But I think Philadelphia, the Phillies are lurking

56:05 there as well. Again, ready and willing to spend money. But I don't want to count out the Chicago

56:10 Cubs either. I think they're they're lurking. But for my hopes, I hope he does not sign with an

56:14 N. L. Central team so he can leave the Cardinals alone a little bit. So Machado going to the Yanks

56:19 and Harper going to the Dodgers. All right. Next question. What documentaries would you recommend

56:23 watching? So there's been a lot of documentaries I've watched over the last couple of years. And

56:26 to be honest with you guys, I've kind of there's been so many movies that came out recently that

56:31 just disappointed me or just I didn't want to watch. So I've kind of been more attracted to

56:35 documentaries. So there were four that I've watched here probably within the last year that I think

56:40 are really incredible. And so I'm not going to include links for where you can find these things

56:44 because you guys are, you know, you're resourceful. You can find it. So a lot of these are on Netflix

56:48 or they're on Hulu or on their on Amazon Prime, or you can rent them straight through your direct

56:53 TV box or something like that. So I'll tell you about them. You go find them. The first one is one

56:58 called unbranded. This is from 2015. And so I just want to read the description here. So this is four

57:03 men take a herd of Mustangs on the journey from Mexico to Canada to inspire adoptions for wild

57:08 horses and burrows in government captivity. So it's literally these four guys that are on this journey,

57:14 this incredibly long journey, basically taking these Mustangs to Canada and just the stuff they

57:20 run into. And they tell you the story about how these horses even get get out there and how they're

57:25 wild and, and, you know, what some of the issues that they have as animals. And so it was just a

57:30 really interesting thing. It was really well done. There's a super unlikable character. He's one of

57:35 the four guys. But anyway, I thought that was really worthwhile. The next one would be one

57:39 called man on fire. This came out or man on wire, not man on fire. That's like a Denzel Washington

57:44 movie, but man on a wire man on wire. Good grief Thompson man on wire here man on wire. Okay,

57:50 2008. Let me read the description of this one. A look at tightrope walker Philippe petites daring,

57:56 but illegal, high wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers

58:02 in 1974 with some considerate the artistic crime of the century. So you've probably seen these images,

58:07 if you haven't seen this already, I think Joseph Gordon Levitt was like he played this guy in a

58:11 movie that came out here recently. I don't know that it did well or whatever. But this guy literally

58:16 was able to string up a wire, a tightrope wire between the twin towers and just basically walked

58:22 back and forth on them. And it's a documentary that kind of talks to this guy and it tells you

58:26 about his whole crew and the interview is crew about how they even got up there and how they got

58:30 the wire across. And I don't want to ruin it, but it is, it is an incredible, incredible story.

58:36 And just, I can anxiety sitting here right now in my studio, just recording it,

58:42 just thinking about this guy, like sitting down on the wire and laying down on the wire and just

58:45 walking back and forth like just absolutely absolutely incredible. All right, the next one is pumping

58:50 iron. This is from 1977. And so this is the description here is it's about the world of

58:56 professional bodybuilding with a focus on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe in the 1975 Mr. Olympia

59:03 competitions. But the entire reason why anybody knows this is because it's Arnold Schwarzenegger,

59:07 right? So this is when he was in his prime, I believe he was going for his seventh

59:12 Mr. Olympia in a row at this point, which was going to basically be the last Mr. Olympia

59:17 that he would compete in. But it's just an incredibly well done documentary. Because the

59:21 thing about it is, I feel like most people, because of Terminator and, and some of these movies that

59:26 Arnold Schwarzenegger was in, you know, Conan, that he's just like this brooding Eastern European guy

59:32 with this horrible accent and stupid haircut and just whatever the thing was. But the dude is like,

59:38 he's really charming and he's, he's really funny. And just this documentary follows,

59:44 follows him around a lot. And you know, you just basically like Lou Ferrigno is here training with

59:48 him. You know, the guy who originally played the Hulk on television. And so it's a really,

59:52 really entertaining documentary. And the last one I want to share with you is one called Gleason.

59:56 So this is one that came out in 2016. So I'll read the description here. New Orleans Saints,

1:00:01 Steve Gleason achieved near holy status when he blocked a punt in the game against the Atlanta

1:00:05 Falcons. The first the team had played in their hometown after Hurricane Katrina. Years later,

1:00:10 at the age of 34, Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

1:00:16 Director Clay Twiel followed Gleason and his wife, Michelle Ray Varisco, after they learned of

1:00:21 Gleason's diagnosis and a varisco's pregnancy with her son Rivers. The result is a heartbreaking,

1:00:27 yet ultimately triumphant film about a man who symbolized for New Orleans refusal to admit defeat.

1:00:33 And for his loved ones, the strength to survive in the face of debilitating illness. So guys,

1:00:38 this is exactly what it sounds like. This is a documentary crew following a guy that is slowly

1:00:46 losing his ability to do just about anything. So if you know anything about ALS, you basically

1:00:50 get to the point where the only thing on your body that you can move on your own is your eyes.

1:00:54 It's just an absolutely insane disease for a guy that was an NFL athlete to have such incredible,

1:01:01 an incredible athletic life to to have this happen to him. It's it's so emotional. And it's not just

1:01:07 about the physical toll that happens to this guy, but the emotional toll it takes on him and clearly

1:01:12 his family, his caretakers, it's pretty pretty intense and pretty incredible. So those would be

1:01:16 the four that I would throw out to you, the four that just came to the top of my mind. Okay. Next

1:01:20 question. What are your thoughts on scheduled counseling for mental and spiritual resilience?

1:01:25 And are those thoughts mirrored for marital counseling? So let me just say from the beginning,

1:01:30 I don't think they're mirrored, because in my opinion, I'm not a huge fan of counseling,

1:01:37 and I'm not being prescriptive here guys, because I know a lot of guys and certainly some that you

1:01:41 are listening right now have gotten a lot of value out of it. But I feel like for personal

1:01:46 counseling for mental and spiritual resilience that you can do this on your own. Now that is,

1:01:51 you know, that is not considering someone who's got an actual mental disorder that actually needs

1:01:56 assistant with that assistance with that. I'm not saying, all right, just bear down and figure it out.

1:02:00 But for a lot of people, if you change your diet and you change your exercise regiment,

1:02:04 it can take care of a lot of those mental issues that you're having. And on the spiritual resilience

1:02:08 side, a lot of that has to do with actually getting in the fight and actually going through materials

1:02:13 and learning and doing those types of things. So if you have scheduled counseling, you know,

1:02:18 maybe just maintenance counseling where you're going to see a counselor once a month or something

1:02:21 like that, like I certainly wouldn't say I have a problem with that. I'm just questioning whether

1:02:25 or not it's maybe necessary if you don't have any, any real ailments. But on the second side,

1:02:30 on marital counseling, I feel like it's probably a good idea to have somewhat regular marital

1:02:36 counseling if you can afford it because it can get really, really expensive. But I know that there's

1:02:39 a lot of couples out there that are good. Like they're communicating well, things aren't perfect,

1:02:44 but they're absolutely going well for them. But they will still go see a counselor, maybe once

1:02:49 a quarter just to basically sharpen the saw a little bit. Maybe there's something that they

1:02:52 haven't been able to get off their chest that they feel a little bit safer doing in that context.

1:02:56 So that makes more sense to me. And the biggest reason that makes more sense to me is because

1:03:00 there's another person there, right? So it's not just you. And for the most part, you can't just

1:03:04 tell your wife to be like, all right, we're just going to get up and we're going to fix it. Like

1:03:08 you can't just go full jocko on your wife, right? So when there's another party involved in that

1:03:13 party is, is the weaker vessel and someone that you were to take care of and you have headship over,

1:03:17 then that's something that you need to take into consideration. If they want to have some

1:03:21 maintenance counseling or, or maybe you feel like you're in a rut, you need to go to counseling for

1:03:25 a few months in a row, you know, see what you can do to make that happen. All right, guys, next

1:03:28 question. Is your faith weaker or stronger than it was at the beginning of the year? So this question

1:03:35 actually caused me to pause for quite a while to kind of see like, okay, well, you know,

1:03:40 what do they mean by faith? And what do you mean by weaker or stronger? You know, obviously,

1:03:46 since the beginning of the year, what have I developed? And the thing that I would say is I

1:03:50 would say stronger. My faith is stronger, but it's because of knowledge. And so let me let me try to

1:03:59 maybe dress that up a little bit or explain it in a way that makes more sense. So in my opinion,

1:04:03 Christianity is a thinking man's religion. Well, that's not really my opinion. I feel like that's

1:04:07 that's true. Christianity is a thinking man's religion. Most people think that Christianity is

1:04:11 just, you know, a bunch of weirdos that get together and throw their hands up in the air and, you know,

1:04:14 praise the spaghetti monster in the sky or whatever the thing might be. But this is a thinking man's

1:04:19 religion. We talk about this a lot. We talk about the things we know about apologetics and biblical

1:04:24 archaeology and those different things. But the reason why I feel like my faith is deeper is because

1:04:30 I feel like more than ever, I believe that Jesus died on a cross and was resurrected three days

1:04:37 later. I mean, really, that's the big reason why I feel like my faith is stronger, because it wasn't

1:04:44 like, you know, I had some crazy revelations I got in Bible study this year or there was like

1:04:49 a speech I saw that like changed my opinion. But I've taken in a lot of content this year,

1:04:54 right? One of the things about me staying sharp for this podcast is making sure that I'm putting

1:04:58 content out in being able to put out content on a regular basis is I kind of need to take content

1:05:04 in. I need to be feeding on other people's ideas and pushing myself and my own philosophies to

1:05:09 to be able to come up with content that would be entertaining for y'all to take in.

1:05:14 But in doing that, I've listened to a lot of podcasts, a lot of sermons, read a lot of books,

1:05:19 a lot of blogs that have kind of helped me and nothing has swayed me away from the reality that

1:05:27 Jesus was a real person that died on a cross and was resurrected. And so there's kind of this

1:05:33 thing and I don't know what it is, but there's there's a group of guys at my church that are

1:05:37 that are kind of in my Sunday school. And one of the guys was, he sent out something. So there was

1:05:42 this place here close by that was called credo house. It was kind of like this coffee shop that

1:05:46 also did like theological training. I think if you go to credo, C-R-E-D-O courses.com credo courses.com,

1:05:53 they're like giving away just, you know, gigabytes and gigabytes and gigabytes of some of their

1:05:59 theology training courses in English and in Spanish. And it's through the end of the year,

1:06:03 through Christmas or something like that. And so one of the guys in our group shared it with the

1:06:07 other guys in Sunday school. And some of them were just kind of like, Hey, you know, what would be

1:06:11 the reason why we would even need such a thing. And it's like, really? You couldn't think of a

1:06:17 single idea why you would need these free resources on theological topics. You couldn't think of a

1:06:24 single idea why you should get online and download these topics for free and use that as a blessing

1:06:29 for later. Like you couldn't think of a single reason why it would be important for you to maybe

1:06:34 get a kind of layman's theological training. And you don't think that could benefit you, your family,

1:06:40 like I just didn't understand. It's like, what, like, come on, man. And so I think it's really

1:06:46 interesting for a lot of guys that they just, the way they go about strengthening their faith is

1:06:51 not by strengthening their mind. And I think that some people I've even heard people say before,

1:06:56 like, you know, if all this was true, then why do we need so many apologists? Why do we need all

1:07:00 these books about apologetics? If it was just true, it would be apparent. It's like, that's such a

1:07:04 stupid way of seeing the world. I mean, the stuff we're keeping our faith in happened 2000 years ago.

1:07:10 So for 2000 years, people have been trying to destroy this, right, been trying to tear down

1:07:17 Jesus. You know, I didn't entire podcast where there's a group of people that think that

1:07:21 there was never such a guy as Jesus from Nazareth didn't exist, right? You can disagree with the

1:07:26 guy, but you can't say he didn't exist. That'd be like me saying, ah, you know, I didn't really

1:07:29 agree with George Washington. I didn't really agree with his viewpoints on these really important

1:07:35 issues. So the guy must have not existed. Like you can't say stuff like that. And so

1:07:39 because people have been trying to destroy Christianity for the last 2000 years. Yeah, I think it makes

1:07:45 a lot of sense that we would have apologists and people that help us with tactics on how we could

1:07:49 share and defend our faith. Again, we need to be able to be able to give an apology. Like,

1:07:54 we'd be able to give a defense for why we believe what we believe. So again, my faith is stronger

1:07:58 because of the information I took in. And I would encourage all of you guys go to Credo courses,

1:08:03 find those things, download them and start building your faith next year as well.

1:08:06 All right, guys, next question. I've started to watch a lot of videos that Jeff Durbin has put

1:08:11 out. What do you think of his $10 a month platform? Should pastors charge for their content like that?

1:08:16 So this is Jeff Durbin of apology at church. Obviously, I sort of gave him a pseudo shout out on the

1:08:20 last question. But there's several entities like, you know, pseudo church entities that are out there,

1:08:26 you know, cross politic has, you know, an upper membership of some kind. There's a lot of people

1:08:31 that do that. And I just got to be honest with you guys, that doesn't bother me at all.

1:08:34 I am a capitalist, right? So if you can make money and not rip people off and if people are

1:08:40 willing to give you money for additional content, go for it. Doesn't bother me at all. So I know

1:08:45 some people get offended. It's like, Oh, well, this is a pastor. Why would he just, you know,

1:08:49 give us all this stuff for free? And I get that. But all these pastors give you a ton of stuff for

1:08:53 free already. They put out free versions of their books. They do podcasts every week. So you're not

1:08:58 having to like pay for their sermons. So it doesn't bother me when a pastor makes money off of that.

1:09:02 Now again, I don't know if I've talked about this before. It is a little weird to me that we don't

1:09:06 really know how much these pastors are making. We don't know during what hours they're writing

1:09:10 these books that they're making a ton of money off of. But the fact that pastors are doing things

1:09:14 like this $10 month video thing like, yeah, that doesn't bother me at all. Keep going.

1:09:19 All right. Next question. What is your favorite Christmas song? So this is an easy one.

1:09:22 And so come, Oh, come Emmanuel. So Emmanuel obviously means God with us. But pretty much

1:09:27 every version of that song I've ever heard is a good version because it's not a super popular song.

1:09:31 And so typically the people that take that song on for whatever reason, they tend to do a better

1:09:36 job with it. But my favorite version of that is the August Burns red version surprise surprise.

1:09:40 But I think that was the second Christmas song that they put out. I think they did Carol Bell's

1:09:44 first and then the next year I think they did Oh, come, Oh, come Emmanuel. And it's just basically

1:09:48 from that point on it's been my favorite Christmas song. So our guys last question here. So let's

1:09:53 get into it. I have been saved for years. I have never led anyone to Christ. And I am afraid to

1:09:59 talk about Jesus. Am I really saved? So this is another one that I that I got asked months and

1:10:06 months ago. And I was like, man, what in the world do I say here? Because there's a lot of

1:10:10 people like that. And so a lot of people have done thinking on this and tried to figure out where

1:10:15 people land on it. And so I found a couple of articles that I'm going to briefly go over what

1:10:21 they said. And then I'll leave them here obviously for you at the end for you to take down. The first

1:10:25 one is from desiring God from John Piper's website is called four reasons we don't share the gospel.

1:10:30 And here's the reason that that they give the first is lack of gospel knowledge. The second is apathy.

1:10:36 The third is fear. And the fourth is lack of compassion. So basically lack of compassion for

1:10:42 the lost. And then the next one is from a websites from the center for great commission studies.

1:10:48 And here are the four reasons that they listed. First, most believers do not consider themselves

1:10:52 public speakers. The second is most of the people who teach Evangelism training tend to be aggressive.

1:10:59 The third is at times Evangelism training makes us more self conscious than self confident.

1:11:04 And the last is that it's less about training and more about the Christian subculture we have

1:11:10 created today. Right. So just kind of going into about how we spend a lot of time around.

1:11:13 We just don't have a lot of interaction with lost people. We're just kind of in our Christian

1:11:18 cocoons and things like that. So so I think those two articles will be helpful for you as we try

1:11:23 to answer that question. But from my perspective, I think it's easy to answer the first part is that

1:11:28 or really to answer this question that are you really saved if you've never shared the gospel?

1:11:32 Yes, like there are there are examples from scripture that we have of people that were saved by Jesus.

1:11:37 And then we have no accounting that they actually went and shared that with anybody else. The

1:11:43 criminal on the cross next to Jesus comes to mind. But it is concerning to me. If you are a Christian

1:11:50 and you've been a Christian for any length of time and you've never shared that with anyone.

1:11:54 And I think of the eight reasons that are listed in those articles, I think the strongest one is fear.

1:11:59 Because fear kind of encapsulates a lot of those other ones like, oh my gosh,

1:12:03 what if they ask me a follow up question? I don't know the answer. Oh my gosh,

1:12:06 what if they're smarter than me? Oh my gosh, what if they ask me about the history of the

1:12:09 gospels? Oh my gosh, what if they do this? What if they can do that? And so you build it up in

1:12:12 your brain is this big thing. And then you end up just not sharing it all to where it's just like,

1:12:17 would you have that same anxiety if you were sharing with somebody like your favorite restaurant

1:12:21 and they didn't know about that restaurant? And you really, really, really wanted them to go to

1:12:25 that restaurant and tell everyone they knew about that restaurant so that they can enjoy it too.

1:12:29 I know it's kind of a silly example, but I think it's still appropriate here. And so

1:12:35 yeah, that's a tough one, man. For you men out there that have never shared the gospel with somebody

1:12:41 or shared the reason why you're a Christian with somebody, I would have you do you should

1:12:46 probably do a deep dive into that thought. Maybe don't turn on another podcast episode right after

1:12:50 this one. Maybe dig dig a little deeper and ask yourself, why is that? Why am I so comfortable

1:12:57 giving my opinion about, you know, the college football playoff or about about this thing or

1:13:01 about that thing? You know, why, why is that happening to me? Like, why don't I want to give

1:13:07 my opinion about my faith in Jesus or not not my opinion, my reality of who who I think Jesus is

1:13:12 for me in my life. I think that's an important thing for y'all to dig into. So I'm gonna leave

1:13:16 you with that. So you should probably consider that a little bit further. All right, guys,

1:13:20 before we let you go, we're gonna do a quick resilience boost. As you know, by now, we are

1:13:23 our men's ministry and our mission is cultivating manly resilience. And specifically, we help you

1:13:27 do that by providing content that for just spiritual, mental and physical toughness. So today,

1:13:32 we're going to talk about mental resilience. And we're gonna start off with, I have given you a

1:13:36 YouTube video for the August Burns red Ocomo coming manual version. So you can check that out. And

1:13:41 obviously, if you like it, you can go check them out on iTunes or SoundCloud or or I don't think

1:13:46 they're on SoundCloud. But like, what are all the things iTunes and you can go buy it somewhere

1:13:50 else? I don't know. I don't know where all this stuff is that people listen to, but go find it

1:13:53 Spotify. That was the one I was thinking about. So you can find it on there and give it a listen.

1:13:56 But also, I included those two articles. So the first one was desiring God. And it was

1:14:00 the name of it was four reasons we don't share the gospel. And then the center for great commission

1:14:04 studies and it's the four reasons many believers don't share the gospel. So you can take that

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