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This is a Daunted Life of 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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Alright guys, I know.
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I know, I know, I know.
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We have not done Q&A in a very, very long time.
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This is actually, I think, the longest that we've gone on this podcast without getting to your questions.
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And it's because there's been so much good stuff out there to talk about.
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Not that the stuff we're going to be talking about today is important.
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But for those of you getting mad out there, you just need to slow your role, chill out because you know you, boy, loves you, and he's here for you.
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So today, we're going to go ahead and get launched in.
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So Q&A volume, mate. Let's do it. First question.
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What do you think about the New Zealand Prime Minister moving to immediately ban assault rifles after the two recent mosque attacks?
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Okay. So for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, that would be those of you listening to this and also live under Iraq.
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Go back to episode 67 of this podcast. So just a couple of episodes ago, it's Kia Kaha.
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And so that kind of goes into the details of what we saw in that attack where there was a white supremacist that went into two mosques on the same day and tried to take out as mainly Muslims as they could ended up killing 50 people as of right now.
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So terrible situation. Well, less than a week after that shooting, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, she basically came out and she said that they were going to enact a law immediately that would ban all semi automatic firearms that are capable of using detachable
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magazines, or that could hold more than five rounds of ammunition. So basically, you would think, you know, AK-47s and AR-15s, AR-10s, like things like that, we're going to be banned outright.
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So she didn't give a whole lot of detail on if it would be a confiscation or a buyback, a government buyback, which is essentially a government confiscation.
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But we can assume that a lot of those things are in there and there have been a little bit more information, but there was a quote towards the end of this press conference where Ardern said this quote, but be assured, this is just the beginning of the work we need to do, unquote.
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So obviously, as you can imagine, the lefties on Twitter and all these people, anti gun people in America, anti NRA people, they've just praised her as a hero, right? So let's look in this, this brave woman that, you know, sees something that went wrong in her country and then immediately took actions to get on the other side of it so that it would never, ever happen again.
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Well, here's the only problem is this proposal that is being put out there is pretty stupid overall and it's stupid for a couple of reasons. And in, in no way, guys, let me just kind of preface this by saying this isn't in any way meant to be insensitive to the families of those that passed away, right?
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So to the loved ones of the 50 people that are deceased and the dozens more that were injured and in some of them severely injured in this attack, this isn't meant in any way to be insensitive to them. So take that, take all this with a grain of salt if that's where you were going.
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But for the most part, New Zealand does not have a gun crime problem. I mean, they just don't. So just to kind of throw some statistics out here to you. So you can kind of get an idea.
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There are approximately 1.2 million guns in country right now in New Zealand. Okay. So that is about 200,000 registered gun owners. And those are essentially the guns that we know about. Okay.
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But the murder rate in New Zealand, this is a crazy, crazy stat. The murder rate in New Zealand for 2018 was 35.
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So in the entirety of 2018, 35 people were murdered. There's almost 5 million people that live in New Zealand.
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I mean, just think about that. Haven't there been weekends in Chicago where, you know, more than 35 people were killed? So basically, that's 7 people are murdered for every million people that are in that country.
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So, so that's not, that's not a big number at all. That is an unbelievably safe country. But here's the other thing, because you might be like, well, what about guns?
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Most of those murders, most of those 35 murders were not with a gun.
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They were with presumably other weapons that weren't firearms. Okay. So just a point of comparison for you. So I grew up and I'm from a town called Lawton, Oklahoma, Lawton. So Southwest Oklahoma, it's known to be one of the most dangerous cities in the United States.
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It's probably the most dangerous city that you've never heard of. Lots of crime, lots of violent crime, lots of rape, those different things.
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In 2018, there were eight murders in my hometown of Lawton. Okay. The population of Lawton is under 100,000.
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So with a country of 5 million people, there were 35 murders. And in my old hometown, there was about a quarter of those in a city of a population under 100,000.
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So, so when people say that, that this would somehow take care of the problem, it's like, well, what problem are you addressing?
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Right. And I've seen this that kind of trotted out there where basically when Australia did this, they haven't had a mass shooting there since. Well, Australia was, wasn't having mass shootings really to begin with.
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They were having a handful of them every decade. And so if you go from a handful to zero of those in a decade, statistically, it's not a terribly significant thing.
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Now, again, for the individual lives that have been affected by that, it's, it's immensely significant, but statistically speaking alone, it is not.
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But another reason is just because there, there's no statistical indication that banning those guns would would actually make them rarer in New Zealand.
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Right. So that's kind of the overall point I'm trying to make is that if we were to ban all those guns, if we were to confiscate all those guns, there's nothing statistically that would show us that that would actually become a more rare event.
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Like, this was a one off of one offs, really, like internationally. So just assuming that that was going to take care of the problem would be silly.
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And the other thing is, is if those guns had been banned outright to begin with, then it wouldn't solve the issue at all. Like, you hear this a lot and some people think it's kind of trite.
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But those laws being enacted before this wouldn't have stopped this.
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I mean, you could presume that it would might make these guns more difficult to attain, but let's not pretend that people that break the law follow the law.
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That kind of is what makes them makes them criminals, right? That's kind of the thing that we can't really fully comprehend why someone would do this.
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Well, you're thinking like you don't have the capability of thinking like a criminal like that, because for us as law abiding citizens,
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then we look at a law and we're like, yeah, we should generally follow that. But those aren't these people. And that kind of gets me into my next point is law like this would just punish law abiding citizens.
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For the for the evils of a statistical outlier, which is exactly what this guy was that that performed these murders.
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Because here's the other thing that people aren't really talking about. You get very few people in the United States certainly talking about that.
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But the slaughter that this man was performing now at the second mosque was stopped by a law abiding citizen that had a gun.
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There was a law abiding kiwi that was there before the police were.
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So we don't know what would have happened if that guy hadn't shown up. The guy may have literally killed as many as he killed or he may have killed twice as many as that.
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What if he had gone to a third or fourth or fifth mosque or that by appointed that out whenever I talked about it on the on episode 67. But
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Basically, you would be taking guns out of the hands of people like that
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That would be willing to take the gun off their hip or go to their car or go to their house and get their gun to stop something like this.
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Again, before the police get there everyone just thinks the police they're like magic like they just oh they just show up and the problem automatically disappears.
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Like think about the reaction time and response time of most police in the United States and that doesn't mean they're bad at their job
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Right all the time, but the thing is is they're just not everywhere at all times
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And so the the final thing here is just it's a proposal that's based on emotion, which is in general not a great idea
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Because where was the emotion before this?
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Because there was always the potential of something like this to happen
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What if the guys pipe bombs had gone off could could hundreds of people have been killed?
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We don't know. We don't really know the the power of the weapons that he was using other than the firearms that he was using
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But again, it's people that are trying to legislate evil
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But evil will always find a way again
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There are there are attacks in countries like china where they literally don't have any guns where people are literally going around with machete's killing people
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Right
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And so i'm not here to rank whether i'd like to die by a bullet or die by a machete wound
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But at the same time like you can't just legislate evil into non-existence
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So she's being lauded as a hero
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There's a lot of people that agree with her, but there are a lot of Kiwis right now in New Zealand that are very very nervous about their guns
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Because they don't want to give them up
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So there's kind of my sort of longest response to that question. So that would be my response to what's going on right now in New Zealand
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All right, next question
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should christians meditate
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So here's the thing with the question of should christians meditate. I feel like there's another key question
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Uh that should come up right after that one, which is what kind of meditation?
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I feel like that's the most basic of basics. I'm not not trying to be reductionist with this
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But there there is something in culture right now where meditation is is going up in popularity
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Guys, if you listen to the joe rogan podcast he talks about he meditates and he has other guys that come on that are friends of his and
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Oh, we meditate and we do those different things. It's part of this whole mindfulness movement
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And kind of the roots of that are in eastern kind of new age religions or pagan religions, right?
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And these are just ways. I feel like for atheists to pray without claiming anything right without claiming that there's some sort of a deity
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That's watching them that has judgment and sway and power over their lives
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Um, and here's the thing with these eastern religions and I am kind of just lumping this all together
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They use meditation to kind of empty the mind
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Like that's a whole big thing about that is. Oh, we're just going to empty our minds
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We're just going to meditate. We're gonna hook our ponytail to this tree and then we're just going to kind of figure it out as we go
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Um, so obviously if you're doing that type of meditation, I think that's an issue
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Right if you're just trying to empty your mind and you're trying to make it sort of this eastern new age type of thing
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I obviously think there are massive massive issues for that if you call yourself a christian
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But then kind of the second key question that that begs is what are you meditating on?
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Right because the on part is very important because again eastern
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They they want you to just clear your mind of all things right, but I I think we can find a lot of scriptural bases
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For why it's a really really good idea to meditate
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Right. And so even just doing a cursory glance through google and looking at some different resources
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I got four scriptures for you right here
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I would kind of give you a sense of what my answer is going to be
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So the first one is joshua one eight. So here's josh one one eight
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This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night
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So you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it for when you
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For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success
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Second is Psalm one versus one through two
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But it is the man who walks not in the council of the wicked nor stands in the way of sinners
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Nor sits in the seat of scoffers
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But his delight is in the law of the lord and his law and on his law he meditates day and night
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About Psalm one 19 11. I've stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you and then Psalm one 19 verse 15
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I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways
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So obviously if you're meditating on scripture
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on the revealed word of god
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On the greatness of god on the sacrifice of jesus if you were literally quieting yourself
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Quieting the world around you and your mind enough to where you can focus on those things
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Absolutely. I mean obviously is kind of what i've seen there and again. That was just a cursory glance through the bible
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There are some dictates that say this is something that you should absolutely do
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Like this is an actual good idea
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So to kind of break this up into two areas if you are kind of doing the eastern clear your mind new age thing
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And you also claim to be a christian
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There there's not really such a thing as that type of meditation that doesn't really work for you if you're a christian
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However, if you were getting quiet if you're going down the woods you're going to a quiet place
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You know closing door in your closet and you're meditating on his word and his goodness then I think we're okay
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Next question. What do you think about all of the off-season moves in major league baseball?
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So here guys here's the deal
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The amount of money that has been spent this off-season on baseball players is astounding
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And mainly guys that aren't even close to the age of 30, right?
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So I just want to give you a rundown of some of the
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Some of the contracts that have gone out as of uh as of the recording in this podcast
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So there's a couple of big fish still left on the pond on the pond dallas kykel being one of them
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But here we go. We got mike trout
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signed a 12-year extension with the angels for
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430 million dollars
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You got brice harper signed a 12-year deal with the fillies for 330 million dollars
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You got mani machado signed a 10-year deal with the padres for 300 million dollars
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Nolan aeronado signed an eight-year extension with the Rockies for 260 million dollars
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Patrick corbin a lot of people forgot he did sign because he signed so long ago
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He signed a six-year deal with the nationals worth 140 million
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Yeah, paul goldschmidt signed a five-year extension with the st. lews cardles my cardinals for 130 million dollars
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And this was an extension signed before he ever played an official game in their jersey
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Uh, then you got alex breggman six-year extension with the astros for 100 million dollars
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And then he got just in verlander that signed a two-year extension with the astros for 66 million
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Dollars
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So the reason why i put verlanders in here is because he actually became the highest a av pitcher in baseball right now
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So av is average annual value. So he's gonna get paid 33 million dollars a year in his two extension years
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Which gets him above of uh, granky exact granky right now
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Granky's contract actually came down just a little bit to where he's only making 32.5 million dollars this year to pitch
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Which that poor guy i just don't know how he's gonna eat
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But for those eight players for those of you mathletes out there you already knew this but that's 1.76
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billion
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Dollars billion with a b for eight players
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Right there over a one billion dollars just with trout harper and machado
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Now all those guys are kind of generational players
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I think trout is on his way to potentially and this is insane for such an old sport
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He's on his way to potentially be the greatest baseball player we have ever seen in our entire lives
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But but here's the other thing i'm not really going to go into each one of those deals and which ones i think are going to be good
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Or think i'll be bad i'll just talk about a couple of them the mike trout deal
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um
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He's he 100 deserves that money right because he's been woefully underpaid in the time he's been in major league baseball
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His worth has been somewhere in the 300 million dollar range and he hasn't been paid anywhere near that right not even a third of that
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So this deal i feel like it could have reasonably been higher than that because the angels are going to have him for the entirety of his career
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Towards the end of his career. He's certainly not going to be performing like he's performing right now
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Which people are like oh how's this contract gonna look in the you know 10th year 11th year
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They're they're being done. These are people that don't understand marketing
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Mike trout as he's inching his way up to his 500th home run his 600th home run
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Maybe even his 700th home run his 3000th hit
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You know, whatever uh, you know his 2000th rbi or whatever the thing might be
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Every single one of those opportunities is is a chance for the angels to sell tickets to sell, uh caps
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You know commemorative baseballs and t-shirts and all these different things and also mike trout if he ends up becoming the best player ever
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But let's just say he's a top 10 like top 10 greatest player ever
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The los angeles angels don't have a whole lot of guys in koopers town
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They certainly don't have any guys in koopers town that would be considered one you know one of the few greatest players of all time
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They're gonna have that in mike trout now. He's not gonna go into koopers town with someone else's hat
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He's already hall of famer right now, which is insane because he just came up to the major leagues in 2012
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And so uh for him
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I thought it the the only thing about this deal is i'm sad for the game of baseball because of this deal
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Because he is going to be
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The greatest player in any sport probably that no one's ever heard of
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Right. So a baseball is on america's favorite sport anymore
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But the thing about it is is this is some huge money for a guy that most people couldn't pick out of a lineup
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If you put mike trout in a lineup
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A people and just had just regular old americans trying to pick him out of lineup
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You're not going to pick that guy out
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But I mean if you put russell westbrook or lebron james or tom brady or guys like that into a lineup
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Yeah, you're gonna be able to pick him right out of the lineup, right?
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So this is the thing that's unfortunate is that he signed with the team that he signed with
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The angels are a horrific franchise. They have one championship in their almost 60 year history
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The angels are exactly oh and three
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Since mike trout has been the greatest player in baseball, which is essentially the moment he got to the majors
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So they had been to the playoffs exactly one time since 2012
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And they got swept by the by the royals in the alcs or in the alds
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Right that was like, you know, they were supposed to destroy this team and then you know, they got swept
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So the thing about it is is people are like, well, can you tell the future?
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Are you going to be able to tell what the next 12 years are going to look like like?
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No, I don't know but we have 60 years of history that tell us that this franchise has no idea how to win
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And so it would have been really really nice to see mike trout play for a huge market team
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A team that contends a team that knows what they're doing a team that knows how to build a winner because right now
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They don't have a very good major league squad and they have a horrific farm system
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Like those are things that take three or four seasons
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If you make a bunch of really good moves to fix right so i'll get off on the mike trout stuff
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But a couple of the things i'll talk about right here just Bryce Harper and Manny Machado
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Both of those deals are going to end up looking fine
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I don't care about the the personality issues of Harper and Machado
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I'm not terribly convinced that either of those guys are winners like in the macro sense
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I don't know that you can call those guys winners
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But you're getting two of the best players literally of this generation in their in their
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Basically they both turn 27 and you're getting them for the entirety of the rest of their careers for the most part
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So a lot of these deals. I agree with some of them are are very friendly to the club
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Most of them are very friendly to the player, but i'm down with all those types of deals
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So all right next question. Oh, it looks like the next question is actually tied to that one
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So what are your predictions for the 2019 major league baseball season?
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So here's the deal
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Every year for like the last 10 years
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I've had a group of guys where we will do pre-season major league baseball predictions
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And we actually predict everything and if any of you guys out there right now is like
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When's you're gonna be done talking about baseball?
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You're a bad American you're a communist and you can skip on to the later part of this podcast
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We're talking about baseball guys today if you're listening to this on time
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It's opening day season started. I got my hot dogs and I got my american flag wrapped around me
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I'm probably gonna sleep in it y'all so chill out, but anyway
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The thing that we do is we we constantly look at what's gonna happen that year and we pick everything
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We pick the pre-season we pick what the post-season awards are gonna be
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We think he's gonna win the world series
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We do some bold predictions all that and we kind of give ourselves points for each one of those
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And and we get to predict them going further
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And I've had kind of a a dry run here for several years not really doing good in my predictions
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But i'm gonna go ahead and give you all my predictions this year for major league baseball
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So i'll try to go through these fairly quickly, but let's go ahead and start in the american league
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So the divisional winners i've got in the al east
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I've got the Yankees in the al central. I got the indians and in the al west side of the astros
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And my two wild car teams are actually boston and tampa bay. So yes, I have three al east teams sneaking in
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Um aside from the minnesota twins. There's not really another team out there
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Like i'm not a really believer that the uh athletics can do what they did last year again this year
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And there's not really another american league team that I feel like is a a traitor to away from getting in there
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I mean I feel like the easiest thing to predict is is what's gonna happen in the american league
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Because you have four unbelievably elite teams and the tampa bay is also really really good
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So uh, if minnesota was just a little bit better and guys if they sign dials kykel in the next like two days
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I might sneak the the minnesota twins into that second wild car spot over tampa bay
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But as of right now, I feel like boston's gonna kind of come back to the mean a little bit
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I feel like the Yankees are gonna get a game or two better
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No one's gonna really come close to the indians in the central and in the west
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Uh, I got the astros and that's actually my pick for the pennant. So my aol pick is going to be the astros
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I feel like the astros had a slightly down year last year that some guys like carlos korea
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That had some very bad years that I think are gonna bounce back. This is a team that's not you know shy about spending money
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They're not shy about going to get in trades. So I feel like they're gonna be the team to beat in the american league
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For nvp for all these awards. We pick our top one and two guys
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So I got mic trout finishing first for the nvp and I actually have erin judge finishing second
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So erin judge kind of came back to earth a little bit from his rookie campaign last year
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But I feel like um, you know, there's always an east coast bias just about everything
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I feel like trout is just the odds on pick to win it anyway
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So you kind of are a little bit silly if you don't put him number one
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But I feel like the Yankees are gonna have a huge year
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I feel like they're gonna win more games than anybody in the regular season in the american league
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And so that's why i'm going to put erin judge in there because I feel like uh, he's just a great easy
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Guy to vote for and I think you got some people that are having a little bit of voter fatigue voting for trout every year
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So for the al-sai young I got chris sail winning the sai young that would actually be his first sai young believe it or not
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And then we've got cluber so uh cluber is just about as consistent as you can get as a starting pitcher
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And if cluber were to win it, uh, this would be his third. I believe so al rookie of the year
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I've got vladimir garero jr
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This is one of those guys. There's a lot of stuff surrounding him and in terms of well are the
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Jay's gonna keep him down for the first two weeks of the season so they can control him for an extra year
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Here's a deal is he's hurt right now. He's got a little bit of a of a groin injury or something like that
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But the dude can absolutely rake and the blue jays are going to be terrible
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So they need to sell tickets. So I think the guy's gonna get a lot of that bats and then second
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I have a guy named kukuchi. He's a pitcher. That's coming over from japan to pitch for the seattle mariners
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I think he'll get enough looks I actually watched his first game and he looked pretty good
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So that's uh, those are my two picks for rookie of the year for manager of the year
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I've got erin boond and then i've got cash for the tampa bay race. So I think like I said, I think the uh yankies will win the most
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Regular season games, which means boond will probably uh get in there on the manager of the year award
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But if tampa bay
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Ends up making it to the playoffs in the american lee geese where you have the yankies and the red socks
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I think cash their manager would uh would get in there and then lastly in the american league
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I've got the comeback players of the year. So these are two guys. I think you're gonna bounce back number one
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I think mcgill kabirra um, so mcgill kabirra. I think he only played like 38 games last year
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He had uh an issue. I think he bicep ten an issue if I if i remember correctly
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So even in his old age he's one of the best pure hitters that we're gonna see
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So I think we're gonna see a big bounce back here for him and then biron buxton
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He's been that guy that was like the top touted prospect for forever
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Got to the major leagues early, but the dude just has not figured out a way to put it together
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This off season he changed his workout regimen. Apparently he put on like 20 pounds a muscle
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He's good in the spring. So he's either going to be a colossal breakthrough or colossal failure
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So that's uh my predictions for the american league now let's go on to the national league
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So national league here are my division winners. I've got the nationals winning the nl east
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I've got the cubs winning the nl central and i've got the dodgers winning the nl west
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My two wild car teams. I had st. Louis cardels that would be their first time in the playoffs in three years
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And then i've got the philadelphia philly. So
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I know it's going to be a little bit of a non-sexy pick to go with the nationals in the
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national league east because of all the moves that the philly's made and believe me
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I I I thought the phillies were really close to being a playoff team last year and they've added, you know
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Obviously, Bryce harper real moodo. They've added
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Some some good bullpen guys. I've got jean segura on the team now. So we'll see how they all kind of meld together
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Um, but we'll just kind of have to figure that out
24:45
I'll tell you the thing it took me the longest to pick was who was going to win the nl central
24:50
Because I feel like the cubs the cardinals and the brewers all could buy for that title
24:54
I don't really think the reds and pirates are are there
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But the cubs are the cubs
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And guys as of recording this it's about three days before the season starts so the cubs could even make a move in the next few days
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I just don't really know
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They're willing to go out and and make some money chris brian didn't had or go spend some money rather chris brian didn't have a great
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Year last year. I feel like he's a bounce back candidate rizzo started really slow and came on late
25:18
Um, you darvish was an absolute travesty last year
25:21
He's had a healthy spring. So I just feel like the cubs still have enough uh to outpace the cardinals
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But I do feel like the cardinals will be on their heels and make it into the post-season
25:30
Now, um in terms of the national league pennant. Uh, I'm just gonna go ahead and go with the nationals here
25:35
Um, the thing with the nationals is they've got a good pitching staff and if stevenstrosperer can somehow
25:41
Stay healthy
25:42
Then the top three guys you're gonna have to go against and uh in october is going to be max shurzer
25:47
You're gonna have to go up against patcher corbin and then you're gonna have to go up against stevenstrosperer
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Good luck winning a seven-game series with those guys
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So they still got some questions, but we'll go and go with the nationals to win the pennant for the nvp
25:59
I have paul gold smith finishing first, uh, the new arrival to st. Louis cardles and then i've got brice harper finishing second
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So obviously if those two teams make the playoffs
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Well, you know when they haven't made the playoffs in a while
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I think the two best players on their teams, uh, we'll get a lot of votes
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So that's why I got gold smith and harper for the si young first. I've got max shurzer winning again
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Uh, I wanted to not pick max shurzer this year just because he's been doing this for so long
26:23
And he's been dominant for so long. I was like, you know, the other shoes got to drop at some point
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But I just don't think it's going to be this year
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And then second the the normal pick would be jake up to grom here
26:31
Uh, because he had such an amazingly year last year, but i'm actually going to go with erin nola
26:35
For a similar reason. I don't think the meds are going to be in the playoff hunt
26:38
And so if the fillies actually make the playoffs and nola is their ace. I think he'll get some votes for the si young
26:43
For ricky the year the first I have robles. That's the guy for the nationals
26:47
I think he's gonna get ton of playing time. He'll be there starting center filter filter and then franando tatisse jr
26:52
So another junior will be in there, but uh getting in there for the padres
26:55
This is a guy that can create a lot of uh havoc on the base paths, but also at the plate
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So I think he's gonna get some votes for manager the year
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I have the cardinals mike shilt and then uh gabe capler for the uh for the fillies
27:07
So I obviously you kind of see a trend here
27:09
I feel like if the cardinals and the fillies make it into the playoffs
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You're gonna see those two guys get in with manager the year votes and then in terms of comeback player of the year
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I think these are pretty easy number one would be cori seager out for the dodgers
27:20
He pretty much missed I think the entirety of last season with an injury so him coming back
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I just don't see a way where he doesn't bounce back strong and then it got you darvish
27:28
So for you darvish to come back and be the comeback player of the year
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He pretty much just needs to exist and breathe oxygen
27:33
That's pretty much all that guy needs to do in order to be a comeback player of the year pick for that
27:38
So in terms of my world series prediction for my world series
27:41
I've got the houston astros winning the world series
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And I got them winning in six games
27:45
So um that is a team that is stacked
27:48
There's not something on that team that I look at and don't really like
27:51
Maybe ketchup is that one place where it's like, ah, you know, and if they had traded for jt real mildo
27:56
Uh, that would have worked out quite a bit better, but they didn't get real modo. He went to a philadelphia
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But anyway, I still think they're probably the overall best team
28:04
Even though they're probably not going to win more games and the yankies will this year, but we will just see
28:08
In terms of the all-star game we do pick that as well. I'm going to go with a al
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I've picked the nl for I don't know how many years running and they just keep disappointing me
28:14
But the overwhelming majority of the best players are in the american league right now
28:18
It kind of feels like for forever of the best players in the nba
28:22
We're in the west for like 20 years in the east was just kind of a joke
28:25
Um, and I think that there's going to be a combined score of seven runs in that game
28:29
And then at the end we do these three bold predictions. So here are my bold predictions real quick
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Number one. I think chris davis will get designated for assignment
28:36
Uh, number two. I think the al central will have two
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100 lost teams
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Obviously, I think those uh teams are going to be the uh, can see royals and the detroit tigers
28:46
And lastly dextr phaller will be benched by may
28:50
So dextr phaller is my least favorite of the st
28:53
Louis cardles my least favorite guy on the team
28:55
He has been a disaster pretty much from the moment that he was signed by the cardinals
28:59
I didn't feel good about the signing. I didn't feel good about how
29:02
Um, he tried to embrace the city and his performance has been putrid and he has looked like hot garbage
29:07
Pretty much all spring and so i'm about ready for him to be out the door
29:12
I don't know what his trade value would be but you can pretty much trade him to get him off your roster and get some other guys in there
29:17
But
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Yeah, want that guy to be gone
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So, uh, I think that he will get benched by may he'll get the the chance to start and then he will be done
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So
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Again, I know for some of you guys in our baseball people that was like one of the most painful experiences of your life
29:30
But you know what it is what it is. I hope for you baseball guys out there you americans that you enjoyed it
29:35
So here we go next question
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What book are you reading right now? So, uh, well, funny enough, uh, the book i'm reading right now is called sex money murder
29:45
So, uh, here's a deal. I got a buddy named, uh, spike down the lawn. Yes. I actually do have a buddy named spike
29:51
Yeah, I have no idea how that happened
29:53
But anyway, uh, he doesn't send me book recommendations often maybe about twice a year
29:58
He'll send me a book recommendation and he sent me this one and so, um
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The funny thing about this book is I go and buy it from a bookstore that's across the street from where I work
30:07
And, uh, they had sent me a coupon to order a book and so I whenever I get a actual physical book
30:14
I try to make sure it's you know, usually a fiction book something that i'm probably not going to want to mark up or
30:19
Or reread or reference later
30:21
And so I kind of flipped through the books that I was wanting to read
30:24
Here in the the very near future and that was one that came up. I was like, oh, okay
30:28
Well, this is kind of a true crime book
30:29
And so I don't think I'll be going back and making a bunch of highlights and referencing it
30:33
So I'll go ahead and take that on but let me actually read a quick description of the book to you guys
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So you can kind of get a sense of what I've, uh, currently dug into
30:39
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country
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The use of crack cocaine surged replacing heroin as the high of choice
30:51
Drug dealers claimed territory through intimidation and murder and families found themselves fractured by crime and incarceration
30:57
Chronicling the rise and fall of sex money murder one of the most notorious gangs of its era reporter jonathan green
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Creates a visceral and devastating portrait of new york city burrow and the dedicated detectives and prosecutors struggling to stop the tide of violence
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The setting is sound view one of the city's most dangerous projects where we encounter the gangsters shug and pipe
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And the charismatic leader of sex and the charismatic leader of sex money murder pistol peep
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We also meet the dedicated policeman like rookie housing cop peep for selly and season detective john o mally risking their lives to make a difference
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It's a world in which dealers get their hands dirty simply by counting the hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash
31:38
They make on a monthly basis watch scarface while smoking splits
31:41
Between shootings and coolly assassinate rivals during a neighborhood football game
31:46
And where nothing is more important than preserving your honor and expanding your domain with force
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Breaking up the gang is a legal feat
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But their murderous reputation and the expansion of their drug operating operation across state lines means that sex money murder draws the attention of the feds
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The epi and the bureau of alcohol and firearms and the preserve preserving federal prosecutors liz glazer and nicole labera
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Who will use reco the racketeering influence and corrupt?
32:12
Organizations act to go after the drug crews drawing on years of research and extraordinary access to gang leaders law enforcement and federal prosecutors
32:20
Green delivers an epic character driven narrative and an engrossing work of gritty urban reportage
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Magisterial in its scope
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Sex money murder offers a unique perspective on the violence raging in modern day america and the battle to end it
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so
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I like true crime stuff. I think it's really really interesting and the thing about it is I am always looking for storries
32:42
Of human depravity, right?
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That's kind of the deal is anytime you start thinking that the humans around you are great people
32:48
Just know that we all have this in us
32:50
You know, we all have the capability has fallen
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fallen creatures
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You know fallen humans that this is something that we can end up doing and there's a lot of hurt and there's a lot of
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Pain and blood already in this book and I'm excited to get through the end of it
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All right next question is yoga satanic
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So here's the thing with this question
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There's been a lot of people that have done a lot of weighing in and a lot of discussion on this exact topic
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Um, it's really a huge point of contention for so many christians today
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Because you have christians that want to participate in yoga, but they don't feel like they can and then you've got you know
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A few select pastors. I know mark driscals talked about this a lot that are like no
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It's absolutely pagan and it's and it's satanic and it's all these different things
33:34
But but here's the thing you're talking to a guy that does yoga about once a week
33:37
Maybe once or twice a week now the way that I do yoga
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I typically do it on the day that I'm recording this which is a monday because I usually have a late night on sundays
33:46
I usually work out twice on sundays and so by monday morning
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I'm ready for a little bit of a you know a relaxing stretch kind of a recovery
33:54
And so I just go to youtube and I just look for free yoga for min things
33:59
So it'll typically be 30 to 45 minutes a lot of stretching to kind of open up the hips open up the low back things like that
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Basically kind of keep this body running. Um, but here's the deal yoga does have its
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origins in eastern religious practices, okay, so if you were doing yoga
34:17
And you were combining it that kind of feels like the question from earlier would like with the meditation
34:22
But if you combine it with an eastern religious viewpoint
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If you are doing these poses to clear your mind and connect to the earth and speak to the grand mother
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Or whatever the new age nonsense vernacular or you want to use that's obviously a problem
34:38
That's obviously a problem
34:40
But where I feel like most of these christians get it wrong including pastors
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Is there they're trying to exegete the scriptures in an overwrought fashion
34:48
Where there are you know elements of a certain thing that are satanic
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So like if you do it you're automatically being satanic and sinful every time I do yoga
34:57
I'm doing it for stretching
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Because a lot of the poses and a lot of the intra abdominal pressure that it creates
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And a lot of the ways to hold this as opposed to doing that
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It's good for you carter uvascularly. It's good for you strength wise and it's certainly good for your flexibility
35:12
That's why most people do yoga
35:14
Now are there people that do it as a as a part of their eastern new age religion 100?
35:19
Like sometimes I laugh while i'm doing some of these videos on youtube because these people are they're just goofy
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Uh, you know just escape into your mind man and just let it be you know
35:30
All right, let's go ahead and do an upper dog
35:33
And just take your chest to the universe as a as a thank you to the universe for doing this thing bro, dude
35:40
Whatever like it's absurd it's ridiculous
35:42
But I do upper dog to stretch my stomach and my hip flexors
35:46
Right it's again. I feel like there's a lot of things to be alarmed about in culture
35:51
I don't feel like christians doing yoga is one of them. I even saw this ridiculous thing online
35:55
I can't remember the name of it, but it's the christian alternative to yoga
35:59
And I looked at it. It's the same exact poses
36:03
It's like the same poses, but they're doing it for the glory of god
36:07
That's like guys you can just stretch can't you
36:09
Like the the reason why I stretch is because I want to take care of my body
36:13
Again part of my physical resilience is making sure that my body can work for a long long long period of time
36:18
Assuming I don't get attacked by wolves or hit by a bus or some sort of debilitating disease
36:23
Right, that's how I'm glorifying god in my body. I'm glorifying god with my physicality
36:27
So someone's gonna have to make a much much better argument than the ones that I saw online to make me stop doing yoga
36:33
Because if I just been over right now and and did like a you know a hamstring stretch
36:37
Is that somehow?
36:39
Satanic because yogis stretch their hamstrings as well. It's like dude. It's ridiculous. So here's the answer
36:45
It certainly can be satanic, but not in the way that most people do it
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So if you want to do it to be flexible do it to be flexible
36:52
All right, next question. What would you have done differently if you had a life mulligan?
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uh
36:59
You know what I would have joined the military
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So, um
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I grew up in law in nuklohoma
37:05
Uh fort sill is an army base that is uh right there connected to lawton
37:09
So I was around military people my entire life my stepfather's military
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Um, and obviously, uh, I've had a tremendous interest in the military all the way up to this point
37:19
You know, I you want to get me to cry pretty easy show me a soldier coming home video
37:23
I can't even control myself. It's ridiculous. Um
37:26
But I would have joined the military if I could have still met my wife, right?
37:30
That's always kind of the caveat
37:32
So if I could still have met kelsey and still had um, you know
37:35
Been able to to marry her and develop a relationship with her and been able to serve in the military
37:40
That's probably something I would have done
37:42
I don't know that I have the uh, the pool or underwater skills to have been a seal
37:46
Uh, would have been interesting to train for that and and try for that
37:49
But uh, the more I've learned about green barrese and in army rangers
37:52
I feel like that would have probably been a good place for me to try and go and try and serve
37:57
Uh, but for the most part, I I do think that's kind of a thing that's missing for me
38:01
Is you know, I've done some things to contribute to society and obviously doing things like this podcast to try to contribute to your guys' lives
38:07
But for the most part, I don't feel like I've done anything that's that terribly dynamic and to serve the country in this way would have been pretty awesome
38:14
All right, next question
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Love thy neighbor
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But if thy neighbor is a bad person, what do you do i.e. There are moral doing illegal things
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Racist pedophiles, etc
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How are you supposed to love that person? Uh, so thanks for this question. I I feel like
38:30
It's kind of an easy one to answer though. Um, now if someone's a pedophile
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Obviously justice is important and if you know they're a pedophile and they're like, you know
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Trying to get the kids in the neighborhood. That's that's probably something you need to not probably
38:42
That is definitely something that you need to take uh, take control of and figure out that situation get the proper authorities involved
38:48
If not getting involved yourself
38:50
But I would say that just about everyone
38:52
That is your neighbor is bad in in a pretty horrific way
38:57
But we just don't always see it
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I mean, yeah
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If I were to walk to my car in a KKK hood later and everybody saw it and you know
39:05
I had a big swash to cut tattooed on my chest and all those things. That's pretty out out there
39:10
That's that's pretty, you know, hey guys. I'm a racist. I'm an idiot like everybody look at me
39:15
But most people don't just like plaster their stupid opinions and viewpoints on their foreheads
39:20
So I feel like this I mean, it's john 1334 35 for those of you that you know, obviously know that scripture
39:26
This is jesus's last moment to talk to his disciples and this was kind of his lean in guys get in here
39:31
Let's hear this advice and it was a new commandment I give to you that you love one another
39:36
Just as I've loved you. You also are to love one another by this all people will know that you are my disciples
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If you have a love for one another
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So
39:45
Loving somebody and we've talked about this before but that's not the the question that the guy asked
39:49
Loving people isn't just placating them and telling them that everything that they're doing is okay
39:53
Right because there's a lot of things that people do that are not okay
39:56
Right
39:57
So you're not loving someone that's had an abortion by saying you know what it's okay
40:00
You know, you just murdered that baby you ripped it to pieces, but you know, god loves you anyway
40:05
Yeah, god loves you anyway, but you also have to call out the sin that was a horrible thing
40:08
They murdered somebody I actually technically they paid someone else to murder somebody right which makes them complicit
40:14
But
40:16
That's kind of one of those things is you're gonna have a lot of people in your life that have depravity
40:19
In their soul and there's stupid things that they think and you know, it just kind of is what it is
40:24
We're called to love these people. We're called to uh, you know
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Reveal the gospel to them and share the gospel to them with them
40:31
But also to operate in this world full of grace and truth. So that's the way you would go about doing that
40:35
All right next question. Well then this question is actually from a kiddo
40:39
Of the listener of the guy that asked the last question. So thank you, uh writer. I appreciate you writing in
40:45
I think he's 11 years old. So here's the one question he had for me
40:48
If you could fix one problem in the world, what would it be?
40:51
Mine would be to make sure that everybody had fresh drinking water. Okay again. Thank you very much
40:56
I'm glad that you're listening to the podcast. I hope you and your dad are getting a lot of value out of it
41:01
Um, the one problem that I would fix in the world, you know
41:04
You could take this question to some existential ends
41:07
You could go into be like well, I would hope that no tear had ever been shed or you know, whatever the thing might be
41:13
But practically, you know, if you could just snap your fingers and take care of something
41:17
I would just get rid of human trafficking. I mean the the statistics around it
41:21
I mean you get a lot of varying statistics, but I kind of got some off the international labor organization
41:25
They estimate that there's around 40 million victims of human trafficking globally
41:31
Uh, so about 81 of those are trapped and forced labor
41:35
So what normally people think of it as sex trafficking, which is certainly is that but 81 is forced labor
41:40
Uh 25 of those people are children and uh, three quarters of them are women and girls
41:45
And obviously there is the depravity of the sexual enslavement
41:48
And selling of these these young people that are basically just raped
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Uh, you know dozens of times every single day of their entire life until they finally die
41:57
And so the thing about it, it's one of the worst things, uh, that you can imagine
42:02
Uh for us as westerners, we don't think about this as much
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But you know, I think about a lot being resident of oakland city because we're kind of a thoroughfare
42:08
Uh for a lot of human trafficking because through oakland the city
42:12
We have a lot of interstate systems that connect through here
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So we've got i 35 i 44 and i 40 so pretty much
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Now a lot of the major highway systems in the united states
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Basically run right through oakland city
42:24
And so we've had a lot of police officers that i've really really struggled with this issue in our city
42:29
Um, and it's kind of a hard thing to to get on the other side of because as soon as you catch one cell
42:34
There's three more that have popped up. So that would be the one thing i would take care of and again
42:37
Thank you so much for listening to this podcast, but
42:40
All right next question
42:41
What is the best music album that you've heard recently?
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Okay, so this is going to be surprising to most of you guys, especially if you like the music
42:49
That's on the intro outro track of those podcasts or things like that
42:52
Or if you've known me for any length of time. Here's the thing. I in general do not like country music
42:57
Especially if it's played on the radio
43:00
It is some of the most god awful ignorant garbage that you could possibly imagine
43:06
But for whatever reason
43:08
I'm driving home, uh from work. I don't know several months ago and there is a local
43:13
Um casino that has big concerts from time to time. I I think it was a river wind
43:18
I can't remember exactly which one it was uh out near norman, but there was a an advertisement for a band called midland
43:25
And it was these three guys on the ad and they were wearing these you know
43:29
Cowboy hats, but with the straight bills and they all had kind of long hair and mustaches and I was like all right
43:34
And I drove past these uh these billboards for for weeks
43:38
And never even thought to check out who that band was but one day I kind of got a wild hair
43:44
Plug them into my apple music and I just start playing the one of the songs. I had a star next to it
43:48
And they are about as twanging basic country as it gets they're they're not radio country
43:54
I can tell you that much
43:56
And for whatever reason their music speaks directly to my soul for I don't know what it is
44:02
Maybe something in my roots as an okey. I don't know what the deal is
44:05
But uh their album was called on the rocks as far as I know it's the only album that they have
44:10
But I can listen to that thing straight through and just have a good old time
44:14
They've got some slower songs kind of george straightish type songs. They've got some more
44:18
Uh, let's dance type songs, but I don't get what it is my wife
44:22
Absolutely hates it. She has no idea what happened. She hates country music. Maybe more than I do
44:27
So if you're a country music person, you should definitely listen to midland. I think you'll enjoy it
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But even if you're not
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Give it a go. I might be insane. I
44:37
Reserve all the rights to just explain that I'm probably insane, but at the end of the day
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I'd give that one a go. All right, next question
44:43
After world war two masons and shriners, etc. We're really popular organizations for men fostering community and making a difference
44:52
Now they are dwindling and struggling with membership. Why do you think that is? Um, so to be completely honest
44:59
I don't have a tremendous
45:01
amount of knowledge about masons and shriners. I actually did a um a presentation on the free masons
45:07
When I was in college, but it's not so and of you know a group that I ever kind of wanted to be a part of
45:11
It's kind of like even in college. I the thought of a fraternity was just kind of silly to me
45:15
It's like do you really need to pay for that? Like why in the world would you do that?
45:18
But I get I get why people do it. It just wasn't really for me
45:20
Um, but I guess one of the first things even if I were just to take a guess here is that men are more isolated
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Than ever before but most men don't feel the need to change that
45:30
I mean, I feel like that's pretty fair to say is we're so isolated, but most men are just like, eh, whatever
45:37
You know, I talk about male community literally all the time and most of the guys listening to this podcast statistically
45:42
I just know this to be true. You're not in male community
45:44
And and no it doesn't mean you're not ever around males. I'm sure you're around males at church
45:49
I'm sure you're around males at work, but you're not in community with those guys
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You just see them sort of often you don't ever do anything with them. You don't ever accomplish you just kind of oh hell's work going
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Hey really busy
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Like you just that's all your life is with these dudes you're not doing life with those guys
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And but the here's the thing is is for us as guys we get plenty
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Of this kind of foe control
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interaction from like gaming and social media
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And so for some of us we feel like we have this interaction
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Because that's the things that you do know about the groups like the masons and the shriners and things like that
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These guys were around each other all the time and and they had some they had interactions with each other
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But they also had control over
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You know certain things that were happening in their community. They were really really important members of that community
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But we can do that now with video games and social media
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You can literally play call of duty with a bunch of weirdos from all around the world
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Right all at the same time you're playing fortnite and you're you're kind of doing your thing and you're talking trash to a dude in spanish
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Like it's just it's whatever you want to do that. That's kind of the inner connectivity of what we have right now
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But the the other thing I guess about these groups is
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Because of some of the things that I just described the the utility
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And the power and the charity of groups like that that you can basically accomplish that today without those groups
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Because a lot of those groups that were that popular
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You had to go to the local masonic lodge to kind of connect with some of those men
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Now I can just follow you on twitter
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Right they've heard that interesting to me and I constantly want to hear your thoughts. I can just follow you on twitter
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Hey, hey, you're listening to a podcast right now. You can just listen to someone's podcast
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Get their opinions on all kinds of nonsense. That's what we've been doing for the last 45 minutes
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Right you're just listening to some random dude some random voice in your phone
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Give you opinions about a bunch of crap that you didn't even really
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You weren't even that interested in for the most part or whatever the thing might be
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But you don't have to have those groups in order to get things accomplished now
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And that's not to say that those groups are obsolete and they're not useful
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Obviously, there's there's some utility left in them
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But there's just not as much utility
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And I guess that's just the thing is those groups just don't carry the same weight that they once did
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I mean everything is cyclical. I mean I think back to college
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And you think about student organizations on a college campus and let's say you're a super involved dedicated scholarship student
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You're there for four years whatever the situation might be
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You know, you're starting student organizations or you're making student organizations better
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You know, this is a lot of the stuff that I did when I was in college
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But you kind of look back and most of the stuff that you worked on no one really remembers it
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And some people like oh my gosh, then how are we gonna leave a legacy and what's that gonna do to us and all that?
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You know, whatever, but it's just like look
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Every four or five years. It's a whole different crop of students
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That don't care about the stuff that you cared about 10 years ago
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So of course they're gonna start their own organizations of course
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They're gonna start doing some of their own things. Some things will be the same, but you know, everything's cyclical
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So maybe we'll have a time when the masons and trainers and things like it are more popular
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But as of right now, it's just not a big need for it. All right guys next question
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Would you ever do would you ever do an iron man triathlon? So this one's pretty easy never say never
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But pretty much no chance of me doing an iron man here. Here's the thing guys
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The if you're an iron man triathlete out there. You have my utmost respect. You are a gangster like that is insane
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But here's the thing is the toll that training for something like that takes on your body
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The toll of actually doing something like that and what that does to your body
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um
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And the just the amount of time
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Like the guys that I know that do iron man. It's just like, okay, you're definitely not crushing it at work
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And at home and with your kids and training for a triathlon
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and sleeping
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Like it's not possible unless you are a professional iron man person
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Like unless you're a professional triathlete
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something's got to give
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And for most of these guys it's not their training
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Because if you show up to an iron man and you haven't trained properly you literally might die
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So it's just kind of one of those deals is you see these guys their marriages suffer
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Um, you know their relationship with their kids suffer. They're not going to ball games
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They're out on the bike or doing their thing
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There's nothing about that that appeals to me like I would rather train jujitsu
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Lift weights run sprints get things done in a very, you know, uh contracted period of time
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I just I just don't really see me being an iron man triathlete
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But again, I'm saying that here at the age of 33 something might change I might grow wild here later
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But I do not see it as being very likely. All right next question. How much sleep do you average per night?
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So
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I get about seven hours of sleep, right?
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So I know you should get somewhere between seven and nine, but I just got to tell you
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Since I listened to that joe rogan episode with matthew walker
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I can't remember the exact number of the episode
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I'll find the link and i'll put it in the show notes
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But he did it like a two hour long episode with this guy named matthew walker
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And he was literally and I talked about on this podcast a lot before it was just a he's a sleep scientist
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He's a sleep expert and he was talking about all this mind blowing
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Things that happen to you when you're under slept or under recovered or are all the things like that and man
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Like it was just like holy crap and joe rogan was having his mind just blown constantly in that podcast
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But if I get less than seven hours of sleep
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It's just like not only do I wake up tired the next day, but i'm like, uh, I wonder how many hours off the end of my life
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I just lost it's just kind of one of those deals. So for me, I find sleep to be very important
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I'm not a napper. I know some of you guys can just go out to your car and take a nap
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Uh, I just it takes me 15 20 minutes to fall sleep
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And so if i'm trying to take a 15 or 20 minute nap, you know, it's taking me twice the amount of time
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Just fall sleep. So I do try to average about seven hours per night. Um on the weekends
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I usually try to sleep a little bit longer maybe eight or nine hours
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Uh, I know that doesn't give kind of a one or one to one correlation in terms of catching up on your sleep
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The matthew walker guy talks about that in the podcast, but anyway, I'll leave that right there
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But again, I'll give you that in the show notes. All right a couple questions left number, uh, this
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Okay, what have we got here? All right here we go next question if I have a goal to lead 52 people to christ a year
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Would god be happy with my goal?
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Uh, so that's an interesting question. So obviously that's leading one person to christ every week. Um,
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I can't imagine that god would be disappointed in that goal
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But here I am. I'm just kind of a dumb human that uses 11 or 12 percent of my brain to operate
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So I have no idea what god's thinking. I can't imagine him thinking that's a bad idea
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But I I think there's probably some nuance to that question which would you know, maybe lend itself to what if he's granted you
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With the gift of speaking and exhorting the bible and exit jesus
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And he's given you a lot of a skill sets to where maybe he's he could potentially bless you with an audience
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That you know through the holy spirit could could get you 52 people a week
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That would give themselves, uh over to christ, right?
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Um
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But in maybe you're a different person. Maybe you're more of a background type person
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He's given you a lot of skill sets that kind of help you assist other people in their ministries or whatever
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So maybe 52 people a year that you directly lead to christ maybe wouldn't be the best idea
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I mean, I'm just trying to I'm trying to think through this but that's a highly nuanced question
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But again, I would say for the most of us
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Um, we're not leading anybody to christ
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Like maybe you've never let anyone to christ maybe you've never served the gospel with anybody you've never shared your testimony
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With anybody
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So it's going to be hard for you to have any type of a goal in mind
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So I think that the fact that this was even worded within with a kind of goal orientation. I thought that was pretty cool
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So, uh, yeah, there's my answer to that. So let's go ahead and go on to the last question here
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What is the best gift that you've received that was under $100?
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And what is the best gift that you would give to someone else that was under $100? Okay. Um
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So I guess both answers are whiskey related. So surprise surprise for those of you that know me
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Well a couple of years ago on my birthday. I received, uh, two bottles from two different people
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Of johnnie walker green label and so both of those are I don't know that's like a 70
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$65 $70 bottle of whiskey
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So I got two of those and so that was two under the $100 thing
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But uh johnnie walker is a it's a pretty good whiskey. It is a
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It's a blended scotch and the green label is one of my favorite ones
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So I know a lot of people, you know, they go crazy for the blue, but that's like $250 for a 750 milliliter
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And it's I mean it's got a good nose on it, but it's just it's not that great
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It's it's good
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But it's just it's certainly not worth the price tag and I've had you know
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I pretty much have had everything on the johnnie walker from the from the red label to the black label double black platinum goal
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I've kind of had it all but green. I think it's really really solid
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And so for those of you out there that are looking for a good blended whiskey
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That's a pretty solid one
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But I just thought it was interesting that I got the same bottle of whiskey from two different people that didn't know each other on the same day
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So that was pretty solid
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Um, in terms of what I would give to somebody
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Probably the best whiskey that I've had that is under a hundred dollars
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And I'm talking about what you can actually get it for because I've had some whiskey
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That's a hundred a hundred dollars that you'll never see at retail prices, right?
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But one that is readily available. So to all my whiskey people out there. It is art bag oogadole
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Okay, so art bag ar B e g oogadole
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U i g e a d a i l
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Art bag oogadole. So that is an isla scotch
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It is incredibly petey incredibly smoky. So if that's not your thing you will not enjoy this
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But this is art bag that was aged in sherry casks
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And so sherry casks finished whiskies or aged whiskies are some of my favorites
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That's just something that really fits with my flavor profile and my palette
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But art bag oogadole might be the best bottle of whiskey under a hundred bucks
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And it's so readily available because you have art bag 10 art bag anoa art bag choreovacan and art bag oogadole
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Those are the four art bags that you can pretty much find on the shelf at any decent liquor store in your town
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So, um, if I were going to give someone a gift and I knew that they had a kind of expansive
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Whiskey palette. That's how what I would go ahead and do so guys
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Thanks again for the questions. Uh, y'all did a great job this time
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So as always if you have questions for me, you can leave them on social media
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If you've got my phone number just text me or just shoot me an email
55:54
It's info at undaunted. Life info at undaunted life
55:58
So sometimes I get questions and those questions will actually turn into an entire episode of the podcast
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And other times I get questions and I was like, well
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I think there's gonna be a lot of people that would enjoy here in my answer to that
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So we'll go ahead and put it in the next q&a episode
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So the next q&a volume nine probably won't be as long as it was between volume seven and eight
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But again, you just keep sending the questions our way and we'll keep putting the content out
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All right guys before we let you go. We're gonna do a quick resilience boost as you know by now
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We are a mince ministry and our mission is cultivating manly resilience
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Specifically we do that by providing content like this podcast that helps guys forge spiritual mental and physical toughness
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So for you guys today, uh, obviously I promised I would leave you that matthew walker joe rogan experience episode
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So I found that and something completely different that we haven't talked about it all today
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Is a documentary recommendation. So it's called the don wall
56:44
So everybody right now is talking about the documentary called free solo about the guy that free solo climbed el capitan out in california
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And that is fantastic
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And i'm i'm kind of not wanting to talk about a lot because I may do a full episode on on that uh documentary later
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But the don wall uh was a documentary that came out a couple of years ago
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I know it's on netflix and i'm gonna leave the link to the website here
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But it was an incredible story of these two guys that were attempting to climb an area of el capitan
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That has never been climbed before and it's called the don wall
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It's called the don wall because when the uh sun rises
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And you simidy national park the first part of el capitan that is lit up by the sun is this wall
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It's called the don wall
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If you look at it, you look at pictures of it. You're like
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Some you can't climb this like it's just basically a sheet of rock
57:31
Which it is but it kind of goes through the story of these two guys that are attempting to climb this thing
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And you know, we don't really know if it's possible
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We don't really know and it didn't really make a whole lot of waves in my world
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When whether or not these guys actually made it up, but it's a tremendous story of brotherhood of struggle of
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Personal resilience so no matter what you're into and i don't care if you're into climbing or not
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This is a story of human will and determination and creativity and all that so I would definitely suggest out to you guys
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So if you haven't watched that, um, it's decently family friendly
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I think there might be some language in there a few epams as they're climbing or something like that
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But you know, obviously read up on the parents guys if you need to
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