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Should Christians watch our rated movies?
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Okay, so with this question, I feel like I'm going to say a lot of things I said.
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I don't remember what Q&A podcast episode it would have been.
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It would have been nine or eight or something like that.
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But I was asked, should Christians watch Game of Thrones, okay?
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And so here's the thing, obviously whenever I talked about on that episode, Game of Thrones
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is a show that has a lot of violence, a lot of sex, it has language,
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basically everything that you can't do on cable, that's why they do it on HBO, right?
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And so they use a lot of poetic license to really stretch the boundaries on that show.
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And the same can be said for a lot of R-rated movies.
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And I even just think about over my lifespan.
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I mean, I was born in 1986 and, you know, when I got into like junior high and high school,
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I was able to start listening or start watching R-rated movies rather.
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And the things that were R-rated back in the day versus what we see in R-rated movies now,
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and I don't want to sound like an old curmudgeon, but it's like, man, I feel like things are getting
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way, way worse. Like, I remember even in high school, I loved watching horror films.
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Like, you know, it was just one of those things where it's like, you got all your buddies together,
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you either went to the movies or, you know, watching at somebody's house.
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And it was like, you know, you didn't want to be the one that got scared and, you know, like,
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jumped or anything like that. But it's like, back in the day, it was like, okay,
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kind of true, creamy type stuff, like stuff like scream and, you know, things that are kind of in
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that genre. It's like, okay, you could absolutely see somebody actually getting a, you know, suit,
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and then I even am asking, you know, going out and, you know, destroying an entire town.
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But now a lot of the horror films seem to be way more on the satanic side of things, right?
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It's about people that have been possessed or just this unbelievable, unspeakable evil.
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And so I feel like horror films have gotten, you know, more severe and more intense in that aspect.
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And I feel like a lot of R-rated movies have gone that way. But I guess the way that I would answer
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this question would be, if you feel like you are going to sin because of the things that might
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influence you in one of those R-rated movies, and you shouldn't watch it, right? If you feel like
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there's nothing that you can get out of that that will help you operate in today's culture or to,
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you know, benefit in your friendships or to have things in common with other people,
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then just skip it. And guys, here's the thing, there's a lot of movies that are R-rated that
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off the top of your head, you know, aren't movies that are going to cause, you know,
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call into question your salvation. Like if you watch Braveheart, that's an R-rated movie,
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right? And he has a sex scene in there, right? There's, there's boobs in that movie for a very
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short period of time. But whenever you think back and think about that movie, you probably think
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about a hundred other things in that movie other than the sex scene. But here's the deal. If you
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watch a movie like that, and you have very, very violent tendencies in your heart, and that's
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something that you have to war against inside your soul, something that you need the Holy Spirit
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to help you get over, you probably shouldn't watch a movie with that much violence in it.
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You see what I'm saying? And so I feel like if it causes you to stumble, and I guess the easiest
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one here, guys, is most R-rated movies are rated that for three things, one language,
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two violence, three sex, and not necessarily in that order. And guys, if you have a problem with
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pornography, if you have a problem with masturbation, if you have a problem with lust,
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most R-rated movies are just out for you. And guys, just to be honest with you, I've saved myself
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and my marriage and all the things in between a lot of trouble by just going to internet, movie
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database, imdb.com, typing in a movie, and then clicking on the parents guide. Because there have
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been movies that I've been like super, super pumped about, right? And pumped because of the
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storyline, because the trailer looked good, because good action, because my friend saw and
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liked it, whatever the situation might be. But then I look at the adult, or at the parental guide
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on IMDB, and it's just like, you know, just covered in sex. And of course, as with most
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every sex scene in every show in every movie, it doesn't add anything. It doesn't add anything
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to the plot. It doesn't add anything to the movie overall. It's just something for weirdos to get
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off on, right? It's very marketable at sales. It hits that demographic that they need, right?
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But that's the thing is there've been a lot of movies that I've just skipped, because it's like,
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man, it's just not worth it. It's just not worth it to have that level of temptation. And for me,
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lust is one of my big temptations. So it's like, you know, I'm just going to skip this one.
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There are literally two other movies that I could watch in the place of this one that are going to,
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you know, tempt me to, you know, stumble or something like that. So should Christians watch
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our rated movies, I think it's fairly contextual to the Christian and to the movie itself. But in
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general, I would say it's okay unless you think that you're going to sin. Okay. Next question.
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Do you like Westerns? And if so, which is your favorite? So, okay, Westerns. So obviously,
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I grew up around the same time as a lot of you guys listening to this. And so I, you know,
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laid in bed next to my dad and we're watching your Clint Eastwood Westerns and John Wayne
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Westerns and stuff like that. And I just loved it because I was around my dad, right? And it's just
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kind of one of those cool things that you can share with your father. But as an adult, I can
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tell you that I way more enjoy modern Westerns than I do the old ones. Okay. And so you might
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be asking like, okay, what is a modern Western? Okay. So some of my favorite modern Westerns are
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like, like hell or high water, no country for old men, wind river is another one. I think that
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was made by the same guy as hell or high water. There's a movie called hostels. That was a good
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one. There was one that was like set in Australia called the proposition. I think that may have been
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even a remake of an old one or something like that. But again, it's those modern Westerns.
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Because here's the thing, I just got to be honest with you guys. When those old Westerns come on,
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on television, or as you're like clicking through Netflix or Amazon or something like that, and
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you see an old Western guys, it is so hard for me to enjoy those films. It is so unbelievably
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difficult. And the reason is it's just because we've had modern movie making for a really, really
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long time. We've had modern acting and modern action and CGI and those types of things. And
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so when you go watch those old films, I get super distracted by how goofy the acting is,
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how ridiculous, like when someone gets shot and they end up stumbling around for 17 minutes before
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they fly through the window, like it's those types of things that are just really, really weird.
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And so it's kind of one of those deals where it's like there's certain bands that your parents
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listen to that you just don't understand. You just don't get like, why would anyone like this band?
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Well, if you grew up in the same era that they did, that was like the best of the best, right? Like,
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I'm again, I've talked about this before. And I know you guys don't like it. I'm not a Star Wars
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person either. Because whenever I saw the first Star Wars, what was that? Is that episode four?
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I'm sorry, nerds. I don't really know what what the thing is. But I think it's episode four.
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When I first saw that, I was like, this is dumb looking like compared to some of the stuff that
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we see now it's dumb looking. But if you watch that at the time, it would have been absolutely
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astonishingly mind blowing that you could do that on film, right? And so again, they were kind of
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getting back to the question here. I do like Westerns like it's there's a lot of me that feels like I
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should not have been born the way I was born into the family that I was born in. I should have been
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born on a ranch in Montana, helping out with cattle on horseback all day. I feel like I'm much
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more attracted to that type of lifestyle for whatever reason. So I really do dig the Westerns.
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But again, I am more so into the modern Westerns. All right, next question. Art, another movie
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question three in a row. So here he goes. What is your favorite movie? So this one's an easy one.
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And I don't see anyone really coming up and challenging this movie. But it is gladiator.
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That is funny enough compared to the first question. That's the first R rated movie that I was actually
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allowed to go see. I went and saw it with my sister and our babysitter way, way back in the day.
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I was so excited to see that movie. It didn't disappoint. And that's another one of those movies
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that I will rewatch at least once a year, once every other year, something like that. And I feel
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like I get something more out of it. I just love everything about the story. I'm incredibly
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interested in Roman history in that time period. Like it's just it's an overwhelmingly good film.
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And there are other films that that are up there that I really have enjoyed. And you know,
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some of them were period pieces. Like I mentioned Braveheart earlier, I really enjoyed that film.
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And there's there's some really, really great films out there that I rewatch. I mean, Hello High
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Water is a film that I've watched over and over really these last several years. I've gotten a
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lot of enjoyment out of that, you know, zero dark 30. There's just there's a lot of films like that.
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But nothing really takes a cake like gladiator. All right, guys, next question.
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What is your favorite Instagram account to follow? Okay, so so I've got my personal
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Instagram at Kyle OKC. And then we've got the undaunted live Instagram. But probably my two
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favorite to follow. I can't just do one. So sorry, whoever asked this question. But I like Juji Mufu.
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So if you don't know what I just said, Juji Mufu. So that's JU JI M-U-F-U. Okay, so Juji Mufu. So
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there this is this guy that he went viral several years back because there was a video of him with
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his shirt off in a pair like sweatpants. And he's got one foot on on he's got one foot each on a
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like like a folding chair or something like that. And then he's overhead. He's got a barbell with
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like 135 pounds on it right. So he's got a 45 on either side. And then you just see this guy do
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the splits slowly with the barbell over his head. And he's just doing the splits. And he's kind of
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like the long hair like blonde guy. And he starts screaming. And then you know, he gets all the way
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down into a full split and then he chucks the barbell. And that was kind of the the video that
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made him go viral. And so he's got I think well over a million subscribers or followers on Instagram
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now. And he just does all these insanely athletic things that make me feel like the fattest most
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unathletic person possible on the planet. Because this guy weighs, I don't know, he probably weighs
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at least, I mean, close to 250 pounds. But this guy can do the splits. He's an incredible gymnast.
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He can do like these crazy backflips and, you know, whatever gainer flips in the air does all this
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crazy nonsense. But the dude's like a like a lunatic. He's hilarious. And so he won't just do a video
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of who him doing deadlift, which would be impressive enough because he's like an unbelievably strong
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human being. But he does it wearing like this cow head and he's surrounded by fire and he's got
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friends in the background throwing chalk at one another. And so it's just it's a guy that I wish
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would post more. But it's kind of one of those things like if he posted two or three things a day,
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I think it would get a little bit old. So I he may post one or two things a week, but that's a
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really good one. And then the other one is at Steve Butcher tattoos. So Steve spelled normally,
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butcher spelled normally in tattoos. So this guy might be the most talented tattoo artist on the
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planet. This guy does a lot of photo realism tattoos. So if you're on Instagram or Twitter,
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you've probably seen this guy's work just randomly. He's done a lot of tattoos of like
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Kobe Bryant Russell Westbrook. And you know, he did that famous photo of Duane Wade throwing that
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alley to LeBron James when they were on the Miami Heat. But he's done like animal portraits. He's
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in all kinds of crazy things. But when you look at the videos and the pictures of the stuff that
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he's done, it doesn't even look real. Like it looks, it looks so unbelievably good that you're
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like, this has got to be like a CGI video or got to be a Photoshop picture. But this guy is doing
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photo realism at a level that I've never seen before. And so I'm, I'm really into black and gray.
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That's why all my tattoo works black and gray. And part of the reason is is because when most
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people try to do photo realism, it turns out really, really poorly, especially when they try to bring
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color in. But again, just, just trust me, look up the guy actually, you know what I'll put the,
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I'll put the links to this guy's page here at the end. So you can check that out. Okay, next question.
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What is your favorite Instagram account? You've recently followed. Okay, so there's a couple
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that I've recently followed that I think you guys would really enjoy. There's one that I just
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follow literally like yesterday as of the recording of this, it's we the people holsters. So that's
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at we the people holsters. And the reason why I followed them is because actually I heard of them
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on the Ben Shapiro podcast, but also some other different places. And my dad just bought me a new
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holster for my SIG 1911 from them. It's got the don't tread on me flag kind of print on there,
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which is really, really cool. I'm excited to check that out. But they've got a cool account
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that you can follow. And the next one is Pat McNamara. So I think I've talked about Pat McNamara
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before on this podcast. He did a podcast show with Joe Rogan. He got on and was kind of forgot
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what what all he was doing. But he's like a survivalist guy, but he was also I think an SF guy.
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But his Instagram handles at T Max Inc. So at T-M-A-C-S-I-N-C. But the cool thing about this guy is he's
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kind of got this ridiculous look and this like, you know, really long chin hair that comes to a
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point and all that. But this guy's like, I think close to 60 years old in the videos he posts of
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him working out are absolutely insane. I freaking love it because everyone kind of thinks about in
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terms of their body, whether you're 20 years old or 30 or 40 or 50, whatever the thing is,
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you always kind of look at that next stage of life and you're kind of like, man, well,
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I'm but I'll be out of my athletic prime and I guess I won't be able to do this and I won't be
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able to do that. But this dude does does some amazing things physically. And he's just a really
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simple guy, really simple diet, basically just meat meat and veggies and that type of a thing.
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But he's just in incredible shape. And so he's an inspiration to me that I'm like, okay, when I'm
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twice my age now, they're about sir, you know, 20 years older than I am now and I'm around his age,
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it's totally possible to still be in the game. It's totally possible to still be a sheepdog,
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it's possible to be prepared. And you know, you don't have to just succumb to life because you
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turned 30 or because you turned 40 and it's like, I guess I'll get fat and be out of shape now.
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No, so that's a guy that'll get you really, really fired up. All right, guys, next question. Well,
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actually, I guess it's not necessarily a question. Some of you guys are wondering what my predictions
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are for some upcoming UFC fights. So there's a lot of really good fights coming up this year.
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And actually, by the time this podcast is released, there's going to be another one. So I'm going to
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take a risk here. I'm going to predict a fight now that hasn't happened yet. But by the time you
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hear this, it will have happened. So it's Colby Covington versus Robbie Lawler. Okay. So that's
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actually coming up. I'm recording this on a Monday and it's coming up this Saturday. So
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I'm very excited for this fight because of the implications it has for the 170 pound division,
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the welterweight division, the UFC, because Kamara Usman is currently the champion. He
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absolutely destroyed Tyrone Woodley. Tyrone Woodley is still technically the number one contender,
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but no one's really dying to watch him get back into that fight, especially because of how easily
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Kamara Usman dealt with him. But the interim champion, that the guy that should have been fighting
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Tyrone Woodley was Colby Covington, because Colby Covington absolutely murdered RDA. He murdered
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RDA. And I did not think that was happening. I thought RDA was going to smoke him. And it was an
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absolute, absolute slaughter by Colby Covington. And so Colby was supposed to get like nasal surgery
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and the UFC just wanted to put Tyrone into a fight quickly. And so they put him in with Usman. And
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then, you know, all the heat in that division is basically between Tyrone Woodley and Colby
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Covington. And now all of a sudden, you know, Tyrone's not the champion anymore. But Robbie
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Lawler is always that guy that you just can't count him out. He almost put away Ben Askren before
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Ben Askren got the choke. And for any of you guys wondering, I do not think that was an early
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stoppage. I think Ben Askren did choke out Robbie Lawler with that Bulldog choke. He was out for a
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second, Herb Dean did the right thing by stepping in and stopping that fight. But back to this,
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I think Colby Covington is going to wear out Robbie Lawler. And this is why. And it's crazy to
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even say that because Robbie Lawler is an absolute maniac, like cyborg, Terminator type guy. But
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we've already kind of technically seen this fight before. Because RDA beat the brakes off of Robbie
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Lawler a while back, right? And so in that fight, Robbie Lawler did hurt his knee. But RDA put an
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unbelievable pace on Robbie Lawler. And here's the thing, Colby Covington, like I said earlier,
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beat the brakes off of RDA. He put a pace on RDA that RDA couldn't keep up with it. I mean,
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it was one of the more impressive things I've seen cardio wise. I mean, using cardio as a
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weapon inside the UFC. And so again, I know MMA math doesn't work out exactly, but it's like Colby
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beat RDA, RDA beat Robbie Lawler, you know, Robbie Lawler shouldn't be able to touch Colby Covington.
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But these guys were also teammates at the time. I think they were both at ATT together. And so
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that was something that, you know, there's a little bit of storyline there. Dana White's already came
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out and said that he thinks Colby Covington or he says that Colby Covington will be getting the
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title shot if he beats Robbie Lawler. So that's just kind of where I'm at. I think Colby Covington's
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going to win that fight. But again, like I said, the fight has already happened by the time you're
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listening to this. So I either sound like an unbelievable genius or I sound like a weirdo. So
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it's just kind of how it goes. But let's go ahead and get into some other fight cards that we have
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coming up. So at UFC 241, that's on August 17th, we have Cormier versus Mia Chitch 2. Then we also
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have on that fight card, Anthony Pettis versus Nate Diaz and Joelle Romero versus Paulo Costa.
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So let's start with your Romero and Paulo Costa. So that is the battle for the best body in the
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history of the planet Earth. So here's the thing guys, I'm not gay. But those are two of the most
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beautiful human beings I've ever seen in my entire life. Like they look like they were created in a
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lab, both of these guys, right? Whatever Rocky movie that was whenever he went against a guy that
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looked like he was created in a lab in Russia. That's exactly what this one is. But Joelle Romero
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is isn't as he's in his 40s. But genetically, he's a freak, but he just he just an unbelievable
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looking athlete in his performance in the octagon is the exact same. Impolo Costa is the same. He's
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a Brazilian fighter and up and coming Brazilian fighter. This is kind of one of those things where
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if Joelle Romero wins, he basically vaults himself to a title shot again in Apollo Costa wins. He's
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basically probably one fight away from a title shot is would be what I would assume. I think the
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the real interesting thing about this fight is Joelle Romero has not fought since June of 2018.
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That's when he fought Robert Whitaker in a fight where I felt he won, but he actually lost via decision.
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Robert Whitaker kept his belt. Don't worry. We'll talk more about Whitaker here in just a second.
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But Joelle Romero has been out for over a year. Again, father time is undefeated. This guy is well
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into his 40s. And Paulo Costa is that up and coming guy. But here's the thing is until further
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further notice, I think Joelle Romero is the best 185 pounder in the world. In my opinion,
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I feel like he should have won those fights. He's did more damage to Robert Whitaker,
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but in terms of the 10 nine system for five rounds, I can see how you give it to Robert Whitaker.
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But unless Paulo Costa's got something special, I think Joelle Romero is that dude still in that
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division. And so I got my money on Joelle. Now the we'll keep working our way up the card. Now
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you have Anthony Pettis and the return of Nate Diaz. So right from the beginning, I'll tell you
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guys not a Diaz brothers fan. A lot of you guys out there love Nick and Nate. They're just annoying
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to me, right? And I didn't like Nate for years before he fought Connor. So that has nothing to do
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with Connor McGregor and all that kind of stuff. It's just they're annoying dudes. And I'm not a
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huge fan of their fighting style. Kind of like the pillow hands type stuff. Now I do like and
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respect how they've been able to perform over a long period of time. But here's here's the thing
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that people don't like to talk about a lot. Nate Diaz isn't that great of a fighter.
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Like he's lost an unbelievable amount of fights like you be blown away at how many fights that he's
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lost. But he made his entire career by calling out Connor McGregor and then going in and backing
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it up and beating up Connor McGregor, right? Like that that's what happened. But they have not
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or Nate Diaz is not fought since August of 2016. August of 2016. If that sounds familiar,
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that's whenever Connor won the rematch, right? Five round decision over Nate Diaz, right? So
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it's been a really long time since that guys in the octagon, it will have been over three years,
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right? Or right at three years by the time he gets back in the octagon and the thing about Anthony
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Pettis, Anthony Pettis has been active. He just knocked out Wonder Boy. He looks great at 170
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pounds. That's where this fight is going to be taking place, not at 155. And so that's the thing
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is just by virtue of the fact that Anthony Pettis has been more active. I've got to give the nod
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to Anthony Pettis here. And here's the other thing is Nate Diaz has kind of a swarming style.
21:52
But I don't know that he has the skill to overwhelm Anthony Pettis. So Anthony Pettis got overwhelmed
21:59
by Tony Ferguson when they fought last year. But the thing about that fight is he almost finished
22:04
Tony Ferguson. He heard him in the first round, but then Tony is just an animal and absolutely
22:08
put it on Pettis. And Pettis actually broke his hand in that fight. So I think if nobody gets hurt
22:13
actually in the fight, if we're just looking at fight Xs and O's, I think Anthony Pettis takes this
22:18
this fight easily. I don't think that Nate Diaz is going to be able to box with them. And that's
22:22
kind of crazy to some of you guys that know Nate Diaz and know his boxing. But the thing with Anthony
22:26
Pettis is he's a complete fighter, right? I don't think this fight is going to go to the ground. I
22:29
don't think this is going to turn into a Jiu Jitsu match. I think those guys kind of cancel each other
22:33
out when it comes to how slick their Jiu Jitsu is. But Anthony Pettis is going to go in there and be a
22:37
kickboxer. And if we saw anything and learned anything from when Nate fought Connor, Connor wore out
22:43
Nate Diaz front leg. Nate Diaz puts a ton of weight on that front leg. And he does not check
22:48
kicks and he doesn't change his stance either. He doesn't keep, you know, going back and forth
22:52
between, you know, conventional and Sal Paul and all those different things. And so that's the
22:55
thing is I think Anthony Pettis is going to wear out that front leg and do enough to win that fight.
22:59
But then we get to the main event on UFC 241. And that is the big, big rematch between Steve
23:04
Amy Ochich and DC Daniel Cormier. And so the thing about that fight is Steve Amy Ochich was
23:12
the biggest, the biggest and best UFC heavyweight in the history of UFC heavyweights. He defended
23:20
his belt more times than anybody in UFC history. He beat a who's who of heavyweights. But then
23:25
Daniel Cormier took his first fight up at heavyweight in a long time. Again, a lot of people forget
23:30
that he started his career at heavyweight when he was when he was doing stuff over in strike force.
23:34
But then whenever he came over, he wanted to do a light heavyweight because his teammate was
23:39
fighting at heavyweight came Velasquez. But then Cormier made his basically UFC debut at heavyweight.
23:45
And he starches Steve Amy Ochich in the first round. He knocks him out. He was a beautiful punch.
23:51
It was from the clinch. And then he just kind of brought a right hook snuck that in there and
23:54
absolutely put me a chitch out. And here's the crazy thing about me a chitch is in this fight.
23:59
He took one shot from DC and it knocked him out. But he took several shots from Francis in Ghana,
24:04
you know, in their title fight, and it didn't put him out. So the thing about this fight that I
24:08
think is going to be the difference is Cormier has been knocked out recently. He was knocked out
24:14
by John Jones. The only time he's been finished. But Steepay has been knocked out more recently.
24:19
Neither one of these guys have fought since. And I don't know if you guys remember, but you know,
24:22
Brock Lester came in the ring or in the octagon after this fight and gotten Daniel Cormier's face.
24:26
And for basically six months, it was dangled in front of us that we were going to get DC versus
24:30
Brock Lesnar. Then Brock Lesnar just basically went back to WWE. It was just kind of this thing.
24:35
So Steepay and Cormier have not fought since they fought each other. But the thing about it is,
24:40
I don't think that Steepay is going to be able to control the octagon in terms of wrestling.
24:44
I don't think that he wants to necessarily get into a clinching match with DC either.
24:49
And until further notice, Daniel Cormier is one of the greatest fighters of all time.
24:53
Like outside of his fights to John Jones, one of which became a no contest, the one where he got
24:58
knocked out because John Jones popped for a PEDs. He's the he's one of the greatest fighters ever.
25:03
He's one of the five greatest fighters we've ever seen in any weight class. Steepay is not
25:08
necessarily in that conversation. I think Steepay is the greatest heavyweight in UFC history, but
25:14
Cormier knocked him out. So I think Daniel Cormier is going to win again. I don't really
25:18
know how it's going to happen. I don't necessarily think this is going to be a drawn out five round
25:22
fight there. These guys are just too heavy handed, but I got to give it to DC. So let's move down to
25:27
UFC 242. That's in September. That's September 7. So one fight that we need to talk about on that
25:32
is to be Nirmagamedov versus Dustin Poiret. So if you remember, Dustin Poiret just got through
25:37
beating not that long ago, beating Max Holloway. Max Holloway came up from 145 to 155. And they
25:43
kind of did an interim title fight and Dustin Poiret absolutely put it on one of the best
25:47
fighters in the world in Max Holloway. He won four out of the five rounds. It wasn't particularly
25:52
close. He looked way too strong for Max. He looked his boxing looked way too quick. It was actually
25:57
an incredible, incredible performance, but he's going to be thrown to the slaughter here. I do not
26:02
see anything in Dustin Poiret's game that makes me think he can beat Habib. The biggest thing
26:07
about Habib is he's been his own worst enemy his entire career because he's fought so many injuries.
26:12
He had a huge swath of his career that were completely wiped out or wiped out by injuries.
26:17
And so that's just kind of one of those things with Habib is no one's going to be able to stop his
26:21
takedowns. Right? And Dustin Poiret is not the wrestler that's going to stop Habib, right? It's
26:27
going to take a Ben Asgren level, George St. Pierre level type of fighter to stop Habib's wrestling,
26:32
right? And Tambib, even though he caught Connor with that overhand right, he does not have great
26:36
stand up. I'm sure his stand up has improved, but his is a grinding style. And here's the thing,
26:41
guys, is this is going to be a grinded out fight for Habib. He's just going to take Dustin Poiret
26:45
down and he's going to rag down. I don't think he finishes Dustin Poiret, but I do certainly think
26:50
Habib wins this fight easily. Very, very easily. And then one week later, actually free on television,
26:56
UFC fight night is going to be Cowboy Sironi, Donald Sironi versus Justin Gaechee. Holy cow.
27:03
This fight, like at the moment it was announced, I mean, everyone's just like, you've got to be
27:07
kidding me. Like that is going to be one of the most violent fight. Well, here's the thing.
27:12
It's got Cowboy Sironi and Justin Gaechee fighting. If they were fighting anybody else,
27:17
it would be one of the most violent fights you would ever see because those two guys are involved,
27:20
but they're going to be fighting each other. I mean, of all the fights that we're talking about
27:25
here, and I'm excited about all of them. I'm excited about this one way more than those,
27:30
because there is a zero percent chance that that's a boring fight. And I've said that before. I said
27:35
that whenever. Oh gosh, who was it? Derek Lewis and Francis and Ghana were supposed to fight
27:40
or when they did fight, right? I was like, there's no way this is a terrible fight. It ended up being
27:44
literally one of the worst fights in UFC history, but you will not see a bad fight here. And to be
27:48
honest with you, I can't imagine that this fight doesn't go to a finish somehow. I mean, again,
27:54
this is going to be a man. I'm pretty sure that's a main event. So that's a five round fight.
27:57
That is way too long of a fight for how both of these guys fight. I mean, they do a ton of damage,
28:02
and I just don't really see a scenario where one of them doesn't get hit by the other or popped by
28:08
the other. And man, this is a coin flip of any coin flips. I actually didn't really make a decision,
28:13
before the podcast, what I thought the the winner was going to be. But just here on the spot,
28:17
I've probably got to give it to Justin Gaechee. So I don't think Justin Gaechee is necessarily
28:23
a more complete fighter than Donald Saroni. We don't really see Justin Gaechee use his wrestling and
28:29
all. I don't think we're going to see cowboy use his wrestling at all. I think this is going to be
28:32
a stand up fight. But Justin Gaechee just has a different level of dog in them. And right as I
28:37
say that, it's like he's fighting cowboy. They're pretty much the same person, right? But one
28:41
where's a cowboy hat? But if I got to pick somebody, I'm going to pick Justin Gaechee. All right. And
28:45
then the last fight we're going to talk about here is that UFC 243. And that's on October 5th.
28:48
And that is going to be Robert Whitaker, Bobby Knuckles. He's going to be fighting Israel Adisanya.
28:53
So Israel Adisanya has had a meteoric rise within the UFC. That all came to a pass earlier this year,
29:00
whenever you beat Kelvin Gastalen for the interim title in the best fight of 2019. And I know 2019
29:06
is just barely halfway over. There's not going to be a better fight than that. Like,
29:09
just how it ended up. Because a lot of people were thinking Israel was just going to go in there
29:13
and work Kelvin over. I actually picked Kelvin to win that fight. That fight was 2-2 going into the
29:18
fifth round. Israel Adisanya dug down and found that that inner monster inside of him and ended
29:24
up winning that fight. But the back and forth of that fight is actually the reason why I'm going to
29:30
be picking Bobby Knuckles, Robert Whitaker, to win this fight in Australia. So the thing about it is
29:35
this is going to happen in the same stadium that Holly Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey. There's going
29:41
to be about 60,000 people there will probably be the biggest gate in terms of attendance in the
29:46
history of the UFC. There probably going to be another title fight on that. I think they're going
29:49
to get Volcanovsky versus Max on that fight card as well. So another guy from down in that area.
29:54
But here's the thing. As big as that's going to be, Israel, you know, the representing New Zealand
29:59
and Robert Whitaker representing Australia. And as big as all that's going to be, I'm not sure
30:04
Israel's on the same level as Whitaker. I'm just not not sure he's there. Because here's the thing
30:10
about Kelvin Gasolam is I would pick Kelvin Gasolam against Robert Whitaker and against Israel
30:14
Adisanya. Again, I just feel like he's, he's got that guy. He's just that guy that he's not really
30:18
good at anything in particular, but he's really good at fighting. But that's part of the reason
30:22
why I think Israel Adisanya is going to lose this fight is because Kelvin Gasolam really worked
30:28
Israel Adisanya over. He hurt him multiple times. I mean, Kelvin Gasolam is 185 pounder and he's short.
30:34
He's like five seven and he head kicked Israel Adisanya, who is supposed to be like, you know,
30:40
the next style binder guy, like you can't touch him. You can't get him. You can't,
30:44
you know, can't land anything fancy on him. He got head kicked by a tiny guy that's probably
30:49
the smallest guy, shortest guy in the division. Robert Whitaker is great at everything.
30:55
But the big difference with Robert Whitaker here is he has not fought since June of 2018.
30:59
Again, when I was talking about you all Romero, he has not fought since 2018, right? That same
31:04
fight he got hurt since then he's had some crazy stuff happen. And there's bad luck with him trying
31:09
to fight in Australia, fighting his home country. You know, he had a collapsed bow, I think, and
31:14
before this last fight, they had to cancel, you know, his fight at the very last minute.
31:19
And so it's one of those things that I think if Robert Whitaker can get to the octagon,
31:24
if you can actually walk through the octagon door and they can close it behind him and lock
31:28
the door, I think he'll be fine. I think Israel out of Sonia is an unbelievable talent. I think
31:34
he's he's incredibly smooth in all the things that he does. And you know, if you're into trash
31:40
talking and all that, you're gonna like a guy like that. But Robert Whitaker is just good at
31:45
fighting. He's good at everything. He's good at striking. He's good at wrestling. And he has
31:48
next level toughness. And to be honest with you, I just don't think Israel is going to do anything
31:53
that special in that fight. I think Robert Whitaker has spent too much time preparing
31:57
just to get back into the octagon to get caught by something, something slick by Israel out of
32:01
Sonia. So I'm going to go with Bobby Knuckles. So that wraps up the little session right there.
32:05
For so for those of you that don't like fighting, I'm really, really sorry that you had to endure
32:08
that. But hey, maybe you learned something. So let's go ahead and launch to the next question here.
32:12
Who was your favorite teacher ever? And what made them your favorite teacher?
32:17
This is a very clear answer for me. So this would be John A. Dare. He was my ninth grade
32:22
English teacher. And so here's the thing about Mr. Adair is, well, here's the thing about me,
32:28
just in general, going through school. So I had an older sister. She was one year older than me.
32:33
And we were both in the same classes. We were in honors classes or AP classes. And so she would
32:37
have the teacher the same teacher I would, but she would have them the year before me. But my
32:43
sister was kind of a sit in the front row type person, be really, really quiet, do her homework,
32:47
and you know, make good grades and just not rock the boat. Whereas I, surprise, surprise, was more
32:53
of the class clowns in the back of the class, try to get everybody to have a good time, but also
32:58
had good grades. But I just basically, you know, ensuring that my teacher was going to be a little
33:02
bit tortured. Well, the first day that I'm walking to Mr. Adair's class, I'm kind of aware that
33:08
he's an intense guy. He's got like this, you know, gray Afro thing. And he like doesn't blink. And
33:13
that's like one of his like legendary things that he's got like something in his eyes that like makes
33:17
it to where he doesn't have to blink or something like that. So as I'm walking towards his class,
33:22
me and one of my buddies, Chris, we, we started, you know, just messing around with each other in
33:26
the hallway. So we're like punching each other back and forth, but not not like in a fight, but
33:29
like punching each other in the shoulder and those types of things. And John Adair comes out of his
33:33
classroom. And he basically says, young men, you better stop that right now. Stop that.
33:37
Control yourselves. And it was it was so shocking that I remember like, Oh, shoot. And guess who's
33:43
class I had that very next hour. Yeah, miss arrayed air. So I walk into that class about as sheepish
33:51
and like tail tucked as you could possibly be. And I just sit down and I'm like, Oh, no,
33:57
this is gonna be the worst year of my life. But drator or not not doctor, but Mrator didn't say
34:03
anything. He didn't say anything about it because he said his piece in the hallway, right? He corrected
34:07
us. He got us to stop, you know, farting around. And then we got to it. But the thing about his
34:12
class that was really interesting to me is, you know, he was very, very into Shakespeare and very
34:17
into these novels that he was having us read. And the thing is, is in that class, I had some bad
34:21
some bad luck in that class. Like I'm not like I told you guys before I wasn't the best reading
34:25
comprehender. You know, I wasn't the best test taker. And we would always have this 100 question
34:29
tests on these books that we were reading. And it was like a joke in that class because I almost
34:34
always got an 89, right? And so this was in a 90 to 100 for an A scale. And I would get an 89
34:42
every time. And I mean, it happened so many times that like the last time it happened,
34:48
Mrator came up to me and he's like, Hey, Kyle, you're not going to believe this. But you got an
34:52
89 again. And I ran it through the scan tron machine, but then I hand graded it. You know,
34:57
just in case the the scan tron got one of your marks wrong, I wanted to give you the benefit of
35:02
the doubt. But I, you know, good job. But you got an 89. And so good teacher, very beautiful teacher.
35:08
But the reason why he's my favorite teacher is because of this, because our ninth grade baseball
35:12
team was the best team, maybe in the state that year, we didn't lose a game. We were absolutely
35:18
incredible. And you know, so we had a lot of people come and watch our games that had nothing to do
35:24
with the team didn't have kids on the team or anything like that. But I remember one game,
35:28
Mrator came and he sat next to my dad. And he was there to see me specifically,
35:34
like there to my knowledge, there wasn't another boy on the team that he had as a student at that
35:40
time. But he came out there and he basically sat next to my dad and watched the entire game
35:45
and cheered for me. And if I recall correctly, I think I hit a couple doubles, that game had four
35:48
or five RBIs had had a good good day at the game. Now he didn't say anything about it. When we got
35:53
to class the next day, he didn't do any of that type of thing. But he sat there and had a good
35:58
conversation with my dad and you know, talked about his class and talked about my upbringing and
36:02
those types of things. But at up to that point, I had never had a teacher really go out of his way
36:08
to, you know, look at something that his student was doing outside of class. And it was just kind of
36:14
this a matter of fact thing. And I bet you if I ran into him again, which I haven't seen him in
36:18
probably 20 years or something like that, I doubt he even remembers going to that baseball game.
36:22
Or maybe he does like who knows, but it made a huge impact on me that this guy would spend that
36:26
amount of time just hanging out to just see how one of his students was doing. So favorite teacher
36:32
of all time, Mr. Adair, ninth grade English. All right, guys, next question here. How much do you
36:37
think your life would be different if you had grown up in a family that went to church? Okay,
36:43
so obviously this person has picked up on the me kind of talking about in terms of my past,
36:47
I didn't grow up in a family that went to church, you know, like most families in America, my,
36:51
you know, my family, they got my mom and dad got divorced when I was in like junior high.
36:55
But we didn't really go to church. We were kind of nominally Christians because we
36:58
were Oklahomans, right? So it's like you believe in God just because of where you're from. It was
37:02
one of those types of situations. Okay, how much do you think your life would be different?
37:07
You know, that's a really good question. Obviously, I feel like there's some basic things like there's
37:17
a lot of biblical stories that most of you guys heard like about a hundred times when you're a kid
37:23
that I didn't hear, right? I didn't do vacation Bible school. I didn't have, you know, church camp.
37:28
I didn't have those things growing up. Like those were things that I, you know, tried to do like
37:31
in high school, right? So I was kind of late to the party. And so I think that would have obviously
37:35
been different. I think my biblical acumen would have came along quite a bit faster. You know,
37:41
I don't think if I had grown up in a family that went to church that my parents would still
37:44
be together because obviously if you look at the divorce rates inside the church, they're pretty
37:48
much the exact same as the divorce rates outside the church. I feel like even if it happened
37:54
accidentally, my mom and dad raised me pretty much along the lines of kind of a gospel-centered
38:00
lifestyle. Now we didn't pray. We didn't talk about God. We didn't do any of those things,
38:04
but a lot of things they told me to do and not to do. I think would jive with what we learn from
38:08
Scripture. And I, again, those are two people that their families didn't really grow up going
38:13
to church either. I mean, to be honest with you, that's such a tough question. I don't really know
38:19
that much would have been different. And maybe that's maybe that's something to be said for the
38:24
church, that it doesn't really have that big of an impact culturally, and that there's still the
38:29
exact same problems with churchgoers as everywhere else. There doesn't seem to be an issue except for
38:33
the level of guilt and understanding of sin that really comes with that. But yeah, I think that
38:38
the biggest thing would just be my overall level of comfort with with things inside the church and
38:42
the things that you learn from inside the church. I think that that would be where that would come
38:47
from. Okay, so next question. If you could travel back to any time in history, what time would you
38:53
go to? Okay, well, I'll take this a couple of different ways. So there's the, you know, if you
38:59
could live in any other time in history, where would you want to live part? And that one's easy.
39:03
I would want to live right now in 2019 in America, right? I mean, why would you want to go back to
39:11
some other place where like it was really, really hard to get food and, you know, live past the
39:15
age of 30? So I like, I just, I'm not that interested in doing doing that type of thing. But I'll take
39:21
this maybe literally like if I could just go back and like do like a vacation at any time in history,
39:26
what time would I go to? I mean, is the cheap answer just like, you know, around the Mediterranean,
39:34
you know, after Jesus died, or maybe like in that area, the world when Jesus was living, I guess I
39:39
would be like the basic answer. Like obviously I would want to be near Jerusalem when Jesus was
39:44
ministering and doing those types of things. But to be honest, I think I'd want to be
39:49
in Rome. I mean, I've talked about my interest in Roman history earlier. I think I'd want to be
39:54
in Rome during like, you know, the Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, you know, Caesar Augustus kind of
40:01
time period whenever they were trying to do a lot of different things to attract people and kind of
40:07
expand. But to be honest with you, again, I even think a vacation would be pretty sad because
40:11
you didn't just go to Walmart, you know, and get groceries. You didn't go to McDonald's and get
40:15
something to eat. I mean, it was, it was tough living back at that time. But that's a really
40:18
interesting time period to me. So I think it'd be cool to see that in person. All right. Next
40:22
question. I have a problem with passivity. It's a personality trait. I wish I could overcome what
40:28
personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble. Okay. So I think this guy and I are going to be
40:33
pretty different because I don't really have a problem with passivity at all. So it's literally
40:37
the opposite that's really gotten me into into trouble. It's my fourth rightness. And kind of my,
40:43
my forward nature, kind of my intense nature. And at the same time, just overall anger. I mean,
40:51
kind of the embarrassing thing for me. And I've got a lot of good friends that they razz me about
40:54
it, which, you know, it's it's completely fair. But man, I used to just absolutely lose my mind
41:01
at the dumbest crap, not like lose my mind getting a bar fight, but like lose a video game, you know,
41:06
throw my controller at the wall, like, you know, lose, you know, you know, fly out and saw ball or
41:12
something like that and go and curse in the dugout. Like just just stupid, like super immature,
41:17
like boarish bull crap. Like that was kind of the deal. But it was all because of anger. I literally
41:22
was with one of my friends over the last weekend. And they're like, yeah, we knew Kyle when he was
41:26
way less intense or way more intense. Sorry, way more intense. And the people that were were with
41:31
him, they didn't know me back in the day. And so they look at me now and they're like, Oh my gosh,
41:34
Kyle's like the most intense dude ever back in college. It was like a level of ridiculous
41:39
intense that had like no governor on it, like wild Mustang type of thing. And so that's kind of
41:45
the trait that has gotten me in the most trouble. But I will say this, I think the thing that's
41:48
benefited me a lot and even just kind of creates this difference. And even people that listen to
41:53
this podcast is just basically being forward. I think the thing that I'm most complimented on
42:00
on a podcast like this is thanks so much for not just making another Christian podcast that's super
42:05
boring and super straightforward. You know, thanks for challenging people and coming right out people.
42:11
And so it's almost as if over my lifetime, I've been able to kind of morph a little bit of that
42:16
nonsensical, ridiculous over the top approach into a very directed kind of sniper fire approach to
42:23
really helping people get better. And so maybe that's maybe that was part of the plan from the
42:28
beginning. So if so, God, good looking out. But it's just kind of one of those deals where
42:32
I feel like overall my fourth rideness has gotten me a lot of trouble. But I feel like I'm kind of
42:37
rained that in a little bit up to this point. All right, next question. What is the best piece of
42:42
advice you have ever gotten? Okay, without getting too far into the entire story, because I would
42:47
take a long time to tell the entire story. I used to work for the president of the University of
42:52
Central Oklahoma, William Roger Webb, we just called him P Webb, president Webb. And I actually
42:57
got his scholarship to go to the University of Central Oklahoma. It's called the president's
43:01
leadership council scholarship has given to about 25 students every year out of the, you know,
43:05
11 1200 that apply. My wife actually got it the next year. That's how she and I met was at the
43:10
retreat. But you know, we got a lot of FaceTime with the president of the university, which I mean,
43:15
for any of you guys that went to college, how many times did you get to just sit and chat with the
43:19
president or the chancellor of your university? It just doesn't really happen. But this is a
43:24
guy that even, you know, since I've been out of college for a very long period of time, he's a guy
43:28
that I still talk to periodically will so go to eat lunch and different things like that. So he is
43:32
one of my mentors. He's a guy that gives me good advice and a guy who I will listen to on just about
43:36
everything. But there was something that happened with this job that I had, where it was an unbelievably
43:42
competitive job. And we get all the way to the end. And by any measure, by any metric whatsoever
43:48
that you wanted to use, I far and away exceeded and outperformed every single other person that I
43:55
was with. And I mean, this was a job that like 20,000 or so people applied for, you know, it got
44:00
down to kind of a final three people and they were kind of picking the winner of this overall thing.
44:05
And again, like I said, by every metric possible, I smoked everybody. I did exactly what was required
44:10
to me. But I didn't win this thing within this job. I did not win kind of that final thing. And so,
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I'm obviously I'm flabbergasted. I'm heartbroken. I'm frustrated. I'm angry. I'm all those different
44:21
things. And I was going in to do kind of a wrap up interview at the end of this whole deal. And
44:27
that's kind of the normal thing that you do. You kind of do that, that exit interview type of thing.
44:31
And I was ready to go in and let them have it, right? I was just going to give them a piece of my
44:35
mind. And I know what y'all did. And you know, why would you screw me and blah, blah, blah, you know,
44:39
all this [inaudible] vinegar. And so I talked to President Webb and I basically said, Hey, this is my plan.
44:46
And he just very calmly again, because he, you know, this guy's in his 70s. He knows how to handle
44:49
young bucks. He just goes, look, I don't think in the history of business that anyone has ever
44:56
changed their business based off of what someone said during an exit interview.
45:02
And he's like, if you think about it, if you're still inside the company and you're surrounded by
45:09
people that are still inside the company, and then someone comes to you, who is on their way
45:15
out of the company and says something that is critical towards you. How, how much weight would
45:22
you put in what they're saying? Now, for the most part, you might get some of the best advice and
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some of the most honest answers and feedback from people that are in that exact scenario.
45:32
But the thing remains the same is they're on their way out. They honestly don't really care
45:40
what happens in this scenario, right? So he's like, Kyle, why would you waste your effort?
45:44
Like, like, why would you go in their guns blazing and try to, you know, burn the entire place down,
45:50
like, just go in there, thank them for their time, thank them for the opportunity that they
45:54
provided you and move on with your life. And I was like, huh, okay. Well, I guess I'll do that.
46:03
So I did. I went in. I said, thank you. I did my smiles. I shook hands and I walked out of there.
46:08
And I don't regret it because there's nothing that would have been gained by me or for me or any
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of the people that I love by going in there and just flaming them, right? So that is the single
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best piece of advice that I've ever gotten in a particular context. All right, next question here.
46:24
I really like to travel, but I feel like I'm running out of great places to check out. What is the most
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beautiful place you've ever been to? Okay, so I've done quite a bit of traveling around the world.
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I haven't done as much as I'd like to. I thought New Zealand was an amazing, amazing place. It's
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kind of like Oklahoma with an accent just just, but it's just gorgeous out there. The people were
46:44
amazing. Rome is probably my favorite city in the world to visit just because of all the history.
46:49
And again, that's like the third time I think this podcast has came up with Roman history. But
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the most beautiful place that I've ever been to has to be hands down the Amalfi coast in Italy.
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And so Google the Amalfi coast and just get ready to see some of the most insane looking scenery.
47:06
But the thing about it was is the ride, the bus ride we took to kind of get to the town of Amalfi.
47:12
It was this windy road. And you know, I was even getting like a little bit sick because it's like,
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oh my gosh, we just ate all this Italian food now. We're on the super windy road going back and forth.
47:20
But at one point, I look out the window and I honestly can't tell where the water
47:27
stops and the sky starts. It was like the weirdest thing. I was like, is there like a weird glare
47:33
on the window right now? Like, like what exactly is happening? But I'm just basically looking out
47:37
into the earth. And I just, I just saw this basically sheer glass sheet of beautiful. That's
47:44
essentially all that I saw. And so man, that that is by far the most beautiful place I've ever been
47:50
to. So if you ever get an opportunity, definitely take your girl there, like not saying it wouldn't
47:54
be cool with a bunch of dudes. But it's probably one of the most beautiful romantic places I've
47:58
ever been to. So you should definitely check that out. All right, next question here, I'm having
48:02
trouble finding a long term relationship with a girl that loves Jesus. What should I do? Okay, so
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well, the interesting thing about this question is, is there's a couple of guys in my life that I
48:16
love. I absolutely love these dudes. And both of them, I, you know, they're kind of in their later
48:22
30s. And you know, these are guys that want to be married. They want to have families. But they're
48:27
just not there yet. They haven't found the right girl or whatever the situation may be. And it man,
48:32
it sucks. And I hate it for him. And the reason that I hate it for him is because I feel like they've
48:38
got an unbelievable amount to offer to a relationship, into a marriage. And specifically, if they pro
48:47
create to like to kids, like they're going to raise kids that are going to multiply and become great,
48:52
you know, citizens and, you know, raise other great citizens and kind of stay off some of the
48:57
nonsense that we're seeing in this world, just because I know how their parents minds are and
49:01
all those types of things. And so that's what I want for these guys. But at the same time,
49:06
I don't think that they should settle just for the first available person that that's willing to
49:12
marry them. I don't know if I'm making any sense here, but it's just kind of one of those deals that
49:16
if you're having trouble finding a long term relationship with a girl that loves Jesus, perhaps
49:20
you're not looking in the right places. So let me talk more generally now, I'm not, you know,
49:23
talking about anyone in my life in particular, if you're you're looking for a girl that loves
49:29
Jesus and you're on dating sites that don't use religion as a metric, maybe that's something.
49:36
If you're not in kind of singles groups or go into things at your church, or if your
49:41
church doesn't kind of have a wide swath of people that you can meet and get to know, maybe that's a
49:46
problem, right? Because again, it's like if you're if you're fishing and upon that, you know,
49:52
doesn't really have any dedication to the gospel or any type of like Christian, you know, ministry
49:59
or discipleship or community or anything like that, it's like you might get lucky and find a girl
50:03
that loves Jesus, but you don't want to become, you know, a missionary data, you know, you meet a
50:07
girl that's really, really nice and really, really hot, but then, you know, you're having to like
50:11
try to convince her that Jesus was a real person. It's like that that may not be the best thing
50:15
for you overall, you might end up selling yourself down the river a little bit. But my biggest advice
50:20
that I would give to those people is you can't just keep sitting around and waiting for someone
50:26
to come to you. And so for whoever's asking this question, it's like, I'm assuming something about
50:31
you, but maybe you're not as active in the dating scene as you should be, perhaps. Again, maybe
50:38
you're not fishing in the right places. Maybe you've got really stupid friends, right? And maybe when
50:43
you're around those friends all the time, they kind of like make you smell bad. You know, I mean,
50:47
if all your friends are out, you know, doing drugs all the time and they're drunk and getting bar
50:51
fights and all that crap. And if you're constantly hanging around somebody like that, maybe that
50:56
rubs off on you a little bit, maybe just kind of stains you a little bit, right? So I mean, buddy,
51:02
I feel for you again, I can't really level with you because I met the girl I was going to spend
51:05
the rest of my life with when I was 18 years old. And you know, man, it just it sucks for you. But
51:10
but again, just let me encourage you that if if you don't feel like Jesus is calling you to a life
51:16
of singleness, if you don't feel like you're being told that, you know, you will worship and and
51:22
glorify God by being single, then it would make sense that there's someone out there for you.
51:27
And gosh, if you haven't prayed for it, do that. I mean, I probably should have said that from the
51:32
top. Do just just pray. Pray that she comes into your life. And here's the other thing at the same
51:38
time that you're praying for that. Pray that you can become the person that she would want to be
51:44
around and want to be with that. That's kind of the cool thing that if you're single, but you know,
51:50
ready to mingle, ready to get, find a wife or in those types of things, it's like make sure you're
51:55
the type of guy that she would want. Because you're in a unique opportunity where you can work on
51:59
yourself a lot. Because regardless of if, you know, you have a lot of things to do at work or if you've
52:06
got, you know, a pet or if you like volunteer and do things at the church or, you know, with some sort
52:10
of nonprofit or whatever thing might be, you still got time. You've got time to really work on yourself.
52:15
And so, you know, you know, make sure that you're reading and make sure that you're working out and
52:19
make sure that you're, you know, working on those, those rough parts about your personality. Get
52:24
those things smoothed out before you find her, right? I mean, you're still going to change when you
52:28
get to her. That's one of the great things about having a good woman is they can change you and
52:32
smooth out those rough areas that you didn't even know you had. But again, I'm sorry for you. I know
52:37
you probably don't want me to be saying it that way. But man, I can't imagine that that girl's not
52:43
out there for you. I mean, it's not some romantic comedy type of thing. But it's just like, dude,
52:48
pray for it. Be the type of guy she would want. And then, you know, I assume it'll happen for you.
52:53
All right, guys, as we, I guess we're getting to the last section here, it looks like we've got
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a bunch of would you rathers? Okay, so I guess would you rather questions are getting popular
53:02
now? So we're just going to kind of blow through these and then we'll be done with the episode for
53:05
today. So here we go. The first would you rather would you rather lose the ability to speak or read?
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Okay, would you speak or read? I think I would rather lose the ability to read
53:21
because if you can speak, I think by 33, I feel like I've read a lot and I've experienced enough
53:29
to where I could feel like I could speak my way through the rest of my life now. If it was like,
53:33
you know, you couldn't speak since birth or read since birth, I think it might be different. But
53:36
yeah, I'd rather lose my ability to read. All right, next one. Would you rather be able to fly
53:41
or teleport? Oh, dude, this one's easy teleport. I think I was even asked something earlier about
53:45
if you could have one, you know, superpower, what would it be? But here's the thing about flying.
53:50
People are like, well, why would you want to teleport if you could fly somewhere? That'd
53:53
be cool. It's like, well, what if you wanted to go to like Bangladesh or Spain or something?
53:59
That's a long flight. And it's just you up there, right? I mean, you're just gonna fly over the ocean,
54:04
no big deal. I mean, maybe that would be cool. But I would just rather snap my fingers and just be
54:09
wherever I wanted to be. That one's easy. All right, next one. Would you rather be able to control
54:13
animals with your mind or electronics with your mind? Man, these are good. I think I would want to
54:22
be able to control animals with my mind. Because just sorry, just pump the mic. Just pump the mic.
54:27
We're good. We're good. All right. No earthquakes. I think I would want to do animals. I think I
54:31
would want to be able to control animals with my mind. Because how dope would it be if you were like,
54:37
you know, on a hiking trip, right? I just talked about hiking trip. I went to recently. And what
54:41
if I could like summon the the nearest grizzly bears to like come to our camp and I'd be like,
54:47
Hey, guys, don't worry about it. They're they're friendly grizzlies. And like, Hey, this one's my
54:52
buddy. Let me just hop on his back and ride around real quick. Can you imagine? I mean,
54:56
can you imagine that? Can you imagine like being like in the Bahamas and you're like,
55:01
get some bull sharks to come hang out with you? And everyone's like, all scared of death running
55:04
around and you're just like hanging from one of their fins letting it pull you through the water.
55:07
Dude, tell me that wouldn't be the dopest thing in the world. Now, it would be cool to control
55:11
electronics with your mind. But I just got to tell you, I would I think the animal thing would be
55:15
one of the coolest things ever. I think I'd probably have to be in Vegas and have one of those, you know,
55:18
big kind of magic type show things. But you know, controlling animals would be pretty cool.
55:22
Next question. Would you rather be a okay? Okay, here we go. I'm going to get this out. Would you
55:29
rather be a reverse centaur or a reverse merman? Okay, so I guess a reverse centaur would be as
55:39
instead of having the, you know, the top half of a human and the bottom half of a horse, I would
55:43
have the top half of a horse. Or I guess the other side would be the top half of a merman. So I
55:48
guess I'd be a fish up top. Okay. So if I'm a reverse centaur, do I have horse legs?
55:58
Because I mean, if I mean, that would be kind of cool, because I'm assuming horse legs are
56:02
faster than my legs. I think that'd be pretty cool. But to be honest with you, I think I'd take a
56:06
reverse merman, because then I would assume that I don't just have a fish head, I would assume that
56:12
I would have some fins and gills. So that'd be pretty cool. Can explore things kind of swim,
56:17
right? I feel like that would be a little bit easier. So yeah, we'll go, we'll go with a reverse
56:21
merman to whoever weirdo wanted to ask me this question. All right, next one. Would you rather
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be constantly tired no matter how much you sleep or constantly hungry no matter how much you eat?
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God, that's terrible. I don't want either of those. Well, I feel like if I was constantly hungry,
56:40
then I would just be constantly eating, right? And it would be kind of really hard to not become
56:46
like a gigantic fat. So right. But I mean, when you're sleepy, and when you sleep and you feel like
56:51
yeah, we got a whole lot of sleep. I mean, just your brain doesn't function as well. You're tired
56:56
during your workouts. I mean, all those things happen. So I think I would go with, to be honest,
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I'd probably go with constantly hungry no matter how much I eat, because I feel like I could be
57:04
disciplined with that. But if I didn't have good rest, I feel like I'd lose it. All right, next one.
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Would you rather be feared by all or loved by all? I think that one's pretty easy. If you're
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if you're a secularist, you probably want to be feared by all. But I mean, being a Christian,
57:16
obviously, I think you would want to be, you know what? Actually, just as I was saying that,
57:20
if you're like a devout gospel centered Christian, you're not going to be loved by all. Right? I mean,
57:27
Jesus told us that. So here I am getting theological right in the middle of this question. Would you
57:32
rather be feared by all or loved by all? Okay, since I just kind of blew up the little theological
57:39
thing in my brain, I would probably say feared by all. Because again, we're working our way towards
57:44
a more secular society, way less Christians around way way less, you know, Jesus stuff. And
57:50
especially here in the West. And so I think people are probably going to get to a point where they're
57:53
scared of the gospel. And there's probably a good reason for that because they think they're gonna
57:57
have to give something up to which they will, which is living for themselves. And so we'll go with
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feared by all. I don't know if I took it the way that you asked it, but you know, it is what it is.
58:04
Next question, we got a few more here. So here we go. Would you rather be famous when you are alive
58:09
and forgotten when you die or unknown when you are alive, but famous after you die? Okay, um, you
58:20
know what, I'd probably say unknown while I'm alive, but famous after I die. Because here's the thing,
58:26
most people want to leave a legacy, right? That's a really important thing. And to be honest with
58:30
you, like as a man, I want to make sure I can leave a legacy. But if I'm underappreciated or
58:35
unknown while I'm alive, and then like after I'm alive, you know, someone finds the stuff that I've
58:40
produced or this podcast or something like that. And then it becomes like a big deal. I think it'd
58:44
be cool. I think if nothing else, it'd be cool for my family. It's like, you know, hey, great granddad,
58:48
you know, said this thing and people thought it was funny or, you know, whatever the situation
58:52
might be. So I feel like it would be incredibly selfish just to be really, really famous while
58:56
you're alive and then immediately forgotten. So that's kind of like a lifetime of, you know,
59:00
flashing the pan-ness or something. There you go. I just going to new term, flashing the pan-ness.
59:04
There you go. Moving on to the next one. All right. Would you rather have the power to gently nudge
59:10
anyone's decisions or have complete puppet master control of five people? Okay, y'all are trying to
59:17
give me in trouble. Nudge anyone's decisions or have complete puppet master control of five people.
59:25
Okay, I'm just going to put it this way. I would not want puppet control of people. All right,
59:29
I said earlier, I think it'd be cool to do that for animals. Like I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that for
59:33
any negative purposes, but you know, just think about it. If you're in the middle of the woods and
59:37
you're about to die of hunger, it'd be kind of cool if you can have an elk just walk his way towards
59:41
you and, you know, sacrifice himself so that you can eat dinner. But I would not want to have
59:45
control over people. And that's because I've made too many mistakes as a human. Like, I, and I just,
59:50
you know, if you have complete complete control of another human being, even one, much less five,
59:54
I think that'd be kind of dangerous. But I would like to be able to gently nudge anyone's decisions.
59:58
I think anyone that's been in sales or been in any type of influential type of area. I think I
1:00:02
would like to do that. I would like to think that these podcasts are kind of like that. I would
1:00:05
like to kind of nudge people in a certain direction. So all right, last question here. And then we are
1:00:09
done with this episode of Q and A. So here we go. Would you rather go to jail for four years for
1:00:15
something you didn't do or get away with something horrible you did, but always live in fear of being
1:00:21
caught? Okay, I gotta read that again. Would you rather go to jail for four years for something you
1:00:26
didn't do or get away with something horrible you did, but always live in fear of being caught? Okay,
1:00:31
here's a deal. I would assume something horrible here would be something like, you know, rape or
1:00:36
murder. And so I would hope that I would never be in one of those types of situations. But the idea
1:00:42
of living in fear, like of being caught having to constantly look over your shoulder and constantly
1:00:48
move around or, you know, not trust people. I feel like that would be terrible. Like that's
1:00:52
almost like a lifetime sentence. I feel like so, I mean, as much as I would suck for, you know,
1:00:56
going to jail, going to the pokey for four years for something you didn't do. I mean, that's
1:01:01
yeah, I think four years as much as I would suck. Like I would much rather just do the four years,
1:01:06
do my best to have an influence on guys inside of there and try not to die. And then, you know,
1:01:11
come out on the other side having been, I mean, it would kind of suck once you get out of jail,
1:01:15
because you're still malign for having gone in and, you know, people think you did something. But
1:01:19
yeah, I don't think I could live in fear like that. So, man, you only like step step in your game
1:01:24
up a little bit. Some of these questions were super solid. And again, guys, if you want to hit
1:01:28
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1:01:36
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Specifically, we do that by providing content that for just spiritual mental and physical toughness.
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1:02:03
I've said this. But next week, unless something crazy happens in the world or something like that,
1:02:07
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1:02:12
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1:02:17
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1:02:21
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