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1:13 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

1:14 Let's get into it.

1:15 All right, guys.

1:16 Right off the top, I just got to be real with you about something.

1:19 So I just had one of the most frustrating experiences, maybe of my entire life, certainly of my podcasting career.

1:25 I spent probably about two hours recording the episode that I'm

1:29 re-recording right now because the program when I went to go export the audio file,

1:35 it crashed, and it deleted all the recording files.

1:38 So the recorded files, the edited file, like everything, right?

1:42 And my wife's way better with computers than I am.

1:44 She got on there, couldn't figure it out.

1:46 Computer doesn't have enough memory to add this program.

1:49 So anyway, I'm recording this for the second time today, okay?

1:55 I don't have a lot of patience.

1:57 I certainly don't have patience for things that should work like this really expensive computer

2:01 in the program they're in, but I'm undeterred.

2:05 I'm really, really angry.

2:06 I'm not having a great time of it right now, but you know what?

2:09 I'm going to show a little bit of resilience and I'm going to record this for a second time.

2:13 So it's probably not going to be as good as the first time.

2:16 You're getting the sequel without seeing the original, but here we go.

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3:39 And before we get into the content for today, I need to make a little bit of a correction.

3:42 So shout out to Aaron, my boy from Boston. He pointed this out to me. So I made a little bit of a booboo

3:48 on episode 97 of this podcast. That's the man economy episode. I made a reference to

3:53 the right Will Ferrell actor, but the wrong Will Ferrell character. Anyway, I said that

4:00 Ron Burgundy didn't know what to do with his hands. Well, if you've watched Talladega nights,

4:06 that's the movie where Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby reacted in a way where he's like,

4:10 I don't know what to do with my hands. So here's the thing about this podcast. I'm using that small

4:15 correction to make a larger point here. Guys, if I ever say something that's wrong, and I know

4:19 this is silly example, but I want to be able to correct the record. So if I say something incorrect

4:24 in a small way, let me know about it. Don't be a jerk, but just let me know about it. And if I do

4:29 something big, like maybe I exegie to scripture improperly or something like that, I want to know

4:34 that as well. You can always email me info at undaunted.life. If I ever get anything wrong,

4:39 and if I need to be corrected on something, I'll show a little humility. I'll, you know,

4:43 bear down. I'll correct the record and then I'll move on. Okay. So today we are doing volume 11.

4:48 I can't believe it volume 11 of our Q and A series. So guys, if you ever have questions for me,

4:53 again, the emails, info at undaunted.life, or you can send me a message on Instagram, Facebook,

4:58 something like that. And we'll try to work that content into an episode. And here's the thing,

5:02 guys, this has the makings because I've already recorded this one. So I know this to be true.

5:06 This has the makings of being a longer podcast. We're probably going to go over an hour. But

5:10 if you stick with me, there's a little present here at the end for you guys. So that's, that's

5:16 just what I'm going to throw out there to you. Be one of those guys that listens all the way to

5:19 the end, at least on this episode. Okay. All right. So let's go and launch in. First question of the

5:24 day. Why haven't you talked about the current impeachment process going on in the United States?

5:30 So here's the thing about the impeachment process is I'm kind of like not that interested in it.

5:37 Cause it just seems like a circus. Because the thing is, is like, full disclosure, I am a registered

5:42 Republican, all those things. I did not vote for Trump. I had two opportunities to, and I chose

5:46 not to, but I do support him as my president, as the leader of the Republican party right now.

5:51 But the thing about this whole process is it seems to be making the Democrats look bad.

5:55 Because as of the recording of this podcast, you know, these hearings started a few days ago,

6:00 they had the closed door hearings. Now they're having the public hearings and a lot of their like

6:04 key witnesses. They, they don't even know Donald Trump. They've never been in a meeting with him.

6:10 Like they don't know anything about his countenance. They know nothing. And those are like the big

6:15 people that they're bringing up that Adam Schiff is bringing up. And the thing about Adam Schiff is,

6:20 why does anybody have any confidence whatsoever in Adam Schiff? This is a guy that for two years

6:25 walked around and went on every new show he could to say that they had the goods on Donald

6:30 Trump. They had the goods on the Russia collusion. They had all of it. And then when you know what

6:33 the Mueller report comes out, they had nothing. Not only did they have nothing, they had nothing

6:38 the whole time, right? They were just assuming something would materialize out of the ether and

6:43 it never did. Okay. But the thing about this, I find really unnerving is that I understand that

6:50 Donald Trump is a polarizing figure and the Democrats don't want him in office. But we're

6:54 about a year away from an election. So why not just leave it up to the American people,

7:00 which I think begs our lens itself to the other reason why I think that, you know,

7:05 this is kind of a farce is because I think the Democrats are really, really worried.

7:08 I think they know that Donald Trump has strong support. And they also realize that

7:13 all the candidates they currently have running for the Democratic ticket are lunatics.

7:17 They're not people that they have a lot of faith that can make it through an election cycle and win.

7:24 And so they're trying to either hedge their bets or this is just one of their strategies that

7:28 seems like they're just trying to get Donald Trump kicked out of office. I don't think for a second,

7:32 they think that he did something that even comes close to what would be considered high crimes

7:36 and misdemeanors, right? And again, there's so many intricacies here, but I just got to be honest

7:41 with you. Every time I'm listening to something about this, about the impeachment hearings,

7:46 I kind of tune out. And I guess one of the biggest reasons why I tune out, like I make sure I pay

7:50 attention to get what I need out of it, the information I need out of it. But one of the

7:54 biggest reasons why I tune out is because he's not going to be removed from office, y'all.

7:57 Here's the thing, the Democrats have gone this far in the house. They've got it. They've got to

8:02 impeach him in the house of representatives. But again, he has to be convicted in the Senate.

8:07 And in order for that to happen, Democrats would have to peel off like 20 Republicans

8:12 to vote for impeachment. And here's the thing is I'm confident that if there was a smoking gun here,

8:18 if there was something major that had happened that Donald Trump had done, then that would

8:22 absolutely happen. I think there are fair minded people on both sides that would absolutely vote

8:27 him out. But that's not going to happen. I mean, there's going to have to be something that's brought

8:30 forth that is like infinitely further along than some of the crap that we're hearing in these

8:35 hearings. So that's kind of the biggest reasons why I didn't want to talk to you guys about it

8:38 or do a whole podcast episode about it. And the other thing is, is it's still going on.

8:42 Democrats said they would have it done by Halloween or have it done by Thanksgiving or all that. I

8:47 think they want to drag this into the new year, to be honest with you, they want as long of a new

8:51 cycle possible that is negative for Trump, because they know people are barely paying attention.

8:55 So there are people that think Donald Trump's going to be removed from office, right, before the

8:59 election next year, just because they're not paying attention. And they don't know what impeachment

9:02 actually means. They don't know that, okay, when you beat someone in the house, that doesn't mean

9:06 they have to pack their stuff and be out by five o'clock. Right. And so it's just not that

9:10 interesting of a topic to me. And it should be because it's the impeachment of a sitting American

9:14 president, which is not something that happens every day. But there's just too much other bullcrap

9:19 going on that it just doesn't seem to make sense to continue talking about it until something

9:22 actually goes down. Okay. All right. Next question. What are the best movies that you have seen

9:28 recently? Okay, so I'm going to give three of them to you. So two that you're familiar with and

9:32 one that you may not be the first one is Joker. Okay, not going to be a surprise to most of you

9:36 guys. But Joker, that's one of the best movies I've seen in a while in any genre. And the thing

9:42 about it is I don't really go to the movies very often, just because there's not usually a movie

9:46 that is that, you know, inspiring to me that I got to go like sit in a chair somewhere else as

9:51 opposed to the chair that's in my living room. But the thing about the Joker that I was really

9:55 excited about is I'm not really in to the fluffy superhero movies, right? So the Marvel movies,

10:01 the, you know, the Avengers movies where the world's definitely going to end until the last

10:05 second when it doesn't. Here's a two and a half hour long movie that sets up the three hour long

10:09 movie. That's the sequel and all these different things. I just like I'm not that interested in it.

10:13 It's just not something that it's the same plot line every time just the special effects get a

10:17 little bit better. And the writing gets a little bit worse. I'm more attracted to kind of the darker

10:22 dingier type superhero movie. So I think of like Punisher or Logan or the Christopher Nolan Batman

10:30 or or those types of things. And so I figured Joker would kind of be in that vein. And it was

10:35 absolutely incredible. Now this is this is not a movie for the faint of heart. I know a lot of

10:39 guys that watched a lot of superhero movies and even one of them mentioned, he's like, dude, I had

10:42 nightmares after this one. It is it is wicked in a lot of ways. But the thing that I found interesting

10:47 about this was walking Venus's performance in this movie was something that I don't think can be

10:54 overstated how good it was. And part in large part because Joker is one of the iconic roles

10:59 in all of Hollywood. But in addition to that, he's really coming off the heels of the quintessential

11:05 Joker. Okay. And I know I'm skipping a Joker or two. But the Joker from the Dark Knight,

11:10 right Heath Ledger, that's that's the best Joker ever, right? And the idea that anyone could even

11:16 come close to Heath Ledger's Joker was almost laughable. And then Joaquin Phoenix did what he

11:21 did in this movie. I mean, absolutely haunting, incredible performance. Very, very different

11:28 from Heath Ledger's Joker. But they're they're like one a one B right now for me. I put Heath Ledger

11:34 just slightly above Joaquin Phoenix. But just an absolutely incredible performance. It's one of

11:39 those performances and it's one of those movies that just kind of sticks with you for for a while.

11:42 It's like, you know, eating a, you know, caramel or something like that just kind of sticks in

11:45 your teeth for a while. That's what this movie is. But I really, really enjoyed it. Highly

11:49 recommended. The next one is, you know, a crowd pleaser, but John Wick three. So the thing about

11:55 John Wick three or really the John Wick trilogy, I remember when I watched the very first John Wick

11:59 movie, I got, you know, a copy of it from a friend and they, you know, they didn't really

12:04 tell me anything about it. But then I watched it when I was bored, not expecting a whole lot

12:08 because Keanu Reeves is kind of a weirdo. And you know, it's just like, I wasn't really expecting a

12:12 whole lot. And I was really impressed. I really thought the first John Wick movie was really

12:16 fantastic. And then the second John Wick movie came out and it was even more fantastic. It was

12:23 John Wick one with just more stuff. Like, and so I loved it. You don't really get a lot of sequels

12:27 that out outpace the first one. And then John Wick three came out. That's another one I went and

12:32 saw in theaters. And guys, I have never seen a better action movie in my entire life. And I would

12:39 challenge you to tell me an action movie that's better than that one. Because I'm thinking about

12:43 the born movies. I'm thinking about any of the Fast and Furious movies, some of the earlier ones

12:47 that weren't as ridiculous. I'm thinking about real like action type movies. It's the best one

12:52 I've ever seen. I mean, Keanu Reeves is fantastic as John Wick. But the thing is, is they're getting

12:57 more and more creative with their fight scenes and their performances. And I mean, maybe he killed

13:01 two dudes with a horse in this movie. I mean, it's just like, it's getting really, really creative.

13:05 And it's kind of one of those movies where you can turn your brain off a little bit and just let

13:10 your eyes be entertained. Because it is visually pleasing. I still got some depth to the characters

13:15 in there. But the thing about it is, is you're watching the entire time and you're just enamored

13:19 with what he's able to do. Because you know, there's gonna be John Wick four and five and six and all

13:23 those different things. But you're still really entrenched in what's going on with the story. So

13:27 John Wick three was fantastic. I just rewatched it again the other day. That's one. If you haven't

13:32 seen it, make sure you go watch it. But make sure you watch first to beforehand as well.

13:36 But the third one is one that you guys may have never heard of. And it's one called Hotel Mumbai.

13:41 Okay. So this was a movie about the 2008 terrorist attacks that took place at a a hotel in Mumbai,

13:48 India. And so, gosh, it is a brutal movie. It is an absolutely brutal movie. In a lot of ways,

13:55 very violent, all three of these movies are very violent. But the thing about this movie is it

13:59 showed two things. The first thing is it really kind of gave you a peek behind the curtain of

14:04 fundamentalist Islam and what it actually looks like when these men are so enamored with the idea

14:08 of jihad. And the fact that they're gonna be able, they're gonna do that, right? I don't feel

14:14 like a lot of movies do that accurately. And this movie showed the brutality of what these people

14:19 actually believe. And when you actually follow Islam, what it requires of you. But the second part

14:24 of it is it actually showed the humanity of some of the people that were working at the hotel in

14:28 India. And the thing about the people that were working at this hotel in Mumbai, India, is that

14:33 the movie accurately depicted that's that several of these employees, right? Of an hotel,

14:40 they literally gave their lives so that their guests could live, or at least have a better chance

14:45 at living. And that's just, that's just crazy to me, that these people were sacrificing themselves

14:52 for people that had just rented a night or two in their hotel. It's just a different level. I

14:56 mean, customer service is almost just kind of like two tongue and cheek. But it's just,

15:01 I felt like the movie did a really good job. I'm not just being savage for the sake of being

15:06 savage. I thought that they were appropriately, um, you know, effective and how they handled the

15:10 violence of that movie, because it was an absolute bloodbath inside that hotel. And so that's one

15:16 that I don't even know if it went to theaters. I think it may have just gone straight to on demand

15:19 or something like that. But if you've not seen hotel Mumbai yet, you definitely should. But yes,

15:24 Joker, John McThree and hotel Mumbai, best movies I've seen recently by far. Next question.

15:29 Actually, this is more of a statement. Every boy should be put in wrestling at a young age.

15:34 Prove me wrong. Okay. Well, uh, I'm going to disappoint you because I'm not going to prove

15:38 you wrong because I agree with you. I agree with you 100% that every boy should be put in wrestling

15:45 at a young age. Every single one of them. Well, if they're able bodied and you know, you know,

15:49 they have the right temperament or whatever the situation is, they've got to be put in that. Okay.

15:53 Now that doesn't mean they're going to be an Olympian. That doesn't mean they're going to

15:56 wrestle in high school. But I think the biggest reason why it's important for a young kid to wrestle

16:02 is because most of the sports that you play as a child are team sports, right? You're playing

16:06 soccer, you're playing football, you're playing basketball, baseball, those types of things.

16:10 And I love team sports. Obviously, I grew up doing team sports, didn't do a whole lot of individual

16:14 sports. But when you're wrestling, you're the only one out there. Okay. You can't depend on the

16:22 taller kid to make more baskets that game. You can't depend on the kid coming after you in the

16:27 batting in the batting order to come out there and actually get the hit, right? Like you can't

16:31 depend on those things. It's just you out there. It's you, the other kid in the referee. And it's

16:36 ready, set, go shake hands and get after it. You know what I mean? And so the level of resilience,

16:41 I think that that can help a kid build at a young age is incredible. Because the toughest

16:47 people that I know in my entire world and my entire life are wrestlers. It's a different kind

16:53 of tough. And you know, guys that wrestle their entire lives, you know, their bodies are beat up,

16:56 next or beat up, it's just kind of the kind of thing. I mean, if you're a football player,

16:59 your heads beat up, your knees beat up, if you're a baseball player, your elbow and shoulder are

17:03 messed up, like it's just kind of one of those things if you play sports your entire life. But

17:06 it teaches a level of toughness that I just don't think you get with a lot of other sports. Now,

17:10 it's not to say athletes and other sports aren't tough. They're certainly tough people in every

17:15 type of sport. But the level of resilience you have to have in order to just compete in wrestling

17:20 is such at such a high level. I don't know of any other sport that's as safe as wrestling that

17:25 would be as good for a child, right? Because, you know, I would say MMA is obviously a tougher sport

17:30 because it includes wrestling, but then also includes Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai and, you know,

17:34 Western boxing, you know, they're striking and stuff like that. But you don't necessarily want

17:37 seven year olds taking shots to the head, you don't want them getting kicked in the face,

17:40 that type of thing. But for things that are as easily accessible as wrestling, I mean,

17:46 you need a, you need headgear, a singlet and some wrestling shoes and you're after, right? I mean,

17:50 was that 50 bucks, 60 bucks, something like that? It's, it's a great sport. It's something that I

17:56 would encourage all parents to get their their kids into. At the very least, it'll, it'll allow

18:01 them to be tough. And I know the guy that sent me this question, I know he's got a couple of

18:03 boys that wrestle, I think they actually want a tournament here recently. So shout out to you guys,

18:08 don't want to say your names on the air. But man, super proud of you guys. I saw the picture of

18:12 your rings and your medals, but that's awesome. And the life lessons they're learning right now,

18:16 they can't even fathom how that's going to benefit them in the future. But yes, definitely put your

18:21 kids in youth wrestling. Next question. Do you think hitting, do you think hitting someone in the

18:26 head with a helmet should be considered assault? So okay, if you don't understand why that question

18:31 is spot on with what's going on this week, then you didn't watch football last Thursday or as of

18:35 the recording of this podcast. So this was a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland

18:38 Browns. Okay. So we're at the end of the game. All right. I think the, the Browns are up 21 to

18:44 seven, right? So the game is essentially over. So there's a little scuffle, right? There's a

18:48 scuffle between Miles Garrett and Mason Rudolph. So Miles Garrett is a defender on the Cleveland

18:53 Browns and Mason Rudolph is quarterback. And so in this scuffle, Garrett actually rips off Mason

18:59 Rudolph's helmet, right? Brutal, right? I mean, that, that couldn't have felt good. You got the

19:03 chin strap in the way he ripped it off. I mean, it just, it was kind of brutal. But then Garrett

19:09 swung the helmet and hit Mason Rudolph in the head with it, right? He takes the helmet,

19:17 swings it around like a shot, put boom, his Mason Rudolph around on top of the head. Now,

19:22 Mason Rudolph and Miles Garrett are both incredibly lucky that Garrett hit him with the bottom part

19:29 of the helmet. So if you think if you're, if you're palming a face mask, it's the bottom part that's

19:33 got some padding on it. It's in its hollow. That's the part that he caught him with. Because if he

19:38 had hit him with the crown of the helmet, he may have killed him. Like, and there's no hyperbole

19:42 there. He literally might have killed right Mason Rudolph, right? Because he swung it as hard as he

19:47 could. And so in this exact situation, yes, Miles Garrett should have been arrested that night,

19:53 right? And some of you're like, Oh, I was crazy as football, it's whatever. Right. You're not going

19:58 to get arrested for a helmet to helmet hit, even if it was on purpose, you're not going to get

20:00 arrested for diving into someone's knees or a chopped block or any, any type of dirty play.

20:05 But this was assault with a deadly weapon. I mean, I think back at the joke from,

20:10 what was it? Happy Gilmore, where he's like, you know, when he's like, took his skate off and

20:14 tried to stab someone with it, if that actually happened in an NFL game, that shouldn't be a five

20:18 minute major penalty. You should not only be kicked out of league, you should leave in handcuffs.

20:22 Because you're trying to kill someone at that point. Now, I don't think Garrett's intention

20:27 was to kill Mason Rudolph, but he very well could have. And he intentionally tried to harm him.

20:34 So as of right now, Garrett has been suspended indefinitely. So he's definitely done for the

20:38 rest of the season. But there's probably a good idea or good chance that he'll be back at the

20:44 beginning of next season, he'll have to do some community service and make some donations to

20:47 Mason Rudolph's favorite charity and all that kind of bull crap. But he'll be back. It's one of the

20:52 situations where this, this should be in my mind, it should be at least a year suspension. But that

20:57 should be the least of his concerns because he should still be in jail right now. Right? Like,

21:01 that's exactly what should happen. If that had happened on the street, need swung a helmet and

21:05 hit somebody, he'd be going to prison. Right? And so again, I know it's kind of a funny story

21:10 at the beginning, but it could have been one of the worst stories that we've seen in sports,

21:15 right? In a long time, I mean, when's the last time someone killed someone else in the middle of a

21:20 American sports game? I can't even think of a time that that happened. But yes, I do think that

21:24 that should have been assault. Okay, next question. How do you create an environment where the men

21:30 in your foxhole tell the ugly truth as opposed to lie for appearance sake? Okay. So this guy,

21:37 obviously, I think listen to episode 104 of this podcast, which by the way, the your foxhole podcast

21:42 has gotten a lot of great pub and great reviews. You guys have been telling me what you liked about

21:46 it. You've been telling me about your foxholes. You've been asking follow up questions. So I'm

21:50 glad that that content landed with you. But with this one specifically, it's, you know,

21:53 how do you create an environment where men in your specific foxhole tell you the ugly truth as

21:58 opposed to lying for appearance sake? So here's the deal. Most of this isn't on your foxhole.

22:04 Most of this is on you. Okay. So here's the first part. If someone's doing something wrong in your

22:10 group and you don't point that out to them, you're not doing this right. Or if they ask you for

22:15 feedback and, you know, direct feedback and you don't give it to them, because you want to say

22:21 face or you don't really know how to say it, you're not doing it right either. You have to model that

22:26 for other people, right? That doesn't mean you have to be, you know, biting to the point of being

22:33 offensive every time you give someone feedback. But you've got to be able to self correct inside

22:37 of a foxhole, right? Like that's exactly what you need to do. But the other side of it is,

22:43 is if someone in the foxhole corrects you, you've done something wrong, you've offended somebody,

22:49 or you did something that was underneath some of the standards you would set for yourself,

22:54 you better respond nicely to that. You better say thank you. Don't be like, oh, you're always

23:00 picking on me. Well, what about the last time when you did blah, blah, blah, blah, like, no,

23:05 no, no, no, no, no, shut up. Just take it. Sit there. Have your heaping serving of humble pie

23:12 and make the necessary changes in that situation and then move on. So that's the thing is, I understand

23:18 kind of, I think I understand where this guy's coming from with this question. But it's not as

23:22 much what's happening outside of you as it's what's happening inside, like, or sorry, what's happening

23:27 outside and what everybody else in the group's doing. It's more about what's happening inside of you.

23:30 When what are you willing to tolerate? What are you willing to do? Are you willing to put

23:34 some relational equity in the middle? Are you willing to push some of those chips into the

23:37 middle to confront a guy and try to make it to where he ends up being better? I mean,

23:42 that's the thing. That's how you create the environment where everyone's telling the truth.

23:47 Starts with you. Tell the truth. You've created your environment right there. All right, guys, next

23:52 question. Once you've established your foxhole, okay, another foxhole question, once you've established

23:57 your foxhole, when do you start reaching out to other guys? Do you start reaching out to other

24:02 guys? Okay, so I guess there's a couple ways to come at this question. So here's the deal.

24:07 Some foxholes are closed foxholes and some are open or, you know, revolving doors, right? So I'll

24:16 use my, uh, my jujitsu guys as an example. Cause that's basically my foxhole or guys that trained

24:20 jujitsu on Sunday nights. So these guys started this group like 13 or 14 years ago, over 10 years

24:27 ago, right? And the thing about it is, is when they started it, then the intention was never

24:32 to be that we would be training right now today. It's just something that kind of happened. But

24:35 let's say that was the goal from the beginning. The thing is, is real life happens. Because there's

24:41 like two or three guys there that, that still come to this group that were there at the very

24:45 beginning. It's like two or three, maybe four, right? But on any given week, we're going to have

24:50 somewhere between, you know, one to two dozen people there, right? It's not the same guys every

24:55 week. But during that 10 plus year period, you've got guys that have gotten injured,

25:00 you've got guys that have moved away. And some of them have moved back. You've had guys that,

25:05 you know, have a kid that gets sick, you have guys that just turn into a person that they just

25:08 don't come anymore. Like you've got a lot of different guys that come in and out of the group.

25:12 You kind of have the pillars, those two, three, four people that have been there from the beginning,

25:16 like those are the anchor points for the group. But then you have people coming in and out,

25:20 like me, I've only been a part of this group for about three years, right? It seems like way longer,

25:24 but that's basically all that it was. And so the thing about it is in an open group like that,

25:29 you should be looking for guys, right? And you shouldn't have to ask permission.

25:33 So the thing is, is we had a guy here recently, one of the guys in our group, Mike, he invited a

25:37 friend and that friend came that week. And then the next week, the friend that he had invited invited

25:43 another friend, right? And so that's just kind of how it goes. That's perfectly fine in a group like

25:47 that. Okay. But there are foxholes to be fair, there are foxholes that are closed. So maybe this

25:54 is a group of guys that have been, I don't know, they've been best friends since high school. And

25:59 then they all went to same college. And then, you know, they've been in the same church. They've had

26:04 some of the same struggles. They started having kids at the same time, but they've got together

26:08 every Wednesday morning to, to have, you know, a Bible study or something for the last 15 years,

26:13 or they get together every Friday night for cigars or whatever the situation might be.

26:16 I think it would be unfair to the group itself, but also to the person that you might invite in to

26:23 invite somebody else in. Because if this is the core group, and then Bobby over here is being

26:28 invited by a buddy, there's way too many inside jokes. There's, there's way too much depth of

26:33 understanding and really like relational intimacy there to bring in a new guy. It's not fair to them,

26:39 it's not fair to you, it's not fair to the group. And so I think at that point, if that group

26:46 stagnates, that that's maybe a conversation that y'all have together over over a cigar. It's like,

26:51 hey, you know, it's been the same five guys for forever. What would you guys think about if we,

26:55 you know, established, you know, a few more people that we think would be great for this

26:59 group that might help us. And, and don't, don't fully expect them to go for that, right? Because

27:04 especially if it's been a closed group for that long, and a lot of groups aren't as, you know,

27:07 standard, you know, you don't have like patches or T shirts or, you know, be a standard meetings

27:13 or something like that. But it's just something that everybody's grown to expect. They expect

27:16 people to meet around this time around this type of thing. So that probably wouldn't make the most

27:21 sense to do that. But most groups would probably be open groups. And in terms of when you should

27:25 start looking outside of your established foxhole, I would say five minutes ago, right? Like you

27:30 should be inviting guys. You should be trying to make as many guys better as possible. All right,

27:35 guys. Next question here. What is the one band you wish would disappear from history? Okay. Oh,

27:42 man, there's so many bad bands. There's so here's the thing. I've talked about this before. There's

27:47 a lot of bands that y'all like. There's a lot of bands that a lot of people like that I think

27:51 are terrible. Like awful. So like, I guess the first one that comes to mind is the Beatles. Like,

27:57 I just, I don't get it. Like when people like lose their minds about everything Beatles related,

28:02 my wife included. I'm like, Oh, this stuff's terrible. I don't like it. Bruce Binks frinks

28:07 thing is another one. That guy, how does anyone like Bruce Springsteen? Like he can't sing. He's not

28:12 especially talented musician. His songs aren't aren't that great. But people literally lose

28:17 their minds over the boss. The YouTube. There's another one. How is it possible that that band

28:23 sells out stadiums? How's that possible? Like, I, I, oh, it just is infuriating to me that people

28:30 will literally drop what they're doing to listen to a YouTube song when their new iTunes came out

28:34 and like it came already ready to go with a new YouTube album. I was like, that's the worst thing

28:38 that could possibly happen to me. This is that the only album I have in this collection right now

28:43 is a YouTube album, right? And then you've got like, you know, your, your [inaudible] country. So like,

28:48 you know, Luke Bryan and Florida, Georgia line and all that nonsense. Like, and whoever wrote the

28:54 song like she thinks my tractor sexy or whatever that is, dude, that song didn't just set back

29:01 country music. It set back like humanity, right? Like, I mean, it said humanity back a few years

29:07 that that song was ever able to come to the forefront and anyone was ever able to listen to it. So,

29:12 well, okay, I'm getting off track now, but dude, there's a lot of bad music out there. Like,

29:16 there really is, but if there was one band that I could just, you know, delete from history,

29:20 man. Okay, that's a good one. Um, okay, I would say the Beatles. Okay, so I already made your

29:30 head heads explode whenever I talk trash about the Beatles. Anyway, so here, I'm just going to

29:33 double down on it. So here's the thing. I know a lot of artists out there, they, they list the

29:38 Beatles as one of their main inspirations, right? And so it's just like an interesting thought

29:43 experiment. Wouldn't it be interesting to see what would have happened to music like rock music or

29:49 pop or radio music or whatever the situation might be if the Beatles just all of a sudden didn't exist.

29:53 I mean, something would have filled the void, right? You know, it might have been another

29:58 similar band to the Beatles. Maybe it would have been the monkeys or the Hoover. I don't know,

30:02 it would have been somebody else. But I think that would have been interesting to just delete

30:05 them and see what happens to music. So anyway, good question. All right, moving on to the next

30:09 one. All right, this one's a little bit more serious. Here we go. Can a divorced person have sex

30:15 before they get remarried? Okay. So when I first got this question, I felt like there was a whole

30:24 lot more depth to the question, even though the question seems rather straightforward and simple.

30:29 So again, the question is just can a divorced person have sex before they get remarried?

30:35 But I feel like there's three main things that have to be reckoned with inside of this.

30:40 And the first is divorce, obviously. But the second is adultery. And the third is just overall,

30:47 you know, sexual sin. Okay. And so the thing about divorce that I find really interesting is

30:53 divorce is one of those things that seems to just be common within the church.

30:58 And that is like horrifying. That is so common. Because this what what a marriage relationship,

31:06 a covenantal Christian marriage relationship is supposed to show the world, the secular world,

31:10 is, Hey, this is the closest thing that we have to Jesus's love for his bride, which is the church,

31:16 is our covenantal relationships with our wives, right? And so when the divorce rates of people

31:24 inside the church pretty much match the divorce rates of people outside the church, that is terrible.

31:29 Like that that is a brokenness that is so hard to even fathom. But the other thing about divorce

31:34 is it's something that's not really talked about. I think most pastors that you're going to go to,

31:39 not just mega church pastors, but at most churches, it's a subject they don't really discuss very

31:42 much. I still really like to broach it, right? Because they know that 30% of the adults in the

31:48 audience, maybe 50% of the adults in their audience have had a divorce. They're sitting there with

31:53 their second or third spouse, you know, it's that type of situation. But kind of going back to the

31:56 beginning again, there, I think there's three things to discuss here. The first is divorce.

32:00 And I think we should go to what Jesus says about it. Because anytime you can get a red letter answer

32:04 to a hard topic, it's like, okay, let's let's go with what Jesus said, right? So I want to read

32:09 from Matthew 19, I'm going to read verses three through nine. And this will be through the ESV

32:13 version. But it's this here. So the Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking,

32:18 is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause? He answered this is Jesus. Have you not read that

32:24 he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, therefore, a man shall

32:30 leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh?

32:34 So they are no longer to but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man

32:41 separate. They said to him, why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce

32:47 and to send her away? He said to them, Jesus again, because of your hardness of heart,

32:52 Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning, it was not so. And I say to you,

32:58 whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality and marries another commits adultery.

33:05 Those are the words of Jesus, guys. So if you divorce your spouse and not for infidelity,

33:13 not for sexual immorality, right? And then you go and get married to someone else. That is adultery.

33:18 It's as simple as it gets, right? Again, this person's asking me a question about sex,

33:23 but we got to start with divorce, right? But that does dovetail into the second part,

33:28 which is talking about adultery. So going back to Jesus in Luke 16 verse 18 here,

33:33 everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And he who marries a woman

33:39 divorced from her husband commits adultery. Okay. So when you go and get remarried,

33:46 and then go and get remarried again, because obviously the second marriages have a higher

33:50 divorce rate than first marriages, third have higher than first and second, you know, it's kind

33:53 of that whole deal. You're extending the adultery. Now that there is a little bit of a debate over

34:00 the language of adultery here, whether it's meaning like, is it new adultery or is it the

34:04 continuation of adultery? But it's the same category. It is adultery. And here's the thing, guys,

34:10 is, you know, I've got, you know, divorced guys in my crew. I, some of my best friends have gotten

34:15 divorced. Like it's just kind of what it is. But the thing is, is most people just see it as like,

34:19 Oh, yeah, it really sucked. It was hard to do that. I'm sorry. I had to put the kids through that,

34:22 but I'm just happy now. I'm happier now. It's like, when, when did you get the idea that this was

34:27 about happiness? You made a covenantal commitment before God to be made one flesh with one woman.

34:34 What are you talking about? And then you have these, these women, when they get married,

34:39 they're in their white dresses, which is supposed to signify their purity.

34:42 And most of these women have been to file well before they got to the altar.

34:47 And then even worse, you got the pastors up there that are standing in between two people

34:54 that are in the act of adultery on the altar. And they're just brain dead boop, boop, boop,

35:00 reading from 1 Corinthians 13, right? It's like, are y'all not reading the same book? You've got

35:06 it open. Flip a few pages over. Like it's straight up adultery. But, but this gets us into the last

35:13 part, which gets back to the original question, which is we got to talk about sexual sin. But

35:17 here's the thing guys, is it's really easy here. It's pretty linear. Sex outside the covenant of

35:23 marriage is sin. It's, it's a moral period. Full stop. That's it. But if you do need additional

35:30 prompting, here's Hebrews 13, let marriage be held in honor among all and let the marriage bed

35:36 be undefiled for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

35:40 And so the thing I find interesting about this question is it seems that some people that are

35:46 divorced that, you know, maybe they got out of a bad relationship or maybe they just didn't love

35:51 each other anymore or whatever the situation might be. It's like they feel like, well,

35:55 I've already been married. And so I've already had sex and I'm, you know, I had a bunch of sex

36:00 before I got married. So it's probably no big deal for me to do that. Now it's kind of like,

36:04 it's kind of like a sunk cost. I'm already pocket mitted at this point. No, no, it's still sexual

36:11 sin. It's still sexual immorality. Sex in any way, shape or form outside of the covenant of marriage

36:17 is sin. It just is what it is. So that's the thing is, and I know I'm not talking about the gray side

36:23 and people are always like, Oh, you need to have a little bit more grace and you're probably right.

36:26 But it just is what it is. I feel like a lot of you guys are only operating using grace.

36:32 And that's all you'll ever hear from somebody is whether or not they're speaking to you in a

36:36 grace filled manner. But at the end of the day, guys, it is what it is. It is so unbelievably

36:43 straightforward. Now don't hear me saying what I'm not saying. I'm not saying that a divorce,

36:47 adultery, sexual sin is unforgivable. There's no indication from scripture that those things

36:51 are unforgivable. However, what we do get from scripture is that sexual sin is a different sin

36:56 entirely. It's the only sin that is against our own bodies, right? It's a different level of sin.

37:01 And so we've got to take it seriously. And that's why we talked about relational equity earlier.

37:08 I pushed my relational equity in on a lot of guys that were in the process of getting divorced.

37:13 And I may have been the only guy in the crew, the only guy in their life that was fighting for

37:18 their marriage, including them. And there were guys that got mad guys that wanted to push me off,

37:23 guys that wanted to fight me after all that. But if this is Jesus's love, you know, love of the

37:30 bride of if this is as close as we can get to that, why would we care if our friends punch us in the

37:35 nose? Because their marriage is way more important than a nose surgery. Their marriage is way more

37:41 important than an ox and, you know, an awkward next couple of run-ins, you know what I mean?

37:46 So I think we've got to get more serious about the subject than we are right now. But I guess it

37:50 just is what it is. It's just reflective of where we are right now in 2019 going into 2020.

37:55 All right, guys, next question here. I know you're a baseball guy. How did your preseason predictions

38:02 end up? And what are your thoughts on the sign stealing scandal currently going on with Houston

38:08 Astros? Okay, so I'll bring you guys up speed on that. But all right, my preseason predictions

38:12 are pretty good. I got to admit. So I don't always have great predictions this year. I did pretty good.

38:18 So I picked some of the awards right. I got Mike Trout, right? I got, you know, Mike Schilt

38:23 winning the NL manager of the year award. My World Series prediction, the preseason prediction

38:30 of the nationals facing the Astros. That came true. I had the the Astros winning in six. They

38:34 ended up losing in seven. But I mean, nobody was picking the nationals to go to the World Series,

38:38 especially after they lost Bryce Harper last year. But there's just something about that pitching

38:42 staff that I thought was compelling. I thought they could make it past the daughters. Obviously,

38:45 that's that's exactly what happened. So had a good one, good run this year. I wouldn't be

38:49 completely surprised if next year I got like two things right. So that's just kind of how it goes.

38:53 But the sign stealing thing with the Astros, this is a gigantic sports story. And I don't think

38:58 it's getting nearly enough play right now. And every day we get a little bit more detail on it.

39:03 But let me kind of give you guys a rundown. So you might have heard over the last several

39:07 post seasons about the Astros quote unquote stealing signs. But it's completely separate than

39:12 what I'm about to talk about. So what most people were talking about is like, okay, if the Astros

39:17 had a runner on second base, they would look in on the catcher giving his signs, right? And then

39:22 they would try to give some sort of an indication to the hitter as to what pitch was coming next or

39:28 at least what location. So maybe it's going to be high or low. It's going to be inside or outside.

39:32 Maybe they can give you the actual pitch, maybe the pitch and the location, right? So that's not

39:38 illegal. And that's not cheating. Because that's on the pitcher in the catcher to make sure that

39:45 no one else in the stadium knows what pitches come in except for them. Okay, because you may

39:49 have heard about pitchers that are like tipping their pitches. So there are certain pitchers that,

39:53 you know, when they're throwing an off speed pitch, they'll twitch their glove a certain way,

39:57 right? You know, they're moving the glove around trying to grip just right. And that kind of gives

40:01 away what they're throwing. Some pitchers throw their pitches at different arm angles, right?

40:05 So a four seam fastball guy will come a little bit flatter. But with a, you know, an off speed

40:10 pitch, maybe he comes a little bit more over the top, that type of a thing. So those are

40:14 tells that kind of give the battery, you know, a microsecond of advantage to kind of figure out

40:18 whether or not they're going to try to put the ball and play or not. Okay. But that's not what

40:22 we're talking about. But the Houston Astros have been accused of is that since 2017 that they have

40:29 been using cameras in the outfield, zoomed in on the catcher's hands. And then that they were

40:36 getting the information from the camera, it would go to a monitor in the dugout. And then somebody

40:41 would give an indication to the hitter as to what was going to happen. It was usually like

40:45 some sort of a sound of some kind. So there was a video of a guy that did this in 2017. So there

40:49 was an Astros player up to bat. I can't even remember the dude's name, but this nickname was

40:53 like a loss so Blanco, like the, I think it was at the white bear or something like that. Anyway,

40:57 I can't remember the dude's name, but I remember a stupid nickname. But anyway, he's up to play.

41:00 And what they would do is every time this, this relief pitcher, he was a fastball change-up

41:05 pitcher. That's it. Every time he was about to throw a change-up, basically, they would get the

41:09 sign from the camera. It would go into the, the monitor in the dugout. And then before the pitch

41:14 was made, you would hear a, like, like a big noise in the dugout. And then the batter would know,

41:19 okay, it's a change-up coming. So if the ball was coming towards a plate and it was a change-up

41:24 and it started out of the zone, the guy would know to lay off because it started out of the zone is

41:28 going to end out of the zone, right? But then otherwise, if it's a pitch that's going to end

41:31 in the zone, you're going to crush that, you need to crush that change-up. That's a great

41:34 chance to get an extra base hit, right? And so this video kind of broke this whole thing down,

41:39 and it's crazy. It's crazy that that's what they were doing, but they weren't doing that for three

41:43 seasons. They had different indications of how to, how to get to the batter. What was going on,

41:47 but the biggest problem is the amount of people that are caught up in this right now. So Carlos

41:52 Beltran was on the 2017 Houston Astros. Again, that was the World Series winning Houston Astros,

41:57 by the way. He just got hired as the manager of the Mets. So that's affecting his job as the Mets

42:04 manager, potentially. AJ Hinch, who is the manager of the Astros, he's obviously caught up in this.

42:10 You've got Carlos Correa. They're all Mr. Everything, Young shortstop superstar. He's been mentioned in

42:16 this. You've got former players that have come out to basically corroborate, you know, guys that

42:21 played for the Astros saying, yeah, that's that's exactly what was going on. And it's like,

42:24 it's kind of weird. It's like, you couldn't have said something like, I don't know, two years ago,

42:27 when you're like making money off of winning the World Series, but you know, I guess it is what it is.

42:31 But the thing about this sports story is this potentially has

42:35 unprecedented ramifications. Because I've been thinking about like, okay, let's say they find

42:40 the smoking gun and the Astros are guilty of this. What can you do to a professional sports team

42:44 in one of the four major sports? Because it's not like, you know, SMU, where it's like, you know,

42:49 you give them the death penalty, they can't have scholarships for a few years, then you basically

42:52 decimate the entire athletic department. What do you do with a team like this? Is it fines?

42:57 You know, do you find them out the wazoo? Do you say, okay, you get zero draft picks for the next

43:02 five years, which would absolutely cripple their farm system? I mean, can you make them

43:07 forfeit their 2017 World Series title? Like do you have a vacant World Series title? I mean,

43:12 there's a lot of interesting things that can go on here. There's a whole lot more investigation

43:17 that needs to be done. But even like right before I started recording this podcast, there was something

43:21 that came out that said one of their executives, one of the Astros executives, they have an email

43:26 where he's basically asking about how they can get an advantage, right? And how they can, you know,

43:30 steal signs using cameras. And this was back in 2017, which is the year in question. So really,

43:35 really interesting stuff. Even if you're not a baseball person, this could have like unbelievably

43:40 wide ranging ramifications. So something to keep an eye on. All right, guys, next question.

43:45 I know you're a metal guy and that's music music. Oh, sorry, that was weird. Okay, let me

43:50 let me just start over. Let's reread that. Okay, I know you're a metal guy. Got it. What are your

43:54 thoughts on the return of as a lay dying? Will you can you or do you support that band? Okay.

44:00 So for those of you who aren't metal people, as a lay dying is more specifically a metal core

44:04 band. This is a band I started listening to in high school band has been around for a very,

44:08 very long time. That is one of my favorite bands of all time. The lead singer is a guy

44:14 named Tim Lambesis. So Tim, it was kind of your typical metal guy. He's very integral to the band,

44:21 not only was he the front man and the iconic voice for them, he also wrote a lot of the guitar

44:25 parts. He basically wrote most of the music that we all ended up loving and head banging and

44:29 mashing to, right? But in like the 2011, 2012, 2013 area, he started getting really into body

44:37 building and really into steroids. Like this dude went from like being real thin, you know,

44:42 just kind of dorky metal guy to being like, yeah, like super yoked up jacked. And so that that is

44:48 actually relevant to the story. But in 2013, he was actually arrested for trying to hire a hitman

44:55 to kill his wife. Okay. So this is a guy who's, you know, he said he was a professing Christian

45:01 for a long time, but then later came out as an atheist and said, you know, I was just pretending

45:05 to be a Christian so that I could, you know, sell records and, you know, do concerts at Christian

45:10 venues and stuff like that, which as they dying, certainly not the only band to pull that off a

45:14 lot of the solid state and to the nail guys did that. But that's neither here nor there. But the

45:19 thing was, is he was apparently talking to a guy at a gym and he was trying to talk to somebody

45:24 else who was going to introduce him to, you know, a hitman, a mechanic, someone that was going to

45:28 take care of his wife. And I think he was going to pay this person like, it was like, I don't know,

45:31 like 2,500 bucks or five grand. It was something, some kind of like ridiculous amount of money.

45:36 But luckily for the woman and terribly for Tim Lambeases, the person he was introduced to that was

45:42 the quote unquote hitman was a cop. Yeah. And so he's arrested, he's dead to rights. I mean,

45:50 they've got his hand in the cookie jar. It's, it's all kinds of bad. So he's arrested in 2013. He

45:54 went on trial. He was convicted in 2014 and sentenced to a six year prison term. He was actually

46:00 paroled two years later in 2016. You know, he wrote some letters while he was in prison about how,

46:05 you know, contrite, he was, and he was apologizing and doing all these different things. You know,

46:09 his band members completely turned on them. They said he was a horrible guy even leading up to the

46:13 arrest. And then the arrest just ruined everything. I mean, for these guys, Asley dying was everything.

46:18 And Tim Lambeases is Asley dying. So these guys tried to create another band with the leads,

46:22 one of the lead singers of Oh, sleeper called woven war, did a couple of albums, never really

46:26 got any traction. But the thing about it is, is Asley dying is now back together. All the guys

46:31 have reconciled, you know, they figured out all of their issues. You know, Tim Lambeases has been

46:36 free for over three years now. But the problem is, is can we support this band? And so the

46:43 interesting thing about it is I've actually struggled a lot with this because, you know,

46:46 if I have my, you know, iPod on shuffle or something like that and Asley dying song comes on, I'm not

46:52 like, Oh my God, I got to skip to the next song or I'm going to hell. Like it's not one of those,

46:56 like super serious situations. But at the same time, it's like, we got to be honest about what

47:02 Tim Lambeases did because here's the thing. What if the guy that he was introduced to was not a cop?

47:06 What if it was a mechanic, a hitman, right? His wife would probably be dead. And now he would be

47:14 this sympathetic figure in metal like, Oh, his, you know, his wife died. That's so terrible, man.

47:20 Like, gosh, you know, dad gummy. Well, you know, I'm glad he's still making music. I'm glad he's still

47:24 in the band. I'm sure that's really therapeutic, right? That's what we'd be saying. You know,

47:28 the odds are he wouldn't have been caught, right? And so that's the struggle I guess I have right

47:33 now is, you know, when they release a new song, you know, I'm tempted to kind of listen to it and

47:37 I might listen to it. But I think what I've kind of decided with this band is as much as I feel bad

47:42 for the other members of the band who had nothing to do with this and who are just trying to make

47:45 a living, probably the most direct way that you can support a musician or an actor or band or

47:50 something like that is to buy tickets to their concert. And then when you go there by merch, those

47:54 are the things that they get the most of the money from. They don't get a lot of money from the plays

47:58 on, you know, Apple music, they don't get a lot of money from Spotify or YouTube. They get most

48:02 of their money from from touring. And as they dying has been touring in Europe, I think they did

48:06 some tours and, you know, South America played some shows in Brazil. They haven't done a lot in

48:10 America yet. But the thing about this is to be honest with you, I don't know that I could support

48:14 the band by going and seeing them ever again. Even though, again, they're they are one of my

48:18 favorite bands. I just I just can't really see myself giving them my money considering what the

48:22 lead singer did. You know, and I know it's bad when you pay your debt to society, that should just be

48:27 it. You know, like, I kind of remember when people would get on to Michael Vick, even after he got

48:33 out of prison, the thing is, is Michael Vick went to big boy prison, right? Dude went to Leavenworth.

48:37 He like, he didn't go to one of those prisons where, you know, you got like your own suite and your

48:41 own security and you could leave on the weekends. Like, he did real time and I'm a dog person and

48:45 what he did to dogs and what he forced dogs to do was absolutely reprehensible, but he did pay his

48:50 debt to society. And so when, you know, Peter and all those people were like, picketing at his

48:54 games whenever he was playing with the Steelers or whatever afterwards, it's like, dude, that's

48:57 no, like, I don't think that's right. But at the same time, I feel a little bit disingenuous,

49:01 because at the same time, I find it really, really hard to support anything that Tim Lanbesis does,

49:06 but that's just kind of where I'm where I am on the subject right now. So all right, guys, next

49:10 question here. Well, actually, this is a email that I received from somebody from the Portland area.

49:16 Now, I remember this email was written a little bit funky, so I'm going to try to read it as best I

49:20 can and then we'll get into the subject matter here. Okay. All right, I live in the Portland Metro

49:24 area. I am part of the community of Hillsborough, even though I live in the next town over. In the

49:29 last month, there was adopted a new sex education system in the Hillsborough school district. That's

49:34 going to be implemented. I've been, I've not been through it all, but some of the things that I have

49:39 read and talked about with others is that it appears that starting in kindergarten, they are

49:43 going to start playing things like gin, what gender are you today? And by fourth grade,

49:48 teaching them how to give consent. So that's like sexual consent. I don't know about you,

49:52 but at eight or nine years old, I didn't know right and wrong with my body. I've not found it

49:57 myself, but there have been there has been talk at around that grade level that they are going to be

50:02 taught oral sex. And if that is on the table, they're probably going to talk about self gratification

50:08 or masturbation. I was wondering if you had heard of this happening elsewhere and what your thoughts

50:13 were. So thanks to this guy who wrote this email, I don't want to give his name to anybody's listening

50:17 in that area. But what's interesting about that, one of my foxhole guys, Rocky, the same week I got

50:22 this email, he sent me a question that was like, Hey, have you heard about what's happening in the

50:27 Austin school system? And I was like, no, so I went and looked it up. Well, in the Austin Independent

50:31 school system, they had just they just voted on this curriculum that, you know, drastically expands

50:37 the things that they're going to be doing from a sexual education standpoint. It brings in a lot

50:42 of, you know, gender confusion stuff. It brings a lot into the trans stuff. You know, it's talking

50:47 about consent is talking about, you know, different, you know, ways that you can do health care and

50:52 all these different things. But essentially what they're doing is they're creating this hyper left,

50:57 a very, very liberal way of doing sexual education, right? It's like, well, when we tell the kids not

51:02 to have sex, I have sex anyway. So let's show a sixth grader how to put on a condom. That couldn't

51:06 possibly go wrong. That's kind of the idea that they're going through. But then I read in a small

51:11 line down at the bottom of one of the articles I read, who the curriculum was made by. Okay, so

51:16 for the Austin Independent school system that has just accepted this nonsense, the curriculum was made

51:21 by, wait for it, planned fricking parenthood. Yeah. So you might think to yourself, what does

51:31 Planned Parenthood have to do with sexual education? Why do they have a hand in sexual education for

51:37 our children? Isn't Planned Parenthood busy murdering millions of babies every year? Yeah,

51:44 like, aren't they just busy? Right? Don't they have other stuff that they can do? Because again,

51:48 Planned Parenthood, they're not about women's health care. You can't go to Planned Parenthood

51:52 and get a pap smear and a mammogram and all those things. You go there when you want someone else

51:55 to kill your baby, right? Well, it's like what I talked about with Tim Lambesis. It's like,

51:59 he was going to pay someone to kill his wife. And that's like the worst thing possible. But if a

52:03 woman walks into a Planned Parenthood, hands him a few hundred bucks and says murder my baby,

52:07 we can't say that she's done anything wrong. Give me, give me a fricking break. Anyway,

52:10 I'm not talking about that today. But that's the thing is, Planned Parenthood obviously

52:14 is of the left and of the satanic left. And they're trying to put these ideas, a lot of these ideas

52:20 about what is sexuality and what is consent and what is all these things. And none of these things

52:25 are coming from a Judeo Christian worldview whatsoever. It's coming from a Marxist leftist

52:29 ideology. Because the thing about it is, is they want to take the kids and the control of the kids

52:34 away from the parents. Okay. Now this isn't about to be a diatribe about public school because I was

52:39 a product of public school. You know, there are private schools that have this private Christian

52:43 schools that have this problem as well. But the thing about this Austin independent school system

52:47 stuff, and I'm pretty sure I read this right. If I'm wrong, please correct me. But I don't think

52:52 the parents are given an option to have their kids opted out of this. They're going to be forced

52:57 to go through it, or they need to take their kids out of the school. Right. And so when you're

53:03 forcing this on people, you're not giving the parents an opportunity to parent. And so that's why

53:08 they had hundreds and hundreds of people show up at the board meetings, the school board meetings,

53:13 trying to talk through this, but all the people in the school boards are leftist. And so it's all

53:18 these people that are super concerned. It's like, well, y'all weren't concerned when it was time to

53:21 elect these people. Because here's the thing about Austin. Austin is our bright blue spot and an

53:25 otherwise red state of Texas, right? But if it could happen in Texas, it can happen in your backyard.

53:31 Right. For the guy that this is going on in Portland, dude, it's Portland. No one's surprised that this

53:36 is happening in Portland. So you shouldn't be surprised either. Anything that happens that's

53:39 weird in the United States, probably started the idea came from Portland. It just is what it is.

53:43 But when people talk about it happening in Texas, it's weird. Because if it happens there, it could

53:48 happen in Oklahoma. It could happen in Wyoming, Montana, Alabama. It can certainly happen in those

53:54 places. And so this should be a warning to all of you that you've got to be engaged.

53:58 You've got to be engaged with your children's teachers. You got to be engaged with the principals.

54:04 You got to be engaged with the school board. You got to maybe run for school board.

54:07 Because the thing about it is most of the people that come from this, you know, education background,

54:12 most of them are of the left. And so they're going to see a program like this and be like,

54:16 Oh my gosh, this is great. This is like, you know, super inclusive. And you know, more people

54:20 are going to be represented in this and it's going to be great. But but think about the damage

54:25 that's going to come from a program like this. You're asking a six year old whether they feel

54:29 like a boy or a girl today. Well, they're like, well, I didn't know that was an option.

54:34 And so you're, you're putting these, these ideas in their head that are poisonous,

54:38 that are literally poisonous to them. So again, this about made my head explode reading about this

54:44 to the guy who emailed me, dude, I'm so sorry that that's happening to you. But I'm glad you're

54:48 on top of it. And as much as you know about the subject right now, let me encourage you

54:53 to get it even deeper into it. Okay. All right, guys, next part here. Well, this is pretty common

54:57 on the Q and A episodes, but people want my UFC predictions for some upcoming things. And

55:02 it looks like we they want my opinion on some stuff that's already happened. So the very first

55:05 thing here is they want my thoughts on the recent BMF title fight, the kind of the lead up to the

55:11 fight, the fight itself, the stoppage, the future of the BMF, you know, all that kind of stuff. So

55:15 for any of you, you know, thinking individuals that don't know what the BMF is, let me break it

55:19 down for you. The BMF stands for baddest mother effort, right? So that's all I'm going to give it to.

55:27 So this came about because after Nate Diaz beat up Anthony Pettis, he gets on the mic and he's like,

55:32 Yeah, man, I'm going to defend my belt, my BMF belt against bad dude and gambling. I'm a fight

55:38 who I am miles with down by it was the dumbest thing in the world. He made up a belt out of thin air.

55:42 But then the promotion, the UFC's like, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's have you fight who

55:48 are hit my husband all as the main event in Madison Square Garden for the BMF belt,

55:55 which doesn't really technically exist. The UFC came out and they made a belt for it,

56:00 which is really weird. I mean, because like back in wrestling, like when the NWO took over the

56:05 WCW, they like spray painted NWO on the bell. And it was like, Oh, this is counter. But like,

56:10 the UFC actually got behind it. They actually made an ugly belt that said BMF on it.

56:16 Ridiculous. So the lead up to the fight. Here's the thing. Nate Diaz is a moron and his interview,

56:22 his interviews are just terrible if, if and when he shows up and Hori Mosvidal is kind of like a

56:26 counter puncher and he's kind of like a chill guy leading up to the fight. But the thing about the

56:30 lead up is the title is called the baddest mother effort. You can't go on ESPN. You can't go on

56:36 Good Morning America and say what the title actually is. So the general public didn't know

56:42 what was going on. They just knew this was kind of a big fight and it was headlining Madison Square

56:46 Garden. So it's probably a big deal. Okay. So we get all the way to the fight. This fight's

56:51 at 170. This was not even a fight. Okay. It was, it was meant to go five rounds. It was stopped after

56:56 the third round. Hori Mosvidal beat the brakes off an ADS. If there, there was a 15 minutes of that

57:01 fight, Hori Mosvidal controlled 14 minutes and 58 seconds of that fight. He almost stopped Nate Diaz

57:07 in the first round, hit him with a lot of clean punches and also followed it up with a kick.

57:11 But after the third round, Nate Diaz had huge cuts on the top and bottom. I think it was of his left

57:16 eye, right? And the doctor came in and he stopped the fight, which is hilarious. And that's exactly

57:22 what you dopes that like this BMF title nonsense. That's exactly what you deserve. The baddest

57:27 mother effort had the fight stopped because of a cut. Now the cuts were terrible. I agree with the

57:32 stoppage, but it just made perfect sense. Now the stupidest thing is right after the fight,

57:37 everyone was like, Oh man, no, no, no, they got to run this bot and they got to run this back

57:42 because Nate Diaz was just he was waiting on Jorge to get tired. It's the fourth and fifth round.

57:47 That's when Nate Diaz does his best work. What? Like were we watching the same fight?

57:52 Nate Diaz did nothing. That was effective. And we have no indication that Hori Mosvidal was tired

58:00 or even getting tired. Does that mean Nate couldn't have won the fight? Of course it doesn't mean

58:04 that he could have certainly won the fight, but there's no indication like with that one

58:07 sided of a beatdown, you're not looking for an immediate rematch. And then like a week later,

58:12 Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz is older, dumber older brother, he's doing interviews like,

58:16 I'm making a fight my brother. I'm gonna come out retirement. I'm gonna fight you. And so this BMF

58:23 thing apparently is going to live on a little bit, right? Because Nick Diaz is like, Oh, I haven't

58:29 fought in like 74 years, but I think I'll come back just to fight for this fictional BMF title.

58:34 So hopefully it's done. Hopefully we never have to hear about this ridiculous BMF title. It's one

58:39 of the stupidest things I've ever seen, but it is what it is. I would have watched the fight anyway.

58:45 But to me, that's not a Madison Square Garden made event fight. That's like a fight night made

58:49 event, right? Like it's just it was weird to me that it was it was made that big. We don't have

58:53 any indication how well the fight sold. But yeah, there was my thoughts on the BMF title. All right,

58:58 now I'm moving on. All right, who would? Okay, who would the NMF be? So this guy's asking me,

59:04 who would be the nicest MF or in the USC? Okay. So he lists Max Holloway and Stephen Thompson here.

59:12 Okay. So I certainly would agree with those Max Holloway, the 145 pound champ and Stephen Thompson

59:16 twice went for the 170 pound belt. But those are very, very nice guys. If I'm thinking off top

59:22 my head, I would probably say, I guess you'd have to put Randy Coutur on there. So he's been

59:27 retired for a while. But that was a nice guy. He always was smiling in the ring and seemed to be

59:31 having a good time. Dan Henderson's another one that this kind of like that another retired guy.

59:36 Chris Weidman hasn't quite retired yet. So he's he's kind of, I mean, that dude is an absolute

59:41 killer. But you know, another guy that's pretty nice. And he's always doing interviews and stuff

59:45 like that. Frankie Edgar, Frankie Edgar seems like a really nice dude. Like he's just seems kind of

59:51 quiet to himself and doesn't really kind of like make he doesn't try to make too much out of things.

59:55 But yeah, those would be the nicest emifers in the UFC. So thanks for that ridiculous question.

1:00:00 All right. Next thing. Oh, so they want me to pick some upcoming fights. So there's not a whole

1:00:03 lot of UFC's on the books because we're coming up to the end of the year. But there's a huge fight

1:00:08 card in Vegas on December 14th. That's UFC 245. There are three title fights on this pay-per-view.

1:00:14 Okay. So the first title fight of that night is Amanda Nunes versus Jermaine Durandame. Okay. So

1:00:19 that's for the Bandumway title for the women's division 135. The thing isn't it isn't too

1:00:24 further notice. Amanda Nunes is the goat when it comes to female MMA. Okay. She knocked out

1:00:31 cyborg. She beat the brakes off of Rhonda. She headkick Holly Holm. She's literally and she beat

1:00:37 a Valentina chef Chanko twice already. She's beaten all the best female fighters that anyone can name.

1:00:43 Right. And none of those fights were especially close. Right. One of the fights against Chef

1:00:48 Chanko was decently close. Their last fight. Now Jermaine Durandame is a serious fighter. She is a

1:00:53 serious striker. But the thing about his is when people fight Amanda Nunes, they're like she hits

1:00:58 like a dude. And that's not meant to be, you know, a dig in any way, shape or form. Because women that

1:01:04 spar with other guys in training said that when they get in the fight, Amanda Nunes is hitting them

1:01:07 like the men do. So I don't know. I just don't see a way that Jermaine Durandame wins this fight.

1:01:13 I don't see any holes in Amanda Nunes's game as of late. She fixed her gas tank problem,

1:01:16 which was her only problem that she ever had. And so she's a really, really scary person right now.

1:01:21 So the next fight on that, the next title fight that's on that pay-per-view is Max Holloway

1:01:26 versus Alexander Volcanovsky. So that's for the featherweight title 145. So Max Holloway is on

1:01:31 a streak right now. I don't know how many title defenses he has in the row, but he has a lot.

1:01:36 And he has done an incredible amount to build that up and to basically destroy everyone in front of

1:01:41 him at 145. But I think he's going to lose the title on December 14th. I honestly do. So Alexander

1:01:48 Volcanovsky, let me tell you a little bit about him. He's fighting at 145, but the dude used to play

1:01:53 rugby. And when he played rugby, he weighed like over 200 pounds. Just think about that. He weighed

1:02:00 over 200 pounds playing rugby. Now he fights at 145. But the thing about Volcanovsky is he's kept

1:02:07 his speed right? You know, obviously, if you get smaller, you're going to get faster, but he's also

1:02:12 kept his strength. And so Max Holloway, I can guarantee you, has never been in the octagon,

1:02:18 but a stronger human being than when he walks in there against Alexander Volcanovsky.

1:02:22 And that's the thing is Max Holloway is he's a pressure guy. He's a he's a volume guy. He's

1:02:27 knocking knock you out with one punch or one kick. But I think that everything he throws at Volcanovsky,

1:02:32 he's just going to stand right, stand right in front of him and eat it. And so that that's one of

1:02:36 those fights that I'm really looking forward to. I really, really like Max Holloway, but I don't

1:02:39 think he's going to keep his belt. And then the last one, the main event of that is going to be

1:02:43 Kamara Usman fighting Colby Covington for the 170 pound welterweight title. And so this is a

1:02:49 huge fight. This is a grudge match in a lot of different ways. Colby Covington never really lost

1:02:54 his his interim belt. They just kind of moved on because he because he had surgery. He does the

1:02:59 whole maga thing. You know, he's kind of a heel. He's making himself a heel. Kamara Usman, he does

1:03:04 his best on the mic, but he's not the greatest. But the thing about this fight is Kamara Usman

1:03:09 and Colby Covington are the same fighter. They're the same fighter. They both have great gas tanks.

1:03:14 They overwhelm you with pressure and with volume. They don't have a lot of power and they're great

1:03:20 wrestlers. That's about it. But this is why I'm giving the edge in this fight to Colby Covington.

1:03:26 Because Colby Covington has gotten under Kamara Usman's skin. Every time they do an interview,

1:03:32 every time they're in the same room, you can just see it. And you know, Colby Covington's,

1:03:36 he's doing an act this whole Donald Trump thing. It's an act, but it's bothering Usman. It is.

1:03:42 It absolutely is bothering him. So what I think that's going to translate to in the fight is I

1:03:46 think Kamara Usman's going to try to go in there and literally kill Colby Covington. And he might do

1:03:50 it. But I think he's going to come in guns blazing and try to get Colby out of there quick.

1:03:54 And I think he might shoot his water a little bit, right? Because if you're fighting angry,

1:03:59 you're going to fight tight. You're you're going to kind of overextend on some certain

1:04:02 positions or certain punches. And the thing about Colby Covington is he's not going to get tired.

1:04:06 Ever, right? That doesn't mean he's unbeatable, but he's not going to get tired.

1:04:10 And so I think if Kamara does that and you know, blows himself out by the second or third round,

1:04:16 it's going to be a really, really long night for him. So this is a coin flip fight. I think

1:04:20 Kamara Usman is considered a slight favorite right now, but I got to give it to Colby Covington.

1:04:25 And then there's one more fight before the new year before 2020 that is going to be interesting.

1:04:29 That I think a lot of people will be paying attention to. It's a fight nine fight on December 21st.

1:04:33 It's Brian T city Ortega versus a Korean zombie. And this is in Korea. And so here's the thing.

1:04:38 The last time we saw Korean zombie, he had gotten knocked out by one of the most incredible,

1:04:43 you know, back elbows on the last second of a five round fight that we've ever seen. And then

1:04:47 Brian T city Ortega, he fought a long time ago against Max Holloway. And he got the he just got

1:04:52 just beat to crap by Max Holloway. It was a horrific fight for Ortega. But in this fight,

1:04:59 I think Brian Ortega has been out for a very long time, but I don't think that's going to serve him

1:05:03 well. Korean zombie fighting in Korea. This is a guy that's not going to really feel the pressure

1:05:07 of that moment. So I don't think it's going to affect his performance. I honestly think it's

1:05:11 going to be a bad night out for Brian Ortega. I think Korean zombie is going to put it on him.

1:05:14 So I got to take him in that fight. And then I kind of added this last part myself. I wasn't

1:05:19 asked about it, but there there's several fights that I'd like to see in 2020 that have not been

1:05:24 announced and have not been signed yet. But if we get to the end of 2020 and these fights happen,

1:05:28 I'm going to be really, really happy. And I'm just going to kind of give them to you in the order

1:05:32 in which I, you know, came up with them. The first one is steep a meochis versus DC three,

1:05:36 okay, versus Daniel Cormier for the third one. This is a trilogy fight. First fight Daniel Cormier

1:05:40 won by knockout steep a one the second fight by knockout. They got to do it again. DC's already

1:05:45 said that this is going to be his last fight. No more fighting, no more waiting for John Jones,

1:05:48 that kind of thing. Because the thing is, is DC was winning that fight the whole way. And then

1:05:52 he got sloppy. Then he got lazy. So I think he knows that he left some things out there. I

1:05:57 think he knows that he's better than steep a, but that's a fight that we got to see. We got to see

1:06:00 the third one, steep a is out there talking about, you know, doing a boxing match with Tyson Fury

1:06:05 and all this nonsense. It's it's complete crap. But he's keeping his name out there. It is what it

1:06:09 is. But I got to see that fight next year. The next one I want to see it 185. So Israel Adasanya.

1:06:14 So he is the undisputed champion there. He just defended his belt technically against Robert Whittaker.

1:06:19 I want to see him versus Joelle Romero. Okay. So Joelle Romero is coming off of a loss

1:06:24 to Paulo Costa in a fight where I think everyone in their dog thought that Joelle Romero won that

1:06:29 fight. But Paulo Costa has blown his bicep. So he had to have surgery on his bicep. And there's not

1:06:35 anyone else at 185 that makes sense immediately. Kevin Gasolam just lost his last fight to dare

1:06:40 until dare until that was only his first fight at 185. I don't think he's ready for Israel Adasanya

1:06:44 whatsoever and his fight against Gasolam wasn't that great anyway. But Joelle Romero is the fight

1:06:50 that Israel Adasanya wants. And Joelle Romero is a killer. He's he's a freak. He's a 43 year old

1:06:56 freak beast. But the thing is, I think if you sign that fight, no one's disappointed even if

1:07:00 Joelle Romero is coming off a loss. And I know he has trouble making weight. I know he has trouble

1:07:04 showing up. Sometimes it just kind of is what it is. But that would be a huge fight at 185.

1:07:08 And so the next one I want to see it's kind of like four guys. It's kind of like a round

1:07:12 robin that I want to happen at 155. So I want some former fashion of Habib Nurmagomedov,

1:07:18 Tony Ferguson, Conor McGregor, Justin Gaechee. I need all those guys to fight like a whole bunch.

1:07:24 I need to just fight every other month or something like that. The thing is, though,

1:07:28 is the fight that I have to absolutely see out of that group is you have to see her Beeb Nurmagomedov

1:07:32 versus Tony Ferguson. Okay, that fight has been made four times and four times an injury has

1:07:39 occurred and that fight couldn't happen. That that's that's obviously the fight to happen at 155.

1:07:44 But the problem is is the Beeb hasn't fought since September. And we have no announcement or

1:07:48 indication that those two are going to fight each other. There's something weird going on,

1:07:52 right? And I don't think it really has anything to do with Conor because, you know,

1:07:55 Conor talking about him coming back to fight cowboy Saroni in July or January, but that's not

1:08:00 been signed yet either. It's just kind of a weird time. But those four guys, I mean,

1:08:05 I really think that Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaechee are the two guys that have the best

1:08:08 chance of ending Habib Nurmagomedov's undefeated career. Conor McGregor, I think, took Habib way.

1:08:14 He didn't take him seriously really at all. He thought he was going to go in there and just

1:08:17 be able to box the guy and really defend the takedown and just obviously didn't work out for him.

1:08:21 He only won one round and ended up getting choked out. But those four guys, if they can just continue

1:08:25 fighting one another, I think that'd be awesome. The next one I'd like to see, I want to see John

1:08:29 Jones fight a heavyweight. Okay, so John Jones has been flirting with the idea of going to heavyweight

1:08:34 for, you know, what seems to be years and years decades at this point. But the thing is, is he

1:08:40 keeps talking about how there's not really any interesting fights at 205. And you know, you got

1:08:43 Reyes and Corey Anderson won his last fight. And so there's a couple of interesting fights there.

1:08:48 But I feel like he's a couple of fights from really kind of wearing out that division.

1:08:51 And so he rocks around at about 225 anyway. If he wanted to concentrate on going up to heavyweight

1:08:58 and fighting whoever's up there fighting Steepay or Francis or, you know, whoever that might be,

1:09:03 Francis and Ganyu, I just want to see him go ahead and do that. Like I'm tired of him talking about

1:09:07 I just want to see it actually happen. And then the last fight I want to see is this is me

1:09:11 assuming that Colby Covington is going to beat Kamara Usman. I want to see Colby come to go against

1:09:16 Tyrone Woodley. That fight is the fight that should have happened a long time ago, because those two

1:09:22 those two guys hate each other. Former training partners, you know, they got a lot of trash that

1:09:28 they're talking back and forth that fight was supposed to happen. I think the middle of last year,

1:09:33 but they needed Tyrone. They needed to do a main event for like a Dallas card and Tyrone was ready,

1:09:37 but Colby had just had like nasal surgery. So they couldn't match it up. And then it just didn't

1:09:41 quite work out. Tyrone Woodley, Fakumar Usman lost. And then there wasn't really any heat at the

1:09:46 time between Covington and Usman. This is kind of one of those things. But that's the fight.

1:09:50 I mean, I'm interested in watching Covington fight Usman right now, but him versus Tyrone Woodley,

1:09:55 that's the real fight, because Tyrone Woodley had a horrible night out when he lost his belt

1:09:59 to Kamara Usman. He did not look good walking to the octagon. When he took his shirt off, he looked,

1:10:03 he literally didn't look like he normally did. He didn't fight like he normally did. Something

1:10:07 was wrong. I mean, he was doing a bunch of stuff on TMZ. He was talking to, you know, a bunch of

1:10:11 different people doing, you know, rap records and all that stuff. I think his mind wasn't in the game.

1:10:16 But if he's in the game, him versus Colby is the number one fight that I would want to see

1:10:20 at 170. So hopefully we get that next year. All right, guys, last question that well,

1:10:27 actually, actually, this isn't a question. This is a request. It just says this.

1:10:32 Tell me a story. Okay. Okay. So here we go, guys, I'm going to tell you a story. Okay.

1:10:40 And now the thing about the story is that the story is actually true. So follow along.

1:10:46 You will never get my secret. The man exclaimed as he was being forcefully removed from his home

1:10:53 by four burly police officers. This small, quiet Texas town was suddenly awakened early this Tuesday

1:10:59 morning by the sound of the front door of their neighbor's home being breached by law enforcement.

1:11:04 No matter what you do, I'll never tell you, you will never get my secret where the last words

1:11:10 anyone heard before the door of the police cruiser was shut. The man knew this day would

1:11:15 eventually come. He just wasn't sure when he knew that his secret couldn't be kept forever,

1:11:21 but he wasn't quite sure yet if the proverbial cat was actually out of the bag.

1:11:25 The man was taken to the police station where he was questioned for the crime in question.

1:11:30 The crime you ask? Well, the officers didn't know either. You see, the man they had arrested,

1:11:37 now sitting solemnly, but calmly inside their questioning room, had been the focus of the

1:11:41 department in this small, quiet town for quite some time. There's just something about him,

1:11:47 some would say. He just seems a bit off, doesn't he? Others would ask. Why won't he just tell us

1:11:55 his secret was the most common of the questions asked about this man in the town where he lived.

1:12:00 You see, this seemingly off-individual would frequently be over her talking to himself when

1:12:06 he was in public. For years, his seemingly incoherent ramblings were quiet and rare.

1:12:12 However, over the last several months, his demeanor had soured, his tone more biting,

1:12:19 his volume elevated. The subject of his ramblings and exclamations over this time? His secret.

1:12:26 Always, his secret. The townspeople were left to always wonder what secret could

1:12:34 possibly have this man in such a constant tizzy, a secret that this man was clearly having a hard

1:12:39 time keeping to himself. The exclamations only became more frequent and louder as time passed.

1:12:46 The complaints to the city and to the police about this seemingly unstable man went relatively

1:12:51 unchecked. "He hasn't done anything wrong," the police would say. "Being weird and making

1:12:58 you uncomfortable isn't a crime." However, that all changed. It was earlier on that quiet

1:13:06 Tuesday morning that the police thought they finally found this man's secret. A long-awaited

1:13:12 answer to the secret that had been haunting him. Earlier that morning, a local hunter called the

1:13:18 police to report a ghastly discovery. When the police arrived, the hunter immediately admitted to

1:13:23 hunting illegally on private land that he did not own, but the police were none too concerned

1:13:28 about that fact after they saw what the hunter discovered. There, under a thin layer of dirt,

1:13:34 mud, and leaves were the highly decomposed bodies of two men. It was unclear just how long the

1:13:41 dead men had been there, but it was certainly quite some time. The police found the wallets

1:13:47 of the two men and pulled them from their tattered clothing. They removed their identification cards

1:13:51 and they shared a last name. These men were brothers. The police then called the station and

1:13:59 immediately had them find out the owner of the land where the grizzly discovery was made.

1:14:04 Interestingly, the land owner also shared the last name of the two slain men. A name shared

1:14:12 because he too was their brother. After processing this bit of news, a sense of horror came over

1:14:18 the officer when he realized the land belonged to the rambling man. The man with two dead brothers.

1:14:27 The man with a crippling secret. A secret of murder. Once in the investigation room,

1:14:34 the detectives did everything they could to get the man to admit he had killed his brothers and

1:14:38 buried them hurriedly on his land. The interrogation went on for countless hours,

1:14:43 but the man would not budge. He simply would not admit to this crime. A crime that the officers

1:14:50 were convinced was committed by him. A crime that the officers were convinced was this man's

1:14:56 secret. With no direct evidence of the crime substantiating the officers gut feelings,

1:15:02 they were reluctantly forced to allow the man to return to his home.

1:15:05 The next day, a second year officer was cleaning the interrogation rooms when he found a hat.

1:15:11 He recognized this hat. It was on the head of the man he had helped drag out of the house the

1:15:16 previous morning. He simply must have forgot to grab it on his way out. Feeling a sense of duty

1:15:22 to return the hat and curiosity to keep an eye on a suspected double murderer in his community,

1:15:28 the young officer decided to drive by the man's house and return his hat to him.

1:15:32 When the officer arrived at the home, he noticed two long skid marks at the edge of the street.

1:15:38 He parked his cruiser in the empty driveway and got out to have a look around.

1:15:42 He looked in the garage window. The garage was empty. He looked into the house through the side

1:15:49 window. Nothing to be seen. He went around the front, peeked in that window. It seems as if the

1:15:56 man had cleared out his possessions and left in a haste. The officer immediately grabbed for his

1:16:01 radio to report that the suspected murderer had skipped town when something caught his eye.

1:16:06 There was a note on the front door. The note said, "You will never find me,

1:16:14 but I can no longer live being the only person to know my secret. I trust that my secret will be safe

1:16:22 with you." That was all it said. No poetic language, no solemn goodbye,

1:16:29 certainly not a single devolved secret, just two sentences. Silence, despair, confusion.

1:16:38 Those being the main feelings the officer felt at that moment until the hair on the back of his

1:16:44 neck stood up. The officer realized that words weren't all that were on that note.

1:16:51 As his eyes trailed off toward the bottom of the paper after he read the final word,

1:16:56 he noticed that the paper had been folded, taped, and something left inside. The officer pulled

1:17:01 off the tape and down fell an important piece to the impending puzzle. The officer knelt down

1:17:07 to pick up a key. A key to what? The officer thought. Then realizing where he was standing,

1:17:14 the officer tries the key on the front door. It doesn't work. He thinks quickly and remembers

1:17:20 that there is a side door and a back door to the house as well. He goes to the side door and tries

1:17:24 the lock. No luck. He runs to the back door, heart pounding, palms sweating, puts the key in and

1:17:31 nothing. The key didn't work. Exasperated, dejected, exhausted. The officer leans up against the brick

1:17:40 wall of the back of the house and slides down until he's sitting on the ground. "What now?" he asks

1:17:46 himself. "Is he just messing with me at this point? Is there even a secret to be found?"

1:17:52 It was at that moment the sun peeked out from behind the clouds and a glare caught his eye.

1:17:59 Temporarily blinded, the officer wondered where the glare was coming from and then he saw it.

1:18:05 In the middle of the yard about 50 feet away from the back door where he sat, he saw a small

1:18:11 storm shelter attached to the latch on the outside. A shiny lock. The same lock that had caught the

1:18:18 light of the sun. Newly invigorated, the officer sprints to the storm shelter, collects himself,

1:18:25 slowly places the key inside the lock, turns it, and click. It unlocks. He takes the lock off,

1:18:36 unlatches the latch, and throws the storm shelter door open. He peers inside but cannot see a thing.

1:18:41 Too dark. He pulls out his flashlight and begins his descent. Once in the shelter, he looks around

1:18:47 to find nothing out of the ordinary. There's bottled water by one wall, some canned food on

1:18:54 a bookshelf by the other, and some lawn tool strewn about with no particular order. Nothing

1:19:00 out of the ordinary. Except, he notices that the bookshelf with the canned food is not flush

1:19:08 with the wall behind it. He pulls back the bookshelf into his amazement. He sees a door

1:19:14 with a latch and a shiny lock. Just like the one he had just opened. He places the key inside the

1:19:22 lock, turns it, and click. It unlocks. He throws open the door to find himself at the beginning of a

1:19:29 long underground tunnel. He points his flashlight into the opening but cannot see where the tunnel

1:19:34 ends. Courageously, he begins walking down the tunnel slowly. He's five steps down the tunnel.

1:19:42 Sees nothing. Now, 20 steps down the tunnel. Sees nothing. 100 steps down the tunnel. Still nothing.

1:19:51 With his fear reaching maximum capacity in the notion that he might be walking into a trap,

1:19:56 the officer considers turning around and leaving this entire mess behind.

1:19:59 But then, he sees a light. A literal light at the end of the tunnel. His gate quickens as he gets

1:20:08 closer to the light. The light becomes bigger and brighter. He's running now, running as fast as he

1:20:12 can to get to this light. And then, he arrives at the light. It is a single light hovering over a

1:20:18 single table with a single thing on top of it. A sealed envelope. The officer picks up the envelope

1:20:25 and can barely contain his excitement and elation when he reads written on the outside of the envelope.

1:20:30 The words "my secret." His lungs burning, his heart pounding, his brow wet with sweat. He quickly

1:20:37 ribs open the envelope and written on a single sheet of paper is the secret he've gone through

1:20:41 all of this to learn. Epstein didn't kill himself.