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This is I'm gone to life a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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If you were listening to this on time, I would like to wish you, probably for the 100
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time today, a very, very Merry Christmas.
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Happy birthday, Jesus.
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We're so excited about that.
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But this is our last podcast show of the year.
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And I told you the last two podcasts of the year were going to be the best books I read in 2019
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and the best podcast of 2019.
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But we got an extra one in there.
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We got episode one 10 in there because Christianity today decided they wanted to go full idiot.
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And so if you missed that one, go back to episode one 10.
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You can hear me ranting yell for 35 minutes.
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So that'll be a lot of fun.
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But today's episode, I'm so excited for today's episode because here's the thing, guys.
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I'm way more excited about podcasts than I am about books.
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And the biggest reason is because I feel like in a week, I can listen to between 40 and 50
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episodes with kind of how much I drive and how much I work out and do different things like that.
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But it takes me forever to finish a book.
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Some of you guys are really, really fast readers.
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That's just not who I am.
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And so it's a little bit more difficult for me to take down that much content.
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But with podcasts, I feel like I can take down an unbelievable amount of podcast
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or take in an unbelievable amount of content that is.
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But at the end of the year, I kind of get to sit down and I get to think back on the podcast
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that I've listened to, some of the things that I've learned and I can kind of evaluate.
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Well, here's some podcasts that I picked up this year, you know, some new shows.
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Here were some shows that I kind of left alone.
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Here were some things that I, you know, maybe I didn't subscribe to or maybe I just picked up
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a few here or there.
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But then this year, the thing that I did differently than the episode I did last year
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from my best podcast of 2018, I actually got to do that with Undaunted Life, a man's podcast as well.
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Think back on the year and think, you know, what did people really like?
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What were some of the things that they didn't like?
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What were some of the areas that they really wanted me to focus on that kind of thing?
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So you guys, I'm always thinking about you guys and the things that you want to see
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so that 2020 is a fruitful year for you as well.
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So today's award show.
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I'm going to be handing out some awards, some very coveted awards, by the way.
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I mean, I don't know what these Golden Globes or these Oscars are or the Grammys.
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This is the award show that you want to be listening to here at the end of the year, okay?
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I'm going to do awards for Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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And then I'm going to do awards for all the other shows.
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And so what we're going to be going over, if you stick with us for Undaunted Life, a man's podcast,
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we're going to do the most popular episode of the year, the hardest episode to prepare,
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the best listener suggested episode, the most talked about episode, and my personal favorite
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episode of 2019. Now, with the other shows, we're going to do a few more categories, but it's
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most entertaining podcast show, most thought-provoking podcast show, most important podcast show,
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best short-form podcast show, best long-form podcast show, best podcast show overall,
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and best individual podcast episode of 2019. But before we get into the awards for Undaunted
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Life, a man's podcast, some of you guys are wondering, and maybe you heard whenever I said
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I listened to about 40 or 50 podcasts a week, you're like, wait, what? How in the world do you do that?
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That's crazy. And if you guys haven't heard me talk about it before, here are the reasons,
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or not the reasons, but here are the ways that I kind of get in more podcast content every year.
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The first is I listen on two-time speed. And some of you are like, how is it even possible?
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Didn't even know that was the setting on my phone. But almost everywhere you listening to this right
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now, whether you're on Spotify or Google Play or Apple podcasts or whatever, you can bump it up to
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two-time speed. Some even you can go even faster than that. But the overwhelming majority of people
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that talk, they talk very deliberately. They talk very slowly. They talk like this. They're trying
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to make their point. They're trying to gather their thoughts. And so if someone bumps it up to
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two-time speed and they go a little bit faster and they talk a little bit faster and they're
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talking about this or talking about that, you can still pick up on it. Your brain can absolutely
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keep up with that information. And some people are like, oh, I'm going to try one and a half first.
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Here's the thing, just go to two-time speed and just say that's my new speed and just go for it.
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I promise you, your brain will learn to listen at that speed. Because here's the thing, guys, is
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you're afraid that if you miss a sentence or two that you're going to miss the entirety of the
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point of whatever that podcast was. But most of you don't do the same things with books.
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I mean, if you think about a book that you read and maybe one of the books that you read with me
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this year, you're not thinking about every single word and every single sentence and every single
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paragraph, every single page, you're not thinking that way. You're thinking about the macro categorical
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things that you learned or philosophical things that you learned inside of that episode or inside
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of that book, right? Do the same thing with podcasts. You're not needing to hear every single word
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exactly how it's supposed to be spoken and all those different things. Just don't worry about it.
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Just get the content that you need. Your brain will help you out. The other way that you can help
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get more podcasts down is don't listen to crappy podcasts, right? Which hopefully you never put
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us in that category. But here's the thing is there's a lot of people that are just like, well,
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you know, I don't really like this podcast, but I guess I'll stay subscribed to it. But the
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thing about it is, is if you're not looking forward to the podcast, you'll probably avoid it.
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If you're not looking forward to the content, don't take in the content. You know what I mean?
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Seems like a pretty simple suggestion because it is. And the last thing is do it every chance
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you can listen to podcasts every chance you can. Because here's the thing, think about the times
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when you normally have downtime. So almost everybody listens to podcasts on their commute,
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right? Whether you walk to work or bike to work or drive to work or something like that,
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you listen on your commute. But I would also say listen while you're working out.
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So people are like, I don't know, I got to listen to pump up music or something like that. Well,
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maybe that's true. But you're not pumped up the entire time, right? You don't need to have that
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exactly song on repeat for the entire hour you're working out or something like that.
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But do while you're working out. Here's some other things. If you're walking your dog,
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throw in your headphones. One thing that I like to do on Sundays whenever I'm prepping my food for
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the week, you know, if my wife's not there or she's working or something like that, I'll have my
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headphones in. And so you're sitting there, you know, preparing the meat or cutting vegetables or
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doing whatever it is that you do for meal prep. That may be two hours worth of podcasts, right?
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If it takes you an hour to prep the meals and you're listening in two times speed,
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you just knocked out two hours worth of podcasts. Some of you guys are, you know,
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I'd listen to Jocka Willink or I'd listen to Joe Rogan or I'd listen to, you know, hardcore history,
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I'd listen to those but they're just so long. Two times speed, cut everything in half. It's great.
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So those are a couple of quick things for you. But before we get into the actual awards,
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I want to kind of kind of go through some of the podcasts this year that I'm not subscribed to,
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but that I still listen to here and there. And guys, with with all this, I want your feedback.
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I want to know what are you listening to? Okay, email me info@undaunted.life info@undaunted.life.
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Just let me know what you're into. Is there a podcast out there that I'm not listening to that
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I need to be? But make sure you listen to the whole episode so you can see whatever I'm doing.
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But here's some that I've listened to before, maybe picked up an episode here or there that
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might be of interest to you. But one is sword and scale. That's kind of a true crime podcast.
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They've gotten a new host and she's awful. And so, but some of the older episodes are nice.
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Tim Keller sermons, there's a label, the stories, rumors and legends of tooth and nail records.
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So if you grew up with tooth and nail records, that's an interesting one for you.
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Reasonable faith with William Lane Craig. So that's a little bit more apologetics.
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Building a story brand with Donald Miller, that's marketing. And that's also very similar to a book
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that I suggested on the best books of the year. So make sure you pick that one up or
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listen to that one if you're into marketing and business and that kind of stuff.
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The art of manliness, that's one that I've officially just unsubscribed to. They put out a lot of
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episodes that the host isn't exactly that enthralling. He's not he's not maybe the greatest host in the
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world. And maybe about 50% of them are interesting to me. So I just kind of left that where I'm not
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subscribed, but I can still kind of go in and pick here or there. I get my MLB fix, my baseball
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fix with the Ringer MLB show. There's a local guy here named Terry Fakes. That's F-E-I-X with
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Crossings Community Church. He's got a really cool one that you can pick up. But these last two
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one I kind of explained why I've kind of unsubscribed from them. But it's the Stephen Mansfield podcast
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and the Great Man podcast, which is also hosted by Stephen Mansfield. There's a couple of reasons
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why I've unsubscribed from these in that I pretty much don't listen to them anymore.
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Number one is these are short podcasts, you know, between 10 and 20 minutes long. But every single
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episode, I feel like if it's a 20 minute long episode, I feel like at the 10 minute mark,
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it's like, okay, man, I got it. Like, I got the point. It's like, it's an incredible thing that
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he's able to do where he can beat a dead horse even in a short podcast. So it's like he introduces
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the topic. He kind of gives you his input. And then he just kind of keeps giving you examples
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and input. And so I thought that was kind of weird. So even though there's a short podcast,
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you know, you can cut it in half with a two minute pod or two time speed or whatever.
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I just didn't think, you know, that they were that interesting to keep listening to,
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even though I've gotten a lot of value out of those podcasts. The other thing's a little bit
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more personal. Stephen Mansfield is a guy that I've reached out to that he and I have talked
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offline and done, done things like that. But I corrected him last year. He keeps trumpeting out
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that, that quotation about how one in five women that go to college are sexually assaulted,
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right, raped or something like that, one in five. And that that particular statistic has
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been debunked so unbelievably, right? It's because again, just think about it. For those of you
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out there that have teenage daughters or daughters that are in college, if there was a one in five
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chance that she was going to get raped, are you sending her to school? Like, are you just going to
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write, you know, pay for the tuition and just hope for the best, right? Like that couldn't possibly
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be true. And when you get into the data, it's not even close to being true. Well,
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I pointed that out to him. I said, Hey, just, you know, out of love or whatever you guys say
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when you're talking to another guy, I'm like, Hey, just wanted to kind of let you know that
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you keep saying the stat and you've said it in speeches before. And the stat that you're quoting
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is absolutely incorrect. And if you keep propagating that stat, there's other people that are going
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to believe that that's the truth. And I know you're a guy that's, you know, big on the truth. So,
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you know, hey, just wanted to kind of let you know, he pushed back on me a little bit, which is
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completely fine. And I have really appreciate that. And then I, you know, kind of brought the hammer,
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which is the actual data, right? Like, here's the data. There's only one way to read it,
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because it just kind of is what it is. Like the best case scenario is sitting right here in front
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of you. And it couldn't have been maybe a month or two later, he said that exact same statistic
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on the podcast. And so it's like, okay, you know, this guy, I don't know if he just didn't believe the
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FBI statistics or what the situation might be. But that just always kind of rubbed me the wrong way
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to where it's just like, man, I've told you guys before, if I'm wrong about something, I want to
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know it. Like, I absolutely want to know it. So that kind of struck me the wrong way. But I still
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get value out of the content that he puts out there. So I'm not saying don't listen to it. But,
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you know, that just, again, kind of rubbed me the wrong way. But I want to go and kind of give you
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guys my current lineup of podcasts. And these are my don't miss podcasts. These are every week,
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whether they post one episode a year, or, you know, five episodes a week or whatever the thing is,
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these are the episodes that I don't or the shows that I definitely don't miss. And I'll just do it
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in order of how they are on my phone. The briefing with Albert Mueller, unbelievable with Justin
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Briarley, RZIM, just thinking podcast, that's the Robbie Zacharias International Ministries podcast,
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the village church sermons. That's the the Matt Chandler stuff. I only listen to Matt Chandler
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sermons there. The Jordan B. Peterson podcast, you're welcome with Chell Sonnen. That's an MMA
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podcast, Ariel Hualani's MMA show, the Joe Rogan experience, Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast,
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Jocko podcast, the Ben Shapiro show, the Rubin report that's Dave Rubin, louder with Crowder.
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Well, that's one that I catch here or there. You know, he's kind of hit or miss for me.
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The way I heard it with Mike Rowe, that's a dirty jobs guy apology, a radio, that's with Jeff Durbin
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and Dan Carlin's hardcore history. So those are my can't miss ones, right? So I'll pick up
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an episode here or there. You guys will suggest an episode. I'll pick that up. But those are the
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ones that I normally listen to. A lot of guys ask me, what are your podcasts? Those are my go-tos. Now,
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whoa, 11 and a half minutes in. Here we are. We're ready for awards time. So let's go ahead and
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launch in to the awards for Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. The first award we're handing out is for
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the most popular episode of 2019. And so we go obviously by who has listened to this podcast more
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than other ones. And that was episode 100. So we hit the sensory mark and I gave you guys something
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special. The very first ever interview on Undaunted Life, a man's podcast was with my good buddy Eddie
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Penny. So if you have not listened to that episode, right, or any of the episodes I'm about to talk
12:53
about, you got to go back and listen to it. But this one especially, this one struck a chord with
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you guys, because this is a guy who was in dev group. That is he was an a seal, seal team six,
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whatever you want to call it. But this is a guy that's got a tremendous amount of spiritual depth
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to him as well. There were some things that he revealed to me on the podcast that I wasn't even
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really aware of that that involved me personally. It was a great podcast to prepare and get out there
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for you. And then you guys have just absolutely loved it. And I think that was like two hours long.
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So I asked him, I was like, Hey, can you give me 45 minutes to an hour? He's like, yeah, absolutely.
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And then we just kept going and going and going. And the responses I've gotten on that episode have
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been absolutely incredible. So that is the most popular episode of 2019. The next award is for
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the hardest episode to prepare of 2019. And so this is actually a two parter. And it was one podcast
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that I broke into two parts, but it was episodes 60 and 61. So it was toxic masculinity part one,
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a history, and then toxic masculinity part two, a future. Okay, so the reason why this was the
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hardest episode to prepare for is because before I even recorded episode one of this, right? I
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knew I had to do something about toxic masculinity had to do something. Because I'm asked about it
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constantly. It's constantly brought up in the circles that I'm in. It's brought up in kind of,
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you know, the media that I follow, this idea of toxic masculinity, how is masculinity so toxic?
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It's brought up in the church brought up everywhere. And the thing was, is I had to do the subject
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justice and to be honest with you, I kept putting it off. Because there's not really a good time
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a year to talk about toxic masculinity, because it just comes up, right? Someone posts a tweet,
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it's like, Oh, that's toxic. Or some guy like, you know, look down as secretary shirt or something
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like that. And then it's Oh, hashtag me too. Like there's all these situations that happen.
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There's not a great time to talk about it. But those were the hardest to prepare for because I
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wanted to bring it for you guys. I absolutely wanted to bring it for you guys. And for the most
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part from the feedback that I've received, I was able to do that for you. Because a lot of you didn't
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know where toxic masculinity even came from. Some of you have never even heard of the phrase toxic
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masculinity. You don't really put any thought as to how that affects you, how that affects your
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boys, how that affects the people in your church, how it affects the people that are in your sphere
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of influence, what the future of that looks like. And so that was very difficult, because I felt
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a lot of pressure putting that one together, because you know, like with the, you know,
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episode 110, whenever Christianity today was attacking Trump, that was easy. I just kind of
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put together a quick little outline and I just boom, just went in the studio and just, you know,
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ransacked the microphone. But this one, I put a lot of time, a lot of whiteboard time, a lot of
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research time and that. So that was easily the hardest episode or episodes to prepare of 2019.
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Next award here, the most offensive episode of 2019. And guys, if you just go back to the beginning
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of January of this year through this through the end, and you just look at the titles,
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this would be the one that you would not think would be offensive, right? And here's the funny
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thing is I obviously understand my personality. It's very forward. It's very forthright. I sometimes
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rub people the wrong way. I have to be very, very cognizant of that. But there are times when I'm
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absolutely astonished that people are offended. This is one of those times because the most
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offensive episode of this podcast this year was episode 73 entitled Should We Root for Tiger Woods?
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Yeah, a podcast about a golfer was the most offensive episode to people. The feedback I got on this,
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I still think it's hilarious. But people were like kind of up in arms about this. So to give you
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a very quick overview, Tiger Woods just won a major. I don't even care which one because I
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don't care about golf. And he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom from Donald Trump
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all these different things. And so I just go into this, you know, kind of thinking posture about
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should we be rooting for a guy like Tiger Woods, an unrepentant cheater, a guy that cheated on his
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wife, maybe hundreds of times, a rotten human being, a guy that lied to you, you dang golf nerds
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to your face at the press conference saying, no, my wife didn't chase me out of the house with
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a nine iron. She was trying to save me from a car accident by busting out the back window,
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which is exactly the window you want to bust out if you're trying to save someone in the driver's
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seat. But sure, why not? And the feedback I got, because from the very beginning, I told people,
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like right up front, I said, look, I don't like golf. And I've never been a Tiger Woods fan.
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But none of that has anything to do with what I'm about to talk to you about. And then I just kind
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of launched into a discussion about it. And I feel like that's the only thing people can attach
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themselves to is like, Oh, well, you don't like golf and you don't like Tiger Woods. So I don't
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think you have the best viewpoint on this. Oh, did you miss the entire part where I said, look,
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I don't like the guy. I don't like any of those things. But I'm going to be intellectually honest
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about it. Right. If I didn't like the guy and wasn't a fan of his and he was, you know,
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a stand up guy, I would have never had to record this podcast. But it was flabbergasting to hear
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people talk about the redemption of Tiger Woods or using a theological term to describe a golfer
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an unrepinton cheater. Right. And so again, it absolutely flabbergasted me, but that was easily
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the episode of all the episodes of all the offensive things that I've said and the subjects that I've
18:06
gotten into. It is still mind blowing to me that if I touch on Tiger Woods, people lose their minds,
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but that is the most offensive episode of 2019. All right, the next one is the best listener
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suggested episode of 2019. And that is a recent episode episode 102, Jesus is king. So that was
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the episode I did on the new Kanye West gospel slash hip hop album. Okay. So this is a great
18:30
example of guys when you send me stuff. And I like it. And I think it's good for the rest of the
18:35
audience. I will put it out there. I will absolutely do it info at undonton.life email info at undonton.life
18:41
because I was not planning on topic talking about Jesus is king. I had some other cool things
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prepared for you guys that we'll talk about more here in a second. But as soon as that album came out,
18:51
this became, and I talked about it on that episode, this became the most requested topic
18:55
of every single topic on the planet earth was, Hey, Kyle, what do you think about the new Kanye
18:59
album? Like really? Like I'm not a music critic. I listen to music, but it's kind of one of those
19:03
deals like that was so interesting to me that you guys were so interested to hear a different
19:07
perspective than maybe what you were hearing in your sphere of influence on the Jesus is king
19:11
album. So that was the one where it's like, I was suggested so often, and it caused me to really
19:18
think like I spent a lot of time preparing for that episode because I had to get it out in kind
19:23
of a short period of time because there was this little window whenever the billboard charts hadn't
19:27
been released yet where he was probably going to debut number one and I want to make sure it was
19:31
still relevant for everybody. And so that one just it worked out really, really well. I've had a lot
19:35
of people from a lot of different walks of life listen to that episode and they kind of got where
19:39
I was coming from. They didn't all agree with my sentiments on everything. But the general just
19:43
of it is I was like, we just kind of have to wait and see. I mean, and since that podcast, you know,
19:47
Kanye's kind of gotten in bed with Joel Osteen, which is probably the most horrific thing you could
19:51
possibly do. But it's kind of a wait and see thing with Kanye. But again, best listener suggested
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episode of 2019 was 102, Jesus is king. Now, we'll go to the most talked about episode of 2019. So
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this is the one where I got the most feedback from you guys directly that was positive. And I was
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episode 104, your foxhole, the most talked about episode of 2019. So the thing about this is I
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struck a chord with this one. And I didn't intend to. So one of the episodes that I was going to put
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out before you guys basically demanded that I tell you what I think about the Kanye West album,
20:22
what's this episode? I'd recorded it. And you know, I kind of put another episode out. I had
20:27
another interview in there with a guy named Zuby. And I, you know, I had this, I just kind of kept
20:31
pushing this episode back because you know, it's timeless. You can talk about this episode at any
20:34
time. But as soon as it went out there, I started getting texts, calls, emails about foxholes,
20:42
questions about a foxhole. So I'm probably going to have to record another podcast to
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even dive a little bit deeper into my philosophy around what a foxhole is. But this has caused a lot
20:51
of positive talk with guys. They're thinking about their personal foxholes or thinking about
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their families, they're thinking about their church, they're thinking about their sphere of
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influence. And they're applying what I've talked about here with the your foxhole thing. And so
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that has caused me to be a little bit more introspective about that concept as well. And to tease it out
21:10
a little bit further. So I don't know what that content is going to entail or what that's going
21:15
to look like. But that is easily the episode that I've received the most amount of positive
21:20
feedback from this year. And the most amount of questions, Hey, well, Kyle, I kind of got this
21:24
situation going on. I've got these people in my life for, Hey, I've got a lot of 10 pm guys,
21:27
but no two am guys, like, how do I get this? Or how do I do that? And a lot of it's kind of how to,
21:31
like, how do I develop this foxhole? And like I said, I feel like I went into good detail
21:35
there in that episode. But it obviously requires a follow up at some point. So be on the lookout for
21:40
that. Now guys, the last award that we have for on Dante Life of Man's podcast is my personal
21:46
favorite episode of 2019. And that was actually the first episode of 2019. That's episode 56,
21:53
which is the top 15 ways to avoid being a crappy man in 2019. This is probably the most practical
22:02
and immediately accessible episode of all the episodes. Because I go down a list 15 down to one
22:08
of the things that you need to do or avoid doing in 2019, if you want to avoid being a crappy man,
22:15
right? Those here are the things that you've got to do. I'm not going to give you the list now.
22:18
I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't taken in episode 56. But this probably is the
22:22
episode that's the most re listened to episode other than episode four pussies in the pews.
22:26
That one's been listened to more than any that's still the most popular episode of all time of this
22:31
podcast. But episode 56, there's a lot of guys that were like, okay, there were some consternation
22:36
and some of the things that I added in there. There's some goes, whoa, I wouldn't have done that
22:39
because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Which I don't care what your opinion is whenever it comes to
22:43
those types of things. But here are the things that you need to do if you don't want to be a crappy
22:47
guy this year. And it caused so many good conversations and so much good thought for people that they
22:53
were able to kind of center themselves around. I know a lot of guys even took this stuff to their
22:58
men's groups. I'm going to come up with some sort of a maybe 15 more ways to avoid being a crappy man
23:03
in 2020. I don't know. I haven't really fully thought it through yet. But that's something that
23:07
that was my favorite episode because I spent months thinking about that. And it just started
23:12
with a bunch of notes on my whiteboard like, you know what, if guys stop doing that, that'd be pretty
23:16
cool. You know, if guys started doing this, you know, that would be awesome. And those all
23:21
probably could have been individual episodes, but then I just put them in list form. So you guys
23:25
could take it in and easily digest it. So again, guys, my favorite episode of 2019 is episode 56,
23:31
a top 15 ways to avoid being a crappy man in 2019. Okay, so let's shift gears. We're going to leave
23:38
undaunted life of man's podcast over there. And now we're going to move to the rest of the podcast
23:43
world. And we're going to go in and do awards on all the other different podcasts. So let's start
23:48
out with the first award, which is the most entertaining podcast of 2019. So these are these
23:53
are all shows, by the way, until we get to the very, very last one, the best individual episode.
23:57
These are just shows. So the most entertaining podcast show of 2019 is Bill Burr's Monday morning
24:03
podcast. Okay, so immediately some of you are going to be like, Kyle, he is a rap scallion. He
24:09
is a, you know, rock, you know, raunchy comedian. He's this he's that. And I'll give you that. Like,
24:15
he's, he's not a guy that you should probably let your four year old listen to, right? This
24:19
guy from Boston doesn't really have a filter. The thing that I like about listening to this
24:23
podcast is it's just him doing stream of consciousness. This is literally one of
24:30
one of the greatest modern comedians, and in some way, maybe even argue one of the best comedians
24:35
ever, just giving you his random thoughts on life and keeping you updated on his life.
24:42
And I mentioned this before, probably on last year's podcast, where it's this is a guy that's
24:45
obviously got some Christian undergirdings in his life. I don't know if undergirdings is a word,
24:51
but I said it, but he's got some things that are at the base level of his life. But you can tell
24:55
he's got some, some issues with it. You know, he'll, he'll kind of make some comments about the
24:59
Catholic church and rightfully so and their treatment of young boys, especially he'll kind of make
25:05
those comments. But you can tell something's in there. He's got a daughter now that's probably
25:09
three or four years old and he's probably thinking about, well, what kind of world is she going to
25:12
grow up in and what kind of, you know, life is she going to want to lead and the people that she's
25:16
going to want to talk to. Those are some, some interesting things that he's kind of processing.
25:20
But for the most part, I just like the way that this guy thinks I like. And the thing is,
25:24
he's wrong about so many issues, especially anytime they talk about anything political,
25:29
he'll, he'll rant on it for three or four minutes and then I'll go, I'm stupid. I don't,
25:32
I don't even read. So what do I know? You can tell he's kind of like self-deprecating in that way.
25:36
But I just, I enjoy listening to it. I look forward to that podcast every week.
25:40
No, it's not the most uplifting podcast you'll ever listen to in your life. No, this is not
25:45
something that you would want to play your church retreat or something like that. But it is entertaining.
25:49
The most entertaining podcast show of 2019, Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast.
25:53
Now, next is the most thought provoking podcast show of 2019. And that is the Ben Shapiro show.
25:59
So surprise, surprise. I know that a lot of you guys know that I'm a Ben Shapiro fan.
26:02
He sent me one of his books in advance copies so that I could bring it to you guys. And I know
26:06
a lot of you guys are Ben Shapiro fans as well. But the reason why it's the most thought
26:10
provoking podcast show of 2019 is because, well, one, it's Monday through Friday, unless there's
26:14
a Jewish holiday and then he takes a few days off or something like that. But he's talking about
26:18
a lot of things that are important. Normally it's politics, normally things that are happening in
26:22
government, but then he also talks about, you know, usually during the things that I like and the
26:26
things that I hate segments of his shows, he's talking about things that are relevant into pop
26:31
culture, to cinema, to any of those types of things, right? But it's always causing me to think.
26:36
Because one thing that I think about sometimes is something will happen. And I'll even think to myself,
26:42
ah, I don't need to think about this right now. I'll just listen to Ben Shapiro show tomorrow,
26:47
which you don't want to do that, right? You don't want one person or one group of people
26:51
basically molding and shaping all your opinions on things. And so that's kind of a good thing for
26:56
me that I'll have to think through something before I hear what Ben has to say about it,
27:00
or I'll maybe take in what he has to say, but then kind of form my own opinion like, I don't
27:05
know that I would have done that far. I think this is more important than what he's letting on.
27:09
But that's why it's so thought provoking for me. And it also leads to a lot of conversations
27:14
with other people. So a lot of the stuff that I listen to on this show is, you know, I'll take
27:18
that to other people and we'll kind of discuss through it. So again, guys, if you're not listening
27:21
to that show, even if you're not conservative, this is something that I think is important for
27:24
you to listen to, because he's probably the best and most thoughtful conservative voice out there
27:30
right now, certainly on the podcast airwaves. So the most thought provoking podcast show of 2019,
27:36
the Ben Shapiro show. Next award is the most important podcast show of 2019. And that is
27:42
the briefing with Albert Mueller. Okay. So Albert Mueller, I think he is now the president of the
27:46
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, or Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention.
27:52
But this is a guy that he brings you, you know, daily news and events from a Christian worldview.
27:57
Like that's the tagline. And so it's, you know, bite size kind of 20 to 25 minute long episodes,
28:01
Monday through Friday, normally. And he's going into huge topics, either from the previous day,
28:06
or maybe the previous week or something like that, but huge, huge topics. And the thing about it is,
28:12
is this is usually the first podcast I take in a day, because it's, you know, it's there by the
28:16
time I wake up Monday through Friday. And it gets me thinking. So it's certainly thought provoking
28:21
as the as a Ben Shapiro show is. But this most important one for me, because it's forcing me to
28:26
think about things that are happening in the world through a Christian lens. And that is so
28:31
unbelievably important, because I know for a lot of us, we don't think in terms of that.
28:35
We don't think to ourselves like, Oh, well, you know, this shooting happened in this town that's
28:40
not connected to mine. I really shouldn't think about that through a Christian worldview. And there
28:44
have been things that have happened in the news or topical things that I just don't really think
28:47
are that important. And then when I hear Albert Mueller discuss it in terms of what it says in
28:51
the Bible, or in terms of what we should be doing and acting as Christians, it's like, Oh man,
28:56
I can't believe I saw that on Twitter or heard that on the news and thought to myself, that's not
29:00
important. That that's unbelievably important. That's a paramount importance. And so that is a
29:06
podcast for you guys, especially for those of you that, you know, don't have the time to listen to
29:09
these two and three hour long or more or longer podcasts. These are 20 to 25 minutes a day. And
29:15
he's a guy that talks very deliberately. You can understand what he's saying at two time speed quite
29:19
a bit. And not every episode is life changing. But there's so many episodes that I just stopped
29:23
saving episodes of his because I was just going to take up all the room on my phone,
29:27
and I've room for anything else. But that's why I think it's the most important,
29:30
because it's going to get you thinking. And it's, it's obviously going to challenge you to think
29:33
about the world through a Christian lens. So the most important podcast show of 2019,
29:37
the briefing with Albert Mueller. All right, the next is the best short form podcast show of 2019.
29:43
And that is the way I heard it with Mike Rowe. So if you're not familiar with Mike Rowe,
29:48
he is the dirty jobs guy. He's got one of those voices for deadliest catch. He's the
29:52
guy that does all the narrations. But these are stories that are they they're very, very short.
29:58
These are 10, 12 minute long podcasts, right? But it's these stories that he'll tell that he is written
30:04
where you don't know who he's talking about until the very, very end. So it's kind of this grand
30:08
reveal at the end. And some of the stories are like, I don't really care about that. But every
30:12
single story is enthralling. And so if you need some entertainment, even if you're a guy like me
30:17
that wants, that wants meat, potatoes, I want the good stuff, I don't want to just have my ears
30:21
tickled, right? I want the really, really good stuff. This is an incredibly entertaining podcast.
30:24
I look forward to it every week, because I'll usually learn something about somebody that is
30:29
very, very famous that I didn't know that's like at the base level. But at the very most,
30:33
you're learning about storytelling. And for someone like me that does this podcast and presents in
30:38
person and does those things, you have to take people on a ride. You have to allow people to attach
30:43
themselves to a narrative. And that's how people getting grained in the content that you're producing.
30:48
And the way that Mike Rowe tells stories is incredibly enthralling. And so for me, very selfishly,
30:53
it helps me become a better storyteller. But again, I want to make sure that you guys get
30:57
that same content as well. So the best short form podcast show of 2019, the way I heard it with Mike
31:03
Rowe. Now, this is not going to be a big surprise. But the best long form podcast show of 2019
31:09
is the Joe Rogan experience. So obviously Joe Rogan, he posts maybe two, three, four episodes a week.
31:16
The short ones are like two hours and long ones are four hours or longer, right? So these are very,
31:20
very long podcasts. But the thing about the Joe Rogan experience is this is a guy that brings on
31:27
everybody. He's got politicians on the left and the right. He's got, you know, atheists and
31:32
Christians. He's got, well, not really a lot of Christians. He's got people in the entertainment
31:35
world. He's got scientists that you've never heard of that are experts on this super obscure
31:39
thing. He's got historians, he's got authors, he's got all these things. That's why it's the best,
31:43
the best long form podcast show, because you can listen to a three hour long podcast,
31:48
where he's interviewing somebody that you're actually interested in what they're talking about.
31:51
Like usually when he's talking to other comedians and they're just, you know,
31:55
screwing around for three hours, I don't really listen to those. Those typically are
31:57
a waste of time, but the amount of content that you get in in that time, especially if you do what
32:02
I do, which is listen to it at two time speed, you're going to get it in an hour and a half.
32:05
It's these are people that you would not have otherwise had access to. These are people with
32:11
books that you would have never heard of about subjects that are so obscure that it would have
32:14
never come to mind. That's why it's the best long form podcast show because you're not going to be
32:18
bored. Now there are individual, I skip a lot of his episodes out, right? Because I don't really
32:23
care about what the people are going to be talking about. But then if I don't have anything else to
32:27
listen to while I'm on the lawn or working out or something like that, I'll throw it on anyway.
32:30
And for you fight fans out there, he's got kind of a secondary show that's in the same string as
32:35
the Joe Rogan experience, but it's kind of the JRE, the Joe Rogan experience MMA show.
32:41
And so he kind of has two different numbering systems. And so he brings on a bunch of guys.
32:44
Current UFC fighters, you know, retired boxers, he had Mike Tyson on this year. I think he had
32:49
a major Holyfield on there as well. You know, and so if you're into fighting, these are two,
32:53
three hour long podcasts just about fighting. It'll be just about MMA, just about Muay Thai,
32:58
just about Western boxing. Like it's just one of those really, really cool things. Again,
33:01
great, great show. I don't agree with most of the things that he says a lot of his viewpoints are
33:06
kind of silly. But again, best long form podcast show 2019, the Joe Rogan experience. Okay, guys,
33:11
just two more episodes or two more episodes, two more awards left. We're almost at the end.
33:16
So we've got the best podcast show overall in the best podcast episode of 2019. So without
33:22
further ado, the best podcast show overall of 2019 is the Jordan B Peterson podcast,
33:28
the Jordan B Peterson podcast, just an excellent, excellent show. And here's the reason why,
33:33
because back in the day, you couldn't really tell what they were trying to do with the Jordan B
33:37
Peterson podcast. You can tell what Jordan was trying to accomplish with it. Because sometimes
33:41
he would post some of his sermon, not sermon, sorry, some of your heads just exploded when I
33:46
said sermons. But some of the things that he does, or maybe it's one of his YouTube lectures that he
33:50
has just put the audio on the podcast. And it could be one of his biblical lectures. He would have
33:55
random interviews here or there, he wouldn't have anything whatsoever for a month or two at a time.
34:00
But this year they got consistent. Because if you don't know, Jordan Peterson released one of the
34:05
best selling books of 2018, which is the 12 rules for light book, which he'll have a follow up book
34:10
this year. But he spent the majority of 18 and 19 traveling the world giving speeches. I mean,
34:17
we're talking 150 200 stops, right? And he's talking for, you know, an hour, hour and a half,
34:23
each place with with some Q and A as well, right? And so they started taking the audio from these
34:28
presentations and uploading it every Sunday. And so it's a once a week podcast. And the stuff that
34:35
he talks about is so unbelievably deep. And so thoroughly thought out, but he puts it to you in a
34:41
way to where you can digest it and think about it yourself as well. It's absolutely outstanding.
34:46
I really, really look forward to it. I wish it came out on different day for whatever reason,
34:49
because on Sundays, it's not typically a big podcast day for me. So I try to like fit it in
34:54
at some point during the week. And sometimes I'll get a little bit behind. But for minute for
34:58
minute, right? When it comes to all the podcasts I listened to, it's the best show. It's just
35:04
the best because you're listening to one of one of our great thinkers, one of our great modern
35:08
thinkers kind of tinker his way through different subject matters. And these are some of these talks
35:13
or maybe a year old. And it's incredible to even see what the world looks like now through the lens
35:18
of what Jordan Peterson was saying a year ago. And so if you're looking for a podcast, if you're
35:23
one of those people like, all right, Kyle, if I could only listen to one podcast, what would be
35:26
the one you would listen to, I would be remiss if I didn't say this one first. It's just an incredible,
35:32
incredible show. I've listened to so many of the episodes multiple times, but also I've saved a
35:38
lot of the episodes, right? And so these are ones where Oh, he had this entire section where he spent
35:42
20 minutes talking about this really, really deep topic. I need to go back and revisit that,
35:45
right? But again, guys, can't recommend this one enough. The best podcast show overall of 2019,
35:52
the Jordan B. Peterson podcast. But now we're at the very, very end, we've got one award left,
35:58
and it is the best podcast episode of 2019. And guys, I promise I tried to narrow it to one.
36:06
I tried, I tried as hard as I could, but I had to give you two, okay, which I'm sure you won't be
36:13
that bad about, right? But the interesting thing about it is one of them is from the Joe Rogan
36:18
experience. So that is two years in a row. Last year, it was the episode that he did with John Donahur,
36:22
you know, the Donahur death squad jujitsu guy. So I got one about Joe Rogan, but the first one is
36:27
a Jocko podcast episode, but it's not the entire episode. It's the first part. So it's Jocko podcast,
36:35
episode 160 live in New York City, humbled and mystified. Okay. So guys, I'm going to give you
36:41
the YouTube links to these last two. So don't try to like search for it on your phone while you're
36:45
driving. But on this particular episode, it's a live podcast city that does the New York City.
36:50
It's a very interesting Q and A, because when he does Q and A on the normal podcast, he's very
36:55
calm. But when he does Q and A in front of a live audience, he gets hyped up and it's pretty awesome.
36:59
But listen to the first 42 and a half minutes of this podcast, Jocko podcast 160. I've got the link
37:07
for it. Or if you want to find it in whatever shows that you listen to, or whatever app you
37:11
listen to podcast on, because he tells it's not a story. He reads a letter that he wrote to a guy
37:17
named Seth Stone. Again, it's from the very jump of that podcast from 000 to 42 30. Just listen to
37:24
that. And that might even be one that you don't listen to at two time speed. So you can get the
37:29
gravity of what he's saying. He literally reads a letter for 42 and a half minutes and you're thinking
37:33
to yourself, how boring could that be? Not boring at all. It's one of the most moving things that I
37:38
heard all year on a podcast. But the rest of the episode is very, very good, very, very, you know,
37:44
Jocko podcast, but seriously, listen to the first 42 and a half minutes of Jocko podcast 160 live in
37:51
New York City, humbled and mystified. And the other episode, which is the best episode of the year,
37:56
is the Joe Rogan Experience Episode 1337 with Dan Crenshaw. Okay, so that was released on August
38:03
20th of this year. So if you don't know who Dan Crenshaw is, he is a Republican politician,
38:08
and he's also a retired Navy SEAL. And he's serving in the US House of Representatives for Texas's
38:14
second congressional district. And he's basically only been in since 2019. He was elected this year.
38:20
And I was so excited about this, right? I was so excited about this episode because of the year
38:24
that this guy had had because he exploded on the scene after an incident with Saturday Night Live's
38:29
Pete Davidson. Okay, so Pete Davidson was doing like the the weekend update or the little news
38:34
thing that they do on there. And basically, he made fun of Dan Crenshaw, because if you don't know,
38:38
Dan Crenshaw has one eye, he lost an eye in battle, right? Whenever he was basically trying to probably
38:43
go in for a capture kill mission at a, you know, wherever I think it was in Afghanistan. But Pete
38:48
Davidson spoke very dismissively of Dan Crenshaw losing his eye. You know, he was making fun of
38:53
him, which is fine. You're a public figure in this Saturday Night Live. But he was very dismissive
38:58
about how he lost his eye and why he lost his eye. And Pete Davidson was absolutely destroyed for
39:04
this, which is interesting because I don't know that anyone watches SNL. So how did he whenever
39:09
see this? But at the same time, for those that did watch it, these aren't really people that
39:12
are huge fans or Republicans, or maybe even the United States Armed Forces. And so, but it was,
39:17
it was kind of universally seen as very, very distasteful. And Dan Crenshaw was asked about it. And this
39:22
is a guy that's a Navy SEAL. He's like, man, I've, I've heard worse things at the dinner table. Like,
39:26
this isn't that bad. But it was like, he probably didn't need to be so dismissive of this particular
39:30
part of it. But then afterwards, like the very next week, Dan Crenshaw was actually invited on
39:35
Saturday Night Live. And this is the first time most people had ever seen the guy, including me.
39:39
I did not know this guy existed until Pete Davidson made fun of him. And until he came back and did
39:44
the SNL episode the next week and kind of gave Pete Davidson a little bit of his own medicine.
39:48
You know, they apologized or Pete Davidson apologized to him on the air. He accepted it. You know,
39:53
it's kind of one of those interesting things. It started a very, very good relationship between
39:57
those two awkwardly enough because Pete Davidson actually, I think he was struggling at some point
40:02
this year with maybe some substance abuse or some having some mental issues or something like that.
40:06
And Dan Crenshaw like reached out to him and was like, you know, trying to be there for him and
40:10
help him out. And so these guys became friends. And this did a lot of favors for Dan Crenshaw because
40:15
it got people listening to Dan Crenshaw and paying attention to things that he was saying.
40:18
And that ended up with him being on in August of this year on the Joe Rogan experience.
40:22
And this is a show where they don't really have a lot of conservatives, right? There's not a whole
40:25
lot of conservative voices that come on there. So it's very, very important. So I was really,
40:28
really looking forward to. But the reason why this is my favorite podcast episode of the year
40:33
is because Dan Crenshaw seems incredibly genuine. And again, of course you would say that because
40:39
you like military guys and you like Republicans and you're conservative. I get what you're saying,
40:43
but at the same time, you can kind of tell when politicians are full of it because it's kind of
40:49
easy to spot. Most politicians are full of it. For whatever reason, when Crenshaw talks through
40:55
issues, I get the sense that he actually believes what he's saying. And I think it's a tremendous
41:00
positive that he was a Navy SEAL at some point that he's now a retired Navy SEAL. And he's thinking
41:05
through things in that lens. Another reason why I really like this is because the back and forth
41:11
between him and Joe, you could tell that Crenshaw had very well thought out positions on a lot of
41:16
topics and it very much shows. It shows very, very much so that he hasn't just taken in the last,
41:22
you know, I don't know, nine months, 10 months since he's been in Congress, you know, basically
41:26
the party line and just put his own seasoning on it. You can tell he's thought out these positions.
41:30
The other thing I really liked on this is Crenshaw was constantly challenging Joe Rogan's positions.
41:35
Now he wasn't doing it rudely. This wasn't a back and forth where you can tell like these guys were,
41:40
you know, at odds with one another. But Joe Rogan would kind of say things or even like frame a
41:43
question in a certain way. And Dan Crenshaw would sometimes very, very quickly correct it or dismiss
41:48
the silly way that Joe Rogan had said it. Or he would explain it in a way that made perfect sense
41:53
and it's like, Oh, okay. Well, now we can at least have a conversation about this now. Okay.
41:57
The kind of the last reason why I thought this was the greatest episode I listened to of any
42:01
podcast this year is there was so many subjects covered. Because I think this was a two and a half
42:06
hour long podcast. But they talked about and I literally made a list because I wanted to make
42:10
sure you guys knew this and this was an order of when it appeared in the episode. They talked about
42:13
learning resilience in the military, politicians that served in the military, the electoral college,
42:18
how to get more people involved in the civic process, how to get them to vote. They talked
42:22
about guns. They spent a lot of time talking about guns and gun violence, talked about Bernie Sanders,
42:27
lobbyists, pharmaceutical drugs, the Green New Deal, the trade war with China, which was huge this
42:31
summer, the censorship of conservatives on social media, free speech, marijuana, illegal immigration,
42:36
border control, and more than that, those are just the ones that I could list as I was reading
42:40
through it. And again, I don't want to really ruin all this for you, but there are a couple of
42:44
parts that I thought were especially good. So there's two clips that I want to play for you.
42:48
I'll play the first one, talk a little bit about it and play the second one, and then we'll come back
42:51
in. But this first clip that I want to play for you, if you're listening to it on the YouTube,
42:56
which I'm going to give you the YouTube link here, if you're listening to it on your podcast,
43:00
though, he does about four to six minutes worth of ads at the beginning of every episode. So
43:05
the timing is going to be a little bit off. That's why I have it here for you. But on the YouTube
43:09
link, this timing is good. But this clip starts at about eight and a half minutes. And he's talking
43:13
about the relationship that he has with Tulsi Gabbard, who is a Democratic nominee for the
43:19
for president right now. She's I think she's she's not active duty anymore, but she was active duty.
43:26
And these guys, these two, they disagree vehemently about troops being overseas and kind of their
43:32
presence and kind of whenever the United States is flexing overseas or whatever the situation might
43:36
be. But he basically was talking to Joe Rogan, who has had Tulsi Gabbard on twice. He had her on,
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you know, a few weeks ago with Joe with Jaco Willink, which is the weirdest episode,
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because Tulsi does she's not that impressive of a person to me. And the whole time Jaco's like
43:49
asking her questions trying to make her, I don't know, it was really weird. I just wanted to hear
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Joe and Jaco talk to one another and Tulsi kept kind of budding in giving these very, very
43:57
uninteresting viewpoints about very, very important topics. But I'm gonna go ahead and get into this
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again. It's about the eight minute and 29 second mark. But here's his little explanation of his
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relationship with Tulsi Gabbard, some of the things that they've talked about and also the
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military presence overseas. Here we go. Yeah, we do we do have good conversations that that does
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happen. We disagree vigorously on on lots of things. What do you guys disagree on?
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Tulsi in particular? Sure. Well, most things, I would say. One thing she's quite outspoken about
44:29
is our involvement overseas. She's much more of an isolationist than I am.
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What I remind people when we're talking about that particular subject, why do we keep troops
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in Syria? Why do we keep troops in Iraq? Why do we keep troops in Afghanistan? Isn't the war over?
44:49
Why don't we bring the boys back home? And the answer is this is not a conventional war.
44:54
This is not something where you sign a peace treaty with a uniformed army. It is a different
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situation. We send guys like me over there so that they don't come here. We send guys like me
45:05
over there so that we keep pressure on them and prevent them from having the operational space
45:09
and timing to commit another 9/11. You have to understand that these people over there wake up
45:13
every single day trying to plan another 9/11. It is what they do. We've already seen an increase
45:20
in ISIS activity just from the drawdown that we already did have in Syria. That's a fair disagreement
45:27
again, but she's a really cool person. I brought up Tulsi just specifically because we do talk,
45:33
and I just like her as a person. We just disagree on things. But there's a respect there.
45:38
To play devil's advocate, some would say that the reason why they want to plot another 9/11
45:43
is because we're over there. I disagree with that. So let's look at the Osama bin Laden example.
45:49
What exactly did we do to this guy? Well, we helped him. So in the night Soviets with the Mujahadim,
45:56
exactly. He was a Mujahadim fighter. We helped them fight the Soviets. We protected Saudi Arabia
46:03
from invasion from Saddam Hussein. That's his homeland, and yet he hated us. And when we left,
46:08
we never occupied Saudi Arabia. We left when they asked us to leave after we defended them
46:13
and prevented another invasion from Saddam Hussein after he invaded Kuwait. What is it we did
46:18
to make this guy so mad? And the answer is we didn't do anything objectively speaking.
46:22
He hates us because of our Western ideology. He hates us because he hates us. And that's hard
46:28
for us to understand because it's not logical, but it is the truth. And it's the prime example of
46:37
why this is a long-term fight. And it's not likely to go away anytime soon. And the last thing I would
46:44
say, the world is a very small place. When we pretend to ignore things going on in the Middle East,
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we can pretend that they won't come here. But the reality is that's a 12-hour flight.
46:54
And the speed of information travels even faster. When we were seeing a lot of attacks in the US
47:01
and in Europe, when ISIS was at its peak, as its peak strength, that was because they were
47:07
able to radicalize online. Notice that they've stopped having that power. And it's because we
47:12
actually took the fight to them. Well, there certainly are some conflicts between their ideology
47:20
and Western ideology, but why on Western values, but why is it that they're dedicating their entire
47:26
life to try to take down America? Well, I mean, there's this is always the question. It is a question.
47:32
And it's almost apt to ask them exactly why, right? But at its core, we are infidels. At its core,
47:39
they're taking an extreme view of Islamic fundamentalism and believing that we are infidels
47:45
that must be destroyed. I mean, that's at its core. It's less political reasons and a little
47:50
bit more emotional reasoning. There has to be some part of it because of our policies and
47:55
some part of it because of our actions. I'm not so sure that we should always assume that it's our
48:00
fault. And I think that's a common that's a common theme in politics these days where anything bad
48:08
happening must be America's fault must be decisions we made. I mean, maybe, but let's objectively make
48:13
the case if that if that's if that's true. I think there's an automatic assumption and it's not self
48:17
evident to me. But if we're in what are we in 100 and how many countries do we have bases in?
48:22
What's the number? Do you know? It's a lot. It might. It's it's definitely over a hundred.
48:27
Yeah. And if you were one of the people that is in one of those countries and you had a deal
48:32
with that and you saw like the drone attacks in Yemen that have killed people and wedding parties
48:37
and the kind of [inaudible] that we hope never happens again, but has happened in the past, you can kind
48:43
of understand why there would be a hatred against the number one superpower in the world.
48:48
Well, opinions in these countries are not are not homogenous. All right. They're vastly diverse.
48:55
There's a there's millions of people in Yemen probably begging for us to come there. Same with
48:59
Iraq. Iraqis did not want us leaving. They knew this would go badly. But again, not all Iraqis,
49:05
right? So it's one to understood. Right. I mean, it's just depends on who you talk to.
49:08
So again, it's it's everything is more complex than a simple than a simple black and white scenario
49:15
where America's bad or good. It's just it's always more complex than that. So you feel like if we
49:19
did pull out of all these countries, particularly pull out of the Middle East, Afghanistan and
49:24
all the bases that we have over there, that it would be very similar to like what's going on in Iraq,
49:29
what happened in Libya, there's a power vacuum. The vacuum gets filled by bad guys.
49:34
It'll 100% happen that way. You know, and it's there's not a doubt in my mind. There's not
49:39
doubt in any experts minds who's looking at this. I would also say when we're we have a base somewhere,
49:43
that is that is at the that is at the discretion of of that local government. There's there's no
49:51
cases here, except in the case of Syria, where, you know, their local government to Bashar al-Assad
49:57
doesn't want us there. That's the only case that I can think of and that that we don't have an
50:03
agreement, the status of forces agreement with the government there. So I don't think it's quite
50:08
right to paint it as some kind of imperialistic occupation. It's just that's just not how we how
50:12
we do things. So that'll kind of give you a sense of how those two guys have interacted
50:16
throughout that podcast. And you can see that, you know, Joe was like, well, to play devil's advocate,
50:20
he's actually kind of giving his position, right, or the position that a lot of people that think
50:23
like him would give, especially on the topic about, well, they hate us because we're there. It's like,
50:28
it's like, Joe, you don't understand the Quran, like you don't understand fundamentalists,
50:32
fundamentalist Islam. And he doesn't really hit him that hard. Dan Crenshaw doesn't hit him that
50:36
hard on it. But Joe doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to that. He just knows that
50:39
these people hate us. And there's got to be a reason for it. And we're over there. So ergo,
50:43
that means we're the reason, right? So again, there's a lot of great topics here. But a little
50:47
bit later in the podcast, this is around the, let me see, it's around the 49 and a half minute
50:52
mark, he kind of gets into this whole idea about, we have to ask ourselves, is America good or bad,
50:57
right? And I really like what Dan Crenshaw said here. So I'll go into that clip again. If you're
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watching the YouTube link, it starts around 49 30 49 35. So here we go. Oh, and one quick thing,
51:06
there are a couple of wordy nerds there in the middle, in this clip that we're about to show
51:10
Joe Rogan gets back in there and he talks kind of like how Joe Rogan talks. So parental discretion
51:15
is advised for a couple of bad words. So here we go back into the clip. It yeah, exactly. And
51:21
it gets to a deeper culture war. One of those many fronts on the culture wars. This is a big one
51:26
is America based on bad things are good things. Are we good intrinsically good or are we bad?
51:32
This is this is a huge fissure in the culture war right now. And, you know, when we and I have a
51:40
lot of fear that that that these things are boiling up and that we're destroying the things,
51:46
the few things that hold us together, you know, as a country, like what makes us Americans,
51:50
it's it's not ethnicity. It's not religion. It's not even really geographic area because our
51:55
geographic area has changed over time. It is it is ideals, it is ideals. And those ideals are
52:01
symbolized by certain things in the USS Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,
52:05
the Pledge of Allegiance, the flag, the national anthem. Like these things matter. And I think
52:11
they're very important for a culture and and be and this actually all ties back into this sort of
52:16
oppressor oppressed kind of ideology because if you tell people that they're oppressed, well,
52:20
then they have to look for an oppressor and that starts small. It starts with your parent or your
52:24
boss or somebody you don't like. Okay, it's their fault. That's why I have something bad happen to
52:28
me. It's somebody else's fault. Then it grows into groups. Okay, now you get into identity politics
52:33
and pitting identities against each other. Then you're starting to blame institutions. Okay,
52:37
and this is kind of the this is this is when we talk about Bernie Sanders, this is he's doing this
52:42
often. He's blaming institutions for our for our for issues constantly that has met him that is
52:48
morphed into blaming the entire country. The entire country as a as an American ideal is to blame.
52:56
I just think that's really both. I think it's historically inaccurate. I think it's an accurate
53:00
objectively, but I just think it's dangerous. I don't think it can go anywhere good unless you
53:04
just want total revolution, which I think some people do. It just it tears us apart,
53:11
right? And we're getting divided along where we're we're allowing the pop culture to get involved
53:16
in this too. So we can't share pop culture anymore because you know, musicians are getting
53:21
involved in politics and comedians and late night shows and it's like, okay, we'll now have the
53:25
country can't even watch it because those people are just telling them how stupid they are. We're
53:29
losing these basic symbols that bring us together. And then we're also losing the pop culture that
53:34
kind of brings us together. That should be something we can just share and then not talk politics,
53:38
but that's been removed as well. And I just the the culture war is it's it's it's not going a good
53:44
direction. I'm hoping that this is an adolescent stage in the development of this strange country
53:51
that's an experiment in self government. That's what I'm thinking. And I think this this experiment
53:55
in self government, which is a completely new thing in human history that's redefined the way the
53:59
rest of the world governs itself. I mean, this that's what America really is. Is it perfect? [inaudible] no,
54:04
but humans aren't perfect. There's not a [inaudible] human anywhere that's perfect. There's not a single
54:08
culture anywhere that doesn't have something that's inherently wrong with it. It's the best system
54:14
for imperfect human beings, right? And it's it's a system based on the the fact the the unavoidable
54:21
fact that we are imperfect. Yeah. Okay. And that and that you cannot you cannot constrain mankind's
54:27
nature to the extent that progressives would like to there's there's a belief from an extent from
54:32
just Marxist ideology and then going to French Revolution thought that you can perfect human
54:37
nature, that you can get people to be perfect eventually if you just give the state enough control
54:41
and and and stop certain thoughts that are bad. Keep those down. Keep these elevate these other
54:47
ones. You can eventually get us to where we think we should be. I think that's utopian. I don't see
54:54
how that's ever possible. And I think our our US constitutional system understands that. You
54:59
know, it's not it's not like the founders got together and just made a bunch of stuff up,
55:03
right? They were they were they were very well versed in history. They studied it relentlessly.
55:07
And they took ideas from Jerusalem and Athens and Rome and London. They took all these best ideas
55:12
and these best practices and they said this is probably how we should govern. We're first going
55:16
to say why government exists. Okay, we're going to say that in the Declaration of Independence when
55:20
John Thomas Jefferson wrote that the Declaration of Independence was wasn't just declaring its
55:25
independence. It was also declaring why government exists and it exists to protect the nalienable
55:30
rights, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And he gets these ideas from guys like John Locke
55:35
who said life, liberty, and property or those are an alienable rights. And you protect rights. You
55:41
can't give them to people, but you can protect them because they're already inherent in you.
55:45
They're natural rights. Okay, and then the Constitution told us how to govern.
55:49
It's like, how do we live together? Well, there should be checks and balances. You should have
55:52
an emphasis on local state control because the problems are closest to the people and they should
55:57
be closest to representatives down at that level. 51% of the population shouldn't be able to tell
56:03
the other 49% what to do. You know, we should have an electoral college so that the biggest
56:07
population centers can't tell everybody else what to do. There's important structures like embedded
56:13
into the Constitution that have allowed us to actually last, I think, as long as we have,
56:17
we have the oldest political diets, the oldest document in the world. It's the oldest Constitution
56:20
in the world. So we're the youngest, one of the youngest countries, but we're the only ones that
56:24
had such a longstanding Constitution. I think that's important to realize too. So there's so many
56:29
things that he goes into there in just a little five minute clip, but that gives you just what
56:32
that two and a half hours is like, that's probably my favorite part of the entire podcast there.
56:37
So I guess that would be my favorite part of any podcast of the year because that's my favorite,
56:40
one of my favorite episodes of the year. But guys, just give yourself some time to listen to
56:43
that podcast. That's one that I've listened to multiple times. I've watched it. And I want to
56:47
make sure that I kind of understand where he's coming from because this guy's not going away.
56:51
Dan Crenshaw is here to stay. And no one knows what's going to happen. Is he going to eventually
56:55
run for Senate in the state of Texas? Is he going to run for governor? Is he going to run for president?
56:59
That's kind of one of those deals is this is a big time up and comer. This is a guy that you don't
57:03
want to put a lot of hope in because he's a human being and he's fallible and they tried to do that
57:07
already with the Navy SEAL. That was the governor of the state of Missouri. And he ended up being
57:11
a lunatic. So it's kind of one of those deals like you want to temper your expectations for a guy
57:14
that really hasn't been in Congress for that long. He's been in Congress for five minutes.
57:17
And I was the first person out there saying, Hey, who's this Barack Obama guy that's been in
57:21
Congress long enough to write two books, but not a single bill? Why should he be president? How is
57:25
he qualified to do this? But again, even just who he is right now, he's supremely qualified
57:29
to do a lot of things. And eventually might be qualified to be the president of the United States.
57:33
So again, guys, the two best podcast episodes of 2019, the first is Jocko podcast 160 live in
57:41
New York City, humbled and mystified. And then the Joe Rogan experience number 1337 with Dan
57:47
Crenshaw guys, I really appreciate you hanging with us for another year. We're going to keep
57:51
coming back trying to do good stuff for you 2020. That's that's what we're here for. We want to make
57:56
sure this content is landing with you. We want to make sure it's good to go. And guys, like I said,
58:00
if there's ever a podcast or a podcast episode that I should be listening to that I need to
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58:25
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58:30
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