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This is Undaunted Life Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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Alright guys, here's the deal. I don't do special bonus episodes that often. I mean,
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I might be doing some more episodes here before too long. I'll give you guys some updates on that.
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But this has been an insane week. I mean, this has been an absolutely insane week when it comes
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to news. And I guess I really didn't even realize it until it was pointed out by somebody else and
1:03
that was by Albert Mueller. So if you listen to the briefing with Albert Mueller, I've talked about
1:07
it a lot on this podcast. But on Monday's episode, that's February 3, 2020, he did an episode about
1:13
these five days in this news that would happen in this five-day span. And he kind of put it in
1:18
a way where I was like, well, yeah, actually, this is actually a gigantic week. And I've added
1:22
some other things that were kind of big that ended up being big that need to be discussed. But here's
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the deal is I'm recording this on Thursday, February the 6th. Okay. But since Thursday, January the 30th
1:34
of 2020, it has been an incredible news cycle. Okay. So let's just start with that Thursday,
1:39
January the 30th. So the World Health Organization actually reversed course and they declared the
1:43
coronavirus a World Health emergency. Then Friday the 31st, the United Kingdom left the European Union.
1:50
On Sunday, February the 2nd, that was a Super Bowl, but it was the halftime show that made all the
1:55
headlines supposedly on Monday, February 3rd, the Iowa caucuses were supposed to happen. And we'll
2:01
talk a little bit more about what in the world actually happened. Then on Tuesday, February the
2:05
4th, the state of the Union address was delivered only by the second time with a sitting president
2:10
that had been impeached delivering that address. And then on Wednesday, February the 5th yesterday,
2:14
Donald Trump was exonerated in the United States Senate. That was all in one week. Okay. So I want
2:19
to actually go into each one of these different things because the title of this podcast is the
2:24
week that shaped 2020. And guys, we are five seconds into 2020. So how in the world can one
2:29
week's worth of news in the early part of 2020 really defined the entire year? So that's the,
2:35
the journey I'm going to take you on today is kind of figuring that out. So let's start
2:39
with Thursday, January 30th of 2020. And that's the World Health Organization reversing course
2:45
and declaring the coronavirus a world health epidemic. So here's the thing. This is a likely
2:49
pandemic. This is something that's scary. No matter what news you like or news you prefer,
2:54
this is kind of scary because we don't really know exactly what it is. We don't really know
2:58
exactly how to contain it. And also it kind of gives us a look at what a dictatorial authoritarian,
3:05
you know, autocratic, atheistic, communist government does, right? In terms of controversy,
3:11
right? Because here's the deal is I don't want to be hyperbolic here because the common flu,
3:15
as we've seen in any of the reports about coronavirus, the common flu has killed way more people this
3:20
year and last year. Okay, then then coronavirus. But this seems to be something different. But the
3:24
thing about this is if you guys aren't fully caught up on this, you might be thinking this is some
3:28
sort of beer disease, don't worry. You guys are fine. Keep drinking your Corona. But at the same time,
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I want to kind of give you an idea as to what is going on and kind of what the timeline was in
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terms of when things started to happen as it as it pertains to this. So on December 31st of 2019,
3:42
China alerts the World Health Organization of a potential flu-like disease in Wuhan. And so if
3:49
you've never heard of Wuhan, that's not necessarily something that I would be surprised by. But that's
3:54
a town of or a city of 11 million plus people. Okay, it's larger than New York City. And there's
3:59
like, you know, I think there's four other I think it's fifth biggest in China, just to give you an
4:03
idea of how gigantic that country is and how many people that live there. But that was whenever we
4:08
first see it. Okay, January 5th, the World Health Organization advises against travel restrictions
4:13
to the area. January 7th, China identified the virus as Corona. And then I guess the actual
4:20
virus name is Corona virus 2019 in COV. And it's from the family of viruses, including the common
4:28
cold and SARS. And then if you go one day later to January 8th, the first case was reported outside
4:33
of China. And that was in Thailand. January 11th, we have the first death reported. It was a 61 year
4:38
old man and he was admitted to the hospital in December 27th of last year with what looked to be
4:43
flu-like symptoms. Then on January 15th, the first case was reported in Japan. January 17th,
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the second death in China was reported. This was a 69 year old man. And the United States
4:53
starts screening passengers arriving from Wuhan, but only at two airports. On January 20th, we have
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the first case in South Korea. We have the third death in China, China admits to over 100 cases of
5:03
this virus and experts are confirming that now there is a human to human transmission. So just to
5:08
kind of pause right here, human to human transmission, that's kind of that's the be all-indole. That's
5:12
the one that that's really, really bad. We have animal to human and all those different things.
5:16
They expect that the coronavirus started with a transmission from either bats or snakes to people.
5:22
But this is one of those things when it starts becoming human to human, it becomes a really, really
5:25
big deal. Now, on January 21st, we have the first case in the United States, okay? China increased
5:31
its number of people that they thought had it in China to 300. And the virus actually was reported
5:37
in Australia as well. January 22nd, the World Health Organization meets and they decide not
5:42
to declare an international health emergency. A lot of people were looking around like,
5:45
what are you guys doing? They're like, ah, nothing to see here. But the virus numbers by then had
5:49
grown to over 500 with 17 deaths. Now, on the 23rd of January, China implements a travel ban
5:55
to and from Wuhan. And it wasn't just a travel ban. They were basically quarantining people in
5:59
their houses, locking them in their apartment in their apartments. It's just kind of what those
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regimes do, right? Now, on January 27th, by that time, there were reported cases in the United Arab
6:08
Emirates, Germany, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, Nepal. I think there's some other
6:13
countries in there that I missed. The death toll at that point isn't was over 132 with around 6,000
6:19
confirmed cases. And then finally, by January 30th, 2020, last Thursday, the World Health Organization
6:24
finally declares a global health emergency. Now, as of today, as of the recording of this podcast,
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as of a few hours ago, when I looked this up, the death toll is now over 560. I think it was 565
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was the last death toll I saw. But there's close to 30,000 people that have confirmed to have this
6:40
disease. Okay. So this is why this news might shape 2020. The first thing is because there's a
6:46
two-week incubation period on this particular disease. So since we know that it can be transmitted
6:52
from human to human, you might be getting somebody sick and not even know that you were sick yourself.
6:57
Okay. That is that is potentially really, really dangerous. But here's the other thing. Right now,
7:02
there's a 2% death toll, which, you know, you might think to yourself, that's not that bad. And you
7:06
would maybe be right. But 2% of a particular number is the difference that we need to see.
7:12
Because if we start getting into the millions or tens of millions of people that end up contracting
7:16
this virus, 2% of 10 million is a lot of people. 2% of 100 million is a lot of people. Okay.
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This isn't going anywhere. Okay. Like that's one of the things that this might shape 2020 is you
7:29
will continue to hear about this. This is not something that just goes away. That's why when you
7:33
say mad cow disease or SARS, everyone can kind of go back to a time whenever they were, you know,
7:37
scared to eat a hamburger or whatever the situation might be. This is a huge deal. But the other reason
7:42
why I think this news might shape 2020 is because obviously the Trump administration in the United
7:46
States has talked a lot about China and a lot about the things that they've done from and just
7:51
from governmental standpoints, but also how they operate and how they treat their people.
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This is what the Chinese government does. They just love to lie. And so one of the problems with
8:01
trying to get this under control is that the Chinese government has basically tried to tamp
8:07
down anybody releasing any information about the coronavirus. There's there's only a slight
8:12
releases of information. The videos you see online of people basically walking through
8:16
the hallways of hospitals where there's body bags stacked up and things like that,
8:20
those people have been disappeared. Yes, I use that word actively. Those people have been
8:25
disappeared. Those people have been arrested. They will arrest you on the streets. If you're
8:29
not wearing a mask, they will arrest you on the streets. If you say anything about how the government
8:33
is handling it, we see videos of the Chinese military basically walking the streets and forcing
8:38
all these things. And it's just kind of one of those things. We're going to get not only a
8:42
good look at how you respond as a world to a potential pandemic, but also we're going to get
8:47
an even closer look at this atheistic, communistic regime that is running China right now. So huge,
8:52
huge story. Then we go to Friday, January 31st. And again, that's the United Kingdom leaving the
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European Union. If you thought you've heard about Brexit for for so long, it's because you have,
9:01
because this was this was something that should have been done a long time ago, but it just kept
9:04
getting dragged out and dragged out. But here's the deal. Britain was basically broke after World
9:09
War two. Okay, that's that's what they had basically said, you know, we're going to go down to the last
9:14
man to the last, you know, the last dollar or whatever they were spending over there at the time,
9:18
we're going to go down to the very last of us to basically defeat tyranny to defeat the Nazis,
9:23
right? But at that time, they didn't want to be a part of the European Union just yet. They didn't
9:29
want to be part of the capital E Europe. But it wasn't until the 1960s or so that they actually
9:34
wanted to join the European Union. They were blocked by France for some different reasons,
9:38
you know, France thinking they were, you know, English speaking, they're an island country,
9:41
they're way too close to the US, whatever situation is, but they actually joined the European Union
9:45
in the 1970s. But the thing about it was is over the decades, the people of the United Kingdom were
9:51
getting less and less excited about the fact that bureaucrats and Brussels who were not them,
9:55
weren't anywhere near them were basically making decisions for them, right? The governmental power
10:01
had been consolidated over the decades to where you basically had no sovereignty, which again,
10:05
I would kind of ask these countries like, what did you think was going to happen? You basically
10:08
turn all your sovereign nations into this one nation state, and it doesn't quite work out the
10:12
way you wanted. Yeah, shocking, absolutely shocking. But on June 23rd of 2016, the United Kingdom voted
10:18
to leave the EU, right? They voted the had a resolution to leave the EU, okay? But English
10:23
bureaucrats spent the better part of three years, right? Trying to usurp the wishes of the people
10:28
of the United Kingdom, right? And I don't really want to get into all the different details,
10:32
but it was just a cluster. It was an absolute cluster. It was kind of making people think
10:36
that at some point, you know, they were actually going to do that. They were going to usurp the
10:39
wishes of the people. But on December 12th of 2019, Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party
10:43
won a sweeping victory in the United Kingdom. And they got it done. They finally, you know,
10:49
had their sovereignty and they're leaving the European Union. But this is why this news might
10:53
actually end up shaping 2020. This was the first major country to leave the European Union.
10:58
Okay, so I had to lift this up. But French Algeria back in 1962, Greenland in 1985,
11:04
and Saint Bartholomew in 1912, they all left the European Union before. Now the last two,
11:10
they actually are now part of what's called the overseas countries and territories.
11:14
And so that's a little bit different. But this is the first major country to leave the European
11:19
Union. And I can't imagine it's going to be the last. I just can't, can't imagine that that's
11:24
what we're going to see. And so the, the question is, will more follow will in the rest of 2020,
11:30
will we start to hear rumbling some other countries about how, you know what, they don't want bureaucrats
11:35
somewhere else far away from them, hundreds of miles away from them to determine what they
11:38
should be doing with their personal lives. Okay. The other thing is we kind of see or just in seeing
11:44
this, we see a redefinition in what it means to be quote unquote European, right? And I don't think
11:48
this is just a specifically British thing that, Hey, they're an island nation, they were always
11:52
kind of on their own. I think this is going to cause a lot of Europeans to think about what this means
11:57
to be European, because we've seen problems with, you know, with, with different people from different
12:04
groups coming to different nations and the kind of the open borders policy and some of the issues
12:08
that they've had in some of the countries over there with this open immigration policy. You know,
12:12
there's people that just don't think that's, that's very good. And those, those countries are in a
12:16
worse spot than Britain because Britain is separated from the rest of the mainland Europe by, you know,
12:21
the English channel, right? And at this point, there's a, there's an issue with you with immigration
12:25
over there that people aren't talking enough about unless they actually live there. But the other
12:29
thing that makes us a huge story for 2020 is one of the United States's closest allies is United
12:34
Kingdom. And now they're on their own. And so they are, they are not where they were previously a week
12:39
ago when in terms of their economic standing and in terms of the things that they're able to do.
12:43
They're still a sovereign nation. They're still a big time nation. But they are now on their own,
12:48
and they haven't been on their own in a long time. And so that could have some direct effects on the
12:51
United States as well. So something to keep an eye on. Okay, now let's forward to Sunday,
12:56
February 2nd. That was a Super Bowl. So the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers.
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It was a good game. It didn't look like it was going to be a good game for a while. Great last
13:04
several minutes. I'm really, really glad that the 49ers lost basically because my least favorite
13:08
player in the entire world is Richard Sherman. And then so I'm so glad I got to watch him lose on
13:12
national television. And he gave up the big play that actually led to Kansas City winning the Super
13:18
Bowl and gave up a touchdown there at the end. So it was even sweeter. But here's the deal. No one
13:22
really cared about the game afterwards. Everybody, all they wanted to talk about was halftime show
13:27
with Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. Okay, so here's the deal is I didn't watch it. Now I watched
13:32
almost every second of the game, but I did not watch the halftime show. So I was at a party,
13:38
you know, with our Sunday school and it was mixed. And I'll say that the gals were their eyes were
13:43
just absolutely glued to the television. They were really, really interested in it. A lot of the
13:46
guys were watching as well. But for me, I knew that that was not going to be something that I could
13:50
do. And I've known that for months now. Okay, because from the time this halftime show was announced,
13:56
JLo and Shakira, I knew it's like, whoa, all right, I got to make sure I'm doing something else during
14:01
halftime. Because the thing about it is, is you knew that those gals were not going to get up
14:05
there in, you know, floor-length robes. And they were just going to sing in front of my
14:09
a microphone. You knew this was going to basically be a softcore porn in your living room. That's
14:13
essentially what you could have guessed, right? Those women have made a lot of money. And they've
14:18
made a lot of, they've gotten a lot of influence. And it's mainly because of their bodies. Okay. And
14:23
so, you know, we'll get more into that here in just a second. But as I was thinking about
14:28
afterwards, because again, I didn't watch it. But again, when you're flipping through Twitter,
14:31
you see people that have gifts and have pictures. And so you kind of get an idea of what happened.
14:36
But again, unless you watch it, you don't really get a sense of what happened. But I've heard
14:39
a lot of people have said good, bad, and different. And so I've kind of been able to piece it together.
14:44
But there were a lot of thoughts that came to me in, on the heels of this. And some of those are,
14:49
you know, what, what message does a halftime show like that send to young women and girls?
14:53
And in addition to that, what does it send? What message does it send to young men and boys,
14:58
right? That are sitting there watching that, you know, I assume there, or someone said there
15:02
was a stripper pole at one point, right? I don't know exactly who was on the stripper pole, but
15:06
we can always assume that it's probably somebody that's scantily clad, right? What message does
15:10
this send about the the me to advocates, right? You know, was this women's empowerment? Was this
15:15
kind of one of those things, right? I mean, what is this? What message does this send to social
15:19
justice warriors, right? Why aren't they picketing saying, Hey, this isn't how we should be represented,
15:24
you know, that's kind of interesting. And what message does it send to feminists? You know, first,
15:29
second or third wave, right? Like, what does this say? Is this the message that you want to give
15:33
to young women that you eventually want to be feminist? But I guess all of my thoughts were heard
15:38
through the ether by Tim Kennedy. So if you don't know, Tim Kennedy, he's a green beret,
15:43
he's been in the army for a long time, former MMA fighter, big time guy on Instagram, I'll make
15:48
sure you have a link to his Instagram. But he posted this, I don't know if it was a day or two after
15:52
the Super Bowl halftime show, but I thought his encapsulation of what we should be talking about
15:57
about the halftime show was very, very appropriate. So let me go ahead and just read what his post said.
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As a father of three daughters, yesterday's halftime Super Bowl performance scratched a nerve,
16:07
the nerve of hypocrisy. I don't want my daughters to be objectified, but I also want them to feel
16:12
free to be able to do whatever they want to include being sexy. In an era of hashtag me too movement,
16:19
how can we stand by and not take pause at a stripper poll being in the living room of nearly
16:23
every American household and not consider the consequence? I'm not saying Shakira and Jennifer
16:28
Lopez did not look beautiful. They did. I'm not saying they don't have the right to dress any
16:33
way they want. They do. And I'll fight that they will always have that right. I'm not saying that
16:38
they were not great entertainers, which they are. I'm just questioning the impact this has on the
16:43
young women and men in our country. And yet again, the shifting of our morals, behavior and actions
16:50
is what demands respect. If you want to be respected, behave in a way that deserves it. Otherwise,
16:55
don't try to demand it. And so I thought that was an incredibly powerful way of summarizing
17:01
that because he's, he's right. He's absolutely right. These are people that are going to demand
17:05
respect. We demand, you know, whatever the thing they're squawking about where it might be,
17:08
we demand equal pay or we demand equal attention or equal representation or equal this or you know,
17:13
hey, look at me and don't look over there and all these different things. But at the same time,
17:16
you don't want to be objectified while you're objectifying yourself. You don't want to teach
17:21
little girls to objectify themselves while showing them what happens when you objectify yourselves.
17:26
Because you're that one, 1000th of 1% of people that become sex successful, as Freudian slip
17:33
there, that become successful in the entertainment industry by basically showing off your jubblies.
17:39
Now at the same time, it's like, okay, you're going to see millions and millions of people that are
17:42
into that. But then is that really the message that you want to send? Hey, girls, you know what,
17:48
don't worry about showing yourself off or any of those types of things. It's okay,
17:52
because you can be successful and look how pretty I looked up there on the pole. Okay. So why is this
17:56
news that might shape 2020? I think the big thing for us is because that halftime show that most
18:03
of you guys watched, that reminds us of where we are. As a society, we're not that woke. We haven't
18:12
progressed that far. The overwhelming majority of men want to sit there brain dead looking at half
18:18
naked women dancing. Why? Because it's fun because they're attractive and we don't care if we have
18:25
to pray about it later and ask for forgiveness. We're thinking about it and watching it right now.
18:29
A little bit uncomfortable for some of you guys, wasn't it? Didn't a lot of you guys sit there and
18:33
watch that with your tongue hanging out of your head? Was your son there watching you? Was your
18:37
daughter there watching you as you were looking at that? Was your wife watching you? Because I know
18:42
a lot of wives were like, Oh my gosh, look how pretty they are and look at all the dancing. The
18:45
guys weren't thinking that. They weren't thinking about how pretty the costumes looked. They were
18:50
wondering what it would look like if you're doing those same things, same things without the costume
18:53
on, right? So it is a big deal, right? Most people are like, Oh, you're overreacting. You know,
18:58
it doesn't matter what you do with your eyes. It matters what you do with everything else.
19:01
Okay. See how far that gets you because most sin in this area starts in the eyes.
19:07
And then it goes to the imagination and then it goes from there.
19:10
So it's a big deal. So it's something to look at as we progress because by the end of the year,
19:15
we're going to know who's going to be in the halftime show next year. Now I'm advocating for
19:19
Metallica sharp left turn on this podcast, Metallica with the symphony orchestra. I want to see the
19:24
S&M album live and in person. I'm tired of all these pop stars moving on. All right, Monday,
19:29
February the 3rd, we were supposed to have the Iowa caucuses, but we really didn't because here's
19:35
the deal. The Iowa caucuses and I just need to flow a little bit on this. The Iowa, the state
19:39
of Iowa, they just have way too much power. And if you're listening to this in the state of Iowa,
19:43
I don't dislike you. I've never been to the state of Iowa. I'm sure it's a great, great state. I know
19:48
you got a lot of big white tail up there. So you know, one of these days I'm going to get up there
19:51
and help you take care of your white tail problem. But here's the deal. They have way too much power
19:56
because they kind of set the tone for the rest of the country in an overwhelming majority of the
20:00
time. Whoever wins Iowa ends up winning the the Democratic nomination, right? I forget what the
20:05
statistic was, but it's been very, very, it's been a very big margin of people that have done that
20:09
over the last few years. But there was a lot at stake in Iowa for basically four main Democratic
20:14
candidates. There's a lot still out there, but there was four. Okay, the first one is Bernie Sanders,
20:18
who right now is the odd zone favorite to win the entire Democratic nomination. But he was favorite
20:24
nationally and he was favored in Iowa. So he needed to perform well. You have Joe Biden,
20:28
who's barely alive, but he needed to finish in the top two to basically not look like a completely
20:32
dead person, right? He needed to finish strong in Iowa to show people, Hey, you can get behind me.
20:37
I'm not going to die tomorrow. Then you got Elizabeth Warren. She basically needed to perform well,
20:42
maybe in the top two or three, just to prove that her campaign hasn't completely imploded.
20:47
Everything that she's done over the last three months, especially it has been a complete
20:51
done. And she is just grasping at straws. I forget who said it, but she's basically Bernie,
20:56
but she doesn't believe any of the things that Bernie actually believes. Bernie actually believes
21:00
the stuff that he's saying, the insane things that he believes he actually believes it. Elizabeth
21:03
Warren doesn't actually believe it. She's just doing it for political gain, which is in some in
21:07
some ways way worse. And then you got Pete Buttigieg. So Mayor Pete from South Bend,
21:12
he basically needed to win. He needed to win Iowa to be relevant because if he couldn't win Iowa
21:18
in a state, you know, that's very close to where he started his entire career, right? In politics,
21:23
he was going to be dead in the water. And then I'll give you a bonus one. Amy Klobuchar,
21:26
no one really cares about her. But if she made it into the top three, maybe there would be some
21:32
groundswell of support around her because she's kind of moderate and not completely insane.
21:36
I don't know, but you know, that was kind of the deal. So here's the deal. I go to bed Monday,
21:40
and there were no results yet. I was assuming that we were going to get some results. Maybe the
21:44
state wouldn't be called and the delegates wouldn't be called to name one's favor. But I was like,
21:47
I'll be fine. I'll see it in the morning. So I wake up Tuesday and still there's no results.
21:53
So I'm like, you know, what's going on? But let's see what's going on later on Tuesday.
21:58
The Democratic National Convention or whoever is in charge of that in the state of Iowa,
22:02
they released 62% of the caucus results oddly. And it showed that Mayor Pete Buttigieg
22:08
had the most delegates, even though he didn't have as many votes as Bernie Sanders.
22:15
What? Like Bernie Sanders has more votes, but Pete Buttigieg has more delegates. Okay,
22:21
caucuses are kind of weird. I'm not going to explain them to you. Go look it up. But then
22:24
Democrats say that the app that they created for casting votes in Iowa had some technical
22:31
difficulties, right? So these are the same Democrats that want to nationalize pretty much every private
22:36
industry to include healthcare and energy, but they couldn't create an app that could handle
22:41
enough votes in one state in the middle of the country. So keep that in mind. But then
22:46
it was revealed that Buttigieg's campaign actually contributed money to the app development company
22:53
named Shadow, which was the creator of the voting app. Yeah, tens of thousands of dollars,
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in fact, was contributed from Buttigieg and his campaign to the company, Shadow, aptly named.
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Then it was reported that the team of people at Shadow working on the app used to work for
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drum roll, please enter the bad guy music, Hillary Clinton. And those people that worked for Shadow
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that used to work for the Clinton campaign had openly expressed disdain for Bernie Sanders. Okay,
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they're actually making me feel bad for Bernie Sanders, but it gets worse. Then it was reported
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that many of the votes inside the app were actually taken away from the candidate they were supposed
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to go to, and they were peeled off and actually ended up in a different place. But they all ended
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up in the same place under Pete Buttigieg's tally. So if you voted for Klobuchar or Andrew Yang,
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or Tulsi Gabbard or any of those people, a lot of those votes were pulled off and given to Mayor Pete.
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Now, here's the deal. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracy theorists typically drive me
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absolutely insane because they say some of the dumbest things without thinking because they
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think plausibility means reliability. But but even though I'm not a conspiracy theorist,
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this reeks. Are you kidding me right now? Like again, I don't feel bad for Bernie Sanders. I
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think he's a loony tune. I hope I don't have to actually break down who he is for you on this
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podcast because hopefully he rides away into some sort of communist utopia at some point
24:29
and doesn't actually run for president of this country. But why this news might shape 2020 is
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because the Democratic National Convention or the National Committee, the DNC thinks that they know
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better than you. And so here's the deal is like I'm a Republican. I've talked about that, but I'm
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sure many of you listening to this are Democrats. They think they know better than you. We have
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evidence as far back as I don't know 2016 as as close as you have to look when they screwed Bernie
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Sanders out of the nomination because they had to get their gal in the shoe in the Arab parent,
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Hillary Clinton. And so this is how the news is shaping up because as of right now, we have no
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idea who won Iowa and New Hampshire is in five days. And then after that, I think it's Nevada and
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then there might be one more state and then we have super Tuesday. Like in and if we see something
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like this in New Hampshire or Nevada, I mean, my goodness, like again, where there's smoke,
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there's fire. And again, I'm not saying that this is a big conspiracy theorist conspiracy theory.
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It just absolutely reeks. It reeks at this exact moment. And I have no idea how you defend it.
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I have absolutely no idea how you defend this. But at the very least, it makes the Democrats
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look incompetent. And at the very worst, it makes the Democrats look highly, highly corrupt. So
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we'll see how that goes. Then we fast forward to Tuesday, February the 4th, we have the state
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of the union address. And it was basically the state of the union address under duress
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because he was the second president Donald Trump to deliver a state of the union address while he
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was going through the impeachment trial. The other one was obviously Bill Clinton. But here
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were some of the highlights from the speech. I would say the first thing that I went to highlight
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from the speech was just Donald Trump overall because this was very much so teleprompter Donald
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Trump. This was Donald Trump under complete control because he basically couldn't flow at all.
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Okay. And the thing is, is this Donald Trump is a palatable Donald Trump. Okay. This one just is.
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This is the Donald Trump that will make a suburban female, a mom, a stay at home mom, feel okay.
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Like to feel like, okay, it wouldn't be absolutely insane if I voted for this guy. That was the
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Donald Trump that if you're a union employee that you don't feel like he's going to completely
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screw you. That's the Donald Trump that if you're a blue collar guy, you think he's got your back,
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right? So that was a highlight. I thought it was a very fantastic speech. I don't typically like
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say the union address as I typically skip them. But I thought it was a it was a well done overall
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speech. I think it's speech writers absolutely nailed it. Okay. There were a couple of other
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highlights. There was a military family reunion, which if you ever want to guarantee that I'm
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going to cry, let's go ahead and have a military member be reunited with this family when they
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weren't expecting it. That was an awesome moment. There was a Tuskegee Airmen that was in there.
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He was over a hundred years old and he was actually introduced after his great grandson who wants to
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go to the Air Force Academy and you know, go into space and do all these different things. So that
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was a really, really cool thing that Tuskegee Airmen had to stand up and sit down about three or four
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times. I was like, Oh man, I bet he's exhausted at a hundred years old. But the guy seemed to be
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enjoying himself. That was cool. Rush Limbaugh, who is basically the godfather of conservatism or
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godfather of, you know, talk radio, I guess, he was actually given the presidential medal of freedom.
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So if you didn't know Rush Limbaugh announced on Monday that he has been given a diagnosis of
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advanced lung cancer. And so it's not a great prognosis at this point, but he was actually given
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the presidential medal of freedom during the state of the union by Melania Trump. So that was a little
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bit of a surprise. And then we have, I think it's Ellie Schneider. It's either Ellie or Eilie,
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but I think it's Ellie Schneider. She was in attendance with her mom. I think she's two years old now.
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She was delivered at 21 weeks gestation. Okay. And she's survived and thriving now and all those
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things. And so this was a good moment for Donald Trump to kind of talk about some pro life things
27:57
because people talk about these babies not being viable. Well, it's like that weeks of gestation
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thing keeps rolling back like at 21 weeks of gestation, right? She was able to be saved and
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she's thriving now. It's awesome. And then we have some low lights. So apparently Nancy Pelosi
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didn't do the normal introduction. There was supposed to be this normal big boisterous introduction.
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And she just basically said, here's the president. I honestly don't really give a crap what she
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said. It's not really about her. So whatever. There was some hissing and weirdness from other
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Democrats, you know, some Democrats stood up and, you know, wave their fingers. I don't know what
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they were saying. Some Democrats pretended like they walked out in the middle of the speech.
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You know, they thought that nobody would know. And then they immediately were interviewed by
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CNN. Afterwards, I was silly. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was not in attendance, you know,
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whatever that's worth. So there was some weird things. But the weirdest thing of the night was,
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this was I had already left the room because I could tell the speech is winding down. When I
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came back in, my wife told me that Nancy Pelosi actually tore up the copy of her speech. So if
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you don't know, whenever the president walks in, he gives a copy of a speech to the vice president,
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and then he gives a copy of a speech to the speaker of the house. And that is actually
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part of the federal record, right? That that's how we know that the state of union actually happened
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because all the pageantry and people in the crowd and the big room of full of people, that's not
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actually required by law. That's just something that we just do now. Okay. But after the speech
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was over, she rips the paper in half and then she rips the paper in half again, and then she
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rips it in half again. And that's all anybody could talk about after the speeches. Oh, you know,
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either Nancy Pelosi is the worst person ever for doing that, or she's the most bravest
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of brave, brave people that we've ever seen. Here's the thing that we can say, she clearly
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planned to do that because she claimed she was so overwhelmed by all the lies inside the speech
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that she just couldn't help herself. Someone found video of her earlier in Donald Trump speech,
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testing the paper. She kind of pulled it down. And if you don't know quite, you guys know this,
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if you don't know quite, if you could rip through something, you might try to just get a little
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rip to see if, you know, when you need to rip through it completely, that it's going to be okay.
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She was doing that. So about an hour before she ripped it up and ripped it to shreds,
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people knew that that was going to happen because she knew that was going to happen. She
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knew she was going to do that. But she just came off looking a little bit petty. Like,
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I mean, can you imagine if Paul Ryan had done that after Barack Obama speeches? I mean, Paul Ryan,
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his career would have been over, not just in politics, right? The names and the things that
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he would have been branded with would have been absolutely insane. But you know, Nancy Pelosi does
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it and she's some sort of a hero. Anyway, those are the lowlights. This is the reason why this
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news might shape 2020, okay? Because what we saw was under control Trump and under control Trump
30:35
is a winning Trump. Whereas Twitter Trump is a losing Trump. Okay. When you see Trump on Twitter,
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when you see him going crazy during some of these, uh, some of these interviews or some of these
30:46
things with the media, that's, that's where he's losing. His base loves it, right? His base
30:50
absolutely loves it. It loves it. It's red meat for them, right? Oh, own the lives and do your thing.
30:55
Like I get it, but that's not a winning strategy when you need to win the country, right? He's already
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got your vote. He already has over 90% support in the Republican party. He's gonna, he's gonna
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have your vote, but it's for those independents and those, those people, especially in Wisconsin
31:10
and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Minnesota. It's those people that if they saw under control Trump for
31:16
the rest of the year, I don't think there's any way that he loses. Right? I just don't see it.
31:22
Right? Regardless of if you think that's good news or bad news, if he's under control and the economy's
31:26
good, he's going to win a second term. But that's the thing is, are we going to have this Donald
31:31
Trump for the rest of the year? I highly doubt it, but maybe, and we'll see how that goes.
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And the last thing here was yesterday on Wednesday, February 5th, very, very historic Donald Trump
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was actually exonerated in the Senate. There were two articles of impeachment that were passed
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from the house to the Senate. The first article was abusive power, which failed 48 to 52. And the
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second article was obstruction of Congress, which failed 47 to 53. Now you need 67 votes,
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a two thirds majority to actually have been removed from office. The only Republican that broke
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any which direction was Mitt Romney of Utah, former, former candidate for president from
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the Republican Party in 2012. He voted yes on the first article. He voted guilty on the first
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article of use of power. Mitt Romney is going to be eviscerated for this. He's already been
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eviscerated for this. There's a lot of people in Utah that he may not get reelected in Utah now.
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It was just one of those things that came off for Mitt Romney looking really petty. You can tell
32:28
that he and Donald Trump don't like each other individually that much. Mitt Romney thought he
32:32
probably should have been secretary of state. I think Donald Trump may have alluded to the fact
32:35
that he would be and then, you know, went with somebody else. So it's one of those things that
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Mitt Romney, I think has a personal vendetta against Donald Trump, because at no point did he come out
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in public and explain why he thought abuse of power was proven by the house or proven with any
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of the documents they received in the Senate. None of that was proven. So he came out looking a
32:52
little bit weird, but we'll go ahead and get into why I think this news might shape 2020.
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Okay, because if Donald Trump is reelected, we'll be able to come right back to this week and maybe
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explain that this week was the reason why. Okay, because impeachment has been a gigantic fail for
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the Democrats. They've looked horrifically stupid. It just has not worked. It's been a sham, right?
33:14
When Donald Trump was elected, when he was inaugurated, his approval rating was around 41%.
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And the Democrats have in their mind just drug him and his entire administration through the mud.
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And now his approval rating is 49%. That's if you're wondering, that's incredibly high
33:31
for a president, especially one like this one. That's kind of a loose cannon, right? 49%.
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The reality is is if he's anywhere near 50% by November, then he's in like there's just no way
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he loses, right? Especially if everything stays good. But if he's defeated in November, we'll be
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able to look back at this time, we'll be able to come right back to this week. And this will be
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just another in a myriad of stories that may or not be true that make Trump look bad. Because
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here's the thing, do any of you honestly think that it's going to be smooth sailing from here
34:05
until November? So I'm talking to my always Trump or, you know, MAGA MAGA people right now.
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After yesterday, a lot of you guys are like, great, we're good until November. Let's just keep this
34:15
economy moving. Let's keep everybody alive. And we're going to be fine. Guys, there's going to be
34:20
something else that comes up. I would not be completely astonished if we had another impeachment
34:25
trial before November. Because remember, the day that he won the election, right before he was even
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inaugurated, there were lots of people in Congress, right? Democrats in Congress that said they were
34:38
going to impeach the president for what you might say. They don't have any idea, but they're going to
34:42
find something. They're not just going to all of a sudden stop looking because they hope they can
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land on something that might actually stick on this guy, right? And guys, they might. Because
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Trump seems to be a morally bankrupt, somewhat conflicted person. And he seems a little bit corrupt
35:00
in some ways. They might be able to find something to pin to this guy that will actually stick that
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might get the two thirds majority in the Senate. It's not likely before November, but can you honestly
35:09
think that that's going to be it? Again, the grab them by the, you know what video that that came up,
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that was like a month before the election back in 2016. Everyone thought the ship was sunk at that
35:19
point. There are people right now that are sitting on, you know, transcripts or pictures or videos or
35:25
testimonies that they're just going to release all throughout the spring, all throughout the summer
35:29
and certainly in the fall to try and sink them. Okay. But again, if he wins or loses, we can come
35:35
back to this week, because if he wins, everyone's going to be pointing to February when he was exonerated
35:41
in the Senate, not because there was some sort of cover up and the Republicans are scared of Trump
35:45
or whatever the New York Times is saying right now, because we can come back to this time and the
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Democrats went all in on impeachment and the public United States, the people of the United States
35:54
were like, yeah, I don't really care. That doesn't really matter to me. Or you haven't proven your case
35:58
and I'm not going to prove it for you by voting against this guy in November. So here's the thing
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guys is that kind of wraps up the week. And what a week. I mean, when you really think about that,
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I'm really appreciative to Albert Mueller for pointing this out. This has been a huge week.
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Were you involved? Well, I mean, were you mentally there this week? Did you notice that all this
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stuff happened? Because we don't normally have weeks that are this chock full, but guys, there are
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always things going on in this country and around the world that should be of interest to us.
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Again, we constantly talk about cultivating spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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A lot of these things have threads that apply to us as Christian men, as leaders of our homes,
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as performing the role of headship over our homes. These things are very, very important.
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So you guys need to stay involved. All right, guys, before we let you go,
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we're going to do a quick resilience boost. As you know, by now, we are a men's ministry
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and our mission is cultivating manly resilience. Specifically, we do that by providing content
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that for the spiritual mental and physical toughness. So for today, I got a few links for you.
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First, I found a great timeline for the coronavirus that is constantly being updated as being updated
36:58
every day. So I've got a link for that here. And then I've also got Tim Kennedy's Instagram. So if
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you're not following him on Instagram, you definitely need to be. And then also, I've got the entire
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video of Trump's 2020 state of the union speech. So if you're interested in that, you can give that
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