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- This is "I'm Daunted 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, today we are gonna be talking
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about the coronavirus.
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I know a lot of you guys have been very, very anxious
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to hear my thoughts on all this
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and some of you that are private friends of mine.
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You've already heard my thoughts on all this,
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but today we're gonna be talking about COVID-19.
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We're gonna be talking about everything
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that's kind of gone on with that.
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But let me kind of tell you what this podcast
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is not going to be.
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There have been a lot of news organizations.
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There's been a lot of different people
1:06
that have given their opinions on this.
1:08
There's a lot of people that have said
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they're gonna do this, they're gonna do that.
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And the Trump administration's doing great
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or the Trump administration's doing terrible
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or the world's doing the best job ever
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or this is gonna be the pandemic
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that kills us all and all that.
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That's not what I'm gonna get into today.
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I don't find that stuff especially appealing to talk about.
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It's certainly not that interesting to listen to.
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And here's the other thing,
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I'm not gonna give you any updates either.
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Because guys, no matter where you go,
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you're gonna see news about COVID-19,
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the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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So I don't need to do that.
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Like the day that you listen to this podcast,
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if I start giving you information
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at the beginning of this podcast,
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by the end of the podcast, it'll be obsolete, right?
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Whether we can use this medication or that medication
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or this country has this many people dying
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or this many people surviving,
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it's just, that's not what this podcast is gonna be.
1:53
Because the reason why I haven't talked about coronavirus
1:55
on this podcast, in addition to the fact
1:57
that we had some great guests
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that come on in the last several weeks,
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is that I wanted to kind of collect my thoughts on this
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and not in a type of like epidemiological sense
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or something like that.
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Like that's not really what I wanted to do.
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Hey, I wanted to go through all the information
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and then give you guys the real deal.
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Because I know my limitations and the area of science
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is one of those limitations.
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It's one of those things that I can't really wrap my head around.
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A lot of things that happen in science or medicine.
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But I've been thinking a lot about what I've been seeing.
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So the actions I've been seeing from people.
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So the actions I've seen myself do,
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the actions I've seen others do,
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the actions I see from people in the news,
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from people in other countries.
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There's been a lot to watch.
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I mean, there are people that study psychology
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or sociology or any of those types of things.
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There's a lot to pay attention to.
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But I feel like COVID-19 is doing something to us.
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And then it's also revealing a lot of things to us.
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So I kind of want to break that down a little bit here.
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So let's kind of go with the obvious stuff.
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From the very, from the very top here,
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let's go with the obvious things
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that the COVID-19 Coronavirus is doing to us.
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One of the first obvious things
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is obviously it's affecting our health, right?
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So regardless of whose statistics that you agree with
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or that you subscribe to,
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there's a lot of health problems
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that are being caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
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I'll just shorten it.
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We'll just call it COVID-19 for the rest of the podcast here.
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But it's affecting our health.
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There are clearly people that are dying.
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Every day there are people that are dying.
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And again, I'm not gonna give you the latest stats
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'cause by the time you listen to this,
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the stats will have changed.
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But in dozens of countries around the world,
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there are people dying every day.
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And in some of those countries,
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there are hundreds of people dying every day.
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In countries like the United States,
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it'll be dozens of people dying.
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Whatever the situation is, it's a bad deal.
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It is directly affecting our health.
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So that's obvious.
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The next obvious thing is it's affecting
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the health of our friends and family.
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Obviously, one of the first things that I did
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is whenever I heard that obviously
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this was a very difficult thing for elderly people
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to deal with or people with underlying health issues,
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I thought about my grandparents
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and I thought about my dad.
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There's some health issues going on there.
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There's some age going on there.
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And so I automatically thought about those people.
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So it's affecting their health.
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It could potentially affect their health.
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And that's one of those times where I call my dad
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and say, hey, what are you gonna be doing about this?
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Hey, how are we gonna keep grandma and grandpa
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in their house?
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Because they're stubborn.
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All they wanna do is go out and get,
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my grandma wants to go get her hair done.
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And my grandpa just wants to go out and eat dinner.
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And how can we keep them in the house?
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Because they are especially susceptible to this.
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So it's affecting the health of our friends and family.
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The next obvious thing is it's affecting our jobs.
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This is kind of the big one for a lot of you guys
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is there are not very many industries
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that you can think of or that anyone can think of
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that are booming right now, right?
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Aside from toilet paper industries and mask makers
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and cleaning companies and those types of things,
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those people are raking it in right now.
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But just about everybody else's jobs
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have screeched to a halt, right?
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And in everything, in everything that you can imagine.
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And most small businesses in the United States
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don't operate on these gigantic margins.
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Almost 100% of the businesses in the United States
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are small businesses, right?
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Like that's what the statistics tell us.
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But these people, that's why whenever you talk to people
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that are left us in kind of their understanding of economics,
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they just assume that if you own a business
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that you have these massive margins
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and you're just taking advantage of the little guy.
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Most of the small business owners that I know
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don't have two months worth of cash on hand.
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So if things really, really go bad,
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they can't really deal with it for very long.
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And now for you, if you're not a business owner,
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you're very worried about your job.
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You know, I work with some guys in the oil and gas field
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and some of my best friends are in the oil and gas field.
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And they pretty much live in a constant state of awareness
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about where the oil and gas field is.
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But beyond that, they kind of live
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in this constant state of paranoia about,
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okay, is next month gonna be worse than this month?
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Are they gonna shut down all the rigs?
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Like, what are they gonna do?
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And this just affecting our jobs.
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There's a lot of people that have lost their jobs.
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There's been some estimates that upwards
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of a 20% unemployment rate in the United States,
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which guys, that would be absolutely insane.
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The Trump administration, through whatever they've been doing,
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they've been able to get the unemployment rate
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basically to zero.
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It's never going to be zero,
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but there's basically more jobs than there are people
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that were available to work three weeks ago, a month ago,
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right?
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That's not what we're seeing now.
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Another obvious thing that we've seen COVID-19 do
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is it's affecting our money.
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I mean, I'm not telling you guys anything
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that you don't know, it's affecting our income.
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It's affecting our investments.
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Certainly, if you're watching your investments,
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you're a braver person than I am,
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it's affecting your retirement,
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it's affecting your businesses.
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It's definitely affecting your money
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and we're going to get more into money here just a little bit.
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Another obvious thing is it's affecting the church,
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the capital C church and other ministries,
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'cause a lot of ministries have had to shut down
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the things that they're doing
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because most of their ministries are belly to belly.
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They're having to be with people in the room
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and that's just too dangerous right now.
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It's affecting the church.
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I don't know of a single church
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that any of my friends go, at least in my area,
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that is still meeting on Sundays.
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Now, thank God for churches like LifeChurch.tv
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here in or Life.Church now is what they're called in,
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Edmond, Oklahoma, one of the largest churches,
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if not the largest church in the United States.
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They've been on the church online bandwagon since forever.
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I'm pretty sure they were the first entity
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to do church online, right?
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Or they were one of the first
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and they've gotten that technology out to a lot of people.
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So most people can go to church online now.
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That wasn't always a thing, 10 years ago.
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I don't think that was a thing, right?
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So that's an incredible thing that we're still able to do,
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but it is still affecting the church,
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'cause even when you see people online,
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it's just not really the same.
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The next obvious thing is it's affecting our social lives.
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That's kind of a duh, because bars and restaurants
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are shut down, you can't go to a bowling alley,
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nobody's hanging out at the movie theater.
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Our social lives have taken a hit.
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Another thing is it's affecting our sense of community, right?
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Just having a friend over for dinner now,
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it might be a knockdown drag-out fight with your spouse, right?
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That's a serious issue.
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Honey, we've got kids.
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I mean, we can't just invite the neighbors over, right?
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Even talking to your neighbor.
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Like, you know, watching your neighbors,
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you're walking your dog and they're walking their dog
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and you make sure you pass each other
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on the opposite sides of the street
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and kind of point your face away from them.
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It's certainly affecting our sense of community.
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Community events are done, you know,
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there's no real social gatherings anymore
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because with each subsequent day leading up to this week,
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it was like, okay, no more than 250 people at an event.
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Okay, no more than 100.
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Okay, no more than 50.
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Okay, no more than 10 people, right?
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In a press conference where there's more than 10 people
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on camera, but it's kind of one of those interesting things.
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It's crushing our sense of community.
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Beyond that, it's affecting our entertainment.
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I mean, guys, there's no sports, none at all.
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I mean, well, I think I got a text recently
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that there was like a MMA thing in Jacksonville,
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like this private MMA event that happened back in Jacksonville.
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But guys, there's no spring training baseball.
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Like, there's no NBA.
8:29
That was kind of the first shoot to drop there.
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There's no kind of Olympic trials.
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There's nothing, nothing at all.
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And I know there's a lot of entities
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that are trying to keep their things going
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and they're wondering when they can come back,
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but it's so tough, no concerts.
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Everyone's too scared again to go to the movie theater
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or any type of thing that you could find
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as entertainment outside the house.
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We just don't really do those things anymore.
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And kind of the last thing that's obvious,
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at least it was obvious to me is it's affecting our travel.
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I had my wife and her third trimester.
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She was gonna do kind of a little girls trip,
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go see some of her friends out in California
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that had to be canceled.
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And luckily when we canceled the trip,
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had she actually gone on that trip,
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then she kind of would have been quarantined
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in the state of California
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'cause they pretty much locked down the state of California.
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Not exactly sure how that's affected the airlines.
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But that's all the obvious stuff, right?
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So anytime you go to the news
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or Instagram or Twitter or something like that,
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those are the things that people are talking about.
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But one thing I've noticed about the coverage of COVID-19
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is that people aren't really going any deeper than that.
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I mean, they're staying fairly surface level, right?
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And it's affecting grocery stores and stuff like that.
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Obviously that's one thing I neglected to mention.
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So you got this one person that buys five boxes worth
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of toilet paper and they're taking it out to their truck
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and someone gets someone Instagram like,
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oh my gosh, can you believe this person?
9:44
Like those are the stories that you're getting right now.
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But we're not going any deeper and I'm wondering why.
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Because what COVID-19 is doing to us
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is many things that are on a much, much deeper level.
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So I'm gonna go through some of those here
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and the first one's gonna be political
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and the rest won't be for so.
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So for some of you out there that don't think
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I should talk about political things,
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maybe just like plug your ears for the next two
10:04
or three minutes, I don't know, just deal with it.
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But the one thing that I've really thought about this,
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and guys, again, just to remind you,
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I didn't vote for this guy.
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So I'm not carrying water for him.
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But I think this COVID-19 thing is revealing
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that the U.S. mainstream media really is out to get Trump.
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I mean, I just, when I'm watching these press conferences
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where Trump and the rest of his administration
10:24
that's kind of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic,
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some of the questions he's getting asked
10:28
are absolutely hilarious.
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And they're maddening if you're a big Trump,
10:33
Maga, Maga guy, your head's gotta be ready to explode.
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But at these press conferences that he's doing,
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he's receiving multiple questions
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about why are you calling it the Wuhan virus?
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Why are you calling it the Chinese virus?
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And just to be honest, how stupid is that?
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Just as a basic question.
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Because here's the deal.
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You're in the media and you're in the room
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and you get to ask the President of the United States,
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the most powerful person on the planet Earth, a question,
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during what might end up being the biggest financial crisis
11:04
in world history, and you're worried about the words he chooses.
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When he calls the virus by the names that he chooses.
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They're like, what?
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I just don't quite understand this.
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And again, if the media were saying things like this
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to Barack Obama or to Bill Clinton
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or to some other President,
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I would like to think that I would believe the same thing
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and I would've wanted to defend that President
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in the same way.
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It's so ridiculous and the most ridiculous thing
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is that they're calling him a racist
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for saying it's the Wuhan virus or the Chinese virus,
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which is just hilarious to me.
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Because we have some historical proof texts.
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I saw this on a news reel, not that long ago,
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that kind of proved that calling this the Wuhan flu
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or the Chinese flu or the Wuhan virus
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or the Chinese virus, that that's not racist.
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Let me just kind of break it down for you.
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So there was the Spanish flu from the early 1900s.
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That was a worse flu epidemic in the history of the world.
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Much of the information about the disease came from Spain.
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It may have originated in Spain.
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We don't know that for sure.
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And also the Spanish king was infected.
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So calling it the Spanish flu is not racist.
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Then we've got the German measles.
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You might know that as Ravela.
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That didn't originate in Germany,
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but it was a German scientist that discovered
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that it was different than the measles.
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So calling it German measles is not racist.
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Then you got West Nile virus.
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It originated in East Africa in the early 1900s.
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It happens when a mosquito bites a bat
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and then a bat bites a human
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and then the human transports it.
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So calling it the West Nile virus, also not racist.
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Then we've got mirrors.
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Y'all remember people talking about mirrors?
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That's in ERS, Middle Eastern respiratory system.
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So that's the discovery that discovery was made
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in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
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It's another kind of coronavirus, actually.
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It's not racist.
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It just happened.
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It was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
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So that's why they call it mirrors, Middle Eastern.
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Then you got Japanese encephalitis.
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That's spread by mosquitoes that originated
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in the late 1800s and it originated in Japan.
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It's not racist to call it Japanese encephalitis.
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The thing is that people can't quite understand
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is this has nothing to do with the Chinese people at all.
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It has to do with the Chinese government.
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That's a part that is so stupid about this.
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Like when people will ask Donald Trump
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or any of his people in his administration,
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well, there are people in this country
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that might be discriminated against because they're Chinese.
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They can't even provide examples of that happening.
13:17
They're just saying, what if this happens?
13:19
We want to blame it on you.
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So what would you like to say now?
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The thing about this guys,
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and I'll get off my political soapbox,
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this is China's fault.
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This is absolutely China's fault.
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They let their wet markets stay open.
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So if you've looked at videos, go to Google right now
13:33
and look up wet markets, China.
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And just see the dead animals
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that are sitting on top of other dead animals
13:39
and the types of animals
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that they're selling to people for them to eat.
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Their people are eating crap like bats and penguins
13:44
and just nonsense animals that you've never even seen before.
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And those things lead to diseases like this.
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These diseases just show up out of nowhere
13:52
because people are eating ridiculous animals like magic, right?
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This is communism's fault, right?
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You tamp down anything that might make the regime look bad.
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And if you need to lie in order to make things look bad,
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go ahead and do that too.
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Here's the thing guys,
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we have evidence that the Chinese government knew
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about the outbreak and then covered it up.
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They knew about this, you know, at the end of 2019,
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they knew that this was happening,
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but because of communism, because of authoritarianism,
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they didn't want to let that out, right?
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We actually have evidence that doctors and journalists
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that tried to sound the alarm on this got quote unquote,
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disappeared, basically the Chinese government
14:30
made them disappear, right?
14:31
We have evidence that they straight up lied to the World Health
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Organization representatives
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to basically say that this wasn't that big a deal.
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We've got this under control in the World Health Organization.
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It's like, oh, okay, great.
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China's never lied to us before.
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But that's the thing here is it just seems like in a time
14:47
where we've got this desperate need
14:49
to have no political nonsense,
14:51
this desperate time to where we all need to kind of be
14:53
on the same page,
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the media just can't get on the same page.
14:57
Another thing that I didn't really even think about,
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I didn't put my show notes, isn't it interesting
15:01
that we're not hearing anybody complain
15:03
about the pronouns that are being used at all right now?
15:06
We don't have people complaining about
15:08
where they're supposed to go to the bathroom.
15:09
No one's claiming any hashtag me two things at the moment.
15:13
No one's, you know, there's no front page stories
15:15
about six year olds that are being force fed pills
15:17
that are gonna cast, you know, cast straight them chemically.
15:20
Isn't it amazing?
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It's almost as if those things are completely made up.
15:24
It's almost as if those things are farcical, right?
15:27
But what do I know?
15:28
We'll kind of go to the next deeper thing
15:30
that I feel like COVID-19 is revealing about this
15:32
and it's this.
15:33
It's revealing how potentially dangerous it is
15:36
for you to be fat now, shape.
15:38
Did that feel a little gross when I said that?
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But it's real guys, because obviously some of you
15:45
that aren't 80 years old and older,
15:47
you're like, oh, well, I'm not elderly.
15:49
But then there are a lot of people
15:50
that have talked about the coronavirus,
15:51
COVID-19 affecting people that have underlying health issues.
15:55
Well, in America, most of the underlying health issues
15:57
are because we're so fat, because we're so overweight.
16:01
We're so morbidly obese that we have heart issues.
16:04
We have lung issues.
16:06
We have, you know, blood pressure issues, right?
16:09
And this is one of those moments where if you're not
16:12
really, really old and if you're not in bad shape,
16:15
you're like, oh, shoot, I'm kind of in the clear.
16:18
I got a way better than 99% chance
16:20
of not even getting this thing.
16:21
And then if I even do get this thing,
16:23
I've got a better than 99% chance
16:25
that it's not even gonna affect me.
16:27
And so that's the thing that it's revealing that I really
16:29
hope people take to heart.
16:30
I know they won't because most people are morons,
16:32
but I really feel like people should take a much deeper look
16:36
at how they're taking care of themselves
16:37
in their own personal health.
16:39
Because this is one of those moments
16:40
where there's not a whole lot of fingers
16:42
to be pointed anywhere else.
16:43
If you get this and you had a preventable disease,
16:47
you know, something that you've created
16:48
because you're so fat, because you're so overweight,
16:51
this is one of those moments where it's like,
16:52
hey, man, if you had been taking care of yourself
16:54
for all these years or all these decades,
16:56
you wouldn't be in the crosshairs of this disease.
16:59
Not a whole lot of people are talking about that right now
17:01
because it's really insensitive.
17:02
And I know some of you are like,
17:03
oh my gosh, can't believe you said that, but it's true.
17:05
Another deeper level thing for us to be thinking
17:07
about that COVID-19 is revealing.
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Is it's revealing how unprepared many of us are?
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And so yes, you can talk about the preparedness
17:14
of the government and guys, guess what?
17:16
Not a single country on the planet was prepared for this.
17:19
Not a single country on the planet had, you know,
17:22
the right amount of ventilators because of a pandemic,
17:24
you had the right amount of mass, the right amount of tests,
17:26
nobody was ready for this.
17:28
There are varying levels of crappy, right?
17:30
There are some countries that got this so poorly
17:33
on the back end after this all happened
17:35
and then there's some that have done a really, really good job.
17:37
But guys, no one was really prepared for this,
17:39
but I want to talk more on the individual level
17:42
because most of the people that I know,
17:44
and I'm talking about the generic people that I know,
17:46
these people don't even have a week's worth of food at home.
17:49
I mean, they've got enough groceries to last them
17:51
to maybe two or three days.
17:53
You know, they just depend on fast food
17:55
or restaurants or something like that.
17:57
And then someone like this happens,
17:59
there's a run on food at the grocery store
18:01
and then they're the one left being like, oh crap,
18:03
well, I need food to live and I normally buy that food
18:07
and now the only food that's available is that food,
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you know, what am I gonna do?
18:11
And a lot of people just aren't really prepared.
18:13
I feel like one thing that we're gonna see
18:14
is if you run a prepper company,
18:16
like a company that teaches people how to make fire
18:18
out of nothing and people that sell, you know,
18:21
beans out of last for the next 700 years
18:22
or something like that, I don't feel like those companies
18:25
are ever gonna go out of business
18:26
and they may never have enough stock to provide
18:29
for all the people that wanna be customers of theirs
18:31
because it's really revealed to us.
18:33
Most of us don't have a freaking clue what's gonna happen
18:35
and we have no idea where our next meal's gonna come from
18:38
if the grocery stores are empty
18:39
and nothing's at the house.
18:41
So that's an interesting thing to think about.
18:43
The next deeper level thing is it's revealing
18:45
the pain points in our households.
18:47
This one's really interesting
18:48
and I feel like we're gonna get a lot of data on this,
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you know, a year, maybe five years from now, something like that.
18:53
The thing about this disease is it's affecting
18:55
most people's jobs.
18:56
So you've either lost your job at this point
18:58
or you're working from home, most likely.
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So when you're working from home,
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you can't get away from your family.
19:04
If you've got a bad relationship with your spouse,
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you can't get away from them.
19:10
If you hate your kids, if your kids suck,
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if they're awful, well, they're not at school right now,
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you can't get away from them either.
19:16
And you can't escape to your normal hobbies.
19:19
You can't escape to work, right?
19:21
There's no sports on.
19:21
So you can't be like, hey, honey, leave me alone.
19:23
I got this three hour baseball game I need to watch.
19:25
You don't have that right now.
19:27
And so what this is doing for a lot of people
19:29
is it's revealing a lot of pain points
19:31
inside the household that they may have never realized before.
19:34
Because maybe you've been operating at this clip
19:37
for so long that you've got your kids and, you know,
19:39
your spouse is less of a spouse
19:41
and more of just kind of a life partner.
19:42
You know, she kind of helps you pay the bills.
19:44
She helps you make sure that the kids are fed.
19:45
She helps you make sure that the house
19:46
isn't burned down, those types of things.
19:48
But there's no intimacy there.
19:50
There's no conversations there.
19:51
There's no deeper level of any meaningful talk
19:54
in your entire lives.
19:55
It's just getting to the next day.
19:57
Getting the kids to the next day.
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Getting yourselves to the next day
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until you can grab your coffee, hop in your truck
20:03
and get to work.
20:04
That's kind of what it feels like.
20:06
But you don't have that luxury right now.
20:08
And the bad part about it is we have no idea
20:10
how much longer that's gonna last.
20:12
This could last a few weeks.
20:14
It could last a few months, right?
20:16
I don't really know that it'll go much farther past that.
20:19
But a lot of you are having to reckon with that right now.
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I find that really interesting.
20:23
It's probably a good thing.
20:25
Another deeper level thing this is revealing about us
20:27
is it's revealing our paranoia.
20:28
I mean, right now, people don't wanna be around people.
20:33
Even when you look at the most reputable data that we have,
20:36
which says that this is not the most transmissible thing
20:40
that we've ever seen.
20:41
Even if you transmit it in your young and in good shape
20:43
that it's probably not gonna take you out.
20:45
It's almost as likely to kill you as the flu leading,
20:48
the regular flu leading to pneumonia, those types of things.
20:51
But it's almost as if we're treating this like sickness
20:53
is hiding behind every corner or on top of, you know,
20:56
every countertop or on top of every dumbbell at the gym, right?
20:59
Because we see these things while the virus can live
21:01
this long on plastic and it can live this long on metal
21:03
and it can live this long on cardboard.
21:05
And it's like, oh no, we're just gonna leave the boxes
21:07
from Amazon on the front porch.
21:08
Like we'll just let them fester out there
21:10
and hopefully they don't get stolen
21:11
and then we'll bring them back in sometime in 2027.
21:14
And then we can open the packages.
21:16
But it's revealing our paranoia about a lot of these things.
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Now, I'm not advocating that you guys be ridiculous.
21:22
Like don't go to your Jiu Jitsu gym
21:24
and then like just run your tongue like long ways
21:27
along the entire mat.
21:28
That's kind of ridiculous.
21:30
But isn't it kind of ridiculous what we're seeing people doing?
21:35
I mean, I saw a picture of somebody the other day
21:36
that literally had a trash bag over the top of them
21:39
with duct tape around the bottom.
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I mean, what point do you have to get to,
21:44
to where it's like, dude, just stay home.
21:46
Just stay home.
21:46
Like, just stay home if that's gonna be
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how you're gonna present yourself in public.
21:50
So it's revealing our paranoia for sure.
21:52
The next thing it's revealing about us is
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how dependent we are on escapes,
21:57
like sports or movies or concerts or things like that.
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For so many guys that I know,
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their entire life is about leisure.
22:03
I've done an episode of this podcast.
22:05
I can't remember the number off top of my head,
22:06
but it's called addicted to leisure.
22:08
I talk about these guys that just all they wanna do
22:11
is they just look forward to those times
22:12
where they can veg out.
22:13
There's not a whole lot of vegging out options right now.
22:17
And for any of you guys that are getting creative
22:18
so that you can continue to veg out,
22:20
you're missing out on some really good opportunities,
22:22
which we'll get it more into here in a little bit.
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But a lot of people, they're literally dependent on escapes.
22:27
Some of the most interesting stories
22:29
that I've heard have been about gambling sites.
22:31
Like, and gamblers in Vegas and things like that,
22:34
these sports books, they're taking bets on the weather.
22:36
I mean, guys, think about that.
22:38
They're taking bets on the weather.
22:40
That is how I ate up some of these guys are
22:43
with gambling and those different things
22:45
because that is their escape.
22:47
And you need sports for there to be escapes.
22:48
You need politics.
22:49
You can bet on politics, right?
22:51
But everything's kind of shut down,
22:52
so they're missing out on that.
22:54
The next thing is, it's revealing how much you worship
22:57
at the altar of money.
22:59
And guys, I'm not gonna take myself out of this
23:02
and kind of hover over this.
23:03
This is the same for me too.
23:04
I'm obviously worried about money as well.
23:06
My wife's in the third trimester
23:07
and we're about to give birth.
23:08
Obviously, that is another mouth to feed.
23:10
That is another thing that needs to be provided for.
23:13
And I just assume in the back of my head
23:14
that we'll never get help.
23:15
I mean, that's ridiculous.
23:16
We've had baby showers and we've had people
23:18
that are willing to literally kill people
23:21
to make sure we've got diapers and baby wipes
23:22
and stuff like that.
23:23
But at the same time, there's a lot of pressure
23:25
on a lot of us guys.
23:27
But it's showing us how dependent we are on money
23:31
for provision.
23:33
And we're just scared to death
23:34
and we just worship at the altar of money.
23:37
We're looking at our bank account.
23:39
We're like, oh no, how long is this gonna last?
23:41
We're looking at our investment accounts.
23:43
We're like, oh my gosh,
23:44
I've lost X percentage in this amount of time.
23:46
Or, oh my gosh, I love Donald Trump.
23:47
He's my favorite person on the planet.
23:48
But now the economy's been wiped out.
23:50
And so what if he's not gonna be reelected?
23:52
Just things like that.
23:53
It's all centered on money.
23:55
And isn't it so interesting that when something
23:57
like this happens, it's like the curtain's been lifted.
24:01
I mean, I know a lot of heavy hitter guys in business
24:03
that make a lot of money.
24:05
And I've had some conversations with them
24:06
in the last week.
24:07
And two weeks ago, they were the cock of the walk,
24:09
couldn't touch them, chin up in the air,
24:11
super confident guys.
24:12
And now they're sunken in and sullen and downtrodden.
24:17
And just because of money.
24:19
I mean, it's tough.
24:22
I can't say I wouldn't respond similarly
24:23
if I was in their situation.
24:24
But man, it just certainly reveals that, doesn't it?
24:27
The next thing here, we got a couple more
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that is revealing to us.
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It's revealing that most of us are utilitarians.
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And so if you're not familiar with the term utilitarian,
24:36
you're certainly familiar with it in practice.
24:38
But I'll read the definition here.
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So it's the doctrine that actions are right.
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If they are useful or for the benefit of the majority,
24:45
the doctrine that an action is right.
24:47
And so far as it promotes happiness
24:49
and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number
24:52
should be the guiding principle of conduct.
24:55
And this is why I say that.
24:57
So follow me here.
24:58
A lot of people initially were like,
25:00
oh, this isn't that big of a deal.
25:01
There's a lot of people saying that even right now,
25:03
hey, this is still not that big of a deal.
25:05
But now that the conversation is changing a bit.
25:07
So whether you listen to political pundits
25:09
or just social thinkers or whatever the situation is,
25:12
now people are like, they're asking questions like this.
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Well, how long can we basically have no government
25:20
or not no government?
25:21
How much longer can we have no business, no economy?
25:24
How much longer can we shut everything down?
25:27
Because the way people are asking it
25:29
is they're essentially saying, hey,
25:31
we can let some of these people die.
25:33
We can thin the herd a little bit.
25:35
If we can keep this economy going.
25:38
'Cause there are a lot of people that are right now
25:39
that are like, hey, man, I like grandma.
25:41
Hey, man, I like grandpa.
25:42
I like all the people down at the nursing home.
25:44
But my goodness, if some of them die
25:46
and we can keep everything moving along,
25:49
maybe that's better.
25:50
They may not say that out loud.
25:51
They're probably not gonna say it
25:52
with a huge microphone in front of their faces.
25:54
But we're all becoming a little bit utilitarian
25:56
at this point, especially the young and the healthy
25:58
and the people that have businesses.
25:59
It's just like, hey, man, let us out of our houses.
26:01
Let's get this going, especially with the American spirit,
26:03
the, you know, the don't tread on me spirit.
26:06
Don't tell me what to do spirit, the libertarian spirit.
26:08
I mean, that's kind of the thing is how much longer
26:10
can the government say, just stay in your house
26:12
and don't talk to anyone in person, like within six feet?
26:16
Again, what we're looking at this now is like, hey,
26:19
what's the best thing for the most amount of people?
26:21
And guess what?
26:22
The overwhelming amount of people
26:24
that get COVID-19 will not die.
26:27
You will have people that will get COVID-19
26:29
and they won't even realize they're sick.
26:32
Just saying, I'm not advocating for one or the other,
26:35
but it's revealing that a lot of us think
26:37
as a utilitarian for sure.
26:38
And the last deeper level thing that I want to discuss here
26:41
is it's revealing how scared we really are at our core.
26:44
We are terrified.
26:48
And I'm talking about we in the macro sense as humanity,
26:52
but also as Christians.
26:54
We're not thinking about, man, if I die, I'll go to heaven.
26:57
We're like, oh my gosh, what if I die
26:59
in this horrible pandemic?
27:01
I remember reading about the black plague.
27:03
I remember reading about the Spanish flu.
27:06
I could just be one of those bodies
27:08
that they pile into a mass grave and set on fire.
27:10
It's revealing some incredible things
27:13
about how scared we are.
27:15
People are so frightened and fear is leading people
27:21
to go to the grocery store, to go to the gun store,
27:24
to go buy up everything because we're scared.
27:26
And to the Christians out there,
27:29
the question I have for you is, why are you so scared?
27:31
And guys, let's be real about something.
27:34
Before you think I'm the guy that's got it all figured out,
27:37
you know who had to remind me of that fact?
27:39
My wife, my lovely bride,
27:41
about a week ago from the recording of this podcast
27:43
was like, God, you kind of sound a little bit scared
27:46
about this or that because my wife
27:47
and I are pretty level headed on this
27:48
'cause it's like, gosh, I guess we'll go buy toilet paper
27:51
just because everybody else is buying toilet paper.
27:53
Okay, fine.
27:54
We should probably get a little bit more ammo
27:55
just in case there's a run on ammo.
27:58
But she's just like, if you and I both died,
28:01
I mean, we still have a good happy ending.
28:04
We both go to heaven.
28:05
And it was just kind of one of those reset moments
28:08
to where it's like, yeah, you know what, you're right.
28:10
But there's a lot of Christians
28:11
that are just freaking the heck out right now
28:13
for no apparent reason.
28:15
It's almost like they don't know the end of the story.
28:18
And so I'm gonna transition now for you
28:19
to kind of talk about how can we cope?
28:22
How can we cope with the lives
28:23
that we're trying to lead right now?
28:24
And guys, there is a lot of anxiety.
28:26
There's a lot of pressure on a lot of you guys.
28:29
And I'm not trying to minimize that in any way.
28:31
I just wanna kind of give you some tools in this time
28:33
to maybe reset your brain a little bit.
28:35
And I'm not saying you're gonna put
28:36
all these things into practice.
28:37
But if you put some of them into practice,
28:38
I think that'd be a good thing for you.
28:40
So obviously we talk about spiritual,
28:42
mental and physical resilience all the time.
28:43
So I'm gonna start with ways to cope spiritually,
28:45
mentally and physically.
28:46
So the first thing spiritually is go ahead
28:48
and do the quote unquote quiet time, right?
28:52
I mean, for a lot of you guys,
28:53
have you ever had more downtime?
28:57
Just think about the guys,
28:57
if you drove 15 minutes to and from work, right?
29:01
That's 30 extra minutes in your day
29:02
since you're working from home.
29:05
What are you doing with that extra 30 minutes?
29:07
Are you trying to squeeze in another Netflix episode?
29:10
Are you trying to squeeze in another podcast?
29:12
This is that time to get a real consistent quiet time.
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And I don't care if you do it in the beginning of the day.
29:18
I don't care if you do it in a secluded closet.
29:20
I don't really care.
29:21
There's no rules around it,
29:22
but you can get that quiet time.
29:23
I mean, guys, just cover yourself in scripture.
29:26
I went ahead and pulled some scriptures for you guys
29:28
that just remind me if I'm ever anxious,
29:31
these are the things I go to.
29:32
So I'm just going to give them to you rapid fire here.
29:34
So Philippians four versus five through seven.
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Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.
29:39
The Lord is at hand.
29:40
Do not be anxious about anything.
29:42
But in everything by prayer and supplication,
29:44
with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
29:47
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,
29:50
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
29:53
Then we got Psalm 38 one.
29:55
We got King David talking about here.
29:57
This is verse nine, actually.
29:59
Oh Lord, all my longing is before you.
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My sighing is not hidden from you.
30:04
First Peter five, we've got verses six and seven here.
30:08
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God
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so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
30:13
casting all your anxieties on him
30:15
because he cares for you.
30:16
And then we got a couple from Jesus,
30:18
Matthew six, verse 20 or verse 25.
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And then we're going to skip a little bit down
30:24
and we'll get to verse 34.
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So here, therefore, I tell you,
30:26
do not be anxious about your life,
30:28
what you will eat or what you will drink,
30:30
nor about your body, what you will put on.
30:32
It is not life is not life more than food
30:35
and the body more than clothing.
30:37
Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow.
30:39
For tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
30:42
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
30:44
And the last one here is John in John 14, we have this.
30:48
Let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God,
30:50
believe also in me.
30:52
And so the thing is guys, as I just pulled out a handful,
30:55
the Bible is full of things that should make you feel comfortable.
30:58
And here's the other thing for some of you guys that are like,
31:00
"Oh my gosh, I'm a Christian, bad thing shouldn't happen to me."
31:04
Another encouragement to go read the Bible
31:06
is the people in the Bible that Jesus cared for most
31:09
and that were God's chosen people,
31:10
those are some of the people that suffered the worst
31:14
in the scriptures.
31:15
Now, that a happy ending,
31:17
but a lot of those people suffered terribly in this world.
31:20
This modern theology of that, you know,
31:23
if you're a Christian, things should just never go wrong.
31:25
It's wasteful, it's ridiculous, it's baseless, right?
31:29
So we're not going to do that.
31:30
So now for mental coping,
31:32
guys, now is a great time to feed your mind.
31:36
So you should be reading books.
31:39
And I'm talking to some of you guys,
31:40
you're like, "Oh, I want to read books.
31:41
Don't care, need to read books."
31:42
On our website, if you go to www.undaunted.life/booklist,
31:47
there are a hundred books listed there.
31:49
It's the 100 books every modern Christian man should read list.
31:52
You should pick up five of those
31:54
and read them in the next month, no big deal.
31:56
Podcasts, yes, if you want to sneak in
31:58
some comedic podcasts or different things like that,
32:00
this is a great time to try to get in more podcasts, right?
32:03
If you're chilling at home,
32:04
you got a little bit more downtime,
32:05
that's a great time to do that, right?
32:07
Documentaries.
32:08
So there's a lot of documentaries on Hulu and Amazon
32:11
and on Netflix and all that.
32:13
There's some that are for entertainment,
32:14
some that are for teaching.
32:15
So get some of that teaching ones in there.
32:17
You can go to YouTube videos, YouTube tutorials.
32:19
You can learn how to fix that part of your car
32:21
or that part of your fence or whatever the situation is.
32:23
Guys, don't just Netflix.
32:25
Don't just watch these mindless comedies
32:27
or these mindless shows.
32:28
Yes, get a little bit of that entertainment.
32:30
You got to veg out at some point.
32:32
But really, think about feeding your brain right now.
32:35
Then the next one is physical coping.
32:37
Here's the thing, guys.
32:38
I had guys reaching out to me
32:40
'cause they know I have a home gym
32:41
and they're like, "Oh man, can I come work out?
32:43
Am I in my gym, shut down?"
32:44
All these different things.
32:45
And I just was kind of looking at these guys
32:46
like, "What are you talking about?
32:48
All you need is the human body and mother earth."
32:51
Yes, the fact that I had got a gym in my garage,
32:55
that's helpful, right?
32:56
I can do my weights.
32:57
There's gonna be no hiccups whatsoever
32:59
in my exercise regimen.
33:00
But now's not the time to get fat.
33:03
I mean, there's so many people that are like,
33:04
"Oh, you know, I'm just gonna sit at home."
33:06
And then when they sit at home,
33:07
they're closer to the Twinkies,
33:08
they're closer to the beer, whatever the situation may be.
33:11
But guys, you do not need to complicate this
33:14
'cause you know what's not closed?
33:16
The planet.
33:17
You can run on the street.
33:18
You can run on trails.
33:20
You can run sprints.
33:21
Guys, tomorrow, I'm getting a group of guys together
33:23
to do a workout in the middle of a field
33:26
and there's a track nearby
33:28
as all those different things as well.
33:29
We're not gonna be near each other.
33:30
We're not gonna be touching each other.
33:31
But there's no excuse not to work out hard.
33:33
There's not gonna be a single piece of equipment out there.
33:35
And we are going to be exhausted.
33:37
I can guarantee it by the time that we're done.
33:39
But now's not the time.
33:41
I got a bunch of stuff on my website
33:43
or on the Instagram account.
33:45
It's these workouts that all you need is a deck of cards.
33:47
Something that can be found in just about every home in America.
33:50
As long as you got a deck of cards,
33:51
you can get a great workout in.
33:52
So physically cope right now.
33:54
And the next thing is, we're super connected right now.
33:58
Most of you guys realize like,
33:59
"Oh man, I haven't seen my friends in forever."
34:00
But guys, you can text them.
34:02
You can call them.
34:02
You can FaceTime.
34:03
You can Skype.
34:04
You can Snapchat.
34:05
You can social media.
34:06
You can do all these different things.
34:07
Stay connected.
34:08
If you've got a Sunday school,
34:09
stay connected to those people.
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If you've got a foxhole that meets regularly,
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do what you can to stay connected.
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There's no excuse.
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I mean, we're not living in that era
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where we've got to write letters
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with a quill pin under candlelight or something like that.
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You can just shoot a text to a guy.
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Am I feel weird the first time?
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FaceTime, I'm real quick.
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Hey man, how's it going?
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Hey, is that your dog over there?
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Let me go talk to your dog.
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What kind of situation is?
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We're super connected.
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Just stay connected.
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And the last thing here guys is help where you can.
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And that's kind of the big thing is,
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most people aren't looking for opportunities
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for where they can help right now.
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And I don't really understand it,
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but there's a lot of the things
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that people are doing that are really great.
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You don't have to be a large corporation
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to pull these things off.
34:46
The first is raise or donate money.
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I've seen a lot of people raising money on Facebook
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to donate to local food banks
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or local ministries or things like that.
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That's great.
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Inform people if you know more than they do.
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So if people are saying ridiculous things like,
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"Oh, I got coronavirus for my dog."
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You can't get it from your dog, you idiot.
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Just inform them, probably nicer than I just said it just now.
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Calm people down.
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That's a service that you can do for people.
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You can just, "Hey, let's just calm down."
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Like you don't need to be freaking out going crazy right now.
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That would probably be something good.
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You might protect people.
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There might be opportunities coming up.
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Guys, when people get desperate, people get dangerous.
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And so I have no idea if we're going to keep having
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these runs on food or what's going to happen
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or if more people lose their jobs,
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what they're going to try to do for money.
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One thing you might be able to do
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is aside from protecting yourself
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and your families, protecting others,
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that might come up for you.
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Also, run errands for people.
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So I'm encouraging people that know elderly people
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or that have elderly people and their families
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to communicate with those people
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and say, "Hey, I know you need to stay in your house right now.
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"How about you tell me what you need from the grocery store?
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"I will go get it.
35:46
"I will drop it off on the front porch.
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"Just leave the money in the mailbox.
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"Or don't worry about it.
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"I'll cover you."
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Things like that.
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Run errands for people.
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Oh, they got to go get some over-the-counter stuff
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from the pharmacy, whatever the situation may be.
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But the overall thing, guys,
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and the way that you can help is just stay vigilant.
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Stay up on the latest that's being revealed
36:06
about this virus.
36:07
Stay up on the best ways that you can prevent transmission,
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the ways that you can stay healthy,
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the ways that the people around you can stay healthy,
36:13
the other thing about staying vigilant.
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Like I said, I'll just remind you,
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when people get desperate, they get dangerous
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and you don't wanna be the person that's left,
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basically unaware when something's going down.
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So, guys, there's a lot of information here
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and this is likely gonna be the last time
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that I talk about COVID-19
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just because I think I've said my piece at this point.
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I don't think anything that I've said right now
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is going to change.
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Hopefully that last quote ages well,
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but I'm not terribly worried about it.
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I think we're all gonna get through this.
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Guys, God is on our side.
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We know the end of the story, stop freaking out.
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All right, guys, before we let you go,
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we're gonna do a quick resilience boost,
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as you know by now, we are a men's ministry
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and our mission is cultivating mainly resilience.
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Specifically, we do that by providing content
36:52
that for just spiritual, mental, and physical toughness.
36:54
So, for today, I've got a great website for you.
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So, there's the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
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That is a website that is constantly being updated.
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If you're a freak out type person,
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don't go to that website
37:05
'cause it's gonna tell you where the different outbreaks are,
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where the deaths are.
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But we should see the flattening of the curve here soon,
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but that's a great place to go.
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There's an article I found as well.
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It's called Evidence Over Hysteria, COVID-19.
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This is an article that was put on Medium.
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And guys, there's a lot of people
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that are putting this article up
37:21
as one of the greatest research articles ever
37:24
about COVID-19 and other people that are like,
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"This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
37:27
"Nothing in here is true," or whatever the situation is.
37:30
Guys, this is one of the most thorough things
37:32
that I've seen analytically.
37:34
And when this guy makes claims,
37:35
he's not seeming to take the claims out of context.
37:38
It takes a while to read.
37:39
This is a very, very long article.
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It might take you a half hour to read this,
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but I think it's good because there's a lot of things in here
37:46
that people aren't really talking about on the news
37:47
because they're not that sensational.
37:49
And so I thought this article did a good job of that,
37:51
so I included that here.
37:52
And then also I've got links to our book lists
37:54
that I talked about earlier.
37:55
And then also our devotionals
37:57
that are on the YouVersion Bible app,
37:58
the YouVersion Bible app,
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now would probably be a good time to take those down.
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38:18
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38:44
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38:47
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38:48
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38:50
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38:52
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
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Remember, keep cultivating mainly resilience,
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keep forging spiritual, mental, and physical toughness,
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keep seeking the Lion of Judah.
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