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This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys, I know, I know we have not done Q&A in an unbelievably long period of time.
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Like I'm fully fully aware that seemingly we've had a bunch of really important things to talk
1:35
about. So we haven't gotten to any of your questions but we're going to get into that today.
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So we're going to do about, I don't know, 14, 15, 16 questions. That's essentially what we do.
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Not sure how this is going to go because we got questions and they're all over the place.
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And I can't even remember what most of them are but let's see how it goes. Let's dive in.
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First question of the day, what are your thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic? So I've gotten this
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question or some form of it a lot. Guys, if you go back to episode 127 of this podcast,
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it's called what COVID-19 is doing to us. I go into a lot of detail there but I don't get into a
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lot of the detail in terms of like the ins and outs of what's going on in the Trump press conferences
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or any things that's being said in the media. And so I've thought a lot about this question.
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And so I've got a bunch of random thoughts and guys, these are not in any particular order whatsoever.
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There's not a crescendo at the end. I don't even know what the last thing I'm going to say is.
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But I have had a lot of thoughts and I've been taking a lot of content because anywhere you look,
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that's the content you're getting right now is COVID-19, coronavirus. And what are we going to do?
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What's America doing? What's China doing? All these different things? Are we going to stop
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giving money to the World Health Organization? Whatever the situation might be. But there's a lot
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of random things that I've thought about. So let me just kind of get into some of those thoughts.
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First thing is we should all be very skeptical of the World Health Organization.
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It's very concerning to hear some of the things that they've been saying and the water that they've
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been carrying for China. And China pays a considerably less amount than what the United States does.
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I think the United States puts about $500 million a year for the World Health Organization. And
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China does like, you know, 30 or 40 million, maybe 50 million a year. And yet anytime there's
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something the World Health Organization can do to be a complimentary of the authoritarian regime
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there that they do it. So I think we should be very concerned about that. Another thought is,
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I cannot imagine just how painful it must be for people that are actually dying from this.
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And they're dying alone. And they're they're dying away from their loved ones. And just the
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pain that they have to be going through emotionally, but certainly for the pain that the family
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members going through as well, there's no deathbed goodbyes. They're not even there. And I haven't
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heard any stories of any hospitals. I'm sure they're doing some of this. I would think so. But maybe
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doing some sort of a FaceTime or some sort of a zoom call with their family members or just
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something like that. So there's at least some sort of presence felt even though it's over the
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interwebs or whatever. But that's just got to be absolutely crushing and unbelievable. Most of us,
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when we do think about death and the family members in our lives that we might lose, the family
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members that we have lost, there's at least that time you got to spend with them. And I mean,
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I remember when my great grandmother passed away, I came to the house and I asked if everybody could
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leave the room. I just want to spend some time with her alone, you know, just a couple of minutes.
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And I just sat there and talked to her. And I don't know if she could hear me because she was
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really, to be fair, she was she was days away from death at that point. And but that really wasn't
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the point I got to spend some time with my grandma Bonnie. And you know, it just kind of is what it is.
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And there's tens of thousands of families at this point where, you know, nurses and doctors can go
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into the room, but husbands and wives can't or kids can't or grandkids can. And so that's got to be
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absolutely crushing. The next random thought here is without a doubt without a doubt, excluding China,
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in which we'll get to the death toll numbers that you're hearing will be much higher than reality.
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Because here's the thing, China is lying. Like, oh, they this week, or I guess by the time you're
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listening to this, it'll be last week, you know, they've reopened Wuhan and oh, they've done such a
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great job. And the US has the most deaths out of any country in the world. Yeah, my but you've got
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to be kidding me. If you believe that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn, I can sell you. But at the
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same time, you can't believe China's numbers, anything that they say they are an atheistic,
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authoritarian communist regime, you can't, you can't at all agree with any of the things that they're
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saying. But many reports in the world of people dying are actually, uh, inaccurately being reported
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and being counted. There are people that are dying with COVID-19. We've seen reports of this all over
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the world. So I'm not making this up. I'm not some sort of truth. There are people in the world
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that are dying with COVID-19, but they're not dying from COVID-19. And yet there's still being
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counted as COVID-19 victims. So if you extrapolate that out a little bit, you might have people that
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actually died of a heart attack. They died of some sort of, uh, you know, lung issue,
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but they tested positive for COVID-19. So their death is being counted as a COVID-19 death,
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even if their death is not directly caused by COVID-19. So guys, without a doubt,
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the death toll numbers that we're being told are much higher than reality.
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The next random thought is screw China. Yeah, just screw China, not the people of China,
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mind you, that's not what I'm saying. Screw communism, screw authoritarianism,
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screw atheism. The thing about it is because of authoritarianism and communism, all things
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that I just said, there's a lot more people that are going to die. I mean, I mean, a whole lot more
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people that are going to die. They, they pushed everybody off. You know, they, they've got something
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on the World Health Organization. So they weren't able to kind of come in there. The doctors that
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were trying to sound the alarm got disappeared, right? And then we've got all of these people
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that are traveling, traveling into and out of China for weeks and weeks, if not months at a time,
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before it's like, oh, yeah, this is kind of out of our hands. We don't really know how to tamp this
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down because they're trying to keep the party in power, the Communist Party that's in power,
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they want to keep them in the good graces of everybody and they want to make sure that nobody
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looks at them like they don't have everything figured out, right? And there was one report,
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and guys, I tried to find it and if I could find it before the release of this episode,
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I'll make sure I put it in the show notes. But there was a, there was this thing that broke down
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when China basically sounded the alarm and what would have happened if they had gone back one
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week at a time and done it one week earlier, or two weeks earlier, or three weeks earlier,
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and what this study found. And again, we don't know the model or any of those types of things,
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I'll try to find it for you. That if China had swallowed their pride in three weeks prior,
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just three weeks prior, sounded the alarm, that 95% of the fatalities that we are going to experience
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as a globe because of coronavirus could have been avoided. I mean, just think about that.
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Let's say 100,000 people end up dying in the United States, which it's going to be considerably
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less than that. But let's say it's 100,000. That number could have been 5,000. I mean,
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not even a blip on the radar. Every single one of those lives is incredibly important. Those are
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all people that have the Omaha day, but at the same time, like that, that doesn't even like
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come into our consciousness. We don't even think about that. But all because of how China is and
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how they carry themselves, we've got this global pandemic that is crushing everybody. So yeah,
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screw China. Next random thought is Americans can't do math. And some of this is the media just
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just being bad at their jobs and being evil. But some of this is just when people are like,
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Oh my gosh, we're we're we're the worst at it. What is the Trump administration doing? What is the
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government doing? What is my mayor doing? What are all these people doing? All the we have more
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cases than anywhere else in the world. Again, you're assuming that China's numbers are accurate,
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which you're a moron if you believe that. But the thing is guys is when you test more people,
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more people will test positive, right? There's a numerator and a denominator. And we're not
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concerned about both equally. And so I've just been astonished when I see people online and I've
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tried not to I have not engaged with anybody's commentary online. But it's like, yeah, if you
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if you test more people than anybody on the planet, presumably you will get more positive
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tests than anybody else on the planet, right? That's just basic simple math. Another random
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thought here is without a doubt without a doubt, including China, the number of COVID-19 positive
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cases will be much lower than reality, much lower than reality. Because here's the thing,
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all the available data shows that a potentially enormous amount of people globally have actually
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contracted the virus and were asymptomatic and or have no complications whatsoever.
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And so whatever the number ends up being, so when we're sitting here a year from now, you know,
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it's it's April 2021. And we're sitting here and we're looking at the numbers of people that had
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coronavirus and number of people that were infected with this. Guys, guys, like that number is not
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even close to being the real number. The number is going to be significantly higher than that,
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significantly higher than that. And the thing about it is is the reason why I say that the number
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of positive cases will be lower than reality is because exactly that point. There have been so
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many people that got sick in November and December of January of last year, and they're convinced
10:14
that they had COVID-19. Now they may have just had the seasonal flu, they may have just had a really,
10:17
really bad cold, but certainly a lot of those people had COVID-19. And there's a lot of people,
10:21
and we'll be able to see this when we start to get the antibody tests. There's going to be a lot
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of people that have tested, not tested negative, but a lot of people that never got tested that
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actually had the virus didn't even know it and just move on with their lives, right? So that's
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going to be an issue for us moving forward. We'll have to reckon with that. Another random
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thought here is in a way, our willingness to tank the United States economy to save lives
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actually proves that we all have an inherent belief in the sanctity of human life.
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So I wish Democrats, I wish, which pro-abortion Democrats would think about that. I mean,
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we've literally tanked. Let's just talk about America. We have tanked the US economy in a way,
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we did it on purpose. This wasn't just the Great Depression. This wasn't something that just
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happened. We did it on purpose to save lives. I mean, just think about that. I mean, I think that's
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a big thing is we do have this inherent belief that human life is a special thing that we should
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protect unless it's in the womb, at which point we think we can destroy it. And there's no issues.
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The next random thought here is the media has been and continues to be absolutely horrific.
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Like when I'm watching these press conferences every day, sometimes I'm watching for the information,
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sometimes I'm watching for the sparring between Donald Trump and the rest of the people in the
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room. But the thing about it is, is the questions he's being asked are just so crazy. Like, I can't
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wait for the time in the press conference when he's asked a question by journalists that's just
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trying to report the news, just trying to report the facts because I can learn from those. I can
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learn from the answers given either by Dr. Berg's or Dr. Fauci or the vice president or the president.
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I can listen and learn something. But when he's being asked, uh, Mr. President, what would you say
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to the people that don't like your rhetoric? You know, uh, then you got the guy asking the
11:57
question about Tiger King, which is funny. It was a nice reprieve and everybody had a nice chuckle,
12:02
but that guy, you're, you're one of a handful of people in the room and you ask him about Tiger
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King. What's what? What's your deal? But, but the worst one was was here recently, it was a PBS
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reporter that was basically calling the Trump administration and the Surgeon General racist
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because this, uh, this virus is apparently affecting the black and brown communities
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in, uh, higher per capita ways than it is other communities, the Asian or the white communities.
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But the, uh, the Surgeon General said, Hey, make sure you tell your, your, your pop pop and your
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game game and your whatever. And he was just using like nicknames for what people call grandma and
12:37
grandpa. And he was able to racist for this. And, and they asked him about this in the press
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conference. Uh, don't you think you're being a little racist or what would you have to say to
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the people that think that that was racially charged information? Well, if you aren't aware,
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guys, the Surgeon General is black. And what he was saying was the names that he calls
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people in his family or people in his family call their grandparents. That's what he was saying.
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He was using it as just kind of a colloquialism to be like, Hey, whatever you call grandma and
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grandpa, whether you call them grandma or grandpa or gamganana, like whatever the situation is,
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make sure you talk to them about this. They've got to be taking care of themselves at this time.
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But the media has just been terrible. And so, uh, time will tell whether this time period has
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been good for the Trump administration and good for the Democrats or bad for either. But at the same
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time, man, it's just, it's hard to watch when all you want is the straight news and the facts and you
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get this nonsense. The next thing, uh, just kind of another random thought is when they tell you to
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trust the experts, quote unquote, trust the experts, don't just do that blindly. I mean,
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the modeling has been flawed the entire way. I remember watching there was a one week segment
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where the proposed deaths and in these deaths did include, they did include people doing social
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distancing. One of the models was saying that there was going to be over 200,000 deaths in the
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United States. And within a week, that number went down to 60,000 deaths. And nothing changed
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in terms of what we were doing. We didn't all of a sudden super social distance. We all of a sudden
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didn't super quarantine, right? I mean, and these people like, oh, the expert, oh, well, our initial
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calculations must not have been bubble. The thing is, is these people are experts, but they're not
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infallible. And guys, don't let the media or morons on Twitter fool you. This is one thing that I've
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heard I even heard in my own house. Whenever people are saying the models that had all these super high
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death rate proposals didn't include social distancing and quarantine measures, they did include them.
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They said this is what we're looking at. If we do these things, those are the main models that
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people are citing. So you got to be careful when you just trust the experts. Next one here is the
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shut everything down people like let's shut everything down. These people have the unknowns
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of counterfactuals as their ace of spades. So they think, so just let me kind of talk about that
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a little bit more here. This is how it kind of goes. If this ends up being relatively minor. So,
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so let's say the death rate in the United States is approximately or similar to the seasonal flu,
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right? That would, I guess you would consider that to be relatively minor, right? They're going to say
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it's because we shut everything down. Look how great we are. We shut everything down. We
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tamp this down. We crush the curve. It is what it is. The problem with that is there is no
15:20
counterfactual to challenge them with, right? Because we don't have an entire country like
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the United States that has shut nothing down and had the same number of people coming in and out.
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We can't prove the counterfactual. And so that's the thing that I was concerned about from the
15:38
beginning is I thought that this may have been a little bit outsized and it might have been a
15:42
little bit of an overreaction certainly shutting down the entire world because of a virus. I thought
15:47
that was a little bit, I thought that was maybe a little bit silly. But the thing is, is I can't
15:51
be proven right. But the people that are the shut everything down people, they think they can prove
15:56
me wrong, right? So that's something interesting to think about. Another thing here is this idea,
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and I'm flowing a little bit longer on this. I promise, guys, we got a bunch of questions about
16:05
stuff, not COVID-19 related, but I'm just kind of on a roll here. Another random idea I had was,
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there's this idea that, you know, we're willing to destroy the entire world economy even if it saves
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one person's life. But guys, that's nonsense. And I'm not saying that I disagree with the statement.
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I'm saying that we don't actually believe that. No one actually believes that. And this is how
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I can prove it to you is because we have to look at other deaths inside the United States.
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So I'm just going to run these down. These are from the CDC guys. So don't try and check me later.
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But here's the deal. In the United States every year, alcohol abuse deaths accounts for around
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90,000 deaths a year. And all these stats are going to be up and down depending on the year, but
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around 90,000 deaths. So do you guys want to go back to prohibition? I mean, if we can do things
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as a government and as a people to even save one life, isn't it worth it to just have no beer
16:59
or whiskey available anywhere at all? Is anybody willing to do that? How about diabetes related
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deaths every year in the United States around 80,000 people? Do you guys want to shut down every
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fast food restaurant? Every ice cream shop? Do you want to get rid of television and some of
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your like, Oh my gosh, what about the people that were born with diabetes? That's how I'm talking
17:18
about. I'm talking about the people that develop diabetes because they're really, really fat and
17:22
really, really sedentary. Do we get rid of Netflix? Because we're afraid these people are just going
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to sit on the couch and binge watch, you know, Tiger King as opposed to getting outside and
17:31
exercising. I mean, are we willing to get rid of that? This is one that's been thrown out a lot.
17:36
How about car accident deaths in the United States around 40,000 deaths a year? Do you guys
17:40
want to take the speed limit down to five miles per hour worldwide? Do you want to get rid of
17:44
highways? Like I don't hear anybody clamoring like, Hey, we need to get rid of any, you know,
17:49
any miles per hour any speed limit over 10 because that's way too dangerous. We don't hear that.
17:55
How about the seasonal flu between, you know, 30 and 60,000 people a year died the seasonal flu?
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Should we quarantine every winter from now on? Should we? Because that's the thing is we do know
18:08
that it does ramp up in the winter and it does, you know, go down whenever the weather gets warmer.
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Like, are we willing to do any of the things that I just suggested? Because the thing is is every
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life is important. Every life there, there is sanctity in that life from the moment of conception. But
18:26
this idea as a people, as a macro people, the people of the world and all the different belief
18:30
systems that we're willing to destroy the entire world economy just to save one life, nobody believes
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that you would not be willing to give up your car that can go over 100 miles an hour, right?
18:40
You're your standard forebanger that, you know, you bought back in 2004. That car can go over
18:46
100 miles an hour on the highway. Are you willing to give that up? Just to save one life? Like, I just,
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I don't buy it. When people are saying that, that it just doesn't seem to make make a lot of
18:57
sense to me. And this idea that you have to have one or the other, I don't really like that rhetoric
19:00
either. It's either this or that that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The next thing that I think
19:05
just a couple more thoughts here on COVID-19 is we should really be concerned about government
19:09
overreach. And I'm not going to get into any tin foil hat conspiracy theory stuff, even though a lot
19:14
of this stinks to high heaven. But here recently, the governor of Georgia was given full power,
19:20
basically full unchecked power to do whatever they saw fit to deal with the COVID-19 stuff.
19:27
That's a little bit concerning. There's a virus going around that, you know, a few dozen people
19:34
are dying of in your state. And all of a sudden you just give the governor full power to do whatever
19:38
they choose to do. I'd be really concerned about that. You know, we've seen stories of
19:43
overreach by law enforcement and just not maybe not overreach because they're within the rights
19:48
apparently. But I saw cops riding $500 tickets to people that were sitting in their cars in the
19:54
church parking lot. So basically following the standards of social distancing, they received $500
20:00
tickets to be paid to that local municipality. There was a man and again, with some of these,
20:05
we don't know what was happening before, you know, may come out in the wash, but there was a man that
20:08
was arrested in a park for playing T-ball with his daughter. It's literally him and his daughter
20:15
in the park. He's putting the ball on the tee and cops come up and they arrest this guy for not
20:20
properly social distancing. This is his daughter. They live in the same home together. He was
20:24
arrested in front of his daughter. He's screaming out his daughter trying to calm her down as she's
20:28
freaking out as his, as her dad's being arrested, right? There was a man I saw a video of this.
20:33
There was a man that was not wearing a mask, you know, to cover his face. He was physically pulled
20:38
off of a bus in Philadelphia by like four cops. And as I'm watching this video, the first thing I
20:44
thought of is, okay, something probably happened before this, you know, when someone starts their
20:48
video late, it's just another one of those things trying to make cops look bad. But the thing about
20:52
it is is this guy had broken the law and done something heinous. So heinous that he had to be
20:56
manhandled off of a bus in Philadelphia. Don't you think they would immediately put this guy in
21:01
handcuffs? But wait, they didn't. As soon as they get him out of the bus and the guy stops fighting
21:07
him, they just let him go. Cops just kind of walk away. This guy's like, are you kidding me?
21:12
Like the he didn't do anything that that broke the law that would make them arrest him. And this is
21:17
in the same city where they're literally letting these violent criminals are they're calling some
21:22
of them non violent. They're letting criminals loose out of the jails because they don't want
21:26
this COVID-19 to have an outbreak within the jail system. We got to be really concerned about that
21:31
guys. Because if if there's some a virus that goes around that's about as deadly as the seasonal
21:38
flu and that causes the government to basically usurp all of your rights and take their powers
21:42
and use them against you, man, why would you sign up for that? And the last thing here,
21:47
we're kind of getting a free trial, I guess you could say of what living under an authoritarian
21:53
government looks like. So I was listening to an interview with a guy named Jeffrey A. Tucker and
21:58
he pointed out some great things and it's caused me to think about it a lot over the last several
22:01
weeks and days, especially is the point he was making is that we don't technically have rights.
22:07
We don't. We think we do, but we don't because here's the thing and we you know this as Christians,
22:14
but a right is something that you actually own because you're a human. God gave it to you. It's
22:20
unalienable, right? These are your rights. It's not granted to you by the government.
22:25
But apparently, as we've learned over the last several weeks, we don't have the right to property,
22:31
because guess what? You own the property that you run your business out of. The government can
22:36
just come in and say, Oh, your business isn't essential. Close the doors. Well, by the way,
22:41
don't even show up here. We don't actually have the right to assembly. We can't, we don't have
22:48
the right to assemble, right? Because the government can say, Oh, well, you know, if it's a group of
22:54
more than two or three people, we got to break that up because coronavirus. We apparently don't
22:59
have the right even to leave our homes. There are some communities that are tamping down to
23:03
such an extreme degree that they're not letting people leave their homes. I mean, even look in
23:09
China, there are examples of that ridiculously evil regime, literally like not, I mean, they're
23:16
keeping people in their homes, like basically welding them in place, right? Hey, we'll slip
23:20
you food under the door kind of a situation, right? So for any of you people that are big
23:27
communism people, you love communism. You think socialism is a great idea. You think there's a
23:31
difference between socialism and democratic socialism. When you, when you think, you know,
23:34
the government taking over the means of production is a great idea. Look back at this time period
23:38
and ask yourself, was this all enjoyable? Having the government tell you where you can go and where
23:44
you can't go. Hey, sorry, you can't, you know, run in the park. Hey, sorry, you can't leave your
23:48
house. Hey, sorry, you can't run your business and make a living. Sorry, I don't want to sign up for
23:53
that. So there are some more quarantine ish related questions that I'm sure that I remember
23:59
that we're on this list, but there's just kind of my random thoughts on the COVID-19 stuff. So
24:02
let's move on from there. Well, here we go. Next one is about quarantine. So what do you miss
24:06
the most during quarantine? What do you miss doing the most during quarantine? So for me,
24:11
that's an easy one. It's training jujitsu. That's the thing with jujitsu is if you suffer an injury
24:17
or maybe you're gone for, you know, two or three weeks from the gym, everything when you start to
24:21
get softer. And I don't mean like, you know, like muscles got softer or whatever. I mean,
24:24
like your skin, like you have calluses on on the tops of your fingers and on your toes and on your
24:30
feet and hands and on your elbows that you didn't even realize were there until the next time you
24:35
put a gi on and you get roughed up a little bit in class. And then you realize, Oh, crap,
24:40
this you got blisters everywhere, you got cuts everywhere. And so whenever you have that time
24:45
away from the gym, there's just kind of the practical side of that. But even beyond that,
24:49
just the training part of the thing about jujitsu is part of how it gets cemented in your brain is
24:54
just training it often. Because some of our more advanced guys in the gym, whenever they come back,
24:59
you know, they'll have to get recalist up a little bit. But you know, their brains are going to work
25:02
just fine. They're still going to work their offense and defense. And and all those things are going
25:06
to be okay. But for a guy like me who's only been training for about three years, you know,
25:09
there are things that you just forget. You kind of fall in love with a few positions,
25:13
a few takedowns, a few moves that you like to hit on specific types of opponents. And then you come
25:18
back and everything's just a little bit clunky. So I certainly miss training jujitsu more than just
25:22
about anything right now. Next question here, is God showing you anything during quarantine?
25:27
So I would assume that God's communicating with a lot of us in a lot of very interesting ways
25:34
during this time period, I would say for me specifically, I guess you could say he's showing me
25:43
how much I should be dependent upon him and how I should be I should recognize when I'm getting a
25:52
blessing that came from him. Because there's been some things that have not broken my way
25:57
over the last year, year and a half as it pertains to finances and business. But here recently,
26:02
there have been more things and knock on wood that have broken my way. And so you might think
26:09
it's like, Oh, well, gosh, it's because you're just so good. And you know, you put the happy thoughts
26:15
in the atmosphere, it attaches together, happy thoughts and it rains down blessings on you. Well,
26:18
that's that's not real. That's not realistic. But this is a time where my wife and I, as we
26:25
lead into getting our first kid welcomed to the world, where we could be in a pretty bad spot,
26:31
considering how some of our businesses and some of the things that we normally do to make money
26:35
have been shot shot down and shut down by the government. And so I would say that it's just
26:41
this overwhelming recognition that God's goddess that he's going to take care of us and
26:46
probably most importantly, let's say things didn't break my way during this time period.
26:52
Okay, let's say it went the opposite direction. That doesn't make God any less real or any more
26:57
real. It's just a different situation. And so I guess that's what he's been showing me.
27:03
All right, next question here. What do you think of Dana White creating fight island?
27:08
And should the UFC even be doing fights right now? So for those of you that have been keeping up,
27:12
there was a fight card that was supposed to happen in Brooklyn, where it was going to be Habib versus
27:16
Tony. And as a lot of people predicted, there was going to be something that happened and it took
27:20
a global pandemic, basically, to make sure that that fight didn't happen. So it was canceled for a
27:25
record fifth time, but they were trying to keep that card together. They brought in just engaged
27:29
to fight against Tony Ferguson, but about a week and a half before that fight was supposed to go
27:34
down and undisclosed location. And then they disclosed it like an Indian land somewhere in
27:38
California. Apparently Gavin Newsom, the governor of California called the Disney and ESPN executives
27:43
and said, Hey, tell Dana White to chill out by the blast of that card was canceled. But
27:47
as of right now, Dana White is adamant that within the next month or so, he has secured a private
27:53
island in international waters that will house fights. And just to be honest, I think that's
27:59
freaking awesome. Because at the end of the day, nobody is being forced to fight. That's kind of
28:06
the same argument I use when people are like, what will they pay college athletes amongst all the
28:10
other dumb reasons that people give? The biggest thing is because the reason why I say no is because
28:15
they're choosing to do that. You choose to play a college sport as a amateur athlete. No, you're
28:20
not going to be paid a salary to do that. Just chill out, relax. But at the same time, these fighters
28:25
don't have to fight right now. So if they're overly concerned about being around another fighter,
28:30
if they don't trust the the testing mechanisms that surely the UFC will have in place for its
28:36
fighters, for its coaches, for the referees, for the judges, for the camera for everyone,
28:41
if you don't trust, then just don't fight. And so for me, you know, I didn't have any problems
28:46
with the UFC even doing that that fight at that at the location in California. And so for me,
28:52
I think it's super gangster with Dana White's trying to pull off. He's trying to be the first
28:56
sport to come back. And they've got a lot of fights that they've got got to put on for their
29:01
UFC contract with with the SPM. So they're going to be trying to put on fights every single week.
29:07
They might even double up some weeks, right? I think that's great. So should the UFC even be
29:11
doing fights right now? Yeah, sure. Why not? Why wouldn't they do fights right now?
29:15
Again, I think a lot of the stuff that we're doing with coronavirus is good, but a lot of
29:19
it is overboard. And so this idea that every sport on the planet should not do anything
29:26
at any point until the government says it's okay, I think it's hogwash. It's ridiculous.
29:31
But even beyond that, why if fighter A and fighter B are both both tested for coronavirus,
29:37
both come back negative, judge one, two, and three, all tests negative for coronavirus,
29:42
and the referee, all test negative for coronavirus. Why can't those people be there? Why can't they
29:47
fight? Why can't they make a living fighting? Guys, fighters don't make money unless they fight
29:52
unless you're you're in the PFL. It's a slightly different thing. Those guys have kind of a
29:56
salary system, but it is all based on the fact that those guys will fight eventually, right?
30:00
So I think it's awesome what he's doing. All right, next one here. How does the cancellation
30:05
or postponement of most of the UFC events for this summer affect the 2020 Conor McGregor season?
30:11
Okay, so Conor McGregor has talked about coming into this year and he obviously fought
30:15
Cowboys, Roni, and January and destroyed him that 2020 was going to be a season that he won to fight
30:19
three times. It would be a season he would leave with one if not multiple belts, whatever the
30:24
situation may be. The thing about it is is whenever Tony and Habib got canceled, because Habib was
30:30
quote unquote stuck in Russia, automatically when they brought Justin Gaichian, I thought that was
30:36
going to be a problem for Connor, because all the rumblings were that Connor was going to fight
30:40
Justin Gaichian this summer. And then Tony and Habib would have fought a month or two before that.
30:44
And then basically the winners of those two matches would face each other later this year.
30:48
Well, if you don't know, Habib is a Muslim. And so he doesn't fight for the months leading up to
30:52
Ramadan doesn't fight until after Ramadan. So he's at the earliest going to be able to come back in
30:56
like September. The thing about it is is right now, since they push those fights back, I don't
31:01
think they're going to let Justin Gaichian fight Tony Ferguson anymore. You may as well put Tony
31:05
Ferguson back on the calendar with Habib may as well make that happen, right? But if that
31:10
doesn't happen, essentially what we're looking at is Connor McGregor doesn't really have a dance
31:13
partner that makes sense, because I don't necessarily want to see him fight Jorge Mazvedal.
31:17
The Nate Diaz thing, I don't think the UFC wants to deal with having to figure out how to get
31:23
to convince Nate Diaz to get in there and fight. And the other thing is in those fights, you know,
31:28
both of those guys took quite a bit of damage. And so the idea that Connor could bounce right
31:32
back and fight Habib or Tony Ferguson later on this year, I think is a little bit dubious. But
31:36
at the same time, I guess the best answer to this is who the heck knows like who knows
31:41
what this is going to do. Because let's say the fight island doesn't work out. Let's say the UFC
31:47
doesn't want to have Connor McGregor fight in an empty arena or on a beach on an island somewhere,
31:53
because they're going to miss out on all the money that they get from a Connor McGregor
31:56
gate. We may not see Connor McGregor fight at all in 2020. And if he has to wait until the end of
32:01
the year, there's seemingly two guys in line ahead of him to fight Habib. And that's Tony
32:06
and Justin Gaichy. So who the heck knows I'm not sure. Next question here. Does Joe Biden pose a
32:12
legitimate threat against Donald Trump in 2020? So yes, easy answer. Yes. I realize and recognize
32:21
that Joe Biden is barely alive at this point. He is certainly on a mental decline. It seems to
32:29
be speeding up as time goes along. I think it's unfair that the people around him even let him
32:34
get into the race. And I'm talking about years ago, whenever basically they decide that Joe Biden
32:38
was going to run for president. It was obvious that the Democratic establishment did not want
32:42
someone like Bernie Sanders, a dirty rotten communist to represent the party, who's not even a Democrat.
32:47
But the reason why Joe Biden has a chance against Donald Trump is because this is what I think he's
32:53
going to do. I do not think he is going to debate Donald Trump. So typically there's about three
32:59
debates in the run up to the general election. I don't think Joe Biden's going to even do that
33:03
against Donald Trump. I think he's going to say, if I debate this man, I'm legitimate,
33:08
legitimizing him and his white supremacy and his Nazi and his blah, blah, blah, whatever
33:13
things he wants to say. So I'm not even going to debate him. And people from the New York times
33:18
and MSNBC, they're just going to be like, yeah, yeah, that's right. That's right. Don't legitimize
33:22
that. Ray this. Don't do whatever that they're going to end up saying. And the reason is because
33:28
if Joe Biden goes in there in a debate against Donald Trump, Donald Trump will eat him alive.
33:33
And I'm not saying that's because Donald Trump is some sort of master at debate or any of those
33:37
types of things. It's just because he's a bully and he's going to see weakness in his opponent and
33:43
he's going to exploit it. It would be a bloodbath if he actually got on national television with
33:49
Trump on the other side of the dais. It's, it's just not really going to work. But if he does
33:53
something like that, if he can stay out of the limelight, if he cannot talk very much on live
33:58
television, if he can stay on the teleprompter, if he could keep his hands off women, and I'm
34:02
talking about Joe Biden, by the way, if he can do all those things, he can absolutely beat Donald
34:06
Trump. Because the hatred of Donald Trump in this country is so high. And Donald Trump always
34:14
had an ace of spades, and that ace of spades was the economy. And then coronavirus happened.
34:19
Now, as I've, as I mentioned before, typically in an election year, a general election year,
34:23
the economy stagnates a little bit and comes down just to hear everybody kind of holds their
34:27
breath to wait to see who's going to be elected, right? If it's a blue tie, businesses are not
34:31
terribly happy about that. If it's a red tie, they're happy or, you know, less regulation,
34:35
we could build more, do more. But now we've had record unemployment for multiple weeks in a row.
34:42
The idea that the government is, or that the economy, the United States economy is just going
34:46
to have a V shape uptick, or even a short U shape uptick, I don't think is very realistic.
34:51
But at the same time, that was always the thing that Trump had was, hey, look how great I am with
34:57
the economy. Now, no one's blaming him for, well, I'd say no one's blaming him. There's actually a
35:02
lot of people that are blaming him for the coronavirus and the things that we've done are not done
35:05
up to this point in all those situations. But at the same time, it makes him very vulnerable in a
35:10
general election, because Joe Biden is basically a dead person that wears a suit and has rolled
35:15
around from one speaking gig to the next speaking gig. But generic Democrat can beat Donald Trump.
35:21
He can. Donald Trump was not this, this amazing candidate in 2016. Hillary Clinton was just so
35:28
off putting and so awful. So yes, he poses a legitimate threat. The scary part about it is,
35:33
is if he is elected, he's not really the one that has the power. It's going to be his cabinet.
35:37
Because he's going to be basically wheeled into a different room in the White House and said,
35:43
Hey, here's some Plato, you know, make some, make some stuff, make some sculptures and all that.
35:47
We'll come back in here in about seven or eight months and we'll check on you kind of a deal.
35:50
And I'm not really terribly excited about the people that we have on his cabinet. So yes, he
35:54
does pose a real threat. All right, next question here. What do you think of the reports that the
35:59
Major League Baseball season will be started with all 30 teams in Arizona without American League
36:05
and National League delineation? So I actually did see that report recently. I don't put a lot of
36:09
weight in that report, but let's just say that that were true. So the Salt River Fields, I think,
36:14
is what they're called there in Arizona. It's a tremendous facility. And they could absolutely
36:18
pull it off. You know, if the NBA was able to get all these coronavirus tests whenever you, the
36:23
general public cannot get them, I guarantee you that they can get those same tests to all of the
36:28
players and coaches for Major League Baseball and umpires, right? So they could feasibly start the
36:34
games in Arizona. And then at some point, whenever the government realizes that this is not as bad
36:39
as everybody thought it would be, everybody kind of go back to what you're doing. I don't know if
36:43
we're going to be seeing, you know, 40,000 people for a Cubs Cardinals game in St. Louis,
36:48
you know, in the middle of August, I don't know if we're going to see that. But yeah, I'd be fine
36:51
with that. The thing I am interested in seeing is if they do try to do something like this,
36:55
not having any American League or National League delineation whatsoever. So for those of you that
36:58
don't really follow baseball closely, the biggest differences between those two leagues is in the
37:02
American League, they have something called the designated hitter. So overwhelmingly, basically,
37:06
the pitchers in the American League do not hit for themselves. There is somebody who is a designated
37:10
hitter that does not play the field, but they do hit for the pitcher spot. And the National League,
37:14
the pitcher hits for himself. I hate this. I'm a nationally guy, but people were like, well,
37:19
what about the double switch? And you want to have all these things in the NL that you don't get in
37:23
the American League? Who freaking cares? Because when you pay a pitcher $20 million a year to pitch,
37:28
I don't want to see him up there hacking away like he's swinging a garden hose at a baseball,
37:32
right? For every Bartolo Cologne going deep and for every Madison Bumgarner, you know, shot that
37:38
we've seen, we've seen a thousand dribblers or a thousand times where a pitcher has not even been
37:46
within a foot of connecting with the baseball. So if this is the death meal for the DH, right,
37:53
or the non DH in the National League, I'd be all for it. Our next question here,
37:57
I'm currently going crazy during quarantine. Give me stuff to watch, read and listen to. Okay, so
38:03
I'll give you a bunch of stuff here. So this podcast, I mean, hey, there's over 120 episodes out there
38:07
now. So how about you check in on the podcast every week, we got you cared for there. But some
38:11
other podcasts, there's the hold these trues podcast. It's a new podcast from Representative Dan Crenshaw
38:16
to Texas. And then also the grounded podcast. So that's Jocko Willink. And it's just another one,
38:22
his podcast. But that one's way more casual. They talk about jujitsu. Dean Lister has been on there,
38:26
you know, he's got Echo Charles on there. So that's an interesting one. A few books. Some of you've
38:31
heard me talk about some you haven't the professor in the cage by Jonathan Gostel. That was the book
38:36
of the year that I read last year. There's The Cross of Christ by John Stott. I have not read
38:40
that one yet. These actually these last three I haven't read, but they're immediately on my two
38:44
read list, The Cross of Christ by John Stott. That has been recommended to me by about 1000 people.
38:49
So that's one in the Dan Crenshaw again, he just released a book called Fortitude. So that one
38:53
seemingly has a lot of information that you guys would dig. And then boys adrift by Leonard Sacks.
38:58
So since I'm about to have a boy bring a boy into this world, I think that would be
39:02
beneficial. And I'll make sure all those books are in the show notes for you. For music, obviously
39:07
last week and you saw the new intro music here, we've got the new August Burns red album album
39:11
guardians. So check that out for any of you that are a little bit more into worship music, but maybe
39:17
don't like some of the crappy or worship music. Shane and Shane, they have an album they released
39:21
several years back called Psalms volume two. So that's probably the best worship type stuff that
39:26
I get into is that and then maybe rest in peace. But the great, great bill Withers passed away here
39:32
recently. So do yourself a favor and dust off the old albums with him and check him out.
39:37
Some movies that I've watched recently that have been sticky. Joker, I thought was fantastic.
39:42
It's incredibly dark, but I thought it was a fantastic rendering of the Joker. And then only
39:47
the brave. So this is a movie James, I think his name is Brolin. Anyway, he plays Thanos. So
39:55
that guy, he's basically they talk about these hot shot firefighters and all that. So I thought
39:59
that was a very fantastic movie. And for television shows, apparently, if you watch anything other
40:03
than Tiger King right now, you're a weirdo. So watch Tiger King. There you go. All right. Next
40:07
question here. Who would win in a fistfight? Abe Lincoln or Gandhi? Okay. So thanks to the guy
40:14
that sent this very, very serious question. And we're not going to spend a lot of time on this.
40:18
Gandhi was a punk. He would get knocked out quick. Abe Lincoln's got that reach. He's got the built
40:24
in faceguard with the beard. He's destroying Gandhi. Next question. All right. Here we go.
40:28
What are your thoughts on the stock market fluctuations? What does it look like a year from now? So
40:33
well, I mean, gosh, if you can predict the market, no one would have a podcast. You'd be
40:39
sitting in the Amalfi coast in your, you know, 100 foot yacht. But like I already said earlier in
40:44
the podcast, typically in an election year, you have a stagnant market. It goes down maybe a little
40:49
bit. The market can't really continue to go down. Like we lost all of our Trump administration gains,
40:55
but we've seen some rebounds over the last several weeks because of the idea that the coronavirus
41:00
stuff isn't as bad as we thought it was. And that we're going to be able to get back to normal.
41:04
I think for a lot of people, guys, if you're in your 30s and 40s right now and you got, you know,
41:07
multiple decades until you retire, don't really worry about what you get on your statements for
41:11
your IRAs and in your 401ks and all that for those of you that are a little bit closer to retirement,
41:16
you know, it's tough because we've had unprecedented growth over the last decade. You know, we had the
41:21
slowest recovery from a, from a downfall in the market from a recession during the Obama
41:28
administration, but everything took off like a rocket ship with Donald Trump. So you can say
41:32
that that's Trump's doing. You can say it's Obama's doing and Trump just kept it going. I don't really
41:35
care what you say, but we don't typically have 10 plus years of prosperity. There is a recession
41:40
at some point. So even before COVID-19, there was going to be a recession. There was something that
41:44
was going to happen to basically correct the market. We've kind of had an influx of a market
41:50
correction with the coronavirus stuff. So who the heck knows, man? A year from now, I would expect
41:54
it to be better, but can't be sure. Next question. As a Christian, how do you balance living by faith
41:59
in Jesus Christ and prepping for your future problems? Okay. So it's kind of like a Christian
42:05
prepper thing is I'll change the question. Is it okay to be a Christian prepper? The thing about
42:09
it is is I do think it's okay, because the people that are just like, I don't need to buy life
42:14
insurance. God's going to take care of my family. God can certainly do that. And one of the ways
42:21
that he's provided you that one of his provisions has been the invention of life insurance.
42:27
So yeah, if you were to die and you're the breadwinner for your family and your family
42:33
only has a couple of months worth of cash on hand, yeah, let's get you some life insurance.
42:36
Because guess what? If you don't have life insurance, then it will take some sort of
42:40
intercession to have your family taken care of. It'll be the church taking care of them or their
42:44
family or some charity or something like that. Same thing, like if you have food, if you have
42:50
some food that'll last a few years and it's in your storm shelter or in the top of your pantry
42:54
or something like that, just in case we have a situation where we're, you know, we have a lack
42:59
of food going around something happened there. Like, yeah, I think that's completely okay.
43:03
I don't think you can find a legitimate biblical reason why you shouldn't prepare for your future.
43:09
Otherwise, we wouldn't have food at all on our pantry. We would just wake up every morning,
43:13
go outside and stick our hands out. Like, I got him hungry. I just think about the practicality of
43:18
that. And the same thing we've seen with this whole COVID-19 thing is we've seen that businesses
43:23
and families are really crappy at financial planning. I mean, I know this intimately because
43:28
I've talked to, you know, hundreds of families about this exact thing. But you see these businesses
43:33
that, you know, within a week or two of being shut down, they're out of business. I mean,
43:38
by the end of the year, we're going to start to hear numbers on the bankruptcies that have been
43:41
filed. And it's going to be astonishing that no matter what the government does to prop these
43:46
businesses up, there just wasn't liquidity there. And the same thing with families. Like, if you
43:51
have a mom and a dad and they were both working and both were let go or furlough during this time,
43:55
and they haven't gotten that government check yet, you know, they don't have enough money to
43:59
to do things. There are these food banks that have, you know, miles long lines outside because
44:05
people don't have food. And I'm certainly not dogging these people. But part of that is planning.
44:11
Part of that is saving money for a rainy day. That that's where I think, you know, Dave Ramsey
44:17
says a lot of really financially illiterate things. But one of the things is having a thousand
44:20
dollars in the bank having three to six months rainy day fund before you start doing any of the
44:25
sexy financial stuff. Yeah, this is one of those moments. Because if you and your wife both lost
44:30
your jobs on the same day, but you had six months worth of half to bill money, and by half to bill
44:35
money, I mean, if you both lose your jobs the same day, get rid of Apple music, get rid of Netflix,
44:39
get rid of any of your subscriptions, just just groceries and paying the mortgage and stuff like
44:45
that. If you've got six months ready to go, you're not freaking out. That doesn't mean chill out for
44:50
five and a half months, right? But you're not freaking out. And so I think it's absolutely
44:56
a good thing to be prepared for future problems. I don't think there's a problem with that at all.
45:00
Next question here. What is your current favorite bourbon? I just tried Buffalo Trace recently,
45:06
and it goes straight to the top of my list. So yeah, certainly Buffalo Trace is a good one. So
45:10
the favorite my favorite bourbon that I've ever had in its ruined my palate is a Pappy Van Winkle
45:15
family reserve 20 year old. And some of you are like, Kyle, don't you mean the 23 year old? No,
45:19
I do not. So I've had the 10 year old, the 12 year old Lot B, I've had the 13 year old rye,
45:24
the 15 the 20 and the 23. For my money, the best, the second best whiskey on the planet behind
45:30
Lagavulin 25 is Pappy Van Winkle 20 year old. That is the best bourbon that I've had.
45:33
It's got an overwhelming amount of kind of a pipe tobacco aroma and kind of red berries is on the
45:41
palate. I really like cherries. And so that kind of has a redberry finish to it. If you don't wash
45:46
out your glass or pour something else in it immediately an hour or two later, you can go back to your
45:50
glass and it'll still smell really, really good. It'll smell like you just had the liquid in there.
45:57
And so that is an absolutely fantastic whiskey. But that is a whiskey that not many people
46:01
are going to be able to ever try. So another one that used to be my quote unquote daily drinker was
46:07
well or antique 107. That has become incredibly hard to find. And so for any of you guys that
46:12
are looking for, okay, I just need a bourbon that I could walk into my liquor store and find.
46:15
A bourbon that you can likely find just about anywhere is Woodford Reserve double oat. So not
46:22
not the regular Woodford Reserve, but the actual double oat. That is a special whiskey to me. That's
46:27
actually the first bourbon that my dad ever bought me as a gift. And so as long as they make that
46:31
whiskey, I will have it in my house. I will have it available and ready to drink. So those are some
46:37
for you guys to check out. The next question here is, what is your first stop after quarantine?
46:42
I'm going to I'm going gun shopping, picking up a shotgun and a new clock. So apparently this
46:47
guy's going to the gun store. For me, my first stop after quarantine is like I kind of talked about
46:51
earlier, it's going to be the jujitsu gym. Because I mean, I've still been going to the grocery store.
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You know, I've been able to work at a home office. I don't have to have a physical office. I need
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to go, you know, everything that I needed to get to prepare for this quarantine I got before the
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quarantine really hit. Right. And so for him, hey, good luck to you. I hope you get a great shotgun.
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And I hope your your clock works out fine. I would suggest a six hour, you know, you might
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check it out if you haven't had one before. But yeah, I'm going to go into the jujitsu gym and I'm
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going to get after a couple of questions left here guys. Next one here. What's your personal
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preference for working out morning or night? Mine is early morning 100%. So me and this guy would
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get along great because I prefer to work out in the morning. Now let me be clear about something.
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I would not consider myself to be a morning person. I'm more of a night out. I can work well
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into the evening and do stuff that, you know, require requires a lot of brain power or concentration.
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I can do that. But the thing about it is, is for those of you guys that are after work workout
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people, I would ask you this over a month, not a normal, you know, in a normal month, not a quarantine
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month. But in a normal month, how many workouts do you miss a month? Because you were supposed to
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work out after work, but you get a call, honey, you know, the toilets making a funny noise. Can
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you can you just come right home and check it? I'm afraid something's going on. Or honey, like,
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ah, you just been gone. And you know, I've been gone. We both been so busy. Can we just stay in
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tonight? Whatever. And I'm, you know, sounds like I'm picking on women. I'm certainly not. But
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just things come up. You know, you feel some jittering in their car on your way to the gym,
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and you're thinking it's a transmission, so you go home and take a look, whatever the situation
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may be. The thing is, is when you work out later in the day, you are significantly increasing the
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chances that you won't actually make it to the gym, especially for most of you guys that don't
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have a home gym that you've got a whole bunch of built-in excuses because you have to drive somewhere
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to use somebody else's equipment to work out, which I would highly suggest you do the opposite
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and get stuff to work out at home. But I digress just a bit. The thing is, is when you work out early in
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the morning, it's just you baby. Typically, especially if, if even if you work out of the gym, there's
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not a whole lot of people in there early in the morning. There's just not, regardless of the gym
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you go to. But I prefer to work out in the morning because I don't want to get out of bed at 5.30 or
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6 or whatever time it is. I don't want to get out of bed. But I don't have a whole lot of excuses.
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I roll out of bed. I put on my clothes. I walk about 20 feet. I'm in my garage. I'm in my gym.
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I'm ready to go. And then you're done. About an hour later. And then you move on with the rest of
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your day. And so around, you know, 10 or 11 in the morning or three or four in the afternoon when
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your day starts to get away from you, well, you've already checked the workout box. You've already
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ran. You've already lifted whatever the situation is, whatever you like to do. You've already checked
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the box. So I could not be a bigger advocate for working out early in the morning. Guys, last question
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of the day here, what resilience advice do you offer to men greatly affected by the current epidemic?
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So what the COVID-19 pandemic has done, obviously, a couple of episodes talked about what I feel
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like it's done to us as people. So go back to that if you want to get some more thoughts here.
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But the advice that I would give to all of you right now is in some way, shape, or form. Even if
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you're in an insulated business, we're not being directly affected by the downturn in the economy.
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You're still as busy as you've ever been or whatever situation may be. We're all going to be tested
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spiritually, mentally or physically. So for some of us, you know, we're going to be tested spiritually
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because, you know, an atheist is going to make the argument like, Oh, how could there be a good
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God? And how could there be hundreds of thousands of people die of a virus? You're going to have to
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reckon with that for mental resilience. Some of you guys have lost your jobs and you're going to have
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to overcome the thoughts and ideas that you should just sit at home and play video games and you know,
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just let the government take care of you or just, you know, things will work itself out,
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whatever, whatever that means, you're going to fight against that. Some of you will have some
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physical issues. Some of you, you know, for whatever reason, you can't work out at home, how you normally
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do. So you're having to adjust to do pushups and pullups and air squats and stuff like that. So
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you'll you'll have to adjust physically. But also for some of you, you're going to get sick.
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And for some of you, maybe you're going to have family members get sick for some of you. Maybe
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your family members are going to pass away from this. And it's a tough, it's a tough thing. And
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there's not a whole lot I can say really to deal with that, aside from the fact that I remind you
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that you should focus on resilience and not strength. Strength always wanes. If you've listened to this
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podcast for any length of time, you've heard me talk about strength is good one day and bad
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the next. If you expend a lot of your strength in this hour, the next hour, you won't be as strong.
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That's just kind of how it works. But you can always be resilient. You can always have that
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ability to bounce back, that ability to look at your circumstances in the face and be like,
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nah, you're not taking me out today. And guys, there's a whole lot of stuff happening that's
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outside of your control. Your business has been shut down because the government said that you
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weren't essential. Your kids are at home. Your kids suck. And you're you're staring at your bad
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parenting right in front of you because you're around your kids for 16 hours a day when they're
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awake. There's a lot of stuff going on right now. But you can be resilient. But just focus on
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resilience, not strength. That would be the advice I would give you. All right, guys,
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before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost. As you know, by now, we are
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providing content like this podcast that helps you forge spiritual mental and physical toughness.
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The voices that seek the God that quench. We need a defender. Open the grave. Be more peace.