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This is on 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're going to get into Q&A because we've had an accumulation of really good questions over the last little bit.
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And guys, I just noticed I haven't done a Q&A episode since before Baby James was born, right?
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So it has been a long time of giving you guys a lot of good content, a lot of good interviews.
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So you shouldn't be too disappointed, but yes, we are going to get to your questions and we're going to get to that here in just a second.
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But before I do that, I've got to give a shout out to an entire city in the United States of America.
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And that city is Columbus, Ohio.
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So why am I shouting out Columbus, Ohio?
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Because I looked at my analytics for the podcast the other day and I don't really just be honest.
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I don't spend a lot of time looking at those analytics because, you know, affect it.
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Like I look at the numbers, like total listens and certain episodes and things like that.
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But I don't dig into like, you know, how often are people, you know, stopping this podcast earlier, you know, what country is listening.
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Like I don't pay attention to that that often.
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But I was looking at my analytics the other day.
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And the city of Columbus, Ohio was basically three xing the number of listeners I have, even in my own hometown or not hometown.
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But the town I live in now, Edmond, Oklahoma, right?
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Because there's a lot of guys here that know me, a lot of local people that like to support the podcast, support the ministry.
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And there are three times as many listeners in Columbus, Ohio, as even in my hometown, which come on guys, can I get some home field advantage at some point here?
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But I just got to shout out you guys.
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So for those of you guys listening in Columbus, Ohio, I don't know what I did.
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I don't know what I said.
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I don't know what happened to get you guys this interested in the content or kind of what's going on there.
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But hey, that was pretty awesome to see because I've never been to Columbus, Ohio.
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Again, nothing's going to change in terms of the type of content that I put out there based on where it's being absorbed because we do get a lot of international listeners to this podcast as well.
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But hey, for you guys out in Columbus, Ohio, would love to chat with you.
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Like if there's anything you're doing specifically with my content, I'd always like to hear from you.
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So hit me up via the email.
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So that's info@undontadotlife, i-n-f-o, @undontadotlife.
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And so we're going to go ahead and get into the questions here.
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And so for some of you guys, you might be wondering, well, how do I get my question answered on the podcast?
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Well, you can submit questions to me.
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However you decide, right?
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Most people submit questions via email.
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So again, info@undontadotlife, or you can just find us on Instagram.
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That's one great way you can just respond to one of our posts or you can send me a DM or something like that.
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I'm typically pretty good about seeing those.
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I'm not as good about checking the Facebook and Twitter stuff.
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So if that's what you use normally and I'm not responding to your message, it's not because I'm ignoring you.
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I pretty much respond immediately.
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But with that said, let's go ahead and launch in with our questions for today.
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First question here.
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What do you think of the ACB confirmation hearings so far?
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OK, so that is obviously Amy Coney Barrett, who is a judge who's going to be likely nominated.
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Or she's already been nominated, but likely confirmed by the United States Senate to become the next justice on the Supreme Court.
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And just to be honest, you know, I haven't really reviewed these questions much before this podcast.
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I'm probably just going to save most of my opinions about these confirmation hearings until next week.
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So I've got some things that I'm going to do special for the election coming up.
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But also, I'm assuming that Democrats are going to try to probably pull out a lot of different things.
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I'm recording this the day before it's released.
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So as of right now, there's been some faux outrage about, you know, some word choices she's made.
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You know, she kind of had a really cool thing where she held up a blank notepad at one point.
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But really, it's pretty straightforward.
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They're finding very few things that could pin on this woman.
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But I'll give you my full rundown of that in next week's episode.
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How about that?
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I'll dedicate to doing that next week unless something crazy happens.
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Next question here, how does the politicized platform being represented represented by professional sports impact the future of those organizations?
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That's actually a really good question because you saw a lot of pandering whenever sports came back, even post COVID,
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you know, post the killing of George Floyd, the most notable answer or the most notable organization that has really gone full bore with the politicized platform is the NBA, obviously.
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I mean, Major League Baseball kind of did something where they had all the players hold this big black piece of fabric before a game, whatever that was supposed to represent.
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You know, the first week of the season during opening weekend, they were allowing, you know, these little bitty patches that said Black Lives Matter on the people's jerseys and okay, whatever.
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But the NBA has gone full bore on this, full bore on it, right?
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So they're doing the NBA bubble, which was very successful in terms of COVID or whatever.
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And then they allowed the players to put whatever message, socialized or, you know, politicized message on their jersey.
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Now, obviously, they had to be approved.
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So you couldn't, you know, put like stop murdering babies, you know, on your jersey or something like that.
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But you could put Black Lives Matter or, you know, don't suppress our vote or hear our voice or whatever, you know, trope that they wanted to say.
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But then they planted Black Lives Matter on the court directly on the court for the bubble.
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And here's the deal is, of course, everyone agrees with that sentence, but it's not a sentence, it's a movement, it is a Marxist movement, it is an organization.
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If you want me to, you know, blow the eight more on that, guess what, guys, I got a five part series called Race in America really focus on those first three episodes.
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I kind of walk through all of that.
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But the thing with the NBA is they're not getting any ratings.
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Their ratings have been abysmal, right?
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So you've got your biggest star, right?
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You know, you got LeBron James, he's in the NBA finals.
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And almost every single game of the NBA finals set some new record low.
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Whether it was a record low for finals, you know, for people watching the finals, it was a record low.
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Or the next game, it was like, okay, a record low for a game three or a record low for an elimination game.
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Everything's been a record low in terms of the ratings.
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And some people are, you know, they're like, oh, well, you know, it's because of cord cutting.
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There's a lot of cord cutting going on right now.
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And, you know, they're competing directly against MLB playoffs and football games and things like that.
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And so, you know, it's just kind of tough, but, but guys, like a week two,
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week three, week four football game, that's not competing with the NBA playoffs.
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And even in baseball, like I'm a baseball guy to the end degree, but, you know, in LCS games,
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LCS games, even the World Series here, starting here probably a week, week and a half from now,
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like those aren't going to compete with NBA finals games.
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Like, that's just not really what the ratings would tell us and what the statistics would tell us.
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So I think to get back to your question, these politicized platforms don't bode well for the
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future of these these sports organizations. If they continue to go down this road,
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because it's a losing proposition because you're alienating at least half of the
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populace that watches what you're trying to put out there for everyone.
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Right. And so you've already seen Adam Silver. He's the commissioner of the National Basketball
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Association. He came out and he said, yeah, next year, we're likely not going to allow
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on court expressions of political views, right? So they're not going to come in here to Oklahoma
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City and, you know, paint Black Lives Matter on the court. They're not going to let everybody
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choose a different name for their jersey based on their favorite communist manifesto quote or
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something like that. But at the same point, this is an obvious reason why they're doing that.
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Because let's say the ratings were record ratings for the NBA playoffs, right? Even without the
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crowd, without all those things, record ratings. Do you think they would take their foot off of
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the politicized gas next year? No, they would probably go ahead and like demand that every person
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put some sort of a left wing biased opinion on their jerseys wouldn't even give them the option.
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Because if they feel like more people are going to be supporting their points of view,
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then why would they stop? And so, you know, Major League Baseball pretty quickly dropped all the
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politicized stuff, but then it's going to keep coming up. It just will. You know, people are going
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to kneel for the National Anthem. People are still doing that before the first NFL game. They played
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whatever the Black National Anthem is, which is not a real thing. There's no such thing. There is
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only the National Anthem. But at the same time, most of these sports organizations, they're
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only thinking about money. And right now it is expedient politically and financially for them
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to just pander to people. Unless you're the NBA. And like again, I haven't watched an NBA game
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since all this, you know, since the bubble came back and since they were basically trying to shove
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leftist propaganda down my throat while I'm just trying to watch a basketball game, right? And
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I'm an NBA fan, right? I would have loved to watch a lot of the Thunder Games and the playoffs and
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all the different things. But it's just like, whenever I'm watching sports, I'm watching sports.
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I'm not watching a political debate. I'm not watching, you know, college professors that are,
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you know, going back and forth about these large topics. That's not what I'm watching,
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watching, watching sports. I want the team in red to put the ball in the basket more than the team
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in blue or vice versa or whatever the situation is there. So again, it's going to hurt them in the
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long run. Because you will always have a significant segment of the population that's not down to
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be lectured to while they're just trying to be entertained. Okay. Next question here. Do COVID
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shortened championships count? Okay, I guess the question is, you know, if you've got a season that
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has COVID shortened and there's a champion that season, does that count? Okay, that makes more
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sense. I hope that's what you were asking. In my opinion, it's yes and no. And I almost never
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answer things yes and no. Because here's the thing, let's just since we're already talking about the
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NBA, you know, there were no road games, right? You know, I just watched ALCS and NLCS baseball
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yesterday. There's no road games. These people are playing in neutral sites, right? Like, so these
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feel more like tournaments, right? You know, if you, if you grew up playing AAU ball for basketball
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or traveling baseball, that that's a tournament. You all go to the same location, you play different
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teams. And there's one team that comes out above the rest of them, right? But they'll count in the
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record books. So the St. Louis Cardinals, if they had won the World Series, even though their team
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was kind of crappy, you know, they made the playoffs, they kind of screwed the pooch when they played
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San Diego. But even if they had won their championship this year, that would be their 12th championship.
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Like, when you look back historically, you will count it as a championship. Now, you might put
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an asterisk by it, right? So it's kind of like people that, yeah, of course, Barry Bonds has more
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home runs than Hank Aaron, but Hank Aaron is the home run king, obviously, because he didn't cheat.
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It's one of those types of things. So in my opinion, they will count, but they can't count the same.
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They just can't count the same as a championship. Like, let's just look at baseball. You're telling
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me you played for two months. And then you did kind of this weird wild cardie thing where it's like
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these three game series, then you did the DS to CS in the World Series. And that's the same as 162
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game season. And then the playoffs, I just don't buy it. But it'll count for these people. So they'll
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put it up on banners. It'll be in the rafters. So who actually cares? Next question here.
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With LeBron James. Okay, we're just staying with the NBA. I guess with LeBron James, just recently
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winning his fourth title, is he now the goat? Okay, so whoever put this one in there. Thanks for
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trying to make my head explode. So let me give you my answer. And then we'll kind of back it up.
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So I don't have all the statistical data to back it up. But is he now the goat? No.
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He is not the greatest basketball player of all time. There is still one man on that
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perch. And that is Michael Jordan. Okay, so let's let's back up a little bit.
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So I thought it was kind of crazy. I think Ryan Risillo, I think it's how you say his name,
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the ESPN guy or used to be on ESPN radio or whatever. He said after LeBron James and the Lakers made
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it to the NBA finals. So they won the Western Conference Finals against the hapless Denver nuggets.
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They he said at that point, okay, now it's time to really start thinking about considering LeBron
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the goat. Just for making it to the finals. He hadn't even won it yet. But let's just talk
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about this championship. Let's talk about the fact that it was a bubble season.
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He got five and a half months off right in the middle of all this. So we're just talking about
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this one championship right here. LeBron James on his handcrafted team, they go through and maybe
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have the easiest path to a championship out of all the championships between him and Jordan. We'll
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just say between him and Jordan. They beat an under 500 Portland team. They played the Houston
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Rockets in the second round, which was probably the best team that they played right. And they
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beat them. So that was impressive. Then they avoid the Clippers in the Western Conference Finals,
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right? And I'm getting all this. I didn't watch these games, but I just can't stop getting,
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you know, notifications on my phone or people text me about it. So I know that they beat the
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Denver nuggets instead of the Clippers, the Clippers were built to beat them, but apparently not built
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to beat the nuggets. They they, you know, blew a three one lead, I think. And then they go to the
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NBA finals and they're not playing the Milwaukee Bucks, which was a consensus best team in the
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Eastern Conference. They were playing the Miami Heat that has one player that you've ever heard of
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and was a 75 to one chance of winning an NBA championship preseason. So let's not look at this
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as if this is some sort of great accomplishment. The fact that they lost two games to the Miami
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Heat in the NBA finals is atrocious considering the two teams. They literally let Jimmy Butler
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win two games on top of them. So that's that championship. But when you look at Michael Jordan,
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six NBA finals appearances, six wins and six MVPs, he takes two years off in between those two and
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goes and plays a different sport, changes his body, plays a different sport, comes back and
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wins another three P. So when people get into this goat discussion now, there's kind of this
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dichotomy between people that are above the age of 30 that got to actually watch Michael Jordan play
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and people that are below the age of 30 didn't really get to see him play and they've just grown
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up with LeBron. And a lot of the arguments that you're getting is, well, LeBron, you know, he's got
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all these, he's these stats, you know, he's he does this better, this stats better than Jordan and
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this stats better than Jordan. And he's gonna have more wins. He's gonna have more this. And, you know,
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he's made it to this many finals in a row and blah, blah, blah. It's like, I get that. But we're
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not talking about the most statistically significant basketball player of all time. We're talking
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about the greatest of all time greatness. And there are a lot of things with greatness
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that you have to take into account, certainly winning. You got to have the results. Certainly
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the counting stats and, you know, MVPs and those things that you can count and compare and all
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star games and all those things, dunk contest, all those things. But then it's also attitude.
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Like the greatest of all time, do you have this attitude that you're just going to get the job
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done? And you can't even compare the attitude and the way of operating between Michael Jordan and
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LeBron James. I've seen LeBron James crumble and cry and and literally quit. His last season in
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Cleveland the first time around when they were playing the Boston Celtics in the playoffs,
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he literally quit on the Cleveland Cavaliers. You might be like, well, he didn't have help,
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but he didn't have the maybe, but he quit. Michael Jordan didn't quit when Scotty Pippin went out
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of games because he was quote unquote heard or when he didn't really have the help or whatever. He
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didn't quit. He was going to put the entire team on his back. And when there was a last
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second shot, he wasn't hiding from the ball. Yeah, you saw, I think it was against the Denver
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Nuggets in game two of the Western Conference finals this year, he hid from the ball. AD ended
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up getting the ball and making a ridiculous shot to win the game to put him up to, right?
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Basically, you know, clinch the series right there from the beginning in game two. You never see
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Michael Jordan hide from the ball. He's not going to be a decoy, right? And so these people that are
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looking at LeBron James, here's the other thing. The guy, what is he? Four and six in the finals now?
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But you got to remember like the four that he won. So there's the one that already talked about the
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bubble season, which is, you know, it's legitimate and not legitimate all at the same time. The first
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NBA final that he won against the against the Thunder that was a strike sort of shortened season.
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And so that was a little bit of an odd thing. But yes, they won the NBA finals in five games. So
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decently impressive, whatever. The next championship that he won, he stunk it up so bad in game six
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against the the San Antonio Spurs. And he clinked a three pointer, a go ahead three or a tying
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three pointer, clinked it right off the back of the iron. And if not for a Chris Bosch rebound
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and for a Ray Allen three pointer, he loses that finals, right? He loses a second finals with the
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heat. And then you got his championship against Golden State, which can't take anything away from
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him there. That's very impressive. However, the clinching shot in that game was not hit by LeBron
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James. It was hit by Kyrie Irving. And so when you look at these Bulls championships, and you look
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at a lot of things that they're doing, there weren't games where Michael Jordan just flat out disappeared.
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Yeah, there were games where, you know, the clinching shot was hit by somebody else, you know,
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Paxton or something like that. But he wasn't hiding from the ball. He didn't have five minutes of
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terrible basketball leading up to that moment. And so yes, I see the argument of, well, he made
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it to the NBA finals this many times in a row and blah, blah, blah. But do we remember how
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paltry the Eastern Conference of the NBA has been historically? I mean, during LeBron James's tenure,
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there were really not other good teams in the East. There might have been one maybe two.
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When the Western Conference, you had teams that would be, you know, in the top three in the Eastern
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Conference, I didn't even make the playoffs in the Western Conference, right? And so again,
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I don't want to belabor the point. I feel like I've already been talking about it. But in my mind,
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there's even if LeBron ran off two more championships off of this one. Okay, he's six and six in the
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NBA finals. He's batting 500. How in the world on what planet is that better than Michael Jordan?
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And here's one last thing I will say on this. So all these people that are doing the counting
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stats, right? Oh, he has more points in Jordan. He has more this. He has more that Michael Jordan
18:35
played three years of college ball. LeBron James was in the NBA at 18 because he could be, right?
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The rules are way different back then. And when Michael Jordan was playing college ball,
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there wasn't even a three pointer yet. So a lot of these, you know, three point games that have
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been developed in modern basketball, a lot of these stats, a lot of the things that you focus on,
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that wasn't really part of the game back then. And it's not even that long ago.
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But again, these people are looking at these stats like oh, he's statistically more impressive,
19:05
and that might be the case, but he's not greater. He just isn't greater. So enough, enough of this
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nonsense. It's ridiculous. Michael Jordan is the goat. Next question here. What is slash was the
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golden age of manhood? Hmm. Okay, that's a really good question. What is the golden age of manhood?
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You know, I guess I'll just go with the first thing that came to mind. The first thing that
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came to mind was World War II era. I mean, it's kind of hard to go against those people, the
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greatest generation, right, as they aptly named themselves. But in terms of things that I've seen
19:45
in modernity, that seems to be the one because you had the dedication to country, but also the
19:53
dedication to pushback evil across the world was unparalleled. I mean, you got farm boys from
19:59
from Iowa that are just going and they're just volunteering, right? They're not being drafted.
20:05
They're just volunteering like, no, I'm going to go pushback tyranny, right? Or no, I'm going to
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go defend this country, or I'm going to go defeat communism. Like, that's pretty amazing. I mean,
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and millions of men died on our side and on all sides during that time period. I can't really think
20:21
of a worst time in human history than what we saw in the early part of the 20th century.
20:28
So I would say that you have these guys that really stood up and did things that you couldn't
20:33
even imagine today. Can you imagine millions of Americans today, millions of American men
20:38
putting down their lives, you know, just for the sake of something else, a greater ideal,
20:43
whether they're anti communism or anti this or anti that, like, I can't really see that. So if
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I were to if I were just answer it outright, just off top of my head, golden age of manhood would have
20:52
been a World War II era. All right, next question here. There has been a significant rise in depression
20:58
and suicides during this time of isolation. What can we do to spread hope in a time of hopelessness
21:04
for many people? Well, yeah, obviously the these COVID lockdowns and a lot of things that have
21:10
been perpetrated by people in government to really tamp down people's ability to create a living.
21:16
The, you know, lockdown's not being able to go to work. Those types of things is created so many
21:20
other issues and depression and suicide are just two of them, you know, spousal abuse,
21:25
substance abuse, child abuse, like all these things are skyrocketing, absolutely skyrocketing.
21:29
In terms of how we could spread hope in a time of hopelessness for many,
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I think it's important for all of us to recognize the times in our life where we can make a literal
21:39
difference, right? So this is going to seem a little self healthy book, whatever type of thing,
21:42
but just think about you. So if you think about all of the sad people in nursing homes right now,
21:48
it's overwhelming. It's too overwhelming. There are literally millions of Americans that have not
21:53
been able to see their families, millions of elderly people across the globe actually that have not
21:57
been able to see their families. A lot of them have died alone, which is absolutely horrific.
22:01
They can't even die with people that they know by their side. It's these nurses that come in looking,
22:05
you know, wearing hazmat suits essentially. And all just basically to play a political game,
22:10
it seems like. But the thing that you can do is you can help in your personal community. So let's
22:16
just stay on the theme of elderly people, maybe in old folks homes. There are things that you can do
22:20
to brighten their days, right? You can't walk in and open the doors and let their families come in,
22:25
but you can write letters. You can make phone calls. You can talk to these people. They don't
22:28
have to be lonely. Because even someone like my mother-in-law, it's something that she does is
22:32
she actually goes to her local nursing home and just sits and talks with people, right? Because
22:35
that's what these people want. You know, their families just kind of stuck them in there, you know,
22:38
just kind of waiting for them to die. Hopefully they don't drain the bank account before then. But
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they just want to be to talk to right now by a nurse, not by somebody that's being paid to someone
22:46
that's honestly interested in them. So that's something that you can do there. But also, you know,
22:51
kind of coming out of that realm, just look around. Look around at the people that are around you
22:56
that might be hurting. And if you're more well off financially and you know someone is hurting
23:01
financially, try to hop in and help them. So I had a buddy here recently that in all this COVID
23:07
pandemic thing, he works for an oil and gas company and he got laid off. And you know, a lot of
23:12
people sent him messages like, Oh, man, that sucks. I'm so sad for you. Let me know if I can do
23:16
anything, which is hyper non specific and no one ever responds to that. But I called him and I said,
23:21
Hey, I'm very connected with a lot of people in this area. I'm basically one degree of separation
23:26
from just about anybody in this town seemingly. Let me know how I can help you. Also, can I can
23:31
I help? Can we help pay your mortgage? Like you have he has three kids. It's like, can we help by
23:36
food? Is there anything that you need? And I know this guy has a big support system. I know his
23:40
wife has a big support system in this town. But that's that's the type of thing that you need
23:44
in that moment. And so this guy is kind of extenuating circumstances. But a lot of guys have lost
23:50
their jobs. You know, a lot of families are suffering. And if you're not suffering, hop in and help
23:55
man. Even if it's like, you notice that the next door neighbor, you know, he's he's gone a lot,
24:00
uh, you know, because he's trying to make things work, he's trying to make ends meet. And then,
24:04
you know, the grass is getting a little bit too high in their yard. Just hop over there in
24:07
your mode form. That's not embarrassing to that guy. And if he comes over and says, Hey, man,
24:11
I don't want you doing that. Let me pay you money. He's like, no, brother, like, you're just being
24:15
a neighbor. So that's what I would say. That's how you spread hope to people. Because there's
24:19
there's a lot of people that are losing their ability to read emotions, losing their ability to
24:23
connect with people because we're communicating with these masks on. We can't even see each other's
24:26
facial expressions anymore. But that's how you convey hope to people. Hey, man, this will be over
24:32
at some point. But in the meantime, while it's while you're right and think of it, let me help you.
24:35
So that's how I would answer that next question here. My community just extended the mask mandate
24:41
into January. What does this say about what the future looks like due to COVID-19? So
24:45
it looks like we're gonna have a run of COVID questions here. Yeah, here's the thing. I've never
24:51
met a politician that didn't want more power and control. And that's on both sides of the aisle.
24:58
And all your libertarians out there that just heard me say that go, but wait, wait,
25:01
my libertarian guy. It's like, okay, yeah, win a major election and then maybe we'll actually pay
25:05
attention to the libertarians as an actual quote unquote party. But in the meantime,
25:09
the mass mandates are being extended. And they don't know why. That's the interesting thing.
25:15
When these people extend a mass mandate and they're like, Oh, well, we're going to do mass
25:18
mandate through the end of October. But let's go ahead and make it into January. They're not
25:21
citing any evidence. There's actually, and again, I don't know all the science behind this poll,
25:27
because I have, I've not read the data clearly, but I've just heard this in the last couple of days.
25:31
But the CDC did a, a study of people that had gotten COVID and what their
25:38
mask mandates were in their communities prior to them getting COVID, what their
25:44
normalities were in terms of what they did with masks. And what they found was that 85% of people
25:50
that got COVID in this study were either mask wears almost always are mask wears most of the time.
25:57
85%. I mean, then you got, you know, even politicians like Ralph Nordham, you know,
26:03
the guy who dressed up as either the KKK guy or was in blackface that guy. Also, the guy that
26:08
thinks that we should be able to kill babies even after they're outside the womb. Yeah, that guy,
26:11
the governor of Virginia, he got COVID. And this guy loved showing people how much he wore his mask,
26:18
right? And so here's the thing at the end of the day. I walked into a business yesterday to buy some
26:24
food and they had a mask mandate on the window. And so me as a consumer, I get a choice. I'm either
26:30
going to defy that walk in and risk them telling me to leave which they are well within their rights
26:34
to do. Or I put on the mask going and buy my food and move on with my day. Or I decide not today,
26:41
Satan, and I'm going to go off and do something else find a store that doesn't have a mask mandate.
26:45
All those things are up to you. It literally, as of right now, it's still a free country.
26:49
And so in terms of what it says about the future of COVID-19, like I've said multiple times,
26:53
if Joe Biden ends up winning the presidency, which, you know, seems likely at this point,
26:57
if he ends up winning the presidency, it's going to be amazing what the COVID-19 covers,
27:02
you know, turns into because right now it's a terrible sticking point for Donald Trump.
27:05
It's an easy punching bag for Joe Biden and his team to hit out. But as of right now,
27:10
what we've seen is that the numbers of even the death rates is going to continue to go down because
27:17
we're going to find out that way, way, way, way, way more people than we've ever known had COVID-19
27:22
and didn't have any issues with it. Okay. So what this means is that everything is still stupid.
27:27
You have your local municipalities that are just making up whatever things that happen. But the
27:31
one point I guess I would make to you here is that elections have consequences. And that's one of
27:35
the consequences. Most people are asleep at the wheel when it comes to their local elections. They're
27:39
not paying attention to the school board. They're not paying attention to who the mayor is or who
27:42
the sheriff is until something like this happens. And then all of a sudden, the people that are
27:46
supposedly representing you are not doing things that you would like. So a lot of people are [inaudible]
27:51
off at their school boards right now because they're not letting their kids, they're five,
27:54
six, seven year olds actually go to school at school, right? As if they can be taught via a laptop,
27:59
a little kid can be taught via a laptop. And a lot of these people are freaking out and they're
28:03
going to the school boards and they're yelling and screaming. But the five people in the school
28:07
board don't agree with them. You were asleep at the wheel. They basically got elected by, you know,
28:11
17 people that agreed with their ideology and they're scared and they're terrified and they're
28:17
just going to lock the schools down. Well, guys, you can't be asleep at the wheel. We got elections
28:21
coming up here in a few weeks, got to pay attention. Next question here. The World Health Organization
28:27
just came out with remarks against mass lockdowns due to the economic impact. Did you know about
28:33
this? And if so, what do you think? What did you think whenever you heard the news? So yes,
28:36
I did know about this. Amazing that this wasn't front page news across everywhere and all across
28:42
Twitter and everything, but also not amazing because it doesn't fit the narrative right now,
28:46
which is that everything needs to be locked down forever because, you know, we got to save grandma
28:49
or whatever the argument is today. But the World Health Organization about seven months too late
28:55
is recognizing that if you shut down everything, that the amazing economic impact that it has,
29:03
that the negative impact on people is absolutely staggeringly bad. And it took them that long to
29:10
figure it out. They're like, wait a minute, these, these isolation deaths and depression deaths and
29:15
suicides and in the uptick in violence and the uptick in problems in the home and substance abuse
29:20
and and oh, these and man, it's almost like if you lock everything down and don't allow people to
29:25
make money, it's like they don't have a purpose anymore. And they just turn to the drink or they
29:29
take it out on their wife and kids or whatever that that ends up being. But I mean, duh, like duh,
29:36
like they're making the same argument that people like me and people that think the way that I do
29:41
have been making for months and months and months now. And yet everything that they were doing prior
29:46
to that announcement prior to to coming out and making those comments was anti that message.
29:50
So it's like you waited until the entire economy of the world basically is in the crapper. But we're
29:56
like, I wonder if this is going to have some ancillary consequences that we're not real fond of. Right.
30:01
So yeah, I heard those remarks. It's not surprising to me. And again, guys, if Joe Biden's elected,
30:07
expect to hear a lot more stories like this. All of a sudden, the World Health Organization and
30:11
all these great doctors are going to come out and say, Oh, great. We've found a by the way,
30:16
hydroxychloroquine is a good thing to use. And oh, you know, we can go ahead and lift these lockdowns.
30:20
Now we've locked down quite enough. I think everyone will be safe. So yeah, it's ridiculous,
30:25
but it's all part of the political game. All right, next thing here. Okay, we got some upcoming UFC
30:30
fight prediction. So we got some interesting fights coming up in the UFC. So fight night,
30:34
October the 17th, that is actually this Saturday. We have Brian Ortega, T city versus Chansung Jung,
30:40
who is the Korean zombie. And so there is a lot of bad blood in this fight, which you wouldn't have
30:44
thought. But you know, I think Brian Ortega, like smacked one of Korean zombies friends at a UFC
30:49
event. But here's the thing about this fight. My prediction is that Korean zombies is going to
30:53
win. And he's going to win easily. So that's my prediction for this one. Brian Ortega has not
30:58
fought since he got demolished by Max Holloway. And Brian Ortega looked like a world beater on his
31:04
way. You know, he knocked out Frankie Edgar, all those things. But Korean zombie is a real dude.
31:09
And he's no slouch on the ground. Of course, Brian Ortega is an amazing jujitsu practitioner.
31:13
But that fight's going to stay on the feet. Okay. And if it stays on the feet, Brian Ortega is
31:17
going to get what I think he's going to get beat up. I do I do not see this being a close fight.
31:22
It's going to be one of those fights where it's like, okay, Brian Ortega is going to take two
31:25
really bad losses in a row. And then all of a sudden people are going to start talking about
31:28
whether he should change divisions or whether he should really, you know, reconsider his training
31:32
strategy, blah, blah, blah. But again, I don't see that fight being close. Now let's fast forward
31:36
to UFC 254. So that's here in a few weeks. And then the main event of that is Habib Nurmagomedov
31:42
versus Justin Gaeche. So that is, you know, basically Justin Gaeche's technically the interim champion
31:47
because, you know, he beat up Tony Ferguson to win the interim belt. Habib wasn't able to do their
31:51
last fight because of COVID restrictions. He was in Russia and then his father died. But here's the
31:55
thing. And you're going to think I'm just being a hater on a B by saying this. I think Justin Gaeche's
31:59
going to win this fight. I don't think this is going to be easy fight. I don't think he's going
32:02
to he's going to run rough shot over him. But there's something different about Justin Gaeche right now.
32:06
He took those two really bad losses against Dustin Poirier and Eddie Alvarez. And I say
32:10
there were bad losses because he was winning both of those fights and then he got finished
32:13
just because he got a little bit too wild. He's still wild now. But the way he's beating people
32:20
is like controlled chaos right now. And he is knocking people dead, knock James Vic dead,
32:25
knocked Edson Barbosa dead, just literally beat the living crap out of Tony Ferguson
32:30
until the ref mercilessly, you know, mercifully, actually, just let him off the hook in the fifth
32:35
round and finally called the fight. But I think the story of this fight is going to be for Justin
32:41
Gaeche is going to be leg kicks and take down defense. Because here's the thing and I've said
32:45
it before, Habib Nurmagomedov is not a great open air wrestler. He's not a great put us in a circle
32:52
with a singlet and shoes on and ready go wrestler. He's an amazing he's maybe the best wrestler on
32:57
the planet up against the wall or up against cage, right? If he gets you up against the cage,
33:01
he's going to take you down. There's just no no two ways about it. But remember the fight against
33:06
Conor McGregor, he shot a takedown in the middle of the octagon and it took him a really, really long
33:10
time to finish the takedown. He finished the takedown. But Conor McGregor, who is not an amazing
33:15
grappler, doesn't have a wrestling pedigree. He was able to basically stuff the takedown for a
33:18
significant period of time. Justin Gaeche does have the wrestling pedigree. He does have the
33:23
credentials there. So I don't think Habib's just going to be able to take Justin Gaeche down at
33:27
will like he has to basically everyone he's fought up to this point. But the other thing with Justin
33:32
Gaeche is he throws some of the most vicious leg kicks that I've ever seen, like in any division.
33:36
His leg kicks are immediate, constant, and absolutely brutal. And here's the thing about his leg kicks
33:43
is if he's kicking to the thigh or to the body, that that is an issue because Habib is going to catch
33:49
that and probably take him down. But he's signaling from the very beginning to Habib that he's going
33:54
to do the low calf kick, right? Basically drive his shin directly into the meat of the outer calf.
34:00
And that's what he's going to do to Habib. And it doesn't matter how tough you are or how skilled
34:04
you are. If you take a lot of those in a fight, you're not going to have a whole lot of spring.
34:08
Your striking is not going to be as good. You're not going to have a whole lot of spring with your
34:11
takedowns. And so that's why I think Justin Gaeche's going to win. I think he's going to control
34:15
the octagon. He's not going to be easy to take down. And those leg kicks are going to be brutal.
34:19
And he has this lead left hook, which is absolutely brutal as well. Habib is hitable. Dustin Poirier
34:24
heard him. Connor hit him a few times in that third round of their fight. But that's the thing
34:28
is Habib is a real dude. He's what 27 and oh, and you know, like the first 20 of those were against
34:33
like, you know, Russian tomato cans. But he is a legit fighter. He's a legit dude. And guess what?
34:38
I'll go ahead and say this about that fight. If Habib goes in there and ragdolls Justin Gaeche,
34:43
you automatically have to start talking about him in terms of goat status. That that's how
34:47
easily I could flip my opinion on Habib. Even though the first part of his career, he basically
34:52
was fighting people that didn't even deserve to get an MMA license. If he beats Justin Gaeche
34:57
in the same kind of 10, eight for five rounds thing that we've seen him do to a lot of other
35:00
people, then then we really got to start thinking about that discussion. The net the other fight
35:05
on that fight card I'll just talk briefly about is Robert Whittaker, former 185 champion versus
35:09
Jared Canoneer. The reason why this one is important is because Israel out of Sonya,
35:12
who is the champion at that way division has already signaled that if Jared Canoneer wins
35:16
that that he wants to fight him next because Israel out of Sonya has already knocked out Robert
35:20
Whittaker. But technically, this is a number one contender fight. Whoever wins this fight will
35:24
likely fight Israel out of Sonya next. So in terms of who's going to win that fight, it's really,
35:29
really hard for me to pick him in against Robert Whittaker just because seeing what he's been able
35:32
to do in a lot of these fights in the comeback, he's been able to make Jared Canoneer is a real
35:36
dude. It's a toss up for me, but I'll go with Robert Whittaker. Then we've got fight night on
35:40
November 7th, Tiago Santos versus Glover to share. This is another interesting fight because John
35:45
Blockovich or it's kind of hard to say. We'll just say, Jan, the new 205 champion. This is likely,
35:51
his next opponent is likely going to come out of this fight. Tiago Santos, in my opinion,
35:55
beat John Jones in his last fight. He beat him on one leg. This is going to be his first fight
35:59
since his knee surgery. Glover to share has had a late resurgence in his career. You know,
36:03
late in his, you know, when you think he would be riding off in the sunset, he's actually making
36:07
a run towards another title. It's kind of hard to know how Tiago Santos is going to respond because
36:12
he had major knee surgery and this is his first fight back, but he has more skilled than Glover
36:17
to share. So that's another tough fight for me to call, but I think I would go with Santos on this
36:22
one. It looks like I've got some bonus questions here. Oh, okay. So we're going to look at rumored
36:26
fights now. So there's some rumored fights now that that could be interesting. There's talk
36:30
about Conor McGregor fighting Dustin Poirier. This would be a rematch. I think they fought like six,
36:34
seven years ago. They were originally trying to do this as like a charity event or something,
36:39
but then the UFC offered them the fight, but they offered them the fight for January,
36:43
but Connor's like, no, I want the fight in either November or December. He's kind of [inaudible] that he
36:46
has a fought again this year. In terms of that fight happening, yes, it's an interesting fight.
36:50
Dustin Poirier is a much improved fighter. Then back then they fought at 145. This fight would be
36:54
a 155, but the thing about it is is this wouldn't have the crowd in there. It looks like Conor McGregor
37:01
and Dustin Poirier have a deep and combined respect for one another. Whereas with the first fight,
37:05
there were a lot of trash talking back and forth. And so I don't think Connor is going to have that
37:08
trash talking advantage. So I don't really think there's going to be any of that here. Dustin Poirier
37:13
gets hit a lot though. I mean, even if his fight recently with Dan Hooker, his fights with Eddie
37:17
Alvarez and Justin Gaechee, he gets hit a lot. And when Conor McGregor hits people, especially
37:21
with his straight left, I mean, they just they go dead. And so that's an interesting fight. You
37:26
know, I'll reserve judgment on who I would pick for that fight until a later date because there's
37:30
still a lot of things that need to be crossed off before then. Another rumored fight is Colby
37:34
Covington versus Jorge Mazudal. I love that this fight is being rumored because the previous rumor
37:39
was that Jorge Mazudal was going to be fighting Nate Diaz for the BMF title again. That's stupid,
37:44
stupid, stupid, fake belt. And guess what, guys, we watched that fight and Jorge was murdering Nate
37:50
for the first three rounds before he got, you know, basically saved by by the judge, right? And the
37:54
BMF title fight, they have to stop it because of a cut. But these people are like, Oh, no, you know,
37:59
Nate was about to turn the tide and he was going to do what he was going to finish Jorge Mazudal in
38:03
the last two rounds of that fight. Get out of here. That fight was super one-sided. Nobody wants to
38:06
see that again. The BMF belt is not a real thing. Here's the other thing with Colby Covington.
38:10
It's either Camaro Usman for him next or Jorge Mazudal. No one wants to watch him fight anyone
38:15
else or it might be Gilbert Burns if he wins the title, but no one wants to watch him fight
38:18
anybody else. There are people that think he should fight Leon Edwards. Why would Colby Covington
38:22
fight Leon Edwards? That makes no sense at all. That is only a positive for Leon Edwards potentially.
38:27
So this is a great fight. These are guys that trained together for a very, very long time. They're
38:30
both Trump supporters, which is interesting. Jorge Mazudal had some very positive things to say
38:34
about Trump here recently. Been a long time Trump fan, Jorge Mazudal is. But to be honest with you,
38:39
this fight is going to go the exact same way. The Camaro Usman Jorge Mazudal fight went.
38:43
It's going to be a five round shellacking with with one guy swing in the hammer and that's
38:47
going to be Colby Covington. So if that fight does come to fruition, it'll be a big fight,
38:51
but I don't think it'll be a close fight. And then the last one, will Israel Adasanya get a fight
38:55
against John Jones? So that's the thing is these guys are going back and forth on Twitter all the
38:59
time and, you know, kind of ramping up the rhetoric against one another. But guys, I don't,
39:04
I just can't see this fight happening soon. You know, Israel Adasanya is a small 185 or John
39:11
Jones, you know, just gave up the 205 belt to go fight it heavyweight. And so, you know, is this
39:16
fight going to happen at 205? Like, is it going to happen at a catch weight? Because, you know,
39:20
Adasanya might walk around at like 210, 215. So he's not cutting a bunch to get to 205.
39:25
John Jones walks around at 225, 230. So it's going to be more of a cut for him to get down there.
39:30
And to be honest with you, I don't feel like it's going to be a very close fight.
39:34
Like, like at all, if John Jones can take down Daniel Cormier in Olympic wrestler,
39:39
you're telling me that he can't take down Israel Adasanya, a striker? Yeah, I just don't see that
39:43
fight being close, but it's going to continue to be rumored. And that's going to always be the
39:47
fight that's out there in the ether that may never happen. Our next question here.
39:51
The next big movement in America is to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
39:57
As a Christian, does agreeing with this compromise, does agreeing with this compromise my faith,
40:02
if I agree to lean towards more socially liberal policies? Well, yeah. Well, of course it would.
40:08
Because I've heard that too. Oh, I'm, you know, I'm socially liberal. I'm liberal and social
40:13
issues, but I feel like I'll serve it up. So it's, you know, whatever that means. And they
40:17
probably can't even elucidate it much further than just saying that initial sentence. But I think
40:21
it does compromise your faith because most social issues are informed by faith, like most of them.
40:28
And so if you're sitting there saying that, oh, well, I'm going to be a conservative
40:34
ball and fiscal policy, because I don't want Uncle Sam dipping into my pocketbooks any more
40:37
than normal. But you know what? I'm okay. I'm okay with gay marriage. You know, I'm okay with
40:41
abortion up until the moment of birth, or I'm okay with, you know, open borders, immigration
40:45
policy, you know, whatever the more liberal social policies are, I don't see how that connects
40:50
to a Judeo Christian faith, especially with the issue of abortion, right? Yeah, these people that
40:56
are like, Oh, I'm Catholic. I'm also poor abortion. Sorry, you can't do that. So it's kind of like
41:01
these things. It's like if you, if you're in a club and that club has standards in order for
41:06
you to remain in the club, if you don't live by those standards or meet those standards,
41:10
you're no longer in the club. And so if you're like, yeah, I'm a Christian. I'm not down with
41:15
that whole trinity thing though. And I don't believe Jesus died on the cross and rose on the
41:18
third day. Well, okay, that's fine. You're just not a Christian though. Like you can't say that.
41:23
Like you can't say, Oh, you know, I'm vegan. But gosh, I eat steak every night for dinner.
41:28
Gosh, it's just so good that you see, it doesn't really work that way. You can't really consider
41:32
yourself part of that club. And so yes, I think that would be compromising your face or your
41:37
faith leaning more towards more liberal policies, especially because most of these liberal policies
41:43
are being pushed in culture. And if you are basing your opinions based on what the culture
41:48
says, that's a problem. Because just think about Hollywood entertainment and the opinions of
41:53
Hollywood heights and those types of folks. It doesn't really align with the Christian worldview
41:57
ever, or at all. And so if you're being fiscally conservative, because you want more of your money,
42:04
but then you just want things to be kind of open, that also says something about your inner morality.
42:08
And people don't like to talk about that, especially since, you know,
42:11
a burger fell brought in gay marriage. And so we can't really talk about gay marriage anymore.
42:15
And you know, it's crazy for someone to say that two men getting married isn't actually a marriage.
42:20
Like, because marriage is between one man and one woman. Why? Because God told us so.
42:24
So those are those things that if you continue to compromise on social issues,
42:28
you are at the same time compromising your faith. All right, next question here,
42:32
you can have dinner, drinks, and a cigar with four other living people. Okay, who are you picking?
42:41
Oh, man, y'all got some some brainbusters today. Okay, so you can have drinks, dinner drinks,
42:45
and cigar with four other living people. Okay, so living people. Well, I guess there's a few ways
42:51
you can take that question. Because are these just four people that you like? Do these four people
42:57
know each other? You know, because that could be weird if you have four people that you just like,
43:01
but you know, one's like a professor and one's like, you know, a wizard and other guys like a
43:05
sports guy, like that might be kind of weird to have dinner together, or it might be cool. Hmm.
43:10
Four people. Oh, okay, you know what? I'll just go with four people that I'm constantly
43:18
listening to, people that are constantly in my ear that I would just like to speak in person.
43:21
So I would say Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Jocko Willing.
43:29
So Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Jocko Willing. Those would be my four.
43:33
Now, all those guys do know each other. I think they're kind of commonalities that
43:37
they've all been on the Joe Rogan experience. I think both of them have done Ben Shapiro's show.
43:42
Anyway, I think anyway, they're all connected kind of in some way, but wouldn't that be an awesome
43:47
dinner? I mean, you got maybe the biggest comedian and podcaster on the planet. You got one of the
43:52
leading and intellectuals on the planet. You've got, you know, basically the movement, the new,
43:57
the guy of the new conservative movement. You've got, you know, a former Navy SEAL and best-selling
44:03
author. I mean, that would be a great night of dinner drinks in a cigar, right? I don't know that
44:08
all of them would partake in all three of those things. But yeah, I guess if I was going to do
44:12
a dinner, that would be the most important and most interesting dinner that I could probably put
44:15
together. So those four next question here. How do you, how do Christian men unify efforts to deal
44:21
with inequities that exist in society while at the same time mitigating the effects caused by the
44:27
extremists that exist on both sides of these dissenting topics? So i.e. race issues, etc.
44:33
Okay, that's, that's kind of a big one there. How do Christian men unify efforts to deal with
44:39
inequities? So I guess the first question I would ask the person asking this question is, you know,
44:46
what do you mean by inequities? And what do you mean, like, in terms of Christian men unifying
44:52
efforts? So like, Christian men are being tasked to do something because everything in life is
44:57
about inequity. But it's something that you can't equality is not something that you can guarantee
45:03
when it comes to outcome. Okay, so since I picked on LeBron a little bit earlier in this podcast,
45:07
guess what? There's a tremendous inequity between LeBron James and I like regardless of our skin
45:12
color or anything like that. He's six foot eight, 250 pounds. He's an incredibly gifted athlete.
45:17
He's worth half a billion dollars. Yeah, he's got four chain ship rings, sort of, you know what I mean?
45:22
Like, I don't have any of those things. I've dunked a tennis ball before, never a basketball. There's
45:29
some inequities there, right? So I think the first thing I would want to get on get on the line is
45:35
here is like, what do you mean by inequity? Because again, if you're talking about the quality of
45:39
outcome, I can't unify any efforts behind that. Because I can't affect what cards people were
45:45
dealt from the very beginning, where they were born, what their parents were, how much money they
45:48
had, what their races, how tall they are, like whether they have an attractive nose or a skinny
45:53
butt. Like, I can't control any of those things. And so I can't control for outcome. But for a
45:58
lot of these people, I guess if I were going to unify anybody behind the message, you know,
46:02
as a group of Christian men, it would be unifying them behind the message that you can affect your
46:07
outcomes. Now, I cannot sit in a room and concentrate with all my might and think as hard as possible
46:14
and make myself taller. You know, I can't do that. I can't sit there and be like, okay,
46:19
I'm just going to sit in this room and I'm just going to concentrate until I have 20 inch biceps.
46:23
Like, those things can't happen, right? Now, with a 20 inch bicep thing, there are some things
46:27
that you can work towards that. But the main point that I'm making is that at the end of the day,
46:31
you can control your actions. You can't control the cards that you were dealt. You can't control
46:35
anything else that happens in your life outside of you. You can only control your decisions. You
46:39
can't control other people. You can't control society. You can't control culture. And so what
46:44
I would say for some of these people is, you know, don't really listen to the extremist voice
46:48
voices on either of these sides unless they're right. So there are there are voices specifically
46:54
you brought up the race issue here with this question. There are people that are on the right,
46:57
the political right that are considered extreme in their opinions. But what they're saying is
47:01
correct about some of these issues. It's considered extreme to say that George Floyd is in some way
47:07
responsible for his own death that day. And when I said that back, I think on, you know,
47:11
the first race in America podcast, we didn't even know about the fentanyl in this system at that time.
47:16
And so there is a pretty dang good chance that he died from a fentanyl overdose.
47:22
Not not from asphyxiation from the knee of the officer or the shin of the officer. And I'm still
47:31
not taking Derek Chauvin, you know, you know, I see that definitely did wrong that day. He 100%
47:36
did wrong that day. But it's considered extreme to say George Floyd is in some way responsible for
47:41
his own death that day. And so don't really listen to the extreme voices unless they're obviously
47:46
speaking truth. Don't let anyone else tell you someone's being extreme. You go and look look for
47:51
for yourself. I think that's important. But in terms of us unifying, it's better for us to unify
47:55
behind a message, that message being the gospel like, Hey, there might be inequities in this life.
48:00
There might be injustices that are done like real injustices that are perpetrated on people.
48:05
But at the end of the day, it's up to the things that you do. The gospel covers everybody and
48:09
everything. And so you either believe that or you don't. Next question here, any guesses on the
48:15
next continued shift of the overton window? Okay. So things that might be inside the overton window
48:23
at time, guys, go back if you're if you're not familiar with the overton window, I have an entire
48:26
episode of it. I can't remember which one it was, but I kind of go into the detail there. But
48:29
it's basically the things that are acceptable in modern discourse, like, you know, 100 years ago,
48:33
gay marriage wouldn't considered inside the overton window, but it's right smack dab in the middle of
48:37
it now, you know, blah, blah, blah. I think I've probably said this before in terms of the next
48:41
shift. And I talked about this on the normalizing pedophilia podcast here recently with a cutie's
48:46
documentary in the new law in California. I think it's gonna be pedophilia. Because again,
48:51
the argument is if a five year old can choose their gender, then why can't they choose their
48:55
sexual partner? That's not that crazy of a statement. Because if you're saying they have the autonomy
49:01
to make the decision about their genitalia, whether they want them to be in any or an Audi,
49:05
what why can you say they could have a consensual sexual relationship with someone that is considered
49:10
to be an adult by law? Why can't 11 year old data 20 year old? Like, why not? So I really feel
49:17
that that's going to be a shift that that's going to become more of the conversation. Because again,
49:21
I mean, the the change in culture and the change on a lot of these big issues has been super fast.
49:26
I mean, again, seven years ago, 10 years ago, if you would have said that a kid can choose
49:30
their gender, it'd be like, dude, you're a moron. They put you in a, you know, in a, you know,
49:34
middle facility. But now it's like, oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense. So that would say that's
49:39
coming next. And then probably polyamory, you know, multiple lives, that type of situation,
49:45
all the Mormons are going to be super jacked about that. But I think that's going to kind of
49:47
be the next thing like, Oh, hey, I have two dads. Are they gay? No, no, no, no, my mom just sleeps
49:52
in both of them. Oh, okay. So like all three of you come to the baseball game. Yeah, yeah,
49:57
that's what we do. So I think that's going to become more normalized. You know, I'm not going to get
50:01
crazy and say B. Ciality is going to start to be in the in the overton window. But I swear nothing
50:05
would surprise me anymore. But probably pedophilia is the number one thing that we'll see. Next one
50:09
here wrestling season is upon us as a new dad. How excited are you to get to experience a life you
50:16
made compete in a physical combat sport in a few short years? So yeah, I mean, I honestly,
50:22
I really hope that baby James does wrestling. You know, Hard Elmore has been on this podcast before.
50:28
He's a national runner up in collegiate wrestling. He runs one of the best private wrestling clubs
50:35
in the country. And so he lives about a couple hundred feet away from me. So I think that's
50:39
going to be awesome if James can learn wrestling under his tutelage. I don't think there's any
50:42
tougher athlete on the planet than a wrestler. You just don't get that same toughness playing baseball
50:47
or playing cricket or something like that. You basically get that from playing or participating
50:52
in wrestling. Um, yeah, I'm absolutely excited to watch him do that. Um, you know, it's kind of
50:58
hard for me right now to think about how I'll respond to him losing. And you know, if he gets
51:02
hurt doing something like that, because you just don't know what your emotions are going to be
51:05
until that moment comes. I had told you before on this podcast, I'm not going to be the wrestling
51:10
dad or the baseball dad. The guy's freaking out at the duel or at the tournament or something like
51:14
that. I'm going to be the guy that lets the coach coach. Because if the coach is coaching,
51:18
he either has more time than I do to coach or he knows more than I do or both. And so I'm just
51:23
going to let the coach coach. Now, if I want to do some pointers when the kid gets home or something
51:27
like that, as long as I'm not, you know, demeaning the coach, I think that's acceptable as well. But,
51:31
you know, I'm not really concerned about the fact that it's tick, you know, physical combat sport.
51:35
I think everyone, there's a lot of people in this podcast that have never thrown a punch at somebody
51:38
never been punched. Um, and that's not good for you. You should know that if you get punched or
51:43
punched somebody that people don't just disappear into the ether, you will survive, you will make it.
51:47
Uh, but at the same time, you have to be good at being violent because there are going to be times
51:50
when you need to be a sheepdog and you need to be violent. And that's not the time to train
51:54
because the time is upon you. It's been thrust upon you. And if you're not ready for that moment,
51:58
you're screwed. And the people around you are screwed unless you get lucky. So I'm excited to
52:03
watch that, you know, to watch a little kid, you know, start to wrestle and figure out his body and
52:06
do those different things. And I'll get him into jujitsu as well. Uh, one thing about our house,
52:10
my wife and I have decided that even if the kid is not into sports, he will play sports, right?
52:14
That's just kind of the deal. There's so much value you get from sports. You know,
52:17
regardless of if you end up getting a scholarship or become a professional at that sport, you know,
52:21
those things are incredibly rare, but just having those valuable lessons growing up is amazing.
52:25
I think it'll be cool to see a kid compete in a team sport like baseball or basketball or
52:30
something like that. And then also compete in an individual sport like jujitsu or wrestling,
52:33
you know, it's an individualized team sport. So I think that'll be fun to watch.
52:37
Our next question here, we've got a few left. Everyone I talk to is sick of Fox News,
52:41
CNN and everything in between. Uh, where can I go for real unbiased opinions and news? Um,
52:48
well, I guess the easiest way to answer this is there's nowhere where you can go for an unbiased
52:53
opinion. You always hear these people say like, Oh, this is a, uh, non-party driven think tanker.
52:58
This is a neutral think tanker. This is a nonpartisan think tank and all that's like,
53:02
dude, no, everyone's partisan. At least in some way, there's no one that's right down the middle.
53:07
And you have these independence that are like, they wear that like a badge of honor. Like,
53:09
I'm an independent. It's like, Oh, we'll pick a side loser. It's like, what are you talking about?
53:12
You're an independent. You're of course you're not an independent. It kind of goes back to the
53:15
question earlier about like, Oh, I'm fiscally conservative. I'm socially liberal. It's like,
53:18
well, what does that mean? You're, you're a man without a country at that point. Um, but I have
53:23
said before there are, I feel like more left wing sources don't try to be centrist, but there are
53:28
right wing sort sources that at least try to be more centrist. So a lot of the ones that I trust
53:33
that I obviously know that when they're editorializing, it's coming from a conservative point of view,
53:37
but whenever they're just giving me the news or kind of given the news, you know, I really do like,
53:41
Town Hall. I like the Daily Wire. I like the blaze. Um, you know, I've heard some people
53:48
have said good things about the Bajino report with Dan Bajino. I don't really know anything much
53:51
about that. But really at the end of the day, guys, like, so I listened to the Ben Shapiro podcast
53:56
every day. Um, and I've listened to that show since before the 2016 election. So I've been listening
54:01
to him for a long time. And the thing about it is, is I don't just, I don't agree with him on
54:05
everything. There are a lot of things that disagree with him on, and a lot of his opinions that he's
54:08
been wrong about. But you know, he's a type of guy that calls balls and strikes when it comes to
54:12
the things that he sees. And he, he kind of lets you know when he's editorializing from a conservative
54:16
point of view and he's unapologetic about that. So I would look for people like that, that whether
54:20
they're left wing or right wing or something like that, if they're going to be fair, because you got
54:24
somebody like Dan Carlin, he's got the hardcore, hardcore history podcast, but he also has another
54:28
podcast. I think it's called Common Sense or it's something like that. But he did a podcast here
54:33
recently where he was basically saying that Donald Trump was a fascist dictator. And if he's elected
54:37
again, then that's the end of the Republic. And you know, it was just kind of this big crazy thing.
54:42
Again, he didn't give any evidence for his point of view. He was just spouting it. And so if you get
54:46
someone that seems like they're in the quote unquote news and they're a quote unquote journalist,
54:50
but it seems like they're editorializing or propagandizing all the time, I would probably stay away from
54:54
those. Again, when I watch Fox News during the day, that's news. They're just reporting the news.
54:59
But if I watch Sean Hannity, which I don't, or if I watch, you know, gosh, what are the people in
55:05
the other Anderson Cooper, which I don't like, if I'm watching those shows, you know, it's about
55:11
editorializing. It's not about the news. So just stop watching opinion shows thinking you're getting
55:16
news. So that would probably be the thing that I would tell you to do, try to find some straight
55:19
news people like Brett Baer over at Fox News. He's a straight news guy, Jake Tapper over at CNN.
55:24
You know, he's he's a lot of times more of a straight news guy as opposed to a partisan. So
55:28
I would just look out for those couple of questions here. Next one. What are the chances of Trump
55:33
being reelected pre COVID versus or what were the chances of Trump being reelected pre COVID versus
55:39
right now? Yeah, I feel like this one's pretty easy. Pre COVID, we're at an all time high for
55:46
for the stock market. People, you know, consumer confidence was high, wages were going up. Everything
55:52
was seemingly great. And then we have COVID, we had the lockdowns, we had the effect on the
55:58
economy. We have, you know, the Trump, the Trump side's kind of use or not use, but a lot of people
56:03
think they bungled the COVID-19 thing. But then you realize that pretty much everyone maybe except
56:07
Sweden bungled the COVID-19 thing. Yeah, I think the chances of him being reelected pre COVID were
56:14
incredibly high, especially because if you guys remember pre COVID, do you remember who was the
56:20
the odd zone favorite to win the Democratic ticket? Bernie Sanders, that old socialist communist
56:27
loon bag was the front runner. Joe Biden was somewhere way off Kamala Harris had already come
56:33
out of the race. It was going to be Bernie Sanders and Republicans all over the country were chomping
56:38
at the bit because of Bernie Sanders, who's going to be the nominee, not only were they going to lose
56:43
the White House, they were going to, you know, the Republicans were going to build a higher
56:47
majority in the Senate. There was a chance Republicans would get the house back. They were going to
56:51
lose governorships Democrats are going to lose governors races and gubernatorial races like they
56:55
were going to get shellacked. And then we fast forward a few months COVID's a thing Joe Biden's
57:00
the guy. And you know, Donald Trump does his normal thing. I would say right now the chances of
57:05
Donald Trump being reelected are not great. And it's just you just read the tea leaves a little
57:10
bit like there was a little bit like, you know, you had the first debate, you know, it looked like the
57:16
the polling nationally and in swing states was getting closer before that first debate. But
57:21
Donald Trump did so poorly in that first debate. I mean, so did Joe Biden. It wasn't really a debate,
57:25
but Donald Trump came off looking so bad that there's been a widening of the gap between him
57:31
and Biden since that first debate. And it looks like there's not going to be subsequent debates
57:36
because Donald Trump got COVID-19. And you know, Joe Joe Biden doesn't really see any need to do
57:42
these debates anymore. He's just going to sit in his basement and cross his fingers. But I think
57:46
the chances before COVID were really high. And I think the chances right now are really low. It's
57:50
not zero. But I mean, the thing about pollsters, and I talked to a lot of Trump people and I talked
57:56
to a guy that actually works for the Trump campaign last week, we have lunch. And he was like, you
58:01
know, Kyle, you just, you can't look at the polls. And you know, I should I wrote myself a letter.
58:05
I promised I was going to do it, you know, like six months before the election to open it up,
58:10
you know, a week or two before the election. And on that piece paper, it would be written,
58:13
don't believe all the people that say Trump's going to lose, he's going to win.
58:16
And it's like, it's all these anecdotal and kind of like metaphorical stories about
58:21
how, you know, all the polls are going to be wrong. And you know, the silent majority,
58:25
and you know, people will stand up for their rights and he'll lose the, you know, popular vote,
58:30
but win the electoral college. But none of these people are giving reasons for why they're saying
58:34
these things. They're just saying it. And they're not saying why Donald Trump's going to win Florida
58:40
in Ohio and maybe Michigan and Pennsylvania and Arizona and Wisconsin and Iowa. They're not saying
58:47
why he's going to win these states. They're saying they got a good feeling about it.
58:50
Well, guys, the thing about it is most of the pollsters, almost all the pollsters are wrong in
58:56
2016. If they're that wrong again, in 2020, then no one's going to believe them. Because if if the
59:04
weatherman constantly tells you it's going to rain outside and every day you go to work with your
59:08
umbrella and your rain jacket and your rain boots and all that and it's sunny in 75,
59:13
you're going to stop tuning into that newscast, right? The guy is putting a whole lot of pressure
59:18
on your life that doesn't need to be there. So yeah, again, at this point, can all the polls be
59:24
this wrong? Because I don't care about the national polling that Joe Biden's up, you know,
59:27
double digits nationally. Who cares? It's an electoral college that we have to worry about.
59:31
But he's down or even in every swing state. And he's even within spitting distance in Texas.
59:37
Joe Biden is of Donald Trump. So if Donald Trump is down in all these swing states,
59:42
is it possible he wins them? Yeah. But if all of the polling is wrong from all these companies,
59:49
I just can't see how that's possible. Um, you know, the senatorial races are a little bit
59:54
looser right now. I think Republicans have a pretty good shot of keeping the Senate,
59:58
which would be great. Because if Joe Biden is in the White House and the Democrats have the
1:00:02
House, which they will continue to have the House after this November election, you got to have some
1:00:06
sort of a check in the judicial or in the legislative body. And that's got to be from the Senate. Um,
1:00:12
so yeah, I'm, I'm a little bit, I'm not terribly happy about that just because I'm actually terrified
1:00:18
of what happens to the country if Joe Biden is elected president and the Democrats take control
1:00:23
of the Senate. Obviously, they've talked about how they are wanting to get rid of the filibuster,
1:00:28
add multiple states, you know, Puerto Rico, Washington DC, maybe even Guam to have a super
1:00:34
majority or at least a much higher majority in the House and in the Senate. Um, yeah, it's kind of
1:00:40
terrifying packing the court, packing the Supreme Court like we're going to get into that a whole
1:00:43
lot later. But yeah, chances were good before not as great now. Next question to your last question
1:00:49
of the day, actually, who will you be voting for for president on November 3rd? Uh, so here's the
1:00:54
thing. I'm not going to give you the answer now. Um, but I will give you my answer. I'm still
1:00:58
formulating my answer to that question. And just so you know, the Thursday before the election,
1:01:03
I'm going to be releasing, uh, probably a couple of episodes and it's going to be breaking down the
1:01:09
decision of 2020 between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. And so if you want to hear my answer to
1:01:15
who I will be voting for because there's three options technically in my state. Anyway,
1:01:19
there's voting for Donald Trump. There's voting for Joe Biden and there's not voting for president
1:01:23
at all. We don't have a third party candidate. I don't even know if there's a libertarian, a
1:01:27
candidate or a ticket. Uh, but you know, most of those guys can't even find their, their own
1:01:31
city on a map. So I, you can't really trust those dopes, but I will be giving you a full rundown of,
1:01:36
of the decision that I've made in terms of how I will operate this coming November.
1:01:41
All right, guys. Thanks so much for those questions. I really do appreciate you sending them my way.
1:01:45
Again, hit me up on Instagram or via email if you want to have your questions answered on the show.
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we do that by providing content like this podcast that helps you forge spiritual mental and physical
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And this is an article by Jack Carr. So if you're familiar with Jack Carr, he's got the, uh, James
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Reese novels. So that's the terminal list true believer and savage son, former Navy SEAL. Great,
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great books. I just finished listening to all three of those here recently, but it's called our
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obligation to fight. So, uh, kind of goes into some stuff I was even talking about earlier about.
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We all should have a mandate to be able to learn how to protect ourselves and those around us.
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