172 - Year In Review: 2020

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0:51 I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.

0:53 All right guys, if you were listening to this on Time Happy New Year's Eve 2020,

0:57 guys, there's been a lot of things that have gone down this year.

0:59 I've done a few podcasts here to end the year that have just kind of been a summary of some of my favorite books, my favorite podcasts.

1:06 But this podcast today is going to serve as a summary for 2020.

1:09 This is our Year in Review podcast.

1:11 We're going to look at everything from the world of politics, the world of entertainment, the world of sports.

1:15 We're going to recap a lot of news that maybe you've forgotten about,

1:18 some news that maybe just flew under your radar a little bit and we're also going to look forward to 2021.

1:23 Some of the big stories that will probably dominate the news in 2021, the stuff that we know of at least.

1:28 But before we really get into that, and this is a little bit of a year in review, a little bit of an update.

1:32 But episode 169 of this podcast, it was called R.I.P. Robby Zacharias.

1:37 Okay, so obviously for those of you that don't know who Robby Zacharias is,

1:41 he is a world famous apologist, a Christian apologist and philosopher who passed away

1:45 earlier this year, I believe it was in May.

1:48 But over the last couple of months, there's been some allegations of sexual assault that have been levied

1:52 against him, you know, had to do with a massage parlor that he was a part owner in. And in episode

1:58 169 of that podcast, I went into the allegations. I went into how unfortunate it was that he wasn't

2:03 here to defend himself and how RZIM, that's his ministry, Robby Zacharias International Ministries,

2:09 was doing their own internal investigation and that they had hired an external firm to do the

2:14 internal investigation and how I didn't think that would be very fruitful because I would be

2:17 attacking themselves and blah, blah, blah. I also went into a lot of other things, but

2:21 there has been an update. So this update came on the 23rd of December, so the day before Christmas

2:26 Eve. And so I'm just going to read this update from the board of directors of RZIM, just to kind

2:31 of give you an update as to where the story is now. So here we go. In August 2020, allegations of

2:36 sexual misconduct were made against our founder, Robby Zacharias. Unfortunately, Robby had died

2:42 several months before we first learned of these allegations. So we were unable to explore them

2:46 with him directly. We engaged Miller and Martin P LLC to investigate these allegations while

2:51 also giving them wide latitude to go wherever their investigation might lead them. We had also

2:56 repeatedly stated our intention not to comment on the investigation until receiving final report

3:01 on it. However, while the investigation remains ongoing and is not expected to be completed until

3:06 January or February, yesterday we received a brief interim update on the investigation and we felt

3:11 we needed to share. Sadly, the interim investigation update indicates this assessment of Robby's behavior

3:17 to be true and that he did indeed engage in sexual misconduct. This misconduct is deeply

3:22 troubling and wholly inconsistent with the man Robby Zacharias presented both publicly and privately

3:27 to so many many over more than four decades of public ministry. We are heartbroken at learning

3:32 this but feel it necessary to be transparent and to inform our staff donors and supporters at this

3:37 time even while the investigation continues. We will speak more comprehensively to all concerned

3:42 after the completion of the investigation. We are devastated for those who have suffered from

3:45 Robby's misconduct and for the pain that they are enduring. They have asked our confidentiality

3:50 anonymity and both we and the investigators are committed to honoring their wishes. This

3:54 preliminary statement is not intended to cut short the investigation or predict its full outcome.

3:58 We want to ensure the investigators have appropriate time and space to complete their work

4:04 and allow all those who may still desire to have a voice in this process to do so.

4:09 We ask for continued patience as we complete a lengthy process of investigating serious allegations.

4:14 RZIM will publicly release the Miller and Martin report as given to the board as soon as possible

4:19 after the investigation is complete. In the meantime, we share our compassion for any victims of this

4:23 conduct and we appreciate your prayers for them and also for Robby's family who have been devastated

4:28 by this information. As ever, the Lord remains our principal hope for healing and restoration.

4:33 And so that was a message from the executive committee of the Robby Zacharias International

4:37 Ministries Board of Directors. And so obviously terrible news, terrible news for a lot of reasons.

4:43 The main reason why it's terrible news is obviously for the people that were affected by

4:46 this directly. The people that suffered at the hands of Robby Zacharias literally in the sexual

4:53 assault that they experienced. However, minor might seem to some or major might seem to others.

4:58 It was obviously something that shouldn't have never happened. It was something that is evil,

5:04 something that was absolutely sinful and horrific. And so I feel so badly for these women that have

5:10 endured that and will continue to have to endure that. Secondarily, I guess I feel horrible for

5:14 Robby Zacharias' wife who survived him and his children to learn these things about that man

5:20 after he had already passed away has got to be absolutely gut-riching. For the people that support

5:25 RZIM and the people like me that are fans of Robby Zacharias and the work that he's done for the

5:28 kingdom and ministry, it sucks. It sucks really, really bad because the thing is,

5:32 is it doesn't wipe away the 40 years of ministry that he did have, the 40 plus years of ministry,

5:39 but it does tinge a little bit. It's got a little bit of a different hue when you look back at it.

5:45 And that's the thing, guys, is if you'll remember back on episode 169, I said I wouldn't be surprised

5:49 if the allegations were true because I wouldn't be surprised if those allegations were true of

5:53 anybody because especially when it's a public figure that you don't know personally, it's going to

5:58 come as a shock that you just don't know the inner workings of that person. And so this obviously

6:03 became true about Robby Zacharias, but from the sounds of it, even his own family were not aware

6:08 of his misconduct in this area. And so very, very sad news, but I do stand by my comments in 169

6:14 where I basically said that that doesn't wipe away the things that he was able to do. If you go

6:19 look at my book list, the 100 books that every modern Christian man should read list, and you

6:23 just go down those list of authors, some of those authors have done some pretty horrific things.

6:27 And I don't want to name any specifically, I mean, you can go look at the list and figure it out

6:32 for yourself. But Robby Zacharias has a book on that list, right? And so I'm not one of those

6:37 people that's going to cancel somebody, you know, ad hoc or cancel somebody after the fact or

6:43 cancel somebody, you know, that they've already passed away. Oh, they said this horrible thing

6:46 back in the 40s. And, you know, we just can't stand by that. I think it's okay to look at history

6:50 through the lens of truth and look at history and say, look, this was a bad thing that this person

6:56 did. But that's not the only thing that they did. Look at all these other things again, go back to

6:59 the race in America series and talk about Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was apparently a

7:04 incredibly morally reprehensible human being slave holder held one of his slaves as a sexual

7:09 slave, right? And impregnated her and got, you know, had kids with her and those types of things.

7:14 But he also wrote the Declaration of Independence, which led directly to the the abolishment of

7:21 slavery, the abolition of slavery in the United States and really kind of was a a through point

7:26 to abolish slavery across the globe. And so when we look back at these people, that's not always

7:31 going to be cut and dry. Okay. And I'm not in any way shape or form of solving Robby Zacharias

7:36 of any things that he has done. I think it's absolutely terrible. What he has done, he deserves

7:40 punishment for what he has done. And if he did receive that punishment, it didn't happen in this

7:44 world. Unfortunately, it's going to happen in the next world. It's going to happen to his family

7:48 here that are still left here. It's going to happen to the organization that bears his name.

7:51 And there's probably going to be a lot of changes. I would not be fully surprised if they

7:55 change their name away from being Robby Zacharias International Ministries. I wouldn't be surprised

7:59 if on their podcast, they didn't put his speeches on there as much or at all. There's going to be a

8:04 lot of changes coming and it's really, really unfortunate because Robby Zacharias has done some

8:08 really incredible things for the kingdom. And just to be honest, I will continue to read the things

8:14 that he has written. I will continue to learn from the thing that he has taught me about how to use

8:18 philosophy and how to propagate the gospel across the globe. But there's, there's an update on that,

8:23 had to go for that before we move on to everything else. But let's go ahead and do our 2020 year in

8:28 review. And real quick, before we get into some of the specific stories, I just want to do a quick

8:32 review on what 2020 was like for me personally. Okay, very, very quick run through. But as I've

8:37 said on this podcast before, my 2019 was a lot of people's 2020. So a lot of people had a horrible

8:43 2020. And for a lot of reasons, personal reasons, health reasons, whatever 2019 was that for me,

8:48 we had a really, really rough year in our marriage. This was a four sweet baby James came, but 2019

8:53 was was not very good at all. 2020 was much, much better. Obviously in May, sweet baby James was

8:58 born into our family, our first child and first son. So that is a huge deal. The COVID lockdown

9:03 for me led to a lot of really cool things just from a physical standpoint. Because I didn't really

9:09 change how I trained, right? I mean, my jujitsu gym was closed for a month or two. But in terms of

9:14 lifting in terms of the types of things I was doing, I didn't really change anything. But I did

9:18 do some PRs. Like I wanted to see, okay, how many reps of pullups could I do? How many, you know,

9:23 bench press 225, how many reps could I do? Like how many, like I did all these different,

9:27 you know, max out things. And so I had a lot of PRs. I kind of got to see where I was at.

9:31 This podcast has grown a lot. We've got a lot of people that listen, not just in the United States,

9:37 but across the globe. We've had a lot of interviews this year. We had probably two dozen interviews

9:41 with some really incredible people. And we're looking to do the same thing in 2021 to bring

9:46 some of those people back, but also to expand out into other audiences. Just again, for me,

9:50 personally, no major injuries or surgeries, which was another thing at 2018, 2019. I had

9:55 some surgeries and had some major injuries from jujitsu and didn't have to experience all of that.

10:00 Another kind of weird thing, almost every single book that I read this year was good.

10:04 I mean, I can really point to one book. And it's the one that I talked about alone at dawn when I

10:07 talked about on the books podcast of the year. That one was a little disappointing. But a couple

10:12 of years ago, almost every book I read was junk. And so this was a very, very good year for reading.

10:17 And so for me personally, 2020 was a good year. And I'm not saying that to be like, Oh, look at you

10:21 guys, you know, you got egg on your face. You got this horrible 2020. I'm just saying it was a good

10:25 year for us. I feel very, very blessed. I feel like God has really spoken into our lives this year.

10:29 But let's go over some things that happen in this world. Let's go ahead and kind of do a year in

10:34 review for 2020. So let's look at the world of entertainment. So some things that you might not

10:37 be aware of. Here's some of the biggest things in entertainment for this year. The highest grossing

10:42 movie of the year, which guys, I got to be honest, I didn't even know this movie released. This is

10:46 how crazy 2020 was is bad boys for life. Okay, so that that's the third bad boys movie of Will Smith

10:52 and Martin Lawrence. And this is a gross just over $200 million worldwide. But again, in most years,

10:59 that wouldn't even really register, right? This was a movie that was released very early in the year.

11:04 I think in February or March, this is why movie theaters were still open. And so interesting that

11:08 that ended up being the biggest movie of the year. But there you go. The biggest album of the year

11:12 was Folklore by Taylor Swift. So for any of you Swifties out there or Taylor Swifters,

11:17 I don't know what you call yourselves. That was the biggest album of the year. Biggest song of the

11:20 year was a song called Blinding Lights by the weekend. And guys, if you want to feel old,

11:25 because I'm not that old, I just turned 34 this year. But go look at the Billboard Top 100

11:30 songs of 2020 and just start reading through the bands, reading through the artists.

11:34 Even the ones that you know, you don't know the song that they released like goodness gracious,

11:40 I felt so old reading through that list. But there you go, Blinding Lights, the most watched

11:44 YouTube video of the year. This is not going to be shocked to parents, but it's the baby shark

11:48 dance video by Pinkfong, right? So baby shark doo doo doo, you know that one, you know what I'm

11:53 saying? Guys, I was shocked when I saw this number. Over seven billion views, billion with a B,

12:00 seven billion views for that video. Unbelievable. Best-selling nonfiction book of the year was a

12:08 promise land by Barack Obama. I think I just threw up in my mouth even reading that. It's amazing.

12:12 Barack Obama, while he was a senator, he didn't have time to write any bills or do any of those

12:17 things while he was in Congress. But he did manage to write two memoirs about himself.

12:22 And this is his, I think his third memoir, but it's part one of a part two. And this is like a 700

12:27 page memoir. But again, everyone thinks Barack Obama is basically mixed race Jesus. That's fine.

12:32 If you love Barack Obama, it is what it is. Not a huge fan. But that is the best-selling book of

12:36 the year. Then we got the best-selling fiction book of the year. That's Where the Crawdads Sing

12:40 by Delia Owens. Didn't hear much about that. But there you go. The most watched TV series

12:45 on television, so not Netflix or Amazon Prime or something like that. Most watched TV series

12:50 on TV in 2020 in CIS. And then the most liked tweet of 2020. What's interesting about this tweet,

12:56 it's actually the most liked tweet of all time. And this was released or posted rather on August

13:02 the 28th. And that was from Chadwick Boseman's account. So Chadwick Boseman is the actor who

13:08 played most famously. He played Jackie Robinson in 42. He was Black Panther in the Marvel movies

13:14 and those things. Apparently this guy had colon cancer for the last four years. And he managed to

13:19 keep it incredibly private. So I think his agent knew about it, his family knew about it, but like

13:23 his co-stars didn't know about it. The public didn't know about it. And then all of a sudden

13:27 there's this tweet that's released saying that he had died. And he had been battling colon cancer

13:31 the whole time. I think he died at stage three. That tweet had seven and a half million likes.

13:36 So for some of you guys that are on Twitter and you're like, "Oh, I got 10 likes. That's awesome."

13:40 Seven and a half million likes. It was a very poignant post. There was basically a message from

13:46 the family announcing the death and kind of the reasons why he wanted to keep it private.

13:50 But it was very, very nice. It led to a lot of memorials for this particular guy for Chadwick

13:56 Boseman. So that was the most like tweet of 2020. Now we're going to move on to the world of sports.

14:01 So I know you guys are all into sports from the most part. Weird year for sports. We'll get more

14:05 to that for a second. College football. You may have forgotten LSU stomped Clemson in the national

14:11 title game on January 13th of this year, 42 to 25. LSU went 15 and 0 behind Joe burrow.

14:17 Joe burrow was the number one pick when to Cincinnati, you know, subsequently got hurt in Cincinnati.

14:21 But LSU, this year's LSU team, technically the 2019 LSU Tigers, they might be the greatest football

14:27 team in history. The greatest college football team in history. I mean, 15 and 0 first team to ever do

14:32 that. They had a couple of tight games, one against Auburn, one against Alabama. But for the most part,

14:36 they pretty much ran through the rest of their schedule and they played one of the hardest schedules

14:40 in the country. So that happened this year. But then guys, there was only one major sport

14:45 that I considered to have a non asterisk world championship this year. And that's the NFL.

14:50 So the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 31 to 20 on February the 2nd. The final score

14:55 is a little bit not indicative of what how the game went. The 49ers were in complete control of

15:00 that game. Yeah, Kansas City Chiefs storm back. It was a nice big win. It was their first championship

15:04 since 1969. So 50 year drought on their championship pretty much. But the reason why I say that's the

15:10 only non asterisk world championship is because the World Series, Stanley Cup final and the NBA

15:16 championship, the NBA finals, those were not played with fans. And so the NBA thing happened in the

15:23 bubble and a cell thing didn't happen with fans, you know, with baseball, I was technically in a

15:27 bubble because they played at that stadium down in Texas. The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles

15:31 Lakers and I have no idea who won the Stanley Cup. Sorry, guys. I'm, you know, sorry to my listeners

15:35 in Canada or for anyone in the north that that really cares about that sport. But none of those

15:39 people, none of those teams had to win a single game on the road. Okay, especially in basketball,

15:44 that makes a big difference. Okay. So I don't really consider those championships to be incredibly

15:49 valid. History will record them as championships. But again, one of the major sports, the NFL

15:54 actually had a full on championship this year. And that was won by the Kansas City Chiefs.

15:59 Also, we saw the 2020 Summer Olympics canceled. Those are supposed to take place in Tokyo. So for

16:03 a lot of guys, especially myself, I'm a huge Summer Olympic fan. So that's being postponed,

16:08 we scheduled something or other. We don't really know what that's going to look like.

16:11 This year, we also have some new undisputed UFC champions. So for those of you that follow the

16:16 UFC, Peter Jan, he's a banum weight champion that he's 135 pound champ. He beat Jose Aldo on July

16:22 the 11th. Jose Aldo should never even been in that fight. But you know, he had a decent showing,

16:26 but Peter Jan just basically destroyed him by the end. Then we have Devinson Figurado. So he's

16:30 the flyweight champion at 125. He beat Joseph Benavides on July the 18th. That's actually the

16:34 second time this year that he beat Joseph Benavides. But the first time Figurado did not make weight.

16:39 So he's a new champion. And then we have Jan Blockowitz. He's a light heavyweight champion.

16:43 He beat Dominic Reyes on September the 26th. Very, very surprising because Dominic Reyes in

16:48 my estimation beat John Jones and Jan Blockowitz knocked him out in the very, very, I think it was

16:53 first round, a second round, but he knocked him out, knocked him dead. And for those of you that

16:57 think I may have forgotten Justin Gaechee, he did not win an undisputed title this year. He did

17:02 beat Tony Ferguson for the interim 155 pound lightweight title. But Habib Nurmagomedov was still

17:07 the champion. He was just basically taking some time off to mourn the passing of his father.

17:11 Also big news for this year in the world of sports was the last dance documentary began airing on

17:16 April the 19th. So that is the documentary that ESPN and Netflix put together about Michael Jordan.

17:21 And so that is a 10 part documentary. Basically, the way ESPN was doing is they were releasing two

17:26 episodes a week for five straight weeks. And guys, that was that's one of my highlights of the year.

17:31 I enjoyed that documentary so much. I watched it all the way through as it was showed live.

17:35 And then I watched it through again here a couple of months ago. Again, Michael Jordan,

17:39 maybe the greatest sports star in the history of sports. I mean, he's up there with, with Babe Ruth

17:44 in terms of his, you know, his, his impact and his worldwide impact at the time. What, what an

17:51 interesting look at him and the team and kind of getting into the mindset of Michael Jordan and the

17:55 rest of the Bulls teams that made him so great, made everybody attached to him so great. So one of

18:00 the best documentaries I've ever watched, incredibly, incredibly satisfied with that. Also, we had

18:05 Tyson Fury, TKO Deontay Wilder and their rematch this year on February the 22nd to win the WBC,

18:11 the ring and the lineal heavyweight titles. You know, it's kind of a weird fight. Deontay Wilder,

18:15 again, he's that one punch knockout power like we may be never seen in the heavyweight division

18:20 in boxing before. But Tyson Fury is a superior boxer to Deontay Wilder. And Tyson Fury really

18:25 put it on him. He really came forward, put a lot of pressure on him. And he may have even busted

18:30 a zero drum at one point. And the fight was actually stopped by his corner. And then the last thing,

18:34 I guess we'll point out in the world sports this year is Mike Tyson and Roy Jones fought.

18:38 So that's a thing that would have been really awesome had it happened, you know, I don't know,

18:42 15 years ago. But hey, on November 28 of this year, those two got in the ring, seem like they had a

18:48 little bit of a gentleman's agreement that they weren't going to try to kill one another. So it

18:51 looked like they were going really, really hard to the body with body shots, but they weren't going

18:55 as hard to the head. But that was interesting for for those guys to be in their fifties. Roy Jones

19:00 didn't look great. Mike Tyson looked really, really good. It was technically a draw because they

19:04 didn't actually have full on judges or anything like that. It was just an exhibition. But those

19:08 are some of the cool things that happened this year in the world of sports. But I will say the

19:12 biggest sport story of 2020 was the NBA going full BLM. Okay, so the NBA bubble began on in July,

19:22 right? So there's the big shutdown. Then they came back out. They did the bubble and you got to

19:26 hats off to the NBA. They they really did a great job with the bubble. It ended up being okay, you

19:31 know, without being fans in there, it was basically an AAU tournament. But it is what it is. But when

19:37 they did release the court, they released the court with Black Lives Matter and blazing real big on

19:42 the court. They allowed the players to have whatever they called social justice messaging on their

19:47 jerseys, right? Now a lot of the social justice messaging, they had a basically accepted list of

19:53 things that you could put on your jersey. You couldn't put things, you know, like abortion is

19:56 murder or communism is murder or, you know, you couldn't do any of those types of things. But they

20:01 had their acceptable list of things that you could put on their jersey. The Milwaukee Bucks

20:04 after the shooting of Jacob Blake, which looks to be at this point, the, you know, the acceptable

20:09 shooting of Jacob Blake, they refuse to play their game. And at a certain point, it looked like the

20:14 NBA bubble was going to completely cancel. There were reports that came out that the Los Angeles

20:18 Lakers and Clippers were both going to forfeit the rest of the season out of protest for the

20:22 Jacob Blake shooting and systemic racism and all that. But that was the biggest sports story of 2020.

20:27 And a lot of people aren't going to look at it that way. But the NBA is going to struggle for a

20:31 while now. Because the NBA basically told half of their fans, they're like, we don't care about

20:37 your opinion. We know that you think Black Lives Matter is an organization. But to us, it's just a

20:42 sentence, just an innocent little sentence, no big deal. And they went full woke. And they're

20:47 going to suffer the consequences from that. Because a lot of people are like me towards like, Hey,

20:51 there's a lot of things that I can do with my time as opposed to, you know, watching two or three

20:55 hour NBA games as several times a week, right? So for me, I'm an Oklahoma City Thunder fan. But

21:00 right now I'm not paying attention to the NBA at all. I've turned off all my notifications. You

21:04 know, I'll see some stuff that comes through on Twitter, no big deal. Like, you know, you kind

21:07 of see what you see. But I'm not going to be supporting that game. I'm not going to be supporting an

21:12 association that takes up the mantras of a Marxist organization like Black Lives Matter.

21:17 And to let their players who are uneducated on most of the issues that they're talking about,

21:23 to spout these platitudes about justice and about equality. Like, I'm sorry, most of these people

21:32 couldn't even give you a cogent thought as to why they believe the way that they believe. But they're

21:35 going to sell, you know, 100,000 jerseys that have world peace on the back or something, some stupid

21:41 like that. So that was the biggest sports story of 2020. But I do before we move off of sports,

21:45 I got to talk about the dumbest sports story of 2020. This is one of the dumbest sports

21:50 stories I have ever heard or seen or witnessed in my entire life. And some of you are automatically

21:56 going to think I'm sexist. And just by saying that, I think some of you already figured it out.

22:00 But it was when the Vanderbilt football team officially became a parody because Vanderbilt

22:05 football is awful. They are atrocious. They won zero games this season. They are a joke in the SEC.

22:13 But Sarah Fuller became the first woman to suit up and play in a power five conference in C double

22:20 A football game. Okay. Now the interesting thing about that is what is a woman? Most people that

22:26 were like super excited about this. There are also people that think, you know, there's no such

22:29 thing as gender, gender is kind of this fluid thing. So interesting that they're calling Sarah

22:33 Fuller a woman. Do they know she's a woman? Did she identify as a woman when she made those kicks?

22:38 But I digress a little bit. But Vanderbilt, okay, their normal kicker, their normal place kicker

22:44 was out of a game because of COVID exposure. I don't know if they had COVID or they were just

22:48 exposed to COVID. So basically they didn't have kickers, right? They had a punter, but they didn't

22:52 have kickers. So Vanderbilt announces that the women's soccer goalie, the women's soccer goalie

22:58 for Vanderbilt, which sued up for the men's football team and play against Mizzou on November the 28th.

23:05 So I remember when that was just announced like, Oh my gosh, this is groundbreaking. This is amazing.

23:10 She'll be the first person ever. Okay. And the thing about it is Vanderbilt's so bad. They didn't

23:15 have the opening kick off. So there was no chances for them to kick basically for the entire first

23:19 half. But then at halftime, this is before everything else. But at halftime, Sarah Fuller

23:27 demanded to do a halftime speech. So here she is in a room with about 60 scholarship players,

23:33 males, and all the coaches and everything like that. She demands to do a halftime speech.

23:37 And what were the contents of her halftime speech? Guys, you aren't cheering loud enough.

23:42 You're just not cheering loud enough. You're not supporting your teammates. You're not giving up.

23:47 You know, when we got to stop on third down, I was the only one clapping. So isn't it interesting

23:51 that even after all this and after all the ways that we've progressed as a people to let women

23:56 have all these different rights, all she wanted to be was a cheerleader. Like at the end of the day,

24:01 all she wanted to do was cheer the team along. So she basically chastises all these men

24:05 for not cheering loud enough. And then the second half starts, she comes out there,

24:10 they put the ball down and she proceeds to do a squib kit. Now, some people have looked at that

24:16 play and said, Oh man, this girl sucks. She can only kick the ball like 30, 35 yards. That's the

24:20 wrong read. That's the wrong read. She did exactly what she intended to do. A squib kick,

24:25 if you watch any amount of football, that happens. If you got a dangerous returner in the back,

24:31 you may not want to kick it deep. Maybe if you've got some sort of an injury, you're just trying to

24:35 squib it. Maybe you're trying to do kind of like a onside kick type thing that's not kind of the

24:40 typical onside kick, but you kick it a little bit farther, hoping that some of your, some of your

24:44 folks can get down there to get the ball. But she kicks it down there. It's recovered by Mizzou.

24:48 Oh, it's the greatest thing that's ever happened ever. It led Sports Center. It led Sports Center.

24:54 A chick did a squib kick and kicked at 35 yards. But you know what? None of the people on ESPN,

25:00 none of the people riding for Sports Illustrated, none of the people riding on the blogs online

25:04 mentioned why they did that kick. Because if she did kick it deep, we're going to go ahead

25:10 and assume that that ball would not have sailed anywhere towards the end zone, right? It wouldn't

25:14 have been a very long kick. Also, can you imagine what would have happened if the defense broke down

25:20 a little bit? And you had a blocker on Sarah Fuller. She would have got obliterated. But you know what?

25:29 I'm kind of glad that didn't happen. Because let's say it was the returner that maybe ran her over,

25:33 or it's one of the blockers that basically threw her into the 12th row. That person would be

25:37 castigated as a, a, you know, sexist, woman hating, horrible person for the rest of their lives.

25:45 When all they were doing was putting a hat on somebody and playing football.

25:49 Like, but again, Vanderbilt was on seven going into that game when they pulled this little stunt.

25:55 They took their eighth loss, but by Mizzou that day, they lost some of the stupid, like 45 to

26:00 nothing. It was ridiculous. And the head coach was fired right after the game, right after the game.

26:06 But the, the ridiculousness of this whole situation didn't stop on December the 12th versus Tennessee

26:11 Fuller became the first woman to score a point by kicking a point after, right? She, she kicked it

26:16 at PAT. I think she kicked to that game. And the funny thing about this is by then the original

26:23 kicker that had been sick was now a part of the team again, right? They'd gone through the COVID

26:27 protocols. They're back. They're ready to go. But they still put Sarah Fuller out there to do the

26:33 PATs, which you might be thinking, okay, well, then we're also going to have her kick the field goal

26:38 attempts, right? Nope. The regular kicker did the field goals, but they found some reason to bring

26:48 Sarah Fuller out to kick the PATs. Now you might be thinking to yourself, well, don't other teams.

26:53 I don't watch it off. Well, do other teams have one person do the point afters and one person do

26:58 the field goals? No, no, they do not have people. There have been teams where the place kicker that

27:04 kit does the kickoff is not the same person as field goal kicker. But that is unbelievably rare.

27:08 Like it almost unheard of in modern college football or in the NFL. But Vanderbilt football,

27:13 which is a joke. No one's talking about Vanderbilt football before November of this year. Now all

27:19 of a sudden, it's on the tip of every woke person's tongue. How progressive and how great Vanderbilt

27:24 is that they brought out a woman to kick a PAT where there was no chance of her getting hit.

27:29 No chance of something bad happening. All she had to do was kick the ball through the uprights.

27:33 And for any of you that are automatically will go, could you do that? No, kicking is pretty hard

27:37 unless you know how to kick. She's a goalie. She knows how to kick a ball. It is not impressive.

27:43 It is not bound like boundary breaking. But here's the thing. Why don't we break all the boundaries?

27:48 Why don't we make Sarah Fuller the first girl to play defensive tackle? Why don't we make her the

27:53 first person to play right guard? But why don't we make her the first person to be quarterback?

27:58 Let's just have her take a snap and kneel down so she can be the first woman that did this.

28:02 I thought the ultimate troll job would have been right after they fired the coach,

28:06 right? Like right after the game where they got destroyed to just hire Sarah Fuller.

28:10 She would then go from being the first woman to play in a power five game to being the first

28:16 head coach. That's a woman in a power five conference. I mean, Vanderbilt, if you're going to do this,

28:21 do this. I mean, go all the way. But guys, you want to talk about the overton window?

28:25 Eventually we're going to have, oh, this is the second person ever to do this or the first woman

28:29 to take a snap on offense or the first transgender woman or transgender man to play in the NCAA.

28:36 Again, a lot of these schools are only about their woke bina bona fides. And that's all that

28:40 they're trying to accomplish, right? But that is by far the dumbest sports story of 2020.

28:45 And I'm going to get off of this before I keep sweaty. All right. Now we're going to go into

28:48 somewhat of a somber, somber part of the podcast. We're going to go over some noteworthy deaths

28:53 that happened in 2020. So a lot of these you heard about, but some of them you might not have.

28:57 One of the top ones for most people this year was when Kobe Bryant died in helicopter crash

29:00 at the age of 41. Robby Zacharias died this year at the age of 74. We've already talked to

29:04 Adnajim about him. Sean Connery, famous actor died at 90. Kenny Rogers, the musician died at 81.

29:09 Eddie Van Halen, one of the most famous guitarist of all time died at 65. Chadwick Boseman, as we

29:14 mentioned, the actor died at 43. Diego Maradona, so the famous Argentinian soccer player died at 60.

29:20 Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy, died at 80. Whitey Ford, famous Yankees pitcher died at 91.

29:25 Gelsayers, Hall of Fame, football player died at 77. United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader

29:32 Ginsburg died at 87. Lou Brock, who is one of the greatest Cardinals, paid baseball players of all

29:37 time, died at 81. And then maybe the greatest pitcher of all time, Bob Gibson died at the age

29:41 84. Again, another Cardinals great Herman Cain, a former candidate for the presidential nomination

29:48 for the Republican side died at the age of 74. Regis Philbin, the entertainment and TV show host

29:53 died at 88. Charlie Daniels died. So devil went down to Georgia died at the age of 83.

29:58 And there were a lot of other folks, but those are just some of the people that passed away this

30:00 year. So just want to remind you of that. And another thing in terms of reminding you, I'm going to go

30:05 over now some of the news that you've likely forgotten that actually happened in 2020.

30:11 Because 2020 is one of the biggest recency things I've ever seen. There's so many things that

30:16 happened in 2020. It's almost impossible to remember things that happened approximately 12

30:20 months ago. So I'm going to run down a list right now of some of the news that you've likely

30:24 forgotten that actually did happen this year. Do you guys remember that Donald J Trump

30:29 was actually impeached this year? His trial began on January the 16th. And he was acquitted

30:35 on February the 5th. Yes, that happened in 2020. All the other things that happened with the election

30:40 and COVID and all the different things him, you know, he wasn't peached this year for nothing.

30:47 Basically nothing that happened in 2020. Also, Tiger King. I think it was the second most watched

30:53 thing on Netflix this year was Tiger King. That was released on March 20th. So again,

30:57 had another black guy for the state of Oklahoma. I can't stand it. It's either tornadoes or Tiger

31:02 people. That's basically what Oklahoma is known for. But that was released this year. Kim Jong-un,

31:06 he died sorta this year. But then not really, because a report came out on April the 25th

31:12 that he had died of a botched heart surgery. And then we saw his sister kind of going out and doing

31:17 the public things for North Korea. But then apparently he's not dead. He's been seen, but he hasn't

31:20 been seen. So that's the thing that happened this year. Also this year, UFOs are real apparently.

31:26 So in April the 27th, the Pentagon of the United States released three declassified videos

31:30 of the United States Naval pilots encountering UFOs. They actually called them unexplained aerial

31:35 phenomena. But that doesn't have the same ring to it as a unidentified flying object. So at no

31:40 point does this mean that, you know, aliens are real or that they're looking at on us or anything

31:45 like that. But it was interesting to see that the Pentagon said, yeah, hey, these videos happened.

31:49 We have no idea what they are. We have no idea what that technology is. So run with that if you

31:53 want to murder hornets. That was a thing. So have you ever heard of these things murder hornets?

31:59 These things are like three or four times the size of a normal hornet, which talk about, you know,

32:03 nightmare fuel goodness gracious. Those are first found in Washington state in May. Didn't really

32:08 turn into much of a story, but those were kind of scary for a little bit. Chaz chop happened this

32:13 summer. So if you remember that that was on June 8 is when that started last in less than a month.

32:18 But Chaz, you know, the Capitol Hill autonomous zone or the Capitol Hill occupied protest. That

32:23 was where you had a bunch of people took over some some blocks in Seattle and they basically set

32:28 up their own country, right? This is our autonomous zone. This is our occupied protest. And the

32:32 interesting thing about that, these people were Marxist and Tifa type folks. And the very first

32:36 thing they did is they set up borders. They set up laws. They had people enforcing laws and stuff

32:40 like that, basically they're police. But at some point, the even in the incredibly liberal city of

32:45 Seattle, they're like, okay, this is ridiculous. Someone needs to be the adults here and they went

32:48 and broke that up. That happened this year. Kanye West ran for president. So if you live in a state

32:54 where he wasn't on the ballot, maybe you didn't know that. But in my state, he was. And I actually

32:57 know morons that voted for this guy. But he announced that he was running for president on July 4th

33:01 of this year, appropriately enough. Also, the state of California had a bunch of wildfires this

33:06 year. You may have forgotten about that. They raged for most of the year. But the state of

33:10 emergency was actually declared by the governor on August the 18th. That went down. We had a big

33:14 hurricane this year. You probably forgot about that. Hurricane Laura made landfall in late August.

33:19 You know, there were a lot of island nations that were affected a lot by that. There are a few

33:23 dozen people that passed away. So that definitely happened. Netflix reveals how much they love

33:28 pedophilia that happened this year. So the cuties film was released on September, September the 9th.

33:34 And if you go back to episode 153 of this podcast I talk about, it's called Yes, You Should Cancel

33:39 Netflix. But basically, they released a movie that was supposed to be a social commentary on,

33:45 you know, basically the sexualization of young people by showing the sexualization of young

33:49 people. So that was interesting to know. And the last thing that you may have forgotten about for

33:52 this year is, yeah, Donald Trump and his wife, they both got COVID-19. I know that seems like

33:58 it was a million years ago. That was announced on Twitter, October the 1st. On October the 1st,

34:05 our 70 something year old overweight president said that he had COVID-19. Now I remember that

34:11 that was massive news at the time. But do you remember what it was like like two or three days

34:15 later when he was like, yeah, I feel better. I feel better. Everything's the best it's ever

34:18 been like, yeah, that totally happened. But he did have COVID. So there's some of the

34:23 stories that you may have missed this year. Now we're going to get into some, you know, I'm feeling

34:27 very, you know, very emotional at the end of the year. And I want to give people some awards,

34:32 right? I've done awards for best podcasts. I've done awards for best books. But there are some more

34:37 awards that need to be handed out before we actually put a, you know, close the book on 2020. So let's

34:42 go over the biggest hoax of 2020. The biggest hoax is kind of a all-encompassing category,

34:49 because the biggest hoax of 2020 is pretty much every racist attack. Or every racist thing that

34:57 happened, because almost every story of, you know, someone having the N word spray painted on, on

35:04 their, their fence or someone writing a racist thing on a receipt or whatever, almost all those

35:09 things ended up being false. This was the great year trying to be a victim of racism. The biggest

35:15 of that, the biggest perpetrator, that would probably be bubble walls, the NASCAR driver. That's

35:18 probably the biggest one. So for the interview that didn't know what happened is bubble walls

35:22 claimed that somebody put a noose in his garage, right? So if you don't know, but wallace, I believe

35:28 is half black, but he is the first, I think, African American, you know, driver in NASCAR. And so,

35:35 you know, great for him, you know, if what if that means something new, great, that's awesome.

35:38 But he claimed that somebody put a noose in there. And obviously for blacks in America,

35:42 a noose has a pretty specific connotation to going back to the days of lynching, especially in the

35:46 south. It's a horrific, horrific history, right? So the FBI sends like two dozen agents down to

35:53 this garage to do an investigation. And what ended up being a garage pool. It's a rope to open and

36:02 close a garage door because it's easier to grab a thin rope if you put a little loop in the bottom

36:08 of it. And the reason that they knew that this wasn't directed at bubble walls as a racist noose

36:13 is because other people that had used the exact same NASCAR garage has been like, yeah, that's,

36:18 that's been here for years. That was like three drivers ago. We put that in because we're having

36:23 trouble opening and closing the garage door. But that didn't stop bubble walls from coming out and

36:28 saying, no, no, no, this is definitely what it is. And, you know, he showed up at the next

36:33 NASCAR race with a black lives matter shirt. And they did this whole walking memorial thing for

36:37 black lives and systemic racism and all that. But it was a hoax. It was nonsense, right? Now,

36:43 I don't think he did it on purpose. I don't think there's any evidence to show that bubble walls did

36:47 this on his own. But it is kind of interesting that in the year where you can get the most amount

36:53 of sympathy for a race, a racist attack happening that this would be the year that he would look up

36:58 at the ceiling and see that rope and be like, Oh my gosh, someone has put a noose here. So that's

37:03 where I get pretty cynical about this is bubble walls had used that garage for a while. And he had

37:08 never looked at that pull that he likely used and thought to himself racist. Never once. But

37:15 there you go. Biggest hoax of 2020, pretty much every racist attack that we ever saw. Now,

37:20 I'm going to move on to the most concerning news story of 2020, the most concerning news

37:24 story of 2020. And that was when Big Tech decided to block the dissemination of the Hunter Biden story.

37:30 So the Hunter Biden story has a lot of things to it. But basically, he left a laptop at this laptop

37:37 repair place in Delaware. He never went to go pick it up. The guy actually looked at it. The

37:42 guy that owned it because basically if you go to one of these stores and if you don't pick up your

37:46 device within a certain period of time, you don't own it anymore. It's up. It's now the ownership

37:50 of the shop and they can do whatever they want with it. So this guy looks at it. He finds a lot

37:54 of damning stuff about Hunter and Joe Biden and the entire Biden family in terms of how they're

37:58 operating overseas in Ukraine and China, all the things, right? But when the news story was broke by

38:04 the New York Post, you could not share it on Twitter. If you shared it on Twitter,

38:09 they would shut down the tweet and shut down your account. The New York Post had their Twitter

38:13 account basically banned for multiple weeks. Every news outlet that didn't even touch this.

38:19 And if they did, they were like, Oh, yeah, it's Russian disinformation. Facebook preemptively

38:24 before the fact check, right? And again, I say fact check very loosely because it's their own

38:28 internal fact checkers that are also Biden fans. Before the fact check, Facebook basically came

38:32 out and said, yeah, we're going to basically stunt the dissemination of this story.

38:35 That's the most concerning story of 2020 because did the did the blocking of that story,

38:41 you know, can keep Donald Trump from winning the presidency? I don't think so. But it reveals

38:47 a larger issue. And I think that this is important. And we may talk about this more on a future

38:51 podcast. When you say that the 2020 presidential election in the United States of America was rigged,

38:57 most people think that these people were just pulling out truckloads or, you know, basket loads

39:04 full of votes and counting them, right? And in putting them all in the Joe Biden category,

39:08 which guys, there's been a lot of a lot of hearsay about that. There's been a lot of evidence

39:13 that we've kind of seen, but it hasn't been proven in a court of law. So if it did happen,

39:18 we don't know about it. But all I know is it's very interesting that the only reports that we

39:22 have of ballots being dumped for a political candidate all went to the same candidate. And they all

39:27 went to Joe Biden. How interesting a guy that's almost 80 years old who can barely put a sentence

39:32 together, got 80 million votes in the United States. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. But we're

39:37 not going there right now. But the interesting thing is when you say rigged, that's what they

39:40 think. They think someone in the dead and I bring it in a bunch of votes. But I like what other

39:45 people have said. I like what, you know, Tucker Carlson has said or Ben Shapiro or other people.

39:50 What rigged the 2020 election was the news and big tech's coverage of the election.

39:55 Because big tech did not let you see the Hunter Biden story. And some people were like,

40:00 well, that actually made the story bigger. No, it didn't. Because most people don't have

40:03 a wide attention span. So they weren't following this story. They just knew it never came up,

40:08 right? It never really occurred to them. But in 2016, the media felt like they were somewhat

40:16 complicit in allowing, yes, allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency over Hillary Clinton.

40:20 And the FBI and the DOJ basically coming out and saying, yeah, we're, you know, we're looking

40:25 at Hillary's emails. That was within two weeks of the election. They feel like that damaged her.

40:29 And they weren't going to make the same mistake in 2020. And so Google search results were adjusted.

40:35 You know, whenever they do an auto fill, an auto populate for the rest of what you're trying to

40:40 type in, you know, it would be like Donald Trump. And then one of the things that would show up was

40:45 is a racist. You know, it just things like that that you wouldn't see for Joe Biden, right? Someone

40:50 who's actually said incredibly racist things outside a lot and never really took them back

40:55 or out loud, not outside. But that's why I feel like some most concerning news story of 2020

41:00 is because big tech in the mainstream media are not going to stop doing what they're doing.

41:03 Just because Donald Trump has been silenced for now does not mean that he's going to be silenced

41:10 forever, but they're going to continue to try. And there's not something special about Donald Trump.

41:16 They're going to do this to the next Republican candidate as well. Because big tech is overwhelmingly

41:21 left. Mainstream media is overwhelmingly left. What is their, what is their motivation to not

41:28 continue to sway public opinion by using their their power? So mainstream media is not the main

41:36 disseminator of information now. It's social media. It's big tech. So if Google doesn't want

41:42 you to find something historically, they can just delete it. They can delete any existence of it.

41:47 You won't be able to find it through them. So that's something to keep a keep an eye on.

41:52 But yeah, the most concerning news story of 2020, big tech blocking the dissemination of the Hunter

41:56 Biden story. Next, we have the most insane news story of 2020. And this is one that happened just

42:02 in the last few weeks. The CDC, the Centers of Disease Control for the United States initially

42:07 tranches the COVID-19 vaccine distribution based on race and not overall need. Yes,

42:16 this is a real thing that happened. I'm reading this little snippet here from the Daily Mail,

42:20 but it's here. Quote, every US state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical

42:25 and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to the CDC, CDC's guidance.

42:31 As a result, half of the nation's states have outlined plans that now prioritize

42:36 black, Hispanic and indigenous residents over white people in some way. Unquote.

42:41 Now, if that sentence strikes you as racist, it's because it is the CDC, the Centers for Disease

42:52 Control in the most prosperous country in the history of the planet. When they told these states

42:58 how they should be releasing the COVID-19 vaccine originally from Pfizer, but then with Moderna,

43:03 and where we don't have as many right now as we're going to need over the coming months, you know,

43:06 it's, you know, it's tight. They're saying that you should give it to people that are black,

43:11 Hispanic and indigenous, regardless of any of their other characteristics.

43:15 So the thing about this story that was so insane is really two parts. Number one,

43:20 even people on the left were calling out the CDC for this. And number two, the fact that it was

43:25 even thought up to begin with. So what people pointed out from the very beginning is that

43:30 this was intended to have a positive impact on people of color, right? Because a lot of people

43:36 that find themselves as frontline workers and hospitals, nurses, those types of things,

43:40 they happen to be a higher percentage than normal population, you know, of a black,

43:44 Hispanic and indigenous people, right? They're just higher than the normal population statistics

43:48 in those particular professions. But the reason why they were talking about this

43:53 is because the majority of elderly people in the United States who are the most susceptible

43:57 to dying from COVID-19 are white people, right? When the majority of the population is of a

44:02 particular color, it makes sense that the majority of the elderly people in that same population

44:06 would be of that same color. But this is certifiably insane. And I'm so happy that even people left

44:13 pointed out that, wait a minute, you're going to allow more black, brown and other folks to die

44:20 as elderly people because you want to give this vaccine to a 20 year old black brown or whatever

44:27 people so that you don't end up accidentally giving it to an old white person. Because as

44:34 opposed to giving it to an 80 year old white person, we would rather give it to the 20 year old black

44:38 nurse who's basically not susceptible to dying from this disease at all. The chances of her dying

44:45 from that disease are like the chances of her getting struck by lighting as she's being attacked

44:48 by a tiger shark. But the thing about this is it was pushed back on. The public outcry was so

44:56 extreme that the CDC and a lot of the state organizations, state health departments were like,

45:00 okay, you know, I guess we'll tranche this out mainly to where we give it to old people. You know,

45:04 the people who are actually going into possibly dying from COVID-19. But that is the most insane

45:09 news story that I've heard. And guys, that's not going to be the last one where we're going to see

45:14 these things happen. Because the CDC or some of the officials, they thought that they were

45:18 evening the score a little bit. Like that that's what they were kind of going for is, hey, we're

45:22 going to look at these supposedly marginalized people that, you know, in 2020 are currently

45:27 being discriminated against just based on their, you know, immutable characteristics of the amount

45:32 of melanin in their skin. And we're going to write the ship right now. And the way that we're

45:36 going to write the ship is we're basically going to give them access to life where we won't give

45:42 these other people access to life just because they're old and white. Like that is crazy. That is

45:47 wildly, insanely racist. And guys, there, there's really no other way to describe it than racist.

45:53 And so something to keep an eye on, because this is not going to be the first time that we're going

45:58 to have this type of discussion about something like this, about someone trying to write historical

46:03 injustices on a people group based on something that they can do today, just crazy. Then we've got

46:10 the next thing here, it's the most overblown news story of 2020. So the most overblown news

46:15 story of 2020, my opinion, is the killing of George Floyd. So obviously the fact that

46:19 George Floyd is death is dead now is tragic. Derek Chauvin is going to be put on trial for that.

46:25 And you know, they're going to figure out basically what happened there. I go into great, great detail

46:30 on the killing of George Floyd on episodes 142, 143 and 144 of this podcast in the race in America

46:35 series. But it's the most overblown news story for a lot of different reasons.

46:41 Because George Floyd's death wasn't indicative of anything. But most people are trying to convince

46:46 you that it's indicative of a deep seated bias in historical systemic racism of the United States.

46:54 And it's specifically propagated by racist white cops. But what happened on that day in Minnesota

47:01 is not indicative of any of those things. Okay. Because I said on the podcast, and I still say,

47:08 George Floyd is dead partially because of what Derek Chauvin did. Derek Chauvin's actions

47:13 partially led to the death of George Floyd that day. But also George Floyd's actions led

47:19 a lot to his death that day. Because if he didn't resist arrest, it's very unlikely that he would

47:25 have died in police custody. But also a very underreported thing is George Floyd had enough

47:31 fentanyl on the system that day to kill a wooly mammoth. And so in the nature that he died,

47:38 like the original coroner's report didn't show that he died from his fixation. He died from a

47:43 cardiac event, right? Well, if you have enough fentanyl in your system, that's one of the ways

47:48 that kills you is by a massive cardiac event. So again, I'm not absolving Derek Chauvin of anything,

47:54 not not anything at all. But it was such an overblown news story. George Floyd was put up as as the

48:01 saint of social justice. And it just didn't really make a lot of sense. And then that led

48:07 to most everything else. You had Raishard Brooks, and you had all these other situations brown

48:11 at Taylor. And everyone can kind of point back to George Floyd now as they've been doing with

48:15 people like Michael Brown for years. It's like, is George Floyd the guy that that we should be

48:21 honoring? Because even if he died, even if he was murdered, that doesn't mean the guy needs

48:26 to be honored. He was apparently a pretty horrific human being. He once pointed a gun at a pregnant

48:31 woman, right? While he was robbing her. So this is not some guy that you should tell your kids

48:37 about George Floyd. And you use him in the same sentence as someone as a Martin Luther King, Jr.

48:41 or in Medgar Evers, or like, really? George Floyd. So yeah, that was by far the most

48:47 overblown news story of 2020. The fact that we will say the name George Floyd for decades to come

48:52 and know what that attaches to is pretty silly. The next award I want to hand out is the most

48:57 talked about new story of 2020, which surprise, surprise is going to be the 2020 presidential

49:01 election. The reason why I'm saying that, and I'm not really going to go into any detail here,

49:04 is because everything that we experienced this year was seen through the lens of the election.

49:07 Okay, everything. Every news story, the killing of George Floyd, you know, what LeBron James says

49:13 on Twitter, you know, the way the winds blowing, the wildfires, you know, global warming, everything

49:18 had to do with Donald Trump and everything had to do with the election, right? Which leads to

49:22 the last award, which is the biggest news story of 2020. And that's the COVID-19 pandemic.

49:25 Now, even the pandemic, the way that the pandemic was covered by the mainstream media,

49:30 was in order to make Donald Trump look as poor as possible, as bad as possible. That's why we

49:35 always looked at cases and not deaths. That's why we always looked at total number of cases,

49:39 as opposed to the number of cases by age group in terms of the population, right? But as of right

49:45 now, there are 80 million worldwide cases of COVID-19 that have been reported, almost 1.8 million deaths,

49:51 around 330,000 people have died in the United States. So that number will probably end up

49:56 being somewhere in the 400,000 range or something like that. But that was the biggest news story of

50:00 2020, just because of what it changed. It changed how we work. It changed how we interact with each

50:06 other. It changed how we disseminate or believe information. Because just recently, there was kind

50:11 of a quiet story released about how the CDC basically admitted in the World Health Organization,

50:15 basically admitted, yeah, most masks are basically useless. Like in terms of stopping the COVID-19

50:21 pandemic, like even an M95 mask, if it's not fitted properly, it's not going to completely

50:26 keep you from getting this disease. The fact that I have a beard and if I put an M95 mask over,

50:31 it's not going to seal properly. I could still give and get COVID-19. It does decrease the amount

50:36 of load that I put out into the environment or the load that I take in in terms of from the environment.

50:41 But there's so many stories that have come up this year and everything has a COVID-19

50:46 attachment to it. Guys, this is the biggest pandemic in the history of the world,

50:50 not because of how many people it's going to kill, mind you. Because again, this is a disease

50:55 that even if you get it, the chances you surviving, even if you're old, are incredibly, incredibly high.

51:00 But it's because of what we did. You know, the plague was worse than this. The Spanish flu

51:07 was worse than this. You know, in terms of death, Ebola was way worse than this. But we shut down

51:11 the entire world economy for something that is akin to the seasonal flu. The final numbers are

51:17 going to look strikingly like a bad flu season. But it's a big news story because this was released

51:23 in China. This is the China virus. But was it, you know, a bat to human transition because someone

51:29 ate a bat? Was it something that was released on accident from a level four, you know, lab in Wuhan?

51:36 Was it released on purpose by the Chinese government? Like there's so many things that we don't know

51:42 and that will frankly never know about this vaccine or sorry about this disease about this virus.

51:48 But this is going to be on the tips of our tongues for the rest of our lives. So guys,

51:52 if you're listening to this and you're young and you got another 80 years in the tank or

51:54 something like that, you're going to think about COVID-19 periodically throughout your entire life.

51:59 It's basically people that like grew up during the Dust Bowl or the Great Depression or something

52:02 like that. It was always hanging above them. So my great-grandmother, when she passed away,

52:08 she would still do things that were indicative of a girl who grew up poor and hungry during the

52:12 Great Depression. And what types of things are we going to see with COVID-19 as we continue to move

52:19 forward? Right? So that is the biggest news story of 2020. But before we let you go, we are going to do

52:25 a little bit of forecasting. I want to look at some of the likely big news stories that we should

52:30 expect to see and hear about in the year 2021. Okay? So let's just kind of keep the COVID thing

52:36 going. One of the biggest stories of 2021 is going to be COVID-COVID, everything COVID, right?

52:40 Because it's very likely we're experiencing a second wave right now that we may have a third

52:44 and fourth wave. Okay? Now, it'll be interesting to see how the media covers that because Joe Biden

52:49 will be in office. So it's probably not going to be that big of a deal. But yes, there will be

52:53 third and fourth waves likely. There will be continued shutdowns and lockdowns, especially in blue

52:57 states. There's going to be a lack of government aid. I know that they just signed some aid relief

53:01 after months and months and months. They're going to be giving some more relief to people.

53:04 There's going to be school opening, school closings. You know, there's going to be also this

53:08 emergence of studies on the effects of the lockdowns on society. Again, there are entire

53:14 communities in San Francisco, right? The county that San Francisco is in, they've experienced like

53:18 a tremendous uptick in overdoses, but they've only had a couple hundred deaths from COVID-19.

53:23 It's one of the largest cities in the entire United States, a couple of hundred deaths from COVID-19.

53:28 But so many overdoses, so many suicides, in addition to all the spousal abuse,

53:34 child abuse, sexual assaults, you know, substance abuse that's going on in communities around the

53:40 world right now, especially in the United States. So 2021, we're going to start seeing some of the

53:45 fruits of that. Some of the fruits that we're, you know, basically trying to figure out right now,

53:50 we're not going to know for a very long time. We're not going to know what two years of masking

53:54 is going to do to the psychological development of children. Because you should see my son,

53:58 my son is eight months old. When I look at him and I have a mask on, the confusion in his face

54:04 is readily apparent. But what if you're two years old and all you've ever seen are people in masks,

54:12 how's that going to affect you? Your ability to read people to mimic people. We're going to have

54:17 tremendous, tremendous prices to pay for the decisions that we've made as a people and specifically

54:24 that our politicians have made for us. So that's going to be a big news story for 2021.

54:28 Another one is going to be on January 5th. The United States Senate has a runoff election in the

54:33 state of Georgia has huge implications for the entire country. But incumbent David Perdue,

54:37 who's a Republican is going against John Ossoff, the Democrat and Kelly Loeffler,

54:41 who's the Republican incumbent is going against Raphael Warnock, who is a Democrat. Here's the

54:45 thing. If the Democrats win both seats, there's a 50/50 split in the Senate, which basically makes

54:49 Vice President Kamala Harris, the tiebreaker, which is horrible for this country. My goodness,

54:54 can you imagine? I mean, you're going to have to hope someone like Joe Manchin from, from West Virginia

54:59 is going to basically buck against the Democrats or something like that. But all the Republicans

55:04 need to do is win one of those seats, but hopefully they would win two of those seats. But obviously,

55:08 if Democrats take both of those seats in Georgia, it's going to create some some major, major issues

55:13 policy-wise in the United States. Then we've got the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th

55:18 president. So that's going to be going down in January. Again, I could not be more disappointed

55:22 in that, not just because of who Joe Biden is, but who Joe Biden is not going to be able to stop.

55:26 That's going to be something to watch for. Another thing in 2021 is the spate of incredibly damaging

55:32 either executive orders, if there's no Senate majority, or just straight up launch changes,

55:36 if there is a 50/50 Senate, there's going to be pro-abortion laws added, anti-gun laws,

55:42 radical immigration policies, right? Stupid foreign policy, you know, more LGBTQ plus nonsense,

55:49 attacks on the religious liberty. It's going to be bad. And I hope they're executive orders,

55:53 because executive orders don't carry a whole lot of weight and they could be changed whenever the

55:57 next person comes into office. But you know, it's a 50/50 Senate. We're going to see a very,

56:00 very different United States of America. It's very likely in 2021 that we're going to see a major

56:05 terrorist attack. One thing that you might be thinking is something that 2020 hasn't had as

56:09 of right now is a major terrorist attack. One that you've heard of one that was in the news for more

56:14 than five seconds. Now, whether you like or hate the guy, part of the reason why we're not seeing a lot

56:19 of these major terrorist attacks around the world is because people were terrified of Donald Trump.

56:23 These terrorists are like, Oh, crap, this Obama guy was awesome. He basically called us the JV

56:29 squad. We can go chop off heads and no big deal, right? If his little drones can't get us,

56:34 we're going to we're going to be squared away. Whereas Trump was like, go get him. I don't care.

56:38 Spend as much money as you want. Like that's what Donald Trump said. He basically took the chains

56:43 off the United States military and we hunted those [inaudible] down and we killed as many of them as

56:46 we could. And we're still killing them. But there's probably going to be a major terrorist attack in

56:51 2021. And there is going to be a connection to the fact that it's Joe Biden in office and not,

56:56 you know, a bulldog like Donald Trump that I hope that it doesn't happen. I'm not praying for that

57:01 by any means, but I would be surprised if we didn't see one. Also, one thing that we're going to see

57:06 in 2021 is Trump is going to begin his 2024 campaign. There's already signals that on the day of

57:12 Biden's inauguration that he's going to hold. He's basically going to hand the keys to the White House

57:17 off to Joe Biden. And then he's going to go get on a stage somewhere in Washington DC and start his

57:21 2024 campaign. So expect to see that. He might end up taking over Newsmax or another news organization.

57:27 He might start his own news organization. So that's going to be happening. Also, I would be

57:31 surprised if we didn't see a school shooting or a mass shooting in 2021 in the United States.

57:36 That's something that we didn't really see in 2020 either, just because most kids weren't in school.

57:40 But we're probably going to see something like that. And then we're going to have to deal with

57:43 all of the anti gun people again. Another thing that we'll probably see in 2021 is police will

57:48 kill a quote unquote unarmed and quote unquote innocent black man while in their custody.

57:53 This is something that happens from time to time. And like I've said, and like we've gone over at

57:56 Nazim on a lot of different podcasts, most of the time these people are not innocent. Most of the

58:00 time these people are not unarmed. But the media will spin it in whatever way that they need to.

58:05 But if it is a white cop, and if it is a black person that ends up passing away,

58:09 it's going to be everything all over again. We're going to see riots. We're going to see looting.

58:12 We're going to see Joe Biden virtue signaling. It's going to be nonsense. Also something to keep up

58:17 with the trial of George Floyd's killer. Supposedly Derek Chauvin is set to begin in March of this

58:23 coming year. Several people are trying to delay that until the summer. They're actually trying to

58:27 move the trial like back into Minneapolis or something like that that's going on. But the trial of

58:32 Derek Chauvin will happen next year. And guys, I just got to tell you, that's going to be crazy.

58:36 That's going to be absolutely crazy. I talked about a little bit earlier.

58:39 But again, as of right now, the public has not seen any evidence to suggest that Derek Chauvin

58:44 meant to kill George Floyd. And in order to get a murder charge, which he is currently being charged

58:49 with second degree murder, you have to prove intent. So first degree murder is premeditated

58:54 murder, where Derek Chauvin was putting his boots on that morning, knowing that he was going to go

58:57 out and kill George Floyd. No evidence of that. And they're not charging him with that. But

59:02 second degree murder is basically where you're not setting out to go do that. But at some point

59:07 during that day, you've made the decision that person's going to die. And as of right now,

59:12 I've seen no evidence that that's the case. Derek Chauvin was negligent that day. I don't think he

59:17 acted in a proper way for most of what he did during that interaction with George Floyd. But

59:22 to say that he meant to kill George Floyd that day, I think that's a stretch. To be honest with you,

59:27 I don't think that they're going to get that conviction. You know, they should have gone for

59:31 manslaughter. Perhaps they still can go for manslaughter. But at the same time, if he is exonerated,

59:37 this entire country will burn. It's going to be worse than Michael Brown. It's going to be worse

59:42 than anything that we've seen before. So look forward to that guys. Also in 2021, be looking for

59:47 big tech to continue to censor things. They will remain censoring people and they will expand that.

59:53 So especially conservative voices, Christian voices, expect those things to continue to expand.

59:58 Now they're looking at some different things in terms of Congress in terms of law changes to

1:00:01 basically make it to where a big tech can kind of not continue to hide behind the fact that they are

1:00:07 just a place where things can be put out there, not an exact publisher. But there's a lot of things

1:00:12 to go into with that, which we'll probably talk about on later podcasts. Another thing that we'll

1:00:15 look at in 2021 is the major work life balance shifts for companies, because a lot of companies

1:00:20 right now, you know, they've got these expensive office buildings or these suites that they're renting,

1:00:26 and they're trying to entice their workers to come home. And their workers have been working

1:00:30 at home for the last nine months, right? It's pretty nice. You know, you roll out of bed,

1:00:34 you get your coffee, you go over to your desk, you work for a few hours, you know, you take a break,

1:00:37 go walk the dog, you maybe go pick up the kid and take them to lunch. Like, people have gotten

1:00:42 really used to working at home. And so in the city of Austin, I was talking to somebody, they said

1:00:47 that somewhere around like 40% of the commercial real estate in the city of Austin is currently

1:00:52 vacant. I don't know if that's true. But a lot of them, you know, these people just aren't coming

1:00:56 back. And they're figuring out how to run a company to run a business where people don't

1:01:02 actually see each other face to face, except via a screen. So we're going to continue to see some

1:01:07 of those work life balances. Some of that's going to ship back. Some of it's going to stay the same.

1:01:11 Another couple of things that we should probably look for in 2021 is the continued mass exodus

1:01:15 from democratic states like California and New York. I mean, people are leaving California

1:01:20 by the thousands. Now, the the only thing that's terrifying to me is they're moving to what would

1:01:25 consider to be my most bread states like Arizona except for in this latest election, Idaho, and

1:01:30 especially Texas. Again, as I've talked about it, Najem, if the Democrats flip Texas, it's over.

1:01:35 Like, pack it in. Like, you'll never win the house. You'll never win the Senate. You'll never win

1:01:40 the White House. It's going to be a one party state from here on out. So we're going to continue

1:01:45 to see trends like that. And the last thing I'll talk about in terms of what to look for in 2021

1:01:49 is that the over 10 window will continue to move and expand. So go back to my podcast where I talk

1:01:54 about the over 10 window. If you're not familiar with that, but it's basically the things that are

1:01:57 appropriate in civil discourse. Just 10 years ago, you would never expect to see a story about a

1:02:03 woman playing in a college football game. You would never have thought to see that. You would

1:02:09 also never thought to see that, Oh, are we actually questioning her gender? Is that her preferred

1:02:14 pronoun? We've expanded to preferred pronouns as being part of our normal cultural vernacular.

1:02:21 But expand expect the over 10 window to especially shift even further in the transgender category.

1:02:27 The normalization of transgenderism and transition for children, right? That's going to be expanded.

1:02:32 Is this the year where people really start talking about polyamory about multiple spouses?

1:02:38 Is this year that we do that? You know, is this year where we move abortion to the date of birth

1:02:45 across the country even more so? Is this a year where we start talking about infanticide? Like

1:02:52 infanticide like after the kid has passed the magical vaginal canal, you know, in the first few

1:02:56 weeks if we're like, Oh, I don't really know if I really want to take care of this baby. They're

1:02:59 kind of cramping my style and I'm not really getting a whole lot of sleep. Do we do we release

1:03:03 infanticide into the common vernacular? Again, some of these things sound crazy. But just think

1:03:09 about the things that were crazy 10 years ago that aren't crazy today. The over 10 window will

1:03:14 continue to shift. But before I let you guys go, I do have a parting thought for this podcast

1:03:19 and for this year. A lot of people have been looking forward to January 1st.

1:03:22 They just been looking at the calendar. They've been counting down the days. They've been marking

1:03:27 exes through the days waiting to get to January 1st, 2021. I just cannot wait until I get 2020

1:03:33 in my rearview mirror, right? Guys, I just got to be honest with you. And you know this to be true.

1:03:40 2021 might not be so great. 2021 might suck too.

1:03:45 I mean, just think about it. When the calendar goes to January 1st, 2021,

1:03:52 is your business still out of business? Is the job that you lost still non-existent?

1:03:58 Is the family member that you lost going to come back?

1:04:04 Is the relationships that you didn't have to deal with because you were able to go the

1:04:10 office, but now you work from home? Are those relationships magically going to be healed and better?

1:04:14 Just because the calendar strikes a certain date.

1:04:17 Is COVID gone? 2021? Does it just disappear? You know, you know, and all the New Year's Eve

1:04:27 priorities across the world, you know, clock strikes midnight and all of a sudden we all rip

1:04:31 our masks off and everything's good to go. So I'm not saying that to be a Debbie downer.

1:04:37 I'm just saying there's nothing special about January the 21st. Nothing.

1:04:41 Sorry, January 21st, January 1st, 2021. There's nothing special about that.

1:04:47 It's just another day. Now, if it helps you to say, hey, New Year, New Me, and this is how I'm

1:04:54 going to do it this year, and this is finally the year I get in shape, this is finally the

1:04:57 year I get on this consistent diet, and this is finally the year I read a book and all those

1:05:00 different things. If that's what you need, great. Let the calendar be that for you.

1:05:03 But for most people, that doesn't make a difference.

1:05:07 By February 1, 2021, you've lost all the gusto. You've lost all the energy. It's just too hard

1:05:12 to work out. It's just too hard to read. It's just too hard to whatever, right? It's the same you.

1:05:16 It's not New Year. You knew you. It's the same you just a new year. So I want you to prepare yourself

1:05:22 to have a tough 2021. That's what resilience is. You see, ability to operate when things

1:05:31 aren't great, when all the things around you are on fire. And you've got to be ready to operate.

1:05:38 You've got to be the strong one in your family. You've got to be the person that people can look

1:05:44 to as an example, just in case 2021 is bad. Because guys, I just ran down a full list of things to

1:05:50 look for in 2021. And those are all very, very big things. Those are things that could make 2021

1:05:57 somehow, some way worse than 2020 was. And I guarantee you, I will not be caught flat-footed.

1:06:04 I'm prepared for a bad 2021. It's not pessimistic of me to think that it might be bad. It allows me

1:06:12 to put myself in the right mindset to where 2021 kicks us in the teeth like this year did. I'm ready

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