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But here we go.
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We are gonna launch in to some enormous news.
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I mean, guys, we've got a lot of news going on right now.
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We've got Hamas trying to kill Israeli people right now
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with rockets and there's maybe about to be war in the Middle East.
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We've also got gasoline shortages
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because people used ransomware to like shut down 45%
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of the oil and gas that was going to the East Coast
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of the United States.
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We've got the crisis at the Southern border,
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which is a legitimate crisis.
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We've got a shakeup of Republican leadership in Congress.
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We've got so many things going on right now,
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but that is not important.
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None of those things are important.
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So in the latest installment of news
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that shouldn't have even been news a few hours after it broke.
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On Monday of this week,
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it was announced that the national football leagues,
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Jacksonville Jaguars,
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just signed former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow
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to a one year deal to be a tight end,
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a position that he's never played.
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Yep, that's what we're gonna spend today's podcast on, guys.
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I know you're gonna be a little bit disappointed
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that we aren't talking about real big time issues,
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but there is kind of a through line in this story
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that I think is important for us,
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especially if we're gonna continue
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to help you push back to darkness.
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There's a little bit of darkness in the story as well.
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So with this story, when it broke, a few days prior to that,
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the news broke that Tebow was at least gonna be getting a tryout.
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And it surprised some, it certainly surprised me
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that he was actually extended a contract, right?
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I saw that he got a tryout, but it's like, oh, you know,
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Urban Meyer, he's the new coach.
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This is Tim Tebow, that's his boy, this is people,
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you know, why not?
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But I was very surprised.
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Now, if you're wondering to yourself,
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how Tim Tebow can do that and still play professional baseball,
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you probably missed that news cycle,
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which is that Tim Tebow has actually retired
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from trying to become a major league baseball player.
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Again, have your own opinions about whether or not
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that was even something that he should have done
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from the beginning, whether the New York Mets
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should have even signed him.
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I'm sure the New York Mets made some money
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for their minor league teams,
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'cause I believe Tebow never got above.
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I think he got to AAA.
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I think he spent most of his time in A-Ball and AA,
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but I think he may have broken into AAA.
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There was a thought that if the Mets were out of it,
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you know, in October, maybe this would have even happened
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last year without the pandemic,
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that they would have just called Tebow up,
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'cause you basically sell out City Field,
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and, you know, you have Tebow come up there,
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and in Tebow fashion, you probably would have hit
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a walk-off home run, and, you know, that would have been
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the only home run as of entire career.
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But anyway, so he's transitioning from, you know,
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college football to NFL, to Major League Baseball,
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back to the NFL, but in a different position.
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So what I'm gonna give you right now
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is what the entire news cycle should have been.
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Okay, this should have been the entire news cycle,
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and then the next day, all the armchair quarterbacks
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and all those shows, this is the stuff
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that they should have talked about,
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and this should have been over with.
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Wow, surprising move for Tebow to come back
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to professional football for the first time since 2012.
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It will be interesting to see how he'll fair
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at a new position.
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I wonder if he'll even make the 52-man roster after camp.
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We'll see how the changes he had to make to his body
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to play baseball will affect his ability
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to play tight end in the NFL.
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Wouldn't it be cool to see Tim Tebow back on the sidelines
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with his old college football coach, Urban Meyer?
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And guys, that's about it.
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Like, I came up with every conceivable headline
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or talking point for one of these talking head shows,
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and that's about it.
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But, but everything is stupid,
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so that couldn't be the news cycle.
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That just couldn't possibly be the news cycle.
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There were obviously other tendrils coming off
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of this story that we needed to talk about,
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because guys, the narrative for this story
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immediately shifted, too.
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Why does Tim Tebow get another shot at the NFL
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and Collard Kaepernick doesn't?
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Why can't Colin Kaepernick get a job in the NFL?
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That's where it immediately went.
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I was flabbergasted for about four tenths of a second, right?
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Because, obviously, it was gonna happen this way,
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because everything is so incredibly stupid.
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This had to be the story, right?
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Because the only reason given,
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at least on Twitter anyway,
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which is where most of these people live
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their entire lives, if you go to their Twitter,
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that's all they do all day.
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The only reason given for why Tim Tebow
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would get another chance at the NFL
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and that Collard Kaepernick would not get another chance
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at the NFL supposedly is, if you guessed it, racism.
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If you guessed racism, you won the grand prize.
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Of course, racism, of course.
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That would be the reason why Collard Kaepernick
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is not getting another shot at the NFL,
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which is ridiculous, and we'll get more into that in a second.
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But I will give you kind of a rundown
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of some of the tweets that I saw for this,
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and I think the Blaze did a really good job
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of gathering some of these tweets,
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and so I'll present them as they had them.
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But Black Adam Shefter, which is an actual account
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on Twitter, it's kind of a parody account, I said this.
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Tebow hasn't played in the NFL since 2012,
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gets another shot.
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Kaepernick hasn't played since 2016, gets nothing.
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What's the difference?
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Can't seem to put my finger on it.
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Okay, we'll certainly put our finger on it
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here in a little bit, but you know, we'll keep going.
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Stephen Pasquale, who is an actor apparently
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that no one's ever heard of, he said this,
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Tim Tebow finding a team and Collard Kaepernick
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can't white privilege NFL style.
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Tebow can't throw, never could, never played tight in,
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hasn't played in what, eight years?
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Explain it to me like on five.
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Then we have Dennis, or David Dennis Jr,
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who's got a blue check mark on Twitter,
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but aside from that, no one knows what he does for a living.
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There's no way you can tell me that Tim Tebow deserves
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to be on a team as an unproven tight end
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who hasn't played in nine years more than Collard Kaepernick.
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There's just no way that's gonna make sense.
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Then we have Jamelle Hill, who's a grifter extraordinaire.
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She currently writes for the Atlantic, I think,
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or something like that, used to be with ESPN.
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She just posted something that said,
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laughs in Collard Kaepernick
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with two sets of Collards on either side.
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I have no idea what that's supposed to mean,
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but apparently it's bad.
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It's really, really bad.
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Next thing we have someone called @thefatdoja, Doha.
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I don't really know, this is what they said.
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Tim Tebow hasn't played football in six years
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and will be 34 heading into training camp.
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And he just signed with the Jags from here on out.
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I don't want to ever hear another word
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about how Collard Kaepernick isn't good enough
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for another shot in the NFL.
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Then we have Ahmad Ali, who is a person
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of whom I don't know what they do either,
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but hey, we'll keep going, blue check marks,
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so they're important.
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Interesting how the same people that are praising Tim Tebow
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for his values outside of football,
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see Collard Kaepernick's values as a distraction.
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And he posted a picture of Collard Kaepernick
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kneeling for the national anthem out of disrespect
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for the national anthem.
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And then you've got Tim Tebow kneeling to pray before a game.
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So apparently he's trying to make some sort of point
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that those values are different.
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And guess what, they are.
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They're very, very different.
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That's one here.
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Lindsey Jones, she's a writer for the athletic.
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She says, but no one will sign Collard Kaepernick
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because he hasn't played him forever
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and he would be a distraction.
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And she put in all these weird kind of like texts.
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If you're not seeing this on YouTube right now,
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she had kind of weird texts on there.
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So everyone kind of had their take
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and everyone's take was vaguely the same.
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That's just kind of how that goes.
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But a couple of things about this right off the top.
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The very first thing that seemingly no one's talking about
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is Tim Tebow still has to make the team.
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I mean, it's a 52 man roster
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and they're not going to carry like four tight ends.
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He's got to make the team.
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He had a tryout.
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He was extended an offer for a contract.
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And that contract basically goes into place
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if he makes the roster after training camp.
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Why is no one talking about this?
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They just assume he's going to be the starting tied in
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on the first day of their first game.
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Like on the first down of the first game rather.
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Like it just doesn't make sense to me.
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And the next thing is Tebow getting signed
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and Kaepernick not being signed.
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Wait for it.
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Aren't related at all.
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Those things are not related.
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These are two different players.
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Two totally different time periods.
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Two different circumstances.
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Two different positions.
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Two totally different people.
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Like to say that this is the same as that.
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I mean, how far are we going to extend this thing out?
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If the St. Louis Cardinals decide to sign somebody
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to a minor league contract is going to be like,
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well, why does it call a Kaepernick get a chance
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to sign with St. Louis Cardinals?
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If some local firehouse decides to sign up a guy
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to become a fireman as well,
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well, I didn't call a Kaepernick get that opportunity.
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Like we're, again, I'm being ridiculous
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because this is ridiculous.
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Because I guess I wasn't aware that Colin Kaepernick
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was willing to come back to the NFL as a tight end.
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That would at least make it somewhat the same
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if there was breaking news that these people,
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'cause I think they're about the same age
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at this point, those two.
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But at this age, if both of them said, hey,
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I'm thinking about coming back as a tight end
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or Colin Kaepernick said, hey,
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I'm thinking about coming back as a wide receiver,
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which might be better for his type of a frame
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or something like that.
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He's a little bit more frail than Tim Tebow is.
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That would at least give us something to talk about,
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but we don't have that here.
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But here's the thing, guys.
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There's a real reason, or there's real reasons, rather,
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there's a lot of them.
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Why Tim Tebow is getting another shot at the NFL
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and Colin Kaepernick is not.
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So I'm going to go through several of them.
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The first one is Urban Meyer, okay?
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So Urban Meyer, one of the greatest college football coaches
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of all time, obviously he was Tim Tebow's former coach
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at Florida where they won two different national titles.
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I think it was Tebow's freshman year and junior year.
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Those two are obviously very, very close.
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And Urban Meyer just took his first NFL job
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to be the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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New fancy quarterback coming in,
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number one overall draft pick.
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Like this is Urban Meyer's team.
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You didn't think that he was just going to take an NFL job
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and not have an idea as to who he would want to sign
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from a personnel standpoint, right?
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He might as well be the head coach and the general manager.
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So you knew something like this was going to happen
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if Tim Tebow came calling and he did.
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So that's part of the reason why there's a connection there
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and why he would get a shot like that.
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Because whenever Colin Kaepernick played,
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I think he played at the University of Nevada.
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I don't think his coach is currently coaching in the NFL
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unless I'm wrong, unless I miss something, right?
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So there's that.
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But here's some other reason.
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We're going to talk about the ability to play.
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So let's talk about Tim Tebow first.
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We have no idea.
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No one has any idea except for the people that were there,
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the scouts and the coaches that were there for his tryout.
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We have no idea if Tim Tebow can play,
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tied in in the NFL.
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Now, I have my doubts, right?
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If I were Vegas, I would be taking tons of money
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on the fact that he's not going to make the roster
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and he's not going to play a down
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because you play your entire career.
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At least since high school,
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Tim Tebow has only played quarterback.
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I mean, tied in is not just,
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there's a lot going on at tied in, okay?
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There's not just the, you know, going out
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and catching passes.
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There's a lot of different schemes for blocking
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and there's a lot of stuff that goes into being a tied in
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and Tim Tebow just hasn't done that.
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So we're just going to have to let it play out.
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But then with Colin Kaepernick in terms of the ability to play,
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let's just be honest.
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He wasn't good when he last played.
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So why in the world would we believe
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that he would be good now?
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He's almost 34 years old, Colin Kaepernick is, okay?
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How many examples are there of elite NFL quarterbacks
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that haven't played in five years,
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coming back in their mid-thirties and being super effective?
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Do you have any examples?
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Because I struggle to think through that,
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there's not a whole lot of quarterbacks in general
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that are super effective in their mid-thirties.
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I mean, you have your rare exceptions,
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your Brett Fars and your Tom Brady's and your Peyton Manning's
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like, but at the same time, like,
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that's not a super common thing.
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And all those guys didn't stop playing
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and you Brett Fars kind of retired and came back.
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But you get what I'm saying.
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And here's the thing with Colin Kaepernick.
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In his last season that he played, okay?
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That was 2016.
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He started 11 games for the San Francisco 49ers, okay?
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The 49ers went one and 10 in those games.
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One and 10.
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They won one game when he was a starter.
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And then he was benched.
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His QBR, that season that's quarterback rating,
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that's kind of like, you know,
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war and baseball, it's kind of like this big number
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that kind of breaks it down,
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whether you're not, you're good at that position.
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He was ranked 23rd overall for quarterbacks, okay?
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He was benched that season for Blaine Gabbert.
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Have you ever heard of Blaine Gabbert?
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Even if you have,
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you likely don't remember him for anything special.
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I think at the time that Blaine Gabbert
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took over for Colin Kaepernick.
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Blaine Gabbert had like a five and 22 record as a starter.
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I think I remember seeing that somewhere.
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Five and 22.
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And the 49ers were like,
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we think we got a better shot at winning with Blaine Gabbert
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than we do with Colin Kaepernick.
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Guys, he was benched again.
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Back in 2016 for a lot of reasons.
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His accuracy was in the toilet.
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His anticipation and touch were garbage.
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He couldn't, you know, read a defense.
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His field vision was similar to Stevie Wonder's
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and his decision making was awful.
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And there's probably a lot of other reasons, right?
14:35
It's a meritocracy after all the NFL is.
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So they thought they could win with a different guy.
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He was benched and there was no signs
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that he was going to be coming back, okay?
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So that kind of breaks down the ability to play argument.
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So another reason why Tim Tebow is probably getting
14:48
another shot in that Colin Kaepernick is not his desire to play.
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Tim Tebow clearly has a desire to play.
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Again, we don't know if he can play, but he has a desire to.
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He's kept himself in shape.
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He's been playing another professional sport.
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Again, the transition from an outfielder's body
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to a tight ends body.
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I have no idea how the guy's going to do it,
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but he's a super athlete.
15:07
So we don't know, but he clearly has the desire to play.
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Colin Kaepernick clearly doesn't have the desire to play.
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So guys, back in 2017,
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the 49ers offered Colin Kaepernick a contract
15:20
to stay with the team, but he decided to become a free agent.
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So if you wanted to continue his career as a quarterback
15:26
with the San Francisco 49ers,
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which was a team that drafted him in the second round,
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he could have done that, but he chose not to, okay?
15:32
For whatever reason, I think we know the reason,
15:33
but he chose not to.
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In 2018, John Elway, who's an executive for the Denver Broncos
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at the time and a former quarterback,
15:40
you know, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Denver Broncos,
15:41
he revealed that they offered Colin Kaepernick a contract.
15:45
And guess what?
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Colin Kaepernick turned it down.
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Now they didn't offer him to be a tight end.
15:49
They didn't offer him to be, you know, a safety.
15:51
They offered him to be a quarterback.
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He said, no, no, thank you.
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That was in 2018.
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And then after the NFL went fully woke,
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which is the reason why I don't really follow it at all,
16:01
unless it kind of pops up in the news
16:02
and kind of cultural news like this.
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In 2019, I don't know if you remember this,
16:06
the NFL held a workout slash tryout thing
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just for Colin Kaepernick.
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It was fairly unprecedented.
16:13
And the NFL kind of bent over backwards,
16:15
but at this point in kind of, you know,
16:18
this was kind of past the point where the NFL was like,
16:20
okay, we're not really going to support this kneeling
16:22
for the anthem thing.
16:22
And then the winds of change kind of shifted
16:25
and the culture shifted a little bit.
16:26
And then the NFL was like, okay,
16:27
we'll allow some of that.
16:28
And you will allow the Black Lives Matter stuff.
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Like that's fine.
16:31
At this point, all Colin Kaepernick had to do
16:33
was show up there at this workout in Atlanta.
16:37
And he would have at least had one team offer him a contract.
16:41
They at least one team out there
16:43
would have been willing to sign him
16:45
probably to a backup type role
16:47
to earn some Black Lives Matter points.
16:49
Like that was, that was so unbelievably clear.
16:51
Some team was going to take that chance, right?
16:54
Probably a terrible team,
16:55
but they would have taken the chance.
16:56
So scouts from 25 different teams showed up.
17:00
They were ready to go.
17:00
They had their stop watches and they had their clipboards
17:03
and they were ready to watch Colin Kaepernick
17:04
to see if he could still be an NFL quarterback.
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Do you remember how it turned out?
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Oh, yeah, Colin Kaepernick didn't show up.
17:14
He no show.
17:15
Now he and his reps,
17:18
they spun some nonsense about, you know,
17:20
the waivers that the NFL wanted to have them sign
17:23
weren't to their liking and, you know, whatever else.
17:26
But that was all nonsense.
17:27
That was all PR spin, right?
17:28
He set up at the last second.
17:30
He set up his own workout at a different site
17:33
where he wore a shirt that said Kunta Kinte on there,
17:35
which is, you know, a reference to the African slave character
17:38
from the Roots series, right?
17:39
The biggest white guilt series in the history of ever.
17:42
And so he's trying to make it out.
17:44
Like he's a slave of some kind.
17:46
And yet the NFL, a multi-billion dollar organization
17:49
corporation decided to give this guy a tryout
17:51
and he just couldn't find the time to get over there.
17:54
It just wasn't to his liking.
17:55
So it goes over to some, you know, high school.
17:57
He throws some deep passative, some high school kids.
18:00
You know, basically one or two scouts
18:01
was able to make it over there for this mock garbage nonsense
18:06
tryout that he tried to throw for himself.
18:08
So at the end of the day,
18:10
Colin Kaepernick had a lot of opportunities to come back
18:13
if he wanted to, but it's clear that he doesn't.
18:16
And I don't fault him for that.
18:18
He is a grown man.
18:19
He can make his own decisions.
18:21
This goes back to the argument I make with NCAA, right?
18:23
Whenever they're like, oh, these kids need to be paid.
18:25
You know, they're being treated like slaves.
18:26
It's like, are they?
18:28
And in a lot of these cases,
18:29
these kids are getting their colleges paid for.
18:31
Their educations are being paid for
18:33
as opposed to leaving school with six figures
18:35
of student loan debt, they're leaving school
18:36
with a bunch of extra Nike's and, you know, track suits
18:40
and no debt.
18:42
Because they made a choice to go play a sport.
18:44
They traded their athletic ability
18:48
so that they could play a child's game
18:50
and they were compensated with their education.
18:53
That seems fair to me.
18:54
Colin Kaepernick had opportunities in 2017, 2018
18:59
and 2019 to go and play football.
19:02
And he said, no.
19:03
Another reason why I think that Tim Tebow
19:05
is getting this chance in that Colin Kaepernick
19:07
is not is because of distractions.
19:10
Tim Tebow is a good kind of distraction
19:13
if there is such a thing
19:14
because with Tim Tebow comes a circus, right?
19:17
Whenever he signed, I think he signed a deal
19:19
with the Jets at some point in the Eagles
19:21
at some point after he was done with the Denver Broncos.
19:24
And man, it was a circus.
19:26
Everything that Tim Tebow does is a circus
19:28
and it's because he's so likable.
19:30
Now it's a distraction.
19:32
You have to clearly think about that
19:33
'cause I think when he signed the league minimum deal
19:35
to go be a backup for the Philadelphia Eagles,
19:37
it was such a distraction to the team
19:38
because it's like, dude, this guy's like our second
19:40
or third quarterback.
19:41
Why are you at this press conference asking me
19:43
about whether or not Tim Tebow is gonna get into the game?
19:45
He's not gonna get into the game
19:46
unless something catastrophic happens to the first two guys.
19:49
You know, it was one of those types of situations,
19:51
but that's a good kind of a distraction
19:53
because you can deal with that.
19:54
If you're a head coach, you might roll your eyes
19:56
at the guy asking you another Tebow question,
19:58
but it's not that big a deal
19:59
'cause Tim Tebow is a good guy.
20:00
He's a good team guy.
20:01
He's gonna apparently show up to practice.
20:03
He's gonna be a great teammate
20:04
and that's gonna be wonderful.
20:06
I don't think most of the people in the team
20:07
are gonna resent the fact that he's on the team.
20:09
So just move forward.
20:10
But then on the other hand, Colin Kaepernick
20:13
is the worst kind of distraction
20:15
'cause you have to think about it very, very clearly.
20:18
He had a very amazing opportunity to come back
20:22
and play in the NFL.
20:23
Even though he would have been a horrific distraction
20:27
because it's not just, hey,
20:29
we're gonna ask you a bunch of questions about this guy.
20:30
It's like, now we're gonna have to talk about politics.
20:33
We're gonna have to talk about, well, hey,
20:35
John Elway, you've signed Colin Kaepernick.
20:36
Are you concerned that he's gonna continue kneeling
20:39
out of protest for the racist national anthem
20:41
that takes place in the racist United States of America?
20:44
Like that's a whole lot more to deal with than,
20:47
hey, is this guy that's not very good at quarterback
20:49
and to get to play next week?
20:51
That's a very different kind of a thing.
20:53
And Colin Kaepernick kept shooting himself in the foot
20:56
and he was doing it on purpose, right?
20:58
I think, you know, whenever he was still in the 49ers,
21:00
he was wearing these socks at one of their workouts
21:03
and it had cops depicted as pigs
21:05
and there was like bacon on it.
21:06
And this was right around the BLM time of pigs
21:08
in a blanket, frying like bacon, right?
21:10
Like, you know, all that stuff, all the Black Lives Matter
21:12
chants that were going on in New York,
21:13
I believe is where that one happened.
21:14
But he was going to continue doing stuff like that.
21:18
That's just who he is and who he's gonna be,
21:20
the worst kind of distraction.
21:22
Another reason why I think Tim Tebow is gonna get
21:24
an opportunity like this and why Colin Kaepernick is not
21:26
is gratitude.
21:27
I think Matt Walsh pointed this out best on his Twitter
21:30
when he said this, people like Tim Tebow
21:33
because he's grateful, positive and humble.
21:35
They hate Kaepernick because he's a sullen,
21:37
spoiled, rotten little brat.
21:39
Both are immensely privileged.
21:41
Only one responds with gratitude.
21:43
People like that one and not the other,
21:45
not that hard to understand.
21:47
And I think it was great that Matt Walsh pointed out
21:49
that they're both very privileged individuals, okay?
21:52
Because whether you say it's white privilege
21:54
or American privilege or whatever,
21:55
both of these guys are very privileged.
21:57
They both grew up in two parent households.
21:58
I believe the Colin Kaepernick was,
22:00
he was adopted into, you know, a loving family
22:03
and all that, like, that's great.
22:04
I'm so happy for that.
22:05
He's incredibly blessed for that.
22:07
But Colin Kaepernick has turned his back
22:09
on all the blessings that he's received in his life
22:13
because life has somehow dealt him a raw hand.
22:16
He had this loving couple which just so happened
22:18
to be white, you know, that shouldn't matter,
22:20
but they just so happened to be white.
22:21
They took in this kid and their family,
22:22
treat him like their own because technically he was.
22:25
And then they helped him all the way through, you know,
22:27
got him to college and all those different things.
22:29
And now it's like, oh, white supremacy
22:31
is the worst thing possible.
22:33
And also America's white supremacist,
22:36
we need to tear down the system,
22:37
but let's start with the cops.
22:38
So, but when you look at a guy like Tim Tebow,
22:42
if you follow him on Instagram or something like that,
22:44
they're like, yeah, you can, you can quibble with,
22:46
maybe his theology and some of the things that he said.
22:48
And maybe if you want to really, really split hairs,
22:51
but Tim Tebow is an incredibly grateful guy.
22:54
I mean, think about the worst things
22:56
that they can say about Tim Tebow
22:57
is he doesn't throw very well, which is true.
23:00
At Florida, it was okay.
23:02
He worked inside of his system in the NFL.
23:03
You know, it's pretty bad.
23:05
You know, he didn't really have a great arm,
23:07
didn't have a great release point,
23:08
didn't have a quick trigger,
23:09
just wasn't a great NFL quarterback.
23:11
That's the worst thing that most people can say about Tim Tebow.
23:14
And then that's pretty awesome.
23:17
If the worst thing that someone can say about you
23:19
is that you don't throw a football very well,
23:20
consider yourself very, very blessed and in a good spot.
23:23
Another reason why I think Tim Tebow
23:24
is getting this chance to not call a Kaepernick is attitude.
23:27
Right, this goes into a lot of the other things
23:28
that we talked about, but Tim Tebow
23:29
is the poster child of positivity, right?
23:32
Again, just follow him on Instagram.
23:34
I don't really need to elucidate that point any further.
23:36
Follow him on Instagram.
23:37
The dude's just flat out positive,
23:39
but in terms of Colin Kaepernick,
23:40
he's the poster child for drama.
23:42
That's all this guy is everywhere he goes, it's drama.
23:45
And his attitude is so uppity and so better than.
23:50
And the other thing about Colin Kaepernick
23:51
is do you wonder why you haven't heard
23:52
very many interviews of Colin Kaepernick?
23:55
Do you wonder why you haven't heard debates
23:56
with Colin Kaepernick talking about somebody
23:57
that has a different viewpoint on the Black Lives Matter thing
24:01
or on the police thing or any of those types of things?
24:03
It's because Colin Kaepernick is moron.
24:05
Any time that he opens his mouth and talks about this issue,
24:08
it's like, he's just got this jumbled mess
24:10
of other people's quotes inside of his brain.
24:13
He potentially doesn't even have any of his own thoughts
24:14
on the thing.
24:15
And here's the other thing guys,
24:16
whenever he was being binged, right?
24:18
That's when he just decided to be this race martyr.
24:22
Like do we think that he maybe had something in mind for that?
24:25
He could have been like, oh, hey, my career is almost over.
24:28
I need to go ahead and transfer into activism
24:30
before I'm not hot anymore,
24:31
before no one even knows how to spell my last name.
24:33
Or it was because, hey,
24:34
I'm gonna put the pressure on these white owners
24:36
of these NFL teams, these racist, you know,
24:38
slave traders and all these types of things.
24:40
And I'm gonna basically force their hand.
24:42
I'm gonna become an activist.
24:43
And if they basically binged me or cut me,
24:45
I can call them racist and I'll be great and good to go.
24:48
Which is kind of how it worked out.
24:50
The dude has a rotten attitude.
24:52
Why in the world would you want him on your team?
24:54
And the last thing I'll say on this in terms of why Tebow deserved this,
24:57
might deserve this, I don't even know if he does,
24:59
why he might deserve this chance
25:00
in Colin Kaepernick doesn't is hatred.
25:02
Hatred.
25:04
Tim Tebow seems to love everything and everyone.
25:09
Again, go to the dude's Instagram.
25:12
The dude just loves.
25:13
He's a lover.
25:14
He loves Christ.
25:15
He loves his wife.
25:16
He loves people.
25:17
He loves, you know, special needs children.
25:20
He just loves.
25:21
He has so much love.
25:23
Colin Kaepernick seems to hate anyone that disagrees with him
25:27
on cultural or social or political issues.
25:30
And he hates America.
25:31
Now, if you're the Minnesota Vikings or the Dallas Cowboys
25:35
or the Seattle Seahawks or the Carolina Panthers
25:38
or any of these other teams,
25:39
why in the world would you want someone on your team?
25:42
Like that.
25:43
How can you market hatred for America?
25:47
Now the NFL has kind of done that a little bit
25:49
by bowing to the BLM thing while still having the Marines
25:52
out on the field holding the American flag
25:53
during the national land.
25:54
Ah, you know, it's kind of this tension, this dissonance
25:56
that they're dealing with at the moment.
25:58
But why would you want to bring that on yourself?
26:01
It's absolutely astonishing to me.
26:04
So to transition out this a little bit,
26:07
there's a lot of people that are saying things
26:08
that just don't really make a lot of sense.
26:10
So to those of you that are saying that Colin Kaepernick
26:12
deserves his job back.
26:14
I saw that refrain everywhere.
26:16
He deserves his job back.
26:18
Well, I'll just remind you of the fact
26:20
that he had opportunities, clear ones from the 49ers
26:24
and from the Broncos and from 25 other teams
26:26
willing to take a look at this guy.
26:27
He said, no, he flat out said, no,
26:30
what do you mean he deserves his job back?
26:32
The job back that he doesn't even want,
26:34
he clearly doesn't want it.
26:36
But we do need to flow a little bit on this concept of deserves.
26:39
I'm using air quotes here with deserves
26:42
because professional sports are one of the most
26:45
meritocracy driven environments
26:47
you could possibly be in in the entire world.
26:49
And that's why even great players,
26:51
like really, really great players,
26:53
name a professional sport, have short careers.
26:56
In the NFL, if you have a career going past five years,
26:59
that's incredible.
27:01
It's unbelievably rare, right?
27:04
You know, these super long guys that have been in for all,
27:06
these long years and years and years in the NFL,
27:07
that's super rare.
27:09
But even in baseball, even in basketball,
27:10
even in hockey, like long careers just aren't really
27:13
that common.
27:15
A lot of guys don't make it through their rookie contract
27:17
and certainly don't sign that second contract.
27:19
That's why it's such a big deal
27:19
when you sign that second contract
27:21
after your rookie deals up.
27:23
But because of meritocracy,
27:26
teams, they don't really care about what you did a season ago.
27:29
They care about what you can do this season.
27:32
And if they can bring another person in
27:33
that's gonna be cheaper and maybe easier to deal with
27:35
and coach, they're gonna bring that person in.
27:38
But I've had this debate and I think I mentioned it here
27:40
on this podcast before, people talk a lot about this
27:42
and I've mainly had this debate in kind of MMA context
27:45
about these goat level fighters, right?
27:48
And how these goat level fighters deserve
27:51
to make goat level money.
27:53
Okay, so you'll hear someone talk about like Mighty Mouse,
27:55
right?
27:56
So he was in the UFC for a long time,
27:57
kept defending his belt, kept defending his belt,
27:59
was clearing out the division,
28:00
then he cleared it out again.
28:01
And then he was basically traded over to one championship
28:04
over in Asia.
28:05
But I kept talking to these people, they're like,
28:07
he needs to be paid like the greatest fighter on the planet.
28:09
He needs to get paid more than Conor McGregor.
28:11
He needs to get paid more than any of these guys
28:13
that make a lot of money, more than GSP, right?
28:15
More than more than any of these guys.
28:16
And I would always ask him, why?
28:18
Well, because he's the greatest fighter ever.
28:20
He's the greatest fighter in the UFC right now,
28:22
or he's a greatest fighter right now in any organization.
28:25
Okay, you might be right, but this is prize fighting, right?
28:30
You get paid off of the money that's brought in.
28:34
If there's not money that's brought in to pay you,
28:37
like you're that goat level,
28:38
you're not gonna get that amount of money.
28:41
The thing with Mighty Mouse, Demetrius Johnson,
28:43
nobody cared to watch him fight.
28:45
The UFC did everything they possibly could
28:47
to get this guy to be a household name.
28:49
They put him on free fights on Fox
28:50
and they put him in commercials
28:52
and they tried to get him out there
28:53
and get with all the gaming communities
28:56
that he was a part of and get him bigger there.
28:57
No one cared to watch him fight.
29:00
Maybe it was 'cause he was small,
29:01
maybe it was 'cause he didn't talk trash like, who knows?
29:03
So you can make the argument that he is a better fighter
29:06
in his division than Conor McGregor is in his.
29:08
But Conor McGregor was this name number one
29:10
on the Forbes sports list
29:11
for making over $150 million outside of fighting this year.
29:15
It's just not the same thing.
29:17
People talk about goat level with John Jones as well
29:19
'cause John Jones probably on paper
29:20
is the greatest fighter ever in terms of who he's beaten
29:23
and how he's beaten them.
29:24
But John Jones has never been a part of a pay-per-view
29:26
that even sold over a million buys.
29:29
I think the highest he had was him and Daniel Cormier,
29:31
the first time they fought,
29:32
I think that one was like 800,000 buys
29:34
or 150,000 buys, which is obviously,
29:36
that's a great selling pay-per-view.
29:38
But when you get above one million pay-per-view buys,
29:41
that's when you start getting into the Conor
29:43
and Habib and GSP territory in Brock Lesnar
29:45
and those types of things, Ronda Rousey.
29:47
But again, people think that they deserve these things
29:50
that they haven't earned.
29:52
You earn those pay days because people want to watch you fight.
29:56
You've earned that.
29:57
Also, to the people that are saying,
30:00
kind of transitioning back to Tebow and Kaepernick,
30:02
there's a lot of people saying
30:03
this is clearly an example of white privilege,
30:06
clearly an example of white privilege.
30:08
Really?
30:09
How?
30:10
How?
30:15
No, really, how?
30:16
You have to prove that to me
30:19
that this is clearly an example of white privilege.
30:22
Because people will just say these things.
30:24
Oh, it's an example of white privilege, clearly.
30:26
And people just accept that premise as true.
30:28
I don't, I don't accept it as true at all.
30:31
Explain it to me.
30:32
Explain it to me like I'm five.
30:34
How is this clearly an example of white privilege?
30:36
Especially in light of everything
30:38
that I've just described throughout the rest of this episode?
30:40
How is it?
30:41
And let's go further.
30:43
Tom Kaepernick made around $44 million in his playing career
30:47
as an NFL quarterback, okay?
30:48
He signed at 1.126 million dollar deal
30:52
that he would have earned if he didn't suck so bad.
30:55
He would have made nine figures
30:57
if he didn't suck at being a quarterback.
31:00
And then he also signed an endorsement deal with Nike.
31:02
This was after his playing career
31:04
and it's paying him like he's an active elite NFL player,
31:08
which he clearly is not either one of those things.
31:11
Tim Tebow, contrastingly, made around $10 million
31:14
in his playing career.
31:15
He made almost no money as a professional baseball player
31:18
'cause he was a minor leaguer, right?
31:19
And minor leaguers don't really make a whole lot
31:21
unless they were drafted in a certain, you know, anyway,
31:23
he didn't really make a lot of money.
31:24
And guys, even if he makes the Jaguars roster,
31:27
he'll likely make the league minimum,
31:29
which is $660,000, which again, is good money.
31:33
But again, where's the white privilege there?
31:35
I'm sorry, was Tebow extended a nine figure contract
31:39
to be a quarterback?
31:39
No, he wasn't.
31:40
Did Tim Tebow make $40 plus million in an NFL quarterback?
31:45
No, again, going back to my meritocracy argument
31:48
is 'cause he wasn't very good.
31:50
But Colin Kaepernick had a better career,
31:52
but then towards the end, he wasn't very good either
31:54
for different reasons than Tim Tebow.
31:57
But where's the privilege here?
31:58
I missed that somewhere.
32:00
And guys, maybe this isn't a case of white privilege
32:03
and instead it's a case of not being a [inaudible] privilege.
32:07
Obviously, Tim Tebow is a guy that people want to be around.
32:09
It's a guy that they want on their teams as players
32:11
and as coaches as an ownership.
32:13
Colin Kaepernick doesn't have that
32:15
'cause he just acts like a jerk
32:18
no matter what the situation is.
32:20
So he's shooting himself in the foot here.
32:22
But guys, you know, I talked to all about this already.
32:24
You know, somehow I was able to talk about this
32:26
for a half hour, but what this all boils down to
32:29
is that woke people didn't find anything
32:34
to complain about for a few days.
32:36
So they chose this to complain about again,
32:41
every few days, every week, there's some news story
32:43
of some innocuous thing that happened
32:45
to these nameless, faceless people, most of the times,
32:48
but it was something that was so horribly, horrifically racist.
32:52
And now we have to lead CNN with it.
32:54
We have to see it running across the Chiron on MSNBC.
32:57
Like, you know, they're gonna write this big thing about it
33:00
on the front page in the New York Times.
33:01
Vox is gonna do a special report on it
33:04
because they have to.
33:06
So I'm gonna talk a little bit about like there's,
33:09
there's all these different departments and jobs
33:12
popping up that are like diversity, equity and inclusion,
33:14
departments or jobs.
33:16
Even recently I saw it's actually, you know,
33:18
someone that I know that was hired to do diversity
33:21
and inclusion and all that for the St. Louis Cardinals.
33:25
They're just making up these positions
33:28
and they're not exactly sure what they're supposed to do,
33:29
but they don't want the backlash
33:31
if they don't have people like that on the payroll.
33:34
But here's the thing.
33:35
I remember back at the college that I went to,
33:36
the University of Central Oklahoma.
33:38
I remember when I was working on staff there
33:40
and they created this department.
33:42
I think it was a department of like cultural equity
33:45
or like multicultural student services or something like that.
33:48
And it's like, yeah, sure, why not?
33:49
Like, who cares?
33:50
Like if you want to have, if you want to help people
33:52
kind of make sure they get integrated into campus life
33:54
and all that and you know, great, who cares?
33:57
But then it shifted considerably to be about diversity
34:00
and inclusion, whatever that means and equity,
34:03
whatever that means, even though we know what they mean
34:04
when they say it.
34:06
But basically what these people do all day long
34:08
that work in that office and work in any office similar to that
34:11
is they're looking to be offended.
34:13
They are looking for opportunities to be offended
34:17
at all times because here's the thing.
34:20
If they go a year, right, and I'll use my college
34:24
as an example, my university, if they go a year
34:26
without any racist or anti LGBTQ or, you know,
34:30
anti this, you know, whatever incidences,
34:33
then why do we need to have that department?
34:35
Because again, I think this is kind of the nefarious thing
34:40
and I talked about a little bit with Lila Rose
34:42
when we were talking about kind of pro-life advocates.
34:44
You know, if Roe v. Wade is overturned,
34:45
these pro-life advocates don't have anything
34:47
to raise money for it again or like at all,
34:49
like they don't have money, they don't have jobs.
34:51
And so you really get an idea as to whether or not
34:54
these people want to solve the problems
34:55
that they're saying are out there
34:56
because if they solve the problem,
34:58
they have to go do something else for work.
34:59
Most people don't wanna do that.
35:01
So these people are not gonna be able to wield power
35:05
or generate money without outrage.
35:07
So even if it's not real, they have to pretend like it's real.
35:12
They have to pretend like Tim Tebow getting signed
35:15
to potentially make a 52-man roster for an NFL team
35:19
is some sort of racial injustice,
35:21
indicative of white privilege or white supremacy.
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It's not real.
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But we live in this post-truth culture
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where truth is not only relative, it doesn't matter
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because if my truth is my truth and your truth is your truth
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and the truth truth doesn't matter,
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then what are we talking about?
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So I say all this to say that there's some advice
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I wanna give to the men out there that are still listening
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to this, you know, kind of going through all this nonsense
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to the defenders of truth out there.
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So those of you who have hopped on board with us
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to push back darkness, cultural and spiritual darkness,
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this is my biggest bit of advice for you.
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Don't allow false premises to go unchecked.
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Don't allow false premises to go unchecked.
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That is your responsibility.
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Because go back to the very beginning of this
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where I was talking about and I kind of,
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you know, talked about it further.
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People are saying that this is clearly a case
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of white privilege for Tim Tebow.
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I don't accept that premise.
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In fact, I reject that premise.
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So if you're having a conversation with somebody
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and you say, no, no, I reject your premise,
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it makes them have to defend the premise.
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And most of the time there is no defense for it.
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And so a lot of people are, a lot of guys are just trying
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to like tip toe around these issues
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'cause they don't wanna offend any body
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and they don't wanna, you know, potentially ruffle any feathers.
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It's like, no, no, that the onus isn't on you.
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You shouldn't be on your heels.
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They should be.
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They're the ones going out there and saying that this is true.
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It is true that Tim Tebow got this opportunity
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because of white privilege and white supremacy.
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Okay, prove that to me.
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Explain that to me.
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So that's the best advice I could give you guys.
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Guys, if you're going to talk to the school board
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about their nonsense COVID-19 restrictions on your kids,
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reject their false premises.
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Oh, you know, this is unsafe for children.
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No, I reject that.
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Please defend your position.
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And guess what?
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They can't.
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There's nothing that shows
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that this is a dangerous virus for children.
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Unless the child has massive underlying issues, right?
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Reject the premise, make them defend it.
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Because when you accept the premise and then try to debate,
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you've already lost for the most part
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and you might be a fantastic debater.
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You might get the mic drop moment,
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but you're starting at such a disadvantage.
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Why would you do that?
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So this might seem like a ridiculous example.
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I mentioned from the very top of the podcast,
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like things going on right now in Israel
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and things of the Southern board,
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all these real big issues
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where lives are legitimately at stake.
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And here I am spending over 30 minutes talking about this.
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I'm talking about it because it's important
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because it's indicative of a larger issue
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within our culture, a sickness within our culture.
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Not only that, we focus on things
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that we can't really have any control over
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and that don't really matter at the end of the day.
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Because guess what?
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If Tim Tebow doesn't make the jags,
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like if he doesn't make the roster,
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guess what?
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We'll see him on the SEC stuff for college football
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and everybody will just kind of move on with their lives.
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A few people will have a field day on Twitter,
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calling him terrible and how he's an awful person
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and all these different things.
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But then it'll just disappear.
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It's basically a non-story.
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It should have been a non-story
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from the beginning outside of sports circles.
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But when you look at these cultural issues
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and people bring up these cultural issues,
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you have to push back on them.
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It is your duty to do that.
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It is your duty to teach your children
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how to do the same thing.
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Take your children with you to the PTA meeting
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or the city council meeting or something like that
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where you are defending truth,
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where you are pushing back
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on the darkness that is happening in your community.
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Show them that and you'll be surprised at how that works out.
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All right guys, before we let you go,
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we are gonna do a quick resilience boost
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at Undaunted Life.
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Our mission is equipping men to push back darkness
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with content that forges spiritual,
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mental and physical resilience.
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So for today I'm gonna be taking you a little bit
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off to it on a different path.
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The Lex Friedman podcast.
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So this is a guy I think he does at robotics and AI
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and he's good friends with Joe Rogan.
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Anyway, he just recently had John Donahur
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on his podcast.
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It was episode 182 of the Lex Friedman podcast.
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It's called the path to mastery and jujitsu,
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grappling, judo and MMA.
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Guys, even if you're not into any of those things
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I just listed,
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I think this is a really interesting podcast for you.
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Okay, the episode should be available anywhere
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you get your podcast, I have a link to a website
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that has it in case you wanna watch it
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on your computer or something like that.
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But man, if you're into jujitsu, grappling, judo, MMA,
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wrestling, any of those types of things,
39:43
this is a nerd paradise for you.
39:47
I mean, they go so far into the philosophy
39:49
but even guys, they start this podcast
39:51
and kind of the ethereal world.
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You get an idea of John Donahur
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who in this podcast claims that he's a materialist
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and why he's a materialist.
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So they don't just talk about martial arts,
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they don't really just talk about those things.
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They get into a lot of big philosophical issues.
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It was a very, very interesting watch
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so I just wanted to share that with you.
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All right guys, thanks so much for listening to the show.
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40:15
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
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Remember, keep pushing back darkness,
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keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
40:42
Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
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♪ That you have to drink ♪
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