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This is on Daunted Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys, we are here, episode 200.
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Can you believe it? 200 of Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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Guys, I just got to thank you all so much for being here with us because we launched this back in 2017.
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Okay, and we've gone with a bunch of different attitudes.
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And we've gone with a bunch of different news stories.
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And we've gone with a bunch of different people that we've interviewed.
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And it's been a wild ride, but you have been there with us all the way.
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But you showed up and showed out in a huge way in the last week or so.
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So in the last week, guys, we actually had some breakthroughs.
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We broke into the top 40 on Apple podcast in the religion and spirituality category.
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And guys, we got all the way up to 18th on Spotify, right?
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So a lot of that had to do with the time that I spent with John Cooper over on his podcast.
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So for those of you that are here, because you came over from John Cooper's podcast,
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welcome. Thank you so much.
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And for those of you that are sending me messages saying you're going through my entire backlog,
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first of all, again, I got to apologize every time.
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The first like 12 or 15 episodes or so, I didn't even know how the microphone worked.
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It wasn't this microphone. It was a crappier one.
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So I apologize for basically being right on top of the microphone and eating it and popping
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it the entire time. I apologize. Sorry. Terrible, terrible. But we all got better. We're all trying
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to figure this out. But I do want to let you guys know that in order for us to kind of keep
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this momentum going, this is my call to action before we get into what we're doing today.
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My call to action is if you like this podcast, please rate it. Give it five stars.
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I saw a guy the other day that gave me like the best message ever about how much he loved
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And no one really knows exactly how they work. But if you rate review and then share the show,
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this is a really good show. Just no one really knows about it. But then as it's grown over
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the years and then being on podcasts like John Cooper's and some of the ones that we have coming
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up that we're really excited about, we're getting out to new audiences. You're a part of the process
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about getting us out to those new audiences. So just wanted to go with that. But also,
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as a thank you to all you guys that have listened to us for this entire time or for
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your new listeners, we're going to go and do a Q and A. So we don't do Q and A's that often we're
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down to just a handful of those a year. But this is actually Q and A episode 15. And I told you
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guys on social media that you can ask me anything, right? AMA, call it AMA or Q and A, whatever,
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you can ask me anything. And just some of you guys took that and you ran with it. So that's
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what it is. But if you want your questions to potentially be answered on a future episode of
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Undaunted Life of Man's podcast, all you need to do is send them over to us via email or DM.
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So the email is or I guess you could DM them, but DM them on any social media that you have,
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or you can just go to our website www dot undaunted dot life backslash contact. I'll make sure all
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those are in the show notes. Now, let's go and get into this episode. So for today,
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we're going to get into a lot of different subjects, right? Every time we do a Q and A
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episode, I typically do about 15 or so different questions. We're going to get into that Texas
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high school valedictorian that talked about how terrible it would be. If she couldn't murder
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babies, we'll certainly talk about that. We got a lot of big UFC fights coming up. So we're going
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to do some fight picks. We're going to talk about the Paul brothers Logan and Jake Paul and their
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boxing matches, some that are just behind them, some that are coming up. And if you stick around
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to the end, I will give you my thoughts on Fauci's emails. You know, Fauci, Dr. Fauci,
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the greatest doctor to have ever lived, the most honest person to have ever lived,
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right? Just a boy from the Bronx is trying to tell us what to do with our masks like that guy.
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We're going to talk about his emails, but you got to stick with us till the end. But we're going
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to start today's Q and A episode with perhaps the greatest troll in the history of Twitter,
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because this was the question. Kyle, what are your thoughts on the situation between AOC
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and Matt Walsh? So let's just talk about this, which by the way, I don't really like saying AOC
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because she's such a dumb person. I don't think she should have a cool nickname because AOC is
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kind of cool. It's unique. But we're going to go ahead and use it because it's a lot harder to say
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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez every time. But this all came about because apparently AOCs Abuela,
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her poor dear grandmother is living in squalor. Okay. So on the 2nd of June 2021, AOC posted this
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tweet just over a week ago, my Abuela fell ill. I went to Puerto Rico to see her my first time in
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a year plus because of COVID. This is her home. Hurricane Maria relief hasn't arrived. Trump
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blocked relief money for for PR. So Puerto Rico, people are being forced to flee ancestral homes
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and developers are taking them, right? And then she posted a couple of pictures of the seemingly
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dilapidated house with, you know, kind of the the ceiling caving in and there's, you know,
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buckets around to catch the water and things like that. And so obviously her point was to make you
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feel bad for her and her grandmother. If that is her grandmother's house, like that's, that's
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not a great situation for her to be living in. There's a whole lot of furniture, everything's wet,
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sound a great situation, but it was really to dunk on Trump. And when you dunk on Trump,
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you dunk on the entire Republican party, blah, blah, blah, all those things. Now,
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this tweet didn't have the desired effect that AOC wanted because no one was looking to pile on
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Trump here. Instead, they piled on her and for good reason. So many were pointing out that she
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makes $174,000 a year in salary to be a congresswoman. Okay, that's just her salary. That doesn't include
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all the other money she makes from speaking gigs and modeling things or interviews or any of the
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other stuff where she gets money, any money she gets under the table, whatever. Okay, so she's
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wealthy, she makes a lot of money. She also has two, not one, but two very nice might even call them
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luxury apartments, one in Washington, DC, and one in New York City, two of the most expensive
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places on the planet to live. And she also just leased or bought a Tesla. So I don't know if you
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guys know this or not, Teslas aren't cheap vehicles, right? These aren't Honda Accords. These aren't,
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well, that's not a cheap vehicle. That's a fine vehicle, but it's an expensive vehicle. We'll
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say that. And I hate knowing anybody with a Honda Accord used to drive when they're a good whip,
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but I'm just going to say this, again, didn't have the desired effect. People from both sides
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of the aisle are like, this is not good. You make way too much money to allow your abuela to live in
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the squalor. So rightly people were looking at AOC like, Hey, how about you use some of that Tesla
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money to fix your poor abuela's roof, your damn self. Like, why are you looking at the government?
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Why are you looking at all these other entities in order to do that? So the daily wires, Matt Walsh,
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right? So that Matt Walsh, she'll do and say just about anything like he's a very
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straightforward guy when it comes to these things. He responded on Twitter by saying this,
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shameful that you live in luxury while allowing your own grandmother to suffer in these
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squalid conditions, right? So that that's a pretty good comeback. But then AOC clapped back at him,
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right? You know, she owned, you know, sleigh, queen, and she responded to Walsh saying this,
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you don't even have a concept for the role that first gen firstborn daughters play in their families.
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I don't know why that's relevant, but here we go. We'll keep going. My abuela is okay,
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but instead of only caring for mine and letting others suffer, I'm calling attention to the systemic
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injustices. There it is. You seem totally fine with in having a US colony. So Puerto Rico's definitely
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not a US colony, but okay, that's how she categorizes it. But she again, even in that tweet, she admits
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that her abuela is okay. Well, if she was okay, why did you post the pictures? More on that here
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in a little bit. But then Matt Walsh does one of the funniest and maybe one of the best trolls.
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I can't think of a better troll than this off the top of my head. And it's one of the best
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trolls of all time. Really. So Matt Walsh does this. He says, as you've heard, AOC's abuela is
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living in a dilapidated home that was ravaged by Hurricane Maria. AOC is unable to help her own
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grandmother for whatever reason. So I have set up this GoFundMe campaign to save her home. Please
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give if you can hashtag help abuela. Okay. And then he does have a little follow up tweet there and
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says, I will kick things off by donating by donating $499, which happens to be the cost of a monthly
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lease payment for a Tesla. I challenge Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boring all from the
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daily wire to match this donation together. We can change the world. Okay. So this is absolutely
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amazing. This, this is absolutely amazing for a lot of different ways. Number one, a GoFundMe
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actually gets people to donate and is real money that can be transferred to these people. It's a
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great thing. But in the first hour, they raised $10,000. Okay. Which is pretty awesome, right?
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$10,000 in an hour. And then a few hours later, they hit their initial goal, just a few hours later
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of $50,000. They eventually got to $100,000 over $100,000 in around 10 hours. It was the number one
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campaign on GoFundMe. Okay. And then the plug got pulled. So Matt Walsh tweets this, you know,
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about 10 hours or so into this whole escapade update. Someone at AOC's Abuela's family told GoFundMe
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that she won't take the money, even though AOC previously claimed that her grandma was in dire
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straits and it was Trump's fault. AOC still hasn't acknowledged this effort or thanked us.
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Here's the email from GoFundMe. And then it's just basically the email acknowledges that.
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And then he has a couple more tweets here. Tragically, this charitable effort has been sabotaged by
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forces outside of our control. Still, I'm grateful for the outpouring of support for
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Abuela, even in AOC, even if AOC isn't. But questions remain. Why didn't AOC help her own Abuela?
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Why has our help turned? Why was our help turned down? Why are sorry? Here we go. We are left to
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speculate. All right. So that was that tweet. And then the last one here in the end, our campaign
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raised over $100,000 and could have solved a problem in 10 hours that AOC couldn't solve in four years.
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We can all be proud of that. As for Abuela, all we can do now is pray. And then there's a screenshot
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of the amount that they raised $104,153. So as Matt Wells pointed out on his show on Monday,
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okay, this whole situation only leaves us with two explanations, right? Because, you know,
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we're past the trolls or we're past all the, you know, kind of fake philanthropy that turned into
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real philanthropy. But it only leaves us with two explanations. Number one, AOC would rather her
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grandmother and her entire community because that amount of money could have not only fixed up her
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house, you could have fixed up really all of the houses in the neighborhood, right? With the amount
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of money they were about to raise. If they didn't pull the plug on it, who says this doesn't go to
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half a million, a million, right? But AOC would rather her grandmother and the entire community,
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she lives and suffer than to accept money from generous conservatives. That's explanation one,
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or two, AOC's abuela was never actually in any trouble. And AOC was spinning this whole situation
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for her political gain. Now, I know you might be saying, now, wait a minute, that's quite the
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actual accusation without evidence. But we've seen this before with AOC, where she went down
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in her all white suit to the border, right? And she put herself by a fence and there just happened
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to be a professional photographer there, taking a picture of her holding her face and crying
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because she just couldn't believe the situation that was going on. Whoopsie, the place where they
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took that picture, there were no kids in cages anywhere near her. The only thing on the other side
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of that fence was sand and lizards. That was it. She took that picture for political gain. Oh, look
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at how, look at how much I care for these kids and how much I care for all these people. That's why
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she did it. But this situation actually made me think about two other things. Number one, socialist
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dogmatists write these zealots for socialism. They can't fathom charity. It charity doesn't even
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make sense to them. And that's why the right always outgives the left always.
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I mean, we've seen this talked about, you know, with Joe Biden, like, I think he's the
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president that went into the White House giving the less, but the least amount by percentage to
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charity than any other president in the history of the United States. I think I'm right on that.
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If I'm not, he's near the top, right? But these people that just believe in socialism, they
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believe the government should take care of everything, right? AOC is looking around for what
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government agency agency could help her abuela, right? But look at all these people that got together,
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people that disagree with AOC that would probably not even like AOC's abuela and those things that
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she thinks or who knows, they just gave money because it was the right thing to do. It's something
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that they wanted to do. It's something that they could do. But these dogmatists don't really care
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about that. And the second thing this made me think about is that AOC, like many in her age and
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younger, they will do anything. And I mean, anything to score points on social media.
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That's what this was. She was trying to dunk on Trump. She was bored on the second of June,
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and she was just like, ah, you know what? I got these pictures. I think I'm gonna dunk on Trump
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and conservatives. And they just dunked on her right back. It was a nasty one. It was like Blake
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Griffin over Kendrick Perkins back in the day. Like it was, it was bad. One of the worst
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undunks redunkings called what you will that I've ever seen. But again, this is not the last time
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that this will happen. Because the immediate aftermath from all these media, you know,
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quote, unquote media advocates and whatever, they basically came out and said that, you know,
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Matt Walsh was bullying her and that this was rude and that this was mean. But you got to ask the
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question, was the money real? And the answer to that question is, yes, when you give to go fund me,
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it's just, you know, it's a little, you know, text on a ticker. But that's real money.
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And that money is transferred to the beneficiary. It's real money. This was a real thing that they
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did. Maybe they did it with funny intentions or trolling intentions. But the outcome was
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really amazing. So I did want to go ahead and get that out there to you guys. And so I'm glad I
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was asked about that. So next question we got here, you've been a father for over one year now.
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What are your biggest takeaways so far? And one thing I guess I want to kind of back up on these,
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in on these Q and A's guys, some of these questions I've seen before and had a chance to kind of
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really go through others. You know, I just kind of glazed through. So this is one of the ones,
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I don't really have a prepared comments. I'll reread the question. You've been a father for
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over one year now. What are your biggest takeaways so far? So I guess I would probably start with
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everybody knows that raising a kid is hard, right? Everybody said that no one's like, Oh, my kid's
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super easy. They just do everything I want every time I want them to do it. But you don't know the
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specifics about how it's going to be hard because it can wear on you personally, it can wear on your
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relationship, it can wear on the kid. You know, we had some health issues with him that are just
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kind of now getting figured out. So those are all big positives. So that that's a positive thing.
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Also, I guess a big takeaway is, is you kind of realize how selfish you are. Sometimes or
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selfish, how selfish you've been with your time, the things that you do. Because when you have a kid,
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all those little pockets of time that you had that you were doing nothing, when you're playing
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games on your phone or playing video games or doing fantasy football draft prep or, you know,
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going and doing nothing for an hour, like, you don't really have those times anymore. So you're
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having to learn how to be efficient. And I guess, you know, everybody talks about how kids kind of
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explain expand your your possibilities for love and your, your, I guess, your maximums for love.
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Like you didn't know you could love anything. Now, the thing about it is, is my love for my
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wife is very, very different. I have a much deeper love because I've known her for 15 or 16 years.
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We've been a love for that length of time. So it's a little bit different. But you know,
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different things that didn't affect me before, like you'll rewatch a movie that you haven't
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watched in, you know, 10 or 15 years. And then all of a sudden that that little interaction
16:12
between the father and son gets you choked up. Right. Same thing whenever I was going through
16:16
the sacrifice book where, you know, Michelle Black's book, where we just, we just talked to her recently,
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the interactions that she was talking about with her kids, especially whenever her husband passed
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away when, when Brian was killed overseas, you know, those hit different. They hit a lot different
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now that I have a kid when I think about, you know, what would, what would I be feeling if I could,
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you know, hover over my situation. If I had just died and seeing, you know, what my wife and kids
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are going through. So those would be the things I would say that I've learned over the first
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year, you know, those biggest takeaways. All right, next thing here. All right, we got fight
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picks. So we have people wanting to know what I think about some upcoming UFC fights. So this
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Saturday, if you're listening to this on time, this Saturday is UFC 263. This is this is a big one,
16:53
even from top to bottom. Even some of the undercard fights are just amazing. But we've got Israel
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out of Sonya versus Martin Vittory to we've got Devison Figurito and Brandon Moreno. And this is
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their second fight as well for the championship. And then Leon Edwards versus Nate Diaz. So I'll
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work my way from the bottom up to the top. So Leon Edwards versus Nate Diaz, this is a five-rounder.
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I think this is the only time ever that there's, you know, the third fight on the main card is a
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five-rounder. I think that's a Nate Diaz thing. He wanted that because, you know, Nate Diaz,
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let's just be honest, Nate Diaz sucks. He's not good, right? He's a good fighter. Yeah, he could
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beat me up. Yeah, he could beat you up. But he's just not a really good fighter. People think he's
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a good fighter. No, he's a popular fighter. He's not a good fighter, but he's going for five rounds
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because his only way of potentially beating Leon Edwards is to wear him out. But the thing about
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it is, is I go back to the fight that he had with Dang it. All right, it was, uh, Hori Mazvidal,
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goodness, the fight he had with Hori Mazvidal, Mazvidal, he was getting pieced up for three
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rounds. People are like, Oh, no, he was just coming on, you know, fourth and fifth rounds,
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we're going to be his. No, they weren't. No, they weren't. He was just going to keep getting
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beat up. But the fight got stopped because of a cut, but Leon Edwards is better than Jorge Mazvidal.
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I think he's way better than Jorge Mazvidal. So I think Nate Diaz is just going to get beat up.
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I think this fight's going to get stopped by a cut. All right, because Nate Diaz is not a big time
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fighter, right? He's had some big time wins. Obviously beat Conor McGregor. You know, he beat,
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I'm trying to think of some of the people that he's beat recently because he's out, you know,
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he beat cowboy back in the day. You know, he beat, uh, Eddie, uh, not Eddie Alvarez,
18:16
did he beat over Eddie Alvarez? I can't even remember. But this guy has most of his big wins
18:19
are in his past, right? The last big win he had was against Conor McGregor. That was a long time ago.
18:24
So I think Leon Edwards is going to easily win this fight. And then he'll be next up probably,
18:29
you know, maybe for the 170 pound title picture, we'll see. Then we got Davidson Figurado
18:33
and Brandon Moreno. So this is a rematch of their fly wave, uh, championship fight from the end of
18:37
last year, which was either number one or number two in terms of fight of the year for last year.
18:41
I'm just going to be real quick on this one. That was an amazing fight. Brandon Moreno showed
18:45
unbelievable amounts of strength and toughness and all those different things. But that fight,
18:50
when you break it down, it felt close, but it wasn't really that close. There was a foul that
18:55
Figurado committed that was going to kind of throw the, the fight cards off a little bit like that.
19:00
But Brandon Moreno never really had Davidson Figurado in trouble in that fight. And so I think
19:05
we've seen the best that Brandon Moreno can fight against Davidson Figurado and it wasn't enough.
19:10
So in this fight, I don't think it's going to be nearly as easy. I don't know Brandon Moreno is,
19:14
it's even possible for him to get knocked out. But I do think he gets TKO in this fight.
19:18
I think Davidson Figurado keeps his 125 fly way title. And then we got the main event,
19:21
Israel Adasanya versus Marmatore. That's their second fight. They actually fought way back in
19:25
the day. It was either, is he's first or second fight in the UFC and this is for the middle weight
19:29
title at 185. And I'm just going to go out there on a limb guys. I'm going with Vitori in this one.
19:34
And I think I've said before, I'm not a huge Adasanya fan, you know, especially what he did
19:37
with Yolo Romero calling him out and then having such a stinker of a fight. You don't call out
19:41
the monster and then decide to fight defensively the entire time. Like I'm sorry, I'm just not
19:44
really into that. But Israel Adasanya, he just got beat by Yambo Hobich because he went up to 205
19:50
to try to take that title. And Yambo Hobich basically gave us the, you know, the menu or
19:55
not the menu, but he gave us a blueprint rather for how to beat him, right? And the basically Yambo
20:00
Hobich stayed out of range of some of Adasanya's bigger shots in the first three rounds. And then
20:05
he basically took Adasanya down for the last two rounds. Vitori can take Adasanya down and hold
20:10
him, right? Can you do that for five rounds? I don't really know. But I think Vitori has more
20:15
ways to win where Adasanya, he's got the more flashy ways to win. You know, he can knock you
20:19
out with a scissor kick, he can knock you out with a, you know, Superman punch, he can knock you
20:22
out with a million different things. But if Vitori doesn't get hit as he didn't really get hit in
20:27
their last fight, I think you can pull it out. So that's who I'm going with. All right, then on
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July the 10th, we've got the big one, right? That's UFC 264. This is a trilogy fight between
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Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier. And then there's also on that fight card Gilbert Burns versus
20:39
Stephen Wonderboy Thompson. So that's kind of a 170 eliminator type fight. So these guys are
20:44
probably two fights away from being, you know, ready for championship type of thing. Gilbert
20:48
Burns just lost in a championship challenge against Kamara Usman. But I'm going to go with
20:53
Wonderboy Thompson in this one. I think he's on the Ascension. This is his last ride to potentially
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win a title. He's never won a title in the UFC. He's lost twice to tired Woodley, who we'll talk
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about more later. But I'm going to go ahead and go with Stephen Wonderboy Thompson. But let's go
21:05
and get into the main event. Conor McGregor versus Dustin Poirier. Obviously the first meeting
21:09
a long time ago, Conor McGregor dusted Dustin Poirier early in the first round. Okay, then they have
21:14
the rematch. And Dustin Poirier, you know, he surprised Conor McGregor with a takedown earlier
21:20
in that fight. He destroyed his lead leg because Connor was heavy on the lead leg with his wide
21:24
stance, kind of more of a boxing stance got beat up. And then he actually ended up getting knocked
21:28
out in the second round of that fight. So here we've got the immediate rematch. This is a trilogy
21:32
match. You know, neither one of these guys are worried about the title right now. They're worried
21:35
about the money fight. And this is the money fight. But as I look at this fight, there's so
21:39
much that can happen by July 10th. But I'm not putting a lot of stock into what I see on Twitter
21:44
on Instagram or anything like that. I know they're both working out. I know they're both working on
21:47
their games. But here's the thing. Dustin Poirier couldn't have fought any better the last time he
21:52
fought Conor McGregor, right? And Conor McGregor had him hurt in the first round. Dustin Poirier
21:57
surprised him with the takedown. He surprised him with the low calf kicks. There's not another
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surprise that Dustin Poirier can pull out that's going to affect the fight in that big of a way.
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Now, I think that Dustin Poirier is a much more durable fighter. You know, when Conor McGregor
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knocked out Dustin Poirier, that was at 145. This fights at 155. Dustin Poirier seems to be,
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you know, in a lot better shape physically at 155. He's he's much more dense of a guy. He's
22:23
harder to knock out. But Connor did have him hurt in the first round. He just didn't follow it up.
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I think Connor's got really good coaches around him. And this, this is a toss up fight. That's why
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there's not going to be a huge favorite one where the other, and you know, if you look at the Vegas
22:34
odds, but I think Conor McGregor pulls this out. I think he's going to be able to make those adjustments
22:38
and make those changes. But I will just say this, if he does lose, that might be the last time we
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see him fight. You know, this is a guy again, it's hard to wake up and run those early morning miles
22:47
when you wake up in silk sheets. We've all heard it before, but he's the number one fighter on the
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Forbes list for this year because he sold air, you know, his portion of proper 12 and those
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different things like that. So the guy's good to go. The motivation to just take on all these
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killers at 155. I question if it's there. But if he beats Dustin Poria, he's fighting for the title
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and you know, we'll kind of see where it goes. A couple more fights. I want to kind of go through
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a UFC fight night, July 17th, max Holloway former champion versus Yair Rodriguez. I got to be honest,
23:13
I was surprised Max Holloway signed this because whenever he beat the brakes off a Calvin Cater,
23:17
it's like, dude, just sit around until there's a title fight for you. But he wants to stay busy.
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Yair Rodriguez is a top five fighter. But here's the thing. I don't think this is going to be a close
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fight. And I know this is a little bit of MMA math, but Korean zombie. Yeah, you know, he destroyed
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Yair Rodriguez in their fight a couple of years ago for 24 minutes and 57 seconds. Absolutely destroyed
23:38
him. But Yair landed an unbelievably impressive and lucky shot this kind of back elbow thing
23:45
to knock out Korean zombie at the very, very end of their fight. Max Holloway is way better
23:51
than Korean zombie. He's way better. And just about every way that someone can be better way,
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way, way, way, way, way better. Okay. So I don't think that this is going to be a close fight.
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Can Yair Rodriguez do some sort of like big time thing and knock him out? Yeah, he certainly can.
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But Max Holloway is incredibly durable. And I just think he, I think he wins this easily. I think
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this is going to be a baptism max Holloway all the way. And then he's going to fight the the winner of
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Alexander Volkinovsky and T city to basically try to get his title back as a 145 title back last
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fight. We'll go over his fight night July 24th. Because I don't know when the next time we're
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going to be doing a Q and A is we have Corey Sandhagen versus TJ Jillis Chaw. This is TJ
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Dillis Chaw's first fight after coming off a two year suspension for doping. And Corey Sandhagen
24:33
is about as much on an ascension as you can get. Right. He lost that fight back in the day to
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man, I'm like bad today. I'm like remembering people's names. The current champion is going
24:43
to drive me insane. Oh, goodness. I mean, we're just, you know, we're going to look this up live.
24:48
I can't get a leg, literally draw you a picture of this guy. I can hear his coaches yelling at him
24:52
in the corner. He just, you know, sort of won that fight against Peter Jan. Algace Sterling.
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Goodness. I didn't even have to look it up. For those of you that wondering, I didn't even touch
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the the keyboard yet. Algace Sterling. So Corey Sandhagen lost to Algace Sterling back in the day.
25:04
It was an easy win for Algace to be honest. But Corey Sandhagen has absolutely looked amazing.
25:08
He destroyed Frankie Edgar, one of the saddest knockouts I've ever seen. I literally yelled out
25:13
Oh, no, as soon as he landed that flying knee, this is kind of a hard one. Because for me,
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until further notice, I think that TJ Doleshaw is the best 135 pounder in the world. But he hasn't
25:23
fought for two years. Is he slower? He said doubles shoulder surgery, right? Is that going to make
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him better? Is that going to make him tighter? I don't want to know. But until further notice,
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until it's proven to me that TJ Doleshaw is not the best 135 pounder on the planet,
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I'm going to go with TJ Doleshaw. I'm not a really a fan of him anymore, because I'm not really
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fan of people that dope in general. But I wouldn't be surprised at all of Corey Sandhagen actually
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took this. All right, we're going to stay in the world of fighting, but we're going to move over
25:48
to like the freak show that has been boxing recently. Here's the next question. What are your
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thoughts on the Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather boxing match over the weekend? So they've
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been listening to this on time last Sunday, Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul. Yes, Floyd Mayweather,
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supposedly the greatest boxer ever versus Logan Paul, a YouTube star that I think is one in one
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or one and two in his, you know, boxing career that an eight round exhibition match. No, I did not
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watch it, right? Why in the world would I pay 50 bucks to watch that? Because I could tell you
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what was going to happen. I had a buddy text me the morning of the fight and say, dude, I'm
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thinking about, you know, betting the house on Floyd Mayweather, knocking this guy out.
26:23
Am I crazy? And I said, dude, why would Floyd Mayweather? Because Logan Paul is a big kid. He's
26:27
about 40 pounds bigger than Floyd Mayweather. He's a long kid, but he's not a boxer. But if
26:31
you're going to knock somebody out, you have to take risks, right? As a boxer, you have to open
26:35
yourself up a little bit in order to knock somebody out. Logan Paul was long enough and athletic enough
26:39
to maybe survive. So this always felt to me like it was going to be a decision, even though there
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weren't judges. I felt like this was going to go the full eight rounds. There wasn't going to be a
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knockout. I thought there might be a knockdown or two for Floyd Mayweather on Logan Paul, but
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there just wasn't. The thing is is I'm not mad at these dudes because both of them made tens of
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millions of dollars to do this thing. It was a freak show. I don't think this destroys Floyd
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Mayweather's legacy. This guy is in his 40s and he's still getting paid tens of millions of dollars
27:06
to box. But I just got to tell you, for those of you that watched that fight expecting something
27:10
different, what have you been watching for the last multiple decades with Floyd Mayweather?
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How many times do you leave a Floyd Mayweather paper view satisfied? Because people talk about,
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oh, you know, boxing's about not getting hit. But he's not an exciting fighter to watch because of
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his defensiveness, right? It's amazing. It's the sweet science. It's all those things. It's not
27:26
appealing. Why would you want to part with 70, 80 bucks to watch a paper view to watch a guy hug
27:31
and duck out of the way? Now he's just an old guy that's hugging and ducking out of the way.
27:36
So those are my thoughts on Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather.
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Our next thing here, what are your thoughts on the Jake Paul versus Tyron Woodley boxing match
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that will occur later this year? Okay, I think this fight's going to happen in like October or
27:48
something like that. So Jake Paul, another YouTube star, the younger brother of Logan Paul,
27:52
you know, just knocked out been aspirin, Tyron Woodley's boy. Here's how this all started.
27:56
You can send one member of your team into the other team's locker room whenever they're
28:01
taping up the hands, right? Just to make sure there's no chicanery, no craziness going on and
28:04
all that kind of stuff. You're just there watching. Well, when Tyron Woodley's in there,
28:08
just mining his own business before Jake Paul is going to go out there and fight when his best
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friends have been aspirin, they start chirping at Tyron Woodley. And I remember even with all
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the stuff that went on and all that craziness that I went on with that paper view, I remember
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thinking to myself, ooh, you don't want to do that. You know, Jake Paul and his coaches are kind of
28:27
John and Tyron Woodley. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, bro. That's T. Wood. You don't want any of
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that T. Wood's a serious dude, right? This guy used to just get into street fights because he
28:37
liked to fight so much. And then he got paid a lot of money to do that professionally. You don't
28:41
want to mess with him, but you know, Tyron kind of, you know, held his tongue. And he said later,
28:45
he's like, look, that wasn't my fight. This was, you know, all about been aspirin. Of course,
28:48
been aspirin, a guy that was never a boxer, never a striker in any context whatsoever. He was an
28:54
MMA champion because he was a take downer and a ground and pounder. This it was a horrible fight.
28:59
He had seven months after, you know, hip surgery, he wasn't in shape. It was awful. It was awful
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in every way possible. I never thought a million years that Jake Paul would actually sign on the
29:08
dotted line to fight Tyron Woodley. Five time UFC welterweight champion, right? Knocked out Robbie
29:14
Lawler to win the belt, right? Just devastating power in his hands, right? But he did. He signed.
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I don't know what Jake Paul's team sees, but I hope they're not doing MMA math for Tyron Woodley.
29:27
Because if you're thinking about it, Tyron Woodley lost his last four UFC fights, his last four MMA
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fights, right? But we got to look at who he lost to and how he lost to them. Okay? So he lost his
29:38
belt to Kamara Usman, right? Kamara Usman basically wrestled him up against the cage
29:44
and beat him up for five rounds. Tyron looked terrible. Then he goes out and loses to Gilbert
29:49
Burns. Gilbert Burns basically does the exact same thing that Kamara Usman did, except Gilbert
29:55
Burns actually hurt Tyron Woodley in the first round of that fight. But then he just basically
29:58
smashed him for 25 minutes. Then we got to look at Colby Covington. Colby Covington did the exact
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same thing that Kamara Usman and Gilbert Burns did, maybe even a little bit more impressively,
30:08
like just pressured him up against the cage. There was never any time for Tyron Woodley to strike.
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I'm not sure Tyron Woodley even landed anything. It was a terrible performance. So those are three
30:17
horrible fights in a row for Tyron Woodley. But then he just fought Vicente Luque and what was his
30:21
last fight in the UFC. He looked great in the first round. He looked fast. He looked aggressive.
30:27
He hurt Vicente Luque, but then Vicente Luque ended up catching him and beating him and
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you know, knocking him out and it was it was a bad deal for Tyron for fight losing streak.
30:36
But he lost to Kamara Usman, Gilbert Burns, Colby Covington, and Vicente Luque.
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Those first three guys I mentioned, Usman, Burns, and Covington, those are top five
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welterweights on the planet. Any organization, those guys are in the top five, right?
30:55
That might be your top three 170 pounders on the planet. And then Vicente Luque is a bonafide top
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10 170 pounder on the planet. There's no shame in losing to those guys. Now, when whenever you
31:06
run off all the title defenses, Tyron Woodley had, you know, it does seem a little bit weird
31:10
that he would have such a struggle with some of these guys. But I don't think that Jake Paul's
31:15
team is giving Tyron Woodley very much credit. Now, if you're a betting person, I would tell you
31:20
to bet the farm on Tyron Woodley, you know, bet the neighbors farm, bet everything on Tyron Woodley.
31:25
But I, I don't trust these Paul brothers. I don't trust the triller or thriller or whatever the
31:31
organization is that they're doing these boxing matches with, if there were ever to be a fix,
31:36
this would be the fight, even though it's kind of weird because Jake Paul is being considered
31:39
the favorite right now. But it would not be crazy to me to think that Tyron Woodley would take a fall
31:46
to make, you know, tens of millions of dollars for one night. Because from his perspective, his
31:51
legacy might already be destroyed. He lost his last four fights in the UFC. No one cares about his
31:54
rap career. Nobody's like knocking on his door to be some bad dude in a, in a, you know, acting
31:59
situation. So I don't really know. But if this is a strict boxing fight, Tyron Woodley should and
32:04
will beat the breaks off of Jake Paul. All right, we're gonna get into the next question here. Kyle,
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what are your thoughts on the recent high school abortion speech that was made by the
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valedictorian down in a high school in Texas? Okay, so this situation is really, really important
32:19
and really telling in a lot of ways. But I want you to remember this name. Paxton Smith.
32:24
Because this is the lat, not the last time I need you to stretch the imagination that you're
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going to hear this girl's name. She's the latest child hero of the left because she, because of what
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she did at her high school graduation. So to give you a little background, Paxton is a senior at
32:37
Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas. She was delivering her valedictorian speech, right? You
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know, great honor for her. Great, great that she even got there. And instead of delivering her
32:46
prepared and approved remarks, because you know, they have to submit their speech to the, you know,
32:50
to the principal school board, whatever, so they can approve it. So they don't go out there and
32:54
act a fool. But she decided to become a champion for baby murder. That's what she wanted to use
32:59
her few minutes of glory for. So she said that she was supposed to even, you know, when she started
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her remarks that she was supposed to talk about media and things like that, but that her conscience
33:08
couldn't let her do that because of quote unquote recent events. Okay, so what she was referring to
33:13
is the Texas heartbeat bill, which was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg, Greg Abbott. So thank
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you so much, Greg Abbott for doing that, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected,
33:23
which is around the six week mark. Now, I will go ahead and say what I've said before about heartbeat
33:28
bills. The thing about heartbeat bills is they're easy to get around if you're playing parenthood,
33:31
because if you're an evil ultrasound nurse, you're just going to whoops, didn't find the heartbeat.
33:35
I guess we can go and murder this child now. And also it just kind of implies that, you know,
33:39
what about the kids that are less than six weeks old in the womb? Do they not matter?
33:44
But again, I get the idea. Most women don't know that they're pregnant at the six week mark,
33:49
right? They've only missed their period by maybe a couple of weeks. But you know, I do like this.
33:52
I do think this is step in the right direction. It's just not a complete step in that direction.
33:56
This law is set to go into effect in September of this year. But I'm going to go and get into
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the clip here. I'm going to play just a short clip of what she's saying. And I'll probably cut in and
34:04
out just kind of give you some analysis. And then I'll give you some things that we can take away
34:07
from the situation. And also put the link here in the show notes, just so you can click along or
34:13
watch along with YouTube if you want to or watch it later. Her speech starts around the five-minute
34:17
mark, maybe a little bit before that. But we're going to go and get started. This is around the
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five-minute 19-second mark. So here we go. Recently, the heartbeat bill was passed in Texas.
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Starting in September, there will be a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy,
34:32
regardless of whether the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. Okay, so quick pause here,
34:39
because again, I got to kind of cut in and out here. But rape and incest is well less than one
34:44
percent of all abortions, right? So when people give that argument to you, you can't seed the
34:48
ground to them, because you got to ask them, are the 99 plus percent of all other abortions
34:52
wrong if we can have a conversation about rape and incest? Because every time they bring that up,
34:57
they do that to appeal to some sort of an emotional thing inside of you. But it's not a logical thing,
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right? It doesn't matter how the pregnancy happened. It matters whether or not you're going to destroy
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the life that resulted from that sexual act. Okay, so here we go back into it.
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Six weeks, that's all women get. And so before they realize, most of them don't realize that
35:17
they're pregnant by six weeks. So before they have a chance to decide if they are emotionally,
35:23
physically and financially stable enough to carry out a full term pregnancy, before they
35:31
have the chance to decide if they can take on the responsibility of bringing another human being
35:35
into the world, that decision is made for them by a stranger, a decision that will affect the
35:42
rest of their lives is made by a stranger. Again, surprise, surprise, these are all emotive attacks,
35:48
right? These are these are emotive things to get you to think, Oh, man, this is such a hard
35:51
situation. But again, overwhelmingly over 99% of the people that get pregnant, get pregnant because
35:58
they were doing a sexual act, consensually, right? These were not people that were being held down
36:02
and raped, right by a family member or otherwise. That's not the reality. So this girl is talking
36:08
about this, this young woman is talking about this as if this is just something that happened,
36:12
right? This just happened to her. No, choices were made and there are consequences of those choices.
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And you shouldn't be thinking of a baby as some massive negative consequence. Okay, but back into
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it. I have dreams and hopes and ambitions. Every girl graduating today does. And we have spent our
36:30
entire lives working towards our future. And without our input and without our consent,
36:36
our control over that future has been stripped away from us. I am terrified that if my contraceptive
36:45
fail, I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts
36:53
for my future will no longer matter. Mimi, Mimi, it's all about me. Let's not focus on the baby,
36:59
right? It's all about me, my aspirations and the things that I want to do. Mimi, Mimi, Mimi,
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all right, let's let her finish. I hope that you can feel how gut wrenching that is. I hope
37:09
you can feel how dehumanizing it is to have the autonomy over your own body taken away from you.
37:16
And I'm talking about this today on a day as important as this on a day honoring 12 years
37:24
of hard academic work on a day where we are all gathered together on a day where you are most
37:30
inclined to listen to a voice like mine, a woman's voice, to tell you that this is a problem and
37:38
it's a problem that cannot wait and I cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace
37:46
when there is a war on my body and a war on my right, a war on the rights of your mothers,
37:53
a war on the rights of your sisters, a war on the rights of your daughters. We cannot stay silent.
38:01
Thank you. So obviously this is kind of that big crescendo at the end. Everyone starts clapping.
38:09
This is great. All her classmates are out there on the football field separated by six feet because
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they're, you know, administrators or morons. But yes, she had her moment in the sun and then obviously
38:18
automatically she got all types of plotted from people on the left, all these pro abortion people
38:22
that just love this young lady, right? They got another zealot, right? They can expose this girl
38:27
and they can exploit her and do everything that they need to do. But this brought up a lot of very
38:32
important things that we need to talk about from the very, very beginning. Okay. So the first thing
38:37
is that Paxton Smith is ignorant. Okay. So, so here's the thing. Most commentators, right?
38:44
And I just got to talk about this from the beginning before I get into the rest of my points. Most
38:47
commentators are giving this girl a pass because, you know, she's just a kid, quote unquote. I mean,
38:53
just a kid. She's graduating from high school guys, conservative common commenters and Christian
38:59
commenters that are given this girl pass. She's graduating from high school. That means she's
39:02
either 18 right now or she's about to turn 18. We have a term for that here in the United States.
39:07
And that's an adult. She's legally an adult or about to be an adult. I give her no such pass,
39:13
right? She doesn't get a pass. Now, she might change her mind later in life, but typically people
39:18
that think this way don't change their mind. They get further ingrained in that ideology.
39:21
So the first thing about Paxton Smith is that she is ignorant. She's an ignorant person, right?
39:25
Again, she has heard all these arguments before and she thinks that she has made up her mind and
39:30
that her way of thinking is the best. And she's giving no regard whatsoever to the baby that's inside
39:35
of her. Okay, which leads to the next point, which is that Paxton Smith is selfish. I mean,
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that entire speech guys, the entire thing is about her, right? And you know, she would probably say
39:45
another people say, no, no, she's talking about all women. And she's talking about all these issues.
39:49
She's talking about everybody. It's kind of like AOC. It's like, no, no, don't focus on Abuela,
39:53
right? Don't focus on the person that I told you to focus on. Focus on everybody that is
39:57
being affected by systemic injustices, whatever those are. But then Paxton Smith comes out
40:01
and she's basically talking about her and her 12 year struggle to graduate from high school.
40:07
My goodness. Let's get her 10 trophies because she graduated from high school. Great. Thanks for
40:12
doing something that literally almost everybody has done before goodness gracious. But then at the
40:16
same time, you have this gal talking about her future and the things that would go wrong if she
40:22
couldn't do what she wanted to do, right? She's incredibly selfish. And then you have Paxton Smith
40:28
and just another aside because people are like, why are you picking on this little girl again?
40:31
She's an adult. And she made this an issue. Don't get mad at me for talking about it.
40:35
She made this an issue. She went up and gave this speech and she knew what she was doing. She maybe
40:40
didn't know that it would, you know, go around the world and make her famous, but she knew what she
40:43
was doing. Okay. So as an adult, if she brings it up, I can talk about it. The next thing about Paxton
40:48
Smith is that she has evil ideologies. And I'm being very careful and not calling her evil. She
40:55
might be an evil person. But all that I know about Paxton Smith is that she believes evil things.
41:00
She has evil ideologies. She's a zealot for murder. Think about it. All she can think about
41:07
is what she and the other girls like her could do if her contraceptives fail or if these things
41:14
happen. No concern for what comes from what happens when your contraceptives sell. And that's
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getting pregnant with a baby, a new life that as a superhero, as a woman, you get to push out
41:26
of your vaginal canal and then keep it alive in a way that only you can do, right? But she believes
41:33
these evil, evil things, which gets to the last point and then we'll let Paxton Smith off the hook
41:38
for now, because again, this is not the last we're going to have heard from her. She's going to be
41:41
put everywhere. She's probably going to be talking at the next D and C. Paxton Smith is a sponge.
41:46
She's a sponge. Guys, where do you think she got these ideas about abortion?
41:54
Is it possible that she grew up in a family without where, you know, all Democrats are
41:58
very left leaning and maybe they went and volunteered for Planned Parenthood and all
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this, everything? That's certainly possible. I don't know that to be the case, but it's certainly
42:04
possible. But I have another guess likely from her teachers growing up from her K through 12
42:12
teachers, her public school teachers that were supposed to be teaching her reading, writing,
42:18
arithmetic, history, civics, science, something else. But instead they were teaching her how to be
42:25
a leftist, whether they were doing that on purpose or whether they were just useful idiots in the
42:30
process. Okay, because I think I don't know if I mentioned this on this podcast or not, but there's
42:34
a local business leader here in my community that she was talking about how glad she was
42:39
that her 16 year old was having these, you know, discussions in school about racial violence and
42:46
racial reconciliation and, you know, all the things that go in with that social justice and all that.
42:51
And I kind of pushed back on her and I was like, Hey, look, this probably isn't the best thing for
42:56
a teacher to be doing because what were they talking about this in an English class, right?
43:00
I think they were maybe they were reading to kill a mockingbird and they were talking about racism.
43:04
But it's like most of these teachers aren't even good enough to get all their kids at acceptable
43:10
levels of performance, whether it's on testing or just to get them to the next level. So why
43:17
in the world do we want these state officials telling us and telling our kids what they should
43:23
think about things or even having those discussions? I'm sorry, you were not qualified to do that.
43:27
You're probably not even qualified to be teaching my kid. And yet you want to have a
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discussion about abortion, about racism, about anything taxation. No, that is not your role.
43:38
You stay in your lane. Your lane is not to have those discussions with my kid.
43:42
But Paxton Smith probably had a dozen of those teachers or more, maybe even coaches or even other
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other people activities, you know, directors or whatever that were just feeding these things into
43:53
her. Maybe it was YouTube, maybe it was social media, maybe it was AOC, maybe it was Hillary Clinton.
43:58
Who knows? But she picked up all these things because she didn't say anything unique, guys.
44:02
She has literally said things that people have been saying that are on the pro-abortion side of
44:06
this argument for forever. This isn't unique by any stretch of the imagination. She's not an
44:10
impressive person. I pity her because she's going to walk in to whatever university she goes into now,
44:16
which is going to be a leftist place and people like, Oh my gosh, that's Paxton Smith. That's the
44:21
famous girl that talked about how much her life would be ruined if she couldn't kill her baby
44:26
after the six week mark. So if that's all she does with her life, that that will be the mark she's
44:32
left on humanity was that speech when she was 17 or 18 years old. So this is a great call to action
44:38
for all you guys. You need to be praying for that girl. That girl's messed up. She believes
44:42
some very, very evil things. And she's going to be around around a bunch of people this fall
44:46
that are going to believe the exact same ways that she does. And she's going to be further ingrained in
44:50
that. We should pray that the gospel sweeps over that girl and helps her realize that what's growing
44:55
inside of her is not her. And she's not pregnant. But what could be growing inside her someday is
44:59
not her. She's not have a right to kill that thing regardless of what the government tells her.
45:04
All right, guys, next question here. This one came from an Instagram follower.
45:08
What was the best slash worst thing about being in your twenties, right? So I guess,
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I guess this guy thinks I'm old, right? Hey, I'm 34. I'm still spry. All right. But hey,
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you know, we'll take your question. So I guess we'll start out with the best thing.
45:20
Best thing for my twenties was getting married young and traveling.
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So a lot of people might say the latter part, but not really the first part. So my wife and I got
45:29
married when we were both 22, right? So by the time I was 30, I had been married for almost a decade.
45:34
And I know when I used to live in New York City, people thought like I was insane.
45:37
They're like, wait a minute. I was like 25 and had been married for three years. And they're like,
45:41
what? They're like 40 and they're just now looking around for a life partner. And then they wonder
45:45
why they struggle to get pregnant and you know, struggle to, you know, do all those different
45:49
things. It's because you did the business thing, right? You did the career thing first. You did
45:52
the travel thing. You did all the selfish stuff first. And now the building, the family thing
45:55
that you wanted to come later after you got everything set up is not quite working out for you.
45:59
It's not something that I want to be super critical of. It's something that's really sad to point
46:02
out. So I just want to point at it. But getting married so young was awesome. But my wife and I
46:06
averaged for the first, you know, 10 or so years of our marriage, we took one international trip
46:10
every other year. So we've been to Japan. We've done a Mediterranean cruise. We did a cruise in
46:14
Australia, New Zealand. Like, and you know, that's one of the reasons why we don't buy each other
46:18
birthday gifts. We don't buy each other, you know, Valentine's Day gifts. We don't do anniversary
46:23
gifts for one another. We don't do Christmas gifts for one another. We would take that money
46:26
and we would allocate that money that we were going to spend on each other on stuff. Basically,
46:29
that we'd be blowing stuff that isn't thoughtful. It's just stuff that you buy and give to somebody
46:33
so that they don't get mad at you for 24 hours. We just put all that money into a travel fund.
46:37
And that's how we funded all these trips. We didn't go into debt to do any of these trips. We paid
46:41
for these trips with cash and air miles and stuff like that. And that was the best part of my 20s
46:45
is because I can look back because you have these folks that, you know, they'll save their entire
46:48
life for that trip to Rome. But by the time they've saved up for it, maybe they're in their 60s,
46:52
maybe they're not in great health, maybe their bodies aren't in great shape or something like that.
46:56
And the thought of walking around on cobblestone streets for a week doesn't really fit. And maybe
47:01
now you're diabetic. So, you know, gelato is not really going to be helpful for you to be taken in.
47:05
So we're glad that we did that young and we're going to continue traveling. The worst part about
47:10
my 20s didn't really prepare something for this. But I guess I would say I took a lot of learning
47:15
lumps that I wish I hadn't, right? I mean, it's good for me now, but especially within my career,
47:20
I think, especially in my, because I graduated from college in 2008 before I went and got my
47:25
master's. But that was around kind of the financial crisis of 2008, 2009. It wasn't really easy to
47:30
find a job. I was averaging. Basically, I look back on my career up to this point. It's like,
47:35
I've basically averaged a job, a different career, a different type of job for every year I've been
47:40
out of college. That's not really great. I've seen some friends of mine that maybe weren't the best
47:44
students, maybe weren't the most involved, maybe weren't the most impressive people coming up,
47:48
that they just took the first job they could get right out of school and then they've just
47:51
stayed there. And now they've been there for over 10 years and they're working well and things
47:54
are going really, really well for them. I've really had that road. So I've had kind of a little
47:58
bit of a pockmarked pass when it comes to career and things like that. And so that would be probably
48:02
the worst part about my twenties is just kind of bouncing around a little bit. But hey, finding,
48:07
you know, finding my voice here with undaunted life and with you guys, it's obviously landing.
48:11
So I think that that's important. All right. Next question. Kyle, who do you prefer Donald Trump
48:15
or Ron DeSantis? Okay. So that is former president Donald Trump or the current governor of Florida
48:20
around DeSantis. So this wasn't, this is an easy one for me. It's clearly DeSantis. Okay.
48:25
Because I know there are a lot of people holding out hope that Trump is going to, you know,
48:29
like a Phoenix rise from the ashes and run again in 2024. And I think if that happens,
48:34
it'll be an even bigger beatdown than this last one. And again, talk about the election and all
48:39
things that happened again, this idea that Joe Biden, a dead person can get way more votes
48:44
than Barack Obama did, even at his height of popularity. Man, I just can't really get that
48:48
through my head, but even a dead person. I don't think that that Joe Biden will be running for a
48:52
second term. It'll be Kamala Harris, but Trump is so polarizing. And now he's got January 6 hanging
48:58
from his neck, right? Regardless of if you think it's, it's his fault or not, tens of millions of
49:02
people in the United States voters think it was his fault. They think he basically told a bunch of
49:06
dorks to go and storm the Capitol, right? So even with all the positives from the Trump presidency
49:12
in the first three years, no one was thinking about that in the year of COVID. And yes, the media
49:15
was against him and all that blah, blah, blah. And you can see that the US media Democrats are
49:20
scared of Ron DeSantis because he is currently, you know, getting attacked no matter what he does,
49:25
he's being attacked. And so that's kind of the thing that I think with him, the thing that I like
49:30
the most about Ron DeSantis is that he is not the worst parts of Trump. He's the best parts of Trump,
49:37
right? He will point out things that are stupid. He will move legislatively to make those things
49:41
happen. You know, he's a governor and not maybe like a house representative person. So he's
49:45
really in the inner workings of running a state. It's a swing state, right? So you would want Florida
49:51
to stay red, right? It was red for Trump two times. But you know, you'd want it to stay red.
49:55
But I think Ron DeSantis is, you know, the other side of Trump's personality. I think Trump has
50:01
kind of ran his course. He's done his thing. I want him to get out of the way now.
50:05
Go and you know, hit the road for Ron DeSantis or somebody else, like go and hit the road for
50:11
these people. But if he's the focus of the story, it's bad for Republicans, in my opinion.
50:16
Again, I know a lot of people listening to this or big MAGA people and hey, to each their own,
50:20
I didn't vote for him in 2016. Ball Times, I did decide to vote for him in 2020.
50:24
Go back. I forget what number the episode is, but I did an entire episode on the reasons
50:28
to vote for Donald Trump. And I also did an entire episode for Joe Biden. So if you haven't heard
50:30
that one, you might like it. It's pretty funny. But the Donald Trump thing, I think it's ran.
50:35
It's ran its course. He's going to continue to get pounded by social media. They just updated his
50:40
suspension to Facebook for another two years. So he's going to be gone from one of the biggest
50:44
social media platforms on the planet, the biggest social media platform on the planet,
50:47
for at least another two years. That's through the midterms next year. But he would potentially
50:50
be able to come back for for his run. It's just not the same, right? He can't talk directly to the
50:55
American people on Facebook or on Twitter, especially on Twitter because of the lifetime ban. I just
50:59
think Trump needs to just do his thing on the side. Do your TV thing, like, you know, launch a radio
51:04
station, do whatever you want. But just get out of the way and let Ron DeSantis do his thing.
51:08
And I'm not saying Ron DeSantis is number one, like the 100% the guy that needs to happen
51:13
for the Republican Party in 2024. But I'd certainly prefer him over Trump.
51:17
All right. Next question here. So this is you guys taking the AMA thing to its logical end.
51:22
Have you ever smoked weed? And I can honestly say, guys, no, I have never used marijuana in any form
51:28
in my entire life. Okay. And so I know for some of you, that might seem surprising because just
51:32
about everybody has tried weed in some way, shape or form. They've tried marijuana. They've
51:36
either done edibles or they've smoked it from a bong or whatever. Weed has never appealed to me
51:42
in any way, shape or form. Okay. So I know you're going to come up with these examples of these
51:47
geniuses in your life that smoke weed. Oh, and Joe Rogan and, you know, Elon Musk and the, you know,
51:52
these really, really famous people, they smoke weed. The people that I was around growing up
51:55
that smoked weed were losers. For the most part, right? If you had to categorize them,
52:00
these were not top students. These were not top athletes. These were not people that were crushing
52:05
it. These weren't people that were getting scholarships go to school. These were people
52:08
that were just trying to make it, trying to eat their way through life. And they would smoke weed.
52:12
That was like their reprieve from, you know, a bad family or, you know, hating their school
52:17
teachers and all those other different things. It was this countercultural thing. It never appealed
52:20
to me. Okay. I didn't drink either as a kid. That didn't appeal to me either. Even though
52:24
now I drink whiskey, like it's something that I really enjoy. I teach classes on how to drink
52:28
whiskey and, you know, the history and all that. All that's great. But again, marijuana has just
52:33
never really been something that I've ever ever even wanted to try. The idea of being out of control,
52:37
not not out of control, like flying around crazy, like people that do get drunk all the time, but like
52:41
just being high and just like when I see people and they're like, they get all paranoid and things
52:46
like that. Look, I don't want that. Like I like, I don't need that. I'm a pretty high strung guy,
52:51
but I know how to relax. Right? Part of the reason why I work out so much and so hard
52:55
is because I need to kind of take that edge off. I don't need a substance like weed to do that.
52:59
And frankly, I don't need whiskey to do that either. When I drink whiskey,
53:02
I get to the point where I'm just, I like the taste of it. Same thing with cigars. I like the
53:06
taste of it. This is not something that I do every day. I might drink once or twice a month and have
53:10
one or two. It's just kind of a relaxing thing. I don't ever even get close to, you know, the
53:15
sinfulness of being drunk. Like it's just not really something I want to do. And I think there
53:19
are issues. We don't see weed or marijuana talked about specifically in scripture. But I think
53:24
there are some arguments that say that we need to kind of be in the now and live in the now because
53:28
that is the now that God has given us right as a gift. And so when you take a substance like weed,
53:33
it takes you to a different place. I don't know that's necessarily the right thing. I don't think
53:37
this is a hill to die on for a lot of Christians. But no, she's not something that's ever appealed
53:40
to me. It's not something I'll ever do. Our next question here, has anything surprised you so far
53:45
this major league baseball season? So for those of you that are communist, you're not going to
53:48
like this next section, but we're going to talk a little baseball. But yeah, sure, there's a lot
53:51
of things, you know, two months into the season that have been surprising. One of the biggest
53:54
things that's, I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but it is no one everyone just won't shut up about
53:59
Fernando Tatis Jr. I get it. The kids good at baseball, but like, I literally got a notification
54:05
on my phone the other day because he had like a backhanded pick and threw it over to first base.
54:10
He literally did something that shortstop's do multiple times a week, right? Every shortstop
54:16
and major league baseball, and it was like, stop the presses. We got to have a bleacher
54:20
report thing. We got to have somebody, you know, basically talk about this where, you know,
54:23
we got to put a graphic on it and all that. It's one of the great things that ever happened.
54:26
I get it. The kids good. I'm not but hurt that he's not on the St. Louis Cardinals.
54:30
I know the people over in the organization and the thing was he was never going to sign
54:33
with the Cardinals. They were just using the Cardinals to try to up his price that they could
54:37
get for him. That's why he went to the White Sox because they got the most amount from the White
54:41
Sox and then they traded him over to San Diego. I get it. He's a great player, but man, I'm just
54:45
kind of over all the, you know, all the flashiness and all that. I don't really care. I guess it's
54:49
also surprising how much Jacob DeGrom pitcher for the New York Mets is dominating. Like,
54:54
I picked him to win the Cy Young preseason, but his ERA right now is like 0.62.
54:59
As of the recording of this, his whip, right, is it's like 0.5 something? Like these are,
55:05
these are stupid. These are stupid numbers, right? He's, I think he has the record. He's,
55:09
he's like number one and number four of the most 100 plus mile an hour pitch is thrown in a game.
55:14
He's done that twice. He's thrown like 30 plus pitches in a game at plus 100 miles per hour.
55:18
Like Randy Johnson's not on that list, right? We're all just Chapman's not on that list or he
55:23
might be on the list. I don't know. Actually, I think he is the number three, but it's just,
55:26
it's an interesting thing. How much he's dominating. I want him to stay healthy. And here's the other
55:30
thing is if he stays healthy and keeps dominating like this, he's having a much, much better season
55:34
that Clayton Kershaw did when Clayton Kershaw won the Cy Young and the MVP in the same season.
55:39
So I think it'd be crazy not to give it to Jacob DeGrom if he keeps doing this. But then again,
55:43
you know, this is why you don't look at wins with pitchers because he doesn't have a lot of wins.
55:47
It's just kind of, you know, every time he pitches, the Mets don't like to score runs.
55:50
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. He's dominating. I think he's currently leading the triple crown in the
55:56
American League. You know, I don't know if he's going to continue doing that. That's a bit surprising
55:59
because he kind of looked like a little bit of a disappointment last couple of years. Now he's
56:02
really coming into his own show. Hey, Otani. Again, that's all anyone could talk about for a while.
56:06
That's the Los Angeles angels pitcher slash hitter. So, you know, he's going to hit from the left side
56:12
of the plate for power, but he's also like got an ERA below three. That's pretty surprising. This is
56:17
a guy that's hurt all time coming off Tommy John surgery. So I'm surprised he's doing this. Well,
56:20
in terms of teams, like I didn't think the red Sox are going to be this good. You know,
56:24
here we are two months into the season. They're in first place playing well. San Francisco Giants.
56:28
Everybody's talking about the Padres and Dodgers out there in the N.O. West and for good reason.
56:31
But the Giants are right there sitting on top. And I think they might have the best record in baseball
56:35
and maybe right behind Tampa Bay. Surprised at how average the Yankees are, right? I thought the
56:39
Yankees, you know, were going to be an AL pin it contender, right? And then they just haven't
56:43
really played well. The Minnesota twins have played really, really bad. I'm not really surprised by
56:48
the Cardinals. I thought they would be about average. They haven't been playing incredibly
56:52
well. And I didn't think they had really the roster to play incredibly well for much of the
56:55
season. And I guess the last thing I'll talk about is Tony LaRusa, who's the new manager for the Chicago
56:59
White Sox. You know, he is, in my opinion, the greatest manager in the history of baseball,
57:03
right? He just the other day went into second place all time and managerial wins behind Connie
57:09
Mac. He's like a thousand wins behind Connie Mac. But that was back in the day when there was like
57:12
four teams in baseball or something like that when Connie Mac was doing his thing. But Tony
57:17
LaRusa is getting so much crap for his approach. Okay. You know, even his players, there was kind
57:21
of this thing where, you know, this guy on his team swung on a three O pitch and hit a home run.
57:25
And you know, the guy got hit the next day. And Tony LaRusa actually came to the defense of the
57:29
the pitcher that hit his own player. And as you know, there was kind of like some,
57:32
some nonsense going on in the, in the, you know, clubhouse and all those different things.
57:37
But if I were Tony LaRusa and I felt like a lot of my players weren't really respecting me.
57:42
My way of doing things, kind of the old school approach. I wanted to do the flashy thing. You know
57:45
what I would do? I would walk in one day with all my World Series ranks, right? My two from
57:51
the Cardinals. He, I think he got two from the Oakland Athletics, just walk in and just slam
57:57
them down and say my hands down on the tables and make sure that they could hear this hit in the
58:01
table and just say, guys, I know what I'm doing. I have thousands of wins as a manager.
58:07
So if I tell you to do something, you do it. You know why? This is why and just count your rings,
58:14
baby. All these guys on his team, I don't think there's a single player on the roster that has a
58:18
World Series ring. Tony LaRusa has multiple. So a little bit surprising, but you know,
58:23
we'll see how that goes in the long term for the Chicago White Sox. They're playing well.
58:26
Our next question here. This is another one from Instagram. How do we show love to people
58:30
living in homosexuality, but still reinforce the truth of the Bible about homosexuality?
58:35
So, you know, I kind of look at this in terms of, you know, multiple steps here. But the first thing
58:39
is what you don't do is tell this person that they're okay. You know, tell them that that they
58:44
can do whatever they want because God loves them anyway in the latter part of that statement is
58:48
true, but that isn't the point. And you also don't want to most importantly tell them that God loves
58:53
them just the way that they are. No, no, no, no, no, no. God does not just love them the way that
58:59
they are because if God loved us just the way that we are, then there would have been no reason
59:05
whatsoever to send Jesus to become sin so that we may have the righteousness of God.
59:11
That would have been completely not worth it, completely useless to do. Okay. So you don't tell
59:18
them that what they're doing is appropriate. Okay. The second thing is you explain to them
59:24
that Jesus took this seriously as a major sin. Okay. That this isn't just some outdated Old Testament,
59:31
you know, funny, duddy commandment. All right. So we got to go back to Matthew 1519 when Jesus
59:35
says this for out of the heart come evil thoughts murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false,
59:43
false witness and slander. Okay. So a lot of people will say, well, Jesus never talked about
59:47
homosexuality and never talked about gay marriage or any of those things. So I bet it's okay. It's
59:50
permissible, but that's an ignorant view. You know, even Carl Linds, you know, who used to be the
59:54
Hillsong pastor, he said that on, you know, the view or something like that. That is exegetically
59:59
incorrect and ignorant, frankly, because if you go back to the root word of what Jesus said just
1:00:04
here in Matthew 15, sexual immorality, if you were hearing that in that first century context,
1:00:10
you wouldn't just hear sexual immorality, you would hear everything that that included,
1:00:14
right? You would have heard, you know, sex outside a marriage, you would have heard about adultery,
1:00:18
right, which was listed there. You would have heard, you know, you would have thought, you know, about
1:00:21
bestiality or orgies or any of those things. And you certainly would have thought about homosexuality.
1:00:25
So Jesus did talk about homosexuality. He just didn't do it in red letters in the way that your
1:00:31
brain is going to accept. But he absolutely talked about it. Because it's easy for some people to
1:00:36
dismiss the Old Testament like, Oh, isn't that old covenant, right? We don't need to be talking
1:00:39
about old covenant. Let's talk about new covenant. But even in the new covenant, Jesus who came to
1:00:44
fulfill the law, right? He thought that this was very, very important. Okay, so you should uphold that.
1:00:49
And I guess the third thing here would be, tell them that just because they feel a drive inside
1:00:55
them to do something or to act in a certain way, that does not make that act moral or permissible.
1:01:01
Because I forget who pointed this out. It was another pastor that was being interviewed by
1:01:05
someone who may have been Oprah or, you know, I don't really know. But he was basically talking,
1:01:09
they were talking to him about, well, don't get people just, they're just doing what comes
1:01:12
naturally, what feels right. And he goes, as a heterosexual male, I want to have sex with every
1:01:17
attractive woman I see. So should I? And you know, it just stopped the interview in her tracks because
1:01:22
it's like, well, it's, it's a natural inclination. Why wouldn't you just do that? What about people
1:01:27
that are naturally violent? You know, if they hurt someone or murder somebody or rape somebody
1:01:32
or something like that, like should they just say, well, you know, this is what I felt like doing.
1:01:36
So why shouldn't I do what I feel? I think you should have that discussion with this person
1:01:40
that's living in homosexuality. But then the last thing here, and this is really important,
1:01:44
so this is the fourth thing, is realize that if this person is not part of the church,
1:01:49
okay, or sorry, let's kind of go back a little bit. If this person is a part of the church,
1:01:55
right, it is our duty to judge these people. Okay. However, if they are not part of the church,
1:02:02
it's not our place to judge. And so you might be thinking, that's crazy. Like, you know, scripture
1:02:06
tells us not to judge. No, no, scripture doesn't tell us not to judge and tells us who to judge
1:02:09
and how to judge, right? Jesus talked about that. But I want to talk about what happened in 1 Corinthians
1:02:13
five versus nine through 13. So this is the Apostle Paul, he wrote this, I wrote to you in my letter,
1:02:18
not to associate with sexually immoral people, not at all, meaning the sexually immoral of this
1:02:22
world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
1:02:27
But now I am writing to you, not as associate with anyone who bears the name of the brother,
1:02:32
if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler,
1:02:37
not even to eat with such a such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders?
1:02:42
It is not those or is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those
1:02:48
outside purge the evil person from among you. Okay. So he's talking about people that are inside
1:02:52
the church, right? Inside the church and Corinth that are doing these crazy things, right? These
1:02:56
horrible, you know, vile things, right? But he's saying that it's not your place to judge the people
1:03:02
that live outside of that community. Okay. So if this person is claiming to be a Christian,
1:03:07
if they're one of those, you know, LGBTQ plus Christians, it is your responsibility
1:03:13
to judge that person and to push them towards righteousness. That's your responsibility as a
1:03:17
Christian. However, if this person is a strict materialist, atheist, agnostic, something like that,
1:03:22
you should continue to share the gospel with these people, but it's not your right to judge
1:03:25
their lifestyle, right? You can tell them what scripture says, but this is a person that probably
1:03:29
thinks the Bible is just a collection of stuff that was written, you know, a thousand years after
1:03:33
Jesus died, and none of it's important. Okay. So so if they're not going to take that seriously,
1:03:37
you still share the gospel with them, but it's not your place to have that final judgment.
1:03:41
Okay. So hopefully that's helpful to you. All right. Next question here. What are the last three
1:03:45
albums that you listen to all the way through? Okay. So let's go to iTunes here. Let's actually
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do this. We're going to do it live. We'll do it live. Okay. Here are the things.
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All right. Recently played. All right. So I've been listening to a lot of songs
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and we're not whole albums. So let's go to whole albums. Okay. Zayo, again, my favorite band of
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all time, they just released an album like a month ago or something called the Crimson Corridor
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mind blowing. I love this album. I mean, I love this band. They're my favorite band of all time,
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but this album is like top three for me. So I'd probably go if, you know, if I'm just doing
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this off top of my head, I'd probably go number one is where blood and fire bring rest. Number two
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would be the funeral of God. And number three would be the Crimson Corridor. I absolutely love
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this. I would put it ahead of Liberate for Zayo fans out there, like your head man just exploded.
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But yes, that's a great one. Looks like the next album I went through Deftones. Okay. So I'm
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not a huge Deftones fan, but they have an album they released called Ohms. I think that's our latest
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album. That's what I listened to. The Devil Wears Prada, they released a second zombie EP. Well,
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I guess that's an EP. It's not technically an album. So we can do one more. But yeah,
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Del Wears Prada, I haven't really listened to them recently, but their zombie EP original one from
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like 10 years ago is amazing. And they released zombie two, which is really good, especially as
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you continue listening. Okay, last one here last one. Okay, the Juliana theory, right? I took it back
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to the year 2000, I think, but I listened to the emotion is dead. Okay, so I think that was their
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first or second album. The Juliana theory, the lead singer was actually the guitarist on Zayo's,
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my favorite Zayo album, which is blood and fire bring rest. So I listened to that. They're kind
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of more poppy. So if you go back and listen to that, you might be like, what is Kyle listening to?
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But yeah, that's kind of a classic album for me. All right, guys, next question here.
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What do you think of Christians that say you are not quote loving your neighbor if you do or have
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defied mask mandates and or lockdown mandates? I feel like I've talked about this one quite a bit
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before I've done the entire episodes on COVID-19 and kind of how we've treated COVID-19.
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But a lot of these people that are saying, how are you, are you not loving your neighbor? Most
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these people aren't Christians, right? So you don't really need to be concerned with what they
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think. But it is interesting that there are a lot of Christians, you know, maybe you can call them
1:05:52
woke Christians or something like that. They're very concerned about us loving our neighbors.
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And so they're like, if you're not wearing your mask outside, you're not loving your neighbor,
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if you're not staying at home, because the governor told you to stay home, you're not loving people.
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The thing about it is, is we need to love people in truth. And here in a second,
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when we talk about Fauci's emails, a lot of things that were said, a lot of things that we
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thought about COVID and about masking weren't true. And the people that were pulling the strings,
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they knew it. They knew that it wasn't true. So I'd say for us that this is kind of a time for a
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lot of us, especially if you go back, you know, a year ago, maybe 14 months ago, everybody thought
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that this was going to be Spanish flu, 10% of the population of the earth was going to die,
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it was going to be this horrible thing. And it just ended up being nothing even close to that.
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And so I think part of the reason or part of the way that you love your neighbor is that you have
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honest discussions and you're your fourth right with things that you think and that, you know,
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you should have those discussions. But at the same time, we're all autonomous people.
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Okay, so I was not incredibly careful. And I got COVID for my neighbor, because we were the
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truck for the same time for an hour, like it just happened that way, right? But if you're an older
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person and you're susceptible and you're overweight and you have diabetes and you're maybe, you know,
1:06:54
in remission for cancer, and then you also decide that you want to go out and go to the grocery store
1:06:59
without a mask on. It's up to you. Me wearing a mask is not going to keep you safe. It's just not,
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that's not the way that this goes, right? For most people, you wearing a mask is going to keep you
1:07:09
safe in all those situations. So to those Christians that say you're not loving your neighbor,
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I would encourage them then stay home. You're a human being. And if you don't want to listen to
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reason or logic or read things, right, then just stay home. If you think that's loving your neighbor,
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stay home. Don't worry about what I'm doing. All right, next question here, we only got a couple
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left. Since you're no longer watching the NBA, what have you filled in the gap with? Have you
1:07:32
picked up another sport or another hobby? So here's the thing. Interesting that this question came up
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because just this week on my personal Facebook, I talked about since I've given up on the NBA,
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I can't do the wokeness. I can't watch a game and be lectured to about how I'm a systemic racist,
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or, you know, some horrible person. I'm out. I'm out on the NBA. I don't know what's happening.
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I don't really care. As long as LeBron James doesn't win a championship, I'm happy. That's
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kind of where I'm at right now. But I am going to go all in on the NHL. So to my Canadian fans,
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your mind's just blue because I know I got a lot of Canadian fans to listen to this. I'm going
1:08:01
with the NHL baby, okay? But I don't really know how to pick a team because here's the thing. I'm
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not going to pick a team that I'm going to live and die with. I've lived and died enough with the
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OKC Thunder and the St. Louis Cardinals and Manchester United back in the day and certain fighters.
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I'm done with that era of my life. And right now you can't even watch MLB games. I can't even watch
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St. Louis Cardinals games in Oklahoma City because of their blackout rules and all that kind of stuff.
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So what I've done is I've taken the NHL and I've narrowed it down to four teams,
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okay? So I need your guys help, right? And the Canadians won't like this much because there's
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no Canadian teams, but you know, I can't hate myself that much, okay? So only American teams,
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but these are the four teams. And these are the main reasons why I'm trying to pick between these
1:08:37
four teams, regardless of what's happening currently in the playoffs. So the first team,
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this is a no particular order. Boston Bruins, okay? So my main reasons for that is I really
1:08:45
like the city of Boston. I love it way more than New York City. I would love to visit there and go
1:08:49
see a game and their fans seem like crazy fun. They're when I think they're one of the original
1:08:52
franchises. So that's Boston Bruins. The second is Dallas Stars. Main reason is they're the closest
1:08:57
in HL team to me. So if I wanted to drive to go see a game, it's not that far from me. So the third
1:09:02
would be the Las Vegas Knights. Okay, so the main reason for them was, you know, they're a pretty new
1:09:07
franchise. I think this is maybe their third or fourth season to be a team. And I think I'd fit
1:09:11
in nicely with their fan base because it's really transient. It's, you know, there's not really
1:09:16
Las Vegas Knights fans, right? It's just people that go to Vegas and they're there that week,
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right? They'll go to a Knights game or two. So I kind of fit in there because I'm kind of a
1:09:23
transient fan, I guess. And the last one is St. Louis Blues. The main reason is because I'm a
1:09:27
huge St. Louis Cardinals fan. So it would be kind of cool to go up to the city and see a Cardinals
1:09:31
game one day and then go see a Blues game the next day or something like that because, you know,
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their seasons do overlap a little bit. So I need your guys's help. All right, those are my last four.
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I've kind of, you know, gathered my opinions. I know I think the Bruins and the Knights are
1:09:43
still in the playoffs. But Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, Las Vegas Knights and St. Louis Blues,
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those are the final four, you know, people ask me about the Colorado Avalanche. They ask me about
1:09:52
the Nashville Predators. But you know, I had to cut it somewhere. So I cut it down to four. So
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I need your help. All right, last thing here, Kyle, what are your thoughts on all the drama
1:10:00
surrounding Dr. Fauci's emails? Okay, so here's the deal. A lot's going to go into this, but I'm
1:10:05
not going to spend a ton of time on it because there was a Freedom of Information Act request
1:10:09
to get Fauci's emails. We got a dump of his emails and some people are treating this as if this is
1:10:13
nothing. Some people are treating it as if it's world ending bombshells. I'm kind of more so in
1:10:17
the bombshell side of things. But I think there are three main bombshells here from Dr. Fauci's
1:10:22
emails. Okay, number one, he publicly said that masks that that mask wearing was essential to
1:10:29
saving lives. That's what he said publicly. While privately in his emails saying that the
1:10:33
overwhelming majority of masks didn't protect the wearer at all. Basically, what he was saying
1:10:40
in his emails is these cloth masks that you get from Walgreens or something like that,
1:10:44
that that's not helping you as the where it might keep some of the droplets out.
1:10:49
But you're constantly fidgeting with it. You know, it's getting damp, which might even attract
1:10:53
more droplets. It's not safe. These are things that he said in his email. But whenever he would
1:10:57
talk publicly, he's like, yeah, you got to wear a mask. No matter what you got to wear a mask,
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you know, wear two masks. I don't care what you say, Rand Paul, I'm saying the right thing because
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I'm Dr. Fauci. I make so much money. I'm the best guy ever. So that's what we heard from Fauci for
1:11:11
forever. Okay. So straight up lied to the American public. And if you go back to the very beginning,
1:11:15
remember when he said that you don't need to wear masks at all, right? That was closer to the truth,
1:11:20
but he was doing it purposely lying to the American public because he thought that there
1:11:23
wasn't going to be enough for, you know, frontline workers that are working in hospitals, nurses,
1:11:27
and doctors and such, right? So that's number one. That's the biggest bombshell. Number one,
1:11:30
number two, he publicly denied the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, right?
1:11:36
While privately corresponding with people that he thought that that was a real possibility.
1:11:40
So for over a year, he was talking about how, you know, if you thought this came from a lab
1:11:45
in Wuhan, right? That this, this, you were a crazy person, that this was conspiracy theory,
1:11:49
nonsense. If you said this out loud, you should basically lose your right to talk in the public
1:11:53
square, right? That's what he said, right? But now here we are about a week ago. It's revealed
1:11:57
that that's probably the most likely cause, right? It wasn't, you know, a bat that was eaten by a
1:12:02
pangolin that was eaten by a Chinese guy. That's not how COVID-19 was sprung on the earth. It was
1:12:06
this level four lab in Wuhan and it escaped because we saw back in November of 2019, there were these
1:12:12
Chinese scientists that worked in that lab that went to the hospital, right? That had these COVID-19
1:12:17
like symptoms. They didn't have a COVID test at the time. And then I think even some of those people
1:12:21
like their, their husbands or wives died whenever they went home from this disease and all that. And
1:12:25
that's kind of the deal is we were told for, for the longest time, if you even questioned that,
1:12:30
you're going to get kicked off social media. If you even even pointed out that, you know,
1:12:33
this didn't even make sense that it would come from a bat because of that time of year,
1:12:37
those bats weren't even in that region in Wuhan. You were basically put out. So that was the second
1:12:41
big lie that he told that his emails revealed. But then there was a third bombshell here.
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He publicly denied again, you know, you're kind of getting the thing. He publicly denied
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something. And then he actually thought it in person or basically behind closed doors. He publicly
1:12:53
denied that the National Institutes of Health, that's the NIH funded gain of function research
1:12:58
at the Wuhan lab that COVID-19 likely escaped from while privately knowing that US taxpayer
1:13:04
funds were going to that lab via a third party and that earmarking money means nothing.
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Okay, so let's kind of break this down because a lot of this stuff gets thrown around. So
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he is the head of the NIH, right? And he was asked point blank from Senator Paul from Kentucky.
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He was asked if the money was going from US taxpayers to go to gain a function research.
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Now, for the first couple of weeks that people were saying gain a function,
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I was hearing like gainer function, like if, you know, Fauci would say, it's like,
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I'm going to do a gain off the diving board gain a function. No, no, it's gain of function.
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But when people say fast, it sounds like gain a function, but it's gain of function. Essentially,
1:13:41
what that research is, is these are scientists that are trying to look at these, these viruses,
1:13:46
right, or these diseases, and they're trying to see if they can manipulate them. You know,
1:13:51
some people would say weaponize, but they're trying to manipulate them, right? That's what
1:13:55
gain of function research says. But what he would constantly say is he would come out and say,
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no, no, no, we're not funding gain of function research. The money that goes to them is earmarked
1:14:02
for X, Y, and Z. But it's the exact same thing that I say with Planned Parenthood. When you give
1:14:07
millions and millions and millions of dollars of Planned Parenthood, but you say, but don't use
1:14:10
these for abortions, they're like, okay, no problem. We'll put it over here and we won't use that money.
1:14:15
It's not real. That's not how this works. Look at Planned Parenthood as a gigantic entity. And if
1:14:22
you give that entity money, they can use it for whatever they want. Even though the tax man that
1:14:27
works there for them or their CPAs or internal lawyers are going to categorize it differently,
1:14:31
they're using the money for whatever the hell they want to use it for, right? Same thing is true
1:14:34
with the NIH. Same thing is true for whoever the NIH gives money to this lab was using that money
1:14:40
in total for their budgets, right? Because when you give someone a bunch of money and say,
1:14:43
don't spend it on this, it affects their budgets regardless, right? If they're a business, it affects
1:14:48
their profit and loss sheet, right? So those are three enormous, enormous things that we were told,
1:14:54
we were crazy over the last year. If we question mask wearing or if we question, you know, where
1:14:59
this originated, where this virus originated, and even recently like, hey, are we funding this?
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So now what it seems like, do you have all these US, you know, bureaucrats and, you know,
1:15:09
politicians that are covering their butts because it looks like the US funded the research that led
1:15:15
to this all going poorly, right? Which China still hasn't really suffered much in terms of as a
1:15:21
world power from allowing this to happen. And you know, the jury's out on whether or not it's not
1:15:26
going to happen. Joe Biden certainly isn't going to be the guy that's going to put pressure on Chairman
1:15:30
Z. But it's kind of one of those issues right now where big tech censorship was a big deal during
1:15:34
all this, because there were people that were kicked off of social media permanently that now
1:15:39
if you say that, yeah, I think we've been funding gain and function research, or yeah, I don't think
1:15:43
this came from an animal. I think this came from a lab. Now that's something that you can suddenly say,
1:15:47
but we were silenced. People were silenced for being reasonable for 14 15 months now, right?
1:15:54
You're a conspiracy theorist. You're some sort of fringe person. But look where we are. Big tech
1:15:58
censorship is really a big deal. All right, guys, so there's we're about 15 questions. I appreciate
1:16:03
those questions again. But you know, obviously, we're going to keep doing this. So you got to
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1:16:34
mention or but it's episode 69 of the Cooper stuff podcast. It's called Are You Tired of Being Right?
1:16:39
And so he was going into some of the things that we talked about on today's episode. But I thought
1:16:42
this was a great episode from John. And again, we're kind of indebted to John because we've had a
1:16:45
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1:16:49
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