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211 – Throwing A Hammer For The Country You Hate

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211 – Throwing A Hammer For The Country You Hate
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In this episode, I tackle the absurdity of Gwendolyn Berry's disrespect during the national anthem at the Olympic Trials. We need to confront the reality that she is not oppressed and that America is the greatest country for anyone, regardless of their background.
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1:17 This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
1:23 Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr.
1:27 So, "Journer Truth," Rosa Parks, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn Berry.
1:37 Now, most of those names you're familiar with, but probably that last one, Gwendolyn Berry. I mean, it's a beautiful name.
1:43 But why would that name be on the list with all those other people?
1:47 Well, guys, I don't know if you know this, but we have a brand new civil rights hero amongst us.
1:52 Now, if we shorten the name, it becomes Gwendberry. It slides off the tongue real nicely.
1:57 But Gwendberry is now to be held in the same regard as Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr.
2:03 And so, "Journer Truth" and Rosa Parks and W.E.B. Du Bois and everybody else that you could possibly think of, that is a civil rights hero.
2:10 Because this is a name now. Gwendberry is a name that we will forever remember as one of the greatest civil rights activists of our time.
2:19 So, if you don't know why Gwendberry is now this special person in U.S. history, let me go ahead and kind of break it down for you.
2:25 So, on Saturday, June the 26th, so this is last Saturday, Gwendberry was competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
2:31 Yes, the United States Olympic Trials. That is a very important point that we'll get more into a little bit later.
2:38 And she was competing in the amazing event that we've all been waiting for, that we're just waiting for the primetime coverage of.
2:44 And that's women's hammer throw. Okay, so, Gwendberry, she placed third at the qualifications at the trial.
2:53 So, she did qualify for the Olympics for the U.S. team.
2:56 But since she only got third in her own country, it's not likely that she will do anything significant once the Tokyo Games roll around
3:03 because that's international competition and she couldn't even win her own country.
3:06 But hey, she placed third. She was on the podium. That means she's on the team.
3:10 But when she went over to the podium to stand there and get her picture taken and do all those different things
3:15 to signify her third place finish, the national anthem of the United States of America began to play.
3:21 Now, they don't play the national anthem at the U.S. Trials for every, you know, competition that's finished.
3:27 It's just something that they play on a schedule. Okay.
3:29 Now, when the national anthem began playing, the first and second place finishers turned toward the flag.
3:35 They put their hand over their heart because they're respectful human beings, but not Gwendberry.
3:40 Gwendberry decided to turn her body away from the flag.
3:44 She never crossed her heart and she actually eventually held up a t-shirt over her head in the t-shirt red activist athlete.
3:52 Okay.
3:53 Now, the thing about it is, Gwendberry somehow thought that this was all a setup.
3:58 Okay. So, this is an actual quote from her. Okay.
4:01 I feel like it was a setup. I feel like they did that on purpose and I was [inaudible], to be honest.
4:06 I was thinking about what I should do.
4:08 Eventually, I just stayed there and just swayed. I put my shirt over my head.
4:12 It was real disrespectful. I know they did that on purpose, but it'll be all right. I see what's up.
4:17 It was funny because they said they were going to play it before we walked out.
4:21 It just happened then. It just happened that they played it when we were out there.
4:25 So, you know, it's okay. I really don't want to talk about the anthem because it's not important.
4:30 The anthem don't speak for me. It never has.
4:33 So, obviously, Gwendberry, amongst being a hero, she's also a linguist and, you know, that's something she's also very, very good at.
4:39 But Gwendolyn Berry has a history of this. Okay.
4:42 So, according to Joe Morgan over at the Daily Wire in 2019,
4:46 Berry raised her fist while on the podium at the Pan Am Games,
4:49 another games where she was representing the United States of America, supposedly.
4:53 The move led to a formal reprimand from U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee,
4:57 but Berry was not suspended. She did, however, receive a 12 month probation.
5:02 So, here's the thing that we know that overnight, two things became true about Gwendberry, two things.
5:07 Number one, she became a civil rights hero, as we've already established, right?
5:11 And the second is that she became the most famous hammer thrower in world history.
5:18 Okay.
5:19 And if you don't believe me, can you name a single other hammer thrower from any country in history?
5:26 I mean, maybe that's your game. And I'm not trying a little hammer throwing.
5:30 It's probably something that I couldn't do very well.
5:32 You know, it just kind of is what it is. It's kind of a niche thing.
5:34 But let's just kind of be honest about it.
5:36 But I will say that there were a lot of reactions to this.
5:38 I mean, this is still in the news cycle and this happened almost a week ago.
5:42 So, I don't know, like, has Trump not done anything this week?
5:44 I mean, why are we still talking about this?
5:46 But the reaction from people on the right and on the respectful side of the United States,
5:51 this is something that is seen as an affront to the country.
5:54 You know, this is something akin to what Colin Kaepernick did and still does.
5:57 But then there are other people that were trumpeting her as a hero immediately.
6:00 But there are a lot of things to discuss here.
6:02 But I want to keep this podcast short because I've dropped a lot of content on you guys recently.
6:05 So I just want to get my opinions out here about this because you guys were asking about it.
6:10 But there are a lot of things that we know about Guinberry, okay?
6:13 The very first thing that we know about Guinberry is that she is not oppressed.
6:17 She's not.
6:19 You know how I know?
6:21 Because she's an American.
6:23 And America is the single greatest place, okay?
6:28 And the most potentially prosperous place on Earth for someone with her complexion than anywhere else, okay?
6:35 And that's no slight to any of my listeners here in Canada or in New Zealand or in, you know, Ireland and London and Australia like we love you guys.
6:43 But there's nowhere greater, especially from a prosperity standpoint for black people, for people that look like her, okay?
6:50 And here's the other thing, is for someone like her, you would think that in the almost week we've had since this all broke,
6:57 that she would have had some interview with the New York Times or the Washington Post or Vox or somewhere where she actually described how she personally has been oppressed, okay?
7:07 But all of her answers when she's asked about this country are about the system and systemic racism and blah, blah, blah and all these other things.
7:14 But she's what it sounds like and what it seems like is she's dependent on the oppression of people that were oppressed over 150 years ago,
7:24 or maybe as far back as the 60s in this country before the civil rights movement, she's dependent on that oppression,
7:29 which is becoming more and more common for these people that kind of come out as these overnight civil rights heroes, right?
7:35 Is they themselves have not been oppressed in any real fashion than any of the rest of us, but they're saying that they are, but their examples are of slavery.
7:45 And most of them can't point to whether or not their families, their family lineage, their genealogy actually goes back to the African slave trade.
7:53 They have no clue. Some of them would be astonished to find out that they might be the descendants of black slavers, right?
8:01 They might be descendants of the tribes in Africa that were catching the members of their rival tribes and selling them to the slave traders, right?
8:09 They don't have any idea. It's a complexion game. It's a melanin game, and they're playing it very, very well.
8:16 So another thing that we know about Guinberry is that she is incredibly lucky to be an American, okay?
8:22 And I know this is ethnocentric in country. I get all that, but she's a professional hammer thrower, okay?
8:31 How could you possibly be a professional at such a fringe, weird sport as hammer throwing and not live in a great country?
8:40 I don't get the sense because she has sponsorships and there's a lot of information coming out about the sponsorships and kind of what she's being paid.
8:47 She doesn't have another job. Her professional job is to throw a hammer and that's all she has to focus on.
8:54 I mean, what a great country you can live in where you can survive and thrive doing something so niche.
9:00 Okay, so there's also a quote from her when she was kind of talking about how America keeps black people down.
9:05 Quote, "It has always, always, always been something I have been very uncomfortable with.
9:09 I'm glad I'm able to say that without being punished or without being misunderstood." Unquote.
9:15 Can you imagine how tone deaf of a sentence that is? Incredibly, incredibly tone deaf.
9:22 Because she's right, she lives in a country where she can say these things without being punished for it.
9:30 I remember this was months ago, but there was a really famous wrestler from Iran who had a lot of, you know, inroads and the wrestling and MMA community
9:37 and he was executed because he went to a counter government rally, right?
9:41 All he did was go to a rally similar to what people did, you know, the actual people that did peacefully protest back in 2020.
9:48 Can you imagine being executed for that?
9:51 Because people like Winberry are pretending like those things happen in the United States that you can't be black and make a statement of any kind.
9:58 Guys, do you know how many countries around the planet that if they pulled something like this, if someone from their country pulled something like this during their trials,
10:06 they would be black bagged, have a, you know, have a bag thrown over their head, we'd never hear from these people again, right?
10:11 The last thing you'd hear from them is the screams from inside the van as it screeched off to God knows where, right?
10:17 She's incredibly, incredibly lucky to be an American.
10:20 The other thing that we know about her is that she is a child of critical race theory.
10:25 She's a child of CRT.
10:27 Now, she's, she's old enough to where I don't think that this would be something that she was taught K through 12, kind of this critical race theory thing,
10:33 but you don't get the worldview of someone like Winberry and do the things and say the things that she says and does without letting critical race theory be the definitive thing that undergird your entire worldview.
10:45 And one thing that I need to do a little bit of a better job of is kind of contrasting things like CRT and Marxism to the gospel.
10:51 But that's true of this person.
10:53 And I don't presume to know anything about her personal faith.
10:55 She has not talked about it publicly that I know of.
10:58 I certainly haven't seen anything.
10:59 But how do you get to the point where you hate this country so much where your race, the level of melanin in your skin is the only thing by which you view the rest of the world.
11:10 Again, she has not described any personal oppression as being a member of the United States, right?
11:17 The other thing that we know about when Barry's that she's ignorant.
11:20 She's very ignorant.
11:21 She hasn't opened up her mouth that much.
11:23 But when she does, not a lot of great things come out.
11:25 So there was kind of some controversy that in terms of why she said the national anthem doesn't really appeal to her.
11:30 So this was another quote from her quote.
11:32 If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem.
11:35 The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America, our blood being slain all over the floor.
11:41 It's disrespectful and it does not speak for black Americans.
11:44 Okay, so you've heard a lot of this about how the national anthem United States is, is, you know, racist for all these different reasons.
11:50 I have a nice little excerpt here from Ryan Cevidra over at the Daily Wire, and this was about something that they talked about in terms of the national anthem.
11:57 So he said this, seeing and ran an in-depth analysis on the Star Spangled Banner back in 2018.
12:02 Yes, CNN and gave an analysis of the key lines.
12:05 The third verse of the song, which is no longer part of the song, stated this.
12:09 And where is that band who so fondly swore that the havoc of war and the battle's confusion?
12:14 A home in a country should leave us no more.
12:17 Their blood has washed out their full, their foul footsteps pollution.
12:21 That's the, the line that Guinberry's talking about.
12:23 Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps pollution.
12:26 No refuge could save the heirlink and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave and the Star Spangled Banner in triumph, doth wave, or the land of the free and the home of the brave.
12:37 Alan Taylor, a Pulitzer prize-winning historian who specializes in American colonial revolution and early republic, told CNN that the line is quote, "Isn't
12:46 meant as pro-slavery language.
12:49 It's referring to the British poison ground, their polluting presence on American soil," Taylor said, unquote.
12:55 So again, that is something that a lot of people will throw out.
13:00 They'll see a meme.
13:01 They'll see something that a politician says.
13:03 They'll see something that an influencer says and they're like, "Oh, the national anthem is racist," without actually fully understanding the context.
13:09 Because when you just read a deadpan, it's like, "Oh man, that does sound like that's what it's talking about."
13:13 Unless you know your history, which apparently this person, this peeled surprise-winning historian did know their history.
13:18 But again, you know, Guinberry can't possibly be bothered with that information.
13:22 Another thing that we know about her is that she's delusional.
13:24 She is absolutely delusional.
13:27 Another quote from her, again, I'm going to use her own words against her here because she's the ones that's saying I'm in public, so here I am to judge them.
13:32 So here's a quote, quote, "My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports.
13:36 I'm here to represent those who died due to systemic racism.
13:40 That's the important part.
13:42 That's why I'm going.
13:43 That's why I'm here today," unquote.
13:46 She thinks that throwing a hammer decently well as an Olympic sport and throwing a t-shirt over her head is somehow helping the people that died due to systemic racism.
14:03 But you just got to ask, "What do you mean?"
14:06 How? So if she's talking about slavery, for people that were enslaved over 150 years ago and the whores that were perpetrated against them, which I would never minimize, how is throwing a hammer in 2021 doing anything for them?
14:22 She's absolutely delusional, absolutely delusional when it comes to this.
14:26 And the last thing that we know about her, she is a brat.
14:29 She's an absolute brat, which is one of the more common words that I've seen used to describe her because a brat is a spoiled person that expresses no gratitude regardless of their positive circumstances.
14:40 She has such an incredible life that she's led.
14:42 I think someone was talking about the fact that she got a scholarship to go to college.
14:45 I think it was Southern Illinois or something like that.
14:47 I don't know if that's D2 or if it's D1 or whatever.
14:49 But she got a scholarship to be a track athlete in the United States of America, this oppressive, horrible country.
14:55 She got money to go do a very niche sport and it actually ended up being her profession.
15:00 She was one of the few NCAA athletes that ended up going pro in what they do, right?
15:06 But she's somehow oppressed.
15:09 Now, what you've seen a lot of people talk about is this line that is thrown around too much, I think, because it's not contextualized, but it's something along the lines of, well, if you don't like it, then get out.
15:20 Right? That's kind of the thing that meantime, something like this comes up where someone clearly hates the country that they're representing.
15:25 It's like, hey, if you don't like it, get out.
15:27 So people use that a lot, but it's kind of become almost like this thing like, well, hey, if you don't like it, get the hell on out.
15:33 Like, it's this thing that's easy to kind of characterize, right?
15:36 But I do have some questions in reference to that for Guinberry, right?
15:39 If I were interviewing her, of course, she would never take an interview like this.
15:42 But for the people that are saying things like that, they lead to these questions.
15:46 Okay, so one question I would ask her is, do you realize that you volunteered for this job to represent the United States of America?
15:55 You volunteered for this job.
15:58 No one told you to do this, right?
16:02 You volunteered to become a professional hammer thrower and to represent the United States of America.
16:07 Like, do you realize that?
16:09 Because that's an important key here.
16:11 Because if you don't realize that, then we have something else we need to discuss.
16:14 I would also ask her this, if the United States is so racist and dangerous for people that look like you, why do you live here?
16:23 Like, I'm not going to tell you what to do.
16:25 If you want to get out, get out.
16:26 If you want to stay, stay.
16:27 If you're going to stay, you might as well be respectful.
16:29 But why would you still live here?
16:32 If you really are so oppressed just because of how you look, that seems like a really dumb thing for someone to do.
16:40 Wouldn't you use some of your means that you clearly have to make a change?
16:45 Again, we live in apparently the most racist and dangerous country for people of color in the history of ever, right?
16:53 I mean, if we're ignorant of history and ever, but why do you still live here?
16:58 Like, honestly, why?
17:00 What would keep you here?
17:02 And I guess another question I might ask her is, why don't you immigrate to another country that isn't racist,
17:08 systemically or otherwise, and compete for them?
17:11 I'm sure there are plenty of African countries where you could, you know, pack up your hammer and go compete for them.
17:17 I mean, why not compete for Sudan or Burundi or Togo or Niger or Somalia or any of those great African countries
17:24 that are full of opportunities for people like you, right?
17:28 How about you try out some of those super non homogenous societies like Denmark and Sweden and Norway?
17:33 Hopefully you're getting the dripping sarcasm there.
17:35 Why don't you immigrate to one of those countries?
17:38 I mean, those are the havens, right?
17:40 These African countries are some of these other countries in these different areas of Europe.
17:45 Like, those are the places that we're supposed to be like, right?
17:49 Like, why don't you immigrate there?
17:51 But I guess the last question I would ask her if she would ever even answer any of these is, if America is
17:57 systemically racist and evil towards black people, right?
18:00 Like she says, and a lot of her people say, you know, then why have millions
18:04 of black Africans immigrated the United States and millions more wish to do the same?
18:13 That's kind of an easy proof right there because people in this country are convinced that we are the
18:20 worst place possible for black people and other people of color.
18:25 What about the people that are wanting to come here?
18:28 Whether it's across our southern border illegally or legally through the other immigration systems,
18:33 we keep getting people that want to live here that don't look like me.
18:37 They're not a white guy.
18:39 Why would they do that?
18:41 Do they not know that the United States is the worst place to possibly be if you're a person of color?
18:50 If you have an elevated amount of melanin, someone should tell them, right?
18:55 Robin DiAngelo, stop writing terrible books.
18:57 Go around the world.
18:58 Go on tour.
18:59 Abraham X. Kendi, go tell these people.
19:03 Don't just tell us.
19:04 We know America.
19:05 Oh man, as an American, I know I'm part of the patriarchy and part of the oppressive culture
19:10 in that we are the worst place possible to live if you don't look like me.
19:13 We need to tell the world, guys.
19:16 Maybe hire Gwen Berry.
19:18 Maybe Gwen Berry and Colin Kaepernick can go around the world on tour telling everybody,
19:22 please don't fill out the paperwork.
19:24 Please don't come, right?
19:26 You have no idea what you're signing up for.
19:28 Yes, I know you're living in the streets and I know that you're worried about all these
19:33 corrupt politicians in your country and you're worried about people from rival gangs coming
19:37 over and stealing your children and taking them out into the jungle and turning them into
19:40 child soldiers.
19:41 I know you're worried about those things, but have you ever heard about systemic racism?
19:46 Yeah, yeah.
19:47 All those things are bad.
19:48 You know, having your arms cut off if you steal something or just to send a message to
19:52 you and the rest of your tribe's people, but I mean, have you ever heard of George Floyd?
19:57 I mean, you think you have it hard.
20:00 Just wait.
20:01 Can you imagine living in the suburbs in the United States and someone looks at you funny
20:05 and you automatically think it's because of the way that you look?
20:08 I mean, that's a real problem, right?
20:11 I feel like my head's going to explode because all this is so stupid.
20:14 I can't keep the sarcasm going that much longer, but I will go ahead and give you guys some
20:17 predictions for the Olympics because I love the Olympics partially because I'm incredibly
20:22 patriotic, right?
20:23 And the United States always tends to do pretty well in the winter games and in the summer
20:26 games.
20:27 And so it's really, really fun to watch.
20:28 I'm very much so looking forward to the Olympics, but as it pertains to this, here are my predictions.
20:32 Number one, when Barry will 100% be highlighted as team USA walks around during the opening
20:39 ceremonies.
20:40 Okay.
20:41 So they're going to highlight, you know, Katie Ledecky and they're going to highlight Simone
20:44 Biles and they're going to highlight, you know, whoever else I don't know who the other,
20:48 you know, famous US athletes are quite yet, you know, NBC hasn't told me the ones yet,
20:51 but Gwen Barry will 100% be highlighted.
20:54 And guys, I hope I'm wrong on these, but I really don't think I think you can see the
20:56 riding on the wall.
20:57 Another prediction I have is NBC will 100% do a little mini vignette in prime time, right?
21:03 About Gwen Barry and then show one of her, you know, lackluster throws.
21:08 Okay.
21:09 So they'll do this little vignette and you may be like a five to seven minute thing about
21:11 how great she is and how, you know, courageous she is.
21:15 And then they will show one of her throws and it's not even going to be probably in the
21:18 top 10 of throws from the people that she's competing against and then everyone's going
21:21 to kind of move on from there.
21:23 Okay.
21:24 Another prediction I have is that Gwen Barry will surely do some sort of demonstration.
21:28 Okay.
21:29 Even though it very, very likely won't be from the medal stand, she's going to do something
21:32 and that's going to be the leading story, right?
21:34 It'll be on the front page in the New York Times.
21:37 It's going to be all over Twitter and she's going to be called a hero and then she's going
21:40 to get signed to Nike for a multi million dollar deal for apparently being amazing.
21:43 Right.
21:44 So that's definitely going to happen.
21:45 And the last thing I'll talk about in terms of the predictions is the names of the two
21:49 American athletes, right?
21:50 That beat her at the US trials will not be mentioned unless they metal.
21:54 So I want to go ahead and just mention them, mention them now.
21:56 So number one, the number one overall person from the United States that's going to compete
22:00 in the women's hammer throw, right, is Deanna Price and number two is Brooke Anderson.
22:05 Okay.
22:06 You will never hear those names ever again unless they hit the podium.
22:11 And here's the other thing.
22:12 If Deanna Price, who is apparently one of the favorites to pay, potentially take the gold
22:15 medal over there or Brooke Anderson, if they do make the podium, this is one of those sports
22:19 that would just be kind of like one of those line item things on the bottom ticker as they're
22:23 showing everything else.
22:24 Everybody wants to see the 100 meter dash.
22:26 Everybody wants to see the swimming.
22:27 Everybody wants to see, you know, you know, the gymnastics.
22:30 They're not really looking at women's hammer throw.
22:32 But even if they get a gold medal, it might not be mentioned, right?
22:35 It may be mentioned on the NBC's website or team USA's website or something like that.
22:39 But I'll go ahead and wrap up today by saying this.
22:41 There is a wish that I have here because a lot of people have said this and some people
22:44 are kind of going back and forth on it.
22:46 But I 100% believe that she should be kicked off of team USA.
22:50 I mean, at the very least, because here's the thing, guys, is this is a pretty easy flow
22:55 chart.
22:56 Do you hate the country you're supposedly representing?
22:59 Yes.
23:00 You don't get to compete for that country.
23:04 Like this isn't a hammer throwing league.
23:06 I forget who said it, but someone came up with a really good thing that'd be like signing
23:09 a contract with the New York Yankees, right?
23:12 And saying, I don't want to wear New York Yankees stuff.
23:15 I hate the New York Yankees.
23:16 I won't wear pinstripes.
23:17 I want to wear Red Sox jersey, right?
23:20 Or I want to wear no jersey.
23:21 I just want to put this, you know, orange shirt over my head, right?
23:25 That doesn't really work.
23:26 You can't represent the New York Yankees and then not wear pinstripes.
23:29 That's not really how this game is played, right?
23:32 But guys, can you name another athlete prominent or not from another country that represents
23:39 that country professionally, but actively hates that country?
23:46 Can you name one other athlete?
23:50 Because again, you're playing for team USA.
23:54 This is USA across your chest.
23:56 They will hand you a flag of the United States of America if you meddle for you to drape over
24:02 your shoulders, right?
24:04 You will look up towards your flag as if you win the gold medal.
24:07 They will play your national anthem.
24:10 You will sing it and you will cry, right, as is to be expected.
24:16 Do you know any other person anywhere else in the world that does this?
24:21 Because there are plenty of corrupt countries.
24:24 There are plenty of racist countries because spoiler alert, every single country has racist
24:28 in it, right?
24:29 And according to these people, that makes the country itself systemically racist.
24:36 Other countries that have atrocious things that they do as a country, right?
24:40 Think about all the athletes that are going to be competing for team China, right?
24:45 Think about all the athletes that are going to be completing for the Sudanese team, right?
24:49 These countries that have horrifically bad governments or evil governments or just evil
24:53 people that are like pseudo governments, right?
24:57 But these people aren't disrespecting those countries.
25:01 And most of them would probably say, Hey, I love my country.
25:04 I don't love everything that has been done in the name of my country, but I'm going to
25:07 go out there.
25:08 I'm going to run as hard as I can for my country.
25:09 I'm going to swim as hard as I can for my country.
25:10 I'm going to jump as high as I can for my country.
25:12 I'm going to do whatever I can do to bring pride to my country.
25:17 But somehow that's too much for going berry and I guess we all just get to get popcorn
25:21 and watch.
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25:33 I am so excited for all of you to be taking in the content and I just want to thank everyone
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25:42 and mainly foxhole, whether you looked at it here on the podcast feed or you went over
25:46 to you version or you went over to our website, we just really appreciate you guys.
25:50 And this is already having an impact.
25:51 We're already having guys that are making definitive changes to their personal lives
25:55 and their personal communities to try to develop a foxhole.
25:58 Like, you know, we're already getting feedback from a lot of different places.
26:00 So that's a quick resilience boost for you today.
26:02 I'm just going to leave you with the website.
26:04 It's undaunted dot life backslash donate backslash foxhole.
26:07 That's how you can get access to the seven day devotional.
26:09 You can download those files for yourself.
26:11 Again, all that we ask is for you to donate something to us.
26:14 We didn't put this behind a paywall, but if this is bringing value to you, then give
26:18 us a donation commensurate with that level of value.
26:20 If it's worth 50 bucks to you, if it's worth a hundred bucks to you, we would say at least
26:23 do 10 bucks.
26:24 But guys, this is having a tremendous impact.
26:26 Show this content to the people at your church.
26:28 Show it to your pastor, show it to whoever the men's ministry person is, right?
26:32 If you're just listening to me, I had major air quotes there, but guys, check that stuff
26:35 out and be sure to let me know how you like it.
26:37 All right, guys.
26:38 Thanks so much for listening to the podcast.
26:39 Wherever you're listening to this, please subscribe, rate and review.
26:43 If you want to come speak at your live event or on your podcast, you can just shoot me
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26:54 You can also check out our website for everything else, including how to donate to keep more
26:57 content like this coming.
26:58 That's at www dot undaunted dot life.
27:01 We also want to thank the band August for its red for allowing us to use their music for
27:04 our content.
27:05 The entire outro track on this podcast is their song, cutting the ties, which is off
27:08 their 10th anniversary re-recording of their album, Leveler links are in the description.
27:13 I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
27:16 Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
27:23 Keep seeking the Lion of Judah.
27:30 I'm your host, I'm your host, I'm your host, I'm your host, I'm your host, I'm your host
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