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This is Undaunted 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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Alright guys, thank you so much for listening to this episode of Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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Before we get into the Q&A for today, because guys I know, it has been a very, very long
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time since we've done Q&A.
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We don't go usually that long, but I guess here lately we've been going pretty long.
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But y'all have all done yourselves here lately with some of your questions.
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I do want to implore you guys.
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How we keep the lights on is you guys.
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We've talked about that over and over.
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So if you would go to undaunted.life/donate and consider being a partner with us, that's
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the thing is we want to do so many more things and the things we want to do take a lot of
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Guys, I'm just going to be very upfront with you, a lot of people will read about asking
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for money.
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But that's what we do.
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We've given away hundreds of hours worth of content for absolutely free because we want
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So we are asking for a little bit of that back from you.
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Become a monthly partner.
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Whatever it takes.
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I mean, you spend 15 bucks a month on Netflix, 25 bucks a month on Starbucks or something
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like that.
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We would ask you to consider partnering with us like I knocked my desk there partnering
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with us so that we can continue to help guys like you push back darkness.
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But let's go ahead and launch into our Q&A for today.
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Let's go with our first question.
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This one, I've got to be honest, when I got an email from this guy asking these questions,
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it really kind of [inaudible] me off a little bit, but I'll kind of get into it here.
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So here was the question.
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Why should I listen to your show?
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What are your credentials?
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Now I kind of distilled this guy's email down to that.
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But essentially this guy was like, Hey, I found you on this other show.
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I found you, you know, you know, through the grapevine or whatever.
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And I just don't, I don't really know if I should be listening to you.
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Okay.
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I don't really know if I can trust you.
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I don't really know any of those things.
2:24
And so my initial reaction was, you know, not very positive.
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I was just kind of mad at this guy, like, who's he, you know, kind of like question me.
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And then I kind of thought about it.
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It's like, okay, this guy is making sure that I'm not going to be, you know, Steven
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furticking all in his ears and all those different things that he's, that I'm a legit dude.
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But the way that I responded to this guy is he asked me about my credentials without
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using the words credentials.
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And credentialing can be very, very dangerous when you're evaluating people, whether you're
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a hiring professional or just otherwise.
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Okay.
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So you could have gone to Harvard Law School and ended up being a really crappy lawyer.
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And that's certainly possible, right?
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You could have gone to some sort of like high flight theological school and got your masters
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in divinity or whatever.
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And you could still be a heretical preacher.
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You know what I mean?
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And so for this guy, it's like, so I have an MBA, right?
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I have a master's of business administration.
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So does that mean I'm really good at running a business?
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Maybe.
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Maybe not.
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There's a lot of people that run really very successful businesses that are billionaires
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that have never set foot in a business school, right?
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And so when I told this guy, as I said, look, he wanted me to put a bio on my website and
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like explain my background and all these different things.
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The thing is, is we put up on the website what we want to put up on the website, okay?
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And we have specifically not, we've specifically chosen not to put my bio up on the website
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because we don't think that it adds anything to the experience.
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We're here to equipment to push back darkness.
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And so does me being from lot in Oklahoma help us push back darkness?
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No, does me getting a full ride scholarship and studying leadership and communication
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and business?
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Does any of that make sense in terms of us being able to push back darkness, giving
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you the name of my church and my pastor and all these different things so that you could
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look at them and see if they've said anything obscure over the last like 30 years of public
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ministry.
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Is that going to help us push back darkness?
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And the answer is no.
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So the ultimate answer is we've done over 200 episodes, right?
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This is episode, you know, 220 something, right?
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We've done over 200 episodes.
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There's my resume.
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If you listen to the show, you could even just pick, pick five random episodes, pick five
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random numbers between one and 200 and listen to those episodes.
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And if you feel like I'm full of crap, listen to another show, listen to something else.
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Like I've invited so many people to not listen to my show because, you know, maybe they don't
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like how I talk or maybe they don't like how I look or they don't like my perspective
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on this side or the other thing or they agreed with me for a hundred and, you know, 97 episodes
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and then it was episode one.
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98.
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I don't even know what that episode was.
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That's the one that was like, ah, that broke the Campbell's back.
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Sorry.
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Like if you don't want to listen to this show, if it doesn't agree with your sensibilities,
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if it offends you, if it hurts your feelings, don't listen, right?
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So to anybody that's wondering what my credentials are, I got an entire podcast episode list
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for you.
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Just scroll through and start listening.
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All right, guys.
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Next question here.
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What are your thoughts on the recent polls about co-president Biden, co-president Harris,
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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis?
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Okay.
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So co-president Biden, co-president Harris, they are getting trounced in the polls right
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now, especially co-president Harris.
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She is one of the least likable politicians in American public life and Hillary Clinton
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still exists.
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So that is a damning thing for the Democrats because you can sense that the plan was,
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okay, let's get Biden in the White House, you know, that this supposed moderate guy who's
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just going to like be normal, this is a return to normal, see in politeness and all those
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different things, but that obviously he wasn't going to really be able to make it through
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his first term.
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The guy, whether you agree with his politics or not, the guy's not there mentally and I'm
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not saying that to be funny.
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This is actually really horrible what they're doing to this man, right?
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And maybe he's along for the ride.
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Maybe he enjoys it, but what they're doing to this man is really, really terrible, right?
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This is a man that is clearly suffering mentally and yet they just keep trotting him out there
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in front of the television screens.
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It's really, really bad.
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But Kamala Harris is so unbelievably unpopular that they can't just, you know, have Joe Biden
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after the midterms kind of right off into the sunset and we get, you know, 18 to 24 months
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of Kamala Harris and then she runs for president, you know, full presidency, not just co-presidency
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and, you know, beats out, you know, whoever the Republicans are ended up putting up.
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But I think the Democrats are panicking a little bit right now.
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They know the polling is terrible for them.
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They pretty much disagree on all of the things about their platform and people are realizing
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that Joe Biden is not acting terribly moderately, you know, he'll say some moderate things,
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but he's allowing the far left of his party to really run the roost in his White House.
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Okay.
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So Democrats are panicking, but then we kind of go over to Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
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And I think I talked about this in the last Q and A episode.
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I think with Donald Trump, he has permanently tainted goods, right?
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Whether you voted for him or not, whether you like him or not, what happened on January
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six, whether or not you believe it was a big deal or not, the majority of the American
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public believes that that was Donald Trump's fault directly.
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Now that may be factually inaccurate and I tend to, you know, fall more so on that side
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of things.
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He never called for what happened to happen, right?
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But he's completely tainted, right?
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And so if the Republicans trot him out there and to give him another shot at Biden or even
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Kamala Harris, I don't know that that's going to work out well for Republicans.
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And I know a lot of Trump people are really, really sad that I would say something like
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that.
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They're mad about that.
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They don't really like that idea.
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They don't really damage goods.
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But the polls that have been coming out recently, it basically has him in the lead in terms of
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these straw polls.
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They always do these straw polls that are like three years out from an election or more.
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And you know, Donald Trump is at the top of these straw polls with Ron DeSantis, a new
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governor of Florida, right behind him, right?
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So if I were to make a prediction right now being almost like literally almost four years
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away from the next election, you know, I think it's going to be Donald Trump running as the
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presidential pick for the Republicans and Ron DeSantis running in it as his VP.
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Because Ron DeSantis doesn't want to go up against Trump because nobody on the Republicans
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I can actually beat Trump because Trump is this all consuming force of gravity.
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He has his own gravitational pull.
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I think that would be horrible for Ron DeSantis because Donald Trump would do everything in
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his power to absolutely destroy that man.
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And then that puts, you know, a, a, you know, purple state in Florida that puts them in
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jeopardy, right?
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That, because that's a swing state, big time swing state.
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So again, as I've said before, as of right now, I think Ron DeSantis would be the best
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person to represent the Republican party.
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I know he's doing a lot of red meat type things for his base with COVID and lockdowns and
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he keeps pushing back against Joe Biden.
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But this is a guy that has the best parts of Donald Trump.
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I've said this before, the best parts of Donald Trump, but he lacks that super ego that just
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can't let anything go.
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So the polls right now, again, they don't really matter.
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I think Jeb Bush was like the guy that was going to be the guy before Donald Trump was
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the guy.
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And so obviously we see how that worked out.
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But those are my thoughts on some of those polls that have come out recently.
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All right.
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People on most Q and A's that you guys want to know about UFC fight picks, but you know,
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yeah, I've had a lot of people asking me about Conor McGregor and everything that went on.
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So here's a question here.
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What do you think about Conor McGregor breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier in the rematch,
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his actions in the cage after the fight and his actions since?
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So for those of you living, you know, under a rock, you know, you weren't one of the two
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million paper view buys or something like that in the rematch at the end of the first
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round, Conor McGregor snapped as Tibia and Fibia whenever Dustin Poirier kind of checked
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a kick.
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You see that he may be kicked Poirier in his elbow, maybe a few seconds before that, but
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then he kicks it.
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Everyone thought he broke his ankle, but he actually broke his Tibia, Fibia.
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But then immediately it brings back these, these memories of what just happened to Chris
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Weidman.
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And then before that, when Chris Weidman had fought Anderson Silva and those two guys broke
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their legs and those guys are just writhing around on them on the mat on the canvas and
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they're just, they're going crazy.
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They've broken their leg horribly painful.
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All that.
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But when Connor broke his leg, it was like it just made him mad.
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Like he was just so angry.
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Like he's, he's sitting up against the cage, you know, they call the fight, they wave the
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fight off and he's yelling and he's screaming and you can't really hear what he's saying
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because there's not a microphone by, but he's pointed, Dustin Poirier, he's pointing out
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his wife.
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He's saying things about his wife.
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And then Joe Rogan famously goes over there and sits down next to him because, you know,
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apparently, Conor McGregor called him over said, Hey, Hey, let's, let's have a podcast
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lad.
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Like, let's get over here.
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Let's do this.
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And he's saying these horrible things about, you know, Dustin Poirier's wife being in his
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DMs and, you know, how he's going to, he's going to kill him and he's going to do all
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these different things.
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Again, there's some grace you can give because the guy did just break his leg.
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But it was, it was a gross display there after the fight, not really anything that you could
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defend.
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But of all the people to have a great take on this, I thought that Ronda Rousey had a
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really, really good take on this surprisingly because she doesn't really pop her head much
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up on MMA stuff.
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And she said this guy breaks his leg.
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He loses a Dustin Poirier for two fights in a row, a guy that he smoked in their first
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fight in like 90 seconds.
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And he has the mental wherewithal to sell the next fight.
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And that's exactly what Conor McGregor was doing, right?
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Because he's absorbing this bad guy image now.
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He even posted a picture on Instagram the next day, which was a perfect tweet.
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It was him being, you know, carted out of the, the arena on the stretcher and everything
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like that.
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And it was like, what was the quote?
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It was a Scarface quote, but it's like, everybody needs a bad guy or, you know, you know, everybody
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wants to know the bad guy.
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I'm sorry, I'm messing up the quote for all you Scarface fans.
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But he was basically embracing this Scarface, you know, bad guy that some people still kind
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of like Monica, even like the Heisenberg stuff, you know, with Breaking Bad and that kind
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of thing.
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And so he was selling the next fight because he's going to be out for a very, very long
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time.
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Obviously, you know, there's probably going to be complications.
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Chris Weidman's had complications with his leg, even post surgery is going to have to
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have another surgery and all that.
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So we're not going to see Conor McGregor for a very long time, which is kind of normal
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now.
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You know, Conor will fight once a year and you know, he doesn't really have a super active
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streak in the last several years.
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But he's selling that next fight.
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Everyone's going to pay attention whether he fights Dus and Puri again, whether he fights
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an AD as or somebody else, you know, it's, it's, it's pretty apparent that he's still
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going to be relevant.
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Now, his actions since he's, he's had some very cryptic tweets that he's since deleted,
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you know, talking about Habib Nurmagomedov and his dead father and all that.
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And he just comes off looking incredibly petty, incredibly mean.
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And so if he is trying to embrace that Scarface thing, right, to be the bad guy, like, you
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know, hey, everybody's looking at the bad guy right now.
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He's doing that, but he's crossing some lines that fans aren't going to forgive him for because
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he's always going to have a large contingent of fans, especially Irish fans that will say
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Conor McGregor can do no wrong when he punched the old man at the bar, whenever he threw
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the, you know, Dolly at the bus when he did all these horrible things, they can still
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forgive that.
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But he's really kind of wearing out people like me that have been a big Conor McGregor
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fan.
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It's like, how can you support that?
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How can you support a guy acting like that?
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Even if it's kind of kayfabe, even if it's kind of, you know, he's like doing the pro wrestling
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thing and he'll still shake the guy's hand after a fight.
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Let's get in a little bit tiresome at the moment.
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Okay.
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But now we're going to move on to some fight picks.
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There's not a lot of fights that have been announced officially.
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There's some stuff that have kind of been talked about.
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So I'm only going to be talking about UFC two 66.
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That's on September the 25th.
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So that's a ways away from now, but there's just a bunch of fight nights between now and
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then fight nights rather.
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So there is the featherweight championship fight between Alexander Volkynovsky and Brian
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Artega.
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Now Brian Artega came back and he fought Korean zombie and he looked incredible in that fight,
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and so further notice, I think Alexander Volkynovsky is the best 135 or 145 on the planet.
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The best featherweight on the planet.
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The guy just has a, he's an incredibly tough guy.
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He's an incredibly strong guy.
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He has great wrestling.
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You know, Brian Artega's striking has improved considerably, but Brian Artega got absolutely
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destroyed by Max Holloway and Alexander Volkynovsky has beat Max Holloway twice now.
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So got to go with Alexander Volkynovsky.
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There's another title fight that is the women's flyweight championship 125.
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That's Valentina, Chef Cenco and Lauren Murphy.
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And aside from Amanda Nunes, Valentina, Chef Cenco is the most dominant champion in the
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UFC, not, not just women's divisions, the most dominant champion.
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What she does in fights, like she gets mad when people think like, I think in her last
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fight, there was a girl that people thought maybe would be able to grapple with her.
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And so Valentina didn't strike as much, but she grappled a bunch and just whoop this girl
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on the ground.
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And so I really like watching her fight.
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She's probably going to be like a minus a thousand favorite in that fight.
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So that's easy pickings.
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Get the house on that bet the neighbor's house on that bet their farm to Valentina, Chef
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Cenco is going to beat Lauren Murphy.
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And then the other fight that's here, it's the return of Nick Diaz and he's got a rematch
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against Robbie Lawler.
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So this is Nick Diaz's first fight since his no contest against Anderson Silva in 2015,
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2015.
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So six plus years without fighting now, him and Robbie Lawler had a very good fight back
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in the day.
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He ended up finishing Robbie Lawler.
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This is a weird one to pick because Robbie Lawler has been very active.
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In these last six years, and Nick Diaz has done nothing.
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And so could Nick Diaz come back and have a bunch of ring rust?
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Maybe.
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Could he come back freshes a daisy and just put it on Robbie Lawler?
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I don't know.
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But as of right now, I think you have to go with the known entity and the known entity
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right now is Robbie Lawler.
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He's been fighting and fighting with some levels of success over the last six years.
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You know, his last several fights, not so much, but that's still a very dangerous dude.
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And he still thinks about the Nick Diaz fight a lot because that's one of the fights that
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he lost.
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So I'm going to go with Robbie Lawler on that one.
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All right.
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Next question here.
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Can I work out with you?
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And then another question that I get asked a lot is can you post your workouts on social
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media?
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So I'll start with the second one first.
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So I used to do a workout of the week for on Daunted Life and it became a little bit cumbersome
15:22
and not everybody could do the workouts because maybe they didn't have a home gym or whatever.
15:25
But one of the reasons why I don't post my personal workouts on social media is because
15:29
those are the workouts that are good for me.
15:32
So some of you guys out there that you don't have the means whether, you know, your gym
15:36
doesn't really allow that type of lifting or you don't have a home gym.
15:39
Maybe you can't do front and back squat easily, right?
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Because your your gym has one squat rack and there's always the same dude on it or something
15:45
like that.
15:46
You know, maybe you have shoulder problems and you can't bench.
15:49
Maybe you've got low back problems and you're really struggling with deadlift or you haven't
15:52
had proper coaching.
15:53
And so if I just said, Hey, do what I do, there's nothing you should do that should be blanket
15:58
applicable to everybody when it comes to fitness.
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And that includes diet, right?
16:02
For some people being ketogenic is going to be great.
16:04
For some people being, you know, carnivore, meditarian diet, like that's going to be great
16:08
for them.
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But it's not great for everybody else.
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And so that's part of the reason why I don't post my workouts online.
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Uh, now in the future, we might do some workout planning for people and again, I don't have
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like a kinesiology background.
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I've just been working out since I was like 13 or 14 years old.
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So I know a thing or two.
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I picked up some knowledge along the way, but that's the reason why we don't post stuff
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on social media as of right now.
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But then the other one, this is a question that I've gotten a lot, like surprisingly,
16:31
a lot since we moved into the new house and I have a home gym, I think we've been in this
16:35
house four or five years and it's, can I work out with you?
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Okay.
16:39
So what a lot of people mean by that is not, Hey, I don't have a gym available to me.
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You have a gym.
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You're my buddy.
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Can I come work out?
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It's, Hey, I want you to train me.
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Hey, I want to do what you do.
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Hey, you're in really good shape.
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I want to be in really good shape too.
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Can you be my coach?
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And so this is kind of that one place in my life where I've made a conscious decision
16:58
to kind of be a little bit of a [inaudible], like that one place because that is my me time.
17:03
Yeah.
17:04
That talks about their me time and I got to have time for me.
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That's my me time.
17:08
Okay.
17:09
When I wake up early before my wife and son and dogs are even awake and I go hit the garage,
17:14
I put on a podcast and I work and I work really, really hard and I never want to.
17:19
I wake up and all I want to do is roll back over and fall asleep, but I get up, I get
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my shoes, I go to the gym in my garage and I get after it.
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Okay.
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Everything I do is timed as well.
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So my breaks in between sets are timed.
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Working out with somebody.
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Okay.
17:36
Now we're changing out his weights and now we're doing his thing, now I'm spot him and
17:39
now he wants to talk about something.
17:40
Now he wants to do it.
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I don't want that, right?
17:43
I don't want that at all.
17:44
The overwhelming majority of the time I spent lifting, except for a small time after college,
17:48
I've lifted alone.
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So I'm very, very used to it, but that's very cathartic for me.
17:53
It's a one place in my life where it's just me.
17:56
I don't have to worry about what's going on with my wife, with my son, with anything
17:59
going on with the podcast, anything with work or any friends.
18:02
That's just me.
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I'm just in my zone and that's my selfish time.
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And so a lot of guys have asked about that and, you know, they're not always happy with
18:10
my response, but that's kind of my one little area that I need to protect for myself because
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that's how I get my mental health and my mental strength is by getting after it in the mornings.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Next question's here.
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These are a bunch of questions kind of wrapping up the Tokyo Olympics.
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Okay.
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So, you know, I guess I didn't really talk about from the top of the podcast, all the different
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things that we're going to be talking about.
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Yes.
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We're going to be talking about the Olympics.
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We're going to be talking about the vaccine.
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We're going to be talking about all kinds of other things later on, but we got a lot of
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questions about the Olympics and recapping all that.
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So let's just kind of dig into these here.
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What are your thoughts overall on the performance of team USA in the Tokyo Olympics?
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So, whenever I was preparing this podcast, it looked like the United States was not going
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to win the gold medal count.
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Like we were going to win by a wide margin, the overall medal count, but on the last day
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of competition, I believe the US won three or four gold medals.
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And so the US ended up with 39 gold medals and China only had 38.
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So we just edged out China.
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I think they were up to going into the last day.
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And so US also added 41 silvers, 33 bronze for a total of 113.
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China had 38 goals, 32 silver and 18 bronze for a total of 88.
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So the United States won the total medal count and the gold medal count.
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I believe they've done that for four or five Olympic games running except for in 2008 Beijing
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just off top of my head.
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I think China won the gold medal count, but lost the overall count.
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And then the Russian Olympic Committee, which is a really stupid way of saying Russia, we're
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pretending like, Oh yeah, Russia had like a state sponsored doping thing.
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And then all of a sudden we're not going to call them Russia.
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We're just going to say Russian Olympic Committee as if they're still not doing the doping with
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these athletes.
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But they got third.
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Great Britain got fourth in Japan got fifth in terms of the metal count.
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So early on, US did not do well seemingly.
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They left a lot of medals, specifically gold medals in the pool on the track and in other
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places.
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I mean, I even saw, I think it was the four by 100, the men's four by 100.
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The US didn't even qualify for the final.
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I think they got six in the semi final.
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Even Carl Lewis came out and was like, Are you guys kidding me?
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We have some of the best sprinters in the world.
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Every single time there's a competition and we can't even qualify for the final.
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So even as as proud as I am that the US did win the most amount of goals and the most
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amount of the medals total, there were a lot of medals that the United States should have
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won that we didn't.
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So that's kind of my overall thoughts about team USA overall.
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I'm very, very happy with the performance.
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And then we're going to go in and get some other questions here more specific.
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So were you mad when some homebials won a bronze medal and the balance beam individual
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competition?
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And the answer is yes and no.
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So the no is, I'm really glad an American athlete won a medal, right?
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Regardless of the color, you'd prefer for it to be gold.
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But yeah, she won second loser.
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She got, she got the bronze medal.
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But the thing that does kind of make me a little bit mad is that she should have gotten
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gold in that event because she's best in the world at that event.
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She also should have got gold in the vault and in the floor exercise and in the all around.
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And again, I've done an entire episode on Simone Biles.
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So I'm not going to really go there, you know, go back and listen, it was a few episodes
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ago.
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I did my entire episode on that.
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But none of my, none of my opinions have really changed.
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They've only been further entrenched.
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This woman is being celebrated as a hero for quitting.
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You know, she goes out there and she accepts her silver team medal for a competition she
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didn't even compete in.
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She didn't play in the game and she wasn't really hurt, right?
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So it, and it's a little bit different than if, you know, you decide you don't want to
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play game seven.
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Your team wins anyway and you still get the championship ring, right?
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It's just, it just didn't feel right.
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You know, you have Carrie struck breaking her leg to, to do the vault for a team and all
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these other things.
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But Simone Biles can't get there and everybody's all right.
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Just, they're way too eager to make an excuse for this young lady, right?
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Oh, you know, she had Ariel, you know, whippedy do's and that causes you to be dangerous
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and it'll, oh, you don't want to do that.
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And you know, what, what about her mental health?
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We're only worried about her physical health and all these.
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We keep giving her excuses that she's not making the things she said.
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And I, I detail that really, really in detail on that episode.
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Most of the things she said was that she didn't really feel right.
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She wasn't really having a lot of fun and, you know, all these different things.
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Is it possible that she has a real diagnosable physical element?
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Yes.
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We didn't see that.
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But yes, I was happy that we got another bronze medal, but we should have got a lot
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more and part of the reason why the US it looked like we weren't going to win is literally
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one Olympian, our greatest Olympian going into these games, Simone Biles decided she
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just didn't feel like it.
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Okay.
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Next one here.
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Were you reading?
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Sorry.
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Here we go.
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Were you rooting for or against the United States women's national soccer team in the
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Olympics?
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This one's an easy one.
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I was rooting against them, hard, super hard, right?
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Because like Megan Rapino, she's doing all our stuff and before the first game kneeling
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there, wearing Nike sponsored, of course, jumpsuits that say black lives matter on it,
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which again, the statement makes perfect sense and everyone should agree with, but the organization
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is horrible and marxis and satanic.
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But yes, I was actively rooting against these women because very few of these women decided
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in the run up to the Olympics or in the Olympics to kind of be away from that.
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They wore the jumpsuits that they supported their teammates saying these horribly stupid
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things.
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So I could not have been more excited when Canada, right?
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I got a lot of listeners in Canada.
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I appreciate the gals in Canada.
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I think they went on to win the gold medal.
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But they beat the United States in the semi final and kept them from being in the gold
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medal match.
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The women's team did end up winning a bronze medal.
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You know, great for us, but you know, it's kind of like a little bit, I know it's conflicted
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about that.
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It's like, yeah, I kind of wanted them to just not even metal to just be like suck it.
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Like y'all had to do all this stuff to prove how woke you were, but you forgot to train.
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You end up getting whooped on the international stage probably by a bunch of people that you
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would think were racist.
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Like, so for me, I was actively rooting against those women.
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If you hate the country that you're representing, don't represent them, which segues nicely
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into the next question, which is, were you rooting for or against when Barry?
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So when Barry is going to be riding off into obscurity, hopefully, because when Barry is
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the harem hammer thrower that disrespect to the United States and the national anthem
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in the US trials, I talked about that in an entire episode as well, so you can go back
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and listen to that.
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Yes, I was actively rooting against when Barry, but the thing is I didn't really have to because
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she's not that great of a hammer thrower.
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She got an 11th in the competition, but they did what I thought they would do.
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They did like a little thing, a little vignette about her on the NBC sports thing, and they
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showed one of her terrible throws, and then they just moved on.
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But again, the woke crowd is not going to let win Barry die because she's a hero, right?
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Yeah.
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I mean, she's basically like Harriet Tubman, right?
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She's basically Rosa Parks, modern day Rosa Parks, because she would disrespect the United
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States flag.
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So yes, I was actively rooting against her in this Olympics, but again, she only got
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third in the US team trial, so you could expect her to, you know, basically just crack the
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top dozen.
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And she did.
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So there you go.
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Our next question here, were you surprised there were not more protests at the Tokyo Olympics?
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Yes, I was shocked.
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And a lot of people preemptively said I'm not watching the Olympics because of Guinberry
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and because of Megan Rapinoe and people like that, but I was shocked that more people didn't
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come out and do some stuff.
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I know there was a silver medalist in track and field for the US that, you know, held up
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like an ex or a fist or something on the podium, almost daring the Olympic Committee to take
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her medal away.
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And then she liked worked after one of her throws.
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She may have been discus or shot put.
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I don't really care.
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But I was really, really shocked that we didn't see more of it.
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And it was great.
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It was amazing to see all these people, all these Americans that loved this country and
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wrapped themselves up in the flag and just absolutely loved representing the greatest
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country in the history of the planet.
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Okay.
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Glad there weren't more protests because it made the Olympics that much more watchable.
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Okay.
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Next question.
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What do you think about Laurel Hubbard competing for New Zealand?
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So that is the dude that decided to be a woman and compete against women.
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This is a person that sucked as a male weight lifter, but have competed recently as a male
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weight lifter relatively recently, but then decides he's a woman and then he's going to
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compete in New Zealand, actually trots him out there as if he's an actual woman and competing
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in the Olympics.
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Now, Laurel Hubbard, this dude did horribly, right?
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Which gave fodder you would think to the people that think that there's just no differences
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between men and women.
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There's none whatsoever.
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This person didn't even get a lift up.
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They didn't even metal.
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They, they didn't even make it to the podium, but that actually doesn't prove what you think
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it proves because a man still stole a spot from a actual female to compete because there
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should have been another Kiwi female competing in these Olympics and they didn't, right?
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This is this dude decided that he wanted to compete against the women.
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Now this is a person that deserves our, our, you know, understanding and our empathy because
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this is a mentally unwell human being or a crazy selfish narcissist, one of the two,
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but neither is really, really great, okay?
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But then you had these people.
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One of the best things, one of my best clips that I saw from the Olympics is they're talking
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to, I think it was one or two Olympic weight lifter females from Great Britain and another
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one from the United States.
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And this woke reporter asks them, you know, not about their accomplishments and the things
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they were able to do.
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They said, oh, you know, Laurel Hubbard competed as the first openly transgender athlete in
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the Olympics.
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It was a very, very historic night for her to compete in these Olympics.
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What do you think about it?
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And there was this long silence for about five seconds and then the US athlete leans over
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to the mic and just says, no, thank you.
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Oh, I thought it was the perfect answer.
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No, thank you.
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I'm not going to participate in this nonsense right now.
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So I'd love that these female athletes are pushing back because they know that if they
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have to start competing against men, that's going to affect their livelihoods.
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This is what these people do for a living in a lot of ways.
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They've dedicated their entire lives to this obscure sport that is only watched by really
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a relative handful of people.
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And when you have dudes coming in and busting up the party, it's inappropriate.
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So I'm glad they responded that way.
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All right.
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Next question here about the Olympics.
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Who was your favorite non-American athlete that you saw compete in the Tokyo Olympics?
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So here's the thing, guys, I love handball.
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Handball is awesome.
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Of all the Olympic sports that everybody loves to watch, that's the obscure sport that I
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love watching because I would have loved to have played handball because you're basically
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it's a bunch of short, like super giant, tall, short stops and second baseman.
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They're just in there, jump throw in and all this crazy stuff.
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The ball is like 90% the size of a volleyball, but it's a little bit deflated so you can really
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toss it.
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It's more like one of those squishy dodge balls.
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And dude, it's such a cool sport to watch.
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But Michael Hansen, right, he's the Denmark player, you know, he's a captain of the team
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or whatever.
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Now Denmark ended up getting the silver medal, but I loved watching Denmark's matches, right?
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Their matches were amazing.
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And this dude's got long hair and he wears a headband.
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And he just looks like a dude, like he doesn't look physically impressive at all.
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But when that dude slings the ball, my goodness.
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So like I just like to style, I like that he was a dane like, Oh, that's kind of cool
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or whatever.
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But I loved watching, Michael Hansen, I'm sad they didn't win the gold medal, especially
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since they lost to France.
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I don't have a lot of listeners in France, but why are you all so judgy?
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Why always pointed us and all these things?
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I know we're fat here in America, but you know, leave us alone.
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Stop being so rude.
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All right.
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Next question here.
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What was your least favorite Olympic moment?
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Okay.
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So pre Olympics, I said that I was most excited to watch some own Biles, Katie Ledecky and
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Kyle Dake.
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So obviously you've heard me talk a lot about some own Biles and the disappointment that
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that was a Katie Ledecky did very, very good again.
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She lost one race that she should have won to her Australian rival, but it was still okay.
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But really Kyle Dake, I was very, very excited for Kyle Dake because he had finally busted
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through that, you know, he was being being big brother by Jordan Burrows for so long, but
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he finally made it through the trials.
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Be Jordan Burrows.
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Basically, Hey, Jordan Burrows, you're going to be the one with the microphone talking
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about me wrestle.
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He wins his first match, but then him losing his second match was probably my least favorite
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thing I watched in the Olympics.
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So he lost to a guy.
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I'm going to have to read it slowly.
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Magomet Habib, Kadi Magomet off of Belarus, okay.
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The second round match, he he got tacked.
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He lost 11 to nothing.
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This is the gold medal favorite, right, right?
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He got smoked and towards the end of the match, like the last takedown he gave up, it looked
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like he kind of literally gave up.
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So I was very disappointed to see that because I thought of all the United States wrestlers
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that he was the one that had the best chance at gold, which I ended up being, you know,
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supremely wrong on that.
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But I was very happy that Kyle Dake got it together.
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He ended up wrestling for a bronze and winning the bronze medal, but yeah, that was my most
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disappointing thing watching him get beat so badly.
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All right.
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Now, what was your favorite Olympic moment?
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And so I've got a moment here I'll describe in a second, but I do need to kind of take
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it aside and just talk about USA wrestling.
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My goodness, USA wrestling, the entire freestyle team, except for two female wrestlers got
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medals, the entire team.
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So back in Rio, I think only three wrestlers went home with medals.
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We had that many gold medals, okay?
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So Tamara mince a stock.
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She won gold in the 68 kilos, David Taylor.
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He won gold in the 86 kilos and then Gable Stevenson, who we'll talk more about here in
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a second.
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You hold 125 kilos and then you have Kyle Snyder taking silver, Adeline Gray taking silver,
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Helen Maroula's taking bronze, Thomas Gilman taking bronze, Kyle Dake taking bronze and
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Sarah Hilden brand taking bronze.
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Well, we got to talk about Gable Steves.
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Oh boy, do we need to talk about Gable Stevenson.
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So I'll be real honest.
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I had not really heard much about this guy until the NCAAs.
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And when he went through as an undefeated heavyweight and won the NCAAs, okay, great.
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Then he goes to the Olympic trial.
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He comes everybody in the Olympic trials for the United States and it's like, oh, he's
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doing backflips.
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This guy's got a good look to him.
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Good looking guys.
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Got a nice personality.
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People are talking about him going to the WWE, but then you got, you know, you got the
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big boys now.
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Right?
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It's the Olympics, right?
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We've got, you know, world champions and defending gold medalists in there, okay?
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But the thing about him is he didn't even give up a point leading to the gold medal
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match.
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And a lot of people didn't think he would really make it there, right?
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Because there was just too much stiff competition.
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And he actually beat the defending gold medalists from Rio on the way to the gold medal match.
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Again, not giving up a point, okay?
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So Gino again, I'm going to butcher this last name, Petria Shavili, okay, from Georgia.
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He met him in the gold medal match.
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Now this guy, Gino, he's a three time defending world champion, right?
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So this is a serious dude, but Gable Stevenson gets up four to nothing against this dude.
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And I'm sitting here like, Oh my gosh, breakout star.
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This guy's amazing.
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He's going to get a gold medal, having never even given up a single point.
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This dude is amazing.
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And like that, he's down eight five.
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I mean, in a flash, Gable Stevenson is down eight to five.
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Now, if you didn't watch this, I'm going to do my best to describe it to you, but you've
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got to go watch it.
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I don't really know what the legalities are about sharing the videos.
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I can't really play it here, but he's down eight to five with around 14 seconds left in
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the match.
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So this matches over, okay?
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He's down by more than one takedown, okay?
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He hits a takedown.
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This kind of a all shucks he take down to make it eight to seven, but then he cuts him.
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He lets the guy up.
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There's six and a half seconds left on the clock and he's down one six and a half seconds
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is a really short period of time to hit a takedown.
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For those of you that don't know about wrestling, but he kind of faints a shot.
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He gets the guy down and kind of on his bases and he runs around, runs around, runs around,
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like runs around this guy's edge.
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He finishes a takedown with point three seconds left on the clock to go up nine eight and
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win the gold medal.
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I mean, I'm literally sitting there watching this on the floor in my house.
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I think I'm alone.
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I think I'm by myself and man, I'm disappointed.
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These last three seconds, like dad, come at this, this young 21 year old kid, this would
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have been such a cool deal for him to be able to go over to the WWE because, you know, with
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a silver medal, Kurt Angle could always be like, well, I got the gold with a broken neck
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and, you know, do his thing.
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I literally like I was on the ground and like, I don't know how I got to my feet.
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I didn't touch the ground.
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I was just up on my feet celebrating this unbelievable thing.
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And then, you know, the Georgian coach challenged it and so we actually lost the challenge.
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So he got an additional point.
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So he won 10 to eight to take home the gold medal.
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This kid is a bonafide superstar and he can do whatever he wants.
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Most people don't think he's going to keep wrestling, you know, doing like freestyle wrestling
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Olympic wrestling, even though he could compete again in three years.
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But if you're him, why, why would you?
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You're already an Olympic gold medalist.
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Yeah.
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Like they'd be cool if you got two in a row, but hey, whatever, who cares?
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This guy, you know, he could go to MMA, which there's not really anyone talking about him
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going to the MMA, going to MMA, but Dana White, you know, he would back the truck up for that
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guy and just dump money in his lap, right?
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Put him in there in the mix with John Jones at heavyweight and, and Francis and Ghana and
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surreal gone and all those guys.
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I mean, my goodness, but it looks like he's going to do the WWE thing, which, hey, you
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can not put as much wear and tear on the body because you're not doing real fighting and
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you can make a bunch of money and become a superstar or do movies and whatever.
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So I'm excited about him.
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That's a very, very good thing for the team, for team USA and everything that went on.
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So kudos to the men's wrestlers and to the women female wrestlers.
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And again, I do want to kind of go back and talk about Tamara mince's stock.
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She is the one that after she won her gold medal, she went viral because she was holding
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the flag and saying how much she loved representing the United States of America.
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So she's an example of somebody that actually looks at this country.
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And this is a black woman.
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She looks at this company country and she loves it.
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Now if you were to press her a little bit, I bet she would tell you about some things
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that she didn't really like that she experienced as a child or things that she sees in society
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that she doesn't really appreciate.
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But she's not like Megan Rapinoe.
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She's not like any of these whiners that are that hate the country that gave them everything,
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right?
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So I love that love that about her, but that wraps up the Olympics.
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Let's go and keep launching into some other subjects here.
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All right.
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Next question here.
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How do you go about picking a martial arts school?
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Okay, so I got this question from a guy in Germany, he actually is moving to a rural part
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of Germany.
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And so he's in a little bit of a different situation, but there's there's a lot of ways
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to answer this question.
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Okay.
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So the first thing that you need to do is because he kept it broad, like how do I pick
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a martial arts school, right?
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He didn't say jujitsu gym or boxing gym or something.
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The first thing you need to do is you need to pick a gym that teaches a real useful fighting
35:50
style, right?
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So something like Wing Chung or, you know, Akido or karate or any of these fighting styles
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that don't really help people in a real fight for the most part because these flying head
36:04
kicks and all that.
36:05
Those are great, but in a street situation or in a self-defense situation, that doesn't
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really come into play, right?
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So some guys like moving you with his mind or teaching you how to just redirect someone's
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energy.
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No, no, you don't want any part of that.
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Okay.
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So again, do look at something like the UFC and look at what the popular styles are for
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people that are really, really, really, really, really successful.
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It's wrestling, jujitsu, Muay Thai, kickboxing, Western boxing, like those styles.
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Every now and then you'll have a guy with a karate background that goes in there and
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does well.
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And it's usually just because of their foot movement.
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But if they go in there having trained zero takedown defense, they will lose unless they
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hit some sort of highlight real head kick or something like that.
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So you have to pick a real fighting style.
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The next thing that you need to talk, you need to kind of figure out is finding a gym
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that's maybe near you because the thing is is if you're constantly having to drive 45
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minutes to an hour to go to the gym at a certain point, that's going to become really, really
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difficult for you to do.
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But when you actually do find a gym that's near you, you need to kind of get a sense
37:07
of what the room is, right?
37:09
Is this a competition gym?
37:11
Is everyone here going to have to be a competitor?
37:13
Is that really within your wheelhouse?
37:14
Is that something that you want to do?
37:16
Maybe that's not the right fit for you or maybe you really, really, really do want to
37:18
compete and there's not a lot of people in the school that compete.
37:20
Maybe that's not the best fit, right?
37:22
And for most of us here, there's choices in terms of your community where you would be
37:26
able to train.
37:27
But the big thing I guess you need to figure out is whether or not you jive with the people
37:30
there, whether you jive with the coaches, you jive with your training partners, because
37:34
this is going to become your extended family.
37:36
It certainly has with me at the forge training there for four years, like have deep relationships
37:40
with my coaches and training partners and, you know, I care about them, I care about
37:43
their families.
37:44
Like these are, these are part of these are my people now, right?
37:47
So the first week you're there, you just, you don't really make friends.
37:51
People seem kind of [inaudible] or standoffish or clickish or something like that.
37:53
Maybe that's not the right place for you.
37:55
So you really have to kind of evaluate those people.
37:56
But also, is this a gym that everyone's going hard all the time trying to kill each other?
38:00
Right.
38:01
I posted a video a long time ago of us training at the forge, but it was on Sunday night.
38:05
It wasn't even a forged class and we were doing light sparring, right?
38:08
So just moving around, you know, doing some light sparring.
38:11
No one's going to leave hurt.
38:12
No one's going to leave bloody.
38:13
And one of my buddies is like, oh, I guess you'll spar really light over there.
38:16
And he goes to a gym, another gym here locally where those guys literally try to kill each
38:20
other every sparring session.
38:21
It's like, yeah, I'm not trying to get brain damage.
38:24
Just hanging out with buddies on a Sunday night, right?
38:27
And almost all those guys aren't MMA fighters.
38:29
They're just in there trying to train hard, knock each other's heads off, right?
38:31
So you don't want to be around a bunch of like ogres like that, okay?
38:35
But then the last thing here, if it's very hard for you to get to the gym, like this
38:38
guy, he's living in rural Germany, I'm assuming there's not a whole lot of jiu-jitsu wrestling
38:41
schools out there, right?
38:43
Videos work really, really, really well, especially now.
38:47
So BJJ fanatics, I'll put the link in the show notes.
38:50
They've got a lot of really good tutorials.
38:51
I know this young kid, he was a young white belt at the time.
38:55
He started just basically focusing almost exclusively on Donahur's videos that you can
38:59
get from BJJ fanatics, right?
39:01
So that's Donahur of the Donahur death squad.
39:03
And he went from being pretty good to being like impossible to deal with.
39:09
Like almost overnight, like brown or like, you know, blue belt tapping brown belts and
39:13
black belts with relative regularity, right?
39:16
But the thing for him is he was able to study those videos and immediately go and apply
39:21
it at the gym.
39:22
But I do know there's people that have had success where they'll study the videos and
39:25
they'll maybe drill with like a dummy or something like that or maybe someone that just lives
39:28
in the neighborhood.
39:29
But then once a week, they'll actually go try the stuff out at a real gym.
39:33
So those are just some options for those of you looking for a new martial arts school or
39:36
just an art martial arts school in general.
39:38
All right.
39:39
Next question here.
39:40
What Bible study would you suggest for someone wanting to seek the lion of Judah?
39:44
So this is an interesting question.
39:45
I really appreciate it.
39:47
And this is what I told the guy.
39:48
What I told the guy that asked his question is read the Bible as if the lion of Judah exists.
39:56
When you're reading the gospels, don't just read it.
39:59
Thinking of the dirty blonde hair, blue eyed, soft featured white guy, Jesus, who's constantly,
40:05
you know, cuddling lambs and giving people kisses on the tips of their noses.
40:08
No, no, no.
40:09
Think of him as a rough Middle Eastern Jew, dirty, sweaty.
40:15
That was also very tender.
40:18
Think of him as lamb and lion.
40:20
So, you know, I could give you the scriptures where the lion of Judah is mentioned or you
40:24
can just Google it for yourself.
40:25
And, you know, all the times, even in the Old Testament when the prophets were like pointing
40:29
towards this lion of Judah and those different things.
40:31
But when you're reading the gospels, when you're reading any mention or even people alluding
40:36
to Jesus Christ, that's what you need to be thinking about.
40:39
Thinking that he came fully grace and fully truth.
40:42
Right?
40:43
He was 100% of both.
40:44
I say this all the time, but he was 100% lamb and 100% lion.
40:47
So, that's the best advice I can give to you.
40:49
Whatever Bible study you're doing, think about the lion of Judah.
40:52
All right.
40:53
Next question here.
40:54
What are your thoughts on the Biden administration swooping in to continue the eviction protection
40:57
in the United States?
40:58
So, for those of you not here, those of you not paying attention, there was an eviction
41:02
moratorium where basically because of what the government shutdowns and all these people
41:06
losing their jobs, that the United States government decided, "Okay, do you people that
41:09
own buildings, right, or own rental property, you can't evict your tenants for not paying
41:14
you?"
41:15
Right?
41:16
Basically telling these people, "Hey, you can't run your businesses or, hey, you can't,
41:19
you know, do these things."
41:20
And then the Joe Biden administration, you know, basically this expired and then, you
41:24
know, Joe Biden was, you know, called a horrible person even by people in the Democratic Party
41:28
and then he swoops in to basically say, "Hey, we're going to go ahead and keep this eviction
41:31
protection there," even though he admitted publicly that that probably is not constitutional.
41:35
But by the time they figured out in the courts, it will, if it already kind of worked its
41:38
way out.
41:39
I think this is absolutely terrible because there is a common understanding or thought
41:44
process for people in the United States that if somebody owns rental property, if they're
41:48
a landlord, that they're somehow rich.
41:51
Okay?
41:52
Now, rich is a relative term, but you assume someone has rent houses that they're a millionaire
41:56
and for a lot of people, that is actually true.
41:59
But for a lot of people, maybe they just have one or two rental properties.
42:03
Maybe they started in a starter home, fixed it up, moved into a different house, and they
42:06
decided to keep that other house as a rental property.
42:08
And you're just going to pay the mortgage with your monthly rent, right?
42:12
And those people are taking a risk because if one of your rental properties has a major
42:15
issue, right, like major, major plumbing issue or something happens with the storm and the
42:19
interest doesn't work out, like they're taking the loss.
42:23
So for the United States government, they did this starting under the Trump administration
42:25
be fair.
42:26
But for the United States government to basically point at these people and say, "You can't
42:31
make money because we said so," is horrific.
42:36
Because a lot of these people, there are people out there that are struggling, right?
42:39
There are people that are out there that have lost their jobs, they can't find work.
42:43
But here's the thing that I know is that people are desperate to hire right now.
42:48
So if you want a job, if you want to make income and not just sit there and wait for
42:51
the government check, there's a lot of availability.
42:54
Pretty much everywhere you look, everyone is hiring for almost every position.
42:58
So these people, this idea that there's these people that are just sitting in the corner,
43:03
counting their pennies and just hoping that the big bad landlord doesn't take them away
43:07
and hopefully that the government can just step in and protect them, that's not really
43:11
realistic.
43:12
Again, that happens for some, but I think that's more anecdotal than actual, right?
43:17
So I thought it was horrible that they did this.
43:19
I thought it was horrible that it was even started.
43:21
But again, the United States government started this whole problem.
43:24
Really, I guess you could say the Chinese government started this entire problem.
43:27
So the United States government shutting everything down, crushing the economy.
43:30
That was an active decision.
43:31
So they had to help out people somehow.
43:33
But for this to continue, it's putting an undue burden on these people that don't have
43:38
a thousand rental properties and they can accept the loss, right?
43:42
So a lot of these people are just waiting for the government dole to run out and the Joe
43:45
Biden administration is trying to make sure that the dole never runs out.
43:49
That's where they're headed.
43:50
So whatever.
43:51
Next question here.
43:52
Who is the number one person you would want to interview on the podcast?
43:55
So I thought about this a lot, so I kind of have a little bit of amount, rush more people
43:58
in my head.
43:59
But if I could interview anybody on this podcast, it would be Dr. Jordan Peterson.
44:03
So the author 12 rules for life and beyond order, but I think he's been so incredibly
44:07
important to men specifically and even Christian men.
44:11
Again, people want to, you know, quibble with this theology and different things like that.
44:14
And that's all fine.
44:15
And that would, those would be things that I would talk to him about.
44:17
But if I could set something like up, like that up, so hey, Jordan, if you're listening
44:20
to this or anybody close to Jordan Peterson, just let them know that I want to talk to.
44:23
All right.
44:24
So what is the worst part about training jiu-jitsu?
44:26
So this one's easy.
44:28
The worst part about training jiu-jitsu is the injuries.
44:30
Okay.
44:31
It is so much fun to train.
44:33
It's fun to go hard.
44:34
It's way better than running, right?
44:36
You know, you can just be absolutely dripping sweat just by doing a normal jiu-jitsu class.
44:40
But for me, I think I've said this on the podcast, I've been training for four years.
44:44
And I've probably lost a year to injuries total, right at big chunks where I had surgery
44:47
and, you know, I had other, other times or, you know, a little neck problem here, a little
44:51
shoulder problem there, you know, a little knee problem there.
44:53
And that's really the hard thing.
44:54
And part of it is my training style.
44:56
I train really, really, really hard.
44:57
I go incredibly hard and that's not always the best thing, right?
45:01
There are times whenever you should kind of dial it back and I've gotten a lot better
45:04
about that being able to kind of dial it back.
45:07
But sometimes you just get hurt, you know, there's just random freak things that get
45:10
hurt.
45:11
Like when I hurt my thumb, like every tendon was ripped out of my thumb, like it was,
45:14
it was bad.
45:15
But it was just kind of a freak deal.
45:16
It didn't happen on purpose.
45:17
It's just kind of the way that that it crumbled.
45:18
So, but I don't want that to dissuade any of you to train jiu-jitsu.
45:23
This thing is, if you go golf all the time again, I love picking on golf, like you're
45:26
probably not going to get hurt, right?
45:28
You maybe kind of, you maybe pull something in your back because I swung a little too
45:32
hard without warming up, but jiu-jitsu is something like, again, golf is not a transferable skill
45:36
to a real life situation, right?
45:39
Unless you're swinging that driver at the guy breaking in your house unless you're swinging
45:43
that out his head.
45:44
But again, that's not the same as you would give the swing to a golf ball, right?
45:48
But when you're training jiu-jitsu, you're actually learning how to do things that could
45:51
be practically used to protect you or protect someone that you love or even a stranger, right?
45:57
But also just the life lessons you get from jiu-jitsu, you know, the ego trips that you
46:02
maybe were on and then you went into a jiu-jitsu gym and you had to kind of get that under
46:05
control.
46:06
Again, I've done entire podcasts about the good things about jiu-jitsu, but the injuries
46:11
are probably the worst part.
46:12
All right.
46:13
Now, we're going to get into some vaccine questions as we kind of crescendo towards the
46:15
end here because I've been asked a lot about my thoughts on getting the vaccine.
46:19
And I believe on a previous episode, I know for sure, I just don't know what episode it
46:22
was.
46:23
I basically said it was none of your business, whether or not I get the vaccine.
46:26
But I've had a lot of people talk about it and now we've had the delta variant and then
46:29
we'll probably have the echo variant and the foxtrot variant after that.
46:32
But you know, there's all this, all these questions are now coming back up, okay?
46:36
But the answer to that question is that as of right now, Kyle Thompson, me, I'm not planning
46:42
to get the vaccine.
46:44
I'm not planning to get the vaccine, okay?
46:46
Now, my wife and I have made that decision together for both of us, and we've decided
46:51
not to take the vaccine for several reasons, okay?
46:53
So this wasn't just like a, well, I like Tucker Carlson, so I'm not going to take the
46:57
vaccine.
46:58
Well, I'm going to do it.
46:59
Trump would do it.
47:00
No.
47:01
Right.
47:02
That's not really the reason.
47:03
We've thought this through.
47:04
And here basically the breakdown of the reason.
47:05
So the first reason is that my wife and I have some level of natural immunity because
47:10
of prior infection, okay?
47:12
We had COVID in January, both of us did likely mean sweet baby James had it as well.
47:17
But we have some level of natural immunity.
47:19
We just don't know how much, okay?
47:21
But I don't see a lot of stories about people that got COVID a year ago that got COVID again
47:25
and got hospitalized.
47:26
So we have some level of immunity.
47:28
So that's the first reason.
47:30
The next reason is that the vaccine is still under emergency authorization and does not
47:33
have FDA approval, right?
47:35
Now, I'm not even a huge fan that there is an FDA, but this is under emergency authorization,
47:41
which leads me into kind of my next reason is there are no studies as to the long term
47:44
problems with the vaccine and what it will cause, if any, because I would hope, I would
47:49
pray that there are no massive issues with this vaccine.
47:52
But we got this vaccine miraculously in less than a year, right?
47:56
The Trump administration was able to pull that off to really take the chains off so these
48:00
companies could do that.
48:02
But again, the FDA still hasn't fully approved this vaccine and you would think that would
48:06
be the top thing on the list for the FDA to be able to do, right?
48:10
So that's concerning to me.
48:12
The next reason is I've actually seen some very scary information about the potential
48:16
impact the vaccine could have on the reproduction organs of women and my wife and I are not
48:21
done having children.
48:23
So there was actually this really long podcast with some guys on, I'll try to figure it out.
48:28
Maybe I'll put it in the show notes, but these are guys that are the dudes that know everything
48:32
about COVID, right?
48:33
They know everything about the vaccines and they know everything about everything.
48:36
And they're showing some concerns about how the vaccine is not staying in the part of the
48:39
body that it should, that it's having some impacts on women that are trying to reproduce.
48:44
And so that was scary to us.
48:45
And I guess the last reason here is that my wife and I are young.
48:49
We're healthy and we have no preexisting conditions.
48:51
Okay.
48:52
So when we got COVID earlier this year, there was not really any concern that we weren't
48:56
going to do well with it.
48:58
It was not a fun a few days for us.
49:00
And I kind of kind of got back to the to the grind way too early and I kind of set myself
49:04
back a little bit, but it wasn't as bad as the last time we had the flu, right?
49:08
It wasn't as bad as the last time I had strep throat, right?
49:10
It wasn't fun.
49:11
I wouldn't want to do it again.
49:12
But if I had to do it again, no big deal, right?
49:14
But that's why we've chosen not to get the vaccine, okay?
49:18
But I want to tell you that because that's what the Thompson's decided.
49:22
You've got to make your own decision.
49:24
I'm merely telling, I'm not telling you what to do.
49:26
I'm giving you my reasons.
49:27
If you choose to get the vaccine, great, it literally will not bother me one bit.
49:32
If someone's like, well, I got the vaccine, I don't automatically think, oh, sheep, no.
49:36
Now, if you wear a mask outdoors, not near anybody or a mask in your car by yourself,
49:40
yeah, sheep, you're a moron, you're an idiot.
49:43
But for any of you guys, you have to make your own calculus, your own decision.
49:46
You know, I have some friends in my life that are that are very overweight, they're young,
49:50
but if they were to get COVID, I would be afraid that they wouldn't make it, right?
49:53
I have some members of my family that are sick that are actually sick.
49:57
And that is that is an issue that it's like, hey, I you don't get to have this choice necessarily,
50:02
right?
50:03
Because you're an autonomous human being, but I want you to be safe and I want you to
50:07
be around for the family, right?
50:09
So for those people, I would highly, highly encourage them to do that.
50:12
But my wife and I were in our, you know, mid 30s.
50:15
We haven't had any other issues.
50:17
We've had COVID before.
50:18
It wasn't that big a deal.
50:19
And I'm not worried about the variance.
50:20
Okay.
50:21
So that's my reasoning.
50:22
Next couple of questions have to do with the vaccine and with COVID in general.
50:25
So next question here is, will you comply with vaccine passport mandates?
50:30
No.
50:31
Now, I live in Oklahoma and I haven't heard yet that, you know, from national Walmart
50:39
or national target, like, okay, you can't go into our stores without proof of vaccination
50:44
or the masking.
50:46
But here's where I stand on the issue is I'm not doing masks anymore, right?
50:51
Unless, you know, if I'm at the airport and I'm traveling to see some of you guys, you
50:54
know, I'll do that just to appease these people, even though the last time I flew, I didn't
50:57
really do that.
50:58
Whatever, you kind of make waves and kind of move on with your life, but I will not comply
51:03
with vaccine passports and I will not comply with masking because COVID for the most part
51:08
is done.
51:09
Now, I know there's a Delta variant.
51:12
I know that there are hospitals that have, you know, ICU beds that are all taken and
51:16
I know these things, right?
51:19
COVID is here to stay.
51:20
COVID is with us forever, right?
51:22
Whether it was released on purpose by the Chinese or accidentally or whatever, they have
51:26
completely changed the trajectory of the world, right?
51:29
It's here to stay.
51:30
Now we just have to deal with it.
51:31
But at this point, every single adult in the United States has the ability and the chance
51:39
to get this vaccine for free, all of them.
51:43
So if you're currently unvaccinated, it's because you've chosen not to get the vaccine.
51:47
It's not because you haven't been able to find the time yet, right?
51:51
No one is that busy.
51:52
If you want to get the vaccine, it's available everywhere.
51:56
Everywhere you look, there's a sign says get your vaccine here, whether it's a Pfizer or
52:00
the Moderna or whatever, it's available, right?
52:03
But everyone's making a decision, right?
52:04
And everyone by this point has made a decision whether to get the vaccine or not.
52:09
So people are wondering, why aren't we at 100% vaccination?
52:11
This is crazy.
52:12
Why are all these people groups not getting vaccinated?
52:14
It's because there are tonics, human beings, and they can make whatever freaking decision
52:17
they want to, okay?
52:20
So for you that I would encourage, if there is a national chain, if Walmart decides you
52:24
can't shop in Walmart without either proving that you've gotten the vaccine or wearing
52:28
a mask, don't shop at Walmart, shop somewhere else, shop somewhere else.
52:33
Make your voices heard.
52:34
We're not going to comply with this, okay?
52:37
Because we haven't seen any evidence to prove that masking even works to the extreme degree
52:42
that our government overlords are pretending they does, right?
52:45
We're not seeing that.
52:47
In this passport, right, like what New York City has done, that you can't eat at restaurant
52:52
or go to the gym without showing proof of vaccination.
52:55
First of all, how easily would that be to disprove or to fake and forge?
52:59
First of all, but you're forcing people that if they want to live in your city and be able
53:04
to operate within your city to get this vaccine, to inject something into their body that hasn't
53:09
even gotten FDA approval yet?
53:11
Are you out of your minds?
53:13
Don't know, I will not be complying with vaccine passport mandates or mass mandates.
53:18
Last question of the day, if sweet baby James was in school right now, which he's not because
53:22
he's 15 months old, if he was in a school now and the school required that he wear a
53:26
mask while at school, what would you do?
53:28
This one's easy.
53:29
Pull him out of the school.
53:32
But yeah, if he were five years old and they're like, oh, he's got to wear a mask.
53:38
Why?
53:39
Like, before I pulled him out of the school, I would obviously go before the principal
53:42
go before the superintendent and go before the school board and be like, can anyone here
53:46
prove to me how these children are made safe by wearing masks?
53:51
Anybody, give me the data that shows that when a child wears a mask, it protects them
53:58
from COVID.
54:00
But that's not the point.
54:02
The point is not protecting the children.
54:03
It never has been these teachers, these supposed heroes, right?
54:07
These people that, you know, go to work every day teaching kids, you know, right?
54:11
These heroes that we're just supposed to bow down and worship to.
54:14
It's about them and it's about the teachers unions because it's like, well, what if a
54:18
kid has COVID and is asymptomatic and they give it to the teacher?
54:21
Oh, you mean the teacher that already had the opportunity to get the vaccine?
54:25
That one?
54:26
Oh, you mean the teacher that could drop a few 50 pounds or so and be a lot healthier
54:31
and make better health decisions?
54:33
That person, you're going to make our kids mask up because you don't want your teachers
54:37
to get sick.
54:39
That is not their problem, their children.
54:43
Your job is to educate these children, right?
54:46
Not give them your ideas about race and about sexuality and all these different things.
54:50
It is to teach them English.
54:51
It is to teach them mathematics is to teach them science.
54:55
That is your job.
54:56
If you are scared that you're going to get sick by being around children, that is not
55:00
a them problem.
55:01
That is a you problem.
55:02
Fix it.
55:03
You wear a mask.
55:04
You get the vaccine.
55:06
You quit your job, okay?
55:09
But the stats that we do have coming out right now that are proving things, they're proving
55:13
that these children have been absolutely destroyed by how these school districts have handled
55:17
themselves over the last year plus destroyed, learning via the web, right?
55:25
E learning for these children doesn't work.
55:28
It does not work.
55:30
These children are going to be coming back to school in the fall for the most part a year
55:34
behind.
55:36
You have kids that are not up to standards that weren't up to standards before, even
55:39
within person teaching, which is another reason not to think of teachers as this homogenous
55:43
group of heroes because most of them suck at their jobs.
55:46
But you have these children that are not getting play time with their friends.
55:51
They're being taught that their friends are vectors of a disease as opposed to human beings,
55:56
okay?
55:58
So why in the world would you subject your child to that?
56:02
Now, there are a lot of states that are basically saying screw you, no, we're not doing the
56:06
mass mandates.
56:07
The CDC has changed their minds on everything.
56:10
We're not going to listen to whatever Dr. Fauci says that we should do with our children.
56:13
We're going to educate our children and we're not going to look at people as vectors of
56:16
transmission.
56:17
We're going to look at them as human beings and the teachers are going to do their jobs.
56:20
The administrators are going to do their jobs and the kids are going to get down to
56:22
the business of learning.
56:24
And if you have a school or a school district that isn't down with that, that they love everything
56:30
the CDC says, they trust Joe Biden implicitly.
56:33
They trust Dr. Fauci and everyone else in the CDC implicitly, then great.
56:38
You go for it.
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You send your child to school with a cloth mask on and pretend that's going to protect them
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from evil and protect them from danger, right?
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But to everybody else paying attention, they can do this with COVID.
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They can do it with the flu again.
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For the million time, the flu is more fatal for a child than COVID-19 is regardless of
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the variant, which by the way, you can't get a test for just the Delta variant, right?
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So everyone's talking about the Delta variant.
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What if people are getting sick from the original variant, right?
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Alpha or whatever, right?
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So that's just an aside, but again, like we have these students that need to learn inside
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of their classrooms, but we're going to keep them from doing that in a normal way.
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We're going to stunt their psychological development as well as their scholastic development because
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some overlords in the government still want to be relevant.
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I'm sorry.
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The answer is no.
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And if you parents band together, so if your school district, if they're kind of like,
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I don't really know what we're going to do because we're right on the heels of it.
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Kids are going back to school this week and next week, right?
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If they're going to require these mass mandates, you get every parent.
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I'm like screaming at the mic.
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You get every single parent in your area that you know, even just relatively, even if you've
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only seen them once in person, you get them together and you all march your butts down
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there to the school and you tell them, no, the answer is no.
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Now, if it's a public school, they still get funding anyway.
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The only way they're not going to get your tax dollars is if you move and guess what?
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They'll get it from some other dope that's going to move into your house right after you
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leave, right?
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But you go and you demand and you say, absolutely not.
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You walk your child into the school without a mask on you say, I dare you to kick my kid
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out of school today and then have another kid after that do that and another parent after
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that and another parent after that and you keep doing that and eventually they're going
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to be like, okay, we can't [inaudible] off the flock this much.
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So I could not be more, I cannot feel more strongly about how these schools are doing
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and making decisions to the detriment of their children and they don't care.
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And at some point, you've got to call them out.
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You see what happens when you make me mad at the very end of the podcast?
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My voice gets all frayed and crap and I got another interview I got to do later.
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But hey, you know what?
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It is what it is.
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As you know, by now at Undaunted Life, our mission is equipping man to push back darkness
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The Dark Horse podcast is called How to Save the World in Three Easy Steps.
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That's Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch and Brett Weinstein.
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So that's a YouTube link to that episode.
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They spend three hours talking about the vaccine.
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So I think that'd be helpful for you guys.
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