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This is Undaunted Life Man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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I have given them your word and the world has hated them for they are not of the world
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any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world
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but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world even as I am not
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of it. Sanctified them by the truth. Your word is the truth. That is John 17 14 through 18.
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Guys, welcome back to the show. We are doing something really fun today. We're getting
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drill, we're going to do a dozen or so questions. We're going to launch right in here with the
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first question of the day, which is, do you support Christian nationalism? So this is an
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interesting question. And obviously, I could spend an entire hour just flowing on this.
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The problem with a question like this is I'm not talking directly to this person that asked
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me it, but I get the assumption that they're asking this in a fair way. The problem with
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a question like this about Christian nationalism is, what do you mean? Because I could ask ten
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people, what do they think Christian nationalism is? I would assume that half of them couldn't
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even come up with the definition because they've never heard of it. And then the other half
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would come up with completely different definitions. And the reason is is because the two words
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that make up the term Christian nationalism are kind of amorphous terms. Because if you
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were to ask a hundred people, what does it mean to be a Christian? You're going to get
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a bunch of different answers, everything from, oh, you just need to kind of live a good life
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and, you know, vote Republican all the way up to a you have to repent of your sins and
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put your faith in Christ, right? You know, you're going to get those two answers and everything
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in between. So it's hard to define that part of the term, but then also nationalism. What
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do you mean by nationalist? So specifically, I just plug the word nationalist into Google
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before I started this. And here's all the different definitions you'll get for nationalists.
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Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the
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state. That's one definition. Another one, in theology, one who holds to the divine election
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of entire nations as distinguished from that of particular individuals, another definition,
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a member of a Jewish political party in the time of Christ, otherwise known as the zealots.
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Another one is a supporter of Irish nationalism. Another one is an idea or movement that holds
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that the nation should be. Well, I've already read that one congruent with the state. Here's
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another one. A presupposes the existence of nations. That's another definition of nationalist.
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Another definition is it tends to promote the interests of a particular nation. And
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then there's more that go out from there. You know, there's the ones that are gaining
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and maintaining the sovereignty of a nation or something like that. And so I say all that
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to say this, there are certainly versions of Christian nationalism that I wouldn't cosign.
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The versions that say that the United States is the only way of doing a nation state. I
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wouldn't really agree with that. That the you the Christianity that we see in the church
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in America right now should be the blueprint blueprint for churches all over the place.
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I certainly wouldn't cosign that right now because you have a lot of churches that are
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doing things that are completely a biblical. You have a lot of churches that are doing
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things that are actually heretical as it comes to the theology that we get directly from the
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words of scripture. So this is what I will say, though, in general, I'm not bothered
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by the term Christian nationalist. If someone were to call me a Christian nationalist and
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they would mean it as a dig, I wouldn't take it as a dig. And the reason is is because
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in general, and I'll explain myself, I am a Christian and I am a nationalist. And this
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is what I mean. As a Christian, I put my faith in Christ for the propitiation of my sins,
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right? I have repented of my sins and put my faith in Christ for my eternal salvation.
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So by that, I mean that I am a Christian. I am also a nationalist in that I believe that
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we should support the things that the United States is doing as a nation. I don't mean
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all things at all times, but I mean of all the countries that have ever existed, the
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United States is the closest to getting it right. We are we are the most I'm not saying
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we don't do immoral things, or don't make mistakes. I'm saying we are the most moral
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nation. And when you go back to our founding documents, they are the most biblical in terms
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of what they set out to do as a nation from our founding fathers, as we've ever seen in
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the history of the world. That's certainly the case. Now here we are in 2023. And we
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have just, you we've gone so far away from what the founders have have tried to do as
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a nation. And we're we're basically watching the downfall of our great nation right before
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our very eyes. But for us, I think this also gets into a discussion of theonomy versus
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theocracy. So a theocracy is basically the top down enforcement from the state of a particular
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religion. So that's what a theocracy is. You will have this religion. This is what we're
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going to do. Whereas a theonomy is your will use Christian in this context. It's your Christian
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understanding of how the nation should comport itself and operate. You're saying that's how
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things should be done. So in America right now, we don't live in a theonomy or a theocracy.
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There are elements of a theonomy in terms of how we operate, but that's certainly not
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how we operate. And the reason I say that is this is because how often do you hear about
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a member of Congress, right? Whether they're in the house or the center or the president
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or whoever. One of our, you know, overlords, how often do you hear about them saying, well,
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in reference to, you know, Bill 8251, I have consoled to the scripture, I've spent some
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time in prayer and I fasted. And I came to the conclusion that we cannot support this
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because it doesn't lead to human flourishing in this way. Have you ever heard someone say
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that? Have you heard the mayor of your local red city that you live in say something like
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that? Because if we were in a theonomy, that's how we would operate. Because we would have
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the free will to operate in that religion being Christianity. Whereas the theocracy is forced
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down. So it's not actually real. We don't have that. But I think we should. That would
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be amazing. If the people in government, the people that were running all these different
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laws and trying to do these things, if they were focused on the flourishing of people
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that have the image of God written on them, people that have the amago day, that would
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be awesome. So back to the original question, do you support Christian nationalism in the
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way that I've described it? Yes. I absolutely do. But there have been entire books written
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about Christian nationalism that I think missed the mark. There are people that are advocates
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of Christian nationalism that can't really define the term fully, which I can't get behind
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and support. But hopefully that gives you a least a little bit of a coalesced answer there.
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high school 20 plus years ago and would like to get back into something like that. I'll
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allow jujitsu. How do I go about finding the right gym? And are there certain things I
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should be looking for? Okay, so to this person that's coming up with this question. Yes,
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like I'm I'm all here for it. I'm so glad that you wrestled in high school. You acknowledge
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that was a long time ago, but you're wanting to get back into that. Because what that communicates
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to me is that you're fine with embracing the suck. Because even if you are on a crappy
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high school wrestling team, your life sucks, at least while practice is happening. Like
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because I wrestled a little bit and then I mainly played baseball. Baseball practice
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was boring, right? You know, you do your normal practice where you take infield, you take
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outfield, you run some drills, you know, you go take your cuts, you put two buns down
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and then you get you get your 10 cuts and then you run the bases a little bit and they're
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just boring. Whereas wrestling practice was just brutal. And wrestling practice in high
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school was the first place that I fell in love with just being so unbelievably exhausted,
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but not dying. Because that's what's that's what redlining is. That's what I tell you
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guys all the time that you need to do is you need a red line at least once a week. Get
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to that, that point where you're like, I don't think I could have done another rep. I don't
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think I could have done, you know, one more step or sprinted one more sprint. And that's
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just kind of what wrestling practice is. Yes, there are skills that you learn. Yes, there
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are drills that you do that aren't a full bore, but then you're, you're competing, you're
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competing all the time in the room at tournaments and those types of things. So I'm so glad
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that you've probably acknowledged the guy that's asking this question, you've acknowledged
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that you've, you've missed out on that as part of your life now that you're in your
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30s or 40s. Now, in terms of finding the right gym, that is a super contextual question to
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you and where you live. Because I get people that ask me all the time, I get two questions,
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I get all the time that are based on locale number one. Hey, do you know of a church that's
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man friendly in my area? I'm in, you know, Bangor, Maine, or I'll get someone that asks,
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Hey, do you know of a good jujitsu gym in Louisville, Kentucky? It'll be something like that. And
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the reality is, is like, there's way too many questions that I need to ask you to be able
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to give you a good specific answer to where you live. But here's what I'll say in general.
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The gym should be relatively close to you. And the reason why I say that is because if
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you have to drive an hour to go to the nearest really, really, really good jujitsu school,
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I would much rather you go to a gym that's perhaps not as good. That's 15 minutes away
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as opposed to an hour and away. And the reason is because it doesn't matter how good the
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school is if you don't go. And if you've got a family, if you run a business, if you've
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got a job that demands you to actually work in those types of things, you're going to
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find it very, very difficult to do what you need to do in order to get good at jujitsu,
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which is to train at minimum three times a week. Because we're talking about an hour
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each way. So now we're talking like six hours of just driving during a week to get to jujitsu.
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And when I look at a, you know, a calendar like mine, there's not a six hour gap to do
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anything. So if I had to drive that far to train, that would be terrible. Now, for me,
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I'm very, very, very lucky in that the best jujitsu gym in the state of Oklahoma is 10
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minutes away from my house. Whether you want to be a really good hobbyist or you want to
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train to be a world champion, you do that at the forge here in Edmond, Oklahoma. And
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I'm very, very lucky to have that. So I would say that proximity to the gym is very, very
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important. Also, you need to define what it is you're wanting to accomplish with jujitsu
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and then align that with a gym's goals. So I mentioned like at the forge, if you want
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to train to be a world champion, you can do that at the forge. And also if you just want
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to train to be, you know, a good guy that can fight, but you're mainly a hobbyist and
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you're not going to compete a whole bunch, you can do that there as well. But there are
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some gyms that just do either or there are some gyms where it's like, Hey, you know,
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we're pretty casual here. And you know, yeah, you can compete in a local tournament here
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in there, but we're not going to really require that. We don't have like really spelled out
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curriculum in order for you to belt up and all that kind of stuff. And you might have
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a gym like that. But I also know about gyms that I have buddies that train out that these
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are competition gyms that you cannot train there unless you're training to compete and
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to compete on a regular basis and potentially to compete in a national or international
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scale. And so if you want to be like a world champion level person and compete all the time,
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you don't want to go to a casual relax gym. And then the same is true in the opposite.
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If you just want to get good and just kind of do this as a hobby, you don't want to go
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to a gym that just wants you to be an international killer. They probably won't let you keep training
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there either. So you need to kind of get a sense of that. And the last thing I'll say
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here on this one is you have to like the people that you train with. There are some gyms that
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are ran by a complete [inaudible] rather some here locally where it's just like it's almost
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impossible to enjoy what you're doing because the people that run the school just suck.
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You're bad people. They don't have your best interests at heart. You have some gyms where
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everybody goes hard all the time and people are getting hurt all the time. That's probably
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not an environment that you want to be in. You want to be in a gym where people are looking
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So again, thank you for that question. Our next question here, what is the biggest animal
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you think you could kill with your bare hands? Okay, so first of all, this is a great question.
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This is an amazing question. The second of all, I've been like, from the first moment
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I saw this and I, you know, knew I was going to, you know, talk about it on the show, I've
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been thinking about it. And I don't have a great answer. Like, I really don't because
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I keep thinking like, okay, you know, I basically can't kill anything in the water, right? Because
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you throw me in the water and you know, if there's not a shark that I could defeat basically
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in the water, because that's like, that's their world, I was meant to be on land. So
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it basically takes out all land animals. And then I started thinking like, okay, what's
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like a big animal that I could kill with my bare hands when they were like a baby? Because
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it's like, I can't kill, you know, an adult hippo, I can't kill an elephant. I can't kill
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a giraffe. I, you know, we're in the middle of hunting season right now in Oklahoma. So
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it's like, you know, could I kill, you know, a good size buck with my bare hands? And it's
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like, man, if you see any videos of dudes that, you know, get into it with with bucks like
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that, that's super dangerous. And so obviously an elk or a moose would be horrible. You know,
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even like a baby bear that are super resilient and they're not that big, but then when they
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get big enough to be considered to be like a big animal, then they're going to be incredibly
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hard to kill. So I'm literally sitting here without without a great answer. I don't know
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is a giant sloth still a thing. I heard that that animal might still exist. I don't know
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how big sloths get, but they seem like an animal that I could I could pretty much take
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out. I guess it's got to be an animal that's pretty docile. Doesn't have really big teeth
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or like crazy talents or claws or something like that. Okay, you know, we're going to
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say this. I'm going to say a baby giraffe, but not like it's not like a super baby. My
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maybe like a six month old, because those are pretty docile animals. And like only the adults
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they fight, they fight by like flinging their necks and heads against other animals. It's
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crazy. You should, you know, go YouTube, you know, you know, giraffes fighting or whatever.
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But again, I've got my bare hands. So I don't have any knives. I don't have any weapons,
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no, no firearms, nothing like that. I feel like I could probably, I won't get into how
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I would do it because that's going to get a little bit macabre for some people. But I
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feel like, you know, maybe here, I actually need to Google this real quick. Let's see
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like how big, how big is a, we'll just say six month old giraffe. All right, let's check
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this out. See what we got. Storyteller.com. Okay, 17 baby giraffe, fact size diet skills.
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Okay, well, let's just go to size. Some of you, y'all are like super over this, but I'm
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like, I'm, I'm here, we're here for it. Okay, the gestation period for a baby giraffe is
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around 15 months or 460 days that allows them to develop in size. Okay, yeah, yeah. But how
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barely? Okay, they can grow to double their size after the first year. So a baby giraffe
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can grow up to an inch every day during their first week after birth. Okay, baby giraffes
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aren't light either at birth. They can weigh 100 to 150 pounds. Okay, so maybe like a three
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week old giraffe versus something like that because they're going to get pretty big pretty
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quick. But okay, maybe I could take out their legs and then get some sort of a choke in.
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I mean, look at their size of their neck. I could basically choke that thing anywhere.
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So as long as I can get my arms around their neck. Okay, so I went way too far down this
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rabbit hole giraffe hole, if you will. So the biggest animal that I think I could kill
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in my bare hands, I'm going to say three week old giraffe final answer.
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All right, next question here. What are your thoughts on slap fighting? Okay, so I think
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you're referring to like, what is it, Dana White saying the power slap thing? So if you
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guys haven't seen this, it's where literally two people stand in front of each other and
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they go one, two, three, and they slap the person in front of them. And the person in
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front of them has their hands behind their back. They are not doing anything to brace
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for the shot. They've got like a mouthpiece in, but aside from that or growing a big beard,
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there's basically nothing that they do to take away the shot. And so essentially you're
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just seeing people getting knocked out left and right because these people aren't like
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slapping you like you're slapping the bottom of a baby. They're basically palm striking
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you on your jaw. My overall thoughts on this is I remember the first time I saw this happen
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in Russia because all the craziest stuff happens in Russia. I've seen, you know, phone booth
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fighting in Russia. I've seen, you know, car jujitsu, it all starts in Russia, right? The
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first time I saw it, I thought it was awesome. I was like, Oh, this is crazy. And like, look
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at these people slapping each other and look at these knockouts. But then after my initial
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kind of like, Oh, this is unique and kind of funny. I was like, wait, this kind of sucks.
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And now you've got Dana White is trying to force feed power slap, this league that they've
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created down everyone's throat. And it's it's somewhere between disgusting and just laughable
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to most people. Because these are not athletes. Like, I'm sure some of these people are athletic,
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but this is not an athletic feat. You're literally standing there and allowing someone to slap
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you. And you just go back and forth, back and forth until what is it? I guess somebody
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gives up or somebody actually gets knocked out. And I look at, you know, you're seeing
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some of the same referees for this as you would see in the octagon. And it's like, how
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in the world are they cool with this? Because the thing about boxing or MMA or Muizai or
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kickboxing is you're actively trying not to get knocked out. Like that's a whole point.
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You're trying to score enough points on the other person to win a decision or to TKO them
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or KO them. You want to stop the fight, right? That's not what this is. And you see this,
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this video of these people in the back and they're showing them like warming up and they're
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like hitting pads. And it's just like, I feel like we're getting punked. Like this is just
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absolute nonsense. So to anyone out there that's considering a career and power slap, please
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don't do that. Please don't do this at all. Like every single one of these people, even
23:19
if they don't get knocked out, they're getting concussed. And then that's going to lead to
23:22
brain damage and who the heck knows what these people do for training. Like are they actually
23:26
doing that in training? What are they wearing pads on the side of their head so that they
23:30
can train for it? So overall, my thoughts on slap fighting is I think it's, it's a travesty.
23:34
I think it's ridiculous. I don't think anyone should do it. I don't think it should be
23:37
banned because if that's what you want to do, sure, that's fine. But I'm not going to support
23:41
it. Our next question here, you seem to have expressed a lot of Trump hate since he left
23:47
office. Will you vote for Trump in the general election if he's the Republican nominee? So
23:51
let me address the question first and I'll go back to the comment. Yes, of course, if
23:56
he wins the primary for the Republican party, which is super duper seems like he's going
24:01
to run away with it. He has an historic lead over Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswami and Nikki
24:06
Haley at the at the moment, it would take something colossal to happen to him or through
24:13
him, I guess, to keep him from winning the Republican nomination for the general election
24:17
for next year. And as much as I don't like Donald Trump and some of the things that he's
24:22
done and some of the things that he said and the way that he's acted and the fact that
24:25
he costs the Republicans the Senate because they lost both Georgia Senate seats after
24:29
the 2020 election and all this stuff about Trump that I can say that I don't like, he's
24:34
going to be better than Joe Biden or whoever's in there, you know, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris
24:39
or whoever ends up being the representative for the Democratic side, it's certainly going
24:44
to be better. Now, again, I've expressed some concern over the fact that if he is the nominee,
24:51
I don't see a path to victory for him. And as I've talked about here recently, there's
24:55
national polls showing him up in national polls, but again, the national polls don't
24:59
matter because it's going to come down to a handful of states. It's going to come down
25:02
to Wisconsin and Ohio and in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Nevada and Georgia and states
25:07
like that. It's not going to come down to the nation. And even if he's showing leads
25:11
in those states, the elections a year from now, the mainstream media and the Democratic
25:15
Party is going to do every single thing that they can to get you to focus on Donald Trump
25:19
and not the fact that Joe Biden can't make it five minutes in public without crapping
25:22
himself or tripping and falling, right? And so, but now to the to the comment, you seem
25:28
to have expressed a lot of Trump hate since he left office. The thing about this, and
25:32
it's especially true with Trump people, but but it's true just in general, if you're
25:35
critical of a public person, then people are like, why are you being a hater? Why do you
25:39
hate this person? So if I say something about LeBron James, like, how can you be six foot
25:44
eight, 250 pounds, a grace athlete, maybe ever to live? But then a guy bumps into you
25:48
and you go flying into the 17th row. Yeah, I don't like that. Well, I mean, why are you
25:52
such a hater? I'm not a hater. I just really don't like that. And so with Trump, I'm fine
25:58
calling balls and strikes. I am fine expressing my joy over the good things that he's done.
26:02
And I've told you before, even though I don't think he's pro life in his heart, he led to
26:06
bringing three justices onto the Supreme Court so that Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood
26:10
V.K.C. could go the way the trash bin. I'm good for all that. I'm great with the Abraham
26:15
accords and the way the economy was going, he was in office and everything that he did
26:20
basically before 2020. I was cool with that. But why can't I express a lot of disappointment
26:27
and how Trump has reported himself since the election? Like no, I don't think he was the
26:32
person in charge of January the six, but I think he did some things wrong that day.
26:36
That led to some pretty awful things that happened in the country. Like, yeah, I don't
26:40
really like what happened there. I hate the fact that he basically handed the Senate over
26:45
to the Democrats because he basically told Republicans to stay home in the Senate runoffs
26:50
in the state of Georgia. I hate the fact that he keeps backing these horrible candidates
26:55
that continue to lose, right? When you have Kerry Lake losing in Arizona to basically
27:01
a sack of potatoes, you have a Dr. Oz losing in Pennsylvania, right? These are these are
27:06
important governor and Senate races that basically if Trump endorses you in a race that was going
27:11
to be tight, you're going to lose. Yeah, I don't like that very much. I also don't like
27:15
the fact that if he were to lose the Republican nomination, which I don't see happening, he's
27:20
not going to throw his support behind the person that would take over the mantle. I don't like
27:23
that. I also don't like the fact that assuming that he wins the primary but loses the general,
27:29
he's not just going to go away. He's probably going to run again in 2028 or he's going to
27:34
point everyone towards Don Jr. or Ivanka or something like that. These are all things
27:38
that I don't like. Why can't I say that? If I express these feelings or these thoughts
27:44
that are negative towards Trump and his political machine, then then I hate him. Then I have
27:50
Trump hate. No, I love this country. And when given the binary, the awful binary of Donald
27:57
Trump and Joe Biden, I'm obviously going to go with Donald Trump. But that isn't going
28:01
to mean I'm going to become a syncophantic supporter of everything that he says and does.
28:05
That's just not what I'm going to do. Our next question here. How is it even possible
28:10
that metal music could honor God? I actually remember who sent me this question because this was a
28:16
an older lady that was very, very concerned about the music of the podcast at the beginning
28:23
and end of my episodes, concerned about the music that I would share on social media or
28:27
the albums that I would say, Hey, you should, you guys should go and listen to this. And this
28:31
was her exact question is how is it even possible that metal music can honor God to which I asked
28:36
her and I would ask back, how is it possible that any type of music could not honor God?
28:44
Because obviously in the panoply of musical options that there are out there, whether it's
28:49
classical or pop or hip hop or outlaw country or jazz, is there not versions of that music that is
28:57
dishonoring to God? Because duh, because there are people that are non-Christians that are not
29:04
Christ followers that make this music to support their ends. And some of the music in the genres
29:09
that I described are heinous. The lyrical content is absolutely just horrific. And all the way up to
29:18
people that are actively doing things to try and be dishonoring to God. And so why are you focusing
29:24
so much on how a genre of music sounds as opposed to the content of the songs, the lyrical content,
29:30
and also the hearts, the people that are making it? Because I have listened to songs. So let's take
29:35
a metal band that has five members, right? So you got lead singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist,
29:40
bassist, and drummer, right? This one band, every single person in the band is a Satanist,
29:46
a practicing Satanist. They are actively making sounds and lyrical content. They are doing it in
29:52
service to Satanism. And then you have another group over here, five guys, they're making the
30:00
exact same sounding music. It sounds to the untrained ear the exact same way, but all five guys are
30:07
Christ followers. And they are worshiping God by making music that they like the sound of,
30:12
but they're doing it to his glory. Because I've heard people talk about, Oh, well, the music you
30:17
listen to has demon notes. Mike, what exactly is the note that is only demonic? What are the sounds
30:25
or notes or chords or vocal sounds that are only going to be honoring to God? And then
30:33
the ones that are only going to be honoring to Satan. Again, these people, when you start to
30:39
extrapolate out the worldview and start peeling back the layers of the onion, it's like, what do you
30:42
mean? Are there sounds that God can't redeem? If you use drop G tuning in your guitar and have
30:49
the super beefy sound, can that not honor God? Because I'll tell you this right now, some of the
30:55
beefiest, just sludgiest, darkest sounding music is coming from people that are that are basically
31:03
driven by the gospel to make that music. I'm thinking about for today and convictions and impending
31:10
doom and oh sleeper. And these are bands that are focused on the gospel, they spread the gospel,
31:15
they preach the gospel at their shows, and they just so happen to do it with a sound that you don't
31:21
like. I mean, if you look at Holy Name, they're the people that have our music right now. This is a
31:26
band where most of the people in the band are Eastern Orthodox. And they're worshiping God in a
31:30
very, very unique way by making brutal tunes. And so how is it even possible that metal music could
31:36
honor God? Well, I don't know. Are the people making it trying to honor God and are doing their best
31:41
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today at linkedin.com/quality. All right, next question here. Well, this isn't a question. This
32:16
looks more like a challenge. It says shuffle your music and give us the first 10, give us the first
32:23
10 tracks. Okay, so this could be super embarrassing, but let's grab my phone here. Okay. So as I've
32:33
told you all before, because I have no idea what's about to show up on my phone right now, I just
32:36
opened up my Apple music and I'm about to go to my songs. But as I've said, a lot before, I have a
32:41
very eclectic taste. Okay, so I've listened to a lot of different things. Now, I'm not going to be able
32:46
to play any of these songs. Hang on, I need to turn the volume down, but I will 100% honest to goodness
32:52
tell you exactly what shows up on my phone. I may even show the screen here so you can see it on
32:56
YouTube, but I'm going to take the first 10 tracks. Okay, I'll just do my best to keep hold of this,
33:02
but I'm just going to I go I went into my songs on my Apple music and I'm literally going to hit
33:07
shuffle. So here we go. First one here. All right, this is love is a dance by minutes too far. I
33:15
think that's like a pop punk band. So that's number one next song. I hate everybody by Halsey. So
33:23
that's a pop song. All right, let's go to the next track. Saturday's equal celebration by one of
33:29
my favorite rappers. Big crit. That's King remembered in time. That's what KRIT stands for. So that's
33:34
number three. All right, number four interlude featuring tech nine by Lil Wayne off the Carter
33:40
for off the Carter for so that's number four. All right, number five, the places you have come
33:46
to the places you have you have come to fear the most by dashboard confessional. So for all you
33:51
email guys out there was that five or six, we'll just say that was we'll say that was six. All right,
33:55
let's go to number seven here. Dollar general sign by the Joe Stan band. So that's kind of like
34:02
outlaw country or country ish. All right, let's go to the next one here number eight.
34:05
How great thou art by Kyle Dillingham. So that's a local guy here that's a
34:11
you know plays fiddle and stuff like that. Okay, let's go to number nine.
34:15
So right by Dave Matthews band. I'll just be funny. I have no idea why Dave Matthews
34:20
band is on here. I think that band absolutely sucks. Let's go to the next one here. Our last one
34:23
here better man by Judah and the lion. So as I told you, what was that? So we had pop punk in there.
34:30
We had some country. We had some hip hop. We had Dave Matthews band, which is his own brand to suck.
34:36
So I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for that. I'm going to get hate for this episode anyway
34:39
for all the other stuff I talked about. But I don't get the Dave Matthews band thing. He's right
34:43
up there with like you two and some of these other bands where it's like houses band so big like
34:48
the Bruce Springsteen like my goodness, like is it how is it possible that that guy could have like
34:53
a half a century long career making the crappy music he makes? But yeah, he's right on up there.
34:57
So those are the first 10 tracks off of my shuffle. Let's move on to the next question here.
35:01
Why do you only wear black vnex on the show? So I think I've answered this before.
35:07
But before I get into a show, there's obviously a lot of stuff on my mind. There's obviously like
35:12
looking at, you know, an episode like the last one I did where we're talking about, you know,
35:15
a particular subject and then all these quick hitters. I don't want to be thinking about crap
35:20
that's not necessary. And so I like wearing black vnex. I wear black vnex a lot. And so
35:25
before I go into a show, I don't want to be thinking about what color shirt I'm wearing or what style.
35:29
And even when I go and speak, you know, at other places, when I speak at churches or men's events
35:33
or something like that, I just wear black vnex, black jeans, black boots, because I don't want
35:38
to think about what I'm wearing. And I also don't want to be a distraction. And so let's talk about
35:42
a live event. At a live event, you're going to be distracting no matter what, because you have your
35:47
own cadence with your voice, you have the way that your voice sounds, you have your, you know,
35:52
subconscious mannerisms that you do. And that's going to be distracting to people no matter what
35:57
you do, right? But I don't want them to be distracted by my clothes. So let's say I'm wearing like a
36:02
green shirt and I start sweating, it's going to be like, Oh, Kyle sweating. And they're missing what
36:05
I'm saying because they're looking at my pit stains, you know, or something like that. And then also,
36:10
it's the least distracting thing that you can wear while performing. So if you look at a lot of like
36:14
orchestras or different bands or something like that, they're just wearing black, because they
36:19
don't want you to be distracted by what they're wearing necessarily. They want you to be focused
36:23
on what they're doing, whether they're playing an instrument or singing or for me speaking,
36:26
that type of thing. And so for me, you know, I've got 10 black vnex. And so when I'm about to go
36:31
record or go speak, I just grab a V neck. And so it's just it makes things very, very easy.
36:36
And even back in the day, when I did sales, like, you know, black is kind of a forceful color,
36:40
you're trying to drive home a point. But if you're meeting someone for the first time,
36:44
you want them to to kind of be relaxed. And so I would wear like a lighter blue or a lighter green,
36:48
because I'm a pretty intense guy. And so I can't really change how my face and head looks and all
36:54
that intensity and all that ginger energy. And so I would try to soften some of the colors I would
36:58
wear to, you know, start gaining that that rapport that you need to gain in a sales cycle. But for
37:02
right now, it's like, look, this is just the easiest thing in the world. Black v neck is just kind of
37:07
a classic cut. It's a classic color. It goes basically with everything. So there you go. That's
37:11
why we're a black V neck all the time. All right, next question here, would you rather be Mr. Olympia
37:17
or the world's strongest man? So that's actually a fantastic question. So Mr. Olympia, that's body
37:23
building, right? So those are the guys that, you know, do all the bodybuilding stuff in the world's
37:26
strongest man is obviously, you know, strong man competitions. So I'll say this before I get my
37:32
answer, neither people are healthy. I'll just tell you that from the very beginning, because
37:37
Mr. Olympia's are typically way shorter and way smaller. But all those guys are on crazy amounts
37:43
of gear. They have so many steroids going through their body. And yes, there are ways that you can do
37:47
certain types of, you know, testosterone to where it's not going to be terrible for you. But in
37:52
general, it's terrible for you. But then world's strongest man, a lot of these people are on steroids,
37:57
but they're also enormous. And so their bodies, like their organs are it's it's so much pressure
38:03
because of the types of working out that they're doing the powerlifting. But it's also they're
38:08
carrying so much weight on their frames. So neither one is healthy. But I'm going to tell you this
38:13
much. I would rather be strong than look strong. So I'm going with the world's strongest man because
38:19
who wants to be the world's most muscular man when you could literally be the strongest? Because if
38:24
you look like a at a guy like, you know, Martine's lead seats or half Thor Bjornsson when he was
38:30
still competing or Brian Shaw or Eddie Hall, any of these strong men, these aren't like guys that
38:36
are super ripped. They're not super vascular. You can't see their abs for the most part. But
38:42
they're so much stronger than the Mr. Olympia guys. Now, Ronnie Coleman being the number one
38:48
exception, most of these Mr. Olympia and Olympia guys, they're not going for strength and big,
38:54
big lift numbers. They're going for I mean, they're working out six hours a day or something
38:59
like that. They're just doing set after set after set rep after rep after rep, whereas that's not
39:05
exactly what it takes to be the strongest man. Now, all these strong men are also huge. I mean,
39:10
Brian Shaw's six eight, I think half Thor Bjornsson is six eight or six nine. Like these are huge,
39:14
huge human beings. But if if I got to choose whether I was the most muscular, strongest looking person
39:20
or the actual strongest person, give me strongest person 10 times out of 10. All right, next content
39:26
or next question here, how do you deal with trolls of your content? So I got to ask this question
39:32
recently because there's one particular guy on my Facebook. I can't even remember his name,
39:39
but he will troll basically everything I post because I will post Instagram and that gets shared
39:45
to my Facebook. It's, you know, meta owns both companies. And so it's shared to both. And as I've
39:49
told you before, I don't look at the comments because I'm not going to change my mind about
39:54
whether or not I should have posted a certain thing based on somebody's positive or negative
39:58
feedback. So I don't spend any time in the content section. I'm also the type of guy that's very
40:03
pessimistic. So I could get a hundred compliments in a row about how smart and amazing I am. And
40:07
they get one person that's like, Oh, yeah, your content kind of sucks. And then that's what I'll
40:11
focus on. Because that's what my brain does. My brain will focus on the problems and the
40:16
deficiencies. It's not going to focus on the things that are good and positive because I'm a crazy
40:21
person. Now this particular guy, I interacted with him like the first or second time that he
40:27
posted something. I mean, we're talking about years ago, guys, like he this guy's been doing
40:31
this for two, three years at this point. And then I realized very easily that this guy was just a
40:37
troll. This guy just disagrees with my content. He disagrees with my worldview. And so he just
40:41
wants to like basically diarrhea in my comments section every time I post something. And so I
40:45
just don't look at his comments like at all. And so the but the thing is though is whenever I get
40:50
my notifications from Facebook, his, you know, profile picture will pop up there. And so
40:55
I'm used to the profile picture because it literally pops up every single day. Now I've got some
41:00
friends of mine that look at my comments all the time are like, Oh my gosh, can you believe
41:03
what that guy posted? I'm like, didn't look, don't care. What do you want me to tell? Nope.
41:07
What do you want me to respond? Nope. Like what benefit is it of me to give this guy rent free
41:14
access to my brain? Like, because that's the thing you guys to get into these Facebook battles and
41:18
these Twitter wars and all these different things. What are you giving to that person?
41:23
Because I used to be that person. Like, I would write the thing that was really, really, that's
41:28
one of the best things about this podcast is I could get those things that are really kind of
41:31
controversial out of my mind and out of my brain and just put it on onto here. But I used to do that
41:36
unlike my personal Facebook page. I would say, you know, here's this thing. And then somebody would
41:42
respond and they would be mad. And then I would, you know, spend all this time coming up with this
41:46
well crafted multi paragraph response. And then I'd boom, throw it out there and you would think
41:50
I would be satisfied. But I wasn't. Why? Because they respond right back with something that took
41:54
them, you know, 30 seconds to write. And now here I am all day worried about looking at my phone,
42:00
waiting for that next notification that somebody has responded. And it just just ruined entire days
42:05
of mine. And it was because I was giving rent free access to these people that disagreed with me
42:10
to my brain. And we weren't getting to a positive outcome for anybody. Because the way that you get
42:16
to positive outcome is typically by sitting down and chatting with that person over a period of time
42:20
and praying for their perspective to change. And so think about this way, when is the last time that
42:26
you read a thread or a comment section on the subject of abortion. And saw someone in the comments
42:32
go, you know what, I used to think what was growing in the the belly of a woman was a human being worthy
42:37
of value and protection. But you know what, you've convinced me with your slogans. And so I'm now
42:43
pro choice. Let's kill those effing babies. Or the opposite, where someone's just like, oh man,
42:49
you know what, I used to just think that was a meaningless clump of cells, but you have absolutely
42:53
won me over by calling me a demonic bigot. And so yeah, great. I would like to be pro life now. No
42:59
abortion for any reason whatsoever. I don't know that that's ever happened. I don't think it's happened
43:05
at all. And so I guess how I deal with trolls is I just ignore them. Like I will say this this one
43:12
guy on my Facebook for whatever reason I came across as common as I was going through my notifications.
43:17
And I just responded, I remember what he said, but I was like, imagine being so pathetic that a
43:23
significant portion of your life is spent crafting comments on the page of someone that you don't
43:29
like. Like, because that is a part of his day. If he looks at his to do sheet for every day,
43:36
and he goes down one of those boxes is say something mean about what Kyle Thompson posted on the
43:41
undaunted life Facebook page. How pathetic is your life that that's part of it. But again,
43:47
that's just who he is. I can pray for him and move on. But the best way to deal with trolls
43:52
is just to not give me any energy. Don't give me any oxygen. Don't give me any attention. Just
43:55
move on. All right. We got a couple more left here. Next question. Will you ever buy an electric
44:00
vehicle? Yeah, sure. Why not? I know some people are like, Oh, super anti electric vehicle. Like,
44:06
I'm not an anti electric vehicle. But right now I see no practical purpose whatsoever for having one.
44:13
So most of my driving is in the city, right? And so I could just unplug my car and drive wherever I
44:20
need to go. But I drive a big truck. My wife and I move a lot of furniture, you know, we'll move
44:24
stuff, you know, here or there from time to time. So I need my truck and need my truck bed. I need
44:28
the power of my truck. And I need the the bed capacity. And when you look at, you know, any of
44:32
these was a Rivian or different electric trucks, these are basically worthless. Like the bed is
44:40
probably half the size of mine. Like I could get like an in table in there and like a pencil.
44:46
And so it's not really practical for what I need a truck for. But also I just got back on from a
44:51
couple of hunting trips. One of them was in Colorado. And it's like, where exactly am I going to plug
44:56
my car in, you know, when I'm at the base of a mountain? Now 30 years from now, will there be
45:02
electric vehicle charging stations all over the place? Well, they have figured out the problem.
45:06
Because here's the thing, my new iPhone that I got a couple of years ago, the battery was amazing
45:12
for about four or five months. And now I'll look down at my phone, sometimes at like nine or nine
45:17
30 in the morning and I'm at like 60%. And I woke up with a fully charged, right? And the same thing
45:23
is happening with these Teslas and these other electric vehicles is it's like, they it's way too
45:28
expensive to just recycle these batteries. So they just get rid of them and put you a new battery in.
45:32
But how much does that cost? I mean, it's an astonishing cost to the end user. And again,
45:38
right now there's just not really the infrastructure in place. Like if you live in Oklahoma and you
45:43
have friends in Florida and you're just going to drive road trip, you're sitting there trying to map
45:48
out where in Texas and where in Louisiana and where in, you know, Mississippi and Alabama and
45:53
Georgia and Florida, can you stop where you can actually charge? You've heard these horse stories
45:58
of these people that are trying to get to the next place. Whereas I can just stop at a gas station.
46:02
I'm at the gas station less than five minutes. I've filled up gone to the bathroom and, you know,
46:06
bought myself a drink and I'm back on the road. But then you have these people where they're the 17th
46:10
car in line for the two open spots because one of the electric things is not working right.
46:16
And you know, all these people are having to plug in their vehicles for what 30 minutes to an hour.
46:20
And so like, I again, describing all those things, if you have an electric vehicle,
46:26
and it's just one of the vehicles for your family and you're using it basically to go back and
46:31
forth to school or practice or, you know, grocery shopping or something like that. Sure, I'm all
46:36
for it. But again, I'm not going to be one of those people that's like, Oh, electric vehicle,
46:40
we're saving the planet because you're plugging it into your wall socket, which is powered by
46:44
oil, natural gas and coal from somewhere. So will I ever buy one? Yes. Do I see myself buying one
46:49
anytime soon? Absolutely not. All right. Last question of the day here. Have you looked into
46:54
her thought much about Bitcoin? Not just from a stocks or portfolio perspective, but from a morality
47:00
sound money perspective. Okay, so I don't really know what this person is referring to in terms of
47:05
morality. But this is what I'll say. In terms of Bitcoin or any type of cryptocurrency or NFTs
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or those types of things, there's a reality here. So I'm going to give you generalized advice.
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And then we'll extrapolate out just a little bit further. The generalized advice
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is, I think the amount of money that you should be comfortable putting into cryptocurrency is the
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amount of money that you would be comfortable with setting in front of you on a table,
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pouring gasoline on it and setting it on fire. So for you, if that's a hundred bucks,
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and you want to see if you can strike a rich with crypto or something like that, sure,
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spend a hundred bucks for some of you, it might be five Gs, right? Yeah, you would be,
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you wouldn't be happy about it. But if you put five Gs in front of you and then lit it on fire,
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you know, you're not going to be poor, right? You're not going to have to, you know, go on food
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stamps or something like that in the next month. Like, okay. But in general, it's not an actual
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thing that you're getting, right? So it's not like real estate or like an unopened bottle of 50
48:04
year old scotch or a piece of art or a muscle car or something like that that could appreciate
48:08
in value. So it's a different type of asset. It's in a different asset class. But I will tell you,
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there is a personal friend of mine that turned an initial investment of $500 and a lot of reinvestment
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along the way into over a million dollars around $1.2 million doing crypto. I mean, I was with him.
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I saw his computer screen. I saw where all the money was and he's like, yeah, I could transfer
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this 1.2 over to my bank account right now. And I'm like, well, why won't you do that? And he's like,
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well, because I've already paid off everything. I've taken out money and I've like paid off my
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school. I paid off my house and my car. I paid off, you know, stuff for my sister and I paid off,
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you know, I paid off all this stuff. And so now I'm just playing with house money. But then like,
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within two months, he had lost a million dollars of his crypto money and then it went back up like
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four or 500,000. But this is just what he did all the time. And he was working with different like
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poo coins and different things like that. But at the end of the day, if you don't fully understand
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it, don't don't invest in it. I remember Kurt Schilling, one of the greatest pitchers in major league
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baseball history, he basically put his entire fortune, right, that he had amassed over all these
49:13
years of pitching and major league baseball into this video game company. And he wasn't a gamer.
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He didn't understand the business side. He didn't understand business in general.
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And the company went belly up and he basically lost all his money. He lost the money that it took him,
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you know, 15 years of an MLB career to accumulate because he put into something he didn't understand.
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And so I do know some people personally that have put a lot of their personal net worth
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into hoping that Bitcoin does go to the moon. And the thing is, is if you owned, you know,
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back in 2011, like if you owned, you know, 10 Bitcoin, they were worth like less than a penny
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at that point. But now what is Bitcoin? Well, actually, I'll just look at what is Bitcoin now.
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Bitcoin current value
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looks like current value bitcoins, 30 dollars. Wait, that doesn't make sense.
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Because it wasn't like 60. Oh, it's 37,000. Okay. 37,236 dollars and 39 cents as of
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Sunday, the 26th of November. Okay. But at its highest, it was like, let's look at all time.
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The highest it ever was. How does it look like it's gonna bring that? But it went in like at 60,000
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or something like that was the highest it had ever been 60, 65,000. So if you had 10 of them,
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when they were worth nothing, and then it went to 60,000, all of a sudden you have 600k.
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Like that, that's a really cool thing. But if that's your only bucket of money,
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that's a big time danger. Because if you were to draw a grid, because I used to do this for
50:46
people when I was doing financial planning, it's like you need to have four buckets of money.
50:50
Because the stock market or the market in general is either going to be up or down,
50:56
and taxes are either going to be higher or low. So if you could do kind of an X and Y access thing,
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that creates four boxes. You need a box of money for when taxes are high and the market's high,
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taxes are high and the market's low, taxes are low and the market's high, taxes are low and
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the market's low. You need money for all four of those different things. So you could do permanent
51:15
life insurance there, you can do 401k, you could do Roth IRA, you could do CDs, money markets,
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all kinds of different things. I'm not really sure where Bitcoin fits. Because the government
51:25
hasn't really figured out what they want to do with that. From a tax perspective, you have to
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know that the federal government is not just going to let people continue to make money hand
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over fist and not have a great plan for taxing those people. So again, in general, I don't know
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what you mean by the morality side. I don't think it's a sound investment strategy. If that's all
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you're doing, but if it's a small portion of your portfolio and you're just doing it to see if it
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goes to the moon, then I guess I'm all right with it. All right, guys, just a reminder, if you do
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