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Now, today's episode because I had to kind of throw this together like in a short lunch hour kind of a thing. We're doing AMA. We're doing an ask me anything and some of you guys have been telling me about this. It's been almost 2 years. Our last AMA was January of 2024. So, y'all been writing me a bunch of questions. Every time y'all send me a question in the DMs or in the emails, I put it into a note on my phone. And so, I went in the note in my phone and there's a lot of questions in there. So, we're going to deal with 10 of them today. So, it's going to be probably a little bit of a shorter episode, but hopefully the content will be great for you guys. Let's go to the first question here. What do you think about Christians using TRT? So, that's testosterone replacement therapy. Um, I'll probably stay away from any theological implications about Christians using testosterone of some kind. Here's here's my thoughts in general about TRT. Um, I think that there are a lot of guys that are on it that don't need to be, okay? Because they went to a bro clinic and because like I've had my uh testosterone tested and I'm like I've always been in the mid 400s and then you go talk to a bro doc who's usually not even a doctor and they're like, "Oh, dude, you need to be, you know, 800 to a,000, bro. need to be at 800 to 1,000. I'm like, why? Like, I'm I'm sleeping fine. Like, I'm I'm not having problems sexually. Like, I'm I'm doing fine in the gym. I'm recovering fine. Why do I need to be at 800 to a,000? Oh, dude, cuz bro, you got to be 800 to a,000. Also, here's $5,000 worth of peptides you should be taking every month. So, uh I think part of it is guys are being sold, but then there are guys that, you know, maybe they've abused their endocrine systems with anabolics before, or maybe it's just a genetic thing. they have very very low testosterone like under 200 perhaps those people should consider using that. I think there is something to you know gracefully aging the way your body was meant to age but I'm also okay with supplementation obviously we're represented by Jaco Fuel and we encourage you guys to do that. Here's my biggest hang-up with TRT. There's really two main hang-ups. The first is that we have no data whatsoever on the long-term use of testosterone. None. We like, so you go on TRT at the age of 40 years old, right? I turn 40 next year. Let's say I started on TRT. And let's say I'm supposed to live until my 80s. Do we have any data to suggest what being on testosterone for 40 years is going to do? Because you can't really come off of it. I know there are guys that can come off it. there's things that you can do, but guys, once you get on TRT, you're just on that now. So, that's the first concern is we don't really have the data on TRT over the super long term. I don't think it's just neutral. And the second is the cost. So, obviously, the cost should come down over time. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but that was not something I was doing in terms of my long-term financial planning and retirement planning. Like, okay, what are multiple decades, three, four, five decades on testosterone going to be like? Uh, again, I don't think it's a sin if you're using TRT or any of those types of things. Now, if you're using it so that you can get jacked so that you can like worship yourself through your body, that's problematic. But, you know, in general, I have my issues with TRT, but if you're on it and it feels good and you're okay with all the risks and the budget, then more power to you, I guess. All right, next question here. I have a question for you about jiu-jitsu. Do you roll with girls or do you think that is off limits? I've talked with some people about it, my mom and girlfriend specifically, and they feel it is inappropriate and disrespectful to a girl uh to spar with her. I've always been taught to not hit girls, but I feel that if you are being attacked by someone, it doesn't matter the gender. I do understand that training is completely different than being attacked, but I'm not sure what to do. I would love your thoughts on this as you have many years of more experience in this field and I trust your judgment. Thanks so much again and God bless. Okay, so on the attack side of things, if a female is attacking me or attacking someone I love or even attacking my a stranger, at that moment she's an enemy combatant. Okay, you use whatever training, hopefully you have a substantial amount of it, but whatever training you have, you use that to stop the threat. So like when people say there's no reason to hit a woman, it's like, well, of course there is. Like if a woman is running at your child with a knife in hand intending to stab them to death, that'd be a great time to throw them on the ground, disarm them, and potentially end in the threat in a more serious manner. So of course, there are scenarios. You don't hit them because you know that they burned the the pie or overcooked the chicken. You don't hit them because you're mad and you feel like it. But in an attack scenario, that is separate. But now, in terms of jiu-jitsu, for me personally, I do not roll with women. Now, uh that is mainly from discussions with my wife. She doesn't obviously understand jiu-jitsu. She doesn't really watch it. She doesn't understand the positions. But there are certain positions you can be in, you know, specifically a girl in mount on another male. There obviously the sexual implications there. And there are a lot of people that have fallen into temptation because they have trained with, sparred with, and drilled with uh women as as married men. And so for us, we're just like, okay, well, that's just not really something that we're going to do. And to be frank with you, at the at where I'm at now, just like physically in the amount of time I've been training, that's not going to be a good round for me, like going with a female cuz like over the last, you know, eight plus years of training or so, every now and then during like a a line drill, like where people are coming off the wall, you know, maybe you're coming off the wall into an open guard position with a girl or it's a takedowns only and you you kind of get paired with a woman like it's that's just the way the cookie crumbled. If you go full boore, you're a jerk. But if you don't go full boore and then they hit something on you, you're pathetic. Right? It's that Jordan Peterson thing from uh um 12 rules for life. And so for me, uh I just personally am not going to do it. I've let my professors know because in some of our classes, they actually pair us up with different people. And so I just like, "Hey, I don't I don't roll with other women. It's just not something I'm going to do." It's not a big deal, to be honest. And there are gals at our gym that know I don't roll with women. It's not because I told them, and it's not because there's like a big rumor. They just know that that's something that I don't do. It's not a big deal. everybody respects it. So if that's what you feel, if you feel an inner constitution that this this is not right, I would say go with that. Now, someone else might be a Christian and come to a different conclusion. It just it's a different um it's just a different conclusion for them. [clears throat] It's a different um not everything that is going to affect you in terms of your conscience is affecting them. So it's not not any big deal. Uh so it's to each their own, I would say. All right, next one here. How would you go about arguing arguing complimentarian uh or the complimentarian view of church leadership? So, I think that scripture is clear. I didn't know this was coming or I would have had some more um some more biblical references for you. But when you talk about the recommendations for elders and overseers, male pronouns are always used. It's not ambiguous. The language is not ambiguous. Now, people will twist themselves up, right? They'll twist themselves into pretzels trying to be like, "Well, that's not what that word means." And yeah, I know we've thought that that's meant that for 2,000 years, but actually, you know, through my 2025 lens, it actually means this. Almost always that's not going to be the case. You can just dismiss those things outright. But, uh, again, the egalitarian view is a relaxed, liberal interpretation of the text. It's reading it in a way that it was never meant to be read. And a lot of people are reading it through the lens of feminism, right? Because we have first, second, third, now into fourth wave feminism. It started out with, hey, we just need equal rights to vote and different things like that. And now we're at the position where we're at now where we see these horrible cultural consequences of feminism. And so there are a lot of people that look at the church and they're like, well, you know, I used to work at a corporate job and there were male managers and and female managers and male uh people in the seauite and female people in the seauite. So I think the church should be the same way. The only thing is is God gets to dictate terms as to what happens inside the church. I mean God gets to dictate terms as to happens what happens anywhere, but specifically in the church. She's like, "Here's what it takes. Here's who is allowed to preach. Here's who's allowed to be a pastor. Here's who is allowed to be an overseer. And if you don't do that, you're going against the Bible. And the arguments I've seen arguing for egalitarianism just, you know, they're they're not great." Okay. All right. Next question here. All right. This person's asking if you need to have a dinner party. Three separate dinner parties apparently. One dinner party with 10 people that were in the Bible. Uh another dinner party with 10 people that were not in the Bible. Uh, and then it looks like another 10 people that are uh fictional characters. So, this is actually one that I prepared for so I didn't have to like try to think of 10 names off the top of my head. So, here's my dinner party. So, here are my 10 people from the Bible that I would love to have at my dinner table. Give me Adam Noah Moses Elijah Nehemiah Daniel, Jesus, Peter, John, and Paul. And then for my non-Bible uh or people that start in the Bible, but just like you know, people that have existed. And on my list, I did people that have all passed away. So these are people that are all passed away that I would love to have at my table. Give me Johnny Cash, Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, well Jordan Peterson. He is alive. Would love to have Jordan Peterson there. Stan Musel, the great Stan Musell, maybe the most underrated baseball player of all time. Michelangelo, Catis, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Richard the Lionheart. And then it was 10 fictional characters to have at dinner. So I guess these are all people from movies. So give me Maximus from Gladiator. Give me William Wallace from Braveheart. Give me the Joker from The Dark Knight. That'd just be a fun dinner. Give me Lieutenant Aldo Rain from Englorious [inaudible]. Give me Mufasa, right? Wouldn't that be cool to kind of have like a lion there at dinner with you? As long as he's, you know, cool with everything. Give me Mr. Myrtle from The Sandlot. Doc Holiday from Tombstone. John Wick. I mean, come on, let's go. Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid, and then Forest Gum. Wouldn't it be nice to just have him kind of give us the lay of the land as we work our way through the conversation? All right, next question here. Should I let my sons grapple girls? Okay, so I guess this kind of goes back to the one from earlier. So, this is kind of the position where I'm at with this. If you'll remember years ago, I had Sam Hayes Winkle and um I had Hardell Moore both on the show. Both are uh very accomplished wrestlers. You know, Hardell was a national runner up at collegiate wrestling. Sam made his way all the way through and made an Olympic team in wrestling. They wrestled all growing up. uh they had dads that were coaches, they had different things like that. Now, growing up, Hardell would just compete uh with whoever was in his bracket. And so, as he's continued on into being a coach, he's kind of continued that same ideology. You compete with whoever's in your bracket. So, if a girl's in your bracket, go out there and try to win. Sam, his father said from the beginning, if you're ever in a tournament and a girl ends up in your bracket and y'all end up being met uh in that bracket, you will forfeit the match. You will not grapple a girl. And so he has kind of continued that same ideology into today. [sighs and gasps] I think there is a delineating point between training and drilling and actually competing against because all everything is elevated during a competition when you're practicing. Yeah. You're trying to win but you're really trying to learn. Like you're trying to learn and you need an additional body in order to learn. So for James who's 5 years old, he's in the four, five, and sixyear-old jiu-jitsu class. It's kind of half and half, half girls, half boys. So it would be impossible for him just to do things with boys. So he's going to be doing things with boys and girls. And so what I'm trying to do with James is trying to delineate for him, hey, we are to protect women. We are to care for women. We are not to dominate women. And so that's where I think I would fall on the Sam Hayeswinkle side of the argument as it comes to competition. And I know this is not a foolproof uh ideology. There are gaps in this. I certainly recognize. But [snorts] it's going to be hard to tell a young man, we protect women. We don't Herman and we do all that. And then in competition, it's like you dominate her. You put in a wrestling context, you put her on the mat and you put her shoulders on the mat. You hold her there until the referee tells you to stop. Or in a jiu-jitsu context, hey, you get your your arms around her neck and you squeeze. You make her turn roll, you make her tap. Hey, you start bending her arm in a way to where if she doesn't tap, it breaks. It's kind of hard to do that. Again, in practice, it's a very different thing. And yes, I realize what I just said about my own training in practice and things like that. slightly different implications for adult women and adult men versus children. But for me in particular, my sons are allowed to grapple girls at practice. They are allowed to drill during practice. But if it comes down to a jiu-jitsu or wrestling competition, I would not allow them to compete against another girl. Hey guys, real quick. I know a lot of you train for very specific things. So maybe you've got a mud race coming up, a mountain hunt, a 5K, or maybe you just want to keep up with your kids or you just don't want to let the old man in. But for a lot of you guys, whether you're working out at the Glowbo Gym or even in your garage gym, you get there and you just don't know exactly what to do. 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Now, in each one of those days, I'm doing abs. Each one of those days I'm doing neck. Each one of those days I'm doing some form of cardio. So if I'm going to be doing jiu-jitsu that day, that's going to be my cardio. If not, it's going to be an explosive type of cardio. Like 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off on the aerodyine bike or running sprints, you know, my sprint workout that I typically do is and my warm-up is 640 yards or 640s, 420s, 410s, and then 10 hundreds. And these are in yardage. And so, uh, for the hundreds, I'm running those and I'm only getting 30 seconds rest in between, right? So, really really spike spiking the heart rate. And then typically, if I do Fight Club on Sunday night, that's like kind of like a a Metcon style workout, but just there on the mat, body weight, and then doing some jiu-jitsu. So, the way uh I've done my training is all my jiu-jitsu training ends up basically being bonus. That's how I keep it in my brain. Like, I don't count the cardio I get from the, you know, the Tuesday class, Saturday morning, and usually Sunday night. That's just all bonus for me. I try to make sure that everything I do off the mat adds to what I'm able to do on the mat. So, one of the hardest things to do in jiu-jitsu, cuz yes, it's hard to learn jiu-jitsu. It's hard to, you know, get a real game plan. It's hard to figure out how your body works into your game plan. It's hard to like make sure that you've got technique that's sharp and all that, that you're strong enough to not get hurt. But the hardest thing is to make sure that you are cardiovascularly ready to compete in jiu-jitsu. And specifically, the hardest thing to attain is a gas tank that becomes a weapon. Right? So, if you've heard Chel Son talk about Randy Couture was kind of the first MMA fighter that used pace as a weapon. So, he was just on you and on you and on you and so you just couldn't take a deep breath. You were always going backwards. He was overloading your brain and your central nervous system by constantly giving you stimuli. I try to do the same thing with jiu-jitsu. So, we normally roll six minute rounds at the forge. And so if you've got five and five five and a half minutes worth of cardio and I've got six plus minutes worth of cardio, at some point during that round, I'm going to get the upper hand on you more than likely. And so, uh, I just train in a way where I don't take large chunks of time off unless I'm recovering from some sort of an injury or surgery. And it's basically been that way since I was 16. And so I do all of my own programming. It's just from years and years of trying different things. But, uh, Bigger, Leaner, Stronger is a great book that kind of helped me with my programming. If you're not big on the the if you're not really familiar with all the power lifts and things like that, the Starting Strength uh book by Mark Ripto is a good one. Obviously, using something like Mountain Tough if if you don't want to come up with your own thing, if you just want somebody on your phone or on your your television to tell you what to do every day, whether you're working out at home or working out at a globo gym or something like that, I think that's a great asset. But yes, I do everything on my own. Next question here. What is the correct amount of preparedness? Okay, I like this question. So, obviously there are preppers out there and there are people that, you know, they've got some some food back and they know where they could get some water if things went wrong and they they have, you know, some battery backups, maybe a generator. And then you got the people that are like they've got a bunker in the woods and they've got, you know, water coming through and they've got, you know, solar panels and they've got, you know, barbed wire and, you know, trenches and all the different things. whatever you decide you want to do in terms of that. Like I'm not going to judge when one way or another, but I will just reiterate something that I said whenever I was on with Mike Glover a few years ago. There are a lot of guys that spend a lot of time prepping for this world and they've done no preparation for the next. Okay? Because no matter how prepared you are, you're going to die someday. And guess what? Some other chimp, because again, in your worldview, there is no afterlife. But some other chimp is going to take all your crap, right? They're just going to thank the chimp that died for gathering it all for them so they didn't have to do it themselves. And that chimp may actually, you know, knock your head off in order to take it from you, right? It's coming for you. All that stuff that you've prepared for to survive, right? You will eventually die no matter what the circumstances are. And so if you're spending a whole lot of time and effort and money and energy to prepare for something that might happen if the grid goes down or if China invades or if you know we have this breakdown in you know our culture or something like that and you've done nothing to reckon with the gospel of Jesus Christ that's problematic because the truth is is that God sent his son Jesus to this earth to die on a cross to pay the sin debt that you owe him. And luckily, you all you have to do is repent of your sin and put your faith in that reality that Jesus died specifically for you. Even if you can't explain it fully, you put your faith in that and then you stake your life on it. You start your disciplehip journey. You get baptized. Start becoming sanctified. That's what you need to do because once that box is checked, I don't really care how much barb wire you have around the exterior of your property. All right. Next question here. Do you count calories? No, I do not count calories at all. I have a very good idea of the amount of calories and the kinds of calories I need to get through a day. Not just physically with my exercises, but mentally with the content creation, doing the podcast, interviews, things like that. If I count anything, it is grams of protein that I get in a day. So, I know there's a lot of different thoughts as to how many grams should you get, but I try to get one gram of high quality protein for every pound of body weight. I fluctuate between 190 and 195 pounds. And so I try to get 190 to 195 grams of protein in a day. I get most of that with meat and eggs, but I also do supplement with Jaco whey protein and some other things. My snacks are very protein heavy. So you're going to get, you know, some nuts and jerkys and things like that. But no, I don't count calories. Um, now if you are overweight, counting calories is a great thing because if you're not at a calorie deficit, you will not lose weight. That that's just the way that it is. even before you start getting into micronutrients and macronutrients and all that. If you are burning 2,000 calories a day, but consuming 3,000, you will not lose weight. So, if that's where you are, definitely count the calories. It's just not something that I do. All right, a couple more questions here. How do I discern certain preachers, pastors, or authors that I listen and read about to know whether or not they are preaching a false gospel? [snorts] So with something like this, there are some people that preach a false gospel where it's so overtly absurd and ridiculous. Like Joel Ostein comes to mind. It's so overt that it's just nonsense. Like it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Those are the ones that are easy to spot. The ones that are harder to spot are people that are like incredibly good at it. So think like an Andy Stanley, right? He's so good at preaching and teaching and just his wordsmithing is on a preposterous level. And so for someone like him that's now preaching a a false version of the gospel and really focusing more on left-leaning talking points than the gospel of Jesus Christ, that may be a little harder to pick up on. Ultimately, if you're not in the word, how will you know what's true or what's not true? Okay? Because if a pastor says something that has tickled your ears and you think, uh, that must be true. But if you're an astute Bible observer and studyer, you might be like, wait a minute, wait a minute, that sounds too good to be true. And it is like that doesn't comport with scripture at all. Now, there are gray areas and there are places that we don't we don't exactly know. But when it comes to a false gospel, what we put our faith in, what I just talked about earlier when I was on the preparedness question, that's something that is usually more so clear. Yeah, you can get into arguments about Calvinism and Armenianism and okay, where does that faith come from and how does the sovereignty of God work with your free will? Yep, I'm I'm okay with all that and looking into all those different things. But when you talk about gospel plus, yeah, it's gospel plus you got to do a whole bunch of stuff. Gospel plus you have to have these ceremonies. Gospel plus you got to do all these things. That's where it starts to kind of unravel. But yeah, if you're not in the word, it's going to be really, really hard to discern that. All right, last question of the day, guys. Hopefully, you've liked this AMA. Please send your questions to info.life or send them to us in our inbox. What are your thoughts on traditional martial arts like karate and taekwond do? Um, so I've talked about this quite a bit on the show. So, and I know there's a lot of guys in this audience that have, you know, done taekwond do and karate and kung fu and, you know, Aikido and some of those different things. I will say you need to train the martial arts that give you the most bang for your buck. So, this is what I mean. Karate is effective if the fight is on the feet, right? those, you know, blitz kicks and punches and all that could work really, really well while the fight is on the feet. Same with taekwond do, uh, same with, you know, kung fu or some of these different things. Some of these striking modalities. If the fight stays on the feet and the person is not better at striking than you are, it could work out well for you. But the odds of the the fight beginning and ending on the feet are not nearly as high as the fight going to the ground. Okay? And I would lean on where is the best place where we could see all these various martial arts, whether as you called them, traditional or non-traditional. I don't know what the delineating point of that would be, but let's just say all martial arts. If only there was something where we put all the martial arts on display and the cream rose to the top. Oh, great. We have that. For 30 plus years, we've had mixed martial arts. Okay. So, we have to look at the fighters now. look at their fighting styles and look at their dominant modalities. Okay, the dominant modalities for high level or even just professional fighting are the following sports. Wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, western boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, those? Yes. Has every now and then has there been a guy that had a karate stance or a karate style? Yes. Has there been a guy that's thrown a taekwond do style kick? Sure. Have there been guys that had a judo emphasis and they really worked on their throws and different things like that like Carl Parisian or um trying to think Ronda Rousey like people like that Kayla Harrison. Sure. Yes. But the dominant things that you have to have your box checked in order to be a successful MMA champion is wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, western boxing, kickboxing, and potentially Muay Thai, right? some sort of a striking, right? [snorts] Cuz those those first two are grappling arts and the last three are striking arts. You have to have a combo of some of those things cuz if you only have grappling and no striking, if you have a guy that's hard to take down, you're probably going to lose that fight. If you only have striking striking but you have no grappling whatsoever and that guy's a grappler, you're probably not going to be able to keep him from taking you to the ground. And that's why I've kind of told people and you can throw, you know, Aikido and uh Karagod and some of these different things in there. It's like if everything works out perfect and you land that first punch right on the button and the guy goes out, more power to you, but the odds of that are so low, even if you've trained a whole bunch in those areas, right? Because like just look, if you're a karate guy, you're a karate back black belt and you came to the forge and you did an MMA sparring round, which we don't do MMA there, but let's just say we did an MMA sparring round, we're going to get you to the ground pretty fast. And then what? Those roundhouse kicks and spinning back fists and even a straight one two, right? That ain't going to work that well for you. That's why I said you have to have a combination of those five martial arts that I listed. So if you're only good at boxing, right? There there's not a 125 or 135 pounder like in in the UFC specifically that Floyd Mayweather could have beat. Floyd Mayweather is arguably the greatest boxer, certainly the greatest defensive boxer of all time, but if he came over to the UC UFC, he's going to get taken down. He's going to get leg kicked. Like his western boxing, even though it's at that peak high level, is not going to be enough to win a mixed martial arts fight. And the closest thing to real life is not a single modality. It's mixed martial arts. Right? Most people aren't getting in boxing matches on the street, and most people aren't getting in Brazilian jiu-jitsu matches on the street. Right? That's why I don't really like the the guard pulling and the and the butt scooting and things like that. It's like guys, you're never going to do that in a real life situation, right? And in an attack situation, in a kinetic situation, you're probably not going to be thinking, I want to pull guard and go to deep half. Probably not something that you're ever going to do. So, if you've given a lot of time in your life up to this point with Aikido and karate and taekwond do and and kung fu and and karagon, different things like that, great. You've got that. Hopefully, you've learned something. But you got to bring in some of the other stuff. Start with jiu-jitsu and then kind of work out from there. All right guys, that'll do it for today. Before we go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost at Undaunted Life. Our mission is equipping men to push back darkness with content that forges spiritual, mental, and physical resilience. So don't forget, we are donationbased ministry. You can donate directly to Undaunted Life or if you'd like a taxdeductible donation. You can donate donate to the Daily Blade via the New Horizons Foundation. Guys, we really really appreciate your time today. Thank you for listening to this podcast. 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