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This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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The algorithms love it, blah, blah, blah, but let's get on to today's content because
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it's award season, guys.
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I know everyone's got their own award season, but this is award season on Undaunted Life,
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a man's podcast, and this is an awards show.
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This is the show where we give out the awards, the hardware for best podcasts of 2021.
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So for us individually, it's been a big year for our podcast for Undaunted Life, a man's
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podcast.
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We've seen explosive growth this year.
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I know a lot of you were aware of the fact that we're kind of doing this way bigger than
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we had before.
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We're kind of going at it in a very different way.
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I'll talk more about that a little bit later, but we've seen tons of growth and that becomes
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a great thing for us, but also requires a lot more of us and it requires more of our listeners
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and everything like that.
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But we're so thankful for the growth that we've seen.
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We did a ton of interviews this year.
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I'll be kind of going down through those here in a second.
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We got new intro, outro music basically of August Burns Red releases a new album.
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We're going to have new intro, outro music, but you know, we launched YouTube channel.
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So a lot of you guys like to kind of visually see for whatever reason you want to see this
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face when it's talking.
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I have no idea why, you know, but my wife thinks it's okay, but that's all great and all good.
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But today we got two big categories or I guess segments of awards that we're going to do.
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So the first segment is we're going to be doing awards for Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.
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Okay.
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And then we're going to be looking at other shows, but let me just kind of run down the
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list of awards.
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We're going to be handing out today and then we will get into the awards themselves.
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So for Undaunted Life of Man's podcast, we are going to be doing the hardest epitode.
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It's not going to get any better guys.
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I'm so sorry.
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The hardest episode to prepare of 2021, the best listener suggested episode of 2021, the
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most offensive episode and I'll leave the of 2021 because I think y'all get the point.
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Most offensive episode, most talked about episode, audience's favorite interview, my
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favorite interview, interview I was most nervous about, audience's favorite episode.
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And then my personal favorite episode of 2021, so you're going to make sure you want to stick
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around for that.
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And then also we're going to go into the other shows.
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So for the other shows, the categories are going to be most entertaining podcast show,
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most thought provoking podcast show, best daily podcast show, best short form podcast
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show, best long form podcast show, best new podcast show, best new to me podcast show,
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best podcast show overall, most important podcast episode.
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And then we are going to give the best award for best podcast episode of 2021.
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So before we get into the actual episodes, I hear a lot of people talk about how they're
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getting into podcasts or listening more and all those different things, but they want
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to listen to more podcasts, which is always a little bit odd to me because I'm like, well,
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if you want to listen to more podcasts, just listen to more podcast, but I'm going to give
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you a few little tidbits to kind of help you with that process.
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The first thing is, and I talk about this all the time, guys, you've got to listen at
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more than one time speed.
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Okay.
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So in most of your devices, you can do one and a half speed or two time speed.
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So I listen to every single one of the podcasts that I listen to at two time speed.
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So even someone like myself or like a Ben Shapiro, someone that talks really, really fast,
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your brain will get used to it.
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I promise, I promise, I promise your brain will be able to catch up.
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For some of you, it's just going to seem like gibberish at the first time.
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Like I always notice it whenever I'm listening to a podcast at two time speed and then someone
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else is in my car or something like that.
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I was like, Oh, yeah, that is pretty fast, but I'm telling you your brain will get used
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to it.
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But also the other thing is don't listen to crappy podcasts.
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I mean that about actual shows, but also episodes.
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So it might be a show that you really like, but the episodes, not any good, doesn't really
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land with you.
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Just skip those.
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Just don't listen to those because if you're a guy like me, you have to check all the boxes
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and you have to collect all of them, right?
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And so I want to listen to every single episode from every single one of the people that I
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listen to, but that's not always going to be good for you to get in as much information
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as you want to get in.
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Also, move on to the next podcast after you get the point.
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I'm using like major air quotes for get the point.
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So you're listening to an interview, it's a three hour long interview.
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You feel like about an hour, hour and a half into it.
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You kind of got the gist of it.
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You got the gist of the interview.
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You kind of know what they're going to talk about.
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You know where this is going.
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You don't need to spend, you know, another 45 minutes listening to the last hour and a
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half, you know, if you're listening at two times speed.
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So once you get the point, go ahead and move on and listen to this podcast that we are the
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one exception.
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You have to listen to every single word or else you're a horrible person and I will keep you
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from listening to the show ever again.
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The last thing is just do it every chance you can like literally listen to podcasts every
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chance that you can when you have normal downtime, like I will put in my my apple earbuds or
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whatever, when I'm, you know, sweeping the floors or working out in my garage or of course
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mowing the lawn.
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It takes me several hours to kind of take care of the lawn in our property.
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And you know, it's, it's one of those things where it's like, okay, I may have a three
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or four hour block of time.
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That's six or seven or eight hours worth of podcast if you're listening to it at two
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times speed.
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So just do it every chance you can.
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Again, don't make your wife or anyone at work mad, you know, where you're constantly
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having to pause or hey, hang on, sec why, you know, take my earbuds out.
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But that is how you can make sure you get all that information in and get it all in
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at a time that you would enjoy.
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So here's the thing about this year's the podcast that we're going through.
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Every year you guys ask me as well kind of what shows do I listen to?
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So I always like to kind of keep you updated as to the shows that I listen to and guys,
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we will get to the awards here in just a second, but let me go and give you kind of
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my lineup because I listen, you know, if I calculate it, it's well over a thousand individual
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podcast episodes a year.
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I mean, it is an absolute ton in some of them are short form, a lot of them are long form,
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but again, two times speed does help.
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There are a lot of podcasts that I picked up this year.
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So these are the ones that are kind of new this year to kind of my rotation.
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So the unashamed podcast with Phil, Jason, Al Robertson dispatches from Afghanistan with
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Holly McKay Cooper stuff podcast with John Cooper.
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That's a lead singer skillet just thinking with Darryl Harrison and Virgil Walker.
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So we had them on earlier this year morning wire.
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So that's the daily wires morning news show.
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So it's like 15 minute little tidbits.
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Then I have the Prager U five minute videos.
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So I've actually watched the five minute videos quite a bit, but I'm actually listening to
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the podcast.
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I went back and listened to a bunch of the old ones because again, it's just five minutes
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or two and a half minutes if you're at two times speed and then fireside chat with Dennis
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Prager.
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That is the same Prager of Prager U.
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Every Friday he does like a half hour little thing and so he kind of takes care of business
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that way.
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And then the danger close podcast that's Jack Carr's podcast where he has people on to kind
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of talk about their books, kind of get the behind the scenes looking a lot of the books.
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Now the carryovers from 2020, these are the ones that I've listened to a lot of these
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for several years.
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I have the briefing with Albert Mueller, unbelievable with Justin.
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Priorly, that's a kind of a debate debate podcast over in the UK and the briefing just
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go back to that.
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That's kind of a daily podcast from Albert Mueller.
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He's I think he's the president of Southern seminary and the Southern Baptist convention
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and all that.
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So he does a daily kind of a news and analysis from Christian worldview, the village church
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sermons.
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And so that is Matt Chandler's church down in Dallas.
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I only listen to the ones that actually has him on there.
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The Jordan B Peterson podcast, Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast, obviously Bill Burr's
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comedian hold these truths with a US representative, Dan Crenshaw, Jocko podcast, the unraveling
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with Jocko Willing and Gerald Cooper, the Ben Shapiro show apology, a radio, Dan Carlin's
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hardcore history, the breakdown with James Langford.
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James Langford is one of our senators here in the great state of Oklahoma and then louder
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with Crowder.
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And then here's some that I listen to every now and then or maybe not every now and then
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but I just don't listen to every episode.
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I will kind of skip around a little bit.
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So I've got the Joe Rogan experience.
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I've got Mike drop with Mike Ritalin, the sword and the trowel building a story brand
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with Donald Miller.
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That's kind of a marketing podcast and the sword and the trowel is that that's a founder's
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ministry.
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That's their podcast.
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The art of manliness.
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I've talked about the art of manliness before Terry fakes audio.
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That is a local pastor here in my community from crossings community church.
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Can you survive this podcast with Clint Emerson, which I was on earlier this year?
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That was great.
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And then the way I heard it with Mike Rowe, the way I heard it used to be all these kind
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of short form stories, but he's changed it to be more long form type interviews, which
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I don't really enjoy that as much just because it's not that Mike Rose, not any good at it.
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It's just that I already have a bunch of podcasts that do that.
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I was listening to that one to get those little tidbits and then he doesn't really do that
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anymore.
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So I just kind of catch those here are there now I've given y'all that information.
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I've kept you waiting long enough.
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But here we go.
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We are going to get into the awards for a daunted life, a man's podcast.
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So let's go and get into the first one here and it's not the fun one to talk about.
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It was the hardest episode to prepare of 2021 and that was episode 234 of and that was called
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foxhole funeral land in the quiet.
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So one quick thing before I get into that with a lot of these episodes, I'm not going
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to really go into a ton of detail.
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I am going to include the links here in the show notes because, you know, I'm trying to
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make this episode a little bit shorter so you guys can listen to this, but then go and
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listen to some of these other ones from our show, but also from other shows as well.
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So let's get back into hardest episode to prepare of 2021.
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So obviously, if you listen to this up to the show for any length of time, you listen
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to your foxhole, I believe that was episode 104 kind of talking about the men that were
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in my foxhole and one of those men was land in the quiet.
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And unfortunately this year he made the decision to take his own life.
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And so it was, it was a tough episode to prepare.
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It was horrible to record.
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I was, it was a little bit cathartic to kind of get it out there to everybody, but that
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was obviously very difficult because I talk about all the time on this podcast that we
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need to be intentional on our, you know, relationships and friendships with men and, you know, intentional
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with being in each other's lives and being someone that, you know, you could call three
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o'clock in the morning and all those types of things.
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And to a degree, I feel like I failed land in the quiet.
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I failed.
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I failed a member of my own foxhole.
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And so having to talk about his, his funeral and having to talk about the things that kind
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of went into that.
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And then of course, all the things that I wasn't able to talk about on air, things that just
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would not have been appropriate to talk about with a generalized audience.
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It was just a really, really hard episode, but I do think it's important.
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There were some tidbits in there and some wisdom that I tried to share in terms of how
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you could more specifically be there for your friends, for the guys that are in your
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foxhole.
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So I would definitely check that out.
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And again, all these are going to be in the show notes.
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So let's move on from that one to the next award, which is best listener suggested episode
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of 2021.
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And that is episode 243, normalizing pedophilia, your kids classroom.
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So that was a recent one here with all the stuff that we saw going on in different people's
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classrooms.
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And parents finally paying attention, finally pulling their heads out of the sand and figuring
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out what books are in their kids classroom, what type of, you know, materials are being
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shown to their kids.
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The reason why that's the best listener suggested episodes is obviously a lot of people wanted
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me to talk about it.
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But specifically, there was a man in my community here that was able to get me an email.
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And I talked about Deer Creek Elementary School, which is literally just a few miles away from
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my house and the how the, the basically the reading list and what was on the reading list
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for their, you know, five year olds, right, their kindergartners.
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And so that was something that I was not aware of.
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I knew these types of books were around.
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I didn't know they were in my backyard and to get an email that was sent to a, to a parent,
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a concerned parent and to be able to read that on air.
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That was easily the best listener suggested episode of 2021 and there's not really a close
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second.
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All right.
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The next one here is the most offensive episode of 2021.
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And here's the deal.
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I have this slight tendency.
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I know this is going to be shocking to a lot of you guys to listen to this.
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I have this tendency to be a little bit incendiary.
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I will say things that just come off the top of my head that aren't always the most polished
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and also I will talk about things and subject matters that are, you know, way too hot for
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a lot of other people.
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So some honorable mentions for this year, episode two, 13, choosing to be offended.
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UCO fight song edition.
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I was talking about how they wanted to change the words of my university's fight song because
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it used the word boy in it, right?
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As if the word boy was racist and sexist all at the same time.
12:18
So people were offended by that.
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Certainly people that I graduated with, they didn't know I was making such a big deal out
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of it, but you can go back to listen to episode two, 13 and tell me if I was making a big
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deal about it.
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I don't think I did.
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Also episode 259, how Christian should view the death penalty and why Julius Jones should
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be dead today.
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Again, the death penalty is one of those, you know, hot button issues and specifically
12:37
a lot of people in Oklahoma hopped on the Julius Jones bandwagon like, oh, this guy,
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you know, not only should he not be executed, he shouldn't even be in prison because they,
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they watched, you know, a documentary that basically didn't do its due diligence, didn't
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look at the court reporting and all those types of things, but that was offensive.
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But if I had to put my finger on one, and I'm going to hear the most offensive episode
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of 2021 is episode 192 race in America, part six was just as done for George Floyd and
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Derek Chauvin.
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Now, obviously you can tell what that episode was about.
13:05
This was after the verdict came back, which convicted Derek Chauvin of murder.
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I went into detail there how I don't think that those charges warranted or that that verdict
13:13
warranted what happened in that particular situation.
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I changed where I was even in the middle of 2020 where I felt like Derek Chauvin at that
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time was in the majority responsible for the death of George Floyd and I completely flipped
13:26
after the trial to understand that George Floyd was mainly to to be at fault for his
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death that day.
13:32
And again, even questioning whether or not Derek Chauvin was given justice during this
13:37
thing is just beyond the pale for a lot of people because again, no one's really questioning
13:41
that George Floyd received justice because obviously the most of these people got the
13:45
verdict that they wanted, right?
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They want Derek Chauvin to burn, but we'll see how things go.
13:49
And I talked about that in the podcast and I think he's got a great chance at appeal
13:52
because of all the things that were happening during that trial, but that is easily the
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most offensive episode of 2021.
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192 race in America, part six was justice done for George Floyd and Derek Chauvin.
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Now let's get on to the next one, which is the most talked about episode of 2021.
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So a lot of, you know, people that are a lot of episodes were in contingent for that.
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Episode 196 was one of them fear porn and mass mandate.
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So a lot of people were talking about kind of the fear of being betrayed by the media,
14:16
especially with everything COVID-19 related and all these different mass mandates.
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And then later in the year, I was able to record fear porn and vaccine mandates because
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that became something big for a lot of people to talk about.
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Episode 221 of this podcast keeping babies alive just long enough to harvest their organs.
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I was talking about what's going on at the University of Pittsburgh where they're actually
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keeping babies alive and keeping their ischemic time and extending that to where the organs
14:39
can stay warm so that they can take out the organs.
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Now these are babies that have been born and the way they are killed is outside the womb
14:45
by having their organs removed.
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So that was obviously talked about by a lot of people.
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Episode 243, which I've already talked about normalizing pedophilia, your kid's classroom,
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but also episode 247 school board hides child rapists in order to pass a transgender student
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policy.
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So that is the issues that were going on in the state of Virginia.
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It led to everything that was going on over there with those elections, those midterm
15:04
elections, not really midterm elections, but off year elections that were going on over
15:07
there.
15:08
And all those were talked about a lot of people asked me about them later, sent me messages,
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you know, the whole nine yards.
15:13
But the most talked about episode of 2021 was episode 215.
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What Christian should think about aliens, UFOs and UAPs.
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That's an identified aerial phenomenon.
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My goodness, the responses I got to this episode, I mean, for a while there for about a week
15:31
and a half.
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Every time I went to my inbox to for the info at undaunted life inbox, I was worried every
15:38
time I went to my DM's for Instagram, I was a little bit concerned because I would get
15:41
these long diet drives from people where it's like, okay, they're seeming reasonable.
15:46
They're agreeing with me.
15:47
They're talking about a few things.
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And then it was like, and I've been abducted by aliens myself, right?
15:52
And here's the thing.
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I got a lot of jerks for friends, right?
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I got a lot of guys that would waste my time, make make a burner account, literally just
15:57
to kind of throw me for a loop with a DM on Instagram.
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But these, these people for all I could tell were serious and you know, you're not supposed
16:05
to judge people and all that kind of stuff that most of you guys would say, but man,
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I got more feedback for that particular episode because I felt like what I said there was
16:13
fairly reasonable, you know, and again, go back and listen to episode 215 to kind of
16:17
get an idea as to what I said there.
16:18
But this was around the time the government was releasing the the report about the unidentified
16:23
aerial phenomenon and kind of what that means.
16:25
And so a lot of Christians were having this attack of, you know, their personal faith
16:29
because they're like, Oh, what if there's UFOs?
16:30
That's not even described in the Bible, you know, all these different things.
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And it was just a lot of craziness.
16:35
And then the thing that was released by the US government was a big nothing burger, which
16:38
we should have been able to expect from the beginning.
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But again, that's easily the most talked about episode of this year.
16:43
Go back and check it out if you haven't taken that down yet.
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Okay.
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Episode 215, what Christians should think about aliens, UFOs and UAPs.
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Now let's get into the next one here.
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Audiences favorite interview of 2021.
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Now guys, we did a lot of interviews in 2021.
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We interviewed 36 different guests on this podcast and some of those guests came on multiple
17:03
times.
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Okay.
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So we've done down very quickly the list of guests we had this year and then we'll get
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to the one that you guys thought that I thought, you know, essentially was your favorite from
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this year.
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So it started off with episode 117 as with John Fobert.
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He's an expert on kind of what pornography does to the brain.
17:18
They have episode 179, Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker, both of those guys work in
17:22
ministry and a pastoring and they deal a lot with critical race theory.
17:26
Then episode 180 with Dan Crenshaw.
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That's obviously he goes without saying he's US representative and retired Navy SEAL.
17:31
So 182 was with Steven Pressfield, the best selling author, episode 183, 184 and 226
17:37
with Taya Kyle.
17:38
So she came on and that's Chris Kyle's widow.
17:40
She came on to talk about her, her situation and she came on to talk about Afghanistan as
17:44
well.
17:45
Then in episode 184, we had Jacob Spence.
17:46
So he was the assistant associate pastor at Grace Life Church in Canada and I was talking
17:50
to him when his lead pastor was in jail, then episode 186 and 224.
17:54
That's with best selling author of my favorite book of all time, which is called Fearless
17:58
and that's Eric Blem.
17:59
And so he came on to talk about that book, but also to talk about the Afghanistan series
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said the series I did call botching Afghanistan.
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Then on episode 187, I had the lead singer, a skillet, John Cooper, then episode 188 and
18:10
222 with war correspondent Holly McKay.
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Episode 222, I was actually talking to her when Afghanistan was being taken over and
18:16
she was on the ground in Afghanistan, then episode 189 with Justin Briarley.
18:20
So he is the host of the unbelievable podcast over in the UK.
18:23
Then episode 193 with John Eldridge, obviously you guys know who that is.
18:26
So 194 with Lila Rose, she is the founder of the pro-life organization live action.
18:30
Then episode 197 and 258 with Ephra Matos.
18:33
He's who he's a retired Navy SEAL, but also he does a lot with a bunch of crazy situations
18:37
around the globe now.
18:39
Then episode 198 and 229 with Michelle Black.
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She is a gold star widow of a green beret.
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We talked about her book and then she talked about Afghanistan with us as well.
18:47
And then we had on two, two, two 10 and two 23 Eddie and Andrew, or Andrea, I don't know
18:52
why I have, I said Andrew Eddie and Andrea Gallagher.
18:54
So that's a husband and wife team.
18:56
So Eddie was the Navy SEAL that was put in prison for something that he did not do.
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And so I got to talk to both of them about that.
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Then episode 212 with pastor James Coates.
19:04
So that is the pastor, the lead pastor of Grace Life Church in Canada, who was jailed
19:08
for basically keeping his church doors open.
19:10
Then we had Michael Felker on episode 214, he is a lead singer of a Christian metal band
19:15
that does aggressive worship music and the band is called convictions.
19:18
Then episode 218 with Sam Hayes Winkle Sam is a guy that's in my foxhole, but he was
19:21
also an Olympian and he wasn't one of the oldest wrestlers that I can think of to make
19:25
the world team.
19:26
So talk to him.
19:27
Episode 219 was with Daniel Cox.
19:29
So he did a lot of research into kind of why men don't have friends in modernity.
19:33
Then on 225 254 and 255, we talked with Mike Ritalin.
19:37
So Mike Ritalin is a retired Navy SEAL and he's also a dog handler and an author and does
19:41
a whole bunch of different things in the mic drop podcast, which I was on earlier this summer.
19:44
Episode 227 with Eddie Penny.
19:46
So Eddie Penny was actually, he's a retired Navy SEAL buddy of mine.
19:48
He was the first interview on this podcast.
19:50
He was episode 100 and he came on to talk about the situation in Afghanistan.
19:53
Then we had the co-author duo of Andrews and Wilson for episodes two 28 and two 35.
19:58
We talked about their books in Afghanistan.
20:00
Then we had Eric Maddox.
20:01
He is the interrogator that found Saddam Hussein.
20:05
So he came and talked on episode 230 and 252 to 230 was more so about what was going on
20:10
Afghanistan.
20:11
Then we have pastor Ryan Visconti on 232 and 238.
20:15
He's a pastor out of Arizona, Matthew Lomier on episode 236.
20:18
So he was the guy that was fired from space force for basically coming out saying, Hey,
20:21
we shouldn't be doing all these Marxist things in the US military anymore.
20:25
Episode 242 is with the great and powerful Hicks and Gracie.
20:29
So he's considered by many people to be one of the biggest pioneers and mixed martial arts
20:33
and one of the greatest Jiu Jitsu fighters ever episode 245 with pastor Maddie Montgomery.
20:37
He's all he's pastor now, but he was also lead singer of a brutal Christian man called
20:40
for today.
20:41
Then on episode 246, we had meet Mitch Benjamin.
20:44
So he was the world champion Kansas City barbecue on episode 248 best-selling author Eric
20:49
Metaxas on episode 250 Ryan Mickler from order of man episode 254 Justin Whitmill early.
20:55
We had him on to kind of talk about his book about families.
20:58
Then we had Mark Appel, former number one overall major league baseball draft pick on
21:02
episode 260 episode 264 with Ryan Burge, where he wrote the book about the nuns, the religiously
21:07
unaffiliated of the United States of Christians and all those different things.
21:10
And then the last one of the year was 266 with Dr. Jonathan McClatchy.
21:14
So he's, you know, a evolutionary biologist, but he's also a Christian apologist.
21:18
So that's the rundown of the year.
21:20
And I mean, it was just an awesome thing to have all those different people on.
21:24
And I'm already looking at some of the stuff we have lined up for 2022.
21:27
You guys are not going to be disappointed.
21:28
I think we're going to have some, you know, retread, some people coming back on the show,
21:31
but then a bunch of new folks.
21:32
I'm really excited for you guys.
21:33
But I'm just saying all that.
21:35
We got to get into the audience's favorite interviews of 2021.
21:38
You know, I'd be thinking, well, how did you know that?
21:40
I basically go off the feedback that I've gotten, but I also go off the numbers for
21:43
those individual episodes.
21:44
So a lot of people in the audience loved the interviews I did on the botching Afghanistan
21:48
series.
21:49
So that was around the time when Afghanistan was falling and we saw the immediate fallout.
21:52
So episodes 222 through 232 of this podcast, we were talking to these people doing these
21:56
short form, you know, ideas that's kind of what's going on in Afghanistan.
21:59
A lot was said about Daryl Harrison and Virgil Walker.
22:02
That was one from earlier this year.
22:03
A lot of people were excited about Dan Crenshaw because they love his book.
22:06
They love the things that he's doing in Congress.
22:08
You know, a lot of you guys like the interviews with Taya Kyle kind of getting a different perspective
22:12
from her.
22:13
A lot of you had your minds blown by Holly McKay and, you know, hearing some stuff on
22:16
the ground and some of the stuff she described in her book that she wrote whenever she was
22:20
on the ground in Syria, whenever ISIS had taken over, Daniel Cox.
22:23
A lot of people watched that episode when it, you know, came to, you know, why men don't
22:27
have friends in modernity.
22:28
I think a lot of people were, you know, interested in what he was saying.
22:30
Maddie Montgomery, I think a lot of you guys were not really expecting to get that much
22:35
from a guy that you just thought was maybe a knuckle dragging, you know, a lead singer
22:39
of a metal band.
22:40
You know, this guy is just a very adept Christian pastor.
22:43
And I think that was surprising to a lot of you.
22:45
The short interview we did with Eric Metax is in where we're working with his team right
22:48
now to get him back on in early 2022.
22:50
But the book he wrote is atheism dead.
22:53
A lot of you guys sent me pictures and messages saying, Hey, you went out and bought that book
22:56
thereafter, but taking everything into account and looking at everything the way that I did,
23:03
it seemed clear that the favorite interview of the year was an actually a guy that came
23:07
on multiple times.
23:08
And that's with Mike Ritaland.
23:09
So Mike Ritaland came on on episode 225, and that's where he talked about the botching
23:14
Afghanistan series.
23:15
And at that point, I had never done a full on interview with him.
23:17
We were recording a two part that came out for episode 255 and 256 of the podcast, but
23:22
on episode 225, it was just his short form ideas as to kind of what went on with Afghanistan
23:28
and how that entire situation got botched.
23:30
And I swear, you guys absolutely loved the way that he had described the situation because
23:34
here's the thing with Mike, I have to give a language warning every time he comes on my
23:37
show, because he just says what he says, and it's not very clean.
23:40
It's not always going to be polite, you know, to baby ears or grandparents or something
23:45
like that.
23:46
But this guy says what's on his mind.
23:47
And he brings it in a way that is very calm and calculated, but also incredibly direct.
23:52
And then the part two of the series that we did with him, where we kind of got more into
23:56
his faith and we got into a book that he wrote this year, you know, kind of about what's
24:00
going on in America, I was able to push him quite a bit on some subjects while at the same
24:04
time realizing we were on, you know, limited time, you know, we weren't sitting in front
24:07
of each other where we could, you know, had two, three hours to kind of hash these things
24:10
out.
24:11
But a lot of you guys really appreciated the back and forth that Mike and I had, especially
24:14
on episode 256.
24:16
And so those are the favorites for you guys for this year, you know, taking everything
24:20
into account.
24:21
That's episodes 225 and 256 with Mike Ritalin.
24:24
Now, I'm going to talk about my favorite interview of two thousand and twenty one.
24:29
And it's a two part interview and it's episodes one, eighty three and one, eighty five with
24:32
Taya Kyle. So whenever I was looking back on this year, that was the very first one that
24:36
I thought of because again, I told you guys before, if I'm going to have a lady on the
24:39
podcast, because we, you know, the majority of our audiences men, the majority of the
24:42
people that we interview are men, if you're going to be a lady and on this podcast, you
24:45
have to be a gangster, right?
24:46
You got to be a Lila Rose, you got to be a Michelle Black, you got to be a Holly McKay,
24:50
like, and certainly Taya Kyle fits that bill as well.
24:53
And so hearing her perspective and hearing the things that she had to say about her husband,
24:57
Chris, about the movie that was made about his life, about his murder and of all the
25:03
questions that I asked of people this year, the number one question that I was, you know,
25:07
nervous to ask the person that I was talking to, but also, you know, interested by how they
25:13
responded was when I asked her, you know, had she forgiven Chris Kyle's murderer, had
25:18
she forgiven the man that murdered her husband and left her without a husband and her children
25:22
without a father. And I'm, I'm just going to save the answer for you.
25:26
Go back and listen to episode 183 to hear what she said, because at the end of the day, she
25:31
didn't give me the answer that I thought I was going to give.
25:34
And after the first interview was over, as soon as, you know, the cameras turned off,
25:37
I said, Hey, hey, we have to do this again. Like we have to do this again, like immediately.
25:41
And that's how she was able to come back on so quickly where we kind of got into some
25:45
more things because I could tell she wanted to really go further on some of these subjects.
25:49
But I truly enjoyed the information that she gave out. She and I have developed a friendship
25:54
and, you know, I've been able to support some of the things that she's doing. She's supporting
25:56
some things with undaunted life. And so she was absolutely my favorite person to talk
26:00
to this year. And again, that's not to say that she was, you know, miles ahead of everybody
26:04
else, because there's so many people I could have said were my favorite interview of this
26:07
year. But that was just the first one that came to mind, Taya Kyle episodes 183 and 185.
26:12
Then we have the interview that I was most nervous about a 2021.
26:16
So this is a little bit weird because, you know, I'm talking to some people that have
26:18
some pretty decent profiles, you know, people that are in Congress, people that have sold
26:21
millions of books, people that are, you know, millionaires, people that like have these
26:25
incredible lives that they put in front of them. But there was one interview this year
26:29
that as I was waiting for the interview to connect, as I was doing the interview, and
26:33
also as I was editing it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe I talked to this person.
26:39
And that was episode 242. And that's with Hicks and Gracie.
26:42
So again, the category is interview. I was most nervous about a 2021. I wasn't really
26:46
nervous as much as I was starstruck because for doing Jiu Jitsu now for the last four and
26:52
a half years and, you know, getting into the history of it, but also being a huge MMA fan,
26:56
obviously the Gracie family is the first family of mixed martial arts and certainly the first
27:00
family of Jiu Jitsu, right? And so when I was talking to him after I had read his book,
27:04
and he was so nice and so accommodating, but it felt like I was talking to like a King Cobra,
27:11
right? But one that just wasn't hungry at the moment or something like that. And I'm just like,
27:15
okay, I don't want to make eye contact because it might be weird. And you know, I got asked this
27:19
question. Now again, the interview went fine. Obviously I didn't, you know, I kind of got out
27:22
of my own way there for a little bit, but I was definitely nervous about that one. And I was super
27:26
starstruck. And literally several times as I was editing the interview to get it out to you guys,
27:29
I'm like, Holy crap, I talked to Hicks and Gracie, like such a cool guy, such a crazy story about his
27:35
life. And obviously just the fact that my main hobby is something that he basically helped invent,
27:40
that his family essentially invented for the rest of the populace of the world was incredible.
27:43
So you should definitely go check that episode out if you have not caught it.
27:46
Now we have the audience's favorite episode of 2021. So these are the episodes that were not
27:50
interviews. And so the favorite episode for you guys, and this is my landslide, really,
27:55
is episode 176. And that's contemporary worship music is for women and effeminate men. Now this
28:01
is an episode that I said early on in my podcast, like in the single digit episodes that I was
28:06
going to record an entire episode about contemporary worship music and how it's a problem and you know,
28:11
how creates, creates issues for men. And I just didn't do it, didn't do it. I kept putting it off.
28:15
And so like three years later, I finally got around to it. And so a lot of you guys have made
28:20
reference to this podcast. When I have people reach out to me to ask me questions or, you know,
28:24
people that are donors, you know, a lot of people go back to this episode. They're like,
28:28
I've constantly thought while sitting in church that something was wrong with me because I wasn't
28:32
into the music when, and I didn't think it was, it could have been anything else. So I just assumed
28:37
there was a big me problem. And so that is the most talked about episode when I go on other people's
28:41
shows. You know, if they look back at the, the, you know, the log for the year, that's one of the
28:46
ones that they pull out because it is a little bit of an incendiary title, because I'm basically
28:49
calling out contemporary worship music as a whole. And you're not really supposed to do that as a
28:53
Christian. But that's easily the audience's favorite episode of 2021 176 contemporary worship
28:58
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episode, my personal favorite episode of Undaunted Life of Man's podcast of 2021. But here's the deal.
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This is my podcast. This is my award show. So I'm giving out two awards here. Okay. And you can't
29:42
say anything about it because it's mine. What are you going to do? Vote me out. It's my island.
29:45
All right. I'm the only one that lives here. But the two episodes this year that are my favorites
29:49
are episode 190. We're going for it in episode 257 how to engage pro abortion arguments. So let's
29:54
talk about the last one first. 257 how to engage pro abortion arguments. So I took essentially
30:01
all the times I had previously talked about abortion on this podcast, right back. I think I
30:05
talked about a first on episode six of this podcast and several other times with new stories or with
30:10
argumentation. I kind of coalesced all that together into a bit of a magnum opus, which was
30:16
basically I was giving you guys the arrows that you could shoot at these horrible pro abortion
30:21
arguments that we see in society and that you might see in dyadic conversations with people that
30:25
are in your life. Took a ton of time to prepare that, right? I actually presented that same information
30:30
to my Sunday school class. That is something that I do go around and I can speak to churches
30:34
on this particular subject of how to engage pro abortion arguments. And so I gave you guys a peak
30:38
behind the curtain as to kind of the things that you're able to do. And it's a long podcast. It is
30:43
a dense podcast, but there's so many nuggets in there that are important for you. So guys, again,
30:46
if you claim to be pro life, but you don't understand how to respond to most pro abortion arguments,
30:51
you've got to be able to respond to it in a positive way. Go back to episode 257 and check that out.
30:56
But episode 190, I gave you all another peak behind the curtain. That's episode called we're
31:00
going for it. Because I had kind of told you that a daunted life up to that point had been,
31:05
and this was early this year, early 2021, a daunted life had been a thing that was important,
31:10
a thing that I spent a lot of time on, but, but it wasn't an immediate thing on my mind. There
31:15
were other things that were on my mind. You know, I was just kind of like, Hey, let's just do one
31:19
podcast a week and make sure it gets out there. And then just it kind of is what it is. But we drew
31:23
a line in the sand. And I talked about on that episode of kind of what we're going to do with
31:27
undaunted life and how we're going to absolutely put everything that we have behind it to grow
31:32
it as big as possible to grow the kingdom as big as possible and have an impact on men all over
31:36
the globe to equip them to be able to push back darkness. And so if you want to get, you know,
31:42
away from maybe some of the news commentary or something like that, go back to episode 190
31:46
and just kind of hear directly from my brain and from my heart why we're doing what we're doing
31:51
and what we intend to do as we move forward in the future. Because that was episode 190. That was
31:55
70 episodes ago or something like that. But that is something that is very, very important for all
32:00
of you to understand why this is happening. Because a lot of times you're listening to a show or
32:03
reading a book, you don't really know why you're reading it. You don't really know why they wrote
32:07
it. But I really give you all the detail as to why we're doing what we're doing and why we're
32:11
expanding in the way that we're expanding, which gets into, you know, why do we have ads? And you
32:15
know, why are we selling t-shirts? Why don't we just give them away? Why are we doing two podcasts a
32:19
year or a week rather than just one? And we get into a lot of that information. So guys, my favorite
32:24
episodes of 2021, episode 190, we're going for it. In episode 257, how to engage pro abortion
32:30
arguments, that wraps up the awards for Undaunted Life of Man's podcast. Now we need to get into
32:35
the other podcasts that aren't mine and give those awards out as well. So we're going to go decently
32:40
quick here. But the most entertaining podcast of 2021, and I believe this was last year's winner in
32:45
the winter of the year before that it's Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast. So Bill Burr is a
32:49
comedian. He's a little bit irreverent. You know, he's not he's not the cleanest guy, any of those
32:54
types of things. But I can just go brain dead and listen to him kind of talk about the news or talk
32:58
about things that are coming up and I can roll my eyes at different points and then I can hold my
33:01
belly and laugh at different points. It's just an entertaining podcast to pass the time. Most
33:05
entertaining podcast of 2021, Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast. Then we have the most thought
33:09
provoking podcast show of 2021. And that's the Jordan B Peterson podcast. So Jordan Peterson,
33:15
he kind of made a little bit of a resurgence this year. He got beyond some of the health issues
33:19
that he was having. So he had more people on the show. He did some interviews. He did some solo
33:24
episodes. He's going to be going back out on tour early in 2022. But every time I listen to the
33:29
Jordan B Peterson podcast, it was just it was incredible. The amount of material that would
33:35
be in just a, you know, hour and a half or two hour long podcast, an interview that he did with
33:40
somebody else, a lot of thought provoking material. It's great. If you're not listening to it, you
33:44
definitely should be. The next one is the best daily podcast show of 2021. And that's the briefing
33:49
with Albert Mueller. So I mentioned that earlier. You know, this guy, he brings the news and events
33:54
from a Christian worldview. And that is typically the very first podcast I listen to every single day,
34:00
Monday through Friday, because it helps me kind of synergize the information that I'm getting from,
34:05
you know, television news or Twitter or, you know, the stuff that's sent to me or text me or
34:10
something like that. And I can look at it through the prism of the Christian worldview, because there
34:14
aren't a whole lot of shows out there that are doing that specifically that are also keeping you
34:18
up to date on things that are going on in the news. So that is the best daily podcast show of 2021,
34:22
the briefing with Albert Mueller. Then we have the best short form podcast show of 2021. And so
34:28
for me, that's PragerU five minute videos. So a lot of you guys, like I said earlier,
34:32
you're watching these five minute videos already on YouTube. I mean, they've been played over a
34:36
billion times combined. These these are incredibly dense topics that they're talking about. And they're
34:41
talking about everything. They're talking about Marxism, critical race theory, economic theory,
34:46
you know, presidential races, pipelines, oil and gas, like they're talking about everything on that.
34:51
But it sees experts that are giving you these five minute little snippets as to kind of what
34:55
you could think about a certain issue or a certain thing that happened in history. And so in terms
34:58
of a short form podcast, and like I told you, I went back and listened to ones from years and
35:02
years and years ago, it's a five minute podcast for you guys that don't have time for anything.
35:06
I'm so busy and blah, blah, blah, and all this crap. It's five minutes. If you listen to it at
35:10
one time speed, which again, listen to it at two time speed, it's two and a half minutes.
35:14
It's the best short form podcast out there that I found. All right, the best long forward podcast
35:18
of 2021 is the Joe Rogan experience. So it's kind of hard to go with anybody else because he
35:25
basically owns this space because to a certain degree, he also invented this space. These three
35:31
hour long conversations with these people where you can really dig into the issues or dig into
35:35
their book or dig into their past or dig into kind of the things that they're doing.
35:38
That is the Joe Rogan experience. Now, I don't listen to all of them. There's several that I
35:43
skip because the person's not that interesting. The subject they're talking about isn't that
35:46
interesting to me or you know, it's Snoop Dogg and they're just going to smoke weed and talk about,
35:49
you know, hip hop the entire time. You know, there's some that you can just skip and it's not really
35:53
that big a deal. But if you're looking for a long form podcast show to listen to, it doesn't
35:58
really get much better than the Joe Rogan experience. So that is the best long form podcast show of
36:01
2021. Now, the best new podcast of 2021, something that wasn't in existence in 2020 or prior is
36:08
morning wire. So that is the daily show from the daily wire. So this is like 11 to 15 minutes.
36:15
And it's a very, you know, it's released Monday through Saturday. And it is just the news right
36:20
now. Again, with it being the daily wire, you know, some of this news is going to come from a
36:24
conservative bent. The one complaint I would have about the show is they try to make it sound
36:28
conversational when you can tell it's scripted. These people know exactly what they're going to be
36:31
saying. So it's gotten a lot better since since it first started. But guys, if you were just wanting
36:36
a quick hit of the news with basically almost no commentary whatsoever, I don't think you can go
36:42
wrong with morning wire. Again, if even if you're not conservatively bent, a lot of people could
36:47
listen to morning wire and not really be able to pull out the the political leanings of the hosts.
36:53
Now, there are certain times where it's like, okay, that's more of a conservative point that they're
36:57
making here as opposed to a liberal point or a leftist point. But again, if you're just looking
37:02
for something that's just going to give you the news in a quick hit, that is the best one. So the
37:05
best new podcast show of 2021 morning wire. Then we got the best new to me podcast show of 2021.
37:11
So this is a podcast that existed, but it's just something that I hadn't been listening to.
37:15
And that's unashamed with Phil, Jason Al Robertson. So the Robertson family, obviously,
37:19
that's family from Duck Dynasty. A lot of you guys know them. But the unashamed podcast is Phil,
37:23
you know, who's the patriarch of that family and his two sons, his oldest son, Al Robertson
37:27
and Jason Robertson. And typically they're, they're talking about their family. They're talking about
37:31
things that have been going on. They're kind of sharing funny stories. But then these guys are
37:34
doing serious Bible study, right? So right now they're working through the book of Matthew earlier,
37:38
the summer, I think they were going through the book of John. I mean, it's just, it's one of those
37:42
things that it's crazy to see a family that is so famous that has made so much money. But they're
37:47
very, very simple people. And for me, individually earlier this summer, I actually got to be a guest
37:51
on that show. So I went down to West Monroe, Louisiana, I went to the studio, which is in, you know,
37:55
Phil's basically duck hunting shop and those types of things. And we did an interview. And so
38:00
it was just such a cool experience for me to be on that show individually. But it's such a fun
38:04
thing for me to listen to because again, the first third or half of it is going to be them kind of
38:08
just cutting up and having a good time. But then they get into the serious nature of the gospel,
38:12
which again, in the time that I spent with Phil Robertson and just seeing how marinated that man
38:17
is in the gospel, it's an incredible thing. So great show, but that's the best new to me podcast
38:21
show of 2021 unashamed with Phil, Jason Al Robertson. Now the best podcast show overall
38:27
of 2021. So this is what I would say is the best all all things considered show of 2021.
38:33
In 2019, I said it was the Jordan B. Peterson podcast. In 2020, the winner was the Joe Rogan
38:38
experience. And this year, I'm given the award to the Ben Shapiro show. The reason is is because
38:44
that's a daily show that I listened to Monday through Friday. I basically listened to it on my
38:48
lunch break. Obviously, Ben Shapiro is maybe the most dominant conservative voice. I mean,
38:52
he's up there with maybe Sean Hannity or Mark Levin or Tucker Carlson or something like that.
38:56
But he's doing it differently. The most of those guys that just mentioned they do their radio
39:00
program stuff, but they are their hosts on Fox News. This is a guy that's building his own thing.
39:04
He's releasing a book every single year. But on the Ben Shapiro show, you got the Sunday
39:08
conversation where he brings people on for a little bit more long form interview type things.
39:12
But then he's giving his analysis throughout the year and 2021 was a crazy year. Obviously,
39:16
we had the stuff that went on on January six. We had, you know, Joe Biden, who's basically a dead
39:20
person that's in charge of the White House. We had, you know, the issues with with still the
39:26
rioting and COVID-19 and, you know, some of these big court cases that people were talking about
39:31
with with Rittenhouse and with Derek Chauvin and all these different things. And it's always good
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to come back to somebody that you know has a conservative bend, but is wickedly smart and gives
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you the information that you need to know in order to make your own decision as well. Now,
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he's going to point you in the conservative direction. But overall, I just couldn't think of a better
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show. If you can only listen to one show of this year, that's kind of how I look at kind of giving
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this award. But the best podcast show overall of 2021 is the Ben Shapiro show. Now, let's get into
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the most important podcast episode of 2021. So I got a couple of things that I would leave you
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with. So the most important podcast episode of 2021 and then the best podcast episode of 2021.
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So the most important is actually an episode that was on two separate days, but they could be combined
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and it's two episodes from the briefing with Albert Mueller. Okay. So one is from Wednesday,
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December the 1st, and then the other is Thursday, December the 2nd. So these were on
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back-to-back days. So I just kind of look at them as a two-parter of the same episode.
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Now on Wednesday, December the 1st of 2021, on part one, he talks about how December the 1st of 2021
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is a day that will go down in history as a Supreme Court hears the most important abortion case
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in a generation. Part two of that episode, he talked about the history and constitutionality
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of abortion and the debate in American public life, what led to Roe v. Wade in 1973, and how did we
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get to Dobbs v. Jackson women's health organization in 2021? And then a part three of that episode,
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he talked about is there a religious basis for abortion rights and the religious left
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contends for the right to terminate the unborn? There's a tremendous breakdown. Like again,
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to have, you know, one win the most important podcast episode award this late in the year,
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it had to be something because I don't really, you know, play into recency bias, but that was
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the first one that was on December the 1st of 2021. And then on Thursday, the very next day,
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December the 2nd, in part one, he talks about Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood versus Casey
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and how it haunts our country. Also, some of the most clarifying words in Supreme Court history in
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part two, he talked about precedent and the woman's right to an abortion and a look at the pro-abortion
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movements, two major arguments in favor of upholding Roe and Casey. Part three, he talks about the power
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of argument, why abortion rights supporters consider yesterday's oral arguments. I would have been
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from December 1st, a disaster for their movement. Part four of that episode, he talked about
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defining the modern age, the right for a woman to kill life within her. And then the last party
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talked about the US solicitor general who made the arguments for abortion before the Supreme Court
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on December the 1st was appointed by President Joe Biden and basically talking about how elections
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have consequences, every election, every single time. So those two episodes, again,
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if you're a pro-life person and you're not just, you know, pro-life for a bumper sticker or a t-shirt,
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but in reality, and you've done a lot of thinking intellectually around those two topics or around
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the topic of being pro-life, especially if you're a Christian that believes in the Amago Day,
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those are absolutely essential episodes. Those are episodes that you should listen to,
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save, listen to them again, listen to them once a month. Those two episodes are very,
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very important. You know, he basically took two days to not talk about a single other issue
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other than the case that was being brought to the Supreme Court. So I should definitely,
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I would definitely suggest you guys take that in. So the most important episodes of 2021,
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the briefing with Albert Mueller, Wednesday, December the 1st and Thursday, December the 2nd.
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But now we're going to get into the last episode or the last, the last award rather. So this is the
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best podcast episode of 2021. So all the podcasts that I listen to, here is the number one. But
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before I get there, I'm going to give you some honorable mentions, some ones that if you're
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already listening to these, but maybe missed them, you should go back and check it out.
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So the Jordan B Peterson podcast on episode 11, he had Abigail Schreier on March the 21st,
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on episode 13, he had Jocko Willink on April the 5th, and then Yeonmi Park on episode 26,
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that's from May the 31st of this year. She's the gal that escaped from North Korea.
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But also in November the 4th, he had one called exploring the Pareto principle. I thought that
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that was very, very, very fantastic. Then we're on the Prager U five minute videos on April the 26th,
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they had one called what is critical race theory. And on June the 7th, they had one called our
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father's necessary. Both of those were incredible. On the Lex Friedman podcast,
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I haven't mentioned that before, but he actually had John Donner, her, you know,
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basically the godfather of modern jujitsu, I would say, he had him on on May 9th. That's
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that's episode 182 of the Lex Friedman podcast. I kind of like Lex Friedman's interview with
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John Donner, her better than the one that he did with Joe Rogan this year. I just, I thought he did
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a better job. And then on the Ben Shapiro show, he had a episode on June the 12th that he put out
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called debunked pro abortion propaganda. And so he was able to kind of debunk in a short form.
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A lot of the propaganda we see from pro abortion folks. Then on episode 1382, a society without
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men is a dying society. That's one from November the 23rd. And then kind of, you know, in the same
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vein as some of the other things I talked about this year on the Matt Walsh show on August the 24th
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episode 782, it's called there is a conspiracy to sexualize your cheer, children. And so that
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goes in line with a lot of stuff that I talk about personally when it comes to the normalization
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of pedophilia. Then on the Joe Rogan experience, he had a lot of great people on this year that
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you can name. But this is where we're going to kind of get to the end. This episode was an episode I
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literally listened to yesterday. So I'm recording this on the 15th of December. Okay, I listened to
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this episode yesterday. And this episode almost became my winner. I had already prepped this
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episode. It was ready to go ready to record. This almost became my winner for overall podcast episode
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of the year. But the thing about it is I don't want to have a recency bias. It's an incredibly
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important episode that you have to listen to. I'm going to put it in the show notes. But here's my
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honorable mention for best episode of the year podcast episode of the year. That's a Joe Rogan
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experience episode 1747, Dr. Peter A. McCullough. And so the thing with this particular episode is
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this is a guy who's one of the foremost public published scientists and doctors on the planet.
45:05
He's been all over the COVID-19 stuff. And he has basically been snuffed out by the mainstream
45:09
media. They don't have anything to do with him. A lot of his testimony before Congress has been
45:13
taken down off of YouTube. You have to go listen to this episode. Okay. This guy's dropping knowledge
45:19
about COVID-19 left and right. It was kind of interesting because every time Joe Rogan would
45:23
ask you a direct question, he was basically answering the question that he wanted to answer.
45:26
Not necessarily the one that Joe Rogan was asking. And so Joe Rogan had to repeat himself several
45:30
times. But there were some big things that he claimed. And again, he's got all the credentials
45:34
on the planet to make claims like this. But in this episode, he essentially said that you can't get
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COVID-19 for a second time. He said it's impossible. He says there's no such thing as asymptomatic
45:43
spread of COVID-19. And then the third thing that I remembered from this episode now,
45:49
remember forever, is that testing for COVID-19 has a hard time distinguishing between the flu
45:54
and COVID-19, which if you look back at 2020, how we had like 10,000 people that got the flu
45:59
as opposed to over a million. But we had all these COVID cases. It's like, oh, it's maybe because
46:04
COVID's stronger than the flu or maybe it's because everyone's wearing masks. And this is great.
46:07
This guy says no dice on that. And again, you can fact check a lot of things that he said.
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This guy has credentials literally coming out of his ears. It was such an important interview,
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especially for the time that we're living in right now. So you guys should definitely check
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that out. Episode 17, 47, Dr. Peter A. McCalla. And that's going to be in the show notes again.
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You can only listen to it via Spotify. But here we are. We're going to get to my winner
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for the best podcast episode of 2021. And that is the Joe Rogan experience JRE MMA show number 99
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with Francis and Ghana. So Francis and Ghana is currently the heavyweight champion of the UFC.
46:43
And when he came in to talk to Joe Rogan, I was like, okay, this is kind of cool. But Francis,
46:47
he doesn't really talk trash. He's more of a soft-spoken guy. But for three hours,
46:51
they get into how in the world Francis and Ghana came to be the heavyweight champion of the world.
46:57
And let's just say it wasn't a straight line. This guy was working in the salt mines in Africa.
47:04
And they spent a good chunk probably over an hour talking about the several times that Francis
47:09
just tried to escape to get to Europe, tried to escape the country that he was living in to get
47:14
to Europe, almost dying. He's he's enormous. So you can't hide this guy anywhere being shot at,
47:20
you know, being in these horrible conditions, how he was homeless once he did get to Europe,
47:25
how he eventually got into fighting, how he eventually got specifically into MMA,
47:29
how he got to the United States, how he got to the UFC. And again, I'm a huge UFC fan. I'm a huge
47:33
MMA fan overall. This was such a great interview because Joe Rogan was just mouth open shocked
47:41
for a much of this interview, because a lot of things that Francis and Ghana was saying,
47:45
we already kind of knew some of the details. But when he got into the actual details,
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it was just completely mind blowing. And I don't want to set this interview up inappropriately.
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I'm going to give it to you in the way that it is. So guys, if you missed
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JRE MMA episode for number 99 with Francis and Ghana, go check it out. It's in the show notes.
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That is my winner for the best overall podcast show of 2021. So guys, thanks so much for listening
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And then also the other podcast, I've got them listed here. But then I've got links to the most
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important podcast episode that was the two parts with the briefing with Albert Mueller.
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