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This is Undaunted Life of 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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All right, guys, we are going to keep the end of year a war show theme going.
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We've already done the best books of 2024.
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You could check that episode out.
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It just came out on Tuesday, but here we are with the best podcasts of 2024.
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And as I told you before, with Undaunted Life, we have become this year, the number one podcast
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for Christian men in the entire world.
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And part of the reason that that is, is because you guys are leaving reviews and sharing this
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show with others.
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So those are the two biggest things that kind of brick the algorithm that kind of push us
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up.
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And so if you have not left us a five star review, do that and share this with a friend.
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If you're either on Apple podcasts or Spotify, it's like two buttons and you can share this
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with someone that you like.
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Also we're creeping up on the end of the year.
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We are a donation based ministry.
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So guys, keep us in mind with your end of year giving Undaunted Life/donate.
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That is in the show notes.
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We're always so, so thankful to our donors.
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So this is our war show for best podcasts of 2024.
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And so basically here in a bit, I'm going to, I'm going to talk a little bit about my
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podcast and kind of how I consume content and stuff like that.
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But we're going to have one side where I give awards to other shows.
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And then I'm going to have awards for Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.
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You can look at them at awards or we're just picking favorites or whatever.
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But we're going to do that.
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I'm trying to think of everything else we're going to do.
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Oh yeah, we will do a best overall podcast show.
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So stick with us.
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We're going to do best overall podcast show and best overall podcast episode.
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And then as it pertains Undaunted Life of Man's podcast specifically, we're going to get
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into the hardest interview and hardest episode to prepare of this year, the most offensive
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episode of 2024, the most talked about interview and episode of this year, the interview that
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I was most nervous about, the episode I was most nervous about, the audiences picks for
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favorite interview and favorite episode, and then also my personal favorite interview and
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favorite episode.
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So I always tell you guys this in terms of how I listen to podcasts.
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I listen to podcasts all the time because I got these right here.
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These little AirPods, I keep these in my pocket and so like, if I'm waiting for, you know,
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I don't know, somebody to, I'm picking something up, picking my boys up.
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I'm listening, listening to podcasts where I'm from, taking the dog for the walk.
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When I work out in the morning, I'm kind of a lunatic.
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I listen to it, but I listen to it on two times speed.
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And so some of you are like, Oh, I just can't do that.
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I can do like one, two, five or one, five.
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I promise you, your brain will adjust to two times speed.
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I absolutely promise.
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You just have to make the jump.
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So if you're listening to it at one time speed right now, just make the jump because literally
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guys, this is easy math, you can get in twice as much content, twice as many episodes for
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me.
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I'm a content junkie.
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I listen to well over a thousand podcasts episodes per year, summer, five minutes long,
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summer, two or three or four hours long, but also in terms of wanting to get better content
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in just like a crappy book and I'm a finisher, right?
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So if I start a crappy book, I have to finish.
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If I start a crappy movie, I have to finish it.
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But if it's a podcast and you're just like, you've lost the thread and there's like two
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hours left and you're like, I don't really get it, I don't really know, just skip it.
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Just skip it.
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There's so much good content out there.
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But and then you have a chance to relisten to one of our episodes.
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See, see how that works out?
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But also you can move on to the next podcast after you kind of get the point.
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There are some podcasts.
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I'll leave them nameless, but there are some people that really like to repeat themselves.
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There are some people that just say the same thing over and over, but then somehow fill
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up an hour with that content.
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Once you feel like you get the point, you can move on and you know, just every down chance
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you get.
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If you're not like reading scripture or like meditating or praying or something like that
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or meditating on scripture, don't, don't worry guys, I'm not going all Eastern on you.
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But just any normal downtime that you have, like one thing that I like to do, so if I'm
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doing like, you know, real quick stuff around the house, so like if I'm cooking or if I'm
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like finishing up my laundry or something like that, I'm just throwing in my, my AirPods
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and I'm just getting some of that content in.
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So I'm going to go ahead and remind you guys of my lineup of podcasts, okay?
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So, you know, used to, I used to put the links, all these in the show notes and things like
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that, but you guys listen on so many different devices and so many different platforms.
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I'm just going to name them and then you can go find them yourself.
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And so also consider me mentioning these podcasts specifically as an endorsement of these shows.
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But obviously I don't fully support everything that is said by every person on every episode
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of each of these podcasts because duh, because that's just, that would be silly.
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Now, in terms of a couple of podcasts that have added this year, I've come in and out
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of a few different ones, but two that are in the rotation now are the My Glover show.
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So we love My Glover out there in Utah and also the Good Guy, Bad Guy podcast with
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Chelsea Sonnen and Daniel Cormier.
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So that's where I kind of get my MMA fix.
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So in terms of the shows that I do not miss, I will not miss an episode.
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If I look back on the entire year, I didn't miss an entire episode of any of these podcasts.
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We've got the briefing with Albert Mueller.
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Listen to that every morning.
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I've got Morning Wire, which I listen to every morning and afternoon.
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The Ben Shapiro show, that's my lunchtime podcast, the Matt Walsh show, Prager U five
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minute videos, Dan Carlin's hardcore history only releases like, you know, two or three
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episodes a year of that and then deep in with Pastor Joby Martin.
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Now this next group, these are consistent listens.
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These are almost every episode I do skip around some with these.
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So I've got Church of 11, 22 and the Village Church.
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Those are the sermon podcasts for Joby Martin and Matt Chandler.
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The thing is, is like when they have guests come, I just, I skip them.
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I know you're not supposed to and give the guy a chance.
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Well, I got to move on to stuff that I know that I'm going to like.
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And so I do skip whenever they have guests.
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So sue me.
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It is what it is.
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Also I listened to a lot of Cooper stuff with John Cooper, the Jordan Peterson, Jordan
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B Peterson podcast.
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Some of his guests, I just don't really get it.
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It's just like, I don't really want to listen to this fire starch fire side chat with Dennis
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Prager and Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast.
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That's gotten a little stale for me.
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So that may, you know, that may hit the chopping block at some point in 2025.
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We'll see.
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Also some podcasts I listened to here and there, the Joe Rogan experience.
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I'm very picky and choosy with that one basically if he's got a comedian on there that I don't
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know.
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I don't like listening to him just talking crap about random subjects for three hours,
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but I do pick up a lot of those shows.
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I also listened to the Sean Ryan show, the Chad Prather show on the Shane with Phil Jason
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Al Robertson, Jocko podcast, danger close with Jack Carr, Mike dropper with Mike Ritalin,
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the way I heard it with Mike Rowe, the art of manliness podcast with Brett McKay, the Lex
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Freeman podcast, Huberman lab, that's, that's one that I added last year.
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Some of those I'm not really into, but I do get quite a few of those.
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Mike Glover showed the Mark Driscoll podcast and the mountain tough podcast.
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And guys, if I'm missing any, let me know because I don't assume that I have the list
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of all the best ones, but I will say I am very, very picky for a show to make it into
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my rotation.
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It's got to be fire.
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So I'll just tell you that from the beginning.
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Let's go and get into awards time and I'm going to try to make this as brief as possible
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because I want you guys to actually go back and listen to some of these episodes.
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So if it's from other shows, I want you to go find those and also I'll put this list
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in the show notes but you can find them on your own platform.
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But also I want you to go back and re-listen to some of the favorites from this year from
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our show.
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So here's some random Can't Miss episodes that I'm just going to mention because I just
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thought that these were especially awesome.
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I saved these in my Apple podcast.
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So Morning Wire, their episode from 1215.
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That is decoding Trump's win a 2024 election analysis.
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Then we've got Huberman lab.
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I've got Morgan Housell on December 2nd, Dr. Lane Norden on August 12th, Dr. Gabrielle
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Lyon on June the 24th, Dr. Jonathan Heit on June the 10th, protocols to strengthen and
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pain-proof your back on April the 29th, and Dr. Matt Walker on April the 3rd.
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For our mainliness, we've got Rich Mine versus Poor Mine, which was released on September.
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Sorry, that would be November the 25th, and then Unlock Better Sleep and Health by harnessing
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your circadian rhythm on August the 21st.
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Then from the Church of 1122 podcast, I've got Grace is Slow to Anger from November the
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3rd, and Grace does not condemn Grace cleanses from October the 6th.
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This is War from July 14th, and Walk This Way from June 23rd.
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For the Jordan B. Peterson podcast, I've got episode 492, a psychological analysis of Trump's
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personality.
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458, Katherine Berbalsing, she was, anyway, someone with education over in the UK.
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The 451 with Alex O'Connor, 429 with Abigola Shrier, 426 with Andrew Clavin, and 418 with
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Ben Shapiro.
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Then with Lake Point Church, that's Josh Howardton, it's obviously been an entire episode on this
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when I interviewed him on the show, election 2024, how to vote like Jesus, that was released
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on October the 7th.
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Then Mark Driscoll podcast, we've got is Christian nationalism, a good thing on October the 6th
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should conservatives overthrow the government on September the 29th, the secret to manhood
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on September the 25th, the other blue pill on April 1st, how to win the battle on April
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3rd, don't become your own enemy from March 22nd, 4 tests for every man from March 21st,
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and a prophetic mind melt on Israel from February the 18th.
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Then from the Unashamed podcast, I've got my appearance there that was released on October
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the 3rd, that's episode 968.
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For Prager, you five minute videos, why I left Utopia, that's from August 19th, Clarence
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Thomas on Courage from April or May the 20th, and then a moral case for capitalism for March
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the 4th.
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Now until the podcast, I have my appearance on that show, that's from June the 25th.
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Thinking in public with Albert Mueller, I got his episode with Abigail Schreier from
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June the 19th.
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For the Ben Shapiro show, I've got his interview with John MacArthur on June the 9th, and a
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psychological breakdown of a rap song from February the 4th.
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On this past weekend with the O'Vaughn, I have the Tim Fletcher interview from April
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the 16th.
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For the Sean Ryan show, I have his appearance of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson on episode 108.
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For the Matt Walsh show, I have episode 1361 from May the 3rd.
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To the village church, I have sex and intimacy from April the 28th, and husbands and wives
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from April the 14th.
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From the Shepherds conference, I have men of the word developing and disciplining the
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men in your church from April, or sorry, that would be March the 6th.
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From the JRE podcast, I have episode 2109 with Abigail Schreier.
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Abigail Schreier is making a lot of appearances on this one this year.
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And then from Fireside Chat, I've got episode 324 from the 18th of what would that be?
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That would be January.
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Okay.
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Now, I'm going to go and get into my favorite new podcast of 2024.
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I love Good Guy, Bad Guy with Chalcon and Daniel Cormier.
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And so those two guys, they have a good report together.
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Chalcon is one of the most unique personalities in all of sports media.
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And so if you want to get your MMA fix, that is my personal favorite new show that I've
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added to the rotation of 2024.
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Now, now we're going to get into my best show and my best overall episode of 2024.
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And so in terms of best podcast show overall, basically what I do is yes, I will save episodes
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of individual shows as I listen to them.
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And then by the end of the year, I'll say, okay, I've saved a lot of these episodes.
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But I realized something this year, this probably would have been around August or September.
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And just so you guys can know, when it comes to my friends, when it comes to people that
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I know personally or people that I work with have any type of professional relationship
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with, I actually judge those people a lot more harshly than I judge people that I don't
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know.
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And the guys that are in my foxhole, I wear on them and I expect more from them and I
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will challenge them more than I will challenge just some rando, just some random person that
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DM's me on Instagram or just some random person that, you know, I'm training or doing
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something for at that time, because I expect more of the people around me.
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But around August or September, I realized that Joby Martin was on an epic heater that
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I don't know that I've ever experienced because again, for the last couple of years, I've
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listened to every one of the sermons that he's delivered.
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But something was different about 2024.
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And again, I think I went all the way back to some of the sermons from 2016 or whatever.
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But he was hitting home run after home run after home run.
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And I kind of got tired of texting them on Monday morning after I would listen to a sermon
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saying, Hey, good job.
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Hey, fire.
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Hey, I love this point.
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Hey, I love that point.
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And again, I can be real nitpicky, especially when it comes to content.
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I was that way in my undergraduate, all the way through graduate work.
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Since I am a content creator, I'm always very nitpicky about content, but I just don't really
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have a lot of nitpikiness about what he's doing.
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And, you know, I've said this a lot this year and I'll maintain it on any given weekend,
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Joby Martin is the best preacher in America.
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I absolutely believe that, especially since I understand his process of, okay, he goes
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to the woods, he gets in a blind in the dark and he starts working on a sermon.
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He prays to God.
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He says, Hey God, they're your sheep, not mine.
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What do you want to tell your sheep this week?
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And then he just gets after it, right?
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And I even know here recently he had a sermon of over a particular text that he had never
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preached before.
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And so he was kind of nervous.
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And as of like Thursday morning, he was delivering the sermon for the first time that night.
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He still didn't have it fully squared away.
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And so to see how that one even turned out was, was especially awesome.
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So for my money for this year, and yes, I know he's my buddy.
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I know he comes on all the time.
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But again, that's more reason for me to not give him something, but he just couldn't be
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denied this year.
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I think last year I gave it to Jordan Peterson.
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I think the year before I gave it to Ben Shapiro, but Joby Martin, sir, you got it.
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The best podcast show overall of 2024, in my opinion, is the church of 11, 22 podcasts
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with Joby sermons.
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Now we got to get into the best podcast episode of 2024 and there, there's just no debate
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on this.
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The Joe Rogan experience with Donald Trump.
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And so I can't remember the episode number, but obviously you can find that just about
15:57
everywhere except for the first day after it was released because you couldn't find it
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on YouTube.
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It was, it was getting blocked and kind of like shadow banned a lot of different places.
16:04
But everyone said for all time that if Donald Trump could go on the Joe Rogan experience,
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if he could do three hours with Joe Rogan, that it would melt the internet and that it
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would be the biggest podcast ever.
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And I think that's where we're at.
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Like I don't have official numbers and I don't think the Joe Rogan experience is releasing
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official numbers, but it's got to be his biggest episode that he did this year.
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And it's the most important podcast episode that we've seen, especially because of who
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didn't come on that podcast, because when the Kamala Harris team found out that Donald
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Trump was going to go on, I think that was the last month or a week or two before the
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election, right?
16:39
The Kamala Harris team reached out to Joe Roman and is like, she would like to come
16:41
on and Joe, Joe's obviously got a studio in Austin.
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It's like, all right, he'll bring you out here, we'll make sure security is all squared
16:46
away.
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And then we're going to talk for a few hours.
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And the Harris administration or the Harris, I guess you can call it the administration,
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but the campaign was like, uh, yeah, no, how about you come to her?
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We'll do it in a studio that we set up, you know, we'll have the producer.
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Here's some subjects that we can't talk about and we can only go about 45 minutes.
17:05
So basically they wanted the Joe Rogan experience without any of the experience, right?
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They just wanted Joe Rogan and they wanted him to put it out on his platform and Joe
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Rogan.
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So by his gun, he's like, no, like that's, that's not how we do this.
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Like I'm not going to trapper.
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I just bring her down here.
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We'll talk for a few hours and then we'll go from there.
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And so best podcast episode of 2024 has to be Joe Rogan experience with Donald Trump spent
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three hours weaving in and out of a lot of different topics.
17:27
Joe was trying to like nail him on a few things here or there.
17:30
You could tell.
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And, you know, Trump, he just, he did the, did the thing.
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He did three hours on Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan.
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So best podcast episode of 2024.
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So those are other podcasts.
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Now we need to go to this podcast.
17:41
So on Daunton life of man's podcast, it's always fun getting to look back on my ear
17:44
because I'll like, because I put out so much content, I'll forget, oh, yeah, I talked about
17:48
that.
17:49
Or oh, yeah, I had that personal.
17:50
And so it is kind of good to go down memory lane.
17:53
So let's go into my hardest interview to prepare of 2024.
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That is episode 570 with Melissa Odin.
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It's called survivor of a botched abortion.
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And so it's right there in the title.
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Melissa Odin was supposed to be killed.
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They actually thought they killed her, right?
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She was as a baby, violently expelled from her mother's womb after being tortured because
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I think it was a salient abortion.
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And then whenever she was violently expelled from her mother's womb, she was laid to the
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side because everyone assumed that she was dead.
18:22
They cleared the room and there was one nurse that heard her make a noise.
18:26
And if you think about the seared consciousness of this, this is an abortion nurse who was
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helping kill Melissa and then that same nurse now is the one that saved her.
18:34
And to this day, Melissa has not met that woman.
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She has not found that woman, but you want to talk about hard to prepare.
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I mean, when I was reading Melissa's book and going over her story, it's just like they
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literally tried to kill this girl.
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They tried to kill this little precious, innocent baby.
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And so now she's a pro-life advocate, you know, obviously, and she's kind of creating
18:53
this network of people that have survived botched abortions, right?
18:56
And just thank God there are some doctors that are so bad at killing babies that these
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babies end up getting a chance at life.
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And a lot of those people, obviously, as you can imagine, grow up to be pro-life.
19:06
But for me, you know, you just weighed into a lot of darkness when you get into those
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subject matters.
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So that was the hardest interview to prepare for 2024 for me.
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And that's episode five, 70 with Melissa Odin.
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Now the hardest episode to prepare of this year was for me, easily 638, which is fine
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guys that'll help you bury your dog.
19:24
So after Roman the Giant died, obviously I talked about him a lot on the show, how much
19:28
that dog meant to me.
19:30
And when the dog died, I remember Joby sending me a message saying, "Yeah, you got to talk
19:34
about it on the show."
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And it's like, "You don't owe me, son.
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And no, I don't.
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How about that?"
19:38
Like, "No, I'm not going to talk about it on the show."
19:39
And he's like, "Yeah, you do."
19:40
And I was like, "No, I vehemently disagree.
19:41
I'm not going to talk about it on the show.
19:42
I'm not going to be able to get through it.
19:43
Like, I don't think I can make it."
19:44
And he's like, "Yeah, that's the reason why you need to."
19:47
And so, I was like, "All right, I'll lean into it, I'll just kind of see how it goes."
19:58
Just thinking about having to talk about Roman the Giant and having to talk about what my
20:02
friends did around that time.
20:03
It's hard.
20:04
I feel like I'm choking back tears right now.
20:07
But the number of guys that have reached out to me because of that episode, right?
20:12
And something clicked for them that, "Oh, you got to have those 3am friends.
20:16
You got to have guys that will help you bury your dogs."
20:18
Like I've said it so many different ways, but now you guys get it.
20:21
You guys get it because I'm talking about a dog and I'm blubbering into the microphone.
20:24
So very, very hard episode for me to prepare an incredibly hard one for me to deliver.
20:28
So hard episode to prepare of 2024, 638, find guys that will help you bury your dog.
20:34
Now, the most offensive episode of 2024, and this is not even close, is episode 582 Christians
20:39
should not use IVF.
20:42
So here's the thing about this episode.
20:44
The title is offensive.
20:46
It's not meant to be offensive.
20:48
It's just a summary of my opinion.
20:50
But if you listen to the episode, I think I do about 40 or 45 minutes explaining the
20:55
moral issues with the process of in vitro fertilization.
20:59
I talk about how my own family, right?
21:01
I have a niece and a nephew because of that process.
21:04
There are a lot of babies, a lot of kids that I know that are in this world because
21:07
of that process.
21:08
But the reality is, is that in order for those babies to live, a bunch of other babies
21:12
were sacrificed, a bunch of other babies were basically wasting away in test tubes or in
21:20
this constant state of arrested development where they're frozen in time, and they will
21:24
eventually be disposed of.
21:25
And so once that information was exposed to me, I was like, holy crap, because I hadn't
21:30
spent more than five seconds thinking about IVF before.
21:33
I just thought it was kind of this neutral thing.
21:35
But Albert Moller and Lila Rose with live action, some other people explained, no IVF,
21:41
we're going to create eight human beings hoping that one will survive to full term.
21:47
And it's just like, whoa, there's something going on here.
21:50
And the problem with this episode for most people is they're intellectually dishonest
21:54
because they didn't actually listen to it.
21:55
I lost a very good friend.
21:57
He sent me this very angry, very vile, mean, pointed text message as it pertained to this
22:02
episode.
22:03
And I could tell in his message that he had not even listened to it.
22:07
He had not engaged with the content.
22:09
He's like, I'm not going to support your show by giving you this amount of information and
22:12
blah, blah, blah.
22:13
I'm just not going to do it.
22:14
And it's just like, okay, okay, well, you're refuting my position and yet you don't know
22:19
what it is, you couldn't elucidate it if you tried.
22:23
And I know there are other people that are like, they couldn't believe that I would come
22:26
out against IVF and you know, the Christians that use IVF, they're like, they don't see
22:30
the issue with it.
22:31
But my job is not to make you feel comfortable.
22:33
My job is not to point out all the things that you and I agree on and that we're right
22:37
about.
22:38
You can come up with upon me when I found out about more about the IVF process and how
22:42
many babies are being slaughtered for, you know, via this process and also homosexual
22:48
couples using IVF doing, you know, a sperm swirl and combining it with an egg and putting
22:53
it in the rented womb of a woman in just the vile immoral nature and abominable nature
22:58
of a lot of the processes that are in and around IVF.
23:01
Again, it was incumbent upon me to point that out.
23:03
And so that episode may have offended some of you.
23:06
If you're listening to this, you obviously came back to the show and I know I lost some
23:09
listeners over that.
23:11
But again, I'm not here to make everyone comfortable.
23:13
I'm not here to just, you know, give you content that's just going to give you the
23:15
happy's.
23:16
Sometimes we got to talk about rough stuff.
23:18
So most offensive episode of 2024, episode 582, Christian should not use IVF.
23:23
Now the most talked about interview of 2024 is episode 640 with Megan Basham.
23:28
And that's when we talked about her book Shepherds for sale.
23:30
So a lot of people, like a lot, a lot of people reached out, Hey, are you going to get Megan
23:34
Basham on talk about this book?
23:36
Hey, are you aware of this book?
23:37
Hey, have you read this yet?
23:38
Hey, why haven't you had a conversation with her yet?
23:39
And so we were working that all out behind the scenes.
23:42
So we got all that squared away and we got all that done.
23:45
And so the thing about that book, obviously it was the number two book on our best books
23:49
of 2024 list.
23:50
So you know what I feel about that book.
23:52
But the thing about the interview is it had a lot in common with Christian should not
23:56
use IVF episode because like a hundred percent of the complaints and I got complaints from
24:02
some prominent pastors, so some dudes on Instagram that send me some DMs or like, I can't believe
24:06
you had her on there.
24:07
She's just attacking the brethren, blah, blah, blah.
24:09
And then I would ask them all the same question.
24:11
Have you listened to the episode and have you read her book?
24:15
And so if they had done anything, they'd listened to the episode, but none of them have read
24:18
the book.
24:19
It's like, why are you [inaudible] and moaning about a book when like literally no, like
24:25
you haven't read it.
24:26
You haven't engaged with the material, but you want to critique the material?
24:28
Like I don't understand.
24:29
And saying, oh, I don't like that, that band's new song and so on being like, well, have
24:33
you heard it yet?
24:34
And you're like, well, no, but it seems like I wouldn't like it.
24:37
Right?
24:38
I mean, think about how stupid that would be.
24:39
The same applies to books.
24:41
And the thing is, is Megan Basham is editorializing a little bit in that book, but she's showing
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her work.
24:47
And the people that, you know, are mad about the interview, like, oh, I can't believe you
24:50
platformed her.
24:51
I'm like, if you want to get blocked extra quick, challenge me platforming somebody.
24:57
You fricking dork.
24:59
Like I can talk to whoever the hell I want to talk to.
25:03
And I talk to a lot of people that I don't agree with on everything, just about everyone
25:08
I have on the show.
25:09
I have major disagreements with their personal philosophies or the things that they put in
25:12
their books.
25:13
And I will pick and choose when and where I push on these people when I'm interviewing
25:17
them.
25:18
If you don't like it, start your own damn show, build up a huge audience, and then you can
25:23
pick and choose who you have on your show and who you decide to platform.
25:26
But if I want to talk to somebody about their book, and if I want to engage with their content,
25:30
come along on the right, you might learn a thing or two.
25:32
So most talked about interview of 2024 episode 640 with Megan Basham.
25:36
Now, the most talked about episode of 2024 is also episode 638.
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Fine guys, it'll help you bear your dog.
25:43
So let me pick up my discussion from, you know, where I was talking about it earlier, because
25:47
it was the hardest to prepare.
25:48
But for years, guys, I've been begging you, get a foxhole, right?
25:53
And we have our own language around creating a foxhole.
25:55
Some people like, you know, the Band of Brothers language that comes from kind of the Eldridge
25:59
clan, Band of Brothers.
26:00
I've talked about, you know, three AM friends, right?
26:05
Fine guys, I hope you bury a body in the, you know, in the middle of the night, that type
26:08
of thing.
26:09
I've talked about, you know, who's car we going to take from the town, like guys like that,
26:12
that are just always down.
26:13
But for whatever reason, I talk about Roman the giant dying, and I talk about the horrible
26:19
process of digging a hole at two o'clock in the afternoon on, you know, the hottest day
26:23
of the year in Oklahoma and having Ryan horn from the forging table and rush weapon show
26:28
up and help me bury my dog.
26:30
And then all of a sudden, boom, you guys got it, you're like, Oh, shoot, oh, shoot, I need
26:35
guys like that.
26:36
It's like, yeah, you need to find guys that'll help you bury your dog.
26:41
And like I said in that episode, I don't mean fellas on me fellas that, you know, own shovels
26:45
that, oh, yeah, you know, they'll come over because their wife's like, Hey, you know, homeboys
26:50
dog died.
26:51
So how about you run over there?
26:52
And he's digging a hole, it's hot out, you know, go take him a gatorade and like help
26:54
him dig a hole.
26:55
No, no, I mean guys that like you didn't invite guys that just know what happened and they
26:59
know what you're doing and they're about it and they show up.
27:02
So a lot of messages, a lot of emails, a lot of people talk to me in person about this
27:06
episode.
27:07
So I think episode six 38 find guys that hope you bury your dog is easily the most talked
27:11
about episode of 2024.
27:13
Now let's talk about the interview that I was most nervous about a 2024 and that was
27:16
a recent one with Sam Joelman, the sex talk you never got.
27:19
That's episode 676.
27:20
So if you go back to that episode in the intro, I talk about little boy, I think we're about
27:25
to have another situation here.
27:26
I think we're about to have, you know, other Crispin Mayfield situation where, you know,
27:31
the interview is going to be kind of awkward, but it's going to go well, I think.
27:34
And then later the guy's going to flame me online.
27:36
But I was nervous about it because I almost canceled the interview because as I was reading
27:40
the book, I'm like, I just, I don't get it.
27:42
I disagree with this guy so vehemently I was in a really busy season and like I'm literally
27:47
preparing this interview while I'm like, you know, eating right after lunch like at
27:51
hunt camp for elk in New Mexico.
27:53
And I was like, man, I just don't know if this is worth it.
27:56
But I sent, you know, one of the early chapters that I had one of the biggest problems with,
28:00
I sent it to a few guys, you know, a couple of guys here, you know, in my foxhole and,
28:04
you know, some other folks that are outside of my world just to kind of get their read
28:08
on it.
28:09
And I was like, okay, man, I guess I have to do this.
28:12
Man, I was nervous.
28:13
I was like, I'm going to be honest, I'm going to call balls and strikes.
28:16
I'm not going to be needlessly divisive, offensive.
28:18
But I am going to poke and I am going to prod into Sam Joelman's credit.
28:22
He was there for it, man.
28:23
And he was so thankful afterwards before we cut off the interview and he was super thankful
28:28
via email and text afterwards.
28:30
Thank you so much for reading my content for engaging with it.
28:33
But if I look back at it before I hit the record, but I was like, holy crap, I don't
28:37
know how this is going to go.
28:38
So that was the interview.
28:39
I was most nervous about a 2024 Sam Joelman episode 676.
28:43
Now the episode, the individual episode that I was most nervous about 2024 was back at
28:48
576 wasn't the world am I supposed to do now.
28:53
So with that episode, there was some craziness that had happened to my family.
28:57
And so the thing is, is like, I don't know if like you're ever like the baby in the family,
29:00
but I was always like the youngest cousin.
29:02
And so like I found out about stuff like way after it happened.
29:05
Like I remember my grandpa like, okay, I'm at my cousin's house.
29:09
This is, I don't know, 12, 13 years ago.
29:12
And they were just openly talking about how my granddad had been arrested at the airport
29:16
because he had a gun in his bag and I go, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, pause, pause.
29:21
Grandpa Robert got what he got arrested with a what in the where?
29:24
And they're like, yeah, when he got arrested at the airport, cause he had a revolver in
29:27
his, in his, you know, travel bag.
29:28
And I'm like, what?
29:29
And so like the entire family knew this, but I didn't because apparently when you're the
29:33
youngest, you don't get told stuff or when you're a kid, when certain bad things happen,
29:38
you don't get told stuff.
29:39
I found out some stuff that just absolutely rocked my world, like shook me to my core.
29:44
And there was a significant time period where I'm like, and Donald life is done.
29:47
Like I don't, I just couldn't see going back to doing undaunted life and getting in front
29:52
of the microphone and all that.
29:53
And luckily I had a lot of guys around me that are like, dude, you are far from done.
29:56
You are far from done.
29:58
And so this was, I believe my first episode after I kind of realized, okay, yeah, you guys
30:02
are right.
30:03
Like I was kind of in my feelings there for a little bit, but you know, there's still
30:06
work to be done.
30:07
There's a little darkness that needs to be pushed back and I still need to do equipment
30:09
to be able to do that.
30:11
But that was a very, I didn't know like that episode, I didn't really have a lot of notes
30:14
and I'm just like, I'm just going to hit record and kind of see where it goes.
30:17
So when that happens, there's, there's a general, generally a good amount of nerves,
30:21
but that was the episode I was most nervous about recording of 2024, episode 576, when
30:25
the world am I supposed to do now?
30:27
But now we need to get into the audience's favorite interview of 2024.
30:31
Now with this, I can't exactly go just on data.
30:34
I have to kind of go by data and feel because obviously if an episode came out in January,
30:39
it's going to have more cumulative downloads than one that just came out a week or two
30:42
ago.
30:43
But based on feedback, based on how many shares and based on, you know, the people that talked
30:47
about it, here are the top three audience favorite interviews of 2024.
30:51
So number three is my interview that I did with Megan Basham.
30:54
That was episode 640 that I've already talked about.
30:57
But episode number two, the second most favorite is the episode I did with Victor Davis Hanson.
31:01
So Victor Davis Hanson is a conservative commentator, kind of, you know, helps run a think tank
31:05
over at Stanford, episode 673.
31:08
And what I did for that episode is I literally put, there were, there were really no notes.
31:13
There were like eight, nine or 10 subject matters that were like big subject matters,
31:19
like, you know, potential World War three, Ukraine and Russia, the Southern border, the
31:24
upcoming election, you know, things going crazy if Donald Trump wins.
31:29
I just float on everything because I was like, I could read Victor Davis Hanson's books and
31:34
I could just interview him about his books.
31:36
But we were at this time where it's like, man, the world seems like it's sitting right
31:40
on top of a powder keg and no one knows what 2024 is going to look like.
31:43
Is there even going to be a 2025?
31:44
And so I like, I just want to talk to this guy and team up to talk about everything.
31:48
And a lot of you guys liked it.
31:49
That was actually the most viewed YouTube interview of the year for us was this episode
31:54
with Victor Davis Hanson.
31:55
So episode 673 is number two on the list of audience favorite interview.
31:59
But the number one audience favorite interview is episode 614 with Mike Glover wait for the
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dust to settle.
32:06
So a lot of you know that Mike Glover had some craziness happening around him this year.
32:10
He was charged with specious charges for things that 100% did not happen.
32:16
He was put into jail.
32:17
He, you know, from like a nose hair away from being put in the hole while in jail.
32:24
And it was just a horrible situation for Mike getting dragged on social media, losing a
32:30
bunch of support from people and losing sponsorships, losing book deals and all this kind of stuff,
32:36
all based on things that literally did not happen.
32:39
And behind the scenes, I was helping Mike kind of work his way through this communicating
32:43
with some guys that were around him in Utah whenever he was still in jail and then communicating
32:50
with him after and kind of going through some of the relational and spiritual stuff that
32:53
as it pertained to that.
32:55
And then Mike texts me out of the blue and just said, Hey man, I want to come on the show
32:57
and talk about it.
32:58
I want you to be the first interview that I do after like since being released from jail.
33:02
It's like, shoot, okay.
33:04
And so like we did it like I think same day or the next morning or something like that.
33:08
And again, no notes.
33:09
I just teed him up to talk about it.
33:12
And so it was, you know, it was a humbling thing for a guy like Mike going through what
33:16
he was going through to not immediately think, you know, Jocko podcast or Joe Rogan experience
33:21
or the, you know, danger close with Andy Stump for any of those things that he's, I think,
33:25
since done some of those.
33:27
But for him to just look at the conversations we had had and the guy inside given him during
33:32
that time period and just, you know, tee us up in that way to just have that conversation.
33:37
It was really incredible.
33:38
And the audience responded big time to it.
33:40
So that is the number one episode favorite episode interview rather for the audience.
33:45
Episode 614 with Mike Glover.
33:48
Now we need to get into the audience's favorite episodes of 2024.
33:51
So these are, again, I kind of have to go by feel because depending upon when it's released,
33:55
but the number three most favorite episode would be 669 reasons to vote for Kamala Harris.
34:01
And so some of you have problems with that episode.
34:04
Some of you got what I was doing immediately and some of you still haven't gotten it.
34:08
But here's what I will say about episode 669.
34:11
Go back and listen to it.
34:13
I think it is the most thorough job.
34:16
The most thorough job that anyone did to explain the reasons to vote for Kamala Harris.
34:22
So if you haven't heard it yet, 669, go back.
34:25
The number two favorite audience episode of 2024 is episode 548, the top 17 ways to avoid
34:30
being a crappy man in 2024.
34:33
Those are always big ones.
34:34
Those are always ones that guys super duper save around because it's January.
34:38
It's usually the first episode that I release, you know, it's easily shareable.
34:41
You got a bunch of people that are like, Hey, new year, new me and all that kind of stuff.
34:44
And so that's always a crowd pleaser and we got another iteration of that just around
34:48
the corner.
34:49
So you can check that out.
34:50
But the number one audience favorite episode of 2024 again, it's 638 fine guys that help
34:55
you bury your dog.
34:56
I've already talked about it twice.
34:57
It's been on the list a lot.
34:58
You guys loved it.
34:59
That is the number one favorite audience episode of 2024.
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Now we need to get into my own personal awards here.
35:05
So here are my favorite interviews of 2024.
35:09
But before I get into my top interviews, I'm going to give you some honorable mentions.
35:13
So again, there's a lot of interviews that we do during the year.
35:15
I mean, so I'm going to list a lot here.
35:18
These are just the ones I was like, Oh yeah, I remember something.
35:19
I really, really liked this.
35:21
So 560 with Elisa Childers, 566 with Greg Hurwitz, 569 with Doug Wilson, 570 with Melissa
35:27
Odin, 572 with Raymond Ibrahim, 581 with Jobe Martin, 592 and 593 with Matt Chandler, 595
35:35
with Maddy Montgomery, 604 with Vody Bockham, 607 with Riley Gaines, 616 with Matt Chandler,
35:41
626 with Victor Marks, 637 with Victor Davis-Hanson, 640 with Megan Bashham, 647 with Jobe Martin,
35:48
and then all the saturated episodes.
35:50
So 648 with Jim Bergen, 649 with Matt Chandler, 650 with Duran Gray, 651 with Ben Stewart,
35:56
and 652 with Jobe Martin, and then 658 with Eric Metaxas, 663 with Donnie Dust, 667 with
36:03
Josh Howerton, 675 with Hicks and Gracie, and 682 with Josh Latimer.
36:08
But the winner for me, guys, the interview that meant the most to me and I knew as soon
36:12
as it was done that it was going to win this award eventually is 614 with Mike Glover.
36:16
Again, I've already explained why that was such an important interview.
36:19
You guys loved it.
36:20
It was your favorite interview of the year and it was mine as well.
36:23
But before we let you go, we've got to get into my favorite episode, my favorite episode
36:27
of 2024, but before I do that, honorable mentions.
36:30
So here are the honorable mentions, 552, the demonic origins of the Enneagram, 555 did
36:35
commies already win, 576 what in the world am I supposed to do now, 582, Christian should
36:41
not use IVF, 590, Jordan Peterson wrestles with the resurrection, 622, they tried to
36:46
assassinate Donald Trump, 638, fine guys, I hope you bury your dog, 661, brown belt.
36:52
That's where I talked about getting my brown belt in Jiu Jitsu, 666, no, Christian metal
36:56
is not satanic, 669 reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, 670 reasons to vote for Donald Trump,
37:02
and 673, that was my recap episode, Trump Republicans in Molok win big.
37:08
But the winner of my favorite podcast episode of this year is one that we just did, not
37:13
that long ago, 685, introducing Dominion.
37:18
So on that episode, I finally released to the public an idea that I had been working
37:22
on for a long time because I had always had this thought like, okay, I'm just going to
37:26
keep cranking out content, let's get this content out there.
37:28
But then I would keep running into these guys that just wanted more.
37:31
They're like, Kyle, I've listened to your entire backlog, I've listened to all, you
37:34
know, near 700 episodes, I've read all your devotionals, I've seen you speak live, I've
37:38
seen all that stuff, I want more, I want you to help me, I want you to help me in my world
37:43
and my sphere of influence.
37:45
And so the introduction of the Dominion program is filling that gap.
37:49
This is me, you know, getting out from behind the microphone because sometimes I forget,
37:52
like there are people on the other end of this microphone, like, because I'm creating
37:55
so much content that I forget that there are people like you trying to live life, run
37:58
a business, run your family, and, you know, that you're trying to apply the things that
38:01
we're saying here on the show.
38:04
And so with that in mind, we created this program, guys, you can get more information
38:08
on daunted.life/dominion, and daunted.life/dominion.
38:12
We opened it up for the public.
38:14
I remember the night before the episode came out because the episode came out the same
38:17
day that we opened up applications for the program.
38:20
I'm telling my wife, I'm like, no one's going to even apply for this.
38:22
Like it's dumb.
38:23
It's a stupid name.
38:24
No one's going to do it.
38:25
Everyone hates me.
38:26
I'm stupid.
38:27
I'm always supposed to happen.
38:28
And before I woke up, we already had a couple of dozen applications.
38:32
And that was just based on guys that listened to the podcast early.
38:35
I heard about guys literally pulling over on the highway on the way to work to put in
38:38
an application because I said it was going to be first come, first serve, and it was
38:42
going to be a very, very limited number of guys accepted into the program.
38:45
And with the program, you know, it's a six month program.
38:47
We're running teams from January to June, and then we'll run more teams from July to
38:50
December, and then, you know, we'll get right back around for 2026.
38:54
And so that was a major step for us.
38:57
As I talked about on that episode, we've had some big things happen, you know, doing
39:01
the first you version Bible study, launching the podcast, you know, deciding to do interviews,
39:06
launching the forging table, and then dominion is just one of those core things for undaunted
39:12
life that, you know, this is where we're going to equipment to push back darkness.
39:15
The podcast certainly does that.
39:17
The devotionals who written do that every time I speak live, I try to do that.
39:20
But this is really taking that.
39:22
And this is me putting my time effort and money where my mouth is to getting other guys
39:26
that are willing to put the same thing in to get a better result for the world that is
39:30
around them.
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So that is my favorite episode of 2024 episode 685, introducing dominion.
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Now, before we let you guys go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost.
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If I can get through it here at the end, talking like a wind up monkey, but add undaunted life
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or mission is equipment to push back darkness with content that for just spiritual mental
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and physical resilience got linked to our donation page.
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So it's just undaunted life slash donate and then also linked to our dominion page.
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So if you guys want to put in a weight, you know, so we, we've opened up the weight list.
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So we add applications, but now it's all weight list until we open up interviews again in
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June.
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So make sure you get in your applications to be on the weight list.
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That is in the show notes as well.
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And then also I've got a list of all the things that I said.
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So it's not going to be links to all of these things, but it's just the list of all of the
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shows I listened to, the random episodes that you guys should listen to and all the awards
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that we had.
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So it's all there.
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Check it out in the show notes.
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And as always, we want to thank the band Holy Name for allowing us to use their music for
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our content.
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The music on this podcast is our song Perpetua, which is off their self-titled debut album
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on Face Down Records.
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The links are in the description.
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
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Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
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