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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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Jesus wept.
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That is the shorter scripture, I think,
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in all of the Bible, and I think,
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if you ever had to memorize the scripture,
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like in Sunday school or something like that,
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when you were a kid,
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that was always the one you chose.
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That is John 1133.
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Don't worry, we will get into why.
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I'm using that as a scripture of the day,
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later on in this episode.
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But before we get into anything
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that we're gonna be talking about today,
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I just wanted to remind you guys
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that we have a book list on our website.
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So it is the 100 books,
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every modern Christian man should read list,
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thousands of you have downloaded the list at this point,
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but I did want to remind you,
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this book list is being constantly updated.
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I say constantly.
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About half a dozen or so books are added to the list
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every year, which means about six books are taken off.
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And that doesn't always necessarily mean
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that the books that are taken off are bad books
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or that, you know, I'm ashamed of them or something like that.
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But some books, you know,
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maybe aren't sending the test of time,
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or, you know, I've read it again,
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or read it for the first time.
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And it's like, oh, that's not really that great,
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because I did get some of the recommendations
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when I did the initial book list, you know,
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from other guys.
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And, you know, I just didn't really think
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it aligned with the rest of the list.
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But even in the last week, I added the book Shane.
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So that is the classic Western novel.
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I added that to the book list.
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And I also added The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
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by Carl Truman.
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And so I actually have an interview with him
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that I'll be releasing here in the next week or two.
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And so those were both added to the list.
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So guys, if you've not gotten the list,
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it's going to be in the show notes.
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You just go to undaunted.life/booklist.
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So it's just undaunted.life/booklist to get access to that.
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Also, just want to remind you,
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I announced this last week,
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but a lot of you guys ask about my speaking engagements.
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Hey, where am I going to be?
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I'm going to be speaking.
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Some of those events are not, you know, just open to the public.
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But I do have an open to the public event
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actually at my home church at Faith Bible Church
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in Edmond, Oklahoma on Sunday, September the 18th at 6 p.m.
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Okay. So Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Oklahoma,
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Sunday, September the 18th at 6 p.m.
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If you're not too terribly familiar with this area,
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Edmond is just north of Oklahoma City.
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So that's how you can get to us.
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I'm going to be presenting live
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about how to engage pro-abortion arguments.
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So a lot of guys kind of struggle with, you know,
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how to deal with these arguments,
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how to push back and all those different things.
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I'm going to equip you with all those different things.
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There will be childcare that night.
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So if you got kiddos, bring them and take care of business.
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I think that we're going to be doing a video of that.
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So I might be able to put it out there
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for you guys later or something like that.
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But again, Sunday, September the 18th at 6 p.m.
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at Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Oklahoma.
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So today I didn't intend to do all quick hitters
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because I figured the majority of my time
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would be spent on the FBI raid of Trump's residents
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in Mar-a-Lago.
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But as we'll talk about here in a minute,
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there's seemingly not a whole lot there
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for us to talk about at this point.
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So it's going to be all quick hitters today.
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So what we are going to discuss
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is the FBI raiding former president Donald Trump's home,
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Afghanistan on the one year anniversary
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of the United States' withdrawal,
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the Albuquerque, sorry, it's a hardware to say
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and hardware to spell, the Albuquerque serial killer
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that the mainstream media doesn't want you to know about,
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the US military's inability to convince anyone
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to join their ranks, the CDC updates their COVID guidance,
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improves all of this right in the process,
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Dr. Fauci being the biggest egomaniac in history,
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and then some surprising wisdom from a surprising source.
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And that is the macho man, Randy Savage.
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So you'll have to hang with me to figure out
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what that's about.
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But let's go in and get to the first one here.
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The FBI raiding former president, Donald Trump's home.
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And again, like I said, I thought it was going to be
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spending a whole lot of time on this today.
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I'll be spending more time on this
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than any of the other stories.
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But man, there's just like,
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there's not a whole lot there for us to go
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and it looks like this is going to be dragged out
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for a little bit.
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This is according to the Daily Wire.
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Federal law enforcement officials
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removed nearly a dozen sets of classified information
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this week from former president,
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Donald Trump's Florida residents at Mar-a-Lago,
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according to a new report.
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The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed official documents
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related to the items that were removed
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from the property reported,
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that some of the materials removed were marked
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as top secret and meant to be only available
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in special government facilities.
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Fox News, which confirmed the report said
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that the warrant gave permission to search the 45 office.
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That's 'cause he was the 45th president of the United States.
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All storage rooms in all other rooms or areas
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within the premises used or available to be used
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by the former president of the United States
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and his staff in which the boxes or documents
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could be stored, including all structures
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or buildings on the estate.
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Guys, if that seems broad as because it is.
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Back to the report here.
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The report said that investigators recovered
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four sets of top secret documents,
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three sets of secret documents,
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and three sets of confidential documents.
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Investigators took approximately 20 boxes of items
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from the property.
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Double what had been previously reported
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after US Attorney General Merrick Garland
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approved the warrant to search the estate.
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Trump's response, also according to the Daily Wire,
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this is going back into another thing here.
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Those will both be in the show notes.
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Trump responded on social media
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by claiming that all the material was declassified
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and that agents didn't need to seize anything.
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They could have had it any time they wanted
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without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump said it was a secured storage
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and with additional lock put on it per their request.
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They could have had it any time they wanted
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and that includes long ago, Trump continued.
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All they had to do was ask.
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The bigger problem is what were they going to do
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with the 33 million pages of documents,
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many of which are classified
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that President Obama took to Chicago?
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So, you know, some shots fired there at Obama
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because apparently this is just a thing
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that presidents take these documents back with them,
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maybe to their personal residences,
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to their presidential libraries, whatever.
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So I have a lot of thoughts on this.
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So a lot of random thoughts, let's just dig into it.
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There's so much disinformation
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and misinformation in this story.
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Like a ridiculous amount.
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It's literally almost impossible to keep track of or follow
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because last week, as soon as this happened,
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I think this was last Tuesday or something like that.
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So by the time you listen to this,
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it'll be, you know, over a week ago.
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I remember thinking, oh my gosh,
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this is crazy, like this has been in our Republic stuff.
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This is what you would expect in a third world dictatorship
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or something like that.
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Like what exactly is going on?
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And I figured, okay, let's give it two, three days.
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Let's let the dust settle
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and then I'll talk about it on the show.
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The two or three days passed and there was no big gotcha
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but there was no, okay, well, they released this evidence
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and it's like, oh my gosh, I'm so glad that they did that.
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You know, I'm so glad they recovered this.
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And then Merrick Garland, the attorney general came out
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and said that he was the one that personally said
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that this raid could go on and we got the warrant
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but then the warrant didn't give us
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that much more information.
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There were people talking about there was an informant
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inside the Trump team or something like that.
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Some people said that Trump stole these documents
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and refused to give them back, which he's denied.
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And then there's, this is the common one, which is,
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oh, he had documents with the nuclear codes on it, okay?
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So just a quick aside on the nuclear code thing,
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that has always been the thing with Trump.
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And there's like, do you really want that crazy orange man
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to have the nuclear codes?
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How many times have you heard that to where it's like,
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do you guys think that that's just how it goes
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that the president has a little note card
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with the nuclear codes on it and he can just waltz in
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to wherever the the nukes can be shot from it?
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Just push all these buttons in and also we're shooting nukes
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at whoever we want to shoot them at?
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Like, and just think about how dumb that is
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because we currently have a dementia ridden president
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in the White House right now.
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Who can be told, hey, Joe, don't shoot off the nukes today,
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okay?
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Don't shoot off the nukes.
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I need you to repeat yourself.
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Oh, yeah, don't shoot off the nukes.
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And then seven minutes later, he doesn't remember
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he's even the president of the United States,
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much less the thing that you told him not to do.
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So the nuclear code thing is a little bit weird for me.
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Next kind of random thought is,
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if you believe the Biden White House had no idea
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that this was coming, you're a special kind of stupid.
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I just, I just gotta be honest, like people were like,
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oh, like immediately the press secretary
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of the White House came out.
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I was like, oh, we had no idea.
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We found out just at the same time everyone else did,
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basically on the news and on Twitter
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and all those different things.
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I don't believe that for a single solitary minute.
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And again, I can't be proven wrong
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and I can't be proven, well, I guess I can't be proven right
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because we could find out that, you know,
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there was some correspondence that went there,
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but I just have, I have no faith
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in the fact that the Biden administration
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was caught off guard by this.
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Also, imagine if the shoe were on the other foot here.
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I haven't seen too many people pointing this out,
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but imagine if the FBI raided
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President Obama's personal residence in Chicago
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during the Trump administration.
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I mean, they would have went apoplectic.
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It would have been like,
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it would have been like someone had shot off the nukes,
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right?
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Because just imagine what that would have looked like, right?
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And there would have been a racial narrative put on there.
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There would have been this, you know,
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militarization of the Fed and all these different things.
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Like just imagine if that would have been it.
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But here we are, it happened to Trump.
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So most people don't really care.
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It's kind of the thing.
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Also, this rate happened the same week, right?
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This is crazy.
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The same week that the inflation reduction act,
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which doesn't actually do anything to reduce inflation,
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it's actually going to boost inflation,
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went into effect, okay?
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And inside this act, it gave the federal government funding
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for 87,000 new RIS, RIS, IRS agents,
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87,000 new IRS agents, okay?
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So more than doubling the current size of the IRS,
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making them bigger than most of the other, you know,
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parts of the government combined.
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And I just don't see this as a coincidence.
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Because do you really assume
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that they are going to hire 87,000 new federal IRS agents
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so that they can go after billionaires in big companies?
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Like, no, that's way too many people to do the things
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that they, they purport they want to do.
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They're coming after middle-class people like you and me.
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Like, that's exactly what's going to happen.
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And I just don't see this as a coincidence.
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Also, the FBI is seemingly, again,
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I don't want to besmirch anybody
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that's in the FBI community.
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I know there are some that listen to the show,
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but the FBI is seemingly the law enforcement arm
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of the political left now.
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It seems like they are here to target their enemies
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and ignore the people that they agree with or that they like.
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Again, they're targeting Trump here,
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but do you remember them raiding Hillary Clinton's
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personal residence because of all the stuff
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that went down with her email server, right?
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The destruction of government property,
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which was illegal and she wasn't allowed to do it.
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I don't remember that.
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What about, and again,
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a lot of people have pointed out all these things.
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Jeffrey Epstein's client list?
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Why do we not have the names?
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Jeffrey Epstein's dead,
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according by, you know, supposedly by his own hand.
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And then we have his, you know, his other gal,
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she's in federal prison now
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and probably not going to make it very much longer.
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But what about the client list?
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Why haven't those places been raided?
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You know, the FBI didn't really look into the 2020 election
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to see if they could actually corroborate
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that Joe Biden is the rightful president, right?
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What about Hunter Biden's laptop?
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FBI can't seem to find enough information
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to make it worth their while to investigate that.
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A sitting member of Congress, representative Eric Swalwell,
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who I believe is on the, he's on some committee.
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I think it's like the Foreign Affairs Committee
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or the, you know, Home Defense Committee
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or something like that.
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I'm losing it right now.
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But he was having sexual relations
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with a Chinese spy, confirmed this person was a Chinese spy
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sleeping with a member of Congress.
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FBI's not breaking down his door.
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And also remember the FBI ran
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with the Russia collusion hoax for years.
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I mean, it's really, really hard for me to call balls
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and strikes on this federal agency
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when it seems like they're only doing things
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that hurts people that are on the right side of the aisle.
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Also, here's the thing that I don't know
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that I've heard, I've seen anybody talk about.
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But how can we be sure that the FBI
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is not gonna plant evidence?
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Because this, and again, this hasn't been corroborated
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so we don't exactly know for sure.
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But apparently Trump's lawyer who was on site at Mar-a-Lago
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wasn't allowed to be in the room during the raid.
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They told her to leave.
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And they also demanded that the security cameras
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be turned off.
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Again, where their smoke doesn't always mean there's fire,
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but my goodness how much smoke is there right here?
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They won't let Trump's lawyer be present
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and they told him to turn the security cameras off.
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Now we don't know if they actually did.
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We don't know if the Trump team
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actually has video of the raid or something like that.
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But man, wouldn't it be easy to plant some evidence here?
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And what would Trump's recourse be?
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What's he gonna say?
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That wasn't in the box?
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Y'all put that there?
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Like, it's kind of hard to falsify that, right?
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And one thing that we've seen kind of in the wake of all this
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is the majority of Republicans and independents
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believe that this was a politically motivated raid
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that the federal government was used as a political arm
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to do this for political reasons.
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And the majority of Democrats do not, okay?
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Which it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
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But I would ask Democrats to think,
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yeah, this wasn't politically motivated.
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Trump's obviously a criminal.
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I'm glad they did the raid.
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Why was the information about the raid leaked
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to the New York Times within minutes of the raid beginning?
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Think about that.
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How did that information get leaked to the New York Times
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if this wasn't political?
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Just think through that a little bit more.
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Also, it is very interesting to see this just a quick aside.
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All these defund the police people,
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especially the ones on Twitter,
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they loved the fact that federal police did this to Trump.
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I find that to be delicious, right?
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We can't have police in any of our inner cities,
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keeping people from getting murdered or drug deals
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or any of those types of things.
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But dadgummit, let's make sure we have a few dozen
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federal troopers, federal police officers
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go in and raid Trump's personal residence.
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Yeah, that's a great idea.
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Also, to the Trump supporters out there,
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I'm gonna be a little bit critical here.
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So just, you know, get your big boy pants on.
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The ones that are out there now screaming
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that we need to get Trump back in the White House in 2024
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so he can quote unquote drain the swamp, okay?
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Guys, I would like to remind you
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that we as the American public already elected him once
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and the size of the swamp grew.
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Remember, drain the swamp, lock her up,
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build that wall?
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Like that's just a list of things
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that didn't get done in the four years
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that Trump promised all those things would get done.
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So are you really advocating
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to get the guy back into the White House
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that failed to do what he said he was gonna do
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the first time as it pertained to the swamp?
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I just don't really buy that.
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Also, there's been a theory that's kind of been floating
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around that I tend to agree with.
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And it's that the Fed did this
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because the January 6th committee has been a dud.
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And I say it's been a dud
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because there have been no grand aha moments
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that have come from the January 6th hearings,
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like at all, and it has not swayed the public's opinion
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on Donald J. Trump one bit.
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And that's largely due to the fact
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that no one on the planet, essentially, certainly in America,
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has a neutral view on Donald Trump.
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Nobody, they love him or they hate him.
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Nobody's in the middle at this point, right?
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They support him vehemently
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or they don't want him anywhere near power ever again.
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And so the January 6th hearings
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were supposed to be this big exposé
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on how the Donald Trump administration
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knew this was going to happen,
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that they coordinated with all these white supremacist groups
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to storm the Capitol and blah, blah, and all these things.
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And again, I'm very unhappy with January 6th
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and all the things that Trump did during that.
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But I don't believe there's any evidence whatsoever
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to say that he colluded with people
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to have them storm the Capitol.
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Again, he said he wanted them to go over there
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and peacefully protest,
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and that's not how it ended up going down, right?
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But if January 6th isn't working,
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the Fed maybe needs to ratchet this up a little bit
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because they're seemingly very, very fearful
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that this guy's going to be back in power at some point.
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And I don't think it's because they really love the idea
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of a constitutional republic.
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Another thing I want to talk about is
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a lot of people have been saying this,
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that this may galvanize support behind Trump.
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Like this may be the thing that guarantees that he runs again,
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right?
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Some people think, you know, maybe he was 50/50
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before all this, but now he's 100% dedicated
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to running again.
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And they think that's going to galvanize all these Republicans
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that are a little bit squishy on Trump
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and independence behind Trump.
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But I have a different viewpoint.
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I actually think this might be an enormous win
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for co-president Biden.
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And I'll tell you why.
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Because I do think that this is galvanizing support
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behind Trump.
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I think this is going to give him the motivation.
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I don't think he was ever really like trying to figure out
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if he was going to run again in 2024.
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I think that was always a foregone conclusion,
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but let's say he was on the fence.
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And now he's definitely going to run.
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If he runs, he beats everybody else
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in the Republican primary, right?
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Even though I really would like to see DeSantis run.
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And like I've said before, not just DeSantis,
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I would see a bevy of other Republican candidates
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get out there in front of people and run.
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But I don't think anybody has what it takes to overtake Trump
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and overtake all the MAGA people that will support Trump.
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I just don't see that happening.
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And if that's the case, then Joe Biden wins again, right?
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If he runs, but as I've said on this show before,
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and I'm open to being proven wrong,
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if Joe Biden runs again, or if he steps aside
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in Kamala Harris runs, or Gavin Newsom runs,
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or certainly Michelle Obama, or Pete Buttigieg,
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or any other people that the Democrats could put up,
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no matter how awful or how terrible they are,
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I got to be really, really honest with you.
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Like he loses, Donald Trump loses, okay?
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And so I think that this could actually be
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a really good thing for Biden,
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because if Trump decides to run,
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I think he is the foregone conclusion
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as the Republican representative in 2024.
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And he's very, very beatable, right?
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We saw that Joe Biden basically didn't even campaign.
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He sat in his basement for months and months and months,
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and became the President of the United States.
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And that was before January 6th.
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Again, think what you wanna think about January 6th,
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but the majority of the US population thinks
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that that was an unbelievable thing
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that it was a coup attempt, right?
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So it may galvanize support behind Trump,
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but that could be a great thing for Joe Biden and his crew.
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And the last thing I guess I'll talk about here
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before we go to the big takeaway,
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is this is gonna be in the news cycle
17:38
for a very, very long time, guys.
17:39
So if you love following news cycle stories
17:41
that stay in the news cycle for months and months
17:43
on end, get ready because this is right up your alley,
17:46
because we're gonna see a huge and lengthy legal battle
17:49
between the United States government and Trump now.
17:51
And who the heck knows how that's gonna work out,
17:53
but it's gonna cost tons and tons of money.
17:55
And again, the US government's gonna be fighting
17:57
against Trump here using your tax dollars.
17:59
So there is that thing,
18:00
but let's go to the big takeaway here on this story.
18:02
As of right now, it looks like the quote unquote,
18:05
deep state that everybody's so scared of.
18:07
It looks like it really does exist,
18:08
and it really looks like it is targeting Donald Trump, okay?
18:12
And this is a very, very important question
18:14
for all of you to reckon with,
18:15
but if they can target a former president
18:18
of the United States, what do you think they can do to you?
18:21
Like there are very few people on the planet
18:24
that have more power sway and influence
18:26
than a former United States president.
18:29
And they just basically kicked his door down and said,
18:32
hey, you can't stop us.
18:34
And there's some people that think
18:36
that the warrant that was issued in this case
18:37
was way too broad a violation of the Fourth Amendment,
18:40
which could end up being true,
18:41
because warrants like this have to be very, very specific.
18:44
If you're doing a raid,
18:45
you have to know what room you're gonna be looking in,
18:47
what file cabinet you're looking for,
18:48
and all those different things.
18:49
But this was a very, very broad warrant
18:53
to where they could basically just walk around Mar-a-Lago
18:55
and just kind of like look through
18:56
whatever they wanted to look through.
18:58
So if they can do that to Trump,
19:00
if you've maybe made some mistakes on your taxes
19:03
or you've been a little bit withholding
19:05
on some of your taxes, no pun intended,
19:07
like what do you think they can do
19:08
with you and your personal residents?
19:10
What if down the line,
19:12
there are way more anti-gun people
19:13
that are in the government, right?
19:15
What happens if they kick your door down
19:17
and they're gonna look for all your firearms?
19:19
Just to, you know, make sure obviously
19:21
that they're all registered to you
19:23
and that they're all being held safely and blah, blah.
19:24
We just wanna check and make sure.
19:27
Like none of that is off the table here.
19:29
So there are a lot of things to take away from the story.
19:31
To be honest with you guys,
19:32
unless something big happens on this story,
19:35
I'm probably not gonna mention again
19:37
until we have some sort of absolution on this.
19:39
And unfortunately I just don't think that's gonna be coming
19:41
for a very long time.
19:42
LinkedIn is pretty great at a lot of things.
19:44
Like helping you tap into the latest trends
19:46
and insights in your field.
19:48
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19:51
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19:53
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19:55
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19:57
of that weird smell in the office fridge.
20:00
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20:01
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20:03
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20:06
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20:09
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20:11
- All right, next quick hitter here.
20:14
Afghanistan on the one year anniversary
20:16
of the United States is a withdrawal.
20:17
So if you weren't aware on the 15th,
20:20
so that would be Monday.
20:21
So yeah, so on the 15th,
20:23
so if you're listening to this sometime,
20:25
this was yesterday, August the 15th,
20:27
is the one year anniversary of when the Taliban overtook Kabul
20:31
when the United States had to get all their ambassadors
20:32
out of the way.
20:34
And the United States wasn't completely out at that point,
20:37
but Afghanistan had fallen.
20:39
By the 15th of August.
20:40
So this is according to Holly McKay on her sub stack.
20:43
And this will be in the show notes, obviously.
20:45
It's been a year since the US finally withdrew
20:47
from Afghanistan on August the 30th
20:49
after occupying the country for more than two decades.
20:51
The Biden administration's hasty removal of US troops
20:54
led to chaotic scenes at Kabul's International Airport
20:56
with Afghans clamoring to leave before the Taliban took over.
21:00
At least 170 people and 13 American service members
21:03
were killed by twin ISIS K suicide bombs at the airport gates.
21:07
And while more than 100,000 Afghans were airlifted
21:10
out of the country,
21:11
it is believed that up to 80,000 Afghan allies
21:14
who worked in some capacity to support the United States
21:16
mission are still left in limbo.
21:19
And guys, I don't want to take any of her thunder,
21:21
but she does read this on her dispatch.
21:23
So if you search dispatches with Holly McKay
21:26
in your podcast feed or something like that,
21:27
you can get on there,
21:28
but also you can get on the sub stack and read the rest of it.
21:30
But there are bevy of problems that were left behind
21:33
when the United States decided that it just wasn't worth it
21:35
anymore for them to stay in whatever other motivations
21:37
are worked.
21:38
So essentially women have women have no rights again.
21:41
Okay, so you see these women that are basically begging
21:43
for food on the street, head to toe covered in burkas
21:46
and different things like that.
21:47
It's horrible for women right now in Afghanistan.
21:49
And for girls specifically, they can't go to school again.
21:53
All right, because in this culture, again,
21:55
we're not supposed to compare cultures.
21:56
This culture is better than that culture,
21:57
but in that culture,
21:58
they don't believe that girls should be educated at all.
22:01
So yeah, I think it's okay for me to say
22:03
that our culture is better than their culture.
22:05
Also, Afghanistan's economy right now
22:08
is almost completely propped up by foreign aid,
22:11
which doesn't bode well for their currency,
22:13
doesn't bode well for anything.
22:14
There are a lot of people right now
22:15
that are using the majority of their money to buy food
22:19
and most Afghans, as we see now from statistics
22:22
and reports from on the ground,
22:23
they barely have enough money for food,
22:25
barely have enough money for food.
22:27
And this is another set that I found was crazy.
22:29
I think this was from Holly's report,
22:31
but around 90% of Afghanistan's health clinics
22:35
are closed now.
22:36
They were open a year ago,
22:38
but they're closed down now because of lack of funds.
22:42
So there was a big earthquake
22:43
that happened over there in Afghanistan.
22:44
It's like, okay, yeah, when it rains it,
22:45
it absolutely pours, but there was a big earthquake.
22:47
You know, a lot of people died,
22:48
a lot of people were injured,
22:49
and they couldn't even really treat the people
22:51
that were injured over there
22:52
because they didn't have the funds for it.
22:54
Because the Taliban, and this is the other thing,
22:56
when your country is run by an Islamist, you know,
22:58
fundamentalist terrorist organization like the Taliban,
23:01
can you assume that they're going to be getting all of that aid
23:04
to the appropriate places and appropriate people?
23:06
Of course not.
23:08
So the big takeaway here,
23:09
because I know a lot of people are going to be talking
23:10
about it this week,
23:11
and I don't want to necessarily steal any of their thunder.
23:14
This is already a distant memory for many of us.
23:18
The fall of Afghanistan in our withdrawal,
23:21
but it shouldn't be.
23:22
And I constantly remind you guys of this,
23:25
because you're going to see it in the news cycle
23:27
this week for a day or two,
23:28
because we're going to be at the one year anniversary,
23:30
and then we're going to forget about it again.
23:32
Because Trump's going to say something in public,
23:34
or some celebrity's going to die,
23:36
or some celebrity breakups going to happen,
23:38
or your favorite team's going to lose their best player,
23:41
something like that's going to happen,
23:42
and we're not going to be thinking about this anymore.
23:43
But we need to be thinking about this.
23:45
Because all those people over there in Afghanistan,
23:47
they're suffering right now,
23:48
they're made in the image of God,
23:49
whether they believe in God,
23:51
and in the Judeo-Christian ethic, or not.
23:54
And we should want those people
23:55
to be protected and cared for, right?
23:57
And that's something that the United States was doing,
24:00
and now we're not.
24:01
So we basically created this quagmire,
24:03
we created this situation,
24:05
and then we just decided to pull out,
24:06
and we'll just kind of let the chips fall where they may.
24:09
But unfortunately, most of those chips caught fire.
24:12
And it's been terrible for the people of Afghanistan.
24:14
But also, this is a monument to horrifically bad leadership.
24:18
So it starts with co-president Biden,
24:20
'cause he's in charge of the entire federal government,
24:22
and this response.
24:23
So ultimately, the buck has to stop somewhere,
24:25
and so it stops with him,
24:26
even though he's not even sentient enough
24:27
to be able to make a call left or right on anything.
24:30
But also, all the generals.
24:32
All of our generals and higher ups in the military,
24:36
that will be getting promotions along the way,
24:38
that when they retire,
24:39
we'll get these plush, cush jobs with military contractors,
24:43
will be on boards of directors,
24:44
will be getting paid oddly high amounts of money
24:47
to give speeches.
24:48
We have to remember that the lack of leadership
24:51
that was shown in the lack of fortitude,
24:53
shown by these men, is causing the detriment
24:56
of hundreds of thousands of people
24:58
in the country of Afghanistan.
25:00
And we can't ignore that.
25:02
All right, next quick hitter here,
25:03
the Albuquerque New Mexico serial killer
25:05
that the mainstream media doesn't want you to know about.
25:07
So this is according to the New York Times.
25:09
For days, the news that someone might be killing Muslim men
25:12
and Albuquerque spread fear among the city's Muslim residents,
25:15
and to be honest, as an aside,
25:16
Muslim residents of the entire country, okay?
25:19
But back into it here.
25:20
Some of whom were so afraid of becoming the next target
25:22
that they fled town or hunkered down in their homes.
25:25
On Tuesday, this was Tuesday last week,
25:27
the police said that they had arrested a man
25:29
who was himself Muslim and who had been,
25:31
who had targeted at least two of the victims
25:33
because he was angry that his daughter
25:35
had married a man from the other branch of Islam.
25:38
The police said the man, Muhammad Said 51,
25:41
would be charged in two of the killings
25:43
and that he was a suspect in the other two deaths.
25:46
Ahmad said the president of the Islamic Center of New Mexico,
25:49
a mosque with that at least three of the victims
25:51
had attended, said that he understood
25:53
that the authorities were looking at the possibility
25:55
that the suspect was a Sunni Muslim
25:58
who may have been motivated by resentment
25:59
over a marriage to a Shiite Muslim, okay?
26:04
So let's get right into the big takeaway here on this story.
26:06
And the big takeaway is a question.
26:09
Have you heard about this story?
26:10
I mean, honestly, I know a lot of you guys
26:13
are big news cycle people.
26:14
So you've got your Twitter feeds
26:15
and you've got your Fox News or your CNNs or MSNBCs
26:18
or your, you know, daily wire podcasts
26:20
or this podcast, podcast, NPR, whatever.
26:22
Have you heard of this story?
26:23
'Cause I can't remember where I heard about it,
26:27
but I think it was a random person that like posted it
26:30
on Twitter and they linked to the New York Times article
26:33
and I was shocked that the New York Times
26:35
even, you know, ran a story on this and all those things
26:37
because here's the thing, it is a sensational story.
26:40
I mean, in a bad way, not sensational in a great way.
26:42
It is a very sensational story in terms of headlines
26:45
and gathering a lot of attention
26:47
because it's about a serial killer
26:49
targeting a specific group of people
26:53
that are aligned with a religious ideology, Muslims.
26:58
I mean, that is a crazy story.
27:01
I mean, if there's a serial killer
27:02
that is targeting Muslims or Christians or Hindus or Sikhs
27:07
or insert your favorite or least favorite religion here,
27:10
like that's a crazy story.
27:12
That's a big, big story.
27:14
So why is it that the majority of the mainstream media
27:17
is not covering it as such?
27:19
And my contention is, is because the facts of the case
27:24
in the story don't fit the desired narrative.
27:28
And here's the narrative.
27:29
White supremacist violence is the biggest problem
27:32
we now face on the home front.
27:35
As I was just talking about our generals earlier
27:37
when we were talking about Afghanistan,
27:38
they've literally said that.
27:39
They've gone on record and said things like that,
27:41
that we don't need to be worried about Islamic terrorism
27:43
anymore.
27:44
It's white supremacist violence that's homegrown, right?
27:46
We've seen people in the federal government right now
27:49
in this current administration
27:50
that are saying that over and over and over.
27:52
And just like that, I mean, boom, just like that,
27:55
this story disappeared.
27:57
So there was a little bit of a groundswell like,
27:59
man, you know, four Muslims have been killed in this one area.
28:02
Like who's going around and doing it?
28:03
And you got to know that the people at Vox
28:06
and Washington Post and the New York Times
28:09
and CNN and all the other places, they were hoping,
28:12
I know this is impugning motive and narrative
28:14
and all that kind of stuff, but they were hoping
28:15
that this was a white supremacist, MAGA wearing,
28:18
MAGA hat wearing, you know, guy,
28:20
going around with his AR-15 murdering Muslims.
28:22
They were hoping to God.
28:24
'Cause again, that's another thing you can wrap around
28:26
Donald Trump's neck, but then you can target all Republicans
28:28
and all of a sudden every Republican on the planet
28:30
is gonna have a microphone stuck in their face.
28:32
They're gonna say, hey, do you agree with this person
28:34
that has a conservative viewpoints?
28:36
Basically talking about all these different things
28:38
from a white supremacist point of view
28:39
and then targeting brown people for murder, right?
28:41
And then all of a sudden they have to talk about it
28:43
when the fact is that most Democrats
28:45
don't have to talk about things that happen negatively
28:46
from their side, but that's apparently neither here nor there.
28:50
But again, this is an incredible story, right?
28:53
I'm glad they've found this guy.
28:55
I'm glad they've stopped him.
28:57
I'm glad the authorities have done that,
28:59
but it does kind of reveal this unbelievable misunderstanding
29:02
or just an understanding of how people operate
29:05
and think inside of the Muslim community.
29:07
I know I hate saying the community,
29:08
but yes, the Muslim community.
29:10
They have no idea about the divide between Sunnis and Shias
29:13
and how many centuries that goes back
29:15
and why these people tend to hate each other,
29:17
why they're willing to fight wars against one another,
29:19
why they're willing to kill one another.
29:21
And another thing, and I think Albert Mueller pointed this out
29:23
on his show on Monday, Islam is,
29:26
he wasn't talking about the specific story,
29:28
but Islam is a honor religion, whereas Christianity is not.
29:32
We are under no compunction to defend Jesus of Nazareth,
29:37
personally, we're not.
29:39
But that is the exact compunction with Muslims.
29:41
That's why you can't even draw pictures of Muhammad.
29:44
When people said,
29:45
"Hey, we're gonna have a Muhammad drawing contest,"
29:47
or something like that,
29:48
those people were attacked by terrorists
29:49
or were attacked by Muslim zealots or something like that.
29:52
It's because these people take it very, very seriously
29:55
because it comes directly from their ideology
29:57
and it comes from the bloodiest chapter,
30:00
the surah of the Quran, which is the ninth surah.
30:03
I would encourage all of you to go online right now,
30:05
Google the Quran and go to the ninth surah
30:07
and just read through it.
30:09
It's the least abrogated surah and most violent surah,
30:12
the last surah that Muhammad supposedly gave to the people
30:15
to kind of create this religion of Islam, right?
30:18
So these people are not extremists,
30:20
these people are fundamentalists.
30:21
And so this particular guy found it honorable
30:25
to kill these men because he was angry that someone,
30:30
I think, well, what was his daughter or something like that?
30:31
I already forgot what they said in the story,
30:33
but that this particular person was so mad as a Sunni
30:37
that there would be somebody that would marry a Shiite.
30:40
So you guys have to understand that on my book list
30:42
that I talked about from the top of the show,
30:44
I have two books by Nabil Kureshi,
30:45
the late Nabil Kureshi who was a Muslim
30:47
that turned into a Christian.
30:49
So one is called no God, but one,
30:50
that's a more academic comparison of Islam and Christianity.
30:53
And then he's got his memoir,
30:54
which is seeking a law, finding Jesus.
30:57
And so he gets into both of those about the differences.
30:59
So I highly, highly recommend those two books
31:01
from our book list.
31:02
All right, next quick hitter here,
31:04
the United States military's inability
31:07
to convince anyone to join their ranks.
31:09
So this is according to NBC News.
31:11
Every branch of the US military is struggling to meet
31:13
its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals,
31:15
say multiple US military and defense officials.
31:18
And numbers obtained by NBC News show both a record low
31:21
percentage of young Americans eligible to serve
31:24
and an even tinier fraction willing to consider it.
31:28
Last month, army chief of staff general James McConville
31:31
testified before Congress that only 23%
31:34
of Americans ages 17 to 24 are qualified to serve
31:38
without a waiver to join down from 29% in recent years.
31:42
An internal department or defense department survey
31:45
obtained by NBC News found that only 9%
31:47
of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military
31:50
had any inclination to do so,
31:52
the lowest number since 2007.
31:55
So in this story,
31:56
as you've heard people kind of report on this,
31:58
there are the reasons that are given for this phenomenon.
32:01
And then there's the real reasons, right?
32:03
So let's get into the given reasons.
32:04
The first one is given is obesity, right?
32:07
Our kids are way too fat,
32:08
which is obviously and completely true.
32:10
Then we have drug use.
32:12
These kids can't get through the screening without a waiver
32:15
because they've used drugs, right?
32:16
And they're honest about it, right?
32:18
A lot of our kids are using drugs.
32:19
Also, criminal records.
32:21
A lot of our young people have a criminal record
32:23
and they can't join the military because of that.
32:25
But also people mentioned the growth
32:27
of the civilian military divide.
32:28
As we've heard about from a lot of people,
32:30
a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of the United States
32:32
population serves in the armed services.
32:34
And so there is this divide where it's like,
32:36
okay, that's something that they're doing.
32:37
That's their job.
32:38
I have nothing to do with that.
32:40
Whereas in previous generations,
32:41
the civilians in the military were more intertwined
32:44
than they are today.
32:45
So those are the given reasons.
32:47
But I'm gonna go into the real reasons, okay?
32:49
So let's get into what I see
32:50
as some of the real reasons for this.
32:51
The first thing is this.
32:53
Young people are being told that this country is awful,
32:58
that it's racist, that it's colonialist,
33:01
that it's bigoted, that it's terrible, right?
33:04
So why would you sign up to fight and potentially die
33:08
for an evil country like the United States of America?
33:10
Again, our young people are getting a steady diet
33:15
of that narrative.
33:16
And so if someone turns around and says,
33:18
"Hey, you should join the army.
33:20
"Well, is there a chance I'll die?"
33:21
Yeah, well, why would I sacrifice for you guys?
33:24
Like you're propagating systemic racism
33:26
or just make up any number of other issues
33:28
that don't actually exist, right?
33:30
That's a problem.
33:32
Also, young patriots, right?
33:35
The patriotic among us, right, the young ones.
33:38
They don't wanna volunteer for a force
33:41
that's gonna force wokeness down their throats.
33:44
They don't wanna join the military
33:46
and then have to put their pronouns
33:48
in their email signatures.
33:50
They don't wanna have to join the military
33:53
so that they can get some quota.
33:55
Hey, they happen to be a person of color
33:57
who has two lesbian moms.
33:59
So they're gonna join the military.
34:01
That is where all the advertising is going for.
34:03
And so we're missing it out on all these people
34:05
from flyover country, all these young patriots
34:08
that would love to serve their country
34:09
that are now on the fence like, "Man,
34:11
"I don't know that I'd really wanna serve right now."
34:13
And look at people that were in the military
34:16
basically saying, "Yeah, I don't know
34:17
"if I would want my son or daughter to serve."
34:19
Like that's a big deal.
34:21
And also that really gets into the next point
34:23
which is that patriotic families,
34:25
they're not encouraging their children to join.
34:28
And it's partially due because of the inept
34:30
military leadership that I've talked about now
34:32
what three times on this show.
34:34
When you have your generals and your colonels
34:36
and all these other different people,
34:37
so inept and maybe corrupt even.
34:41
In a Europe patriotic family,
34:42
like my wife and I are very, very patriotic people
34:44
and we have two sons.
34:45
Like I would not personally be disappointed
34:47
if they decide to go to a military academy
34:50
or to enlist or any of those different things.
34:52
I wouldn't be disappointed in it.
34:53
But right now, man, I've got some issues with that.
34:56
Because could they be sent to fight and die
34:58
for some sort of war that didn't need to happen?
35:01
And something that we didn't even need to be there for?
35:04
You have a lot of patriotic families
35:05
that are having that conversation now
35:06
and they weren't before.
35:08
Also, as a culture, as a society,
35:11
we expect very, very little from our young people
35:14
and they tend to live up to those low expectations.
35:17
And sometimes they land well short of those low expectations.
35:22
And so when you expect so little of an entire group
35:25
of non-homogenous people, how can you be shocked
35:28
when a lot of them don't wanna join the United States military?
35:31
I mean, this isn't that hard.
35:33
And the last thing for the big takeaway on this one
35:36
is that parents and young people are scared
35:39
of their kids or themselves not coming back from war at all
35:44
or coming back messed up physically and or mentally.
35:48
Because for the last two decades,
35:50
we've seen a tremendous amount of support
35:51
and outpouring of love to our veteran community,
35:54
which I absolutely find fantastic.
35:55
But also, we've seen and these kids have seen,
35:59
you know, a lot of people with missing limbs coming back,
36:02
a lot of people with PTSD.
36:03
We're constantly reminded about the number of veterans
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that commit suicide and the number of veterans
36:08
that have been killed via suicide as compared
36:10
to the number that were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
36:13
Obviously, suicides far outweigh that
36:15
and that will only continue to be exacerbated
36:17
as we've been out of these conflicts.
36:19
Okay, so parents are terrified for their children.
36:21
So they're not saying, yeah, you shouldn't list.
36:23
I think that's a great idea 'cause they're scared.
36:25
And, you know, what parent wouldn't be scared.
36:29
And also, the young people, like they wanna come back,
36:32
like if they serve, they don't wanna get messed up.
36:34
They don't wanna, you know, have PTSD.
36:36
They don't wanna have any of these mental issues.
36:38
They don't wanna get blown up.
36:38
They don't wanna have a bunch of metals stuck in their body.
36:40
They don't wanna, you know, have cancer caused by burn pits
36:43
or whatever other situation is coming along the path
36:46
or something like that.
36:47
So I think that those are all big things
36:49
that people are really looking through
36:50
and those are kind of the real reasons.
36:52
So my big takeaway on this story
36:54
is I don't see this changing anytime soon.
36:57
And that is a bad thing for the entire free world.
37:00
A lot of people hate this and I got a guy coming on the show
37:03
here in a couple of weeks and, you know,
37:04
he's very anti-war and all those different things
37:06
and, you know, we had a good conversation about that.
37:09
But the United States is the dominant global hegemon.
37:12
We are.
37:14
And when the United States is weak,
37:16
it is bad for a lot of other places in the world.
37:18
Again, we just discussed Afghanistan a little while ago on this show.
37:23
The United States showed weakness
37:25
and lack of leadership and a lack of forethought.
37:27
And it's led to the tremendous plight of the Afghan people.
37:31
And it's gonna cause so many more issues into the future.
37:33
And hopefully we can remember that
37:35
as the jumping off point for a lot of those bad things.
37:37
But do you see something in the generation coming after Gen Z
37:43
that there's this overwhelming patriotism
37:45
coming from this group?
37:46
No.
37:47
A lot of the problems that we've already talked about
37:48
are gonna be exacerbated.
37:50
Technology's gonna become more a part of these kids' lives
37:53
so they will tend to get fatter.
37:55
Their families will continue to feed them garbage
37:57
that was made in a factory that's basically not even food
38:00
and they will continue to get fatter.
38:02
Our kids are gonna continue to see drugs
38:04
as this positive thing, like, hey, listen to, you know,
38:06
we need to illegalize all these drugs.
38:08
We need to decriminalize these drugs
38:09
because of all these things.
38:10
You have kids that are gonna be smoking weed,
38:12
which is horrifically terrible for kids
38:14
whose brains aren't fully developed
38:16
and it's mainly terrible for a bevy of adults as well.
38:19
Like it doesn't do great things for the mind.
38:21
And so all these kids are gonna be on these drugs, right?
38:24
You have kids that are getting hooked on opioids.
38:26
You have all these horrible outcomes.
38:28
Do you see a positive here
38:30
for the future of the United States military?
38:32
Now, one thing I think the US could immediately start doing
38:35
is if they got all the woke crap, all the DEI crap
38:38
out of the military,
38:40
I think that would help almost immediately.
38:42
There aren't a whole lot of it, like,
38:43
just switches that can be flipped in this particular situation,
38:46
but that's one of them.
38:47
The military can't solve the fatherlessness issue.
38:50
The military can't necessarily solve the issue
38:53
with overall patriotic feelings in America,
38:55
any of those things, but they can say, you know what?
38:58
If you wanna fight, come here and fight.
39:00
And that's it.
39:02
I don't care if you have a nose ring.
39:04
I don't care if your parents come from a particular part
39:06
of the globe or, you know, particular persuasion or whatever.
39:09
I don't care.
39:10
You wanna fight?
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We're gonna teach you how to fight.
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And if you're a young man,
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we're gonna teach you how to be a man.
39:16
That's the military I wanna see, anyway.
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39:48
- All right, next quick hit are here.
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And this one will probably make you mad
39:51
if you haven't heard about it already.
39:52
The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control here in the US,
39:55
updates their COVID guidance
39:57
and proves all of us right in the process.
39:58
So this is according to Yahoo News.
40:00
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
40:02
unveiled significant changes last Thursday
40:04
as part of a sweeping effort
40:05
to overhaul the agency's COVID-19 guidance.
40:09
The guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over,
40:11
but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19
40:14
is no longer severely disrupting our everyday lives.
40:16
CDC's Greta Messetti said in a statement
40:19
announcing the changes.
40:20
Among the biggest differences
40:21
in the new recommendations are as follows.
40:23
The CDC's COVID-19 prevention guidance
40:25
will no longer differentiate
40:27
by whether people are up to date on their vaccinations.
40:30
Testing to screen for COVID-19 will no longer be recommended
40:34
in most places for people who do not have COVID symptoms.
40:37
The CDC says people who have tested positive for COVID-19
40:41
can stop wearing masks if their symptoms have improved
40:44
and they test negative twice in a row initially
40:46
on the sixth day after their infection began
40:48
and then again on the eighth day.
40:50
And the CDC says that to limit social and economic impacts,
40:54
quarantine of exposed persons is no longer recommended
40:58
regardless of vaccination status.
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I mean, astonishing.
41:04
Astonishing in addition to all of that
41:07
also listed in this new guidance is that students in school,
41:10
remember those schools that we had to shut down
41:12
to protect the children?
41:14
Students can stay in class
41:16
after being exposed to the virus.
41:19
Now guys, now guys, I know what you might be thinking.
41:22
Kyle, this is great news.
41:24
This is, this obviously means
41:26
that there have been some kind of breakthrough
41:29
with the vaccine.
41:30
Obviously, you know, some kind of miracle
41:32
has happened with therapeutics.
41:33
You know, perhaps we've even rid the entire world of COVID.
41:38
To that, I say no such luck, like not by these threats,
41:41
the imagination.
41:42
'Cause you know how we know that?
41:44
Because the basis of the guidance change
41:48
that was just announced last week
41:50
had nothing at all to do with a single study
41:55
or any cited data, none.
41:58
They literally did not announce a single thing
42:05
from a reputable study or data source.
42:08
They just magically, just like that,
42:12
changed the guidance.
42:14
All of a sudden, the guidance is different.
42:17
So let's go back to the article here.
42:19
Mercedes told reporters Thursday
42:21
that the recommendations are being revised
42:23
to simplify the myriad of federal COVID-19 guidance
42:27
into an easier framework.
42:30
So let's talk about that.
42:31
Guys, it's not just an easier framework.
42:33
It's a different framework altogether.
42:36
Again, if you had listed any of those things earlier
42:39
that I told you about,
42:40
that could have got you banned from social media.
42:42
Like if you basically say, yeah,
42:43
just, you know, kind of do your own thing.
42:45
If you get this, don't really worry about it.
42:47
Or, and again, they didn't cite like,
42:49
oh, we have evidence now to suggest
42:50
that we can make all these changes.
42:52
None of that's in there.
42:53
Back to the article again.
42:55
It's really about kind of how people can understand
42:58
how all of these components fit together.
43:00
It starts with people understanding their own personal risk
43:04
for serious illness and that of their loved ones.
43:06
I'ma said he said.
43:08
So I would like to just give a nice little slow clap.
43:10
Thank you to the CDC for saying what we've literally known
43:15
all along, but have been discouraged to practice.
43:20
And that is people can make up their own minds
43:25
regarding their personal health.
43:27
We do not need the federal government telling us
43:31
how to care for ourselves or how we evaluate
43:35
our own personal risk for illness or anything otherwise.
43:38
But what an unbelievable statement from the CDC.
43:42
It starts with people understanding their own personal risk
43:45
for serious illness and that of their loved ones.
43:48
Yeah, tell that to the people whose family members died alone
43:53
in a nursing home or hospital facility
43:57
and they couldn't even send them off.
44:00
They couldn't hold their hand while they took their last breath
44:03
because of you, the CDC, because of you,
44:07
because of your guidance.
44:09
And if you said, hey, we're really, really sorry about that.
44:12
There's nothing that we could do to overcome what we did.
44:15
That was the information and the data we have at the time.
44:18
We're smarter now.
44:19
We've got more information.
44:21
We hate that that happens like that happened back in the day.
44:24
No, none of that was said and none of that at all was said.
44:28
And guys, don't you forget this.
44:30
Don't you forget that this happened.
44:32
Again, how many of you know someone personally
44:34
that could not say goodbye to a loved one,
44:37
to a spouse, to a brother, to a mother or father,
44:40
or grandfather or grandmother?
44:42
Because of the CDC saying, nope,
44:44
we have to have complete quarantine.
44:46
We can only have approved medical hospital staff there
44:50
with all the PPE.
44:51
But you, yeah, you can't say goodbye to your dad.
44:54
I'm sorry.
44:55
Again, I talked about this whenever my boy JC,
44:59
from my foxhole, whenever his dad died of COVID,
45:02
I think I said this on there.
45:03
So I shouldn't be getting anybody in trouble.
45:05
There were nurses on staff that snuck him in
45:08
to his father's room so he could say goodbye.
45:11
They broke protocol, probably could have lost their jobs
45:15
if anybody had found out about it
45:17
and got him into the room so he could give his father
45:20
the dignity of being able to say goodbye to his son
45:22
and so that he could say goodbye to him.
45:25
It took somebody risking their livelihood for that to happen
45:29
because of the CDC.
45:31
And now they just change it.
45:33
And isn't the timing really interesting here?
45:35
'Cause first of all, it's right as school is starting back.
45:39
Why didn't they announce this two months ago?
45:41
Again, no data changed, no new information came in.
45:44
Why didn't they announce this in January or April or June
45:48
or any time before, right before back to school?
45:51
Oh, we just wanted to streamline this and make it easier.
45:54
Is that it? Is that it?
45:56
Or could it have to do with the next bit
45:57
of interesting timing and that this is right before
46:00
the primaries, sorry, right after the primaries
46:02
and right before the midterms.
46:04
So they got through the primary season
46:07
and their announcement could have affected
46:09
some different people's races
46:11
and now we're on to the midterms.
46:12
Again, sometimes things are coincidences
46:16
and sometimes they're not and gosh dang it,
46:19
I don't think this is a coincidence
46:20
by any stretch of the imagination.
46:22
And again, all those things that I listed earlier,
46:25
you know, hey, make your own decisions.
46:27
Hey, we shouldn't be telling our kids
46:28
that they can't go back to school for two weeks
46:30
because, you know, they were around somebody
46:31
that had the COVID sniffles for half a second
46:33
or something like that.
46:34
All that stuff could have got you kicked off
46:35
of social media.
46:36
And the problem is, is those things were true
46:39
the entire time, but the CDC just didn't want to acknowledge it.
46:42
And that leads to the big takeaway on this story.
46:46
Guys, this was never about public safety.
46:50
It was about control.
46:52
Again, I'm not some sort of COVID conspiracy theorists.
46:55
Oh, this was a release on purpose by the Chinese
46:57
for some sort of global domination ploy
46:59
and all these different things.
46:59
Like, I know there's a lot of crap
47:01
that that's going on behind the scenes
47:03
that we will likely never know about,
47:04
about the vaccines, about the money that's going around
47:06
and all those different things.
47:07
But this was never about public safety.
47:09
This was never about protecting grandma.
47:11
This was about top down totalitarian control
47:13
from governments all around the globe.
47:15
And to that, I do see some collusion, right?
47:18
Because when one country Sweden is the only one
47:20
that's like, yeah, we're not locking down.
47:22
We're not locking down the entire society.
47:24
We're not telling kids that they can't go to school
47:26
until we feel comfortable with the fact
47:28
that they're going to school.
47:30
It was about control.
47:31
And as I've said a lot of times on this podcast
47:33
on our other interviews that I've done
47:35
and everywhere that somebody gives me a microphone,
47:37
it's not about this push.
47:39
It's about the next push.
47:40
It's always about the next push.
47:44
So for churches out there that were really, really concerned
47:47
when their local magistrates were basically telling them
47:51
when, where, how, and if they would be able to worship,
47:54
it wasn't really that bad this time, right?
47:59
Yet some guys, you know, some John MacArthur's
48:01
and all that, some lines that were actually standing
48:03
in the gap and pushing back against that darkness.
48:05
But this isn't the big one.
48:06
Again, we're a couple of months away from flu season guys.
48:10
And remember what I said about flu season?
48:12
That if you're going to lock down schools
48:13
and keep your kids out of school and make them wear a mask
48:15
and make them get a vaccine every year
48:17
for something that has a lower death rate for children
48:19
than the flu, well, what if there's a big time
48:21
flu outbreak?
48:22
We shut down schools again?
48:24
Are you taking your kids out of school?
48:26
Are you going to be okay with the university
48:28
or the, you know, the high school or whatever,
48:31
making your kid that's in band wear a mask
48:33
that has the mouth and nose part cut out
48:36
so that they can play their woodwind instrument?
48:38
Are you going to be cool with all that?
48:40
Because a large percentage of our population
48:43
is cool with that.
48:44
And the powers that be know that now,
48:48
they know how far they can push before they get pushed back.
48:50
And they know that the next time they push,
48:52
they can push a little bit farther
48:53
than they did the time before.
48:55
And it's going to be right for the taking for them.
48:58
All right, next quick hitter here in this goes
48:59
with the last one, Dr. Anthony Fauci,
49:03
might be the biggest egomaniac in history.
49:05
Now you can probably talk about some other egomaniacs,
49:07
maybe Julie Caesar, Napoleon, something like that.
49:10
But Fauci, my goodness, last week,
49:13
someone needs to get this guy in the mirror, okay?
49:15
So he was doing an interview in front of a live audience.
49:17
It was a small venue, to be honest,
49:19
I didn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out
49:21
what it was about or why he was there
49:22
'cause I frankly do not care.
49:24
But he and the, this was crazy the optics
49:27
'cause this literally happened last week.
49:29
He and the interviewer were unmasked on the dais,
49:32
basically talking back and forth in their comfy chairs.
49:35
Everyone else in the crowd is masked, like all of them.
49:38
But Fauci and the guy that is interviewing him
49:42
they're in close contact within six feet or one another
49:45
don't have to wear a mask, okay?
49:47
So let's actually go to the clip here
49:48
'cause I want you to hear what this guy had to say.
49:51
- It's called the Fauci effect,
49:53
which is sort of like, you know, as, trust me.
49:57
I don't get excited about that.
50:00
(laughing)
50:02
I mean, it's nice, but I mean, it's,
50:04
people go to medical school now,
50:08
people are interested in science, not because of me,
50:11
because people, most people don't know me who I am.
50:14
My friends know me, my wife knows me,
50:16
but people don't know me.
50:17
It's what I symbolize.
50:19
And what I symbolize in a,
50:22
in an era of the normalization of untruths and lies,
50:27
and all the things you're seeing going on in society
50:32
from January 6th to everything else that goes on,
50:36
people the craving for consistency,
50:39
for integrity, for truth and for people caring about people.
50:43
- So there's a lot of stuff to break down there,
50:45
but let me just get into some specifics in case you missed it.
50:48
So he says, it's called the Fauci effect.
50:52
It's called the Fauci effect.
50:54
No, no, no, no, no, it's not called that.
50:59
He called it that.
51:00
No one on the planet said the Fauci effect
51:04
before Anthony Fauci decided
51:06
that that was going to be a thing.
51:08
It's kind of like when someone gives themselves
51:10
their own nickname, it's a little bit weird,
51:12
even if it's a cool nickname,
51:13
but it's kind of cooler when someone else
51:15
gives you the nickname,
51:16
like that kind of makes a whole lot more sense,
51:18
but it's called the Fauci effect,
51:21
like giving your name to this thing
51:23
that is overwhelmingly positive,
51:25
but also he thinks that people are going,
51:27
he honestly thinks that people are going to go
51:29
to medical school so they can be like Dr. Fauci someday.
51:33
Kind of like when you were a little kid
51:35
and you were dribbling in the driveway
51:37
and putting up some jump shots
51:38
because you thought you were going to be Michael Jordan
51:39
someday or you're out there throwing the ball around
51:42
because someday I'm going to be Aaron Rodgers or whatever.
51:45
Right, that's what he thinks.
51:47
He thinks little kids are watching CNN
51:49
and reading the Washington Post thinking,
51:51
man, I really want to be like Dr. Fauci someday.
51:53
I'm going to work really hard in schools.
51:55
I can get into medical schools.
51:56
I can be like Dr. Fauci.
51:58
Really? Really?
51:59
You self-serving narcissistic weirdo,
52:02
but also the biggest and richest thing of all this,
52:04
aside from the fact that he called it the Fauci effect,
52:06
what a tool, he thinks that this is a symbol
52:09
of integrity and truth.
52:10
He thinks that he himself rather
52:12
is a symbol of integrity and truth.
52:15
To which point you would need to ask yourself,
52:19
how many times since the beginning of 2020
52:22
has Dr. Fauci said something
52:25
only to go back on it and re-nig it later?
52:28
How many times I have lost count
52:32
and everyone has lost count?
52:34
Like that is the reality of where we're at right now.
52:38
So when you talk about integrity and truth,
52:41
but truth keeps shifting around
52:43
and you're not basing your presentation of that truth
52:45
on any data or any new discovery,
52:49
then why should we take you seriously?
52:51
But again, he thinks he's a symbol of integrity and truth
52:55
and the big takeaway on this,
52:56
'cause I need to stop talking about
52:57
'cause he makes me so mad.
52:58
Why did we ever listen to this person?
53:01
And I'm gonna go and answer the question that I just asked you
53:03
because we thought he was legit.
53:05
When he was coming up there
53:07
and when all of us were terrified
53:08
and again, don't do this revisionist history.
53:11
You were scared.
53:12
I was scared.
53:13
Everybody was scared of COVID.
53:14
You were scared that you were gonna walk past somebody
53:16
in public and get these, you know,
53:18
cooties that were flying through the air
53:19
and then I was gonna kill you and your entire family, right?
53:22
You thought that COVID lived on surfaces
53:24
because they told us it lived on surfaces.
53:26
There are people still today
53:28
that think that COVID lives on surfaces.
53:30
That if you have COVID and you lick a countertop,
53:33
that's somehow the next person a week from now
53:35
is gonna brush their elbow up against that countertop
53:38
and they're gonna get COVID and probably die from it.
53:39
There are still people that believe that,
53:41
but we listen to Dr. Fauci
53:43
because we want to believe the experts.
53:45
We want to.
53:47
We want them to be smarter than us.
53:49
We want them to take care of us.
53:50
We want them to have our best interests at heart.
53:53
We want that so desperately.
53:55
So we're willing to go along to get along.
53:57
We're willing to go along with some of the things
53:58
that they're saying, even if they don't quite sound right,
54:01
even if we don't really agree with it,
54:02
even if it doesn't seem to make sense,
54:05
we just go with it.
54:06
But here's a great example, guys,
54:09
of when you follow someone like that
54:11
and there's nothing with which to base checking them, right?
54:15
So I'm all for you following a pastor
54:18
as they follow Christ, right?
54:20
But we've been given the Bible, right?
54:24
We've been given this unbelievable document
54:26
that we can have in our hands and have on our phones
54:29
and have on our desktops and all these different things
54:31
so that we can check what they're saying.
54:32
So if they misquote scripture or they exegeted improperly,
54:35
we can call them on it and we should.
54:37
If they're all isegesis and no exegesis,
54:40
if they're just reading things into the text
54:42
and taking their TED talk and back-ending
54:44
some scripture into it, we can call them out for it.
54:46
But with a guy like Anthony Fauci, you're not a scientist
54:49
and that's how they can control you.
54:51
Hey, hey, hey.
54:52
- I'm the science.
54:54
I'm Dr. Fauci, just listen to me.
54:56
Like I'm integrity and I'm truth.
54:58
That's what we were supposed to get, right?
55:00
Just keep that in mind as we move forward in the future.
55:03
All right?
55:04
Now we got the last quick hitter.
55:06
So this is a great place to leave it on
55:08
because we got some surprising wisdom
55:09
from a surprising source last week.
55:11
And that was from the one and only, the Macho Man,
55:14
Randy Savage.
55:15
Now, I'm a huge, or it was when I was a kid,
55:18
I was a huge pro wrestling fan.
55:19
So I grew up in the era, you know,
55:20
when Hulk Hogan was coming up and what was that?
55:22
WrestleMania III where he body slammed Andre the Giant
55:25
and Macho Man Randy Savage and Superfly Jimmy Shinuka
55:27
and like, you know, big boss man and, you know,
55:29
all that stuff, like that was the era I kind of grew up in.
55:31
Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, like all those guys.
55:34
And I saw Macho Man trending on Twitter.
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Now, for those of you that don't know,
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Macho Man Randy Savage died years and years and years ago.
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I think he had a heart attack while he was driving his car,
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drove into a tree, died pretty much instantly.
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You know, sad story for that guy.
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You know, anyway, so the guy passed away.
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So typically when somebody that's dead
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is trending on Twitter, it's almost always negative, right?
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So John Wayne will trend on Twitter
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as we like, can you believe what John Wayne said
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in an interview back in 1952 or like,
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that's kind of the thing, right?
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Like it's we're, we're post death canceling these people
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as if that's going to affect 81 except for their loved ones.
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It's not going to affect the person they're dead.
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They're worm food, right?
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But I got to set up this clip
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because I saw that he was trending on Twitter
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and then I clicked on the story.
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So this was a clip, a little like 45 second clip
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from the Arsenio Hall show.
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So that was a big time show, I believe in the 90s,
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maybe in stretch back to the 80s.
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And so Macho Man Randy Savage is on the set
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and he's got his full get up.
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This was right in the snap.
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I do a slim gym like era of his career
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and all those different things.
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And it's one of those things that I was thinking
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he was just going to be crazy and kind of cut a crazy promo
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'cause that was kind of his thing.
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But man, there was some great nuggets that he gave us
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in a less than a minute clip.
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So let's get to the clip here.
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- Okay, your middle name is Macho.
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But I'm wondering if you ever cry.
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You ever had Macho Man ever cry?
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- Oh yeah.
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- Really?
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- Yeah, it's okay for Macho Man
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to show every emotion available right there, you know?
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Because I've cried a thousand times,
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I'm going to cry some more.
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But I've soared with the Eagles
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and I've slithered with the snakes
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and I've been everywhere in between.
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And I'm going to tell you something right now.
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There's one guarantee in life
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in that there are no guarantees, yeah.
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And we don't understand this.
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(laughing)
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Nobody likes to quit or nobody said life was easy.
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So if you get knocked down,
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take the Standing 8 count, get back up and fight again.
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And you're a Macho Man here, dig it.
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(applause)
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- I mean, I absolutely love that.
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I mean, that was great.
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I remember just thinking to myself, huh, how about that?
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Macho Man Randy Savage.
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So again, he's talking about crying.
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And he's talking about all this everything.
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So I want to pull one quote out there
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and then we'll kind of wrap up.
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So this was a quote, nobody likes a quitter.
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Nobody said life was easy.
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So if you get knocked down,
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take the Standing 8 count, get back up and fight again.
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Okay, now I would have done it in his voice,
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but I can't do too much of that.
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I had a little bit of Fauci in me today,
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but I'm not trying to be hoarse for the rest of the week.
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So here's my big takeaway on this story.
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So it may seem like a stretch, but it's definitely not.
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Don't take stoic Christian manhood too far.
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So from the very beginning of the podcast,
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I quoted Jesus wept, okay?
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So Jesus, if you are a Christian,
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you believe that Jesus was not only a good man,
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that he was a perfect man,
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that he was the best man possible.
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And if you listen to my how to build
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a godly manly foxhole series from last summer,
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if you haven't listened to it, what's wrong with you?
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But if you have listened to it,
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you heard me obviously talk about that,
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that if you were to go up to people in the street
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and ask them, who are the greatest men that you know of?
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So it could be someone you know personally,
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a family member, it could be somebody
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that you've read about from history.
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You know, in the examples I threw out, maybe it's your mom,
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or sorry, mom, maybe it's your dad or your uncle
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or your brother, the best example of a man you know,
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maybe it's George Washington or Theodore Roosevelt,
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like maybe it's a modern example.
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So maybe you're looking at a guy like Tim Kennedy
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or Cam Haines or Jocko Willink or one of those guys,
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like and that's your people, right?
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Like that's what a man is.
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And so that's what I want to be someday.
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That's what I want my sons to be someday.
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And I'm not saying those are guys that you should look to.
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I think there's a lot of lessons
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that you can glean from those guys.
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But I think we would all admit
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and they would have all admitted, whether live or dead,
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that they're not perfect.
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Now they made some significant mistakes.
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One of the biggest reasons why I like Tim Kennedy's book
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is because he talked about all these horrifically bad things
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that he did throughout his entire life.
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So he was very, very open about that.
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But I do have to reckon with this sometimes
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because people, whenever I'm interviewed on shows,
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they always like to liken me to Mark Driscoll,
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which is I find by me, I don't really care about that.
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But it's about the pendulum swinging too far
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to the tough guy, four-wheel drive,
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beer-drinking, beef jerky-eaten, Christian man, right?
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Never cries, never shows emotion and all that.
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And the thing is, as I've said, over and over
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and I will say again now, that is caricature masculinity.
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As my good buddy, Joby Martin, Pastor Joby Martin said,
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all those things that you listed, you know,
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throw in college football, throw in, you know,
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fighting and training jujitsu and drinking whiskey,
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those things don't make you a man.
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They make you awesome, but they don't make you a man, right?
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And I believe that.
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But I think that there are men out there
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that are taking this stoic Christian manhood thing,
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which I cosign and think is a great thing,
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they do take it too far.
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That they don't deal with the emotions
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that are inside of them,
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and they don't express themselves
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in a way that is healthier or positive, right?
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So they would much rather bottle up all their emotions
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than to ever cry.
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They would much rather bottle up all their emotions
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or, you know, have some sort of bad and negative thing
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that they do in their life,
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as opposed to just talking to somebody
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about why they're feeling the way that they feel.
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Some men go all the way to where they eventually
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take their own life because they can't find another way
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to deal with whatever plight or pressure that they're feeling.
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Okay?
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So Jesus is our ultimate example of manhood
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and what being a great man is, and he wept.
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He cared deeply.
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He cared about his friends.
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He cared deeply about his family.
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And he expressed those emotions to include anger,
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to include stoicism, to include sarcasm,
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which not everyone's a huge fan of.
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He did all those things.
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If you read through the gospel and read it
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with a little bit of color, right?
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And a little bit of vigor and a little bit of personality.
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You get all that from the man of Jesus.
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That's what John Eldridge pointed out in his book,
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the beautiful outlaw.
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And so my encouragement to all of you guys
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as we sign off today is you should be stoic.
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You should be able to control your emotions.
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You should be meat.
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You should be able to have a tremendous amount of power
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within you spiritually, mentally and physically
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that you have under voluntary control
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or under the control of the father
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to be unleashed when he thinks it should be unleashed.
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I think all that, I think that all that
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is incredibly, incredibly positive, okay?
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But don't go too far.
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Don't be the lone wolf guy.
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Don't be the guy that doesn't need anything.
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Don't be the guy that is just constantly pulling himself up
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by his bootstraps and not asking for help.
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Don't be the guy that is not serving
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or being served inside of the local church.
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Don't do any of that.
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Because, in the words of Macha Manrini Savage,
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nobody likes quitter.
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Nobody said life was easy.
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So if you get knocked down, take the standing eight count,
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get back up and fight again.
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And guys, sometimes the trajectory of that
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is that you gotta let your guard down a little bit.
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You gotta cry a little bit.
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You gotta lean on a friend.
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You gotta lean on your foxhole.
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You gotta lean on your wife.
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And that's all good.
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It'll make you stronger, it'll make you better.
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All right guys, before we let you go,
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we are gonna do a quick resilience boost.
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