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This is Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.
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Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but
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inwardly are ravenous wolves.
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You will recognize them by their fruits.
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Our grapes gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles.
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So every healthy tree bears good fruit, but
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the disease tree bears bad fruit.
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A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a disease tree bear good fruit.
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Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Those are the words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 7, 15 through 19.
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Remember that when we get to our first quick hitter of the day.
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But guys, I just want to thank you so much for coming to the show today.
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And another quick thank you to our donors, we're so happy for you guys.
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If you're not aware, we are basically almost 100% a donor based ministry here.
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So we do get some money from advertisements, but
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it's guys like you that are hopping in on a monthly basis that are keeping us afloat.
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And especially when I've been recovering from my vocal court surgeries.
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Now, real quick, before I get into an announcement, this is just a reminder to be humble, guys.
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And I know this is going to be a shock to some of you.
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I kind of struggle with humility.
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A lot of times I kind of need to get checked.
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That's one of the reasons why I liked jujitsu so much.
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But about a week and a half ago, I tell my wife, babe, I don't make mistakes when it comes
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to my show.
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Like I'll miss speak and do, you know, make mistakes like while recording, but in terms
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of taking the show, getting it uploaded to the Internet so you guys can listen to it.
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I don't make mistakes.
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Hey, babe.
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We're almost 500 episodes in.
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I don't make mistakes.
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And literally, like two days later, I realized I released the wrong forging table episode,
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right?
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I released what was a Proverbs one as opposed to Matthew one, right?
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So not really the best moment for me.
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So that was kind of like a little bit of humble pie.
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And then, you know, hey, but anyone can make a mistake.
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You know, one mistake every 500 episodes isn't so bad, right?
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Well, don't you know about a few days later when I recorded episode 409, I put something
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in in the middle there, and I forgot to move my outro music.
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And so the the quick hitter or the quick resilience boost rather at the very end had outro music
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over the top of it.
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So I fixed it and re uploaded the track, but not into, you know, before like a bunch of
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you guys reached out and said, Hey, Kyle, you're an idiot.
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Like, what would you do that for?
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So that's just a reminder to you guys.
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Let's just make sure that we stay humble.
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Okay.
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Don't go testing the universe or testing God or testing your wife or any of that.
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Just just be humble.
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And if you make a mistake, just roll with it.
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My wife even said she's like, I think that was for you because you have very little
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grace for people that make mistakes.
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I think this is all happening specifically for you.
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She's probably right.
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But I did want to make a big announcement.
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So this is similar to something we did earlier this year, but our friends at Stevenson knives
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have graciously donated another custom knife that will go to one special supporter of Undaunted
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Life.
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So let me grab it.
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Look at this thing.
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You're not watching this on YouTube or on rumble right now.
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You are absolutely missing out.
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That is a custom knife Damascus.
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I'm hoping that the the camera is picking up what that looks like.
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The pictures will be on our social media and I'm sending out an email to everybody here
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in a second.
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So I'll talk more about the knife here in a little bit, but Blaine and Sean Stevenson,
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a father son team, they wanted to help raise money for Undaunted Life.
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And so they wanted to donate a knife for us to raffle off to one lucky donor.
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We did that earlier this year and we raised close to $5,000 because this wasn't just a
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fundraiser for Undaunted Life, but the three of us decided that we wanted to split the
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money between 50% to Undaunted Life and 50% to charity.
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And so this time around with this unbelievable Damascus knife, we're going to be giving 50%
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to the rescue team of the Tim Tebow Foundation.
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So if you've missed out on the cigar announcements and some of the discussions there, the rescue
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team is what the Tim Tebow Foundation does for anti human trafficking and child exploitation.
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So some key things that this team does.
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Number one is prevention.
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So they are dedicated to ending the cycle before it begins and they're doing that by
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educating training and providing new policies for different jurisdictions.
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The second part is rescue.
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So they actively respond to crisis and they partner with those that are executing actual
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physical rescue missions of children and others that are stuck in in sex trafficking.
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So prevention rescued and the last is survivor care, okay?
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So they are very, very committed to the supporting the long term recovery of these people that
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are recovered because not only do they have physical problems after they are rescued,
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they also have mental, emotional, social, spiritual healing that needs to take place.
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And so they're all about taking care of these people for that entire trauma cycle.
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So they currently have operations in 30 countries, 30 plus countries, actually, actually they
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have five safe homes around the world.
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They're partnering in 13 more, they have 15 additional ones that are the progress of being
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taken care of so that these people can be squared away.
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And so here's my big hairy audacious goal with this knife raffle and I'm going to describe
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the knife here in a second.
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We want to raise $10,000.
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So I want to double what you guys were able to do last time with this one so that we can
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support operations here at Undaunted Life and especially so that we can support with the
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rescue team of the Tim Tebow Foundation is doing.
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So to all you guys out there that are listening to this that have all this expendable income
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and whatever, all you big daddy deep pockets guys, we need y'all to hop in on this one.
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So let's describe this knife real quick.
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So this is Stevenson knives.
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This is the Texas Hunter number two, okay?
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So the blade itself is a twisted, twisted pattern 1084 and 15 in 20 Damascus over pure
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nickel with a 52 100 carbon steel core.
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So if you're not like a metal or knife guy, like that's not going to, you know, make a
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lot sense to you, but hey, for those of you guys that are, it's going to make a big difference.
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Now the handle is gorgeous.
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Look at that thing.
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So this is amber dyed camel bone and it's got a black G 10 liner and mosaic pins.
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So absolutely gorgeous.
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The tang is tapered.
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The sheath right here.
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This is handmade top grade Herman Oak leather.
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This knife guys normally retails at $450.
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But one of you guys is going to get it probably for significantly less than that.
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So this is the skinny on the raffle and then we'll start digging in a little bit more today.
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Any person that donates $25 through our donation website, so you've heard me talk about all
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the time on don to dot life backslash donate, right?
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Anyone that donates $25 through that website between now and October 23rd, okay?
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So just I think it's a little over a month, October 23rd and puts the word knife in the
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comments section.
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That's very important.
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Because if you do a donation and it doesn't say knife in the comments section, I won't
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know that's for this raffle, okay?
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They will automatically have their name entered into the randomized drawing for the knife.
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They will get one entry, okay?
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Now for every $25 that you donate, that equals one spot in the raffle, okay?
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So if you donate a hundred bucks, your name goes in the randomizer four times.
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If you donate a thousand bucks, which we had a guy do last time, your name would go into
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the randomizer 40 times so on and so forth, okay?
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So if you are a current monthly donor of undaunted life, I got you, I got your back regardless
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of how long or how much you've been donating, you will put, we are going to put your name
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into the randomizer twice.
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Just as a thank you for doing what you are just currently doing, but current donors can
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also make additional donations to have their name in the raffle more.
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We had a bunch of you guys do that last time.
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We will take a video of us doing the randomizer post that on our Instagram and announce the
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winner on our show on October the 26th.
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So guys in the show notes to support us, to support the rescue team, that link will be
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in the show notes again.
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Make sure you put knife in the subject bar where you can like leave a comment right on
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our donation page there on our website.
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So we're going to be hitting a lot of quick hitters today because we're going to have
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a little bit of a shorter episode, maybe who knows, we will see how it goes.
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But here are the quick hitters for today.
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Al Mulder calling out Andy Stanley by name, a teenage driver intentionally hitting and
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killing a retired police chief while he was riding his bicycle.
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Donald Trump absolute his ridiculous answer to a question about a federal abortion ban.
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The police involved shooting death of Takaiah Young, a successful womb transplant in the
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UK.
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And that will almost assuredly be the starting point of the men can now get pregnant revolution.
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So a British nurse being found guilty of murdering seven babies in her care, seven newborns,
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the deadly floods in Libya and the injury that ended the season of the modern day Babe
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Ruth show.
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Hey, oh, Tony, but before we get there, guys, if you're anything like me, you at least try
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to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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I mean, if you're like me, you will watch YouTube videos and you will try to kind of
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fix things and solve things in your own way.
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And that doesn't always, you know, lead to really, really good outcomes for you.
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Because doing that could lead to you wasting a lot of time, wasting a lot of money, you
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know, time and money that you otherwise could have spent on your family, on your business,
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on yourself, who knows.
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But that is especially true when it comes to information technology, IT and data security,
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right?
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So that's why I want to introduce you guys to my friends at LMS Tech.
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Now, here's a question that's been posed to probably most you in the audience over the
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last week or so.
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How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
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Some of you are already laughing at the fact that that question has even been posed here
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in modernity.
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And some of you, you know, as I found out with the Oliver Anthony thing a few weeks ago,
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you have been living under a rocky basically don't know what's going on anywhere at any
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time.
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So let me explain this trend to you.
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So over the weekend, so literally not even a week ago where whether you're on TikTok or
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Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, there were these videos that were popping up of women
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asking the men in their life, you know, their husbands, fiance's boyfriends, brothers, you
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know, uncles, dads, that kind of thing.
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Hey, how often do you think about the Roman Empire and they would record their reactions.
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And so these men would be like, well, what are you talking about?
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The Roman Empire blah, blah, blah, blah, but most of the time these men would say, you
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know, I don't know, maybe a few times a week and you know, or a few times a month or, you
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know, hey, when's the last time you thought about the Roman Empire?
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I don't know this morning when I was eating breakfast.
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That was a common answer for a lot of these men and the women would just, they would just
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start laughing and giggling because they're like, Oh my God, I can't believe you think
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about the Roman Empire that much.
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I don't think about that much.
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And that was it.
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Right.
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That was basically the trend.
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When holds phone, it's record asks, how often do you think about the Roman Empire man says
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more often than you would expect, right?
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So that's the trend.
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Okay.
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That's how it's set up.
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But the videos have just been all over the place.
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I mean, guys, just to put this into perspective, I don't know where this started.
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I don't know if this is some sort of sci-op from the communist regime in China, but we're
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talking about millions of different videos that have been posted all over social media.
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The views for those videos are in the hundreds of millions, if not billions of videos by
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the time this podcast is released.
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Okay.
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So this is a major thing and women all over the globe are just kind of rolling their eyes
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at the fact that their men think about the Roman Empire so much.
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And now we're starting to see, you know, when anything goes viral, obviously podcasters
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like me will talk about it.
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There are think pieces and different news organizations and things like that.
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So there's a lot of people that have opinions about this and it's made, you know, this trend
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has actually made millions and millions of men around the globe think about just exactly
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how often they do think about the Roman Empire.
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So I'm going to play along today.
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So if my wife were to come up to me and ask me, Hey, babe, how often do you think about
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the Roman Empire?
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My answer would be every single day, multiple times a day, like that is the legitimate answer.
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Now that begs another question, which is why Kyle, do you think about the Roman Empire
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so much?
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So I have several reasons I'm going to explain, but then I'm going to break down why I think
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most men think about the Roman Empire so much.
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So one reason is it's because it's my number one most favorite time period in history.
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So to me, it's the most interesting time in history, regardless of kind of where you're
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dropped into the Roman Empire.
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So some others that I really like and I'm interested in, I mentioned interested obviously
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like an ancient Israel, biblical Israel, the American West, those are some other time periods,
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but I've consumed more books, more movies, more television shows about the Roman Empire
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time period than any other one of my favorite shows of all time is a show called Rome that
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HBO made.
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Obviously, if they could just delete all the useless sex scenes, it would make the show
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significantly better, but it's one of my favorite shows because it's in this time period.
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And if I could visit any time period, I would visit that one.
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I wouldn't want to live there, right?
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People like, Oh, what era would you want to live in yesterday?
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That's the era I would want to live in.
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I don't want to get dental surgery in, you know, the ADs, you know what I mean?
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Like the early ADs or even BCs, like there's no chance I would want to do that, but I would
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love to go back to when the call scene was at its full glory, when you could walk through
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the the forum, the Roman forum, when you could go to the Palatine Hill, you know, when circus
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Maximus was actually running cherry races, that's what I would love to just see.
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Another reason why I think about the Roman Empire so often is because the city of Rome
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is my favorite city that I've ever been to out of all the cities I've been to in the
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world.
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It's my favorite international city to spend time in because I've gone to quite a few international
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cities and not just the airport, but actually spent time there.
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So Florence, Venice, I've spent time on the Amalfi Coast, Amsterdam, London, Dublin, Athens,
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Osaka, Istanbul, Sydney, Perth, Auckland, and there's more that I'm probably forgetting.
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These are just cities that I've been very blessed to be able to go to and my wife and
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I've made the financial sacrifices, especially early in our marriage to make sure that we
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should travel.
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And even with all those cities and as great as some of those cities are, Rome is my favorite.
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It's absolutely my favorite.
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I love walking the streets of Rome.
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I love that.
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Oh, you're getting some gelato here and then you walk out of the gelato shop and oh, there's
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the pantheon.
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That's pretty awesome.
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Like the call of seeing him.
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Like I've thought about before.
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Like if I were to go and be in a really rough part of my life, I would just go go to Rome.
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I would get a cigar and I would walk around the call of seeing him at night.
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That's one of my favorite things that I've ever done.
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I got a Cuban cigar at a shop across from the call of seeing him.
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It was at probably 10 o'clock at night when it's all lit up and I just walked around the
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outside of the call of seeing him.
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I absolutely love it.
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Another reason why I think about the Roman Empire all the time is it's the setting of
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my favorite movie ever, which is Gladiator.
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So I don't think I really need to flow for too long on that because for most of you guys,
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that's probably a top 10 movie for you as well.
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But also I think about the Roman Empire because the tattoos, a lot of my tattoos are very
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Roman inspired.
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So on my left shoulder kind of deltoid area, I have a Roman porstron chariot a little bit
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lower on that.
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You probably can't see it, but I've got a rendering of kind of my wife, but she's dressed
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up in kind of traditional Roman aristocratic garb behind her is kind of a pantheon style
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building.
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Guys, don't worry.
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I'm not like worshiping multiple gods.
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It's just a building.
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And on my right arm, I have something that is inspired by the song The Finisher by O.
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Sleeper.
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And so at the end of that song, Satan is about to have his horns cut off by God.
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And so I took a statue in Florence that is of Hercules fighting a sintar and he's kind
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of got the sintar back and he's got a club in his hand and he's about to hit him.
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I had my artist kind of change that to where it's like a winged goat, like a behemoth or
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something like that that's described, you know, kind of in occultic circles or whatever.
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And then there's a godlike figure standing over him about to cut his horns off.
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And what is that godlike figure holding?
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He's holding a Roman gladius, a Roman sword, short sword, okay?
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But the main reason why I think about the Roman Empire daily is because I literally think
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about the crucifixion of Jesus and his subsequent resurrection daily.
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I think about it all the time and as a Christian, it's not my cob for you to do so.
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You should always remind yourself of the sacrifice that God made of his only son so that you
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would have propitiation for your sins, absolutely.
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And who performed the death penalty of Jesus of Nazareth, the Romans, who perfected the
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brutal art of death by crucifixion, the Romans, which empire did Pontius Pilate represent,
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the Roman Empire, right?
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Guys, the entirety of Jesus's life and ministry takes place under the ultimate and far reaching
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thumb of Rome, right?
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We see that come up as we read different gospel accounts, different, you know, artistic renderings
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of Jesus's life, whether in print or on a canvas or on a silver screen, they depict
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Roman soldiers and they at least depict Pontius Pilate, right?
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So those are some of the reasons why I think about the Roman Empire, but as I kind of extrapolate
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this out to the greater manhood community of the world, I guess, I gave it some thought
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as to why men in general think about the Roman Empire so much and I came up with five reasons.
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And the fifth one is the most obvious and the most important.
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So stick with me.
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The first reason why I think men think about the Roman Empire so much is as men, we think
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about prolonged dominance because the Roman Empire certainly had its ups and downs.
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You don't have to be an expert in Roman history to know that, but this was a dominant hegemon
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of the world for a very, very, very long time.
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Their footprint covered dozens of countries in modernity like it was just a very widespread
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dominant thing.
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And again, think back to, you know, kind of whenever I was growing up, I was during the
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Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls era and the reason for me, even though I was like a little kid,
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you know, in elementary school and then getting into junior high.
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It was such a dominant thing that it was just you were enamored by it because the Michael
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Jordan Bulls are probably the most dominant team in the history of the big sports, right?
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So you might say, Oh, what about the Yankees 27 championships?
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Yeah, but they want a ton of those like in the thirties and forties and yeah, they had
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some dominant teams, but in modern big five sports or the, I guess the big four.
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So that would be, you know, the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball and the NHL.
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There's nothing that really compares to Michael Jordan's Bulls in the nineties, nothing.
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And we like that as men, we, even if we hate the bulls, even if we're a fan of a different
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team, the Pistons or the Celtics or something like that, we got to respect that prolonged
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dominance.
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Another reason why I think men think about the Roman Empire often is as men, we think
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about why powerful dynasties, eventually and inevitably fall.
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So obviously you don't need to be a history buff to understand that the Roman Empire fell,
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right?
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The reason why you can go to Rome and look at its ruins is because the Roman Empire is
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no more.
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And then to go back to the MJ example, MJ had to retire eventually.
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I mean, he came back and, you know, did his little thing with the wizards, but he had
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to retire at some point.
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If you watched the last dance, which is a fantastic documentary, you got to see how he
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potentially went to come back and go for number seven.
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But the owner of the team, at least according to the documentary, was like, yeah, we don't
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really want to do that.
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We can't really extend ourselves out financially that much.
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But then it had to come to an end.
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Even if they had gone for seven or eight or nine, or if MJ hadn't really left to go do
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baseball for a couple of years, maybe they do run off seven, eight, nine in a row, but
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it comes to an end.
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And then the next, like the vacuum was there and I was filled by Shaq, Kobe and Phil with
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the Lakers, right?
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But we just were so interested in watching these dynasties eventually fall.
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Another reason that I think men think about the Roman Empire so much as as men, we think
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about leaving a legacy because Rome has left such a legacy.
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If you think about it just architecturally, the aqueducts, like you need to go watch
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YouTube videos about the Roman aqueducts and what they were able to do so long ago.
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It will absolutely blow your mind.
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And the roads that they created that are still there, the walls, the bridges, they're literally
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bridges where they have printed on the bridge.
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I have built a bridge that will last forever and they're lasting longer than bridges that
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are built in modernity here in the United States.
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But when you think about certain emperors, do you think about Julius Caesar?
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Do you think about Octavius?
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You think about Hadrian?
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Do you think about Marcus Aurelius?
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And then obviously with Marcus Aurelius, obviously you need to read meditations.
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It's on our book list on our website.
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You have the philosophy that comes from a lot of these men.
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That's, you know, the stoic philosophies kind of comes from this era as well.
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The political inventions.
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There are things that are happening right now in Washington DC that we wouldn't have gotten
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the ideas to do if not for the Roman Empire.
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Another reason why I think men think about the Roman Empire so much is as men, you guys
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know, this is true.
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We think about fighting in general a lot.
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And we also think about fighting to the death a lot.
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So for some of you that are a little bit more docile, maybe that doesn't make a lot of
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sense to you.
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But like for me, I'm a fairly aggressive guy.
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Obviously I do jiu jitsu and I run scenarios in my brain all the time about if I got in
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a fight to the death, whether I'm armed or not, fighting another human being until one
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of us dies.
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Right?
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There's a lot of people that have kind of thought about here even recently.
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You know, who's the baddest man on the planet?
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Right?
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Is it Tyson Fury, the, the baddest boxer on the planet or is it a guy like John Jones
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and Dana White basically said it perfectly.
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He's like, if you look and named Joe and said the same.
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If you put John Jones and Tyson Fury in a room and only one of them gets to leave every
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single time that that's done, John Jones leaves that room like there.
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There's just no two ways about it.
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What do we think about fighting and fighting to the death?
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Isn't that just gladiatorial combat part of the bread and circus?
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We think about fighting guys.
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One thing they used to do back in, back in the day when the call scene was in all its
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glory, they would fill the Colosseum floor with water and they would have naval battles
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inside of there.
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They would have ships and people would do these battles.
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But then obviously, you know, about the hand-to-hand combat whenever they're, you know, men are
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fighting men and then, you know, men are fighting against animals like bears and lines and stuff
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like that.
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We think about that a lot because a lot of men at least watch MMA, but perhaps they
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train MMA.
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They train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, kickboxing, other legitimate martial arts.
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And then, you know, there's, I've said this before for me.
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When I compete in a Jiu Jitsu tournament, I kind of get myself mentally into this.
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I'm going to kill you headspace before competition.
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It's not healthy.
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I'm not saying that you should do that, but it's like I have to turn on a different switch
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because in the room with your teammates, you can't just rip, rip submissions.
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You can't hold it a second or two longer.
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You will tap for someone else.
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A number of times I've let go of stuff because, you know, a tough white belt wasn't going
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to tap.
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It's like, look, you know, no one needs to get hurt today.
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But in a tournament, it's like, no, break it.
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Hey, if he's not going to tap, freaking break it, hurt him, right?
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And where does that come from?
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It's in the DNA of a man because at some point you may have to do that to protect your family,
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to protect yourself.
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So that's why I think men think about it.
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But this is the biggest reason and then we'll wrap up this whole Roman Empire thing with
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this comment.
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The last reason that I thought of in terms of why men are so interested in the Roman Empire
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and think about it so often is as men, we think about Virtus, Virtus.
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So some of you that name or that word rather probably sounds decently familiar.
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It's V-I-R-T-U-S.
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Now there's a pretty good definition from Wikipedia for this word, but let's talk about it.
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It's a specific virtue in ancient Rome and it carries connotations of valor, masculinity,
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excellence, courage, character, and worth perceived as masculine strengths.
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So it was thus a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors and was personified as a deity
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named Virtus.
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So for some of you, maybe Virtus, that's maybe a little bit too philosophical, but you can
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obviously understand, you know, excellence, courage, worth, those types of things.
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What about strength and honor to go back to gladiator?
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There's a lot of quotable things from the movie gladiator, but very early on before
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they're about to go into battle, they all say strength and honor, you know, Maximus
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has strength and honor and then all of his generals say back to him, strength and honor,
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we get that.
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That's Virtus and as a man, we again, I want to read this list because it makes sense to
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us as men and it makes sense why a woman wouldn't think about this because think about this
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list in terms of your wife and how often she would think about these things, valor, masculinity,
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excellence, courage, character, and worth through the lens of masculine strengths.
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Those aren't things that women can't feel.
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Certainly that would be a stupid thing to say and to defend, but this is a very, very
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big deal to most men.
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And I think that is a great thing, but it has to be meeked.
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Again, what does meekness mean?
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It doesn't mean weakness.
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It doesn't mean navel gazing.
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It means you are in complete control of all of your God given strengths and powers, but
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it is tethered to the father.
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So Virtus in and of itself is not enough because valor for valor's sake is not enough.
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Excellence for excellence sake, character for character is sake.
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These masculine strengths are not enough by themselves.
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It's great for men to think about.
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It's great for men to aspire towards.
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But again, you have to think about it from a worldview perspective.
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If we are just highly evolved chimps that can talk to one another and wear pants and
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you know, we just evolved from lower level chimps that evolved from fish that evolved
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from goo that evolved from star dust, then none of this matters.
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Again, valor masculinity, excellence, courage, character worth, none of that matters because
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we're all worm food at the end of the day.
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But if God is real, if God is triune in nature, if God sent his son to earth to die
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in our place, so that our sins could be paid for so that we could be in his presence someday
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when we pass away from this world, this matters a lot.
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I mean, it matters a lot a lot.
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So how often do you think about the Roman Empire guys, you should think about it all
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the time.
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All right.
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I'm ready.
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Let's get into the quick hitters.
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First one here, almolar, the great almolar calling out Andy Stanley by name.
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So if you have no idea who almolar is and you have no idea why he would be calling Andy
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Stanley out, go back to episode four 99 from last week.
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And almolar, he's got a great podcast called the briefing, you should kind of get up to
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date on that.
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But again, if you don't know why Andy Stanley is in hot water right now, go back to episode
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four 99 from last Thursday, check that out.
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But this is according to himself, because almolar wrote a column for world.
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And so I won't read the whole thing.
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I'll skip around a little bit.
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You can read it for yourself.
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It'll be in the show notes, but let's get into the article that almolar right.
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It's not like we have not seen this coming.
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Andy Stanley is set to host the unconditional conference at a campus of North Point Community
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Church in coming days.
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And the website for the conference builds this as a two day premiere event, especially
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a design for parents of LGBTQ plus children and ministry leaders.
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Quote, you will be equipped, refreshed and inspired as you hear from leading communicators
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on topics that speak to your heart, soul and mind.
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Unquote.
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One statement stands out in the description, quote, no matter what theological stance you
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hold, we invite you to listen, reflect, and learn as we approach this topic from the
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quieter middle space, unquote, the promise of quieter middle space might appear attractive
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given the volatility of cultural discourse on LGBTQ plus issues and con and a conference
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designed to help parents of LGBTQ plus children and ministry leaders work through these issues
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in clearly biblical terms would be a welcome development.
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But the advertising for the unconditional conference indicates clearly that this event is designed
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as a platform for normalizing the LGBTQ plus revolution, while claiming that the conference
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represents quieter middle space.
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In truth, there is no middle space on these issues, and it is no longer plausible to claim
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that such middle space exists a men and a men on that that in the article he talks a little
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bit about the scheduled speakers.
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I detailed that last week will skip towards the end here.
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This conference is not really quiet, nor is it middle space.
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It is structured, it is structured at what most evangelicals would quickly recognize
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as a departure from historic normative biblical Christianity.
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Andy Stanley, one of the most influential pastors in the United States has been moving in this
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direction for years, often by suggestion and assertion by, but clouded by confusion and
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the deliberate avoidance of clarity.
30:56
Back in 2018, he called for the church to be unhitched from the Old Testament, arguing
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that the Old Testament should not be understood as the go to resource regarding any behavior
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in the church.
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There goes you shall not lie with a man as with a woman.
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It is an abomination as we see in Leviticus 1822.
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But in truth, there goes the entire Old Testament.
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A few years before that, in a 2012 message, Stanley seemed to argue that adultery is a
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sin, but told of two men in a relationship with no suggestion that the same sex coupling
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was forbidden by scripture.
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When the message became controversial, Stanley did not clarify the situation at all.
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More recently, in another message, Andy Stanley dismissed biblical texts against homosexual
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behavior as clobber versus and said, quote, if your theology gets in the way of ministry,
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like if there's somebody you can't minister to because of your theology, you have the
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wrong theology, unquote.
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This is not a misunderstanding.
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This is a trajectory that points to the unconditional conference and two speakers married to other
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men on the platform.
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This is a clear and tragic departure from biblical Christianity.
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I absolutely love this by Albert Mueller.
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I love that he did it and I love that he did it boldly.
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And here's my big takeaway on this one.
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We need more prominent pastors naming names.
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Again, it's just my opinion, but where are the other prominent pastors naming names?
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So we had Lucas Miles on the show a couple of months ago in his latest book, woke Jesus.
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He named pastors by name, but in a previous book, he named pastors just tangentially.
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He named them kind of in spirit, but he didn't name them by name.
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Now, you could have drew some conclusions as to who he was talking about, but he didn't
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do it on purpose.
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And how most pastors talk about it is they'll say, well, you know, there's some pastor these
32:42
days that will tell you that a boy can become a girl and that's just not right.
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Or some pastor these days, you know, they just, they've come out as, you know, gay affirming
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and that's just not right.
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So why not name the names?
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Like again, some people are like, Oh, that seems icky.
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That seems rude.
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That seems judgmental.
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Yes.
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But we see from scripture, not that we are not to judge, but that we are to judge the
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right people inside the church and to not to judge them so harshly as to kind of throw
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the scales into our favor as we judge them and to take the judgment seat of God as we
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do so.
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But we are to judge all the same.
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And so why the reluctance to use names again, I'm not a pastor.
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So as a podcaster, I can say whatever I want, right?
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And you get to choose whether or not you listen, whether or not you share and whether or not
33:28
you support.
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And that's fine.
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I'm fine with that setup.
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But I don't see a biblical reason why pastors shouldn't do that again.
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Look at what Paul did to Peter.
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Peter was acting out in a very, I guess you could say racist way with the Judaizers and
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Paul rebuked him publicly to his face to which you might say, well, Robert Mueller didn't
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take this directly to Andy Stanley.
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Here's the thing, Andy Stanley is a public person.
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So if he had a personal relationship with him and something came up, he would go to him
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individually.
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So here's some good examples.
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Let's say a Joby Martin or John Cooper or Phil Robertson or any of these great Christian
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men, some pastors, some not, but great Christian men nonetheless.
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If they didn't said something in public that was absolutely reprehensible or something
34:15
on social media or something like that, I would go to them individually.
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I wouldn't blast them on the show because I have an individual relationship with them.
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But with someone like Andy Stanley or Stephen Fertik or Hillsong in general or Carl Lentz
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or something like that, these are public people that have made their pronouncements publicly.
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And so why should I not be able to denounce those things that they're saying publicly?
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So this is my encouragement to pastors out there to people with platforms.
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If you have pulpits and if you have platforms, use them in a way that Albert Mueller did.
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We need to call the wolves out that are in our midst.
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Our next quick hitter here, a teenage driver intentionally hitting and killing a retired
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police chief while he was riding his bicycle.
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So this is according to the New York Post, a retired California police chief appeared
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to be deliberately mowed down and killed while riding his bike in Las Vegas by a laughing
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teenage driver whose pal can be heard saying, yeah, hit his ass video of the incident shows
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on Dreyus, props to 64 was killed after he was deliberately struck while out for a morning
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bike ride around 6 a.m. on August or on August the 14th, according to Las Vegas police.
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The unidentified 17 year old driver of the Hyundai was arrested by police soon afterward.
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The Las Vegas Review Journal reported that Tina has since been charged with murder after
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police discovered a video posted on social media that allegedly showed him deliberately
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hitting the man.
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This weekend, the shocking footage went viral online, showing the driver asking his pals
35:42
ready as the passenger films laughing.
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Excuse me.
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So I was going to put this, you know, in the notes so you can guys can watch the video,
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but I'm assuming most of you have seen the video by now, but this was a stolen car.
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These two young men were joy riding in it right before this incident that I just described.
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They literally tried to run another car off the road and the guy in the passenger seat
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just filming the whole thing.
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They think it's hilarious.
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They're trying to run a car off the road.
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And so they take off running the guy like hangs his arm out the window.
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And then they see this man riding his bike on the side of the road, right?
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Not on the sidewalk, unfortunately, but on the side of the road.
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And then they literally said, yeah, hit him.
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Let's hit him.
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And so they do.
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And you can see in the video, it's very brutal.
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The man flies back onto the windshield and he's dumped onto the road.
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They turn the camera around and he's on the road and they're laughing.
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It thought it was hilarious and the guy died.
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I mean, the fact that they thought it was funny again, I thought some things were funny
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when I was like 16.
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That weren't funny, but never hurting people hurting people like that mortally wounding
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somebody.
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Absolutely not.
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Now I personally think that the driver should get the death penalty.
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I mean, we literally have him doing this crime on camera.
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There's there's nothing you could say that would be like, Oh, this is okay for this reason
37:05
and in this reason, and perhaps the passenger should get the same penalty.
37:09
He should at least get life in prison because he encouraged his buddy to do it and it was
37:14
wanton disregard for the health and safety of the entire public because even before that
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they were literally trying to run other cars off the road.
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So my big takeaway on this one, there's a lot of ways you can take a story like this.
37:27
But this situation is a downstream consequence of, I guess, the witches brew of a loss of
37:34
societal morality, lack of fathers, and social media cloud chasing.
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So let's talk about societal morality.
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I feel like gone are the days of I'm going to try to love my neighbor as myself.
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You know, again, you'll see that a lot in small towns and really all over.
37:49
There's pockets all over the place where you see people give of themselves to take care
37:52
of others.
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But on a societal level, we allow a lot of people to suffer.
37:59
We just let homeless people that are substance abusers or criminals or mental health problems
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that are befalling them.
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We just kind of let them sit out there and suffer.
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Right?
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We can't really do anything about it.
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Right?
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Let's just let the government try and fix it, but we've kind of lost that societal morality.
38:17
And also, I don't know anything about these two young men, but can we assume that they
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didn't have good fathers in their life?
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How many of you guys, either for yourself or the people that you know in your life, that
38:30
had good fathers, fathers that were around, fathers that were, you know, pouring into
38:34
the life so their kids went out and did stuff like this?
38:38
I mean, sure that happens.
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You could have a good family and just have, you know, literally a rotten egg who goes
38:43
out and does something crazy and murderous.
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But can we assume that these boys didn't have great fathers?
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I mean, the statistics are with me in that assumption, because it's like the majority
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of kids now are growing up in single mother households, especially of the race of these
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two young guys, right?
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They're growing up without a dad around.
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They're growing up without father figures.
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And another thing is social media clout.
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Why were they filming?
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Again, we all have smartphones.
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We all have tablets, but don't be that guy, you know, recording with your tablet.
39:12
That's weird.
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But we have our smartphones and so we can't enjoy the concert.
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We have to film it through our crappy little camera on our phone.
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We can't just hang out with our kids.
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We have to take pictures and I do the same thing, take pictures and take video so we
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can, you know, remember it for later.
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But a lot of people are doing things specifically with social media clicks and likes and shares
39:31
in mind.
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And I have to do that because that's part of the business because if our social media
39:37
presence doesn't grow, we can't equip more men around the globe to push back darkness.
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So I get it.
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But these aren't people that are running a business.
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These are just two idiots, two jerks that decided that they were going to steal a car.
39:50
Again, reminder and then film them trying to hurt people because the thing is, is I don't
39:56
want to hear this excuse like, Oh, they're just 16.
39:59
You know, they didn't know that they were going to kill the guy when they ran into the
40:02
back of his bike going 40 or 50 miles an hour on a road.
40:07
Of course they knew that was a possibility and those same people that would argue that
40:10
would also argue that somebody much younger than that can choose their gender and choose
40:14
whether or not they should have their genitalia removed, right?
40:17
But this is just, it's a gross story. I absolutely hate it for this man's family.
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And I hope both of these both of these guys get the full brunt of the law when it comes
40:25
to what the outcome is going to be.
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All right.
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Next quick hitter here, Donald Trump's absolutely ridiculous answer to a question about a federal
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abortion ban.
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So this was shared all over the place on Twitter over the weekend.
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This was a recent interview that Trump did with Meet the Press.
40:42
And I can't remember the gal's name that did the interview.
40:44
I thought she did a pretty fantastic job of trying to be fair.
40:47
I think it was like her first interview on Meet the Press.
40:50
And so, you know, your first interview is a former president.
40:52
That's interesting.
40:53
So let's go to the clip here.
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Mr. President, I want to give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election.
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Yeah.
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A very clear sense of.
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I think they're all going to like me.
41:03
I think both sides are going to like me.
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Let me, let me, let me.
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What's going to have to happen is you're going to have to ask this question.
41:09
You're asking me a question.
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What's going to happen is you're going to come up with a number of weeks or months.
41:14
You're going to come up with a number that's going to make people happy.
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Because 92% of the Democrats don't want to see abortion after a certain period of time.
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If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were reelected, would you sign it at 15?
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Are you talking about a complete ban?
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A ban at 15 weeks.
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Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks.
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That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now.
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Would you sign that?
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I would, I would sit down with both sides and I negotiate something and we'll end up with
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peace in that issue for the first time in 52 years.
41:52
I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't.
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I mean, the sanctus was willing to sign a five week and six week ban.
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Would you support that?
41:59
You think that's a spark?
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I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.
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I mean, there's a lot of things are that you can point to obviously, Trump has his bombastic
42:07
style.
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He's going to interrupt.
42:09
He's going to do different things.
42:10
But the first hint that this was going in a bad direction was when she brings up a 15
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week abortion ban and he's like, Oh, you know, he kind of vacillates.
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He's like, yeah, you know, 15 weeks.
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And, you know, I would do this thing where I'm going to pretend to be moderate and pretend
42:23
like I can come up with a deal that both sides of this issue would like again, to go back
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with what Robert Mueller was saying about the Andy Stanley stuff.
42:29
What exactly is the middle position on abortion?
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Like, Oh, it's okay to kind of kill kids.
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Yeah.
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I mean, what exactly is that position?
42:37
But the worst quote is obviously at the end, so you have Trump saying the sanctus is willing
42:40
to sign a five week and six week ban week ban, which the desanctus thing, can we just talk
42:44
about how that's maybe the worst of all the, the nicknames that he's come up with?
42:47
But yeah, he's willing to sign a five or six week ban and she to her credit said, would
42:51
you support that?
42:52
Do you think that goes too far?
42:54
And then Trump said this, which could be brought into two different statements.
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He says this, I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.
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Okay.
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A terrible thing and a terrible mistake.
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That's important because Trumpsters are trying to spend this now to say, no, no, no, no,
43:11
he was saying it wasn't advantageous to the electorate because obviously you have to be
43:15
moderate if you, if you want to get a wins in the general election and things like that.
43:20
But no, no, no, I'm going to take him out his word.
43:23
You could say it was a terrible mistake and you could make the political argument, but he
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said it's a terrible thing.
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It's a terrible thing that Ron DeSantis signed a six week abortion ban in the state of Florida.
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Think about that statement that that is egregious.
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It's a horrible thing for him to say, so I'm going to get right to my big takeaway on this
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one.
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I'll remind you again, I've never, not even for a second believed that Donald Trump was
43:50
pro life in his heart, but he legislated in a more pro life way than any president in
43:57
the United States history, as we can see with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and getting
44:01
the three justices on the Supreme Court.
44:03
But it looks like now he's trying to moderate on many hot button issues, which is one of
44:10
the many things that I think should disqualify him from consideration this time around.
44:14
So in that same interview or not, that same interview, rather, it was with Megan Kelly.
44:18
She was asked about, Hey, can a man become a woman?
44:21
And he just kind of goes, but like his answer was just kind of mealy mouth nonsense.
44:27
But again, you could easily say, Hey, it doesn't matter what Trump says and you know, it matters
44:32
what he does if he gets into office.
44:35
But if you're a pro life Christian conservative Republican thinking about who you're going
44:40
to vote for, it's not binary right now.
44:43
Because as I've told you before and as I've gone on record, if he is the candidate against
44:47
Joe Biden or whoever is alive at that moment to represent the Democrats, I will vote for
44:51
Donald Trump because I don't care what he thinks and says I care how he legislates and
44:56
governs.
44:57
And those are apparently two different things entirely.
45:00
But this is very concerning that at this point in the primary, he's so far ahead of the next
45:06
person in the race, Ron DeSantis, and then everyone else below him.
45:10
We're not having a binary decision right now.
45:12
You don't have to vote for Donald Trump right now.
45:15
I can see an argument for Nikki Haley for Ron DeSantis, for Mike Pence for, I mean, just
45:21
about anybody else.
45:22
You can see those arguments, but what's the argument right now?
45:28
Because your anti, you know, transgender policy and the transing of the kids is Trump.
45:33
According to what he's saying, you know, you're anti killing a baby's and you want there
45:37
to be a federal abortion ban because here, let's just be clear about something.
45:40
If you're a Christian, you are not sufficiently pro life.
45:43
If you believe in any abortion for any reason, and I'll go back to the things I've said before,
45:49
there is no such thing as an abortion that is required to take place to save the life
45:53
of the mother.
45:54
There's not, you know, I've talked about all these different ailments.
45:57
And again, if there's a tubal pregnancy, about 95% of the time that the baby is already in
46:02
pieces in the fallopian tube, it's not alive, but we currently don't have the technology
46:06
to flush that baby into the uterus so that it can implant and then grow.
46:11
So you have to take out the fallopian tube to save as much life as possible.
46:15
And in that moment, it is not possible to save the baby's life.
46:20
Abortion is targeting the body, the living body of a baby inside the womb.
46:26
Removing a dead baby from the fallopian tube is not the same thing as it's not the same
46:29
thing if you miscarry and have to get a procedure to get the baby out of you so that you don't
46:34
get an infection.
46:35
Right?
46:36
I'm kind of getting off into the weeds a little bit on that subject, but it goes back to the
46:39
point again, the reminder to you guys that are going to be going to the Republican polls
46:42
here soon. You don't have a binary choice vote for the person that you think is going
46:48
to best represent Republican values. Vote for the person that you think is going to represent
46:52
conservative values. And some of the things that Trump is saying again, he's not proven
46:56
to me or anybody else. How is he going to instill the election? Oh, the 2020 election
47:01
was stolen. Okay. How are you going to unseal in 2024? Well, you know, this and that and
47:05
round to sanctimonious and Bubba. Sir, can you please explain to me how it's going to
47:10
be different this time around? Because they're going to get four more years to get better
47:14
at stealing the election supposedly. So how are you going to adjust your approach? Because
47:20
if the approach is I'm just going to talk about 2020 and how I was robbed and how it
47:24
was this and that how I'm being maligned in the media and all these, you know, fictitious
47:28
judicial rulings that are coming my way. That's fine. How are you going to be a better president
47:32
for the United States and Joe Biden? Because if you're not focused on that, then you're
47:37
not going to win. It's not going to win. It's not going to go well for you. If you're the
47:40
point, Mr. President, former president, Donald Trump, if you're the point, you will lose.
47:45
So to all the voters out there, keep that in mind. All right. Next quick hitter here,
47:50
the police involved shooting death of Takaiah Young. So this is according to the AP, Ohio
47:54
authorities on September the eighth released additional body cam and surveillance footage
47:58
of the events leading up to the death of Takaiah Young, a 21 year old pregnant black mother
48:03
fatally shot by police in a grocery store parking lot late last month. Young who was suspected
48:08
of shoplifting was killed by a blended township police officer who fired a single bullet into
48:13
her windshield after she refused to leave her car and it started rolling toward him. I like
48:18
that. That's kind of cute. They say, and it started rolling toward him. The car doesn't
48:22
have a mind of its own people. But let's go back to the story. Her unborn daughter due
48:25
in November did not survive. Young's family members held a funeral for her on Thursday.
48:30
They have called for the officer whose name has not been released to be fired and charged
48:33
in her death. Earlier this week, police released body cam footage showing the officer firing
48:37
the gun after viewing the footage, the family released a statement calling the officers actions
48:42
a gross misuse of power and authority, especially given that young had been accused of a relatively
48:46
minor crime. The additional security footage made public on Friday shows young and two
48:51
other women walking around the liquor department of a Columbus area store. Young can be seen
48:56
putting multiple bottles of alcohol into her purse and tote bag while out of sight of the
49:00
cash register. She and the two other women then leave without paying. So a lot has been
49:06
made about this. Black lives matter. They love it. Every time a black person is killed by
49:11
a white police officer, they think it's the best. Obviously, if you were to flip these
49:14
people's races, and if it was a white pregnant woman in a black cop and they were shot, we
49:19
would never even heard about this. So we already know all that. It kind of, you know, is ridiculous
49:23
to keep pointing it out. This fits a media narrative. It fits the Marxist be a limb narrative.
49:27
So they're going to try to make it the biggest thing possible. Now, other people are throwing
49:31
out these things about, Oh, you know, this is another unarmed black person killed by
49:34
police. Did y'all know that when a person tries to use their car to hurt a police officer,
49:41
that that is counted as an unarmed person? Because I'm going to go out on a limb here.
49:47
Everyone knows that a gun is a weapon firearms. Everyone knows that a knife is a weapon that
49:52
a brick is a weapon, but all of a sudden when somebody is in a multi thousand pound vehicle,
49:58
that's not a weapon. Did y'all know that about the police stats, right? A lot of these unarmed
50:03
black people that are killed are trying to run over cops when they're shot and killed.
50:07
Don't know that. So the thing about this, you know, situation and there's a big question
50:13
that comes up is for these families that always come out, they come out of the woodwork after,
50:18
you know, one of these people is killed in these police situations. And they're always
50:22
you know, wailing on television and all other at the funeral and all we need justice and
50:26
all that to the families of those supposed victims. Where were you for the rest of these
50:31
people's lives? Like go back to St. George Floyd. Where was his family? His entire life
50:38
while he was a drug addicted derelict. He was abusing and harming women, right? When he
50:44
was robbing people at gunpoint, when he took enough fentanyl to kill a horse, which is
50:49
why he died that day. Three times the lethal human limit or lethal human amount of fentanyl
50:54
was in his system when he died. He overdosed. He wasn't killed by a knee across the back
50:59
of his neck. But to these families, where were you? Where were you in Takaya Young's
51:05
life to where she felt like as a pregnant woman, six months pregnant that she could walk into
51:10
a store and steal was that alcohol for her? Because even if it wasn't like she's in the
51:16
process of committing a crime while pregnant, okay, which leads me to the big takeaway on
51:21
this one. The main person that is responsible for the death of the Takaya Young and her unborn
51:27
baby is Takaya Young period. You can make an argument that the police officer should have
51:33
never been standing in the front of her car. That is violative of a lot of police protocol.
51:37
Like don't put yourself in the front of a vehicle that could end up moving. I get it.
51:42
Okay. But Takaya Young chose to steal that day, which caused the police to be called.
51:50
And then she got into a car and when the police confronted her, she chose to stay in the car.
51:55
She chose to put the car and drive because the car does not have a mind of its own. And
52:00
she chose to take her foot off of the brake. Takaya Young did not this police officer.
52:07
And in that moment, that police officer is well within his rights to try to protect his
52:12
own life. He can't take into account. Oh, this is just a young gal. Or maybe she didn't
52:17
have a lot of opportunities in her life. And oh, she's pregnant at this exact moment.
52:21
No, this is just a kind of a small crime in that exact moment that police officer's life
52:25
is in danger. And him pulling his police issued sidearm and pointing it out the windshield,
52:32
telling her to stop, telling her to stop, telling her to stop, telling her to stop. And
52:35
she doesn't stop. He's well within his rights to try to shoot and to shoot. And he did.
52:42
What is the other argument? What is the counter argument to that? At what point are we going
52:47
to make the people responsible for their own actions? Because if this could have been any
52:54
race, any color, any gender, any sexual orientation, if a cop tells you to do something, comply.
53:01
And if the cop is wrong, you can fight it in court later. But you think that, and again,
53:07
she's a downstream consequence of this idea that BLM has put out there in the mainstream
53:11
media has put out there that if you're black, you're being hunted down by racist white cops,
53:15
which isn't true in any way, shape or form. But she's maybe thinking in that moment, I
53:19
got to get out of here because these men are going to pull me out and try to kill me.
53:22
I mean, we can't know what was in her brain. We're kind of working in a parallel universe
53:26
right now. But again, these are all downstream consequences of this horrific, satanic ideology
53:33
that police officers are out hunting people because of the level of melanin in their skin.
53:38
But in that situation, this officer is not responsible. He should get no punishment whatsoever
53:43
for this to Kai Young is responsible for her death and the death of her baby. It's a horrible
53:47
situation, but that's the truth. All right, next quick hitter here, a successful womb
53:52
transplant in the UK. So this is according to the two sky news. The first ever womb transplant
53:58
in the UK has been hailed as the dawn of a new era in fertility treatment. A 40 year
54:03
old woman who already had two children decided to help her 34 year old sister who had been
54:07
born without a uterus. Now six months on the recipient is having periods and is preparing
54:12
to eventually have her own embryos implanted already created V or already created via IVF
54:18
with her own eggs. So this story guys, to be honest, is equal parts awesome and awful.
54:24
Okay. So this is why the exact type of medical procedure that is giving a younger woman a
54:29
chance to have a baby of her own will 100% be used in the near future as a grotesque display
54:36
of showing how quote unquote men can get pregnant. This is 100% going happen. People have been
54:41
talking about this for a long time. How long until we can transfer a womb into the body
54:45
of a man and we can just shove a baby in there and then, you know, do a whole bunch of other
54:51
random stuff, which is to the detriment of that baby's health. But we can say that,
54:55
Oh, yeah, men can get pregnant. You've been saying all this time that men can't get pregnant
54:59
and we just proved to you that they can't with a bunch of medical interventions, right?
55:04
It's kind of like if I were to put horns, I get, you know, implants onto my head and
55:07
say, Hey, you know, humans can grow horns and use them. It's like no, it was put there
55:12
unnaturally. But my big takeaway on this one is the biggest driver behind even attempting
55:17
a procedure like this has nothing to do with spreading, you know, the joy of bringing new
55:22
life into this world and everything that goes along with that. But it has everything to
55:27
do with creating new ways for hospitals and surgery centers to make money. That's what
55:32
this is about. This is capitalism, right, which I'm all for capitalism. But let's not
55:36
pretend like this hospital that they're just moral altruistic actors, because you know
55:41
what the cost of this transplant is? It was 25,000 pounds. That's about $31,000 US.
55:50
If hospitals can like streamline that, don't you think they're going to want to do that
55:54
a whole lot? And of course, as with these things, you know, it'll happen in a different
55:59
country. And then it'll happen here. And then it'll happen with adults here. And then it
56:05
eventually happened for kids. Because again, it wasn't children that were having their
56:10
healthy breasts removed or their penises chopped off or any of those types of things that happen
56:14
with adults first, and then it gets transferred to the children. And we do that so that we
56:18
can hide behind the children and say, why do you hate the children? Why do you want this
56:21
kid to hurt themselves? Why do you want them to try and commit suicide? Why do you hate
56:24
these people? Just let them cut off their genitals? What's wrong with you? It's literally
56:28
the it's like bizarro world. It's opposite day, right? But that's what's going to happen.
56:34
Like within 10 years, guys, we are going to see people advocating for wombs, either transplanted
56:42
or artificial wombs to be placed in the bodies of young males. It's going to happen. Again,
56:47
sometimes I say stuff like this, you're like, Oh, man, Kyle, come on, like, are they really
56:51
going to start normalizing pedophilia? And then a year goes by and it's like, yeah, yeah,
56:56
I was right. This is exactly where this ideology goes. This is not a shocking revelation. So
57:02
buckle up for that. Next quick, I hear a British nurse being found guilty of murdering seven
57:07
babies in her care. So this is according to CNN. This is a story from back in August.
57:11
A British nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others
57:16
at the hospital where she worked, making her the country's worst baby serial killer in
57:20
recent times. Lucy Letby 33 harmed babies in her care by injecting air into their blood
57:26
and stomachs, over feeding them with milk, physically assaulting them and poisoning them
57:32
with insulin. Police found a trove of handwritten notes while searching Letby's house during
57:36
the investigation, including one that read, quote, I am evil. I did this, unquote. She
57:43
secretly attacked 13 babies on the neonatal ward at the countless at the Countess of Chester
57:48
Hospital between 2015 and 2016, Britain's crown prosecution service said in a statement.
57:55
So this is obviously an unbelievable horrific case. She's a neonatal nurse. She's taken
58:01
care of newborns and she would wait until her coworkers and the parents were not there.
58:07
And she would literally try and kill these babies. So she killed seven could have killed
58:11
six more could have killed way more, but she just attempted to kill 13 and was successful
58:16
seven times. But here's my big takeaway on this one. It is really hard for me to take
58:22
the international outrage on this story seriously from people that are pro abortion. Because
58:29
geographically, that baby is the same outside the womb as it would have been inside the
58:35
mother because we can assume that at least one of these babies that this demon killed
58:41
was not born at 40 or 41 weeks. They were probably born a few weeks early, both of my
58:45
sons were born a few weeks early. And so geographically, they're located inside the
58:51
mother's womb, which pro abortion people would claim and say, like the democratic party platform
58:56
says that that baby should be able to be killed by the mother for any reason, at any point,
59:03
and paid for by taxpayer dollars. The UK is incredibly pro abortion, incredibly pro
59:08
abortion. So why the outrage? Again, there's this disconnect in our brain where we think
59:14
the vaginal canal somehow confers personhood. So it's like, Oh, yeah, you know, you're inside
59:19
the vaginal canal. And then you come out of vaginal canal. And that causes you to become
59:23
a human being worth something and worth our protection, having moral value. It's a completely
59:30
morally bankrupt bankrupt worldview. But again, this is a horrific story. And we know why,
59:37
because we know newborn babies are innocent. And they are helpless. So they require protection.
59:43
Please explain to me how that's different when they're located just inside the womb.
59:48
Our next quarter, next quick hitter here, the deadly floods in Libya. So this is according
59:52
to the AP, the warnings were clear, but went unheated. Experts had long said that floods
59:57
posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast
1:00:02
of Libya. They repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures located just
1:00:07
uphill from the coastal city of Durna. But successive governments in the chaos stricken
1:00:12
North African nation did not react. The warnings came true in the early hours of September
1:00:16
the 11th, when residents of Durna woke up to loud explosions before floodwater pounded
1:00:21
the Mediterranean city. They found that two dams had broken, unleashing a wall of water
1:00:25
two stories high that wreaked destruction and swept entire neighborhoods out to sea.
1:00:31
The death toll has been varied with different government officials and aid agencies giving
1:00:35
different tallies. Libya's Red Crescent said that at least 11,300 people had been killed
1:00:41
and additional 10,000 are missing. So it's so horrific. A lot of bad stories on today's
1:00:48
quick hitters, but that's what we cover here on the show. It's so bad that this was preventable
1:00:54
that they could have, you know, taken aid money that they give from countries like the
1:00:59
United States and solidified these dams and chose not to do it. I've heard, you know,
1:01:04
Jordan Peterson point the sound is right there. The only countries in the world where people
1:01:08
starved to death are those with corrupt governments, you know, those that choose to line their
1:01:13
pockets and do nothing for their populuses. So that was one of the other big horrible
1:01:17
things that happened in Afghanistan when we pulled out when the Taliban took back over
1:01:20
the country, they're not using aid money or any other unfrozen funds to make sure that
1:01:25
everybody in the country gets a good education and a full belly. They're lining their pockets
1:01:31
and a lot of them were lining their pockets and even the government officials were lining
1:01:34
their pockets while America, you know, was in there in the country. So, you know, go figure
1:01:38
on that. But my big takeaway on this one is even with a rot of culture that we're living
1:01:43
in currently in the United States, all of us alive right now will likely never have to
1:01:48
experience something like this in America. And I know saying that in light of what happened
1:01:52
in Hawaii might, you know, seem a bit insensitive. That's certainly not my message. But again,
1:01:59
you have people living in structures that are being protected by dams are not being
1:02:04
upkept. And when are you going to see something happen in the US where potentially 20,000
1:02:10
people are going to die? When we see these, um, these horrible tragedies where there's
1:02:16
like a tsunami and it takes out tens of thousands of people different places around the world,
1:02:21
that would never happen in the US under our current culture because we have building standards
1:02:27
and building codes, which I know can be laborious for people that are building and having to
1:02:31
deal with all that. But we're building structures that can withstand, you know, high winds and
1:02:37
in some flooding and different things like that. And so I guess I'm saying be thankful.
1:02:42
You'll be thankful here in the United States that you're not going to have to deal with
1:02:46
that. Really? That doesn't mean don't prepare. Obviously, we have a tornado shelter here in
1:02:49
my house, people that live in hurricane areas got to prepare for those things and be smart
1:02:53
and be weather aware. But we're probably not going to ever have to deal with something
1:02:56
like that. So we should be thankful. But be praying for the people of Libya, just a horrible,
1:03:01
horrible tragedy. All right, a couple more here. The injury that ended actually, this
1:03:05
is the last one. So the injury that ended the season of the modern day Babe Ruth, Shohei
1:03:09
Otani. Okay. So this is according to CBS news. Shohei Otani's 2023 season is over. The Los
1:03:15
Angeles Angels announced Saturday that Otani has been placed on the 10 day injured list
1:03:19
with an oblique injury and the two way star will not play again this year. GM Perry,
1:03:25
I'm an Asian. Sorry. Told reporters, including ESPN, Otani will have a procedure on his elbow
1:03:30
soon and he will remain with the Angels through the end of the regular season. Otani has a
1:03:34
torn ligament in his right pitching elbow and Tommy John surgery is the usual treatment
1:03:39
for torn elbow ligaments, but not always alternative procedures are available for certain tears.
1:03:44
So if you don't know who Shohei Otani is, let's back up to that and then get back into
1:03:47
the story. So Shohei Otani is literally a unicorn because he is one of the best hitters in baseball
1:03:54
right now. And he's also one of the best pitchers in baseball right now. So I would go through
1:03:59
through his numbers and things like that, but just just take my word for it. So he literally
1:04:04
is worth a quarter of a billion dollars as an offensive player as a DH. That's how good
1:04:09
he is. He's also worth that as a pitcher because he's like literally like a top five top 10
1:04:16
pitcher at any point, but he's had some injury problems early in his career coming over to
1:04:21
the United States. He had to get Tommy John surgery because he blew out his pitching elbow
1:04:25
because he throws high nineties, you know, has a lot of torque on the elbow. And now he's
1:04:29
hurt that again, Tommy John surgery is something that most pitchers get at some pointer in their
1:04:34
career. And so it's not always that big of a deal, but a second Tommy John. Now we're
1:04:38
looking at some some big problems. And so he is legitimately has a chance to be the single
1:04:45
greatest player in major league baseball history. But the only thing that would keep him from
1:04:48
doing that would be not having the longevity. Because he started his career in Japan. So
1:04:52
he has some wear and tear from Japan. And now coming over here, it's hard for him to kind
1:04:56
of have an entire season where he's healthy. And even missing the last month of the season,
1:05:01
he's still going to be the runaway MVP. He's one of the most incredible things that we've
1:05:04
ever seen in sports. The fact that he doesn't speak English is one of the big things that
1:05:09
hurts him because he should be front page news and should have been all summer. But he plays
1:05:14
to the angels. The angels are horrendous. They're always horrendous. They play games on the
1:05:18
west coast. They're never playing an important games. They never play in the playoffs. They
1:05:22
never play in the world series. And he doesn't speak good English. So it kind of leads to
1:05:26
people not really caring about show Hay Otani. But this injury might cost him hundreds of
1:05:33
millions of dollars. Because people, I think the largest contract ever assigned was his
1:05:38
teammate, Mike Trout. He signed for 400 something million dollars, excuse me, four and a some
1:05:45
million dollars, which goes, you know, obviously he's the he was the best player at the time.
1:05:50
You know, he gets this crazy deal. You know, that's fantastic. But they were wondering
1:05:54
if Otani would get 500 million, 600 million, 700 million, I saw some estimates. Because
1:06:01
again, he's a sigh young caliber pitcher and an MVP caliber, offensive player. That's just
1:06:07
who he is. And so you put both of those guys into one roster spot. That's worth a lot of
1:06:12
money. The thing is, is I was really looking forward to whoever he would end up signing
1:06:16
with. So here, you think it's probably going to be the Dodgers, or maybe the angels again,
1:06:20
or maybe it's going to be the Yankees, or maybe it's going to be the San Diego Padres
1:06:23
or he wants to stay on the west coast. So maybe even the Seattle Mariners would be a potential
1:06:26
landing spot. But now that's probably not going to happen. And so part of me is just
1:06:30
like, I wanted to see that number come across the ticker on ESPN that he signed, you know,
1:06:34
that 12 year, you know, 750 million dollar contract or something. But the injury is going
1:06:40
to definitely dampen that and dampen those chances. And that's just kind of where we
1:06:44
are now. But I'm going to go to my big takeaway here. So if you're not a baseball guy, you're
1:06:47
not going to care. But who cares? I love baseball. The Los Angeles Angels should go
1:06:52
down in history as the worst franchise in modern MLB history, because they have absolutely
1:06:58
wasted the primes of two of the greatest baseball players ever. Show Hey, Otani and Mike Trout.
1:07:05
So Mike Trout came to the majors in 2012. And I think the angels made the playoffs once.
1:07:12
I think it was 2013. And they lost all three games to the Royals. Okay. So Mike Trout was
1:07:19
the best player in baseball for a full decade for a full decade, got to play in three playoff
1:07:24
games and they got smashed, never made the playoffs another time. So obviously for the
1:07:29
entire time, Otani has been on the angels hasn't played in any playoff games. It is
1:07:33
egregious and almost criminal. Now the angels did win a World Series. I think it was 2001
1:07:37
or 2002. So they've got a World Series in modern history, but to have the level of talent
1:07:42
that they've had and to do so little with it. And every year they have the same need. Yep,
1:07:47
we need pitching and we need bullpen. So what do they do? They sign the best position player
1:07:51
to a nine figure deal, right? And that nine figure deal almost never works out. It almost
1:07:57
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