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This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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All right, guys, we have not done Q&A in a while, and that is a major disservice to you.
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And I am so sorry that I have offended so many of you by not getting to your questions,
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but today we're going to get after. We've got a lot of questions, a lot of sports questions today,
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and guys, if you want your questions to be answered in a future episode, just make sure you DM me
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and put that in our Q&A bank, or you can just send the questions to me directly to info@undaunted.life.
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That's i-n-f-o@undaunted.life. And here's the thing that I will tell you from the beginning
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before we get into the first question. A lot of you guys have turned me on to particular authors
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or particular speakers or particular news stories that I was not aware of. And so when you guys
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send me content, whether it's an article or hey, have you checked out this book or this podcast,
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just send that to me. Even if you just think about it, just send it to me, DM it to me, email me,
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just send it my way because I'm a content junkie. And I'm constantly looking for stuff that's going
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to appeal to you guys. So if you individually, you know, audience member, if you're a fan of this
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and you like that person's content and you think that they should be on our show, I'm probably
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going to be interested in that. So make sure you send that my way. But let's go and get into the
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first question for today. Why do you have ads running in your show now? Please don't ruin the show
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by running ads. So this is actually a comment in question that I got here recently, because as you
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may have noticed over the last couple of months, there are advertisements now running in the
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podcast. There are some where I'm actually reading the advertisement, which is cool because these
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are people that, you know, want to follow what we're doing. So Stevenson knives and soft hold,
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you know, the gun magnet, you know, it's great and we're excited to have them as kind of part of the
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team. But then there's something else that's called programmatic ads. So they may run at the
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beginning of the podcast, I'll run throughout. Now here's the thing. Some of you have been like,
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Oh my gosh, you know, the ads are coming like right in the middle of your sentences. But they're
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but they're not. So whenever I'm listening through, I get to actually mark where the ad would pop up
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if it does pop up. And I do it in between thoughts, right? So I'm not going to put it in the middle
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of a thought because I'm, you know, I'm like a Nazi when it comes to, you know, content and having
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it flow and all those different things. So that's kind of where that is. So if you have a, you know,
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more trained ear, these quick ads that show up are not really going to bother you. But here's the
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other thing. That's not really the main point. This is kind of the macro point. A lot of you guys are
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not, you know, big on change. And for me personally, I'm not big on change either. Right. So if I had
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been listening to a show since 2017, and then all of a sudden there are ads that are popping up,
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I'd be, Hey, you know what, there didn't used to be ads here. I want this show to be the exact same
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show that I've loved for all these years. And I don't want it to change at all. I get it. I have
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a lot of that in my personality. But here's the deal. The way that we were running the podcast and
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the way that we were kind of doing that part of our business, it was not sustainable over the long
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run, especially if we decided to expand. Okay. So we made a decision here internally a while ago
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to get with an organization that was going to help grow this podcast to, you know, get out to even
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more people to equip more men to be able to push back darkness. And one of the ways that we need
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to be able to do that is to be able to generate revenue. Okay. And so I know for some of you,
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it's like, Oh, talking about money is weird. And we don't have to get into all the percentages and
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everything like that. But guys, if you want more content like this, I've told you before,
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we don't sell anything, right? So it's our donors that are basically keeping us afloat.
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And as we go into the future, as we hire more people, as we expand the offerings that we're doing,
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we need to be able to generate our own revenue, right, in order to do that. And so that's the main
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reason why we have ads on the podcast. So for some of you that think that I've sold out or that,
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oh my gosh, my show has been ruined. Guys, you have a fast forward button on your, on your,
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you know, phone, wherever you're listening to the podcast. So a lot of podcasts I listen to,
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I will fast forward through the ads. Some I don't because they're actually interesting to me.
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I would suggest that you listen to them. And guys, at the end of the day, a lot of these ads
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are like 30 seconds long. So you can deal with it for 30 seconds. Again, if you were a supporter of
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this show and what we're doing and what we're building with undaunted life, that's one of the
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ways you can support us is just by not complaining about the ads. So that should kind of put that
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one to bed. But I wanted to make sure I addressed that because I've had several comments on that.
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All right. Next question here. What are your thoughts on Tulsi Gabbard? Would you support
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her if she ran for president? Okay. So here's the thing about Tulsi Gabbard. So she used to be a
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congressperson, a democratic congressperson from Hawaii. But you know, the last time she didn't
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run for reelection. So she's kind of just out there on her own. I'm not exactly sure what she's doing.
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But the thing about it is, is I constantly get asked about Tulsi Gabbard, like, oh, you know,
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whenever she was on Joe Rogan's podcast with Jaco Willing, you know, I had a bunch of people
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send that to me. It's like, what do you think? She seems amazing and all that. And the thing
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about it is, is here's the reality. Okay. So there's a lot I can say about Tulsi Gabbard. Okay.
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The reality is, is that she's a Democrat. Okay. And so, you know, for some of you listen to show
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you're a Democrat and you're like, so what's the problem? But but the thing is, is it's
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conservatives and Republicans that are always asking me about Tulsi Gabbard. It's not Democrats.
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It's never been a Democrat, actually. She is a Democrat. But for whatever reason,
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conservatives and Republicans alike are just entranced with her or by her because she's pretty,
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you know, she's in shape. She's friends with Joe Rogan and Jaco Willing. And you know,
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every now and then she has these random fits of reasonableness where she sounds entirely
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reasonable. Like she came out after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and said, yeah, they got it
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exactly right. He should have never even been charged, which is the God's honest truth that
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kids should have never been on trial for his life. And so people will say that and then, you know,
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she'll appear on Fox News and it's like, Oh my gosh, what if she became a Republican and all of a sudden
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ran for our side? Wouldn't that be awesome? Maybe we could do a ticket where she's on one side and
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Dan Crenshaw and they could come together and be this great harmonious thing. But there's a reality
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here. So here's your wet blanket on Tulsi Gabbard. So to any conservatives and Republicans out there
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listening to this, and I know there's a lot of you here are the things that she's on the record
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about, right? So let's talk about things that are important to most of the listeners. And this
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is according to Politico. So I'm just going to run down this list. Okay. And she's got, you know,
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speeches and she's got voting records that we corroborate everything that I'm about to say in
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terms of her record. So let's just run down the list. She wants few, if any limits on abortion,
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she supports a ban on quote unquote assault weapons, even though she probably can't define that.
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She supports universal universal background checks, which, you know, is usually like a
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Trojan horse for something else when it comes to the Second Amendment stuff. She thinks that the
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gun show loophole is a real thing. And so for any of you guys, you know, there's a lot of dummies
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that think that you can just go, you know, bypass a gun store, go to a gun show and, you know, buy
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a firearm from a, you know, federally licensed dealer and do it without doing a background check,
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which is not how it happens at all, right? If you buy it from some guy in the parking lot at the
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gun show, that's a new legal sale for the most part in most states. So she thinks that the
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gun show loopholes an actual thing. She wants to slash the defense budget. She doesn't want our
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troops around the world. She wants our troops to come home. She basically doesn't want us to have
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any outpost. She wants to abolish the death penalty. And if you want my thoughts on the death penalty,
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go back to episode 290 or 259 of this podcast, I believe, was 259. She also wants to raise
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the minimum wage to $15 an hour. She thinks that college should be free. She wants to shut down
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existing nuclear power reactors. She's an advocate of Medicare for all. And she wants to
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legalize all quote unquote dreamers here in the United States. What of any of that that I just
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said seems vaguely Republican or conservative. Okay. So hopefully just running down that list.
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And I'll try to remember to put the political thing in the show notes because I kind of coalesced
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all that information together. But guys, enough with the Tulsi Gabbard stuff. And just to be honest,
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as a side note, I find her deeply uninteresting. I think I've said that on this podcast before,
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you know, when she was on Jocko show, when she was on the Joe Rogan experience a couple of times,
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I feel myself getting incredibly bored listening to her. Like she again, she's reasonable. But then
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she just kind of throws in these things that don't make a lot of sense. It's kind of like
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Barack Obama, like how did Barack Obama, you know, basically spend two years in United States Senate
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and then become the president for eight years? It's because he didn't really say a whole lot of
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things specifically. He talked in these grandiose terms, hope and change and forward and all this
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other stuff. And that's how he got elected. She's kind of like that and that she says some stuff,
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but then she doesn't say a lot all at the same time. It's like she says a lot of words,
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but she's not really meaning anything. So those are kind of my overall thoughts on Tulsi Gabbard.
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All right. Next question here. How do you think the Supreme Court of the United States will rule
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on the Dobbs v. Jackson women's health organization case? So that's people asking, I know some of
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you are surprised that I've been done in a whole episode so far. This is the Mississippi late
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term abortion ban, like the late term abortion law, essentially. So they just heard oral arguments
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within the last few weeks. I'm not sure when this will be released to you, but it's probably been
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about two weeks from the release of this episode two weeks ago. We're likely not going to get a
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result announced until early 2020. And in terms of how the court will rule, it is it is so complicated.
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It's really, really hard to say. And some people think it's just hard to say because we don't know
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how people are going to vote. It's not just that. It's what exactly are they going to rule on?
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That's the hard thing. Okay. So it's it might uphold. They might rule on whether or not they
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should uphold the Mississippi abortion law. They might rule on getting rid of the viability standard
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that we got from Planned Parenthood versus Casey back in the early nineties. They might rule on
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on everything about in terms of abortion when it should be federally legal. And it might completely
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go all the way up to whether or not we should overturn Roe v. Wade, right? So there's a lot of
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things on the table. It's not very straightforward. It's kind of hard to guess where all the people
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are going to lie. But I think it's pretty clear who the guaranteed no votes on any changes to
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abortion laws will be. And the guaranteed yes votes will be. So the guaranteed no votes are
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Kagan, Sodomiah or Embryer. Those people are varying levels of zealots for the pro-choice clause,
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otherwise known as the pro-abortion, pro-baby murder cause. And so there's no way they are
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going to vote in the affirmative for any restriction on current abortion law whatsoever. Kagan, Sodomiah
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or Embryer will not do that. Now, here are the two people, unfortunately it's only two,
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that I think are guaranteed to vote to repeal everything up to Roe v. Wade. Okay. So wherever
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we let we follow on this, they're going to go all the way up to getting rid of Roe v. Wade. And
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that's Thomas and Alito. Okay. So Thomas is my favorite justice. You know, if you pick your
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favorite, he's my favorite one. Like I think he's been so consistent on this issue. I really
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like his opinions. He's fairly underrated as a justice even in conservative circles. But I think
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Thomas and Alito are yeses. So that leaves four justices that we don't exactly know how they're
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going to vote on any of these issues. And so that's Amy Coney Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Roberts.
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Now, if I were to guess right now, I think the easiest one to put somewhere, I would put Roberts
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in the no category. I don't think you can depend on Justice Roberts to do anything that's going
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to change, you know, fundamentally what's going on in the United States because he's so obsessed
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with, you know, the jurisprudence history of kind of what the Supreme Court's doing. And you know,
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he's voted on the the liberal side of a lot of issues that you didn't think that he would since
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he was, you know, basically brought up by George W. Bush. So I think Roberts would join Kagan
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Sodomiah or in Breyer. So that's four. So that leaves three. It's ACB, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
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Of those three, the ones that I think would join Thomas and Alito, the one that I think is most
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likely, you know, to be honest, I was going to say Gorsuch, but I honestly don't know.
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I honestly don't know Gorsuch voted on the side of this transgender law within the last year.
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Kavanaugh, I don't think it's going to be nearly as conservative and nearly as anti-abortion,
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I think as people would have hoped, I think, you know, as time goes on, we're going to see that
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to be more and more of the case. And Amy Coney Barrett, ACB is that's going to be a little different
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as well. I'm not sure. And for some of you that have listened to this podcast for a while,
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you know, I was advocating for Amy Coney Barrett to be nominated before Gorsuch was.
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And I believe I said so on this show. And I believe I talked about, you know, her, her hearings and
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how I was so excited. And I thought she was going to be a guaranteed vote to eventually get rid of
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Roe v. Wade. But I'm not quite so sure. I need to see more decisions from her before I can feel
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confident that she would do that. So if I had to go right now, and again, as we don't know exactly
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what we're going for, I'm going to say Roberts joins the rest of the Democrat appointed folks,
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uh, Gorsuch maybe goes, um, with Thomas and Alito, the, the conservative justices and then ACB and
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Kavanaugh, maybe our, our coin flip. So I'm not really sure how that's going to break down. Again,
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we've got several more months to think about it and go through it. And then by the summer,
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we're going to have a lot to talk about whenever the decision does come down. But the thing is,
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is if I had to kind of handicap it right now, my thoughts are that pro lifers will get something,
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but not everything. I am very, very pessimistic about the fact that Roe v. Wade is going to be
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completely overturned. And again, just a reminder, that doesn't mean abortion. All of a sudden
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becomes federally illegal in the United States. All that means is that, you know, the decision as to
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what you should do with abortion goes back to the States. I think almost immediately you'll have
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close to a couple of dozen States at eradicated abortion outright. You know, I say almost immediately,
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you know, that'll be the immediate goal for a lot of those. Um, but I just, for whatever reason,
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I don't see that happening. And I'm, I'm more pessimistic in my personality. But the thing I
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would ask to people that would, you know, basically fight against that and we can't have that is,
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is getting everything still is not getting everything still a good thing. I guess would be the way of
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saying it. Because I don't think we're going to get everything. I don't think we're going to get,
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you know, Roe v. Wade completely overturned, but it's getting something better than getting nothing.
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And obviously I would agree that I think getting something would be better than getting nothing
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here. But you know, I would love more than anything else. As you guys know, for Roe v. Wade to be
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overturned, but I'm just not so sure that's going to happen. All right. Next question here. What do
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you think is going on with the whole, the whole Joel Osteen money in the wall situation? So this
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is an interesting one. When my buddy sent this to me, I could not believe this wasn't from the
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Babylon B. So on November the 10th of this year, a plumber was working in Joel Osteen's bathroom
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at his, his office, I guess, in his church there in Houston at Lakewood church. And the plumber,
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I guess he was moving some tile and then he was about to take the toilet off and he kind of moved
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some insulation around. And when he moved the insulation, he found nearly 500 envelopes,
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full of cash, checks, money orders, basically money, right? So just all this money just fell
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out of the wall. So he immediately got with whoever the maintenance person on staff was.
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And then I guess what they got with the Houston PD, then Houston PD says that this cash might,
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they don't know for sure, but might be related to a cold case from 2014 where like $600,000 was
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reported stolen from the church and all those types of things. So a lot of people are kind of
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thinking about it. And certainly in my circles, I have thought about this as well as like,
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okay, what could this be? Like, like, what exactly could this be? Like, it's just a weird
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situation to know exactly. And I don't know that we'll ever get to the bottom of it. I think we'll
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get the initial headline and never hear any follow up. There's a chance it's insurance fraud,
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right? Because, you know, they reported this. And I'm sure they have some sort of an insurance
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policy in place at their church. If somebody were to steal something, right? So maybe this is
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insurance fraud. Like, maybe that's possible. Old Steens maybe involved. Maybe it's not.
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Maybe it's a disgruntled former employee. Like that was one thing that one of my guys in my
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foxhole said is like, you know, it sounds like almost like a disgruntled employee. Like,
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maybe they were dealing with the cash and, you know, every week they took one envelope and put
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it in the wall. And then the next week they took another envelope and put it in the wall.
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But part of me is like, how did you get it in the wall to begin with? Because it almost makes
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sense that you stuck it in the wall. And then you put up the dry wall and, you know,
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textured over it and painted over it and all those types of things. So they mean, were they
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dropping it in from, you know, above or something like that? It's so weird. But here's the other
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thing. And I don't really want to talk about this very much because it's basically all conjecture.
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But Joel Osteen is a weirdo. We know that. Like, obviously he's a, you know, he's a big time
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prosperity gospel guy. This is not a guy that you should be following. You should not be listening
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to his podcast. You should not be reading unless you're trying to do research on, you know, people
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that are false prophets or something like that. But the dude is an absolute weirdo. He's a space
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cadet. Maybe he likes storing cash. Maybe he likes going, you know, Bill Burr's character in,
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you know, Breaking Bad and he likes to just lay down on a bed of cash. Like, I don't know. But
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would anything surprise you with Joel Osteen? I mean, I mean, like anything at all. So not terribly
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surprised that this came about. But you know, here we are, I guess. We are live from Feddi's house.
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built subscriptions continue until canceled. All right, so now we're getting into apparently a
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sports section because I have across here at the top, it says sports section. So apparently you guys
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had a lot of sports questions. So let's go and get in the first one here. What do you think of the
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proposed rule changes for Major League Baseball? Okay. Well, as of the recording of this, there's
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currently a lockout between the players and the owners and people are like, Oh, you know, eat the
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rich, screw the owners or all the players are being babies. You know, at the as of the recording of
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this, there's nothing take, you know, that's happened so far. But I assume that we will have a 2022
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season. But there are a lot of things that are part of the negotiations and there's a lot of
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different rule changes. So I'm going to kind of go down this list here and kind of give you my
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thoughts. One of the rule changes is a proposed 14 team playoffs where there are 30 Major League
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Baseball teams and they're proposing seven teams from each league, the National League and American
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League to end up going to the playoffs just outright. I hate this idea. I absolutely hate it. One of
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the things I loved forever before this new wildcard era is that there would be the three division
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winners in each league and one wildcard team from each league, right? So there's basically a
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quarter final that goes down to a semi final that goes down to a final, which is the world series.
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And so out of the 30 teams, only eight teams made it.
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And so with these eight teams, it's like, it's elite. I guess, you know, I'm having trouble with
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my words here, but it's, it's those are the elite teams, right? I always looked at the NHL and the
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NBA. It's like, man, there's so many teams that go to the playoffs, 16 teams in the NBA go into the
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playoff system. It's like, you could be absolutely dog crap. You could be absolutely terrible and
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make it into the postseason. I always just thought that that was, that was a little bit odd. So I
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love the exclusivity of the playoffs. And then they added the extra wildcard games. So there were
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two wildcard teams from each league, which, you know, it's a one game playoff. And you might be
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like this year with the Dodgers and Cardinals, there was like 12 games difference between those
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two teams. So it was absolutely ridiculous that the Dodgers even had to play in that. So no,
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in general, I don't like the expanded playoffs. You know, it kind of weakens the whole thing. And,
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you know, I feel like the best team has the chance of winning when there's eight teams that are in
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the playoffs. But you know, this is kind of the world we're in. Another one that they talk about
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is universal DH. I'm a national league guy, but I hate the fact that I have to watch pitchers hit.
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I'm a huge fan of the universal DH is going to extend the careers of some guys, some guys that
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would never sign with a national league team because they're like, well, eventually, I want to be a
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DH. I can't play, you know, corner outfield or third base every single day. I think you're
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going to get more better players that are signing with national league teams because they have the
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DH I'm full for. I'm all on for that. Sevening any double headers. So you've seen that, you know,
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you saw that in the last couple of years where if you have a double header, it's a seven inning
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game in the afternoon and then a seven inning game in the evening. I want to say I like that,
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but that's not baseball junior high and high school baseball is seven innings.
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Okay. This is the professionals, right? This is the major leagues, right?
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Sevening and double header. It starts all these stupid debates like, Hey, this guy threw a
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no hitter over seven innings. I think a mass and bungarner did that for Arizona. And it's like,
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is this a no hitter? It's like, well, no, unless if you now want to call a no hitter,
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then you need to go back in time to all the hundreds of guys that got through seven innings,
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either perfect or with no hits and go ahead and give them, give them credit for that,
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even though it's after the fact and who freaking cares at this point. So I don't really like the
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seven inning and double headers. There's another thing that they're doing, which is maybe one of
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the worst things that I've heard is that we're a runner in extra innings. You start the inning
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off with a runner on second base. So when you're coming up to hit in the top of the 10th,
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they put a runner on second base to start the inning, right? So you're starting with a runner
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in scoring position. I don't like this because it's like, why do you need that? You need to score
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the run. You need to manufacture the run, whether you launch it in the seats with for a solo shot
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or, you know, you get the guy on base, move him over and kind of get him around. I mean, honestly,
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I think I said this in my interview with Mark Appel. Why not start the guy in between third base and
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home plate and say he can't be picked off, right? If you're trying to ensure that they're scoring
21:16
an extra innings, do that. Just have the guy sit there, bring a lazy boy out there and have him
21:21
just kind of sit there and relax until the ball gets hit into play. And then he doesn't even have
21:25
to go back to third to tag up on a fly ball. He can just kind of walk home. If somebody hits the ball
21:28
in fair territory, like we can get really ridiculous with this. So no, I don't like that at all. And
21:32
the last one here is the banning of infield shifts. I actually like this one. Okay, so if you guys
21:37
have been paying attention to baseball, you will see where every fielder, every infielder will go to
21:43
one side of second base, right? And well, you know, it's usually going to happen with, you know,
21:47
a pool hitter that's a lefty or something like that. But anyway, you're going to have one guy
21:50
left on the left side of the infield and everybody else on the right side. One guy kind of playing
21:53
rover out there in the outfield and all that. And it's leading to these horribly boring innings,
21:59
right? Where you have these guys where it should be a base hit, but he hits it right into the shift.
22:03
I'm okay with defensive shifts. If a guy is a pool hitter and you shift your outfield and
22:07
infield a little bit to regard that, I think that that's okay. But having a fielder literally
22:12
across the center line, there's not an actual center line in baseball, but cross over the line,
22:16
you know, that basically goes from home plate to, you know, the middle of center field wall and
22:20
have them cross over the other side. It's just like, geez, man, like I know to a degree, it's like,
22:24
hey, as a hitter, as a professional hitter, you should know how to hit it beyond that.
22:27
But I'm just not a huge fan of it. I'm okay with them shifting a little bit, but these major shifts
22:31
are just ridiculous. All right, we got some UFC questions here. So here's the first one.
22:36
What UFC fights do you want to see in 2021? Okay, so there's a lot of fights that I want to see.
22:41
A lot of them are kind of, I guess, in the same division, but some that kind of come off top of
22:45
my head or came off top of my head when I was looking at this initially, Hamza Chamayev versus
22:49
either Kamara Usman or Colby Covington. So Kamara Usman and Colby Covington, those are the two best
22:54
170 pounders on the planet, the two best welterweights on the planet. They're one A and one B as we've
22:59
seen in their, their two fights that were razor close. But Hamza Chamayev, he's the 11th rings
23:03
guy right now. He's the guy that nobody wants to fight. Now, subsequently, he hasn't fought anybody,
23:08
anybody that's any good. But he's basically, I don't think he's had a strike landed on him in the
23:13
last two years. Think about that. Not, not a strike landed on him in two years. He takes people down
23:19
and he absolutely smashes him. But Kamara Usman and Colby Covington are really, really good wrestlers,
23:23
right? So we can see if they can stop his takedown. We haven't seen a lot of Hamza Chamayev on his
23:27
feet. But that would be one I would like to see him versus either Usman or Covington. Then I also
23:31
want to see Colby Covington versus Jorge Mazvidal. And that's the fight that I think is most likely
23:35
to happen of all these that are all kind of on my list here. Colby Covington and Jorge Mazvidal
23:38
used to be teammates. They don't like each other right now. They've said so in public. You know,
23:42
Colby Covington had to leave his gym. But here's the deal. Colby Covington and Jorge Mazvidal are
23:46
complete different levels. Jorge Mazvidal is a glorified journeyman, right? He had a good
23:50
stretch of a couple of years. He knocked out a couple of guys. He had that great, you know,
23:54
knock out a bin aspirin, all those different things. But he is not an elite level fighter.
23:58
He's just not. And I know some people are Jorge fans are like, Oh, but look what he did here and
24:02
look what he did there. The reason why he looks so bad against Kamara Usman is because he's just
24:05
not that good. Colby Covington could be the champion right now, if not for Kamara Usman.
24:10
So I think they'll do the ultimate fighter with those two, you know, kind of make it a big deal.
24:13
But Colby Covington should have a very easy time of beating up Jorge Mazvidal. I'd also like to see
24:17
TJ Dilshaw versus Peter Jan. So here's the thing, Pedrian, he is the actual champion of that
24:22
division. Don't give me that Algermane Stirling, Sterling Jung, but TJ Dilshaw beat Corey Sandhagen.
24:27
And he heard his knee in the process. So Corey Sandhagen ended up getting the shot at
24:32
Pedrian for the actual title. But TJ Dilshaw is the second best person in that division based on
24:37
rankings. And he might be the best person in that weight class, you know, regardless. And so I want
24:41
to see that fight. Another one that's kind of random is Giga Chikaze versus Yair Rodriguez at
24:46
145. So if you haven't heard of it, it's either Giga or Giga Chikaze. This guy is a mainly kind of
24:54
kickboxing karate type fighter. And he's it's like watching a video game, seeing the types of strikes
24:59
he's landing on people. And Yair Rodriguez is the same way. He just had an amazing fight against
25:03
Max Holloway, where he beat the brakes off Max Holloway for different parts of that fight. But
25:07
it ended up just getting getting worn down over time. But I think that would be like a street fighter
25:11
type fight between those two guys. And the last one I'll bring up is Justin Gaichi versus the winner
25:15
of a poor yay or Olivera. So poor yay and Olivera are fighting later on this month. Actually, by the
25:21
time you hear this may have already fought. But the winner of that should go against Justin Gaichi,
25:26
you know, Justin Gaichi loss against her beam, Norma Madoff for the 155 title lightweight title
25:30
about a year ago, whenever be retired after the fight or whatever. But I want to see Justin Gaichi
25:35
get a shot at that title again. I think that he eventually will be the champion, but it'll
25:39
be fighting against Olivera or poor yay. Okay, so another UFC related question here.
25:43
Should John Jones be banned from fighting? So for those of you that don't know, John Jones,
25:49
who has relinquished the light heavyweight title and is going up to heavyweight, you know, we see
25:53
all these things about, he's posting on Instagram, look how big he is, look how swollen he's getting
25:56
in all those different things. Well, a few months back, it seems like he beat up his, I don't know,
26:01
I guess it's his fiancee. It's either his girlfriend or fiancee. But police were called, you know,
26:05
John Jones was arrested for domestic assault. She either like, you know, when the police got
26:09
there, she was so so afraid she didn't want to press charges or something like that. But for
26:13
all intents and purposes, unless somebody else can show me something different, he struck his fiance,
26:18
right? You know, and his kids were there with him. He came to Vegas for the Hall of Fame ceremony,
26:22
him and his fight between Alexander Gustafson was put into the UFC Hall of Fame. And he wasn't
26:27
in Vegas for 24 hours before he got into serious trouble. I just don't know what else you need to
26:31
see with this guy. Again, he's potentially the most talented fighter of all time, maybe the best
26:36
natural, get naturally gifted fighter in the history of mixed martial arts, mixed martial arts,
26:41
not just the UFC. But who really is desperate to watch him fight now, knowing what we know about
26:46
him, right? He's just been a horrible person, done these awful things, potentially popped for
26:52
steroids at different times, you know, whether you believe the picogram thing or not. But I'm
26:55
just not interested in supporting John Jones in any way, shape or form, not with my attention,
26:59
not with my dollars, certainly for pay per view. And to the UFC, like, I don't really understand
27:05
what the big deal for them would be to get rid of them, right? You may be keep them under contract,
27:09
but don't sign them to a fight. I don't know if you can actually do that. But for the most part,
27:13
he's not a big pay per view draw. And for those of you that don't understand, he's never had been
27:18
on a pay per view or been the headliner on a pay per view that got anywhere close to a million
27:21
pay per view. Like, that's Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, George St. Pierre, Brock Lesnar territory.
27:27
He's never even sniffed that even when he was fighting Daniel Cormier, right? Go look at the
27:31
numbers for the pay per views. So I don't see a tremendous amount of upside by keeping this
27:34
piece of crap around. So there's that. Then the last one here on the UFC stuff is any bold predictions
27:39
for 2000 and 22. So 2022. Well, let's see, bold predictions. I guess you can say bold predictions.
27:47
And in any time, I think earlier, I said fights I would want to see in 2021, I guess I meant 2022.
27:51
So sorry about that. But bold predictions for 2022. I guess one would be Hamzat Chamayev
27:55
actually becoming the welteroid champion by years end, right? Again, he's ranked 11th right now.
28:00
So if he could get a fight in, you know, January, February, he could fight again, you know, sometime,
28:04
you know, summer around international fight week, maybe by the end of the year, he's fighting for
28:08
the title. Maybe he's fighting Camaro Usman, maybe he's fighting, you know, Colby Covington,
28:11
maybe he's fighting somebody else at 170. But there's, there's a decent chance that he gets a title shot
28:16
this year, because if he continues to destroy people at 170, the way he has, you can't deny him
28:20
in title shot. Another bold prediction, I guess would be Alexander Volkinovsky, who's a 145 pound
28:26
champion, he's already beat max Hollywood twice. There's no, no one else for Max Holloway to fight
28:30
at 145, except for Alexander Volkinovsky. Okay, he just destroyed Brian Artego, you know, his great
28:35
fight, but he ended up, you know, finishing him. I think that Alexander Volkinovsky beats Max Holloway
28:40
for a third time at 145. And we see Max Holloway go to 155 lightweight full time. So that would
28:45
be a bold prediction there. And then also, I guess, since I don't actually believe that the UFC is
28:49
going to get rid of John Jones, here's a bold prediction. And this is a prediction that I hope
28:53
comes true if they do let John Jones fight. I hope he gets sent to the moon by Francis and Ganyu.
28:58
So I know Francis and Ganyu has to fight zero gone in January. So we're gone is
29:02
basically a heavyweight that moves like a lightweight. So that's going to be a problem for Francis and
29:05
Ganyu. But I hope that they do get Francis and Ganyu and John Jones in there. And I don't care
29:09
how big John Jones is and how much he can deadlift. Francis and Ganyu is a monster. And he has an atomic
29:14
bomb attached to his right wrist. And I hope he hits John Jones right in the chin with it and
29:19
sends him into orbit. So next question here, another sports sports related question is,
29:24
what are your thoughts on the Lincoln Riley situation at OU? So for those of you that don't
29:29
follow this thing, because you have other things to do with your time. Now, the University of
29:32
Oklahoma had a coach for several years, I think four or five years, his name was Lincoln Riley.
29:36
He came into, you know, after Bob Stoops, who was longtime coach of OU and all these different
29:40
things, lots of, you know, I guess lots of expectations on him went to the college football playoff a
29:45
couple of times got smoked a couple of times, you know, wins a big 12, you know, basically keeping
29:49
OU relevant. Well, after they lost the bedlam game this year, after they lost Oklahoma State,
29:53
Lincoln Riley, within 24 hours, it was announced that he was going to be the new head coach at USC,
29:58
the University of Southern California. And I mean, you would have thought that he had raped somebody
30:04
and cut their head off and rolled it down the hallway. People just talked about this guy as if
30:08
he was Satan for an entire week. I mean, going on Facebook here in Oklahoma was absolutely
30:14
ridiculous there for a while. But this is what I will say, his situation and people's reaction is
30:19
similar to when Kevin Durant decided to leave the Oakland City Thunder and go to the Golden State
30:23
Warriors, which I was, you know, really displeased with. Also, people pointed out, well, weren't aren't
30:28
you still mad at Albert Pujols for not resounding with the Cardinals? And you know, a lot of that's
30:31
true, you know, you get, you know, you get a guy and you think he's your possession and you get mad when
30:35
he makes a decision for himself and his family that does not involve your team, right? But I will say
30:40
this, with the Kevin Durant situation with the Albert Pujols situation, it wasn't as if they left
30:45
right after the last game of the season, right? There's one game left, there's a bowl game for OU.
30:49
And again, you know, people still hadn't cooled off in still water from beating OU and Bedlam the
30:54
way that they did. And he's already off to USC. He's on a private flight going out there to start
30:59
recruiting. And since then a bunch of kids that have been recruited to go to OU and committed to OU
31:05
have decommitted, they've either gone to USC or one, you know, went to Texas A&M. But the thing about
31:09
it is is Kevin Durant, there was several weeks, if not months in between, you know, the Thunder
31:14
losing in the Western Conference finals to the Golden State Warriors before he went to the Golden
31:18
State Warriors. You know, Albert Pujols was coming off of a World Series win in 2011 before he decided
31:23
to sign with the Angels doing basically what he said he wouldn't do, which is signing for three
31:26
or four more million dollars a year to not be a cardinal kind of a thing. But the thing about it
31:31
is, is I don't really care. I honestly don't really care. They've hired Brent Vitables, the defensive
31:36
coordinator for Clemson. He seems like a good coach. No one plays any defense in the big 12. So it
31:41
might be a good idea for, you know, a defensive coach to come in there and do things. Oh, he's about
31:45
to go to the SEC with Texas. Who knows? Who the heck knows? I don't really care. But I do think
31:50
it's funny that all these grown men are crying about another grown man making a decision. So that's
31:54
funny. Another one here in the college football room. Who do you think will win the college football
31:58
playoff this year? So as it was just announced, not, not too long ago, Alabama, Michigan, Georgia,
32:04
and Cincinnati in that order, those are the four college football playoff teams, all those
32:08
similar, those two semi final games are going to happen on New Year's Eve. I mean, the way Bama
32:13
looked against Georgia, I don't see how Cincinnati beats Alabama. Maybe they surprise them early in
32:18
that game, but Alabama over an entire game over four quarters, just way too good of a team. I think
32:23
Bama beat Cincinnati. And then I think a lot of people are going to pick Georgia to beat Michigan,
32:28
but I'm going to do the exact opposite. I think Alabama popped the Georgia bubble when Alabama
32:34
went into the SEC title game and just from, from wire to wire destroyed Georgia, right? I mean,
32:40
really about towards the end of the first quarter, like this, this game was going nowhere for Georgia.
32:44
I think that popped their bubble where they thought we're the supreme team this year. And
32:47
I think I've even said that before, like, I think Georgia's a good team and then everyone else is
32:51
just okay. But we, we were proven wrong. Bama was way better than we thought and Georgia's maybe
32:55
wasn't as good as we thought or maybe it was just a bad game. But I think Michigan's defense has
32:59
enough in their offense has enough to kind of sneak by Georgia, even though I think that will
33:03
end up being an upset pick. I got Bama in Michigan and playing each other for the title. But I think
33:07
Bama wins again. It's kind of hard to pick against Alabama right now. Maybe if you're a Michigan
33:10
alum, you're going to pick them. I think Bama wins their seventh national title, which would be
33:15
Nick Saban's eighth overall in seventh. Sorry, it would be Saban's seventh at Alabama, but his
33:20
eighth overall, because he won one with LSU. Absolutely unreal. He's the greatest coach of any sport.
33:26
But for any reason, the fact that there's this many teams in college football and there's this
33:31
many players to go around and he plays in the SEC, the fact that he has won six national titles
33:37
at Alabama, seven in the SEC as of right now and maybe eventually eight and counting on from there
33:42
is just incredible. So I got Bama winning. All right, next question here. Why do you think the
33:46
women's tennis association is standing up against China, but the NBA, the National Basketball Association
33:51
is not. So I love this question. So the person they were talking about, if you aren't aware, is a
33:56
women's tennis player named Peng Shui, I believe is how you say our last name, but it's S H U A I so
34:01
Peng Shui. So apparently she suggested or accused a member of the political ruling class of China.
34:09
I forget exactly what they would be called of sexual assault. So she claims that this man
34:13
sexually assaulted her as his wife was actually watching at the door to make sure nobody would
34:18
come through and see what was happening. So she talked about that publicly. And then all of a sudden
34:21
she disappeared, right? And so the WTA, the women's tennis association is like, Hey, what's going on
34:27
here? Right? And so then there were some statements that were supposedly released from Peng Shui
34:32
saying she was okay. And there were some videos of her saying that she was okay. But the WTA,
34:36
people from the W to A, it was like, no, no, no, we need to speak with her. We need to. Okay.
34:41
And basically the Chinese Communist Party had no reason to comply with that. And so they didn't.
34:45
So the WTA said, until we get a full investigation as to whether or not Peng Shui is okay, and whether
34:50
or not she was actually sexually assaulted, we're going to pull all of our events from China. Okay.
34:55
And the Chinese government makes a lot of money. The Chinese country, they make a lot of money
34:59
off these tournaments. And so does the WTA. And they said, we don't care, right? One of our own is
35:05
potentially in danger right now, and has been, you know, potentially sexually assaulted. And we
35:10
need to make sure that this gets taken care of in a lot of prominent women's tennis players,
35:14
including Serena Williams, you know, to her credit, basically called them out and said, hey,
35:17
this is BS, like we need to know where Peng Shui is. And we didn't know where she is right now.
35:22
And the whole time, like the irony was so so unbelievably, you know, heavy at the moment,
35:28
because the NBA is doing everything they can. And I guess you could say Hollywood as well,
35:32
even though that's not technically sports, but they're doing everything they can to not [inaudible] off
35:36
the Chinese Communist Party, right? They want to do everything they can to couch out of them
35:41
and say, okay, we'll do what you want. We'll take these scenes out of movies. You know,
35:44
we won't let people say these things on the court and, you know, we'll call, you know,
35:47
general managers for the use and rockets, you know, uninformed if they say if they bring up
35:51
anything about the Uighurs and all those different people in China, you know, we'll talk about Black
35:54
Lives Matter, but we won't talk about the Muslim lives that apparently don't matter in China,
35:57
you know, all those different things, because the WTA, they're not doing any of that. They're
36:01
not going the woke thing. And as the last I checked, the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association, is not
36:06
nearly as big as the NBA or Hollywood is. They don't make nearly as much money. And they said,
36:11
nope, we don't care. This is a huge chunk of our business not doing any tournaments in China.
36:16
We don't care. So in terms of why the, I guess the question that you asked was,
36:21
why do I think the Women's Tennis Association is standing up against China? I think it's because
36:25
they assume that this is the right thing to do, that this is one of their own and they need to
36:29
protect their own, because what precedent does it set? I mean, what standard does it set for the
36:32
future? If you're a non-American or even an American tennis player that goes through a situation like
36:37
this, and even the WTA, the organization that you represent and technically work for, if they don't
36:42
come and have your back, if they don't come to your aid. So, you know, bravo to the Women's
36:47
Tennis Association. I'm glad that you had the balls to do this. My next question here, another
36:51
sports question. Do you support the new NIL regulations with the NCAA? I thought you were opposed to
36:57
players being paid while playing sports in college. Okay. So NIL, I think that's name image likeness.
37:03
Okay. So if I have that right. So starting with this school year, I guess this would have been the
37:07
fall of 2021. Players can now basically sell their image and likeness and make money off of it so
37:13
they can get sponsorships and all these different things. So we've seen some big sponsorships. There
37:17
are kids that are basically not even played it down yet for football. And yet they're already
37:21
making over a million dollars. You know, I saw something the other day where there's something
37:24
called like horns with hearts or something. I think is what it's called. But it's for any
37:28
offensive lineman. That's a scholarship athlete at the University of Texas. They're going to get
37:32
paid $50,000 a year just for basically, you know, saying nice things about their organization and
37:37
doing a few events throughout the year. So these kids are going to be getting paid. But to be clear,
37:41
if you go back to where I've talked about this before, because I have been asked about this on a
37:44
previous thing, I have always been against these players being paid by the schools.
37:51
But I'm a capitalist. So if the regulations are such that a private business can support a player
37:58
that they like or they like what they're doing or something like that, I'm all for that. Like that
38:02
kid who is like the backup fullback that caught the two point conversion for the University of
38:06
Kansas against Texas earlier this year, like he got supported by Applebee. So I guess he's getting
38:10
like free Applebees for life or something like that. I'm super excited for that kid. The point
38:15
always was is that people just assume that every single athletic department at every single
38:19
university in the United States is flush with cash. And they're just not. Again, I say this all the
38:24
time. Typically, the only sports that make money are football and men's basketball.
38:28
There are a few exceptions, like maybe Baylor women's basketball, maybe there's, you know,
38:33
OSU wrestling, maybe there's like Louisville baseball, like there's some random programs
38:39
that actually make money. But for the most part, these programs don't make any money at all. They
38:43
operate in the negative, right? The only things that operate in the black are football and college
38:47
basketball, men's college basketball. And so there wasn't just going to be money to pay these
38:52
people. And again, there was no way to do it equitably, right? No way to distribute it evenly,
38:56
because do you pay the starting quarterback that's going to maybe win the Heisman Trophy this year,
39:00
the same as you would do, you know, the backup catcher for the softball team, right? How do you
39:05
do this in an equitable fashion in a way that's actually equal? And a lot of people are like,
39:09
Oh, equity, you can't say that. But you know exactly what I mean in terms of this context.
39:12
The one thing I will say that I don't think anybody is talking about is how, you know,
39:17
everyone talks about how these players as soon as they sign that NFL deal, as soon as they find
39:21
that sign that first NBA deal or soon as they get drafted into baseball, you know, all these people
39:26
come out of the woodwork and start bothering them, cousins they never knew and never met or
39:30
asking them for money. Hey, can you buy me a car? Hey, my girl needs to go to private school,
39:34
like whatever the thing is, right? And now you're having that being done to 18, 19 year olds,
39:40
there's going to be maybe be some bad downstream consequences of that, right? Because just because
39:45
you're making a little money to go to school, that doesn't mean that you're going to be a pro
39:48
for almost 100% of these kids, they're not going to go pro in their actual sport. So there's going
39:53
to be some downstream consequences. The other thing is, is I think attractive female college
39:58
athletes are going to be severely taken advantage of. Now, the argument immediately is that, Hey,
40:03
they're 18, they can make their own decisions. But I've seen some ads pop up on Twitter. You know,
40:07
I certainly did not seek these things out, but you have like a college gymnast or a college
40:12
softball player or something like that. And they're being sponsored by like a risque lingerie or
40:16
underwear company. It's like, how could this be bad, right? Grown men sexualizing these young kids
40:23
that are now, you know, that are playing some sort of sport, right? So I think there's going to be
40:28
some issues there. And I thought about this as well, like as soon as this was announced, I was like,
40:33
what if only fans wanted to like set up or like, what if one of these girls or guys, I guess,
40:38
want to set up an only fans account where basically they're being paid to do porn by private subscribers,
40:43
right? Is the NCAA going to get a piece of that? Are they going to be okay with that?
40:47
I don't think that this is just straight across the board and net positive, but overall, I am
40:51
glad that these kids can make money for something that they're doing. And they're not going to be
40:54
actually paid by the school or the athletic program, which is not always going to be making money.
40:58
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41:29
And this, this one will probably be pretty short, but it's how is your newly acquired NHL fandom
41:34
going? So as I've announced earlier before, I think when I did this on the last Q&A podcast,
41:38
I've decided because the NFL and the NBA suck and I can't kneel, you know, with my fists in the air
41:44
for three hours while I watch an NBA game, I decided to be a national hockey league fan,
41:49
right? And through a lot of, you know, prayerful consideration, I ended up choosing the Boston
41:53
Bruins because I would love to go to Boston. I love the city of Boston. I'd love to go there to
41:56
actually watch a Bruins game. They're one of the original six. They've won like one title in the
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last 30 or 40 years. So it's not like jumping on the bandwagon. You know, in terms of how that's
42:03
going, as of right now, for the 2021, 2022 season, I have not sat down and watched an entire hockey
42:10
game from beginning to end. I've caught little pieces of games here or there. You know, TNT has,
42:16
you know, hockey now, so I'm watching a little bit of that. You know, my Bruins, I still can't name
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more than like two guys on the team. But, you know, gosh darn it, they got a winning record,
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but they're still in the middle of the pack. But there's, you know, there's a lot of season left,
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right? You know, there's a lot of, a lot of ice that's still melted. So gosh darn it, if I'm not
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the biggest Bruins fan in the world, you can't tell me who is. So I'm all about it. We're going
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for it. We're winning the Stanley Cup this year. All right. So that wraps up all the sports
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questions. Let's get back into some other questions here. Next one. What are your thoughts on the
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recent, the recent school shooting in Michigan? I figured you would have done an entire episode
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on it by now. Okay. So, you know, I guess fair play. There have been other subjects that have
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come up that I had already kind of either recorded or gotten out there. But I'm glad we can kind of
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talk about it right here. But in Oxford High School in Michigan, this was a few weeks ago,
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there was a student who's who I won't mention their name, but he decided to go on a shooting
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rampage. He had a handgun and he shot and killed four of his classmates. I think there are others
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that are injured right now, but I don't think they're in critical condition before those kids died.
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So in terms of the entire situation, you know, a lot of other people are covering this and I
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haven't paid too terribly much attention to the situation. But I do know that both of his parents
43:23
have been indicted on manslaughter charges. It was a little bit weird that they weren't even in
43:28
custody before these charges were announced, right? So it was like, Oh, we have a man hunt
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that we're trying to find these people. It doesn't seem like they were actually trying to get away.
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I mean, they were they were found pretty easily. So it didn't seem like they were trying to evade
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arrest. But it looks like the day of the shooting, a teacher, you know, saw that he had been scribbling
43:46
on a page that, you know, he can't make the voices stop. And he was drawing like these bloody deadly
43:50
drawings. And he was looking up ammo on his phone, you know, and his mom's cinematix saying, you know,
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hey, I just got a call saying you were looking at ammo, LOL, like, you know, don't get caught
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looking at ammo at school, blah, blah, blah. But then they actually brought the parents up to school
44:03
the day of the shooting and said, Hey, you know, you have to get this kid in counseling within the
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next 48 hours, you know, those types of things. But the parents refused to take him home with them.
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So I guess I don't really understand why the the school could not force that kid to leave the
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premises. But neither his parents nor the school administrators check this kid's backpack or
44:21
checked his locker or anything like that. Because you know, those parents actually bought him a
44:25
pistol, bought him a six hour firearm on Black Friday. And the kids like took pictures with it.
44:30
And he was bragging with it. And nobody thought to try to track down the SIG to figure out where
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the firearm is. And you know, the kid goes back to school and, you know, he goes into his his
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backpack pulls out the gun, kills four people, tragic situation to say the least. There's not a,
44:47
there's not a law on the books that would have prevented this from happening. So a lot of people
44:52
are already automatically going for the gun grab type of thing. But there's not something that
44:55
would have prevented this this kid, you know, it was negligence by the parents. I don't know that
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they're necessarily negligible negligent to the point of manslaughter. But potentially they are,
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you know, we'll see that as time goes on. But you know, lots have also been made about this
45:07
guy named Tate Myers. So he's a 16 year old football player from Oxford High School that
45:11
was killed. He actually charged the gunman trying to stop it. He took a boulder to he died in a
45:16
police cruiser on the way to the hospital. You know, a lot of, a lot of places, a lot of people on
45:22
Twitter and on the news and even, you know, the Detroit Lions and the Michigan Wolverines, like
45:27
they're paying tribute to this kid, an absolute sheepdog of a kid, you know, as soon as the bullets
45:31
started flying, his idea was to run towards danger as opposed to running away from it.
45:36
There's no telling how many lives he potentially saved while he was, you know, in the fracas with
45:40
the gunman. So, you know, just a totally tragic thing that that kid has passed away. I feel so
45:45
unbelievably bad for his parents. But yeah, it's a horrible situation. There's not much more I
45:49
can say about it, really. For all of us out here that are Christians, I think it'd be great to
45:53
pray for these family members and people are like, Oh, you're just going to send them thoughts and
45:56
prayers. Well, it's like I can't send him anything else. There's something else I can do for him. So
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I think prayers are pretty damn good. Okay. So horrible, horrible situation. I hate that it happened.
46:04
But, you know, I suppose that's just what we have to deal with. And that's just something.
46:09
When you look at this, I think it's a great learning opportunity. Unfortunately, that had to
46:14
be paid for in blood for school administrators all across the country that there were so many
46:19
warning signs about this kid because everybody always asks, you know, what about the warning signs?
46:22
Was there any warning signs before this happened? There, there weren't just warning signs. There
46:25
were warning bullhorns and flashlights. Like it was, it was every neon sign pointing to the fact
46:31
that this kid was in immediate danger to himself and to others, especially to others. And the fact
46:36
that he was able to stay at school that day, the fact that no one checked his personal property is
46:41
hit on him, his backpack or his locker, like there were so many ways that this could have been
46:45
prevented. And it wasn't in its, you know, it was a deadly unfortunate circumstance.
46:49
All right. Next question here. So we're getting into some lighter questions off of that last one.
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But who would win in a fight Chuck Norris or Steven Segal?
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Okay. All right. So I got, I've got three of these in a row. So you guys just get ready. Chuck
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Norris or Steven Segal. Okay. I'm going to look this up real quick. I have no idea how old these
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guys even are. So let's see. Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris age. You can hear me Google live in that
47:14
interesting. So Chuck Norris is how old are you Chuck? He was born in 1940. 1940. Holy crap. So he's
47:21
81 years old. Chuck Norris is 81 years old. Okay. So let's look up Steven Segal. Because it this
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matters. Right. So an 80 year old fighting Steven Segal. He was born in 1952. So he's 69 years old.
47:35
Okay. So you just asked me about these two elderly men, like who'd win in a fight? Well, here's a deal.
47:42
Both of them are experts at martial arts styles that aren't any good. Right. So Steven Segal is
47:46
apparently a Nakito expert in Chuck Norris is a karate expert. But what I would say is those fighting
47:53
styles have some things that can be used by those fighting styles by themselves are not completely
47:57
worthless. But man, all right, I'm going to change this question because a 69 year old versus an
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81 year old, I don't even want to think through that. But I'm pretty sure that Steven Segal is
48:07
significantly bigger than then Chuck Norris is. And I don't know, this is such a dumb question.
48:13
Why are you making me answer this? Okay, let's go back to Chuck Norris. Yeah, people that are
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listening to this right now are like, what is he doing? I'm currently trying to find stats on these
48:21
two guys to see how big they are or whatever. Okay, I can't really find it. I can't really see
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it here. But this is what I'm just going to go. I'm going to go with Chuck Norris, that if this
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were an actual fight that, you know, you know what, I'm changing it right now. I'm going with Steven
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Segal. So let's take them back both to their prime. So they're both 28 years old. They're in
48:35
their prime. They know everything they know about their respective, you know, martial arts,
48:39
Akido for Steven Segal and karate for Chuck Norris. So here's the thing. If you already know how to
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wrestle and you already know ground grappling and jujitsu and stuff like that, having some karate
48:49
is a good idea. Having some Akido is a good idea. But in this situation, these little karate kicks
48:54
and karate punches are probably not going to be enough to take over a guy that was Steven Segal's
48:58
size, right? Because the size thing is completely diminished if he can take the guy down to the
49:02
ground. If you have a skill set, because if Chuck Norris doesn't knock you out with the first round
49:07
house kick or something like that, even if he's wearing his tack, you know, Walker, Texas Ranger
49:10
boots, I'm assuming Steven Segal can get his hands on him. And it would be maybe a bigger issue for
49:14
Chuck Norris. So in this ridiculous question that you forced me to answer here, then having to do
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all this research live, I guess I'll go with Steven Segal in his prime against Chuck Norris in his
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prime. All right. Next one here, who would win in a fight? George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
49:28
Okay. So off the top of my head, I guess I don't know. But I would say George Washington because,
49:33
you know, everyone just looks at George Washington as, you know, this the guy that had would teeth.
49:37
That was our first present first president or something like that. But George Washington was an
49:40
absolute gangster. If you'll remember, he was the general sorry to all of our listeners in the UK.
49:46
I know you're still a little bit sour about this. But he was the general that led us in the fight
49:49
for our independence, right? So I haven't heard any similar stories for Abraham Lincoln in terms of
49:54
him fighting and doing all those different things. He was tall. Maybe he had a little bit of a
49:58
reach advantage or something like that. But I'm gonna go and say George Washington would take him out.
50:02
All right. Looks like we got the last question of the day here. If you had to live outside of the
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United States, where would you live and why? Okay. So this is actually the question that I asked
50:10
Mike Ritalind on a interview that I did of him recently. And I think he said Norway, I think,
50:15
I think he has some family that's in that area or whatever. Now, the thing about this question
50:19
is I would have easily and quickly answered this as either New Zealand or Australia,
50:24
like two years ago, I would have said, because I loved those areas, like, especially New Zealand,
50:30
I probably would have said New Zealand. New Zealand felt a lot like Oklahoma. It was like Oklahoma
50:33
with an accent with some, you know, better views or something like that. I really love my time there.
50:38
But seeing what those ordinance or what those organizations act like organizations, but seeing
50:42
what those governments have done in lieu, you know, basically with what is going on with COVID,
50:47
it is absolutely unbelievable seeing what's happening in those countries. You know,
50:51
they're making these camps in Australia that look a lot like concentration camps for the
50:55
unvaccinated, the way that they refer to these people that have decided to not get the vaccine
51:00
is crazy. The complete lack of liberty for these people. Obviously they took away most of the people's
51:06
guns in Australia. So that's caused some major issues for these people that if they did want to
51:10
push back on the government, they couldn't. So that wipes them off the board. So to be honest,
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I'll top my head, I don't know. And I'm not really sure exactly where I would move because, you know,
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I don't really want to live anywhere in Europe. I don't really find any interest in South America.
51:23
You know, Africa seems a little crazy. Everything. All the animals here want to kill you. I guess
51:27
kind of like Australia. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I came up with something. So if you were just me by myself,
51:35
like no wife, no son, no sons, anything like that, I would want to live on the Isle of Isla of Scotland.
51:43
Okay. So for any of you, Isla fans out there, right? Isla is a small island off the coast of Scotland,
51:48
but that's where we get Lagavoulan, LaFroyg, Bo Moore, Ardbeg. That's where we get, you know,
51:53
my favorite scotches on the planet. So I would love to maybe be around those people. Maybe I
51:57
could be a sheep herder or something like I don't know what I would do there. But if it was just me,
52:00
I would probably live on the Isle of Isla. But if I had to live with my family somewhere,
52:04
I'll just have to go with somewhere where I've been before. So I'd have to say Ireland, you know,
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because I am Irish. So as my wife, you know, we're descendants of we have Irish ancestors and those
52:14
types of things. We've been to Ireland before. It was fun. You know, we had a great time. Again,
52:18
it's Europe, you know, it's part of the, you know, European Union and all that. So that would be the
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part that I wouldn't like as much. But there you go. That wraps up the last one of the day. I would
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go to Ireland. So guys, as I said from the top of the show, if you want your questions answered on
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