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I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.
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First of all, then I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings
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be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead
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a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
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This is good.
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And it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved
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and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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For there is one God and there is one mediator between God and men, the man to Christ Jesus,
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who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
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That is 1 Timothy 2, one through six guys.
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I really appreciate you guys listening into this particular episode of the podcast.
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Now here's the thing, I normally tie in the scripture that I read from the top of the
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episode into the episode somehow, but today's a Q and A episode.
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And so there's not really a tie in, there's no really direct tie in for that scripture.
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I just read that this week and I loved it.
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So I thought I would share that with you.
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And the other thing is guys, this is an interesting episode for me.
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It's not really going to make any difference to you, but I just want to explain.
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This is the last time that I will be recording live in my studio for the foreseeable future,
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right?
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So I'm recording this.
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So if any other news comes out, I'm recording this on the seventh, this is Monday the seventh
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of February, but basically I'm going dark.
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I've been working my tail off since about November of last year, so that there would
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be no disruption in the podcast because my wife is Lord willing going to be giving birth
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to our second son Elijah in the middle of February.
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We're expecting he might come a little bit early, but you know, I basically wanted to
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be available from the end of February through the beginning of April, in case anything went
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wrong with baby or mama, or if anything needed to kind of if he came early or any of those
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types of things.
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But I didn't want you guys to miss out on anything that was happening with the episodes.
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I've been releasing Tuesday and Thursday for a while now.
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I didn't want to mess that up.
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And so we've got a bunch and I mean a bunch of amazing podcasts already ready to go.
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Most of them are interviews.
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A lot of great books are coming out here the first and second quarter of the year.
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And so that is going to be all squared away, but I'm not going to physically be doing this
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for a while.
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The next time you hear me, it'll be cool for me, but not as cool for you, but did just
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kind of want to let you guys know that.
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But if you guys would not mind as well, please pray for the Thompson family.
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Every time you have a baby, it's an exciting time, but it's also a little bit of a stressful
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time.
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Even if everything goes to plan, you know, you have the sleepless nights and, you know,
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the bickering and everybody's got a short fuse and that's just kind of what happens.
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And my wife and I feel like we learned a lot after our sweet baby James was born, but it
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just wasn't a fun time for us for a very long period.
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And I think we missed out on some of the sweetness of that time period.
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So we're trying to make sure that we don't do that with Elijah this time around.
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But guys, your prayers are absolutely, absolutely appreciated.
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And also just one thing I wanted to mention as well, since I will be going dark for a
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while, I will be checking my email.
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So I know a lot of you guys have reached out even here recently about men's events that
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you're going to be doing, whether they're conferences or kind of one day events and you're asking
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me to come and speak at those events.
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So I'm booking up my calendar for this year.
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So if you guys want me to come speak live at your event, just let me know by going to
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undaunted.life/speaking, okay, so that applies to me speaking live in a one or two day event
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or me speaking on your podcast.
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So those are the ways that you can get ahold of me just undaunted.life/speaking or you can
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just shoot me an email to info@undaunted.life.
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Okay, now guys, in this episode, we're going to be getting into a lot of stuff.
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Now here's the thing I will tell you as well, just kind of give you a peek behind the curtain.
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I gather the questions from you guys for these Q&A episodes and I gather them over months
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and months and then I kind of pull them out and put them together and get them ready for
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you guys.
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But whenever I put them into the bank for, you know, when I'm going to go record, I forget
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some of the questions that are going to be there.
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So I don't have these long prepped answers for these things.
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A lot of this is kind of off the cup off the cup, but we will be getting into a lot of
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great stuff on this podcast.
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We're going to be getting into the drama with Joe Rogan and Spotify, which is seemingly
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changing by the day.
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The Freedom Convoy in Canada, we're going to talk about Tom Brady, who just retired and
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whether or not he can actually be considered the goat of all sports or even just quarterbacks
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in general.
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We've been asked about advice to newly married men, the worst bourbon I've ever had.
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And if you stick with us till to the end, I think this is a very important question.
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I can't remember how it was posed, but it made its way to me.
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I'll give you info as to whether I think Jesus would have gotten the jab and I have to say
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the jab because the moment you say any other way, anything other thing that's considered
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close to the C word or the V word or any of those things and everything gets flagged.
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So we're going to get into all of that, but I will work on that here towards the end of
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the end of the show.
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And as always, if you guys want your questions to potentially be answered on a future Q and
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A episode, you can DM me the questions on any of our social media platforms.
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I will tell you, it's a lot easier for me to get to the Instagram DMs or you can shoot
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me an email to info@andonto.life.
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So there you go.
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It's been five minutes of the podcast just kind of setting everything up.
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But here we go.
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Let's launch in and we're going to get right into it.
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What are your thoughts on the Freedom Convoy and why haven't you done an episode on it yet?
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So I love that I get up or messages from people now that it's like, Hey, why haven't you talked
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about this yet?
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I thought you were going to talk about why haven't you done this or that?
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So I actually appreciate those because it lets me know what you guys are into and what kind
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of gets you fired up.
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And so the reason why I haven't done an entire episode on it is partially because of all
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the prep I've been doing working towards the end of into February, getting all these interviews.
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I mean, just to let you guys know, in about a three week span, I think I'm doing like 11
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or 12 interviews and all those require books to be read and a lot of prep.
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You know, if you like my interviews, I don't just go in there half cocked and just kind
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of start firing off questions.
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I've really go in there with an idea of the narrative that I'm wanting to kind of spin
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for you guys.
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So that's kind of why I haven't done an entire episode on it and it's happening in Canada.
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It's a cool thing.
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But basically what's happening is all these truckers are getting together and you know,
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they drove across Canada and this big long line and they made their way to the capital
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Canada, which is I guess Ottawa, which I learned this week.
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And they've basically parked there and you know, they're basically against the Vax mandates,
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especially for for that group, it's interesting because about 80% is my understanding of truckers
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are vaccinated, but they're not anti-vax, they're anti forced vaccination, right?
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They're anti, you know, vaccine mandate.
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That's essentially what they're doing.
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And it's inspired people here in the United States potentially do something similar to
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do the same thing.
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So it's a really interesting thing and it's been fun to kind of watch it.
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And Justin Trudeau, who is one of my least favorite people in in the world, like just
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seeing how he's responding to this, saying that these people are holding like inappropriate
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views or unacceptable views, I think is the word that he used.
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It's showing just his complete cowardice because he can't actually engage with these
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people.
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There have even been reports that he escaped to America, I say escape, but he's chilling
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out in America until things calm down in Canada.
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So don't really know what that's about.
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But the thing that's interesting about it is that this might happen in America and all
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that's great and it's cool.
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There's an actually a bigger story that's happened inside this story that I think is
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something that all of us should really think through and that's what GoFundMe did.
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So right from the beginning of this, they started to GoFundMe for the freedom convoy
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and so that they could raise money and I'm not sure where that money went, but they raised
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millions and millions of dollars in donations in a fairly short period of time.
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And then all of a sudden, GoFundMe decided out of the blue that they were going to shut
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down their page, that they were going to shut down the freedom convoys, you know, charitable
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donations and all of those things.
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And so that's not that shocking because, you know, they're obviously left as organization.
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They've kind of done stuff like this in the past.
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You kind of get it where they're like, Oh, well, this is kind of going against the vaccines
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and going against the Canadian, the very liberal Canadian government.
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Like maybe this isn't the best thing, right?
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But the maybe the worst and most sinister part of all this is initially GoFundMe said
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that they would they would not just blanket provide refunds to all the people that donated
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to the cause, right?
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But that the funds that were donated again, millions and millions of dollars would instead
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be sent to a what they called credible and established charity verified by GoFundMe.
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Otherwise known as theft, right?
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Because if I decide I want to give my money to the freedom convoy or to something else
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and then all of a sudden GoFundMe decides, yeah, I know what you said you wanted to do,
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but we're going to take that money and we're going to give it to a charity that we like,
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you know, probably more left wing, probably liberal and as a lot of people have pointed
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out, they've gotten rid of this page, but Black Lives Matter raised millions and millions
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and millions of dollars using that platform.
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And those people weren't just, you know, parking their trucks outside of federal buildings.
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They were lighting them on fire.
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They were fighting police officers.
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They were throwing bricks through businesses.
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They were killing people and yet GoFundMe had no issues with that, right?
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But as I understand it, GoFundMe has since then because there was like an immediate outcry
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from everybody across the globe that, hey, you can't do this.
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This is death.
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This is a this is a big deal.
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So they actually did give those refunds back and then there's a separate site where people
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can go.
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It's not GoFundMe.
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It's a different one that I'd never heard of where, you know, people are able to send
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the donations to now.
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But again, the fact that they even tried to do that, the fact that they even tried to
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pull that nonsense is astonishing.
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And the thing is, it's scary that a private company can do this because I'm very libertarian
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on how private companies operate.
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I'm very, you know, open to, you know, markets and all those different things, but it's absurd
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to me that it took outcry for them to go back on the fact that they were planning to steal
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money from people that they politically disagreed with, right?
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So there's a lot of things that you can discuss with the Freedom Convoy, but that is kind of
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the biggest deal for me with that.
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So hopefully to those of you that wanted me to do an entire episode on it there, I spent
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four or five minutes on it.
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So there you go.
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Let's get into the next question.
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Do you think that Barry Bonds and Roger Clements should have been voted into the pro
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baseball Hall of Fame?
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Also, do you agree with David Ortiz being a first ballot Hall of Famer?
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So here's the thing.
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I think I've talked about this before on the podcast.
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No, I do not think that Barry Bonds or Roger Clements or Andy Pettit or Mark Maguire
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or Sammy Sosa or Raphael Palmera or any of those guys should be in the Hall of Fame.
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Okay.
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They're cheaters.
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They knew they were cheating.
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Some of the guys have come out and given these half-hearted apologies later, but it's
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like, yeah, I'm sorry.
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I don't feel too bad for you.
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You already won the games.
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You already hit the home runs.
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You already collected the money from merchandise and from your contract.
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So these sorries after you retire, I'm sorry, I'm just not really big on that.
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Again, I think we should have grace for people that are actually, you know, trying to make
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things right, but I just don't really believe these people.
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And so the big news and the reason why the person is asking this is because Barry Bonds
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and Roger Clements, they were on the ballot for the very last time because there, there's
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a time period where you roll off the ballot.
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You don't just stay, you know, on their ad infinitum.
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And so they didn't make it in in their final year now.
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They still have the ability to be brought in.
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There's like a veterans committee and a Hall of Fame committee that could choose to bring
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them in.
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There have been people that are like, Hey, we could have a steroid wing and talk about
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the steroid era and bonds and clements and acquiring source and all those guys can be
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in it.
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But I don't really know that that's really possible.
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There had been growing support for Barry Bonds and Roger Clements being in there.
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And a lot of people, the arguments of those two is like, well, they would have been Hall
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of Famers anyway, even before they started doing steroids, but you can't just say that.
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Roger Clements is kind of iffy, Barry Bonds is a most definitely a Hall of Famer before
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he started juicing, but then they decided to do that and they decided to lie about it
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over and over and over as they were collecting tens of millions of dollars.
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Okay.
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So no, under no circumstances, do I think that they should be in there?
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But the thing that you also have to think about is there are guys that are currently
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in the Hall of Fame that's very likely use steroids, right?
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The one on the top of my head is at Pudge Rodriguez, which I was a huge Yvonne Rodriguez fan growing
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up because I grew up, you know, Rangers fan when I was in elementary school before I knew
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better, right?
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And so the thing is, is Yvonne Rodriguez, he was very, very squirrely any time that he
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was asked about it.
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He got enormous at certain points throughout his career.
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Jeff Bagwell is another one.
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Again, these guys, these are not guys that we have, you know, positive tests for it, but
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these are guys that ballooned up around the same time all these other guys were ballooning
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up.
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Jeff Bagwell and Pudge Rodriguez are both in the Hall of Fame.
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Okay.
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But now let's get to David Ortiz.
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So David Ortiz, you know, uh, DH considered by many people to be the greatest designated
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hitter of all time played for the expos early in his career.
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And I think the twins, uh, and then he played for the Red Sox.
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That's where he became a legend and helped them win three World Series titles, uh, two
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of which were over my St. Louis Cardinals.
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So screw them forever.
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But the thing about David Ortiz that people forget about and they're just shocked when
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they hear this.
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He tested positive for steroids.
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We have a positive test from 2013 that the test results were supposed to remain anonymous
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to his part of this big thing that baseball is trying to do to clean up the sport, but
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the names were leaked.
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So his positive test was in the same batch as the positives from Alex Rodriguez.
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Many Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, and then, you know, the ultimate super villain of all this Barry
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bonds.
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Right.
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So we look at guys like a rod and Ramirez and Sammy Sosa and Barry bonds are like, yeah,
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yeah, those guys shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.
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But somehow David Ortiz becomes a first ballot Hall of Famer.
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Help me understand that.
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There are baseball riders that never voted for Barry bonds and Roger Clemens that put
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David Ortiz on their first ballot as a Hall of Famer.
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Help me understand that.
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Is it because he's funny?
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Is it because it's Boston?
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Is it because he helped break the curse?
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Is it because all the heroics from the 2004 ALCS?
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Is that why?
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Because if we're being consistent intellectually, David Ortiz doesn't get in either.
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And yet here he is a first ballot Hall of Famer.
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And this comes to all these different things.
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You have a lot of these people like, Oh, here you are moralizing.
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They did things and they cheated, but, but look, it's about baseball and people cheat
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all the time doing this or that and aren't contact lenses cheating, you know, cause that's
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a performance enhancer is an icy hot cheating because shouldn't that, you know, help you
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with your recovery?
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The thing is, is this is a private club.
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The Hall of Fame is right voted on by these people that know a thing or two about the game
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of baseball.
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It's usually these beat writers that have been on the beat for a very long period of
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time.
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You don't just decide you're going to be a Hall of Fame voter someday.
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It's the same thing as the Heisman.
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So if the Heisman decides if that, you know, committee or whatever decides that OJ Simpson
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can no longer be part of the club, then they can't be part of the club anymore.
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So the fans can say whatever they want to say and his supporters can say whatever they
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want to say, but no, they're taking the Heisman back and they're melting it down and they're
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getting rid of it.
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The same thing is true with the Hall of Fame.
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This is a private club.
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This club has standards and I understand Ty Cobb is in the Hall of Fame.
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That guy's murdered people before.
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There's some horrific people.
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They have personally that are in the Hall of Fame, but the thing about it is cheating on
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your wife as a baseball player, right?
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That doesn't have anything to do with your own the field accomplishments, right?
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That's to deal with you being a sinful, horrible person, sending against your wife, sending
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against a, you know, judgmental and all knowing and all powerful God, right?
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So that's not a good thing, but we're just looking at baseball.
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The big difference with people being jerks or sinful beings outside the baseball and
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off the field is that that doesn't directly affect the game, whereas somebody abusing steroids
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so they can throw the ball faster or recover faster or hit home runs farther.
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That does directly affect the game.
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It affects the outcome of the game and if it affects the true essence of the game, which
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is that it should be fair, a fair competition.
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Why did everybody freak out when the Houston Astros did the whole thing where they were
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stealing signs using cameras, using signals and doing the trash can thing is because it
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was unfair.
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Our oldest Chapman, who I am no fan of because he beats up women when he got that home run
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hit off of him by Jose Altuve that sent them to the World Series.
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The Astros to the World Series.
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When he knew what pitch was coming, he hit it on an off speed pitch, right?
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This is a guy who throws 104 and all of a sudden, you know, an off speed pitch is coming.
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Don't you think that's the benefit of the batter?
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And we freaked out about that, but then some of the same people are like, Oh, we don't
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want to moralize when it comes to Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, save it.
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, everyone else I've mentioned, including David Ortiz, should
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not be in the Hall of Fame.
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I'm a huge supporter of baseball, but I won't be supporting the Hall of Fame.
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If they're just going to let guys like that, Walter.
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No, thank you.
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All right.
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Next question here.
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Are there any shows out there like yours for intense, undaunted women?
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So I actually love, I've gotten this question a lot and I just never really addressed it
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on the Q and A podcast.
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I'll get it from women.
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They'll DM me or they'll email me or it'll be husbands and wives that listen to the podcast
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together and they're like, yeah, I know, you know, because the overwhelming and majority
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of my audience is men and I don't do this podcast with women in mind at all ever.
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But the thing is, is I don't know of any, like I really don't.
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And the reason is, is because that's not my target audience, right?
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So like someone even in our Sunday school was like, Oh, they were looking for some podcast
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recommendations for a woman that's getting out of a bad relationship.
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And it's like, I'm like the podcast guy.
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So guys are like looking at me and it's like, I don't listen to those.
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Like I used to, I've gone through before and I've talked about all my best podcast episodes
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of podcasts that I listened to almost every single one of those is very much so targeted
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at men.
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And they have mixed audiences, but they're targeted at men.
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So to those of you wanting, you know, an intense podcast for women, if you find one
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and you like it, send it to me, right?
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Now, you know, I want to check it out.
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I'd love to hear that.
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I'd love to be able to refer people to that direction in the future.
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But in terms of that, I encourage women, if they want to listen to this show, that is
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totally fine.
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I'm glad to have you.
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And personally, that I find to be very, very awesome women and I'm glad they listen to
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this.
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But again, I repeat, if you're a female listening to this right now, I don't make this podcast
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for you.
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I'm so glad you're here.
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I'm so excited that you're a part of what we're doing here, but I don't make any of
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this for you.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Next question here.
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What are your thoughts?
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
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We're doing Joe Rogan and Spotify.
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Okay.
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So considering the schedule and everything on the podcast, I didn't think I was going to
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be able to get to this.
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That's why I released that video.
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I did like a five or six minute video on Instagram with my initial thoughts, but even
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since then, it has continued to gone.
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It's continued to go completely crazy.
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So I'll try to give you the best and most accurate rundown of everything that's happened
19:06
if you have been living under a rock and not been exposed to the Joe Rogan stuff.
19:09
So Neil Young, who apparently is a famous musician that, you know, only people that are
19:13
in nursing homes ever listened to anymore, he came out and he said, because Joe Rogan
19:17
is spreading misinformation on his podcast, mainly referring to the interviews that he
19:22
did with Dr. McCullough and Dr. Malone, I'm taking, I want all my stuff taken down from
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Spotify.
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Right.
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So Spotify is like, okay, I don't know what they make off.
19:31
Neil Young, do they make, you know, 10,000 bucks, 20,000 bucks a year off of his stuff
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versus the tens of millions of dollars are making by the fact that Joe Rogan is on their platform.
19:39
So Spotify essentially said, yeah, we're so sorry, you feel that way, but if you want
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to take your music off, that's up to you.
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So Spotify didn't take his music down.
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He chose to take it off.
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And then there were a bunch of other geriatric rockers that decided to, you know, be in league
19:53
with Neil Young and that they were going to, you know, want their stuff taken off as well.
19:57
And then we see that Spotify announced that they were going to now be putting warning labels
20:03
on any of his episodes that discuss COVID.
20:07
So I don't, I know that there were the ones where the entire episode was about COVID,
20:10
but I'm, I think they were even going to do that on ones where if he's talking to a comedian
20:13
and they flow on it for about five minutes, they were going to put it on those as well.
20:17
So I thought that was absurd.
20:18
I thought that's ridiculous.
20:20
They're treating Joe Rogan's podcast like it's pack at a cigarette.
20:22
So I don't really know what that was.
20:24
But here's where I think the entire situation started to unravel.
20:27
And I'm putting the blame squarely on Joe Rogan as this pertains.
20:31
He recorded a video on his Instagram and he quasi apologized to the people that he hurt.
20:37
I'm using major air quotes for those not watching me on YouTube.
20:40
For those that he hurt.
20:41
Oh my gosh, I, I hurt these people.
20:43
So the positive things he said is like, look, you know, I have tried to present both sides.
20:48
You know, I had on Sanjay Gupta and then I had on Dr. McCullough.
20:51
But then he went up and went against his own reasoning by saying I probably should have
20:55
more people from the other side, from the pro vaccine side, you know, after I do these
20:59
interviews with these other controversial people.
21:02
And so he's playing into the left's narrative and to the woke mobs narrative, the cancel
21:06
culture narrative that all of a sudden we need to be talking to more people from the
21:10
other side, even though the people Dr. Malone and Dr. McCullough are two of the most respected
21:14
people in their fields to the most accomplished people in their fields.
21:18
And yet we should have on some other person like I would love for Dr. Fauci to go on a
21:23
show.
21:24
Even though he never would.
21:25
But he gives this, you know, basically apology, some people's like, oh, it's not an apology.
21:32
That's what it was.
21:33
He said, I'm sorry for those of you that have offended or that I've heard and he's like,
21:37
Hey, I'm just a podcaster.
21:38
I'm just, he kind of does this thing to where anytime he gets into hot water, he's just
21:41
like, Oh, I'm just a, you know, a mead head.
21:43
I'm just a podcaster.
21:44
Oh, you can't listen to me.
21:45
And yet he demands people listen to him on his show and to take his opinion seriously.
21:49
So it's kind of like he's speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
21:52
He told this story about how much he loves Neil Young and blah, blah, blah, you know,
21:55
how he didn't want to hurt his feelings and, you know, all these different things.
21:58
So Rogan basically goes out there and apologizes.
22:00
He says he agrees with Spotify about putting the warning labels on his own content, which
22:05
I thought was absolutely shocking.
22:07
I couldn't, I couldn't imagine it.
22:10
But then we see a few days later, it was almost like it was, it was built out to be this way.
22:16
Spotify had taken down my initial tweet that I saw was had mysteriously taken down 70 of
22:22
Joe Rogan's old podcast episodes, 70.
22:25
And then it was 75 and then it was a hundred.
22:28
And then the last I saw it was a hundred and Tim and I'm like, okay, what's happening
22:32
here?
22:33
And then we see the headlines.
22:34
The headlines say Spotify removes old JRE episodes because of Joe Rogan's use of the
22:41
inward.
22:42
Now, when you see that headline, you automatically assume that Joe Rogan was at a bus stop screaming
22:49
out of black guy calling him the inward while wearing a white pointy hood.
22:53
That's what you would assume happened because there's no context provided.
22:57
And even in some of these articles, you get the headline and then you click on the rest
23:00
of the article and they've buried the lead.
23:02
You can't find any other context.
23:04
The context is, is Joe Rogan, many times on his podcast, usually when talking with other
23:08
comedians, we're discussing the use of that word and he would actually say the word in
23:14
IgG ER.
23:15
He would say it out loud as a word.
23:17
And we talk about how it's silly that a certain segment of the population can use that word
23:22
and it's not supposed to be offensive and how other segments of the population can't use
23:26
that word.
23:27
Otherwise, they are 100% racist no matter what, right?
23:31
And so he's, he's had that before.
23:33
He said it before.
23:34
And now's a good time for me to kind of tell you.
23:35
I don't think I've said this on the podcast before.
23:37
I have also used that word in a similar context.
23:40
I remember an exact situation that happened.
23:42
This would have been 2005 or 2006.
23:44
I was living in Myrtle Hall on the dorms at the University of Central Oklahoma and our
23:49
Hall director who happened to be a black guy, which shouldn't matter, but happened to be
23:52
a black guy.
23:53
He was there.
23:54
We're in the lobby and there was probably about a dozen students in that we were having
23:57
an intellectual discussion and academic discussion about the use of that word.
24:02
And there were some people that were making stupid comments, which is, how's a different
24:05
saying it with an A at the end or an ER at the end and why can you say it?
24:08
Why can't I say?
24:09
And that's how they were, they were talking.
24:11
Whereas I was trying to actually say, Hey, that word initially didn't mean what we think
24:16
it means today.
24:17
Right?
24:18
That's not how it was used.
24:19
But that is a word that was co-opted to try and harm people and to hurt people.
24:23
And during that discussion, I used that word while we were discussing the word and other
24:27
people in the group that were white and other people in the group that were black and of
24:32
other colors were using the word as well.
24:35
We weren't just throwing it around haphazardly.
24:37
It was part of an academic discussion.
24:40
And guess what?
24:41
When I said the word out loud as part of the discussion, none of the black people were
24:45
like, you terrible rotten horrible racist, right?
24:52
Like I wasn't kicked out of school.
24:53
They weren't offended in the least bit because they understood the context of what we were
24:57
doing.
24:58
We were just talking about the use of the word and we were talking about the ethmology
25:02
of the word and where it came from and how it had evolved over time.
25:06
Right?
25:07
So if someone's like, Oh, Kyle, use the inward, that would be the headline.
25:11
But then they're ignoring everything else.
25:13
That is the context, which is the same thing here that's going on with Joe Rogan, right?
25:17
He was never calling never once that I've seen or heard.
25:20
Was he calling a person of color the inward in order to demean them and by any stretch
25:25
of the imagination?
25:26
And he said this before and other people said this before when you're listening to music,
25:30
especially hip hop and rap music and the inward is just part of the music.
25:35
You're just singing the words and you're not even thinking about it.
25:38
You're singing about, you know, [inaudible] and hoes and all these other different things
25:41
and these horrible things in these songs, right?
25:44
And you're okay with it all of a sudden.
25:45
And sometimes that word comes out, right?
25:48
You're just that word just comes out and all of a sudden it's like, Oh, gosh, like where
25:51
did that word come from?
25:53
Right?
25:54
But again, context matters.
25:56
It matters if you're singing an old Dr. Dre song and as you're singing it, the inward
26:00
comes out of your mouth versus referring to somebody in a demeaning way, then a separatist
26:05
way, right?
26:06
Go back to James too, in a way that is separating people off and segmenting them, which is sinful.
26:14
And so Spotify took these episodes down.
26:16
We haven't heard whether or not Joe Rogan was okay with it, but he did another apology
26:21
on Instagram about, you know, Oh, I'm so sorry.
26:23
And you know, I use the words in this way, but I know now that that was wrong and blah,
26:28
blah, blah, basically playing into the narrative that if you are of a certain skin pigment,
26:32
if you have a certain amount of melanin in your skin, you can or can't say certain words.
26:36
So Spotify 100% is censoring Joe Rogan's content.
26:41
Remember Joe Rogan has said a hundred times on his podcast is going over to Spotify.
26:45
They've never messed with my content.
26:46
They never tell me what to do.
26:47
I never have discussions with them and then look where we are and here's the thing.
26:52
They are 100% sensing censoring his content by getting rid of it that violates free speech,
26:56
but they're a Swedish company, so they don't give a crap.
26:59
They don't care about free speech.
27:00
They don't care about the Bill writes.
27:01
They don't care about the United States Constitution.
27:03
But here's the other thing that people need to recognize with this Joe Rogan situation.
27:07
Spotify has been doing this from the very beginning to Joe Rogan, okay, because when
27:12
they brought his catalog over, which was, you know, over like I think over 1500 episodes
27:16
at that point, by the time he went over to Spotify, tons and tons of episodes, they deleted
27:20
old episodes when they moved him over to the platform.
27:25
Specifically, they deleted interviews with Alex Jones.
27:28
I think they deleted interviews with my, uh, Milo Yiannopoulos.
27:31
They and some other folks, so they did this from the beginning.
27:35
Joe Rogan was not unaware of this.
27:37
He was aware that they had done that.
27:39
So to those of you that are shocked that they're removing his episodes now, did you know they
27:43
had been removing them already?
27:44
They had already removed some and as time goes on, how many more are they going to remove
27:49
because guess what?
27:50
He's also done on the podcast that no one's talking about yet.
27:53
He's used the F word in reference to gay people, right?
27:56
Fill in the blank.
27:58
He said that before the short version and the long version and as with almost every single
28:03
person on the planet that is used that word, they're not referring to a gay person in a
28:07
demeaning way.
28:08
They're usually referring to another heterosexual male and calling him than that as some sort
28:13
of a, Hey, you know, diminishing of his masculinity, right?
28:16
Which in a lot of ways being a homosexual is it's, uh, it's an un, uh, like it's an
28:22
unbelievable, uh, disruption of the creation order, right?
28:26
And it's a sinful lifestyle to lead out and to live out.
28:31
And so that's the, another shoe that's going to drop is that, okay?
28:36
But guys, this is what happens when you apologize to the mob.
28:40
The moment Joe Rogan did that initial apology, which it was on Instagram.
28:46
They were chum in the waters.
28:48
Like he provided chum in the waters for his own potential demise because the moment you
28:54
apologize to the mob, they will never forgive you.
28:57
These are not grace driven people.
29:00
They have to destroy you.
29:01
They have to squash you and you gave them the opening because guess what would happen?
29:07
If Spotify and Joe Rogan from the beginning gave him the Johnny Cash middle finger and
29:11
said, you know what?
29:13
I'm not racist.
29:14
I'm not spreading misinformation.
29:15
Like this is BS, I'm a guy that's doing a podcast.
29:17
I'm trying to figure things out.
29:18
I'm having intellectual conversations with people over three plus hours.
29:22
Give me a break.
29:23
Screw you guys.
29:24
We're done with this.
29:27
We're not talking about this anymore.
29:28
Again, I'm recording this on Monday, the seven.
29:30
So by the time this gets to you guys here in a few days, I'm sure something else will
29:33
have happened here, right?
29:34
He may have been kicked off a Spotify by this point, but as of this morning, I heard
29:37
that the Spotify CEO came out and wrote a letter to his employees saying, I'm so sorry.
29:44
We're keeping Joe Rogan on the platform.
29:46
We're keeping him on the platform.
29:47
I'm sorry, but we're going to spend a hundred million dollars on marginalized people groups
29:52
to make sure their voices are heard goodness.
29:56
This is a dumpster fire and absolute dumpster fire of a situation.
30:00
He's trying to keep his number one horse, Joe Rogan, right?
30:05
Again, Spotify needs Joe Rogan way, way, way, way more than Joe Rogan needs Spotify, right?
30:11
So they're trying to keep their main horse happy while at the same time trying to appease
30:15
all their woke purple-headed nerds that work for him.
30:19
How's this going to play out?
30:20
I think you all know how this is going to play out.
30:23
Like people are going to go on strike inside Spotify.
30:27
People inside there are probably going to do things to try and hurt the show.
30:30
Joe Rogan is probably going to start self-sensoring, which is almost better than cancellation, which
30:35
goes to the last point and then we'll move on from the Joe Rogan stuff.
30:39
If the woke mob can cancel Joe Rogan, they can cancel anybody.
30:45
That is the reality because Joe Rogan, as I've said and as many people have said, is
30:49
uncancelable.
30:50
He's way too big.
30:52
He's famous for too many things, whether it's, you know, television, you know, fear factor,
30:56
whether it's his comedy, whether it's his UFC fight commentary, or whether it's his podcast.
31:00
He's too famous.
31:03
You can't get rid of his voice.
31:06
But if the woke mob can get in kicked off Spotify, yeah, he'll end up somewhere else.
31:10
Maybe he goes rumble.
31:11
Maybe he starts his own thing with Elon Musk.
31:12
Who knows?
31:13
But if he starts self-sensoring, if he starts thinking one thing but saying another because
31:18
he doesn't want to make anyone mad, that's going to be an issue.
31:23
And also, if the woke mob can get a Swedish company to cave, to control them and tell
31:32
them what to do, what company could they not do this with?
31:35
And guys, we've seen this with the biggest Fortune 50, you know, Fortune 100 companies
31:40
around the, around the globe right now, they're, they're buying into this woke narrative.
31:44
They posted the black squares during the George Floyd riots.
31:47
They, you know, they, they're raising all these monies, money for supposedly marginalized
31:51
groups, right?
31:52
That apparently aren't getting a fair shake in the country of the United States of America.
31:57
Joe Rogan didn't start this and he can't end it.
32:02
But again, his best thing that he could do at this point is tell everyone to go screw
32:06
off.
32:07
He's going to do his thing and Spotify should back him up on that.
32:13
Because that ends all of this.
32:15
Stop apologizing.
32:17
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32:21
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All right, guys.
32:52
Next question here.
32:53
How can I balance work and gym life?
32:56
Okay.
32:57
So a little bit of context on this question because I know the guy that sent it over to
32:59
us, uh, put supporter of the show, this is a guy that's about to go, I believe he's about
33:03
to start law school or he just started law school.
33:07
And so the way he framed this question to me was giving me an excuse right from the beginning,
33:11
right?
33:12
Oh man, how could I possibly go to the gym and go through law school, which I know the
33:17
first of your law school is absolutely brutal.
33:19
That's why most law schools don't let you work during the first year is because you have
33:22
to give all of your dedication to the first year of law school.
33:24
They don't want you quitting in the second year.
33:25
They want you to quit early, right?
33:27
That's kind of the whole idea and a lot of people, not a lot of people, but there is
33:29
a segment of the population that will quit and they quit in that first year.
33:33
And so the thing that I told this guy is I called him out for it.
33:36
I said, look, you're already putting an excuse in place.
33:39
You're going to blame the fact that two or three years down the road, when you get out
33:41
of, uh, law school, uh, the fact that you're going to be fat and out of shape, you've already
33:46
got your excuse ready to go to the gun ready to be shot.
33:50
Right?
33:51
Oh, I was in law school, right?
33:53
Which sounds a lot like, Oh, my kids are young.
33:55
Our, Oh, my kids are in a lot of different sports are, ah, I'm just afraid of getting
33:59
hurt like I did back in the day.
34:01
Or man, I'm just too busy with work or man, I'm just, whatever the excuses.
34:06
You got fat now shape.
34:07
Now you're just looking for excuses.
34:08
This guy's not fat and out of shape yet, but he's, he's going to get there.
34:12
And so I basically told him, I said, if you want to actually take your physical fitness
34:16
and your physical resilience seriously, then you have to work out first thing in the morning.
34:22
So I don't care how early you have to get up.
34:23
I don't care how early you have to go to bed, but that's going to be the first thing.
34:27
Cause the biggest mistake that people make with not working out in the morning, like
34:32
if they're going to be the after, you know, after work, people, they've got their gym
34:36
bag and they're in their, uh, and they're going to go into the gym.
34:38
They're going to change out their suit and change it or whatever.
34:40
And then they're going to go home is how many things go wrong during the day, right?
34:46
Wives mad at you.
34:47
So you want to go home and be around her.
34:48
So you can maybe smooth things out.
34:49
Oh, kid got sick.
34:50
So we got to, you know, pick them up from school in the middle of the day and then, you
34:52
know, kind of, you know, work remotely or, oh, something went wrong.
34:55
The dog took off or whatever, things come up throughout the day.
34:58
And then all of a sudden you're not going in the gym anymore.
35:01
The people that work out after work, think about that.
35:04
How many times have you had to not do your workout because something came up or you just
35:08
convince yourself throughout the day, you know, the eight to 10 hours you were at work?
35:12
Man, I had to really rough day.
35:13
I'm going to go home and watch Netflix and chill with myself, right?
35:17
You guys know what I'm talking about.
35:18
But in the morning, so see you got to be, be it work by eight, you know, you got to get
35:22
out the door by 730, you know, you got to be in the shower by 645.
35:26
Wake up at 530, get after it, whether you have to go to the gym or to work out at home.
35:32
And that's why I'm an enormous advocate for home gyms, right?
35:36
Because you, you're taking out a lot of the getting ready.
35:40
So like in the summer times, I'm working out my underwear because it's my garage.
35:44
I'm working out alone.
35:45
Right?
35:46
It's hot in there.
35:47
I'm just going to work out whatever I've got on, right?
35:49
But you can't do that in a normal gym.
35:50
You got to get clothes on.
35:51
Some people take a shower before they go to the gym, just in case, you know, they walk
35:54
by the, you know, the gym hotty and they don't want to give them, you know, the stank walk
35:58
by or whatever.
35:59
Like I get it, but at the same time, like a lot of these people, if you just rolled out
36:03
of bed, put your shoes on and walked into your gym and your garage, that's an amazing
36:07
thing.
36:08
And I know not everybody has a garage.
36:09
Not everybody has that capability, but I'm a huge advocate for that if that's a style
36:13
that you can build, you know, spend the money early on all the equipment that you need,
36:17
which you don't really need a lot.
36:19
And you know, after six months, you will have paid for it with most gym memberships, especially
36:22
if you're doing something like CrossFit.
36:24
But again, that is how you get out of your own way.
36:26
That's how you balance work in gym life is you get your gym stuff done early because
36:31
here's the thing.
36:32
When I woke up early this morning, I did not want to get up.
36:34
I had squats in front of me.
36:35
I don't want to do them, but I was required to do them, right?
36:39
That's my duty to hit the garage and take care of my body, right?
36:43
And now no matter what happens for the rest of the day, that box has been checked.
36:48
What's probably one of the hardest things I will do today, right?
36:51
And then I got to do it all over again tomorrow.
36:54
Tomorrow I got deadlift and pull ups.
36:55
It sucks.
36:56
I hate it.
36:57
It's my least favorite workout of the week.
36:58
But I'm going to knock it out really, really early in the morning when it's really, really
37:01
cold.
37:02
And then when I'm done, I'm done.
37:03
I've checked the box.
37:04
That is how you balance work in gym life.
37:06
All right, guys.
37:07
Next question here.
37:08
What is the way?
37:09
See, this is the thing I always forget the things that y'all ask.
37:11
And then I have to like remind myself, what's the worst bourbon you've ever tried?
37:15
Okay.
37:16
So here's the deal with this is I have an exact answer to this, but I want to talk a
37:19
little bit about that.
37:20
I have tried probably hundreds of different whiskeys at this point.
37:23
Again, don't be one of those nerds or idiots that's like, Oh, do you like bourbon or do
37:26
you like whiskey?
37:27
Bourbon is whiskey.
37:28
Okay.
37:29
Whiskey is the daddy category.
37:30
And then off of that, you get scotch.
37:31
You get rise.
37:32
You get bourbon's.
37:33
You get, you know, Irish Canadian.
37:34
You get all these other different ones.
37:35
So I've had a lot of different whiskeys in my life, but the number one worst bourbon
37:40
that I've tried is rabbit hole finished in PX, sherry casks.
37:45
Okay.
37:46
Now you might be thinking to yourself, I thought rabbit hole was pretty good.
37:48
I've got some rabbit hole.
37:50
Some people can't even find rabbit hole because it's so rare and people really, really like
37:53
it.
37:54
Also, Kyle, I've heard you say before, you really, really like whiskeys that are aged
37:57
and or finished in sherry casks and you would be right.
38:02
A lot of people do like rabbit hole.
38:04
It is somewhat hard to find rabbit hole.
38:06
I love almost every single whiskey, like especially scotches that are aged in sherry
38:11
casks.
38:12
It's one of my favorite.
38:13
It's not cherry.
38:14
Right.
38:15
It's sherry cast.
38:16
Right.
38:17
I love them.
38:18
Absolutely love.
38:19
But the time that I had rabbit hole finished in PX, sherry casks, like literally my buddy
38:23
and I were both drinking it and then we were silent and then we look at each other and
38:28
we both just kind of go, this is kind of gross.
38:32
But that's your first sip.
38:34
Your first sip isn't always reflective of the rest of the dram, right?
38:37
So we take another sip and another sip and every sip was terrible, terrible for multiple
38:43
reasons.
38:44
Number one, it just didn't taste good.
38:45
Right.
38:46
You know, a whiskey has three different things.
38:47
There's a nose, a palate and a finish like the nose wasn't interesting.
38:50
The palate didn't taste good and the finish was even worse, right?
38:54
And the other thing was is he and I both like sherry casks aged and finished whiskeys and
38:59
we were shocked at how bad this one was.
39:01
And so of all the bourbon that I've tried rabbit hole finished in PX, sherry casks is
39:05
by far the worst.
39:06
And here's the other thing.
39:08
There are other bourbon out there that are junk, right?
39:10
You know, those $15 bourbon that come in a plastic bottle, but even some of those are
39:15
really, really good.
39:16
I mean, Evan Williams, 100 proof, right?
39:18
You know, the bottle didn't bond.
39:19
I mean, you can get a huge deal of that for like, you know, 17 bucks.
39:23
That's a good drinker, right?
39:24
It's a positive good drinker.
39:26
But again, don't I was judged a book by its cover?
39:29
It's a gorgeous bottle from a, you know, somewhat reputable company, but goodness gracious that
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was junk.
39:34
But I'm going to add a couple of little bonus questions here to the end of your question.
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I'm going to tell you what the best bourbon I've ever had is and a bourbon I'd like to
39:39
try that I haven't tried.
39:41
So the best bourbon I've ever had in my entire life.
39:43
There is no close second.
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It is Pappy 20 year old.
39:45
So Pappy Van Winkle, very famous.
39:47
You've got the 10 year old, which is the old Rip Van Winkle.
39:50
You got the 12 year old lot B, you've got a 13 year old rye, a 15 year old Pappy, a 20
39:54
year old Pappy and a 23 year old Pappy.
39:56
And then there's also 25 year old Pappy, which most people have never had before.
39:59
I've had all of them except for the 25 and a lot of people freak out about the 23 and
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there's been a, you know, two, three grand on or something like that.
40:05
But the 20 year old Pappy Van Winkle is the best of the lineup.
40:09
That is like perfect.
40:10
And my second favorite is a 12 year old lot B. It is like the perfect bourbon.
40:14
A lot of red, red berry notes in that it's super, super long finishing.
40:20
Go back to your glass, even after you drink it all, even like an hour later, you can still
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smell it.
40:24
The best one I've had.
40:25
The bourbon that I'd like to try that I haven't is Victor's 20.
40:29
So Victor's 10 year old bourbon is fantastic.
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I really, really like it.
40:33
If you can find it, it's a, it's a great one.
40:34
I definitely suggest you pick it up, but a buddy of mine even here recently tried the
40:37
victors 20 and he said it was the best bourbon he'd ever had before.
40:40
So you guys out there that love me or love this podcast.
40:44
If you've got a bottle of Victor's 20, shoot me a message.
40:46
I will give you my address and I will gladly accept that bottle from you.
40:50
I'll even take a little bit of a sample.
40:52
Appreciate you very much.
40:53
But let's get on to the next question here.
40:54
If you had to survive.
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Okay.
40:56
If you had to survive a zombie apocalypse, which weapon would you use to survive?
41:02
Funny thing about this question, we're already suspending reality by talking about a zombie
41:07
apocalypse, right?
41:08
That's not real.
41:09
It's not going to happen.
41:10
But if we're suspending reality in this fantasy, I'm an A-10 warthog pilot, right?
41:17
Like I'm, I'm killing people from the air, right?
41:21
And this A-10 warthog will never break down, will never need maintenance, and won't even
41:25
need fuel.
41:26
Right?
41:27
It's just going to be fired by my, my excitement, right?
41:29
That's how it's going to get up in the air and take care of business.
41:32
So if I'm in a zombie apocalypse and we're suspending all belief and all reality, I'm
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in an A-10 warthog.
41:37
And if you don't know what that thing is, go to YouTube.
41:40
It is, oh man, that is an amazing, amazing machine, but, but assuming you meant I'm on
41:45
the ground, you know, like all these zombie movies and television shows, and I've got to
41:49
kind of work my way through society and, you know, Mike it, you know, taken out by some
41:53
zombies here and there.
41:55
I would, I mean, I actually thought about this question a lot, okay?
41:58
I was thinking about as a, you know, after I put it in the bank and I'm like, oh, what
42:00
would I use?
42:01
And maybe I'd use this.
42:02
Maybe I'll use that.
42:03
I'm going to go with a high capacity magazine fed shotgun.
42:06
Okay?
42:07
Now there are a lot of different ones, so I'm not going to mention any individual brands.
42:11
You can go check that out.
42:12
Literally just Google high capacity magazine fed shotguns, but I've seen some shotguns
42:17
that guys have like 30 round magazines on now.
42:20
I don't really know how, how well those are going to work or how easily they'll get jammed
42:23
up or something like that.
42:25
But that to me, that's the stopping power you need because if you're going to go with
42:28
something off of an AR platform, whether it's a 300 blackout or a, you know, two, two, three,
42:33
five, five, six, you know, maybe that's going to be good for you.
42:35
Maybe you've got a scar that shoots 308 or something like that.
42:38
But with these zombies, you know, I'd be worried about the through and throughs, right?
42:42
You don't want to wound a zombie.
42:43
You want to stop them, right?
42:44
And let's say you don't get the headshot when you're shooting your, you know, smaller round
42:47
or something like that.
42:48
Maybe you get a through and through on the shoulder.
42:50
Well, it's a zombie.
42:51
They don't feel that, right?
42:52
You got to take them out the brain.
42:53
So if I've got a shotgun, I've got a widespread, I can, I can do a lot of damage.
42:57
And if you shoot towards the head, you're probably going to take them out.
42:59
So if I run a zombie apocalypse and I had to be on the ground, right?
43:03
This is zombie land part three and I'm there, right?
43:07
Give me high capacity magazine fed shotgun.
43:09
All right.
43:10
Next question here.
43:11
It's Tom Brady, the goat athlete, regardless of sport.
43:14
Now, I'm trying to remember back, I think I've answered this question before.
43:18
And I know I've talked about Tom Brady before, but again, it's pertinent now because he just
43:22
retired last week, all the different things.
43:24
So goat means greatest of all time, obviously, but a lot of people after he retired said
43:28
that he is the greatest athlete.
43:30
He's the greatest of all the goats, right?
43:32
So they're putting him above Michael Jordan.
43:34
They're putting him above, you know, maybe you're a Michael Schumacher person from the
43:38
F one days or maybe you're a Jack Nicklaus person for, for golf, maybe you're, I'm trying
43:44
to think of the other, the other goats, maybe you're a baby roof for baseball, those types
43:47
of things.
43:48
They're saying he's the goat of all goats.
43:49
But here's the thing.
43:50
I don't think there's any way shape or form that Tom Brady can be considered the greatest
43:54
of all greatest, right?
43:56
And that's because Michael Jordan is still a thing.
43:58
Okay.
43:59
Michael Jordan completely revolutionized the sport when six, six and oh in his championships,
44:03
he became a brand, right?
44:05
Nobody's walking around wearing the new Tom Brady's, you know what I mean?
44:09
You know, no one's walking around proudly with the TB logo on their hoodie, right?
44:13
He hasn't created, you know, everything that can be a goat on the field performance and
44:17
off the field performance.
44:18
He doesn't have that.
44:19
It's not even close.
44:20
I don't even know why anybody would discuss that.
44:22
But it's also not a slam dunk and no pun intended, it's not a slam dunk that he's the greatest
44:27
of all time quarterback, which I know now is like blasphemy.
44:31
Some of you are like, Oh my gosh, you're such a hate or like, why would you even say
44:33
that?
44:34
We need to look at again, when you're looking at goats and I normally have this in the context
44:38
of MMA, when I'm having this debate, you can't just look at a stretch of time and you can't
44:42
just look at the things you want to look at, like stats and wins and losses and championships.
44:45
You have to look at everything.
44:48
That's why I consider George St. Pierre to be the greatest fighter of all time because
44:51
when you bring up, you know, John Jones, the fact that he's a pop for steroids, right?
44:55
You have to take that into account when you bring up Anderson Silva, it's like he was
44:58
the greatest of all time for about four or five years.
45:01
And then he had the rest of his career where he lost like seven of his last eight fights.
45:04
So I'm sorry, you can't just, you know, pretend like that guy's a great small time, but we
45:07
have to go down the controversies.
45:09
First of all, there's deflate gate, which again, I didn't think it was that big of a deal,
45:13
but he was deflating footballs in cheating.
45:17
He was literally going against the rule so that he could have a better grip on the ball
45:22
so that he could throw it better.
45:23
He was cheating and he knew he was cheating.
45:25
Okay.
45:26
So there's that.
45:27
Then we also have spy gate, right?
45:28
The Patriots were videotaping other teams practices and their walkthroughs.
45:32
They got caught on multiple occasions and it was interesting.
45:34
Tom Brady was undefeated in the playoffs until they found the Patriots videos and found their
45:40
videotaping schemes.
45:42
And then he was closer to 500, right?
45:44
I am not super close to 500, but he started losing games, right?
45:48
Started losing just regular playoff games and started losing Super Bowls all of a sudden.
45:52
But now we need to go through some of the stuff that led directly to Super Bowl wins
45:56
for him.
45:57
Again, he has seven, six with the Patriots in one with the Tampa Bay Bucks.
46:00
There was the tuck rule game, okay?
46:02
So he shouldn't even have been in the Super Bowl in 2001 because of this very, very obscure
46:06
rule.
46:07
He fumbled the ball.
46:08
They called it a tuck rule.
46:10
They changed, changed it to an incompletion.
46:12
All of a sudden they beat the Raiders.
46:13
They go to the Super Bowl.
46:14
Shouldn't even been in that Super Bowl.
46:15
Then in the Super Bowl in 2003, the Carolina Panthers should have won that game.
46:19
They just scored late in the game and then the kicker for the Carolina Panthers inexplicably.
46:23
For the first time, I think the entire season kicked the ball out of bounds on the kickoff,
46:26
which means the other team gets the ball in the 40 yard line, their own 40 yard line.
46:31
And so they drove, you know, 30, 35 yards put themselves in field goal range.
46:35
They kick a field goal.
46:36
And there you go.
46:37
The Patriots win the, win the Super Bowl.
46:39
The odds of them winning the Super Bowl if they had kicked it out of the back of the
46:41
end zone and they started the 20 went down very, very considerably.
46:45
So there's another one.
46:46
Then he lost twice to Eli Manning, right?
46:48
So, so a lot of people will be like, all right, well, you know, Eli's not really considered
46:50
one of the greatest, but lost twice once as an undefeated team.
46:53
So you have to take that into account.
46:55
And you have the Epic level, bonehead decision from Pete Carroll, whenever they were in the
46:59
Super Bowl against the Seahawks in 2014, you're on the one yard line.
47:03
You have one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant running back in the league
47:07
at that time.
47:08
And you decide to get cute and throw a slant route and you get picked off, right?
47:12
They had three chances to get one yard on the goal line with one of the best running backs
47:16
at that time and they decided to throw a pass, right?
47:20
So you should have lost that Super Bowl as well.
47:22
And then also you go to 2016 and the historic collapse of the Atlanta Falcons.
47:27
I forget how, how far the Atlanta Falcons were up, but it was the biggest collapse in Super
47:32
Bowl history.
47:33
Now with all those, you might say, well, yeah, Kyle, but he still had to do stuff.
47:37
So tuck rule.
47:38
Yeah, but he started to go to the Super Bowl and win.
47:40
Yeah, sure.
47:41
Carolina Panthers guy kicked it out out of the, he started on the 40 and kicked it out of
47:44
the, you know, out of the field of play kicked it off the sideline, but he still had to drive
47:48
and get them in field go range.
47:50
Yes.
47:51
Epic level boneheaded decision, but, you know, he had to drive them before the Seahawks drove
47:56
to get them in a position where they could win the game.
47:58
And also, yeah, I know the Atlanta Falcons stop scoring points, but, you know, Tom Brady
48:03
had to lead the Patriots to actually score those points and I get all those points.
48:06
But when you take all that into account, is Tom Brady really that much better than Joe
48:11
Montana?
48:13
The answer might be yes.
48:14
I am very sympathetic to arguments that he might be.
48:18
Is he that much better than any of the other great quarterbacks?
48:21
The problem is there's a sheer number of wins in the big games.
48:25
Peyton Manning doesn't have those.
48:26
Monroe, the Spurger doesn't have those.
48:27
Johnny United doesn't have those.
48:29
None of these great quarterbacks.
48:30
John Elway, Dan Marino, they don't have these big wins in these big games, right?
48:35
So I understand why people would say that he's the greatest of all time with quarterbacks.
48:39
If pressed, I would probably have to eventually agree with that even with everything put in.
48:44
But if, if not, if you caught me on an off day, I'd probably say Joe Montana is still the
48:47
greatest of all time, okay?
48:49
But this idea that he's somehow the greatest of all time in all of sports, I mean, it's
48:53
absolutely ridiculous.
48:55
Let's get into the next question here.
48:57
What are your thoughts on the father that tracked down and murdered the man that sold
49:00
his daughter into sex slavery?
49:01
Okay.
49:02
Now, I know I've talked about this one before, but I can't remember when it was.
49:04
I know there's a lot of new listeners to this audience, but essentially what this father
49:07
did is his teenage daughter was basically kidnapped by her boyfriend at the time and
49:14
sold into sex slavery, okay?
49:16
So not only did this dad, I find his daughter and get his daughter out of sex slavery.
49:22
He tracked down the boyfriend and murdered him, right?
49:28
Pretty gangster.
49:29
It's the movie taken in real life.
49:30
And I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this one since, you know, I know I've talked
49:32
about this before on this podcast, but man, every dad out there, especially with the daughter,
49:38
you get it.
49:40
You're not having to suspend reality or suspend, suspend relief too much or believe too much
49:44
to really understand how you would want to do the exact same thing, right?
49:47
Take do do the taken movie like you're, you're the one saying, you know, I have a particular
49:51
set of skills and I will find you and I will kill you.
49:54
But again, he tracked down this guy and he murdered him.
49:58
So as horrible as that human being is, he didn't deserve to be murdered like that, right?
50:03
He deserves probably to spend a whole lot of time in jail, maybe the rest of his life
50:06
in jail.
50:07
But again, Deuteronomy 32 35 vengeance is mine in recompense for the time when their foot shall
50:12
slip for the day of their calamity is at ham.
50:15
Their doom comes swiftly.
50:16
And if you're like, Oh, that's just Old Testament.
50:18
That's old covenant.
50:19
Well, we see that in Romans 12, 19 in the new Testament beloved, never avenged yourselves.
50:23
Believe it to the wrath of God for it is written vengeance is mine.
50:26
I will repay says the Lord.
50:28
So that wasn't that dad's life to take.
50:32
It was his life to protect with his daughter.
50:34
And I think he did his best up to that point to do so.
50:37
But no, I can't be down with the fact that this man murdered him.
50:40
I can say that I understand it.
50:42
I can say that if somebody sold one of my sons into sex slavery and I was able to even the
50:46
score, I can't even guarantee that I wouldn't be the one to do the same thing that this guy
50:50
did.
50:51
But to kidnap a guy, put him in the trunk of your car and stab him, stab him to death.
50:55
It's a yeah, that's a hard one, but I think most of you get it.
50:59
All right.
51:00
Next question here.
51:01
Do you listen to wolves at the gate?
51:04
All right.
51:05
So here's a deal.
51:07
I have been asked about this band so many times since Undaunted life was started.
51:14
Since August Burns read is the intro out from music.
51:16
I think wolves at the gate have gone on tour with them before and I swear to goodness.
51:22
You guys ask me about this band all the time.
51:27
And here's what I have to say.
51:29
I'm not really a fan.
51:32
I'm so sorry to disappoint all my listeners out there that thing because I listen to August
51:36
Burns read that somehow I should want to like a band called wolves at the gate.
51:40
I'm not a fan.
51:41
Okay.
51:42
I hope those guys do well.
51:44
I hope they make millions and millions of dollars and support their families and make
51:48
the music they want to make and go and all the tours and do all the things.
51:51
But when I listen to them, the sensation I get inside my ears as it attaches to my brain
51:58
is on a positive one.
51:59
Okay.
52:00
That is more of a radio metal band, right?
52:03
So you could expect to turn on, you know, the radio station, your local rock station
52:07
here, something like wolves at the gate.
52:09
That's not my favorite kind of music, right?
52:12
Wolves at the gate and August Burns read are not even close in terms of their intensity,
52:16
right?
52:17
Wolves at the gate isn't metal core, which is what August Burns read is.
52:20
So to all of you asking me about wolves at the gate, hopefully you're listening to this
52:25
and hopefully you never, ever, ever asked me about this again.
52:29
I wish those guys, well, I want them to be successful.
52:32
Yo, God bless them.
52:34
No, I'm not a fan of wolves at the gate.
52:36
All right.
52:37
Next question here.
52:38
What are your tips for newly married men?
52:39
Okay.
52:40
So I actually do speeches sometimes for groups of guys that are about to be married or have
52:44
just been married.
52:45
And so I've got a bunch of rapid fire ones just off the top of my head that I know that
52:47
I talk about.
52:48
And I usually start out with something similar that you guys have heard me say before, stop
52:51
looking at porn and jerking off.
52:54
That's number one.
52:55
A lot of unmarried men that look at porn and jerk off assume that when they get married,
53:00
they're going to be having so much unbelievable sex that they're not even have time to masturbate.
53:06
And for just about the entire married population of the planet, that is not true.
53:10
Okay.
53:11
And I also know men that have a very, very healthy sexual relationship with their spouses and
53:15
they still look at porn and masturbate almost as if it's a compulsion or an addiction, right?
53:22
But do not assume that your wife is going to all of a sudden be enough for you to stop
53:26
looking at porn and masturbating.
53:28
That's something you have to get in check.
53:29
And again, I'm not a huge fan of going through these 12 step programs to get off of porn.
53:33
And oh, we're going to buy this thing.
53:34
We're going to buy that thing.
53:35
And I'm okay with accountability programs.
53:37
You know, I support them and I have them.
53:38
And you know, I'm okay with with guys that we want to, you know, talk through with some
53:42
other guys and have accountability groups and all that.
53:43
But guess what?
53:44
At the end of the day, the people that create the filters, the guys that are in your accountability
53:49
group, the pastors at church, they're not with you when you're at home by yourself.
53:55
And you know how you can find porn, you can find it just about anywhere.
53:59
And they're also not with you when you're going through the mental rollodex and going
54:03
through your highlight reel and using that as a masturbatory aid, right?
54:07
They're not there with you.
54:08
At the end of the day, you have to stop looking at porn.
54:11
Some people have prayed to the father and the father is granted their request to have
54:15
that no longer even be a vice or a desire for them.
54:20
But for most everybody else, that's not there for you.
54:22
Okay?
54:23
So that's the very, very first one.
54:24
You've got to stop looking at porn.
54:25
Okay?
54:26
Got to stop jerking off.
54:27
The next one, one of the most low key, but one of the best pieces of a marriage advice
54:31
that I've ever gotten.
54:32
And I got it whenever I was engaged is have one bank account, have a shared bank account.
54:37
Okay?
54:38
So let me just preface, they don't mean have all your money in one single account.
54:42
Okay?
54:43
What they mean is all the accounts you have, you're both on them.
54:46
Okay?
54:47
Because when guys start having affairs, they're putting it on the business card when they
54:50
take out their, you know, skank for, to dinner or something like that, or when they get
54:54
a motel to, to bang their secretary or something like that, that's what they're using that
54:59
money for.
55:00
They're doing a bunch of stuff and cash and all that.
55:02
From day one, my wife and I have had the exact same accounts.
55:06
She has access to all my accounts.
55:07
I've access to all her accounts and by hers and mine accounts, I mean for her business
55:10
and for my business, right?
55:12
But all of our other monies, there are money.
55:15
We're at the same bank.
55:16
We both have the apps.
55:17
There's no hidden money.
55:18
And, you know, we might think, well, how do you buy presents for each other and all those
55:21
things?
55:22
We don't do those things either.
55:23
Like we don't do like Valentine's gifts.
55:24
We don't do birthday gifts.
55:25
We don't do Christmas gifts.
55:26
We put all that money towards, you know, travel and different things like that.
55:30
We still every now and then we'll, we'll get surprises for one another and things like
55:33
that.
55:34
But we have all the money there.
55:35
Money or the, the reasons why most couples list that they're getting a divorce, other
55:40
aside from the fact that they just don't love each other anymore or whatever crap they
55:42
make up.
55:43
But the thing about it is have one, have all your accounts shared, great, great advice.
55:48
Other advice for newly married men have kids.
55:50
I don't mean today, if you're 22 and just got married like me, like, you know, I didn't
55:55
have my first kid until I was in my 30s, right?
55:56
I get it.
55:57
But have kids.
55:59
Your marriage is not about you and her only, okay?
56:03
You need to have children.
56:04
That is a glorious thing that God has called for you to do.
56:07
So don't be one of those people that's just like, ah, we've just decided not to have kids
56:10
and be completely selfish for our entire lives.
56:12
Definitely don't do that.
56:13
Make sure that you have a plan to have kids.
56:14
So keep your families in check and I mean your extended families, right?
56:19
So moms and dads and aunts and uncles and grandparents, they can really ruin, ruin Thanksgiving
56:24
and Christmas, right?
56:25
But then you have a lot of people where it's like, okay, they go to their mom when they're
56:29
having problems with you and they talk to mom about it, oh, you got to get that in check.
56:36
You've got to get that in check.
56:37
Okay.
56:38
And I understand people have close relationships with siblings and different things like that.
56:42
But that can absolutely, absolutely destroy marriage when you let your families get in
56:47
on you.
56:48
And like, I know people that it's like, you know, they would do two nights a week where
56:51
they would have dinner with the extended family and, you know, the family's kind of deciding
56:54
when they're going to go on vacation and when they should buy a house and what kind of car
56:58
they should have and whether they should have kids and when they should have kids and what
57:01
they should name those kids and all those different things.
57:03
Bro, there's some families that are absolutely insane and I'm not saying you don't need to
57:06
have families.
57:07
You need to disrespect your families or anything like that.
57:09
But guess what?
57:10
It's just you and her, buddy, at the end of the day, when all of our other family members
57:15
die off, whenever your kids are out of the house, which is at the age of 18, and they
57:18
don't come back because you're not going to allow them back into the house, right?
57:22
It's just you and her.
57:23
It's you and her forever.
57:25
We are given marriage between one man and one woman to be the reason that we can have
57:29
a way to understand God's love for us.
57:31
And Jesus is a sacrifice for the church, right?
57:33
For his people.
57:34
So you have to keep your families in check.
57:37
People invest in your marriage, you know, if you want to read books together, read books
57:40
together.
57:41
If you want to go through the five love languages, do that.
57:42
If you want to go to a marriage conference, like invest in your marriage, it's shocking.
57:45
The amount of guys that will spend money on workout equipment and on, you know, fancy
57:49
football, you know, draft information, you're going to spend 20 bucks for this extra special
57:55
information or you go to this class about Bitcoin or, you know, whatever the thing is,
57:58
but they don't spend a dime on their marriage.
58:01
They're not reading books themselves.
58:03
They're not investing the time or the money in the marriage, but that's something you
58:06
absolutely have to do.
58:07
I was going to go into some other things, but just kind of kind of run down to those
58:10
again, like stop looking at porn and jerking off, make sure you have access to all the
58:13
accounts, both you have all the access to all your money, have kids, keep your families
58:16
in check, invest in your marriage.
58:18
I think those are really good tips to start.
58:20
And then, you know, they kind of go off and spinner off, spinner off from there.
58:22
All right.
58:23
Next question here.
58:24
What is your favorite type of workout and who is or what is your least favorite?
58:28
Okay.
58:29
Favorite workout, least favorite.
58:33
That's actually kind of a hard one for me to answer because believe it or not, even though
58:36
I talk about it all the time, I hate working out.
58:39
It's not my favorite thing at all.
58:41
I just told you, I did not want to wake up this morning and do squat.
58:43
There's nothing fun about squat.
58:45
There are people that see a barbell, Oh man, and they get excited.
58:47
They're like, Oh my gosh, I could just put weight on that and I could put it on my back
58:51
and I could squat it and then I could sweat and it'd be a lot of fun.
58:55
If I could just snap my fingers and have all the bodily and physical benefits of exercise
59:00
without having to actually do it, I would obviously do that.
59:03
Right.
59:04
Like it's not like I'm hiking through the mountains and seeing the views.
59:07
I'm staring at my wall while I'm squatting.
59:09
I'm staring at the floor, you know, while I'm deadlifting, like it's, it's just whatever
59:12
it's a problem.
59:13
Right.
59:14
And for those of you like, Oh, you stare at the floor when you're dead left.
59:16
That's not the right form.
59:17
I stare at the floor initially and then I move my eyes up.
59:19
I have really good deadlift form shut up, but if I had to kind of break it down in terms
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of my favorite types of workouts, if I'm knocking out a workout, I do like hit training, right?
59:29
Some of those where it's like, you know, as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes to
59:32
where it's like, you know, five pull ups, 10 pushups, you know, 15 air squats or something
59:36
like that.
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I kind of like those because when you're done, you're done and you're pumped up and it's
59:41
like 20 minutes and you're absolutely destroyed.
59:43
Whereas some guys spend two hours at the gym and they're not getting any work done.
59:48
I could say probably my least favorite type of workout and type of workout.
59:54
I don't like running distance.
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Typically, I keep my runs under like a five K or under like distance running has ever
1:00:01
really been a long thing.
1:00:02
I think my longest run I've ever done in my life is maybe seven or eight miles.
1:00:05
Like I just never really see me doing a marathon, just a level of training that you have to
1:00:09
put into just running for hours.
1:00:11
It just doesn't really seem that exciting to me.
1:00:13
I'd rather run sprints sprints is actually another one of my favorites.
1:00:16
I really do like running sprints because you get destroyed and you know, you don't have
1:00:18
to run like 10 of them and you're like, absolutely destroyed.
1:00:21
I don't like deadlifting deadlifts scares me, but it's something that I that I do even
1:00:25
last week.
1:00:26
You know, I kind of, you know, let my form go on one rep of the entire workout and kind
1:00:30
of tweak something I've had to deal with that for the last week.
1:00:32
So not really big fan of deadlift, but there you go again.
1:00:35
I just, I don't really like working out.
1:00:36
It's just something that I do, but for you guys, just you don't have to have a favorite
1:00:40
workout.
1:00:41
You don't have to have a least favorite workout.
1:00:42
Just workout.
1:00:43
I don't care what you do.
1:00:44
I don't care if you rock out.
1:00:45
I don't care if you run.
1:00:46
I don't care if you, you know, do CrossFit or any of those different things just don't
1:00:49
be a [inaudible] and talk to me about CrossFit all the time.
1:00:51
Like if you're going to do that, but aside from that, you know, just do whatever is good
1:00:53
for you.
1:00:55
All right.
1:00:56
Next one here.
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Would Jesus get vaccinated?
1:00:58
Okay.
1:00:59
So here's the thing about this one.
1:01:01
I remember this coming up.
1:01:02
I think it came up with someone on Twitter.
1:01:03
I think someone wrote a blog about him, blah, blah, blah.
1:01:06
And I did no prep on this question because I just literally, literally below this question,
1:01:09
I just have the word flow, right?
1:01:11
And so I'm just going to like figure it this out as I go.
1:01:13
Would Jesus get vaccinated?
1:01:15
So there's, I guess a lot of things to consider with that question.
1:01:18
The first is that he's the son of God.
1:01:21
So there's probably some magical healing.
1:01:24
You know, so here's, here's the thing that I would say is like he had the magical healing
1:01:29
at his, at his disposal, but also he was, he was a man at the same time.
1:01:33
He was fully man and fully God.
1:01:34
I can't recall off top my head to anything from the gospels where we describe Jesus being
1:01:39
sick.
1:01:40
That's not to say that he never was sick, but I don't know like we don't have anything
1:01:43
for scripture to be like, Oh yeah, he had the sniffles and he went to Peter and Peter
1:01:46
like burned some sage and rubbed some honey on his nose or like, I don't know, like we
1:01:50
don't have that from scripture, but I'm assuming that he was sick at different times.
1:01:54
I'm assuming he did some form of medicine or some sort of medical tree.
1:01:59
I assume that, but I don't know that to be the case.
1:02:01
But what I do know is Jesus was 33 years old when he died.
1:02:06
And so if we know anything about COVID, we know that this is not something that affects,
1:02:11
you know, 33 year olds that are in shape, 33 year olds that aren't obese.
1:02:16
We don't have any indication that Jesus had cancer or diabetes or lung disease.
1:02:20
So, you know, COVID was not really going to be an issue for Jesus of Nazareth, if he had
1:02:25
gotten it, he very likely would have gotten mildly sick if he ever even showed symptoms
1:02:30
at all.
1:02:31
But in terms of getting vaccinated, a lot of people would say, well, Jesus is concerned
1:02:35
about the greater good of humanity.
1:02:36
So he would obviously have gotten vaccinated.
1:02:38
I just don't really know that to be the case.
1:02:41
I think Jesus would have very much so been allowing of people to do what they they felt
1:02:48
was right because there's not really a mandate in this specific aspect.
1:02:52
Not with other aspects.
1:02:53
I'm not saying Jesus would say, do whatever.
1:02:54
I'm not a universalist or any of those types of things.
1:02:57
But this is one of those things where it's kind of up to you, it's whatever you feel
1:02:59
comfortable with.
1:03:00
Again, I don't know this to be the case.
1:03:03
But if somebody wanted to treat, you know, a cough that they had by, you know, drinking
1:03:07
some sort of a T mixture and honey, like he may prefer not to do that.
1:03:11
But what do you actually say that that person was bad?
1:03:14
Like, I don't think getting the vaccine or not getting the vaccine is a sinful thing,
1:03:20
right?
1:03:21
Either way.
1:03:22
And so Jesus was wildly concerned about the hearts of man and about sinning against his
1:03:27
father.
1:03:28
Right.
1:03:29
So he was grace and truth.
1:03:30
He always called people out for their sin, but he didn't like destroy them for it.
1:03:33
For it, right?
1:03:34
He gave them a pathway to redemption.
1:03:37
But again, I just don't really see it.
1:03:38
It's certainly not a salivific issue, whether you decide to get vaccinated or not.
1:03:42
It's a decision that you make for your own personal health.
1:03:45
There's some people that are anti all pain medication.
1:03:47
They're not going to pop an IV profan or a Tylenol or anything else or something harder,
1:03:51
like a Vicodin or Oxycodone or something.
1:03:53
They're not going to do that.
1:03:55
That's not a salvation issue.
1:03:57
It's a choice on your own medical well-being.
1:04:00
Now, I do think where it does get into that is like, let's say you're addicted to oxy,
1:04:07
like I think Jesus would have something to say about that.
1:04:08
If you're constantly popping these pills to numb yourself or all that and you're trying
1:04:13
to get higher or whatever with them, like I think Jesus would have something to say about
1:04:16
that just like God gave us alcohol as a social lubricant, but it can be used in a negative
1:04:22
way to destroy people and destroy lives.
1:04:24
Same thing with sex or food or anything else, but again, I just don't know that Jesus would
1:04:28
be too terribly concerned about whether or not to get the COVID vaccine.
1:04:32
But if you and your own wisdom feel like you need to go before the father and pray for whether
1:04:38
or not you should get the vaccine or whether you should not encourage other people to get
1:04:41
the vaccine, that's great.
1:04:42
That's good for you.
1:04:43
Which goes into the next question, which is argue anti-vax, which is so interesting now
1:04:47
because according to Webster's dictionary, I guess I am anti-vax because they've added
1:04:52
to the definition of anti-vax or people that are against mandates for vaccines.
1:04:58
So I'm 100% against that, but I'm not against you getting the COVID vaccine.
1:05:03
Again, if you haven't heard me talk about it before, I have chosen not to get the vaccine.
1:05:07
The reason is, is because from the very beginning, my wife and I decided that we were not going
1:05:11
to huddle up in our houses and hide until the vaccine was available.
1:05:14
And so from that very moment, we became aware that we could contract this virus and we were
1:05:21
okay with that.
1:05:22
Just like we're okay with the risk of contracting the common cold or the flu or something else.
1:05:28
We know that that is a hazard that we take on every time we get in our cars.
1:05:32
We know there's a chance we're not going to come back, right?
1:05:35
Every time we get our heart rates up and we exercise, we know there's a chance it's going
1:05:38
to explode and also we're not going to be alive anymore.
1:05:41
We take those chances, it just says what it is.
1:05:43
But we both got COVID and she and I are going to have to deal with the long-term ramifications
1:05:50
of getting COVID, which we don't know yet.
1:05:52
Like we're three years into this, but do we know what the effects of getting COVID, the
1:05:56
alpha variant is going to be on somebody 10 years from now?
1:05:59
We have no idea.
1:06:00
We have no clue.
1:06:01
People can't even guess at this point.
1:06:02
They're just, you know, conjecture at this point.
1:06:03
But for us, we know what we're going to have to deal with.
1:06:07
We dealt with the initial getting sick and then now we've got natural immunity to a certain
1:06:11
degree for a certain period of time.
1:06:13
But what we don't know are any of the long-term negative ramifications of getting the vaccine.
1:06:20
We don't know that, right?
1:06:23
We know that some people get mild carditis.
1:06:25
We know that some people are just dying after they get the vaccine somehow.
1:06:28
Again, people don't like talking about this, but Marvin Hagler, the great boxer who died,
1:06:33
like he died right after he got the vaccine.
1:06:35
No one really talks about that.
1:06:36
Bob Saget, the world famous comedian and dad on Full House, Danny Tanner, he got the booster
1:06:41
and then he died.
1:06:42
Right?
1:06:43
His heart just stopped.
1:06:44
But no one's really talking about it.
1:06:45
Again, I'm not saying that the vaccines or boosters killed those people, but it's at
1:06:49
least a question that needs an answer.
1:06:51
And so I am skeptical about the vaccine personally.
1:06:55
It's something that I already have natural immunity that is multiple, multiple, multiple
1:07:00
times more effective than the vaccine alone.
1:07:03
And so for me, especially being young and healthy and my wife as well, we don't feel
1:07:08
like that's that big of a deal for us.
1:07:10
COVID is very, very, very, very likely not going to kill us if we get it again.
1:07:16
And it was extremely unlikely that it was going to kill us initially, and that is not
1:07:20
to be insensitive to anybody that has lost family members or had a really, really bad
1:07:23
experience with getting COVID.
1:07:26
But for us, we have decided that we're not going to get this vaccine.
1:07:30
But we're about no stress in the imagination, anti-vaxx.
1:07:32
We've got vaccinations.
1:07:33
We're getting our kids vaccinated, like, but not with the COVID vaccine, but all the other
1:07:39
vaccines that you normally get when you're a kid in your first few years of life.
1:07:42
We're going to do all those.
1:07:43
We're very, very pro vaccine.
1:07:44
We think that's a grace from God that there are vaccines that can prevent you from getting
1:07:48
these preventable diseases that could very, very likely kill you.
1:07:50
I think that's a great idea.
1:07:51
I'm glad that as a population, as a humanity, we've almost eradicated polio entirely.
1:07:56
I think there's like one country.
1:07:57
I think I might be, I can't remember what country it is, may have been Afghanistan, but there's
1:08:01
only one country that won't let people come in to give the polio vaccinations, but we've
1:08:05
almost eradicated disease.
1:08:07
I think those things are amazing.
1:08:08
It's a preservation of the Amago day, like when these people aren't suffering and dying
1:08:12
in these horrible ways, you know, since we're in this post Genesis 3 world where there is
1:08:16
disease that kills people, right?
1:08:18
It's, but for me, we've just made that decision.
1:08:22
But if you decided in your own personal wisdom to get the vaccine, great, I don't care.
1:08:26
I literally don't care.
1:08:27
Now if you start getting in my face saying, and I'm an idiot, some sort of anti-vaxxer,
1:08:32
because I don't want to get the vaccine, screw you.
1:08:35
I didn't ask for your opinion, right?
1:08:38
You didn't ask for my opinion on your fact that you got the vaccine.
1:08:41
And guess what?
1:08:42
Getting the vaccine doesn't make you virtuous.
1:08:43
This unearned moral superiority that people are saying that, you know, wear double masks
1:08:48
in their car and get vaccinated, like, I'm sorry, like, I don't care about your opinion.
1:08:52
We live in a free society currently that allows for you to choose whether or not to do something,
1:08:57
whether or not to inject an experimental substance into your body.
1:09:00
I'm just not into it.
1:09:03
There would have been circumstances had I not ever gotten COVID.
1:09:06
I very, very seriously would have considered getting the vaccine.
1:09:10
Or I may have not have like, but this is a world we live in.
1:09:12
I got COVID.
1:09:13
It is what it is.
1:09:14
I'm not anti-vaxx.
1:09:15
All right.
1:09:16
Last question of the day, this is going to be an easy one.
1:09:18
What grade would you give Joe Biden's first year?
1:09:21
So F minus is a possible grade.
1:09:23
So he gets an F minus, okay?
1:09:25
To the people that support Joe or Joe Biden, I'm going to say Joe Rogan, for the people
1:09:30
that support him, whether you voted for him or not, whether you still support him or not,
1:09:35
I want to know what redeeming quality came from his first year as president.
1:09:40
What is the thing that you can point to the accomplishment that you're like, Oh, yeah,
1:09:44
I'm going to hang my hat on that.
1:09:45
Like that.
1:09:46
That's what I want to do.
1:09:47
So great, because you can't say foreign policy, because you got Russia knocking on the door
1:09:53
of Ukraine.
1:09:54
You've got China flexing all over the place.
1:09:56
You've got the debacle that was Afghanistan.
1:09:59
You can't point to the economy.
1:10:00
Because even if the economy has grown in certain places, it hasn't grown nearly at the rate
1:10:04
that it should have, inflation is absolutely insane and it's by their own doing by blowing
1:10:09
all this artificial money into the marketplace and causing this inflation, which will only
1:10:13
get worse.
1:10:14
We're going to have inflation and stat inflation is going to be horrific as we get into the
1:10:17
rest of this year.
1:10:18
But as we continue to move on, point me to something.
1:10:23
He's not doing great on illegal immigration.
1:10:26
It's wide open on the southern border and we've seen evidence like that's verifiable that
1:10:30
they're putting these immigrants, these illegal immigrants on planes and flying them all over
1:10:34
the country, right?
1:10:35
And letting them settle.
1:10:36
They're doing these, these plane flights in the middle of the night, settling these people
1:10:38
all over the country, right?
1:10:40
Like taxation is going to be going up.
1:10:44
Like we're going to see the rise in the Fed interest rates, like point to something.
1:10:49
What are we hanging our hat on?
1:10:50
Because if it's, well, he's not tweeting mean things, is that it?
1:10:55
Is it the fact that he's just not Donald Trump?
1:10:59
Because this guy isn't with it.
1:11:00
And again, I'm not going to make fun of this man for having, clearly having dementia, for
1:11:05
forgetting what he's saying in the middle of a sentence, for being late to almost every
1:11:09
press conference because they're injecting them with some magical medicine so he can
1:11:13
get up there and not completely just vomit all over himself with stupid words.
1:11:17
The guy's not with us, okay?
1:11:20
He's not running the show, but he is the figurehead of the administration.
1:11:25
But again, even if I was doing the most CNN or MSNBC or Vox or New York Times read of
1:11:31
this administration, what are you excited about?
1:11:33
Are you excited about the fact that he's discriminating against an entire swath of the
1:11:39
population because he said that he's going to pick a black woman to be the next Supreme
1:11:42
Court justice.
1:11:44
And the thing is, is like, if a black woman happens to be the most qualified person that
1:11:49
you want to put on the Supreme Court, great.
1:11:51
I have no problems.
1:11:52
Put an alien on there.
1:11:53
Put a giraffe on there.
1:11:54
As long as they're qualified to be a judge, that's what we want.
1:11:58
But is that what you're hanging your hat on?
1:12:01
This guy made a promise that he was going to have a black woman, that he was going to
1:12:04
racially pick somebody and segment the population.
1:12:07
I'm going to pick a black woman to be my vice president, a woman of color.
1:12:10
And then I'm also going to put a black woman, a woman on the Supreme Court.
1:12:12
I think Joe Biden, it loves the smell of his own farts and what he wants him to smell
1:12:16
like is that he's going to be when he dies, which will probably be here soon.
1:12:20
He wants to be known as this guy who did all these incredible things, that he was better
1:12:25
than FDR.
1:12:26
He was better than JFK.
1:12:27
He was better than Barack Obama, that he was the man.
1:12:30
He was the guy that put the first black woman on the Supreme Court.
1:12:32
He was the guy that did this thing.
1:12:33
He was a guy that got rid of this and got, you know, added that he wants to be this person
1:12:38
of substance and of grandeur.
1:12:40
It's just not there for him.
1:12:41
He's a turd.
1:12:43
Even when he had all of his mental faculties for all these decades that he was in Congress,
1:12:47
he was a turd.
1:12:48
He was an obscure politician that no one knew about until Barack Obama plucked him from
1:12:52
that obscurity so that he would seem like more of a moderate, which Barack Obama is
1:12:56
not.
1:12:58
So again, for the first year of Joe Biden to be in an office, I can't point to a single
1:13:02
thing that's positive for this country, right?
1:13:04
And I think it's going to be an absolute bloodbath as we get to the midterm elections.
1:13:08
And we'll just have to see where the rest of it goes out, but f minus.
1:13:11
All right, guys, that is the end of the Q and A. And guys, again, I'm not going to be talking
1:13:15
to you for a while there.
1:13:16
I'm so sad.
1:13:17
I know, I know you're going to be hearing from me, but I'm not going to be delivering any
1:13:20
messages.
1:13:21
So if any big news happens in the rest of February and March and into April, don't worry.
1:13:26
I will be paying attention.
1:13:27
I will be making notes and I will likely come back guns blazing, but I will see you guys
1:13:32
later.
1:13:33
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