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"This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast."
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.
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Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them guys that is Ephesians
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511, and if it seems like we do that scripture a lot, it's because I absolutely love that
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scripture.
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If you're wondering where we got the idea to push back darkness, it's just from there.
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So we're going to get into today's subject matter, I'm excited to talk to you guys.
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It's kind of like, you know, this is like my second time back in the studio.
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It's kind of like riding a bike, but it's like the bike's tires might be flat and your
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legs might be broken, but I'm absolutely doing my best to kind of get back in the groove
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for you fellas.
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But before we move on to one, see, messing up right from the beginning, it's going to be
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a terrible show today.
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I want you to leave us a five star rating in review, okay?
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We've gotten some one star ratings and we'll get more into why here in just a second.
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But every time you guys leave us a five star rating in a review that helps us with the algorithms,
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which helps people discover our show because it'll show up in that kind of carousel and
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So even if you guys don't listen on Apple podcast, if you would, if you have an iPhone, which
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should be most of you, go to Apple podcast, look up our show, give us a five star rating
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in a quick review.
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And just last week, I announced our new segment called quick hitters, right?
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And we already got some good feedback.
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Hey, that's going to be a good idea.
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You know, I'd love for you to get into some more content.
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Like today we're doing Q and A. So I'm kind of blowing up my own new segment, right?
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Because since we're doing Q and A, I'm going to violate the new announcement because we've
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not done Q and A in a very, very long time.
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And we'll, we'll get more into kind of what we're going to do for that.
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But here's the quick, quick hitters for this week.
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So this is going to be super, super duper fast.
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I'm just going to run through this list real quick because normally I would kind of give
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all of these things a little bit more play.
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If not do an entire show about them, maybe we'll do it down the road.
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But I saw a lot of tweets that were similar to this.
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So here's your quick, quick hitters, Netflix shares are crashing.
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CNN plus is shutting down after only one month and $300 million invested in the project.
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Spotify removes the Obama podcast, but not Joe Rogan Disney is stripped of their special
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governing powers in the state of Florida.
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Netflix were ruled unlawful on public transportation to include planes and trains and all that.
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And Elon Musk has secured funding for Twitter takeover.
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So all of those things, again, a lot of people on Twitter have been posting things similar
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to that.
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I'd give you my thoughts.
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He even deeper on all those things, but all that kind of comes into the same thing that
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if you're very much so on the left, if you're pushing a leftist agenda, a woke agenda, if
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you're going in that direction, the marketplace seems to be pushing back against you.
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And for most of these people, they don't have a tremendous level of self awareness.
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So they're probably going to be looking outwardly like what's wrong with everybody else as opposed
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to looking inwardly.
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But this is one of those interesting turning points, which I don't know if this is like
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a seminal moment in our country where a lot of the woke agenda and all those things is
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going to be rejected.
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But there is the shift now to where things that used to be, you know, conservatives like,
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yeah, you know, being defensive, I don't really bother me, just kind of leave me alone, you
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know, do your own thing.
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Just kind of leave me alone.
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It seems like a lot more conservatives, a lot more people that are that take the, you
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know, the Bible seriously or the constitution seriously or the Bill Wright seriously or just
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free speech in general and freedom of expression and liberty seem to be pushing back now.
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Because a lot of people, that's why I love the open marketplace because seeing in thought
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that you liked Don Lemon and Brian Stelter and all their other personalities.
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And the thing was is like, it doesn't make any sense because if you weren't going to
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listen to them and watch them for free, why would you think people would pay a monthly
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subscription fee to listen to those people and watch those people?
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It's this level of unawareness from people that think that way that they're just going
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to be completely insulated.
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So I'm interested to see how that works out, but guys, we've got Q&A for today.
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This is what I'm going to tell you.
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It's going to be a little different Q&A.
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I think this Q&A volume 19, normally I will compile all of the questions that come in
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during a certain period of time, you know, from the emails we get from the DMs, we get
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things like that.
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And then I'll go through all of them and I'll kind of prepare my answers for each one of
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those.
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Some of them kind of sneak in without preparation and I'm, I just kind of have to flow.
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Well this list of questions, these are all evergreen questions, okay?
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And these questions were compiled in January, okay?
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So I have not seen the majority of these questions since January and I've prepared zero responses
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for the things I'm going to say.
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So everything I say today is just going to be right off the top of the dome.
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I do not have notes in front of me except for what the questions are.
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So this is a little bit of an experiment.
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This could be amazing.
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This could be an abject failure, but hey, I'm here for the car crash if you guys are.
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So let's go ahead and launch into the first one here.
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Why did you see here's the problem when I don't read these questions.
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I'm going to kind of be giving you my natural reactions here.
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Why did you ruin your show with advertisements?
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So I'm pretty sure I answer this on, you know, Q and A 17 or 18 because yes, we do have advertisements
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on our show now.
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So we have programmatic ads that will run at the beginning of the show and in the middle
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of the show, you know, during, during little verbal breaks or something like that.
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I've, I've done some reads for some advertisers here on the air.
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And if you go to our, our, I was just telling you from the beginning to go to our ratings,
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if you look at our one star ratings that have come in here recently, almost all of them have
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something to do with advertisements, okay?
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The other ones just think I'm, you know, I'm bigoted and racist and horrible and awful
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and not even a Christian and how dare I say these things and, you know, those are fine.
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But a lot of people are just mad.
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They're so mad that there's advertisements on my show right now.
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And so I think this is the last time that I'm going to address this because we're going
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to get more advertisements because our show is going to continue to grow and grow and grow.
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Like I think the last time I looked at the numbers, we're like top six or seven percent
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of podcasts worldwide.
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Right now, I mean, there's kind of a wide gap between the tippy top of that percentile
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and the bottom of it.
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You know, we're not a small show, there's a lot of people paying attention to what we're
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doing.
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There are brands that are reaching out.
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We, you know, we're only coalescing the ones into our into the fold here that we believe
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in and that we've tried out the products and all that.
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So there's going to be more ad reads.
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There's going to be a lot of stuff that comes out, but here's going to be my, my thing moving
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forward that people with that complain with ads.
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Here's my response to them.
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And if you're one of those people, here's my response to you.
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I don't think you should be paid to do your job either.
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Because that's what advertisement dollars, that's what ad dollars are.
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The people whose ads are on their shows, that's how they pay money to those people.
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That's how these people can make money to feed their families and to grow their business.
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Okay.
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So I'm not going to apologize for putting advertisements on this show at all.
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Are you out of your mind?
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Like, imagine if somebody walked into your workplace and said, yeah, yeah, I think you
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should work 50, 60 hours this week and then do all these things and prepare it to make
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sure that you're doing good work and working under the law and all those different things.
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But you really shouldn't be paid to do that.
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Like, how do you guys think that that podcasters make money?
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Like, we get sponsorships and we get some in kind deals and like, that's how we make
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this thing go.
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And then you can write books and get paid for that.
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And just think about it.
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Every time you go and see a guest speaker somewhere, that person's being paid to do that
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for the most part.
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Right?
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Do you think they shouldn't be paid for that?
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They should just donate their time and attention and preparation and travel and time away from
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their family for free?
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Like, you would never say that.
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And this, there was a particularly egregious thing that came up.
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And I hope this guy's still listening because I definitely encouraged him to do that.
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He sent me an email and it was a very well thought out email and very well written, which
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I can appreciate because he wrote it and then obviously went back and, you know, read it
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again so he can correct any typos or anything like that.
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And he was just basically telling me how bad it was that we have advertising.
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So on our show now, I really liked your show.
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And then, then you put all these ads in there and all these different things and all that.
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And, you know, ignoring the fact that that guy probably listens to a bunch of other shows
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that have ads because, because what?
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If you listen to Joe Rogan experience with the Ben Shapiro show or Glenn Beck's show or
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Matt Walsh show or just Jordan Peterson show, any pick a show, there are ads either programmatic
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or red on the air.
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And yeah, I can get a little annoying, you know, every three minutes whenever Ben Shapiro's
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breaking in with an ad, but that that's how he's making money for the daily wire.
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That's how they're able to produce the content that they do.
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And so one thing that I did that was interesting with this guy as before I responded to him,
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I went to our donation page on our website.
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So it's through donor box and thank you again to all you guys that donate to kind of keep
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what we're doing here alive and to keep it moving forward, because the overwhelming majority
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of how we keep the lights on here is through donations.
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It's not their advertisements.
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Believe it or not, those of you complaining about advertisements is mainly the donors
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that keep us moving.
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So I go to our donation page and I look up this guy's name and wouldn't you know it?
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He's never donated to us.
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And so I very politely responded to him.
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If you send me an email, I'll usually send you a voice memo back or something like that
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just because it's easier and faster for me.
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And, you know, it's kind of like you get your own little mini podcast.
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And I said, it's interesting to me that you're complaining about the advertisements on the
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show and yet you've never donated to this ministry.
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So you want everything that this podcast is, you want everything that you get and can glean
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from the devotionals and you want the live speaking and you want all the other things
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that we have coming down the pipeline later on this year and into next year, but you don't
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want to pay for it.
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I find that very, very interesting.
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Now I have to fight that that urge myself as well, like, oh, I don't want to pay 99 cents
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to have a month long subscription to this place, I just want to read this one article,
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right?
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Ah, I don't want to sit here and listen to these ads on this show.
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I shouldn't have to listen to these ads because I'm special and I'm like, I get it.
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Like I have a lot of that, that, that part in me as well.
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But if there's a content creator out there that you support and that you like, like don't
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just support him with your attention, support him with your dollars.
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I know Dennis Prager with Prager, you talked about that all the time.
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It's like he wants to give money all the time to people, right?
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So if he likes your video on YouTube, because it helped him do something, he's going to go
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to your website to see if there's a way that he can donate to you for helping him, right?
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And a guy like that, that's probably worth a lot of money, he can donate more than somebody
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else, but it's not the amount that matters.
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It's the thought that matters that goes into that amount that you give to somebody.
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Again, starting from the jump talking about advertisements or something like that, it
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just kind of is what it is.
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But again, people get really, really weird talking about money.
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You know, when I was talking to John Deloney, he was talking about being in these, you know,
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scenarios with people where they will tell you the most depraved things they think sexually,
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but they won't talk to you about how much debt they're in.
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That's the thing is people would rather talk about their sex lives in public than talk about
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money.
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But we're going to talk about that.
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Again, guys, if we don't have advertisements and especially if we don't have donors, what
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we do here doesn't continue, right?
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Like, that's just the way of it.
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People get paid to do their job, whether they're a pastor, a plumber, or, you know, they build
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cars or do whatever, they get paid to do what they do.
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So enough complaining about the advertisements, but please give us our five star reviews to
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counteract some of those people that are mad and giving us one star reviews.
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All right, let's move off that one.
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Let's go to the next one here.
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What are your thoughts on female pastors marrying couples?
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Okay.
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So part of the thing is whenever you have questions you haven't seen in a while, obviously I would
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have some more scriptural references that would be that I would be able to exege for you and
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kind of bring it to you.
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But in general, I obviously don't think that female pastor should be marrying couples because
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I don't think female pastor should be a thing.
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And when I say the term pastor, I mean, pastor as described in kind of the biblical context,
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there are a lot of churches now, especially kind of mega churches, non-denominational
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churches.
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They just call everyone pastor, right?
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And I'm being a little bit hyperbolic, but everybody has the title pastor.
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So they're the worship pastor.
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They're the missions pastor.
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They're the small groups pastor, they're the this pastor that pastor.
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And so some of those people can kind of be mixed roles, but they're just kind of adding
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pastor to the end.
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I don't know if because it sounds better or kind of substantiates these people a little
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bit more.
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And so if one of those people was marrying a couple, like, I guess I get it to a certain
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degree.
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But again, if we take marriage seriously, and we believe that marriage is between one
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man and one woman, we can assume that we also take the other parts of the Bible seriously,
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where it talks about men being in the pastoral role, caring for the flock.
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So I guess my overall thoughts is I don't think that it would be appropriate to do that.
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I know that there are people who, you know, have some special scenarios.
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So maybe it's a Christian couple, but, you know, the father was the pastor and was going
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to do the wedding.
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He passed away and so, you know, grandma steps in or mom steps in or something like that.
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And those are some different areas that you can get into.
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It's not a salvation issue for most of these people, but it's just an issue of how we're
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going to be applying the scriptures.
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And also I think there's a good book here.
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I'm trying to remember the exact title.
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So it's it's John Piper and a bunch of other people.
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It's called it's recovering biblical manhood and womanhood, I believe is the title.
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It's on our 100 books every modern Christian man should read lists.
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So if you're wondering about that book list, go to undaunted dot life, backslash book list,
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undaunted dot life backslash book list, and you can get access to that.
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But it's the John Piper one, a recovering biblical manhood and womanhood or masculinity
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and woman and he, I don't know, woman and he's not even a word, but that book is like
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four or 500 pages of a breakdown of, you know, complimentarianism and egalitarianism, the
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role of women in the church, the role of men in the church.
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And so if you want people that are really, really smart, there's been a bunch of time
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in the scripture that kind of give you their overall ideas in that area.
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I think that's a great resource for you.
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But in general, I do not think it's appropriate for women pastors to be marrying couples or
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women pastors in the actual pastoral role to actually be a thing.
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All right, let's move on to the next one here.
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What if I cannot be the main breadwinner for my family because of my career choice?
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Is that a bad or sinful thing?
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For example, I am a teacher and my wife is a surgical assistant.
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As long as we do those jobs, she will always make about double what I do.
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So I remember this question because I remember having a conversation with this guy, you know,
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off air and you know, kind of talking through this a little bit.
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I get it.
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There is definitely a biblical mandate for the man to provide for his family.
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Now some people take that even further, you know, even the book I just talked about with
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John Piper and all those other folks, there are people that are in that book that think
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if a woman works outside the home at all that she is doing something sinful.
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Now I don't have that same read of scripture.
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I don't see that being the mandate for a lot of women.
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But let's kind of bring it back to this context.
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So this guy, his wife is a surgical assistant.
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He's a teacher.
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Now there is, there is the chance or the thought that both of them are exactly where God wants
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them to be.
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That where God wants this man to be working as a teacher, maybe he's also a coach or whatever.
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And the best place, the most fertile ground for this woman to be in terms of spreading
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the gospel and spreading the good news of Jesus is to be a surgical assistant.
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That is certainly possible.
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It's also possible that it's not.
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And so for some of these people, they're doing the job that's most comfortable to them, not
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necessarily the job they're being called to do.
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That's a whole nother can of worms that I don't really want to get into because I don't
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know these people.
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I obviously don't know what their prayer life is like.
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I don't know, you know, what their interaction with God is like.
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But let's just assume for, for, you know, the rest of this question that these people are
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exactly where they're supposed to be.
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What they're being paid is just a number, okay?
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They're both contributing to the household.
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So when a woman doesn't work and I'm using major air quotes there, it's not the same
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that it doesn't mean as much to people that are actually paying attention because a woman
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that works from home or works in the home is doing work.
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We're all called to work.
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Some of our works are called jobs where we go and make money.
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Some of our works are entrepreneurial ventures where we start businesses and we're paid,
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you know, money for the services and or the products that we give out to people, right?
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And so there's always going to be an inequity there if both mom and dad are working or, you
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know, husband and wife are working, okay?
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And for the majority of the time that my wife and I've been, been together, you know, next
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month, it'll be 13 years of marriage and I think, you know, 16 years or 17 years overall
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of being together.
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There have been times where she has made more than me.
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I mean, those times weren't as much as, as me making more than her, but I've had a bunch
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of different jobs since I graduated from college, right?
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I did very, very well in college.
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I just graduated top of my class, graduated at one of the worst times possible in 2008,
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right into the financial crisis of 2009.
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So, you know, I've done everything from selling coupon books door to door to, you know, making
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countertops and mowing lawns and, you know, doing, I've done every, all these different
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random jobs.
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So there were different times where my wife made more than me and it was no big deal.
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Now for me, obviously there was that extra level of like, oomph, like, Hey, I got, I really
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got to step my game up and there have been, you know, seasons of our life where I've
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done some, some contract work and some different things where I've made a ton of money in a
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very, very short period of time, but that doesn't make me better than her.
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And that doesn't make what I bring to the household different in, in kind.
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So let's say just for easy numbers, let's say I made $10,000 and she only made $5,000
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during this stretch of time.
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That doesn't mean I'm twice as important as her to the household.
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And now that we have children, we're not looking at it in terms of the budget, like, well,
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you brought this much into the household and I brought this much into the household.
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So this is how much more important I am than you.
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This is how much more God appreciates me than you.
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The kids don't know.
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The kids don't care, right?
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They care if they're loved and cared for.
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They don't know exactly where the money breakdown came from to pay to have electricity, to pay
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to have, you know, central heat and air or food or clothing.
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They don't know where that comes from.
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And so I get where this guy's coming from.
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You can kind of sense that there's a, a little bit of guilt there that maybe he's not really
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hitting the mark.
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And my encouragement to him would be like, man, if that's where you're called to be, do the
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job and don't worry about it.
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Because again, teachers don't make very much, especially in state of Oklahoma, they don't
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make very much.
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People like to complain about that.
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But the thing about it is, is like, you're going to get paid, whether you're a crappy
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teacher or a good teacher.
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That's the thing about being a state employee is you can be terrible at your job and still
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have a job.
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Whereas if you were in the open marketplace, you probably would have been sent back in
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a long time ago.
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So focus on being the best teacher possible.
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And also let's make sure that that's where God wants you to be and the fact that your
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wife is a surgical assistant, make sure that's where God needs her to be as well.
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But she shouldn't quit her job and go get a job that's paid more paltry than a teacher
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just to make you feel better.
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Okay.
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So those are my thoughts on that.
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Let's get into the next one here.
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What is it that you sneak into your mouth during some of your podcasts?
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Okay.
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So this is a person that obviously watches us on YouTube, we're all in rumble.
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So if you guys, I just did it again there without even thinking about it.
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So I have to clear my throat quite a bit.
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I don't have the strongest voice.
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You know, when I get to talking, especially on a podcast or when I'm speaking live or
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something like that, my vocal cords get really heated up.
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I get dry mouth.
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You know, it's hard for me to speak for a long period of time.
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I've seen a bunch of doctors and tried a bunch of different things to try and figure
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out exactly what's going on, but I basically had this gravelly voice since college.
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It's just kind of been a thing and it could be a reflux thing.
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It could be a, how I breathe thing.
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It could be the fact that my nose has been broken for.
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There's so many people that have an idea, but none of them know really how to fix it.
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But what I keep right here within arms reach, which is a good reminder to go and pop it
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on my mouth, this is a throat lozenge.
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So I've got a cup right here.
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I think this is a cup from Andrews in Wilson.
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So shout out to you guys.
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And so I've got all these different throat lozenges in here.
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These are throat coat lozenges and so I'll just put it in my cheek.
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And if you're listening to it, you probably can't know the difference or probably don't
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know the difference.
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But if you hear me talking and it seems like the left side of my mouth isn't moving as
18:44
much, but that just releases a little bit of whatever is in this lozenge and it kind
18:48
of like, you know, makes my, my throat, it relax a little bit and it's got like honey
18:53
in it as well.
18:54
And also for those of you watching, I have honey basically within arms reach of me at
18:59
all times.
19:00
So I have it in my car.
19:01
I've got it in the kitchen.
19:02
I've got it here in the studio.
19:03
It's a big shot of this.
19:04
You know what?
19:05
Just for you guys, I'm going to take another shot right now.
19:07
So I'll take a bunch of honey in there, let it kind of work its way down my throat, let
19:12
it code everything.
19:13
It's basically just helped me be able to get through a podcast, especially podcasts like
19:16
this, a Q and A podcast.
19:18
These typically go about an hour last Thursday's episode was about an hour and a half.
19:21
My throat is still kind of messed up from speaking that forcefully for that long.
19:25
If any of you guys listen to this, if your ear nose and throat doctors, you actually
19:28
know what the heck you're doing and you have some suggestions for me, let me know because
19:31
especially when I go speak live at someplace, if I'm doing like a men's event or something,
19:35
I absolutely leave with my throat in tatters.
19:39
Because the thing is, is I'm speaking for an hour or two or more while I'm there, you
19:42
know, with a microphone on my face and, you know, talking, but then beforehand everybody
19:46
wants to talk to me afterwards.
19:48
Everybody wants to talk to me because if you're the guest speaker, it doesn't mean that you're,
19:50
you know, necessarily special, but people just, yeah, it's a new guy.
19:53
Let's go talk to the new guy.
19:54
So you're just talking constantly and then driving back and forth to the venue.
19:58
If you're being driven by somebody, they're, you're conversating then it's only whenever
20:01
I can like be alone that I can really rest my voice.
20:04
But I usually have throat coat tea.
20:05
I'll buy local honey there so I can get some of the local, you know, pollen in there or
20:09
whatever.
20:10
I don't understand bees.
20:11
But that's like the only time I get to rest my voice like if I'm speaking at a church,
20:14
I will like sneak into some random person's office and just like sit there just to, you
20:19
know, let my throat relax and my voice relax and all that.
20:22
But that is why, you know, sometimes in the middle of talking, I'll just kind of slip
20:25
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20:26
So that's a very adept observation from the guy that pointed that out.
20:29
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21:05
A pastor within my denomination has been quote relieved of his duties on quote for appearing
21:13
in a drag television show for HBO and my home pastor hasn't addressed the issue after it
21:19
made national news.
21:21
What should I say to him?
21:22
How should I go about it?
21:23
And how would one deal with the negative societal and personal connections to one's denomination
21:27
after something like that happens?
21:29
Okay.
21:30
Let me kind of deal with the end of that first.
21:32
The negative societal personal connections with one's denomination blah, blah, blah.
21:35
Don't worry about that.
21:37
Like do you speak for your denomination?
21:38
Is that your job?
21:40
Are you in the PR committee for whatever your denomination is, which you didn't say, but
21:43
I could take a few guesses.
21:44
That's not your job.
21:45
So don't worry about it.
21:46
If it comes up in conversation and I don't mean like on Facebook, like or Twitter or something
21:50
like that, but if it comes up in like a legitimate conversation, have that conversation with
21:54
somebody, but it's not your job to defend your entire denomination.
21:57
Okay.
21:58
Right.
21:59
You should defend Christ.
22:00
You should be able to provide an apology for your belief system, but hopefully you would
22:03
not be providing an apology for, you know, your denomination.
22:07
So in terms of, you know, your pastor not really saying anything about it, how you should
22:11
address it, I encourage you guys to listen to the show all the time to have a dialogue
22:15
with their main pastor.
22:17
If it's possible.
22:18
Some of you go to these mega churches where the person at your is so insulated from a
22:21
peon like you that you're never even going to shake the hand of your pastor.
22:24
Right.
22:25
Now I talked about recently, you know, I went to live church for like 12 or 13 years and
22:29
like in that entire period of time, I shook Craig Rochelle's hand one time.
22:32
He doesn't know my name.
22:33
He doesn't know anything about my family and even some of his underlings.
22:36
I don't know anything about this.
22:37
That is, you know, Skittles church.
22:38
You go there, you get your Skittles and you leave and then you come back next week because
22:42
you got to get some more, you know, basically Ted talking, right?
22:45
But if your pastor's not talking about these issues and you think the issue is an important
22:50
thing, you should go to this person and talk to them.
22:53
Now one thing that you have to realize is if you don't have a relationship with your
22:55
pastor, like a first name basis relationship with your pastor, then you should not expect
23:00
them to make any changes based on your feedback.
23:03
So I'm reminded of a story from college.
23:05
So I had this, this class, it was like the hardest class in my undergraduate degree and
23:10
everybody knew it was the hardest class and there were only three grades in the class.
23:13
There was, you know, a paper and there was a midterm and a final.
23:17
That was it.
23:18
So you had three things.
23:19
And if you screwed up one of those things, you basically screwed the pooch.
23:22
And so I think I've talked about this before.
23:24
So I got on the midterm, I got like a 70, right?
23:27
And I'm a really good student.
23:28
I'm a straight A student.
23:29
I get a 70 on the midterm and I studied my butt off.
23:32
It just didn't work out.
23:33
Like I just, I just circled the wrong bubbles, right?
23:36
And it just, it didn't work out.
23:38
And so mathematically at that point, I knew I can't get an A. Like there's no way with
23:42
this, this, these few things.
23:44
Now I, I pretty much ace the paper because I spent a ton of time on it.
23:48
I submitted it to the professor two weeks before it was due and said, would you mind
23:51
making some corrections or give me the ability to make some corrections based on your notes?
23:54
He said, absolutely.
23:55
Because I was the only paper he had sitting on his desk.
23:57
And so I basically ace the paper.
23:58
But again, mathematically, I did not have a way to where I could, you know, get enough
24:02
of a good grade on the final to get an A in the class.
24:05
So I go with this professor's, I don't know if he'd want me to mention him on air, so
24:08
I'll just leave it there.
24:09
So I go to his office the week before the final and I said, hey, I understand the class
24:14
is what it is.
24:15
I understand the grades are what they are.
24:17
You made the syllabus.
24:18
You make the class.
24:19
It is what it is.
24:20
Is there anything that you can do for me?
24:21
Because, you know, I'm a straight A student.
24:24
I'd like to maintain that.
24:25
You know, this is one of the, you know, big, you know, cornerstones of this degree program
24:30
is this class.
24:31
I'd like to get an A in the class.
24:32
I'd like to earn an A in the class.
24:33
What can you do for me?
24:35
And so he considered it for a second.
24:36
And finally he says, Kyle, if you can get an A on my final, on my final, which is going
24:41
to be harder than the midterm, if you get an A on my final, I'll give you A in the class,
24:44
regardless of what the points say.
24:45
And I said, deal, like there's not a better thing he could have done for me other than
24:49
just straight up charity.
24:50
Yeah, I like you.
24:51
So here's an A.
24:52
So I was able to work really hard.
24:53
I got an A on the final thing.
24:54
I got a 95 on the final.
24:55
Got an A in the class, moved on, great.
24:58
But the reason why that worked was a couple of things.
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Number one, I didn't miss a single class an entire semester.
25:02
I think it was a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class didn't miss a single class, except for
25:05
when I was flying out of the country on a Friday, it was the Friday before spring break.
25:09
And I told him about it beforehand.
25:11
I sat in the front in every single class.
25:13
I was always engaged in the discussion.
25:15
I would ask questions.
25:16
I wouldn't suck up, but I was engaged in what he was trying to teach us and what he was
25:19
trying to get across to us.
25:20
And he knew my name.
25:23
Because if you're a college professor and you've got 20, 30, 50, 100, 150 students
25:27
in your class, not everyone's going to make a connection with you.
25:30
There's going to be very, very few students that you're going to remember while they're
25:33
in your class for that semester, because, you know, this was the only time I was going
25:37
to have this professor in this degree program, right?
25:39
The one time I was going to have this guy, but he knew my name.
25:42
And so when I went into his office, it was, hey, Kyle, not, hey, how you doing?
25:48
And so there were probably people that would have begged him for an A or a B or a C in his
25:52
class or whatever.
25:53
And he would have, I don't know who you are.
25:55
So that was a long way to get back to the story about a pastor is if your pastor doesn't
25:59
know who you are, they're probably not going to take what you're saying too terribly seriously.
26:02
So you should have a relationship with your pastor in some way, shape or form to where
26:05
they take what you, what you say with, with some extra weight and gravity, right?
26:10
So if you don't head to the person that has this question, if you don't have their relationship
26:13
with your pastor, you should probably establish that first before you go in there and say,
26:16
why am you talked about this?
26:17
Because that's going to be a really, really bad way of getting across what you want to
26:20
get across.
26:21
But assuming you do have a relationship with your pastor, the way you should go about talking
26:24
to him about it is to go and ask him questions.
26:28
When I meet people for the first time, I have this kind of thing in my head where I try
26:31
to ask them six questions about them before I let them ask questions about me and that
26:35
kind of a thing.
26:36
It doesn't always work out that way, but show interest in somebody else.
26:39
So go to him and say, Hey, you know, this person that was in our denomination, they
26:43
were obviously famously on this HBO show or documentary or whatever.
26:47
And they were fired from their job and all those different things.
26:49
I'm surprised that you haven't talked about it from the pulpit.
26:52
Is there a particular reason why?
26:54
Because for all you know, that's his brother.
26:57
And you know, it's a shame to the family and he's still processing the emotions.
27:00
And he doesn't really want to go work through that or maybe that's a mentor of his or something
27:03
like that.
27:04
So you don't want to be needlessly offensive to him.
27:06
If that's somebody that's very, very close to them, perhaps it was an oversight.
27:10
Perhaps he didn't get the news that this person was on HBO and all those different things
27:13
like he's completely unaware.
27:14
That's not likely, but maybe he's completely unaware.
27:17
So give the pastor the opportunity to tell you why he hasn't talked about it as opposed
27:22
to accusing him and saying, you don't talk about this and you don't take it seriously.
27:26
And are you going woken, blah, blah, and all these different things?
27:28
That's the thing that I would say and that's the thing that I would encourage you to do
27:31
is ask questions and then just go from there.
27:33
So depending upon his answer, it's going to change how you would respond.
27:36
But you should crescendo and end with, hey, no matter what happens, I got your back.
27:41
I tell you guys this all the time, when you encourage pastor to talk about hard issues,
27:45
woke issues, you know, abortion issues, those types of things, tell the pastor, hey, slings
27:49
and arrows are going to come your way.
27:50
If you talk about this from the pulpit, but I've got your back and then make sure you talk
27:53
some other boys of yours that go to that church as well and send them to talk to the pastor
27:57
as well.
27:58
Say pastor, if you talk about this, I got your back.
27:59
If you talk about that pastor, those kicked out for dressing and drag and, you know, all
28:02
those different things, I got your back and that'll be a good way to handle it.
28:05
All right, guys.
28:06
Next one here.
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I want to work out hard, but I'm injured.
28:09
What should I do?
28:10
So here, this one's actually pretty easy depending on the injury.
28:13
Like if you broke your spine or something like that, probably it's going to limit your options
28:16
as to what you're able to do.
28:18
And maybe you can work out your eyelids or something like that.
28:20
But I've had a lot of injuries in my life, even before I did jujitsu, right?
28:23
That's just when you have an active life.
28:25
And as you age, you're going to get injured unless you golf because you basically can't
28:28
get injured playing golf unless you drive drunk like Tiger Woods.
28:32
But he wasn't even playing golf at the time.
28:33
That was just me taking a shot at Tiger Woods.
28:35
But the thing about it is, is injuries happen all the time, bumps and bruises happen all
28:39
the time.
28:40
If you power lift, if you do jujitsu, if you do, you know, hard sport, any of those types
28:44
of things, it's so easy to get injured.
28:45
I know people that have snapped through Achilles playing spike ball, right?
28:48
Like it just happens with age.
28:50
That's kind of like the old man injury.
28:51
It's either the Achilles or the hamstring, right?
28:53
Do what you can do.
28:56
Because I always say this, especially when I train my guys on Sunday nights, if we're
29:00
going to work out, we might as well work out hard.
29:03
The only times I get massively frustrated on Sunday nights during the workouts when
29:07
guys are obviously dogging it.
29:08
And I'm not very quiet about that.
29:10
I will call them out by name and say, you're dogging it, get your head in the game.
29:13
Let's go.
29:14
Like go to that dark place in your brain.
29:16
Like one of the first episodes I did or in the first dozen episodes of the podcast was
29:19
called go there.
29:20
And it was called is about going to that dark crazy place in your brain where your brain's
29:24
telling your body, you're not tired yet.
29:28
You got this.
29:29
You can do it.
29:30
Just keep pushing.
29:31
Don't stop.
29:32
Whatever you do.
29:33
If you stop, you die.
29:34
Like that's go to that place in your brain.
29:37
And so if you're injured, just do what you can.
29:40
So I think I told you guys about whenever I had a thumb surgery because I was doing jiu-jitsu
29:44
and this thumb got obliterated, all the tendons or ligaments or whatever in the thumb got
29:47
absolutely obliterated.
29:48
So I had a cast on and I think I've talked about this before on the show.
29:52
And so with a cast on the first two weeks, you know, after surgery, they're like, hey,
29:56
you can't do anything.
29:57
You can't even sweat because of the chance of infection, all those different things.
30:01
And so what I did was is I stretched because that was all I was able to do.
30:07
And I stretched in a room where I had a fan on me in the air conditioner going so that
30:10
I wouldn't accidentally break a sweat, right?
30:13
Because I couldn't even walk the dogs because it was like summertime, you're going to sweat
30:15
immediately in Oklahoma, like, so that wasn't really working out.
30:19
So I did a bunch of stretching, a bunch of stretching, right?
30:23
And so because that was all I could do.
30:24
And then I was when I was allowed to start, you know, even still with the cast on when
30:28
I was allowed to start working out, I did everything I possibly could.
30:31
I bought straps so that I could strap these straps to my cast so I could use them as a
30:37
polling mechanism so I could work on my back and work on my biceps and, you know, push
30:40
down to work on triceps and work on shoulders just to do whatever I could.
30:44
Because, you know, what was not available to me, can't do pull-ups, right?
30:48
So some of you crazy men out there can do one hand of pull-ups.
30:51
I can do a few, but I've got to grab one with the other hand, right?
30:54
I couldn't do deadlift because I couldn't grab the barbell, couldn't do squat because
30:57
I couldn't put the barbell.
30:58
I couldn't really rest it on my back and balance it with any type of success.
31:02
I couldn't bench.
31:03
I couldn't do overhead press.
31:04
I couldn't do any of the things I was normally able to do.
31:06
I couldn't do a push-up, but I did something.
31:09
I ran a ton of sprints during that time period because my lower half was working just fine,
31:13
right?
31:14
When I run, I was like, "Man, I really hope I don't, like, blow a hand me doing one of
31:17
these things."
31:18
But do what you can.
31:19
Like, so many people look at, you know, during COVID, their gym being shut down or, you know,
31:23
if they're injured or something like that, that's their excuse to sit on their butt and
31:27
eat ice cream and watch television.
31:29
No, do what you can.
31:31
If you're going to work out, you might as well work out hard, do what your body is capable
31:34
of doing, right?
31:35
Push yourself to the limit.
31:36
All right, let's get into the next one here.
31:39
If you could set up any person on an interview show, who would it- wait, let me- I think I
31:43
know they're wrong.
31:44
If you could set up any person on an interview show, who would it be and which show would
31:49
it be on?
31:50
Okay.
31:51
Sorry, I think there was some typos in there.
31:52
So if I could set up an interview somewhere, what would it be and what show would it be
31:56
on?
31:57
Okay, so there's some good options out there.
31:59
So obviously, you know, people would obviously think of the long-form thing like a Joe Rogan
32:02
experience or Jordan Peterson show or something like that.
32:04
There's, you know, debate shows like with Justin Briarley over in the UK.
32:11
I guess if I could set up an interview, okay, because of the size of the show, let's just
32:19
go ahead and say Joe Rogan.
32:20
Let's say Joe Rogan experience.
32:22
And I would want like, you know, back in the day, I really wanted Robbie Zacharice to somehow
32:28
find his way on that show, just kind of engage with a lot of Joe Rogan's really dumb ideas
32:32
about how we got the Bible and all those different things.
32:34
You know, obviously that wouldn't worked out really well.
32:37
So maybe like a Frank Turick, an apologist like that, a Greg Cockel.
32:44
Gosh, I'm trying to think of other evangelists or apologists or something like that.
32:50
Even someone like a Jeff Durban would be good, but you know, some of his positions may not
32:55
be as palatable to that audience.
32:59
There's one that is coming to mind.
33:00
William Lane Craig would maybe be another one.
33:02
I know some of you guys have some issues with him and kind of the way he does things.
33:06
Like a Vody Bockum.
33:07
Again, some of these pastors maybe aren't as good at apologetics or they're more better
33:12
at exegeting the scripture.
33:13
But if someone like Joe Rogan doesn't even take the scripture seriously, that could be
33:16
an issue.
33:17
So that's not really a very good way of answering your question.
33:20
But you guys always want me to be precise and I always encourage you to be precise.
33:24
So it'd be Joe Rogan experience.
33:25
Let's just go ahead and say Joe Rogan and William Lane Craig.
33:30
The reason why I say William Lane Craig is because a guy like Joe Rogan has to get to
33:33
the point where you can take the Bible seriously and where he can take the idea of God seriously.
33:38
Because then once you get there, you can get into the resurrection.
33:41
You can get into the history city of the gospel accounts and the rest of the New Testament
33:45
and all that.
33:46
And so I feel like William Lane Craig can talk to Joe Rogan about any thing that he would
33:51
want to talk about.
33:52
So if Joe Rogan brings up what about evolution, like he's ready for that.
33:56
Well, what about, you know, the way we got the Bible and it doesn't even match the original
33:59
transcripts.
34:00
We don't even have the original transcripts.
34:01
He would know how to engage with that.
34:03
That would probably be what I would set up.
34:05
All right.
34:06
Next question here.
34:07
Should UFC fighters be paid more?
34:09
Okay.
34:10
So, so there's been a lot that's kind of come out over the last couple of years about how
34:13
much UFC fighters UFC fighters are paid.
34:16
And you have guys like Jake Paul coming out saying, Oh, you know, you've got these crazy
34:20
restrictive contracts and you'll make more money if you just come over here and box me
34:23
and blah, blah, and all that stuff.
34:24
And it's kind of put a lot of attention on, you know, those types of things.
34:28
So I talked about this a little bit last week when I was talking about Major League Baseball
34:31
Players and the new Major League Baseball Players Association complaining about the new deal
34:35
and, you know, we weren't going to get enough money and blah, blah, and all these players
34:38
that are making guaranteed contracts and all that.
34:42
The thing that this all goes back to is those Major League Baseball players that are belly
34:45
aching, they don't have to be Major League Baseball players.
34:50
No one is forcing them to work.
34:52
They don't have to be a baseball player.
34:54
They can drive, you know, UPS truck, which is great on its work.
34:57
They can drive a Garbs truck, which is great on its work.
35:01
But they're really, really good at baseball and someone said, hey, you're so good at baseball,
35:04
we want to give you all this money.
35:06
The same thing goes for teachers.
35:08
I brought up teachers again.
35:09
I have all these teachers complaining about how much they make.
35:10
It's like, well, go get a different job.
35:11
Well, I want to be a teacher.
35:13
Okay.
35:14
Then shut up.
35:15
Like, I don't understand.
35:16
Same thing with UFC fighters.
35:17
I wish I would be paid more.
35:18
Well, did anybody force you to sign the contract with the UFC?
35:22
Well, no, I wanted to be a UFC fighter.
35:24
Okay.
35:25
Then shut up.
35:27
The contract that you signed is a contract that you have.
35:29
Well, I'm, I'm a bigger fighter now and you know, I've had some good fights.
35:31
Great.
35:32
Hopefully you got some bonuses.
35:34
This came up again with a Patty Pemblet.
35:36
He's a, I think he's 135 or 145 things, 145, the big guy from Liverpool, you know, there
35:40
was his fight over in the UK and, you know, he had this big victory and, you know, it
35:44
was kind of the thing everybody was focusing on him and felt like an enormous fight and
35:47
all that.
35:48
Then it came to light.
35:49
I think he made 10 and 10.
35:50
So wait, basically what that means is he got $10,000 a show, $10,000 to win.
35:54
So if you lose the fight, you make $10,000 as long as you, as long as you make weight and
35:57
enter into the octagon, you're going to make $10,000 people like, Oh my gosh, that's terrible.
36:02
Like how could he only make so much?
36:03
Well, let's say that guy fought four times that year for the UFC and lost every fight.
36:08
He made $40,000 a year.
36:10
Like that's not life-changing money, but you can live off that like, and again, like
36:16
that, that's the worst case scenario for this guy if he keeps getting fights, but he won
36:21
his fight.
36:22
So he got a 100% raise because he won the fight, right?
36:26
He killed his money, and then he got a bonus on top of that, which was more than all that
36:31
money.
36:32
So I guess I don't understand the issue.
36:34
Now, I know fighters personally that used fighting the UFC that moved on to other fighting
36:39
organizations and have made way more money working or fighting in these other organizations,
36:43
but they built their name off of the number one MMA franchise in the world, the UFC.
36:49
No one's close.
36:50
One championship is not close, Bell Tour is not close.
36:53
There is not another organization that is close to the UFC in terms of how seriously
36:56
people take it.
36:57
Like when you have these people that have MMA podcasts, they might mention a fight happening
37:01
on Bell Tour or one or something like that, but 85% of the show, 90% of the show is talking
37:05
about the UFC because that is the main thing.
37:10
Like imagine having a football podcast and spending a bunch of time talking about the
37:13
USFL or the XFL, which isn't even a thing anymore.
37:16
No, you're going to talk about the NFL if you're talking about professional football,
37:18
right?
37:19
You're not going to be talking about an independent league or any of those types of things.
37:22
You're going to focus on the upper echelon and that is the UFC.
37:24
That's not to say that there's not great fighters or their places, but to kind of get
37:27
back to the whole thing, you signed a contract.
37:30
It is a contract that says you're going to get this many fights with the UFC and this
37:34
is how much you're going to be paid for those fights.
37:35
Now, some guys get to renegotiate.
37:38
Some guys can kind of open that back up and it makes sense for them.
37:41
But again, no one's forcing you to fight.
37:44
And guess what?
37:45
If you're a really, really good fighter, even a champion and no one cares to watch your
37:48
fights, you shouldn't be paid more.
37:50
I've talked about before, I have a buddy that just doesn't understand, you know, when Mighty
37:53
Mouse was happening is running the UFC, why isn't he making as much as Connor?
37:57
And I kept trying to explain it to him.
37:59
It's like, bro, it's because nobody cares to watch him fight.
38:02
This is prize fighting.
38:03
If nobody puts eyeballs on your fight, if they're not stopping what they're doing to
38:06
pay now 75 bucks to get the new UFC that for that day to watch you fight, then you shouldn't
38:12
get paid more.
38:13
Last week, I talked about the women's soccer team for USA women's soccer team.
38:17
They make, they produce a fraction of the revenue for USA soccer than the men do.
38:21
And yet they want to be paid the same because math, because equality, because diversity,
38:25
equity and inclusion, because because of what exactly?
38:28
So again, if you sign a contract to be a UFC fighter and you're [inaudible] off about your pay,
38:33
you should only be looking at yourself.
38:34
That's your fault.
38:35
All right.
38:36
Next question here.
38:37
What is your EDC?
38:38
So what is your everyday carry?
38:39
So I think I've answered this on the on the show before, but it would have been a long time
38:42
ago.
38:43
So in my way out the door, the firearm that I use, I have an appendix carry holster that
38:48
I use.
38:49
I have a SIG P365.
38:51
That's a fantastic weapon.
38:52
That's I think that's the best selling gun for the last two or three years running.
38:56
As a firearm, it is absolutely fantastic because of the amount of the amount of rounds that
39:02
you can have on you, but still have a compact gun that's kind of easy to carry appendix.
39:05
Because I know a lot of guys that carry full size appendix, but that's not really best
39:09
for a lot of people.
39:10
People have a gut, so they can't really go appendix because it's really uncomfortable
39:13
and there's stomachs and all that.
39:14
So that is a firearm that I typically have.
39:16
And I have some other guns and other places that I can carry with me.
39:20
I usually have a Benchmade knife folder in my pocket.
39:23
I should probably get a fixed blade at some point, but I haven't made the move to get
39:26
a fixed blade to keep on me as well.
39:28
And then, I mean, just from there, like I've got a med kit in my truck.
39:31
And so if something were to go wrong in my truck, I got to add some things to it.
39:35
But you know, I could, you know, pull that med kit out and respond in a decent way until
39:39
the actual medics and the actual professionals get there on that day.
39:43
I know guys that carry med kits on their ankle and they've got a tourniquet in their back
39:47
pocket and, you know, an extra magazine and all that.
39:51
I don't really do any of that.
39:52
Like maybe something I should do.
39:54
Maybe you can make the argument.
39:55
I wear G shock watches all the time, like I don't know.
39:57
So hopefully that answers a question that you had as in terms of my everyday carry.
40:01
But I would like to give a shout out to Eddie Penny over a contingent group and also his
40:04
own podcast and unafraid and all those different things.
40:06
He just released a new pin.
40:09
So it's like a tactical pin.
40:10
And so this is something that you could carry with you.
40:13
And if you go into a place that won't let you have your firearm or a knife or something
40:16
like that, this is something that you could use in a situation that gets kinetic where
40:21
you kind of have to figure your way through that.
40:24
I guess that's the easiest way to say that.
40:26
But also, you know, able to break glass or do different things like that.
40:29
So he's got those available on his website.
40:31
If I can remember, I'll make sure to put that in the show notes.
40:33
All right.
40:34
Next one here.
40:35
Should Christians say the chant, let's go brand it.
40:37
So I just said it there.
40:40
So obviously you guys know the history of kind of where that came from.
40:44
There were people at all these sporting events that were saying F Joe Biden, but the F was
40:47
obviously the actual word, kind of a crude chant.
40:49
They couldn't really keep it out of the microphones on the crowd, you know, these TV organizations
40:53
having a problem with it.
40:55
But I believe it was an ask car driver.
40:57
They were being interviewed by this woman reporter and in the crowd, they're yelling F
41:01
Joe Biden, F Joe Biden in the announcers, like, or the person interviewing was like, Oh,
41:05
the crowd's so behind you.
41:06
They're saying, let's go brand and which doesn't sound at all like F Joe Biden, but you know,
41:11
they're doing their best.
41:12
I think it was NBC or ABC or something like that.
41:14
So then that caught on that was kind of the way to say F Joe Biden without being so crude
41:18
was let's go branded.
41:20
So in terms of a Christian, because that's how this was framed should Christians say let's
41:23
go brand it.
41:24
I would say probably not.
41:26
Um, now I know there are a lot of Christians that use crude and foul language all the time.
41:31
I've even had, uh, you know, heated discussions with some brothers of mine, uh, that use
41:38
foul language all the time.
41:40
And I kind of called them on it and like, why are you doing that?
41:42
And they're like, well, you know, you can't really judge me.
41:44
And you know, that's, you know, the way I talk and blah, blah, blah, and I'm not talking
41:47
at somebody like that.
41:48
So it's not like foul stuff coming out of my mouth, talking about someone else, but people
41:51
have their own opinions about whether you should use certain language or other language.
41:55
That's not.
41:56
There's not a list of words in the Bible that you can or can't say, um, there's not a list
42:00
of circumstances where you can say mean things and not say mean things.
42:04
I do know that Jesus said some things that don't sound incendiary to our modern ears.
42:08
Like you brood of vipers, right?
42:10
But that was something back in the day that made people want to mob him and kill him, right?
42:15
So imagine what you would need to say in a public setting right now, which I mean, people,
42:19
there are mobs basically on call, uh, George Soros funded all over the planet, just ready
42:22
to go.
42:23
But let's say you're in a room full of reasonable people and you decided to get up and say something.
42:28
What would you have to say and how foul would it have to be for the people to maybe want
42:31
to put hands on you?
42:32
Right?
42:33
Cause Jesus did that often.
42:34
I was just kind of like, you know, it happened every day that ended and why back in his day,
42:38
right?
42:39
And so there's not a list of words or just on a list of expressions or not anything like
42:42
that.
42:43
But let's go Brandon is just a stand in for F Joe Biden.
42:47
Now obviously I do not count myself amongst the fans of Joe Biden.
42:50
I think in addition to being, uh, someone that deserves our pity because he is a dementia
42:55
patient that instead of being, uh, in a hospital getting treatment, he's being, you know, rolled
42:59
out there in front of the world stage to constantly, you know, basically crap his pants and stumble
43:03
all over his words.
43:05
But this is a guy that has really done some horribly detrimental things to our country
43:09
in a very short period of time.
43:10
And he's very close to being potentially the worst president ever.
43:14
And he's not even two years into his first term, right?
43:16
Like that, that's something, you know what I mean?
43:20
But if you were a Christian and you were in church, right?
43:23
For everybody's kind of minding their P's and Q's and, you know, watching their mouth
43:26
and all that, would you get up in front of your Congress congregation and say F Joe Biden
43:30
or let's go Brandon?
43:32
Probably not.
43:33
If Jesus was walking right next to you in the flesh, not just in the spirit.
43:37
Is that something that you would scream out in public?
43:40
Probably not.
43:41
So is it funny?
43:42
Yes.
43:43
I think there have been some very unique uses of the let's go Brandon chant.
43:46
You know, when Rhonda Santis went to Brandon, Florida to sign, uh, some deal into law or
43:50
some, whatever bill in the law back in the day, it was a funny troll.
43:54
It really was a funny troll.
43:55
I get it.
43:56
There are a lot of things that aren't really, you know, don't really align with the scriptures
43:59
that I find funny, right?
44:00
There's a lot of comedy that I find funny that doesn't really align with those types
44:03
of things.
44:04
But if you're a Christian, probably shouldn't say it.
44:06
All right.
44:07
Next one here.
44:08
Why don't you talk about Calvinism or Armenianism?
44:11
Uh, so here's the thing with those two things and even recently here in the Sunday school
44:16
at the church that I go to, we had one guy get up and kind of not give a defense for
44:20
Armenianism, but he just kind of got up and explained it.
44:22
Like if you're Armenian, this is what you believe.
44:25
And then the next week, a guy got up and talks about Calvinism.
44:28
Like, okay, if you're Calvinist, this is what you believe.
44:32
The reason why I guess I don't talk about it is because I feel like there are disputes
44:37
in the church.
44:38
I'm trying to think of the best way to say this because basically there's no way I can
44:41
answer this where someone's not going to be mad or some group of people's not going
44:44
to be mad.
44:45
So I'll just wait into it.
44:46
There are, there are a lot of people that like to argue about non-Salvific things.
44:50
Now there are some very, very, uh, salvific based things in the debate between Calvinism
44:56
and Armenianism.
44:57
And then there's a bunch of other stuff that's not salvific that people are going to pull
45:00
out their IPAs and comb their beard and say, all right, we're going to argue about this
45:04
thing.
45:05
The, the sense that I get is Armenians are pretty like, oh, hey, whatever, let's kind
45:08
of do this and Calvinists are like, no, it's got to be this way.
45:11
And we got to do it.
45:12
And it's kind of the whole reformed crowd and all that.
45:14
And I find that a lot of these people spend an unbelievable amount of time arguing with
45:17
other Christians about stuff that is not, you know, based on, uh, whether or not someone's
45:22
going to end up going to heaven.
45:24
And you know, they just feel so self-righteous and oh, we're going to answer this question
45:27
in this way.
45:28
And they don't really care as much about having a relationship or discussion with somebody
45:31
as opposed to just dunking on them.
45:33
I get that sense a lot.
45:34
It's mainly more from the Calvinist side that these people want to argue about everything.
45:38
And they always want to constantly interject regardless.
45:41
It's like, have you ever met a Calvinist, Calvinist is almost like a vegan.
45:43
It's like they always got to talk about it.
45:45
And they always got to tell you about it and everything kind of goes back.
45:47
Every spiritual conversation goes back to something that John Calvin wrote or thought.
45:50
Um, I said there, have I made everybody mad?
45:53
All right.
45:54
I said Armenians basically just do whatever in Calvinist just basically want to pound people
45:57
all the time on the tops of their heads.
45:59
The thing about it is there are some tenets of both of those belief systems that I'm still
46:03
working through myself.
46:05
Every time I find somebody that's kind of more well versed on those areas than I am, I will
46:09
ask them questions because again, as a, as a show host and something like that, you're
46:12
kind of always expected to have a fully fledged opinion on everything.
46:15
And I just want to be honest on the times where I don't, there are things that I'm asked about
46:19
that.
46:20
I'm like, yeah, I don't really know about that.
46:21
Yeah.
46:22
I don't really know about that new story.
46:23
Can you tell me about it?
46:24
And then I'll apply, you know, biblical morality or some things that I've experienced in my
46:28
life to that situation to try to give some wisdom to it.
46:32
But I've got some conversations coming up with some pastors here on the show that are
46:35
going to be released a little bit later that are going to be, you know, kind of in this
46:38
vein.
46:39
A guy sent me a DM just a couple of days ago on Instagram and it's like, man, don't come
46:44
to me for the answer on that right now.
46:46
Because there are people that have had two, three hour long debates on, on debate shows
46:51
or, you know, the formalized debates, one guy's a Calvinist, one guy's an Armenian and then
46:55
they go at it for a long time.
46:57
Go and see you feels more compelling.
47:00
But I will say this since I already, you know, crapped on the Calvinist for a little bit.
47:04
The people that's been the most time and I'm looking off to my right because this is where
47:06
my stack of Bibles and Bible study materials are right over here to my right.
47:11
The people that seem to spend the most time with the scriptures, the people that seem
47:16
to spend the most time conservatively reading the scriptures and maybe going back to the
47:23
Greek or going back to the, you know, Hebrew, like those people tend to land on the Calvinist
47:31
side in my experience and in my view.
47:34
Now, that's just me paying attention and reporting to you what I've seen.
47:39
That may not be accurate.
47:40
Right?
47:41
I'm not saying every single person that studies, you know, this many people study the Bible
47:44
this much and they end up being this versus that.
47:47
Again, I can't possibly say that.
47:48
Nothing's ever been done to be able to give you that definitive view.
47:51
But the people that read the scriptures for what the scriptures are tend to fall on that
47:55
scale.
47:56
Even even the pastor of our church.
47:58
So the pastor of our church here in Emman, Oklahoma, it's called Faith Bible Church and
48:03
Pastor Mark Hitchcock used to teach at Dallas, theological seminary.
48:07
He may actually still teach there, you know, does a lot of stuff on end times.
48:09
I think he describes himself as a four point Calvinist.
48:13
And there's one point that he, you know, has, is still wrestling with.
48:16
And so this is a guy that is a professional Christian.
48:18
He's in his 60s.
48:19
He's been a professional Christian for a very, very long time.
48:21
He's been the lead pastor of this church for decades.
48:23
He's still working through some of the things that he thinks on some of these areas.
48:26
That doesn't make him squishy.
48:28
That doesn't make him wishy washy, but there are things in scripture that you can't debate
48:32
and still be a Christian.
48:33
Like, did Jesus really rise on the third day was he really resurrected?
48:36
Is the Trinity really a thing?
48:38
Those are things that you can't really question, but some of these tenants that that guys wrote,
48:43
you know, hundreds of years after, I think those things are open for debate and there
48:46
is a lot of gray area there.
48:47
So I did my best with that question.
48:49
It just kind of is what it is.
48:50
We'll move on from there.
48:51
Next one here.
48:52
How do I find a church?
48:53
So I get, I get this question a lot.
48:55
How do I find a church?
48:56
Hey, I live in, you know, whatever isville, Ohio, hey, I live in, you know, who's what's
49:00
at Florida?
49:01
You know, do you know of any manly churches, any man friendly churches in my area?
49:04
So I'll kind of give you my, my canned answer when I get that question.
49:07
No, I don't know where you should go to church.
49:10
I don't know your area.
49:11
I don't know what churches are there.
49:13
I don't know what your leanings are.
49:15
I don't know if you're really, really into music or worship is not that big a deal to
49:18
you in terms of what the music sounds like.
49:19
I don't, I don't know what's available to you.
49:22
And people were like, Hey, do you have a website where that you guys have compiled all
49:26
these churches that are man friendly and all that the thing with that is I would have
49:30
to hire a full-time team to make that list and then probably a second full-time team
49:35
just to maintain that list because churches can change.
49:40
Passers can die or move on.
49:41
You know, pastors could have been one thing at one time in, uh, in history and now we're
49:46
two years beyond that and they talk differently, speak differently, think differently.
49:49
And so there would be, there would need to be this constant updating of that database.
49:53
And just so, you know, guys, I have no intentions of doing that, I have no intentions of hiring
49:56
two teams of people to do that.
49:58
That's not something that will do.
50:00
But this is what I do tell people and it kind of goes, goes back to what I said earlier.
50:04
If you feel really, really good when you're in church, when you're, when you're, if you're
50:08
in church and you feel really, really good about yourself and, and once you leave there,
50:12
you kind of don't really think about church anymore, that maybe you're hint that that's
50:15
not the best church for you because the pastor is probably tickling your ears a lot, telling
50:21
you about how great you are and how God just wants to reveal you to the world.
50:25
And he doesn't want to change you.
50:26
He just wants to reveal you.
50:27
I think that bonehead Steven Furtick said something like that here recently, like he
50:30
just wants to reveal you.
50:32
Like, if you feel like God is not just for you, but he's about you, like he's about
50:38
you.
50:39
He's not about himself and his glory.
50:40
He's about you.
50:42
He probably shouldn't go to that church.
50:43
That's how you feel when you leave and I, and I said kind of a Skittles church.
50:47
There's a lot of churches out there where you go in there.
50:49
It's an hour long, you know, they've got, you know, they've got, you know, they've got
50:51
golf carts picking you up in the parking lot to bring you in and you get your coffee and
50:54
your snack and you go in there and you listen to the rock show for 20 minutes and the pastor
50:58
gets up there.
50:59
Does his TED talk with a few Bible verses that he sprinkled in on the at the last minute
51:02
so he could still be called a pastor and get the taxes and status and then you leave.
51:06
You've been there less than an hour.
51:08
You didn't really have to talk to anybody.
51:09
You rolled out of there and before you even leave the parking lot, you kind of forgot
51:13
about what this person said and it's made no real change in your life.
51:17
Probably not a church you should go to.
51:19
Okay.
51:20
Those churches are fine. They're secret sensitive, secret friendly, you know, they tend to say
51:24
they're evangelical, but is it creating life change in these people like true and substantive
51:29
life change?
51:30
Kind of hard, kind of hard to know that.
51:32
I would encourage all of you to go to a church that has expository preaching to have pastors
51:39
that are all good and grab mine.
51:42
They've got their Bible in their hand and they've got it open in front of them or on
51:46
their iPad.
51:47
That's fine.
51:48
They're reading the Bible to you and they're explaining what this says.
51:51
I just opened this up to Isaiah 54 to if you have a pastor that's going to spend two weeks
51:56
on one verse trying to explain to you the context of that verse, you know, the historicity
52:03
of that verse who was meant to, because the thing is you could read a verse and not read
52:08
a passage and completely miss the meaning of the verse because the passage gives you a hint
52:14
as to what that verse actually means, the book gives you a hint.
52:18
The chapter gives you a hint as to what that individual passage means.
52:22
So if you see a scripture on a coffee mug or on a bumper sticker, a t-shirt, like that's
52:25
fine.
52:26
But who is that supposed to be said to?
52:29
Who is that meant for?
52:30
Was that meant for you or was that meant for a particular person or a particular people
52:34
group at a particular time?
52:36
So if you're not going to a church that is really getting into that, that is encouraging
52:40
exegesis and not isegesis, isegesis is reading into the text what you want to be there, right?
52:45
So that's building your TED talk out and then just throwing scripture in like your, your
52:49
isegeding, but if you're exegeding a scripture, you're like, what is a scripture trying to
52:52
tell us?
52:53
And let me help explain that to people.
52:54
That's what I would do.
52:56
So if the music sucks, but the preaching's good, fine deal with it, right?
53:02
But there's plenty of people that go to a church that have a great band and all the musicians
53:05
are really, really tight and it sounds good.
53:07
But the, the preaching is just horrific, there's no discipleship.
53:10
That's another thing with a lot of these big churches.
53:12
There's no such thing as discipleship.
53:14
So they want to get you quote unquote saved.
53:16
They want you to raise your hand so they can count you, you know, you know, put it into
53:19
their year end report, how many people that they quote unquote saved, but then there's
53:23
no discipleship.
53:24
Like they're like, Oh yeah, here's a packet and move on with your life.
53:27
Is that it?
53:28
Is that it?
53:29
I just have to kind of figure it out on my own now.
53:31
You're not, you're not helping that person, you know, get deeper with the scriptures or
53:35
to learn more about what it is they're supposed to be doing as a Christian.
53:38
I find it to be a little bit hollow.
53:40
And so try to find a church where there's expository preaching and then work everything
53:43
out from there.
53:44
All right.
53:45
Next question here.
53:46
I'm roughly one and a half years into my jujitsu training.
53:49
Congratulations.
53:50
I am a Christian and I'm married.
53:52
What is your stance on training with the ladies?
53:54
Okay.
53:55
So I don't know that I've talked about this on the show before.
53:58
So obviously there are a lot of gyms where women train jujitsu and that is great.
54:01
There's young girls that train jujitsu, it gives them some confidence.
54:04
I think of all the sports out there.
54:06
A lot of people talked about this of all the sports out there of all the martial arts out
54:10
there outside of actual weapons training.
54:12
That's probably the most valuable training that a woman can have.
54:16
This idea that, you know, a woman's going to all of a sudden be a Western boxer and punch
54:21
a 200 pound guy in his chin and knock him out or kick him in his kneecap and destroy his
54:25
knee.
54:26
Like, sorry, that's just not really realistic in a lot of scenarios, but jujitsu is going
54:29
to give you some opportunities to maybe control somebody to move them away.
54:32
Maybe not, she probably shouldn't do a flying triangle in the street because you're probably
54:35
going to get spiked on your head, a la, you know, Rampage Jackson, probably not the best
54:38
thing that you should do.
54:39
But there are a lot of women that train in the class now.
54:42
In general, I would say that for most people, if you want to drill with a girl or even roll
54:48
with a girl or a woman, a girl's probably inappropriate, but for an adult woman and
54:52
your adult male, that's probably okay for you.
54:57
But if you find yourself in any of those positions and it's not your mind.
55:02
That's as stimulated as other parts of your body.
55:04
You should probably not do that anymore.
55:07
That's not the scenario that should work for you, right?
55:09
It's not good for you.
55:10
And it's certainly not good for the lady.
55:11
I know that there's a lot of ladies that their training regiment really requires them
55:16
to train with other men, but it can be really, really uncomfortable because especially when
55:21
you're training with a woman as well, like, if you're not a complete jerk, you're not
55:24
going as hard, right?
55:25
Like you're not doing the things that you normally do to a similarly sized man and for
55:29
good reason, because there's something in you that says, I shouldn't be doing this to
55:33
a female, right?
55:35
It's the same argument I make for people when I say that if our boys wrestle that they're
55:38
not going to be allowed to wrestle against girls because I'm not going to spend all this time
55:41
and attention telling them about how valuable women are and how they are the weaker vessel,
55:46
which require our protection.
55:47
Now, we should be a sheepdog and always kind of be attuned to the idea that we may have
55:51
to defend a woman with with our physicality and things like that and then say, Oh, yeah,
55:55
go out there and wrestle that girl and try to pin her shoulders on the ground against
55:58
her will.
56:00
To a kid, I don't see how they can delineate the two away.
56:03
It just doesn't make sense to me.
56:04
A lot of you guys disagree with me and that's fine, but I know some Olympic level coaches
56:08
that agree with me and I know some Olympic level coaches that don't, you know, just kind
56:12
of is what it is.
56:13
But I would say for me individually is I do not train with women, okay?
56:17
You know, my wife and I discussed that early on.
56:19
It's not something that she's really comfortable with and I totally get it and I agree with
56:22
it.
56:23
But for me, the few times I'm able to actually train you, Jitsu, I want the hardest roles
56:29
possible as many times as possible in the limited amount of training that I get in because
56:34
there are weeks where I might get three or four roles that entire week.
56:37
And if I'm rolling against a lady or a gal, I'm just not going to give him my full effort,
56:42
right?
56:43
Whereas if I'm rolling with anybody else, even if they're a white bell, I'm going to give
56:46
full effort.
56:47
I'm not going to bully them depending upon their the amount of time they've been training,
56:50
but I'm going to go hard.
56:51
I'm going to go as hard as possible.
56:53
Now there have been opportunities and there have been times where drills have taken place
56:57
where you know, you're switching partners constantly and you know, you're doing a drill
57:00
or something like that.
57:01
And every now and then you kind of get stuck in a scenario to where it's like, okay, there's
57:04
no way to really get out of this.
57:06
But I just will keep the person at distance, wait for the timer to go off and then kind
57:10
of move on.
57:11
But again, if I can help it and if it's within my wheelhouse, I personally do not train with
57:15
ladies, I can't necessarily tell you what you should do though.
57:19
If you think that it's something that you're okay with and if your significant other is
57:22
okay with it, maybe that's fine for you, but for other people, it's not really within
57:25
your wheelhouse.
57:26
You know, you think the same way I do, you know, I would just kind of go that right.
57:30
All right.
57:31
Next question here.
57:32
Would you ever consider running for political office?
57:33
No, no, there is not a scenario where I would run for political office.
57:37
I've been asked about this before.
57:39
I've been reached out to by people in the political sphere to kind of like, you know,
57:44
test the waters and all that.
57:46
Absolutely not.
57:47
No chance.
57:48
Because I say what I say and I mean what I say and it just kind of is what it is.
57:51
The level of narcissism that you have to have to be an elected official is fairly substantial.
57:57
I believe most people that get into office are really, really concerned about increasing
58:01
their personal wealth or their personal profile, not necessarily about helping the community
58:05
that they're in.
58:06
I know I'm painting with an incredibly large and broad brush here, but that's just kind
58:09
of my perception of it.
58:10
These people seem to be very, very self-serving, not just on the national scale, but even locally.
58:14
Look at in COVID.
58:15
Yeah, these people that were elected in a local election by a dozen votes and here they
58:19
are telling you whether or not your business can be open, whether or not your kids can
58:22
go to school.
58:23
And if they go to school, whether or not they should be required to wear a mask, sorry,
58:25
these people are really high on their own farts.
58:27
And that's kind of what these people want to do.
58:29
The other part of it is, is I don't want that level of attention on me and my family.
58:34
Like I already have this show.
58:35
I already have this platform.
58:36
There's already people.
58:37
You know, there's relationships that we've lost because people like, I can't believe
58:40
your husband doesn't think we should kill babies in the womb.
58:42
He's such a horrible person.
58:44
That's fine.
58:45
But when you're running for political office, there's even more of that and to a degree,
58:49
like I'm obviously not a private person.
58:50
I'm a public figure.
58:51
I've got the show.
58:52
My wife's not a private person.
58:53
She runs several businesses and you know, she's well known in this community, especially
58:56
the Oklahoma City photography community and things like that, the wedding community.
58:59
And so we're not incredibly private people, but the things that are private about us,
59:03
we want to keep private.
59:04
Like we don't have any skeletons in the closet.
59:05
We haven't killed anybody.
59:07
There's not any like crazy things.
59:08
We're not evading the tax tax system and like, we're not doing any crazy stuff like that,
59:12
but you will have people that will dig into your life and try to ruin you and they'll
59:16
take something out of context just to screw you over.
59:19
And I'm already getting some of that just by having a show, just by giving my opinion
59:22
for hours and hours of time over years and years.
59:24
That's just kind of how it goes.
59:26
But running for office, that's just not really in my wheelhouse.
59:29
Again, down the road, maybe I'll eat my words, but I just don't see a scenario where that
59:32
makes sense for me or the Thompson family.
59:35
All right.
59:36
Just a few more here.
59:37
Let's go to the next one.
59:38
How can I get in shape like you?
59:40
Okay, that sounds like a [inaudible] question sounds like I'm the one that put that in there, but
59:44
I will tell you guys, I do get that question because for my age and for my athletic ability,
59:50
I do get asked that someone often and it's not, it's not people like fawning and slobbering
59:54
over me.
59:55
They're just like, you know, it's just kind of like, Hey, Kyle, you're in really good shape.
59:57
How do I do that?
59:58
It'd be the same as if somebody you knew was really, really good at real estate.
1:00:01
You would ask them like, Hey man, I'm thinking about getting into real estate.
1:00:04
You know, how can I be successful like you?
1:00:05
You know, somebody that has done really, really good things with their money.
1:00:08
Maybe they didn't have the highest paying job and yet they, they're really, really well
1:00:11
off financially.
1:00:12
It'd be super appropriate if you went to that person and said, Hey man, you know, I really
1:00:15
want to handle my money.
1:00:16
Like you've handled your money or Hey, you're a really good husband and you see your kids
1:00:19
seem to love you.
1:00:20
I kind of want to be a dad like you.
1:00:22
So it's kind of one of those things.
1:00:23
It's a discipleship thing.
1:00:24
Right.
1:00:25
So for anyone that's like, Hey, what a [inaudible] question.
1:00:26
How can I get in shape like you?
1:00:27
The reality is though, is when I tell people when I have people that ask me that, my response
1:00:34
to them is you can't and I mean, it, it takes them completely off guard.
1:00:40
It catches them completely off guard.
1:00:42
I say you can't be in shape like me because I know what they're actually asking.
1:00:48
I know what they're actually asking.
1:00:49
They're not asking like, Hey, how can I get in shape like you?
1:00:53
I want to be in the exact same level of shape.
1:00:54
I want us to have the same VO two max, the same max one rap, one rap max is on everything.
1:00:59
That's not what they're asking.
1:01:00
They're asking you to give them a 60 day, maybe a 90 day plan to get to what you've
1:01:06
done to accomplish what you've been able to accomplish physically.
1:01:09
And that's just not in the cards for someone like you.
1:01:12
And I mean that colloquially or a group in a group way, it's just not available to you.
1:01:17
And the reason is, is because I have worked out consistently since I was like 14 or 15
1:01:23
years old.
1:01:24
I said before, the first thing I did after I got my job and my car when I was 16, as I
1:01:29
drove to Gold's gym in Lawton, Oklahoma, and I got a membership and I couldn't really afford
1:01:33
it.
1:01:34
But I talked to the manager.
1:01:35
I'm like, this is what I can do.
1:01:36
I'm a busser right now.
1:01:37
You know, just anything would help.
1:01:38
And I think he helped me get like a $10 a month membership or something like that.
1:01:39
And I spent a ton of time at Gold's gym, right?
1:01:42
And I've learned more over the years and I've got a home gym now and I've had that for about
1:01:47
five years and I just added an air dine bike so I can torture myself even further.
1:01:52
Every year I do the Murph, you know, I'm going to be doing Chad 1000 X.
1:01:55
That's 1000, you know, weighted box step ups later this year.
1:01:57
I do a lot of things, you know, when I do Jiu Jitsu, I'm trying to go as hard as possible
1:02:01
for the entire round, you know, so I can have just explosive cardio when I need it, you
1:02:05
know, I run sprints.
1:02:06
I do all these different things, but I've been doing it for years.
1:02:10
Because if you did one week's worth of the stuff that I do physically, it might hurt
1:02:15
you and I break you.
1:02:16
And again, I'm not like, oh, I'm some kind of major Adonis.
1:02:19
Like, I know people that I see on a daily basis that are better at me than just about
1:02:22
everything I could ever try and do physically, right?
1:02:25
But I'm trying to maximize, I'm trying to absolutely maximize.
1:02:28
I'm trying to squeeze out every ounce of potential in the body that God has blessed me with.
1:02:34
I'm trying to take care of it.
1:02:35
I'm trying to strengthen it so that if God needs me for something, which is kind of stupid
1:02:40
to say that God needs me, but if God has called me to something later on in life, that requires
1:02:45
me to have a, you know, able body in order to accomplish his purposes, I don't want to
1:02:50
say, yeah, I'll do that God, but I need some training time first.
1:02:52
Oh, I need some, I need some recovery.
1:02:54
Well, I'm going to need to get in the ice bath or the sauna.
1:02:56
Nope.
1:02:57
I want to be ready to go right now if I'm called to do it.
1:03:00
So the thing for you, I think the easiest thing, and it's, it's hard to do now just because
1:03:06
of, you know, TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and all that, you see these people that are
1:03:10
just built different, they have different genetics, they have a different workout regimen.
1:03:15
They're, they're, they have better training, they have better diet, they have, they have
1:03:19
more capability than you and it's just, it is what it is.
1:03:22
When you watch the workouts they're doing or their weight, they're putting up or how
1:03:26
fast they're running and you're like, I can never be like that person.
1:03:28
Don't worry about it.
1:03:31
You follow campaigns on Instagram.
1:03:32
You're like, I'm never going to be able to run, you know, a marathon a day every day
1:03:35
for weeks and weeks.
1:03:36
I'm never going to be able to do an ultra marathon.
1:03:38
You might be right, but don't worry about that.
1:03:41
Maximize your body for what you think God's purpose is for your body and also the things
1:03:46
that you're into.
1:03:48
So one of the reasons why I don't run distance is because my body is not really built to,
1:03:54
to run a lot of long distance, you know, in the TMI category, I have really, really long
1:03:58
feet.
1:03:59
So I'm only five, 10, but I have size 12 foot, but my foot is really long and skinny.
1:04:03
I'm super long toes are like the size of my fingers, right?
1:04:06
Really really long toes.
1:04:07
I have small Achilles tendons.
1:04:09
And so the constant pounding of my upper body on that side on, on my feet like that is not
1:04:15
good for my feet and Achilles and ankles.
1:04:17
It's just horrible for it.
1:04:18
Whereas other people are built with different genetics that they can run all day and it's
1:04:22
not going to cause any major, major issues for them.
1:04:25
And also I want to be in really, really good shape, mainly for jujitsu.
1:04:30
The reason why I'm not doing crazy powerlifting or trying to get these insane numbers is because
1:04:34
adding 20 pounds or 25 pounds to my deadlift is not going to make me shoot a better double
1:04:38
egg, right?
1:04:39
You know, being able to do, you know, set a 25 pushups as opposed or pushups, 25 pullups
1:04:45
as opposed to like 23 pullups or something like that, that's not going to help me finish
1:04:48
a choke.
1:04:49
You know, you know what I mean?
1:04:50
Like I want to be in as strong as I can be to serve me in jujitsu.
1:04:55
The cardio that I do is more explosive because I need more explosive movements and something
1:05:00
like jujitsu because in a role there are positions that you can get in where you can take a break.
1:05:04
But then when you're in a scramble or you're going for a submission or something like that,
1:05:07
you got to have that cardio in that exact moment to hold the position that you need to be able
1:05:11
to hold.
1:05:12
And so that's what I would encourage you guys to do.
1:05:14
If you have something that you like to do, try to get the most out of your body and try
1:05:19
to honor God and how you're taking care of the one body that he gave you.
1:05:22
So how can I get in shape like you?
1:05:23
You can't, but you can get in shape like you, like you maximize your body.
1:05:29
All right, guys.
1:05:30
Next question here.
1:05:31
Have you listened to the rise and fall of Mars Hill?
1:05:34
My goodness, the number of people that have asked me about the rise and fall of Mars Hill
1:05:38
when I did a debate show over in the UK on unbelievable Justin Briarley, that was brought
1:05:42
up, Mark Tris school has brought up all the different things.
1:05:44
Here's the thing.
1:05:45
No, I have not listened to the rise and fall of Mark Hill and Mars Hill.
1:05:49
And no, I do not intend to do that partially because I don't have the time to do that.
1:05:54
That's like 20 hours.
1:05:55
Like, I think it's like 20 episodes are all almost an hour long.
1:05:59
That's a lot of time and attention to give to one singular podcast.
1:06:02
Here's the other deal.
1:06:03
I've talked to people that have listened to it and they all pretty much say the same
1:06:08
thing.
1:06:09
They're, they're all, you know, people that kind of tend to think like me, maybe not quite
1:06:12
as extreme, but they're like, yeah, Mark Driscoll seemed like a [inaudible] back in the day when
1:06:16
he ran Mars Hill.
1:06:17
God, he seemed like a mean bully type of guy.
1:06:20
But some of the stuff he said I kind of agreed with.
1:06:23
That's what everybody has said.
1:06:24
It's something like that.
1:06:25
God, he was such a jerk, but I agree with some of the stuff that he said.
1:06:28
So it's like the tone police didn't really like how Mark Driscoll said some things, but
1:06:31
behind closed doors, apparently he did act like a unrighteous jerk or a self righteous jerk,
1:06:37
I should say, right?
1:06:39
And I would never cosign that behavior.
1:06:40
I would never say that that's a good thing that guy should, you know, aspire to bully
1:06:43
people and make people completely fearful of you.
1:06:45
I don't think that's a really good way of doing things, but I don't need, I think it's
1:06:48
Christianity today that that made that whole podcast, they, they've got it out for, for
1:06:53
strong men.
1:06:54
I mean, I remember when they went after Trump and, you know, you know, there's probably
1:06:56
reasons for going after Trump if you're a Christian publication, but it's not the publication
1:07:00
that they used to be.
1:07:01
And I think they're taking this as an opportunity to dunk on somebody that focused on manhood
1:07:05
that really, really wanted manhood to be at the center point of the ministry that they
1:07:08
were doing.
1:07:09
But the bad thing is, it's just like I talked about last week, like you shouldn't be surprised
1:07:13
if any pastor that you support does or thinks or acts in, you know, heinous ways.
1:07:18
That's what he was behind closed doors.
1:07:20
But like, I don't need to listen to 20 hours worth of examples of him cussing at people
1:07:25
or demeaning people or doing things that are a biblical or things that, you know, wouldn't
1:07:30
make sense or things that he wouldn't even do today.
1:07:32
So I don't have that amount of interest in it.
1:07:35
Again, I get typecast as the market school guy or the, you know, the angry, you know,
1:07:39
male conservative, you know, cisgender guy, like I get typecast as that, as that is already.
1:07:44
And so like doing 20 hours of behind the scenes research that is tinged in a way specifically
1:07:50
to make him potentially look worse than he actually is or was.
1:07:53
I'm not really into it.
1:07:55
Kind of the same thing.
1:07:56
The Hillsong documentary that just came out, I've been asked about that as well.
1:07:59
It's kind of in the same vein as this.
1:08:00
But I like to watch that. Yeah, probably, but it's just like, it's not going to be that
1:08:04
shocking.
1:08:05
What are they going to tell me that's going to shock me?
1:08:06
Oh, the lead pastor hid, you know, someone's sexual sin inside their church.
1:08:10
Oh, wow.
1:08:11
Shock of all shocks.
1:08:12
That's like the latest one.
1:08:13
Right?
1:08:14
That's not unique.
1:08:15
You know, oh, they put people in the crowd because I know they do this at Steven Furtick's
1:08:20
church.
1:08:21
They actually have people on staff in the crowd that will help the spirit move, right?
1:08:25
They'll, they'll make sure they lift up their hands and they'll make sure to encourage people
1:08:28
in all this type of thing so that in case the spirit's not moving on its own, that they
1:08:32
can kind of like, you know, kind of coax it along or something like that.
1:08:36
Like, I don't care that much, right?
1:08:39
So if the rise and fall of Mars Hill was an hour long podcast, I would have listened
1:08:42
to it probably twice by now, but 20 hours, not really into it.
1:08:46
All right, guys.
1:08:47
Last question of the day.
1:08:48
I appreciate all the questions again, just in case you guys are not aware, the way that
1:08:50
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1:08:55
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1:08:59
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1:09:00
Last question of the day.
1:09:01
This is what it says.
1:09:02
What is your favorite holiday?
1:09:03
So I love a lot of holidays.
1:09:05
So I love Christmas.
1:09:07
I love Easter.
1:09:08
I love Thanksgiving because I'm, you know, I love eating food.
1:09:10
I love being around, you know, family, especially when they're all making their favorite dish.
1:09:13
Um, you know, I make a holiday out of the, out of opening day for Major League Baseball.
1:09:18
And that's probably something I'm going to do with my sons is on opening day.
1:09:21
If they're in school, I'll probably get them out at noon and we'll go grab some food or
1:09:24
go home and make some hot dogs and watch baseball.
1:09:26
Like I'm going to make a thing around that.
1:09:28
Um, but I really, if I were to say, you know, and I like Veterans Day and Memorial Day
1:09:32
because I do the Murph, like all that stuff's great.
1:09:34
I probably like the 4th of July.
1:09:36
I mean, Christmas is kind of the easy answer.
1:09:38
So Christmas would probably be number one, you know, the birth of Christ, you know, time
1:09:41
with family, giving gifts and all those types of things, receiving some cool gifts every
1:09:44
now and then.
1:09:45
But I really love the 4th of July.
1:09:47
I think the 4th of July is so much fun.
1:09:49
Um, now for me, a lot of you guys go out to the lake on the 4th of July and that's kind
1:09:53
of your thing.
1:09:54
Like, I, I really don't like the lake, the lake's not my favorite place because that's
1:09:57
where the sun is.
1:09:58
Right.
1:09:59
And so for me, I don't really like, I've got a lot of tattoo work and so I try to keep
1:10:01
the sun off my tattoos.
1:10:03
Also, I'm a ginger.
1:10:04
So I try to keep the sun off me at all times anyway.
1:10:05
And so the idea of like going to the lake and having my shirt off all day, driving around
1:10:10
and drinking beer and all that, that's not really my thing.
1:10:12
But I do like the reminder that America is a great country and that we were founded on
1:10:17
these amazing, amazing principles by these genius level men that had different levels
1:10:22
of wisdom than we could ever fathom as individuals.
1:10:24
And they did incredibly difficult things and risk their lives in order to wear today.
1:10:29
I could speak into this microphone without, you know, the thought that someone's going
1:10:32
to come in here and rip it away from me and, you know, throw me in handcuffs and put me
1:10:36
in jail.
1:10:37
Um, so I think it's a great reminder.
1:10:38
I'm looking forward to teaching my sons the American history that they may or may not be
1:10:43
getting in school.
1:10:44
Um, the things that, you know, they're going to be told they should be ashamed of about
1:10:48
our country or that they individually should be ashamed of because of something that they
1:10:52
didn't actually do, but someone that actually looked like them did it way back in the day
1:10:55
to people that looks not like them.
1:10:57
I mean, I'm excited to teach them about the history of this country.
1:11:00
I think the 4th of July will be a great opportunity for that.
1:11:02
It'll be summertime.
1:11:03
There'll probably be baseball and some other things going on, but be able to stop and tell
1:11:07
them and talk to them about everything that, um, that they're going through as a country
1:11:12
that this isn't anything new, but it's something that is worth preserving and conserving.
1:11:16
So I'm excited to do that.
1:11:17
All right, guys, before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost.
1:11:20
As you know, Adam, Donald to life, our mission is equipping men to push back darkness with
1:11:23
content that forge a spiritual mental and physical resilience and just be honest with
1:11:27
you.
1:11:28
I forgot what I was supposed to put in the quick resilience boost.
1:11:30
I'm going to go have to go back and listen to this later and put some stuff in the show
1:11:32
notes.
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So I will go and put in there a link to our Apple podcast so you guys can go there again.
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We would really, really appreciate it.
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things in there that we talked about in the show as well.
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All right, guys.
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We also want to thank the band August Burns read for allowing us to use their music for
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our content.
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The music on this podcast is a song cutting the ties, which is off their 10th anniversary
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re-recording of their album leveler.
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The links are in the description.
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
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Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
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I know thy land is mine and I know you want it's a side of the nation and the virtue of
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your own.
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You will be revived.
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