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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but terror to evil doers. That is Proverbs 21-15.
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Guys, I appreciate you being here with me today. We got a lot to cover. But the very first thing
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I want to talk to you about is if you guys aren't reading, what exactly are you doing with your
1:06
time? I mean, there's not a whole lot of sports going on all the time that you absolutely have to
1:09
watch. You know, fantasy football doesn't start for a little while longer. Like, you know, you
1:13
probably don't have another level you need to get to in whatever video game you guys need to be
1:17
reading. And if you didn't know, we have a book list on our website. It's called the 100 books,
1:21
every modern Christian man should read list. You just go to our website undaunted.life/booklist.
1:26
It is going to be in the show notes. And maybe I'll start making some book recommendations to you
1:30
guys. If I did like one book recommendation a week to you guys, I don't know, let me know. Would you
1:34
guys want that? Because there's a hundred on there. But today I'm going to give you a recommendation
1:38
is my favorite book of all time. It's a book called Fearless by Eric Blem. It'll be in the
1:42
show notes as well. But that's a story about one of the most resilient human beings of all time.
1:47
A Navy SEAL that has now deceased named Adam Brown, just an absolutely fantastic book. But that is one
1:52
of a hundred books. And there's a bunch of different categories. There's philosophy and apologetics
1:56
and business and money and all kinds of things like that. It is a great, great resource for you.
2:00
But guys, in the quick hitter segment today, we're going to discuss the mass shooting in Illinois
2:04
that happened on Independence Day, Jordan Peterson getting banned from Twitter, the spiking drug
2:09
overdoses in the state of Oregon after they decriminalize essentially all hard drugs. And I
2:14
will react to a viral video called the ride home. Okay. And you will not want to miss that one.
2:20
But before we get too, too far into the subject matter for today, I want to do kind of a really,
2:24
really quick PSA. So some of you might know that there has been quite a bit of flooding that is
2:29
taking place in different parts of Yellowstone Park this year. So for those of you that live
2:33
outside the United States, Yellowstone is not just a television show. It is an actual, you know,
2:38
park that's in the northern part of our great country. Specifically, the flooding has wiped out
2:42
the North entrance road to Yellowstone Park. And that is located in a town called Gardener,
2:47
Montana. So for that area, tourism, as you can imagine, and all the revenue that that brings from
2:52
people just dropping into shops here or there, that is a huge, huge part to supporting those
2:56
businesses and those communities. And thus, the families that live there. Okay. But with all that
3:01
wiped out there, they're kind of in dire straits right now, especially during, you know,
3:04
this highly-touristed, you know, visited season, right? Well, a very, very good friend of the show,
3:10
named Sean Stevenson of Stevenson Knives out of Florida. I've talked about them before. I talked
3:13
about them, I think, before Father's Day last year or Christmas or something like that. But
3:17
they reached out to me to see if our listeners could help support a couple of businesses from this
3:22
area to kind of help them get through this rough patch. Now, Sean Stevenson, he is actually sacrificing
3:28
paid for advertising on this podcast for his own business in order to, for us to be able to talk
3:35
about what's going on with these other two businesses. So I wanted to make sure to give him a shout
3:39
out. He probably is going to be mad at me about that. He probably would have rather me just not
3:42
said anything. But he's literally, he paid for a spot. But I'm about to use for these other companies.
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So if you want to treat this like an advertisement, whatever, but I need to tell you about these two
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companies. So both of these families that run these companies, I'm about to tell you about,
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they do a ton to serve the veterans community here in the United States. Okay. And I'm actually
3:59
going to be hopping on board to assist them with helping a whole bunch more. And we're going to
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hopefully talk way more about that in the future on future episodes. So stay tuned for that. But
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the companies are these the first one is mama bears armory. And the other is hell's a roaring
4:12
outfitters. So they're both out of gardener at Montana. So let's talk about mama bears armory.
4:17
That is ran by a guy named Chester Evitt. So he is a disabled veteran. His nephew is a purple
4:21
heart recipient and his son is a disabled veteran as well. And these guys, it's basically a gun
4:26
store. So if you've ever been into a gun store, you obviously know some of the things that they
4:29
do. So that's the first company. The second one is hell's a roaring outfitters, which is ran by a
4:34
husband and wife named Warren and Sue Johnson Warren's nickname is bull. But this is a horseback
4:40
trail and hunting guide service. And so they actually host an annual horse drive on Memorial Day.
4:46
And this year, this company raised enough money on their horse drive to purchase five track chairs
4:52
so that they could get disabled veterans into the woods so that they can be able to hunt.
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I mean, just an absolutely crazy awesome thing that they've done. They do guided elk and deer and
5:02
sheep and bear and bison hunts all up there in that area, which by the way, that just became
5:07
maybe right at the top of one of my bucket list things to do to do a horseback led hunt for one
5:12
of these great American animals that can serve, you know, my family and feed a bunch of different
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how you can do that. So with the first one, mama bears armory, that is again, Chester Evitt.
5:35
They do not have a website. Okay. So this is an old school kind of mom and pop gun store. Okay.
5:40
So I'm going to give you their email and their phone number. And I know that's a little bit
5:44
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all of a sudden it'll just show up at my house a few hours later. I know it's going to be a
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little bit cumbersome for some of you. But all this will be in the show notes as well. So if
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you're driving, keep driving and be safe. But Chester Everett, his phone number is 901-326-5777.
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So let's talk about the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Nuking the culture wars.
8:00
Now, I would would like to have come up with that phraseology myself. That is actually from a quote
8:06
from a Dan Crenshaw tweet. And so like, I love that. I thought it was great. But then I also
8:10
discovered like there's a whole bunch of Dan Crenshaw hate out there, especially from
8:15
conservatives and Republicans. And to be honest, I don't understand it like they're calling them
8:18
a rhino and they're mad about about this or that. And like, I guess I just don't pay enough attention
8:23
to, you know, blogs and Reddit and all these other different places. Like, I don't understand the
8:27
Dan Crenshaw hate. I know he's been on the show before, but it's like, you know, I'll, you know,
8:31
have an opinion about somebody. But like, if you can let me know why people hate Dan Crenshaw,
8:34
I'd love to know. But the Supreme Court of the United States just wrapped up one of the most
8:39
consequential terms, perhaps in the court's history. So it was certainly one of the most
8:45
consequential terms that we've had in recent memory. Like, I can't think of one that was,
8:49
that was this big that had this many big decisions. So let's go and do a rundown real quick of some
8:54
of the most important decisions this term. And then we'll break down why they're such a big deal.
8:57
So obviously the headliner, the best of the best is on June the 24th, they announced the decision
9:04
in the Dobbs versus Jackson women's health organization. And this was a six, three decision to uphold
9:09
Mississippi's 15 week abortion ban. The majority was Alito, Thomas Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, ACB and Roberts.
9:15
And the minority was Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor. And then in a five, four, I guess you could call
9:20
it sub decision. The High Court voted to overturn Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey,
9:25
essentially returning the rights to create, you know, abortion law to the individual states.
9:30
And that slimy, sloppy, mangy turd Roberts chose not to hop on board with that. But that's okay.
9:36
There was a five, four decision. So that was overturned. And guys, if you want my full
9:40
deep thoughts on this issue, go back to last week on episode 326 of this podcast,
9:44
it's called sifting through the fallout after the death of Roe, I go into a ton of detail on that.
9:49
But then also on June the 21st, they announced the decision of Carson v. Macon. So this was a
9:54
six, three decision which ruled that the state of Maine must include religious schools in a state
9:59
school tuition program. Otherwise, it would be in violation of the First Amendment. So this
10:04
basically broke down on conservative, you know, conservative liberal lines. So the majority was
10:08
Alito Thomas Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, ACB and Roberts. Minority was Breyer Kagan inside of my art.
10:13
So speaking for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts, he actually accidentally said
10:16
something that was smart. He state he said that states aren't required to support religious
10:21
education. He was very clear about that. But those that quote choose to subsidize private school
10:26
may not discriminate against religious ones. Unquote. So in the Dan McLaughlin over at the
10:31
National Review said this quote, this is a huge victory for the freedom of religious parents to
10:35
educate their children in the school of their choice on the same terms as non religious parents.
10:40
Unquote. Then we had on June the 23rd, they announced the decision in New York State Rifle
10:44
and Pistol Association versus brewing. This was a six, three decision again, which broke down just
10:48
like the others. Majority Alito Thomas Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, ACB Roberts, minority Breyer Kagan
10:53
side of my or in this rule that the United States Constitution does safeguard the right to carry a
10:58
gun outside of the home. So the the center point of this case was a New York State law requiring
11:03
concealed carry permit applicants to prove that they had a quote special need for a permit
11:10
exceeding just basic self defense. So if you were a person just walking around in New York City
11:14
and you felt unsafe, which of course, most people walking around New York City feel unsafe,
11:18
you had to go to the local magistrates and basically prove how you had some sort of special need to
11:22
defend yourself with a firearm. So many were calling this, you know, a lot of people on the
11:26
left were calling this the biggest expansion of gun rights in decades, which is incredibly,
11:31
incredibly disingenuous. Because what this decision did is it merely was giving New Yorkers the ability
11:36
to carry out their constitutional rights as it pertains to firearms. Because this law, as I
11:41
understand it, has been in place for decades. And so how many innocent people were harmed or
11:46
killed in the state of New York, or you really the state of New York, but specifically New York
11:50
City, because they didn't have the ability to have, you know, a force multiplier and a firearm.
11:54
And guys, if you want a little bit more in depth thoughts on the gun issue, just the overall
11:58
gun issue in the United States, I addressed that recently as well. On episode 315 of this podcast,
12:02
standing on the bodies of murdered kids in order to take your guns, this was after the massacre in
12:07
Uvaldi, that will be in the show notes as well. Then on June the 27th, they announced the decision
12:11
of Kennedy versus Bremerton school district. So this was a six, three decision that ruled in favor
12:16
of the now fired high school football coach named Joseph Kennedy saying that his first amendment
12:20
rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression were violated because he was fired for praying
12:26
in the middle of the field after football games. So broke down just like the others majority Alito
12:31
Thomas Goresis, Kavanaugh, ACB Roberts, minority Breyer, Kagan Sotomayor. So in terms of the details
12:36
from this case, this coach had been doing this for years. Basically the game would end. He would
12:41
by himself walk to the middle of the field and pray and, you know, say, thank you to God for
12:46
whatever he wanted to, for the health of his players, safety of whatever, like all those different
12:49
things. And then, you know, players from his own team would join him players from the opposite team
12:52
would join him. And they would pray in the middle of the field. This literally happens on high school
12:56
and college and in it, professional football fields all over the country, all the time,
13:01
literally all the time. But somebody at the school was like, ah, you know, it seems like this is,
13:06
you know, kind of a violation of separation of church and state. But the thing is, is this guy
13:10
never once demanded that anybody join him. He did it by himself, but he wouldn't kick anybody out
13:14
and be like, ah, you can't join me. I'm praying right now. So Gorsuch actually wrote the majority
13:19
opinion on this one. And this was a great line from the majority opinion. Here it is. Quote,
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the constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance,
13:27
not censorship and suppression for religious and non-religious, non-religious views,
13:31
alike. So this was a big win for freedom of religion. Then on June the 30th, they announced
13:37
the decision of Biden v. Texas. So this is the one miss I would say from this session, one of the
13:41
biggest misses. So a 5/4 decision that ruled in favor of co president Joe Biden saying that his
13:46
administration could not have or could basically have the ability now to in the Trump era immigration
13:53
policy known as the Remain in Mexico policy. So the majority was Breyer, Kagan and sodomyor.
13:57
And they were joined by Robertson Kavanaugh. And then in the minority, we had Thomas Alito,
14:02
ACB and Gorsuch. And so this one, basically the Remain in Mexico policy was tremendous for the,
14:08
sorry, the Trump administration, because basically if you were waiting to have your,
14:12
your basically your day in court so that you could potentially receive the status to come into this
14:17
country, because you said you're, you know, your refugee, you need, you need help all these different
14:20
things. You had to remain in Mexico while that happened, as opposed to what's going on now,
14:25
which is like, yeah, sure, come on in. We're basically not even going to adjudicate this case.
14:29
We're going to bus you all over the country and just kind of drop you off. And you make sure you
14:32
show up to your your court date now, see, because you don't want to, you don't want me to get all
14:35
mad if you don't show up to your court date. And then no one shows up to the court date. So that
14:39
happened on June the 30th, but then also on June the 30th, they announced the decision in West Virginia
14:43
versus environmental protection agency. That's the EPA here in the US. So this was a six, three
14:47
decision that put the EPA essentially back in its place, the decision would restrict the EPA,
14:52
which is a government agency full of unelected bureaucrats that can basically work there forever
14:57
from being able to have the authority to place restrictions on energy production and emissions.
15:01
Okay. So essentially that authority would have to come from our elected officials in Congress,
15:06
passing a law, you know, which would allow the EPA to do so, which we we've never given them
15:10
that ability through a law. So the majority was Alito Thomas Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, ACB and Roberts,
15:15
and the minority was Breyer, Kagan inside of my own. So basically, this was just based,
15:19
this was a decision that kind of shrunk the size of a particular agency inside the federal government,
15:24
which technically made the federal government a little bit smaller, which I'm obviously all for.
15:29
So now we need to talk about why these cases are so important. Okay. There's a lot of things to
15:34
talk about with these cases, and I'll have some some links in the show notes so you can check out
15:37
the breakdowns. And if you want to read the decisions, you can find those and all that,
15:40
you know, I'll make sure I have as much down there for you as possible. But these rulings are
15:45
literally dealing with the most important aspects of our culture and our modern society.
15:50
All those rulings that I just talked about, they're talking about the most important things
15:55
that you could possibly talk about. They're talking about life. They're talking about self-defense,
15:59
freedom of religion and speech and expression, energy production, which, you know, the energy
16:05
that we've created with fossil fuels and natural gas and things like that has created this
16:09
unbelievable level of flourishing for people in people groups all over the globe, right? I mean,
16:16
these are the most important topics that we could possibly be talking about.
16:21
So sometimes, you know, there's maybe one or two things that come down during a particular session
16:26
of the Supreme Court, and it may or may not bother you, but or it may or may not affect you directly.
16:30
But gosh, I mean, these are just the most important topics you could possibly have.
16:33
But another reason why this session of the Supreme Court was so unbelievably important is because
16:39
it's giving us this reminder that I talk about all the time, which is elections have consequences.
16:43
My goodness, elections have consequences. Because guys, you have to ask yourself this question,
16:48
whether Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, you know, somewhere in the middle,
16:51
which technically doesn't exist anymore. What would this country look like right now?
16:54
If Hillary Clinton had gotten three justices in her first term in office,
16:59
what would the country look like? I mean, many of these cases wouldn't even have even gone before
17:06
the Supreme Court had they gone before them. The outcomes would have been way, way different.
17:09
So we need to go and break this down because I want to make sure that you understand like
17:13
tangibly what this means. So if Hillary had run had and had won the 2016 election and was president,
17:20
I mean, it's crazy to even say Hillary Clinton being the president of the United States,
17:23
but she would have inherited this court. So here are the conservatives. There would have been three
17:27
of them. Alito, Thomas and Scalia, two swing type people, which are supposedly conservatives,
17:33
but they're not their more swing votes. She would have inherited Roberts and Kennedy, those two,
17:37
and then four liberal justices, which are solidly liberal, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Ginsburg.
17:41
Okay, that would have been the breakdown of the day she walked into the Oval Office.
17:44
Okay, but then Justice Scalia died. Okay, so we're just going to run this out as if, you know,
17:49
she had been in office instead of Trump. So Scalia dies. Now the conservatives would be Alito and Thomas.
17:54
So two swings would have been Robertson, Kennedy, those two, and the liberals would have had five
18:00
Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, and Hillary's first pick. Okay, then Kennedy retires. Okay,
18:07
so Kennedy again was supposedly conservative, but basically he was the swing vote of the court.
18:11
There's no reason to think that he would have held out for another presidential election cycle
18:14
before retiring. So let's say that would have happened. So there would have been two conservatives,
18:18
Alito and Thomas, one swing now, Roberts, and six liberals, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan,
18:24
Ginsburg, Hillary Clinton, pick number one, Hillary Clinton, pick number two. Okay,
18:29
then you had towards the end of the first term, which would be her first term, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
18:34
dies. Okay, so our scotus would look like this. Basically, if we were sitting here right now,
18:39
this is what our Supreme Court would look like. Two conservatives, Alito and Thomas, one swing,
18:45
Roberts, and six, count them six. Again, just like on the last one, six liberals, Breyer, Sotomayor,
18:53
Kagan, and then Hillary pick one, Hillary pick two, and Hillary pick three. So, and here's the
18:59
thing why, you know, I tried to infuse that as much as possible. Okay, so you look at it as a 6-3
19:03
court, but look at how many times Roberts sides with the liberal justices on all these different
19:07
issues. We can assume with those three picks that Hillary would have gotten that there would have
19:12
been all three of them would have been check, check, check progressive liberals 100% down the line,
19:17
because Democrats don't miss on their scotus picks like Republicans do. Like I read a long
19:23
section of an article on last week's episode where I broke down all of the mess ups that Supreme
19:28
Court picks that Republicans have made over the last 40 or 50 years, it is egregious. Republicans
19:33
miss constantly. Democrats don't like they didn't get, you know, Breyer on the court and they're like,
19:38
gosh, Breyer just keeps siding with the conservatives. Man, I really wish Sotomayor and Kagan would,
19:42
you know, kick it into high gear here and in vote with the stuff that we'd like, they always vote
19:46
exactly how you predict. It's only the conservatives that you have to really be, what's Roberts going
19:50
to do this time, you know, but here's the thing. Unfortunately, and this is just kind of another
19:56
overall thought about about this in terms of what this means, we have to keep the Supreme Court in
20:01
mind when voting in our federal elections, specifically when we're voting for president and our US
20:07
senators for our states. Now, I use the word, unfortunately, because the Supreme Court should
20:13
not have this much power. There's, there's the executive, the legislative and the judicial,
20:18
those are the branches of government. And this is just one part of the judicial brands, right?
20:23
Now it's the highest part doesn't get any higher. That is the Supreme Court and all the the senses
20:28
of the word. But it's very, very unfortunate that we have to keep those things in mind.
20:32
Okay. Because because this leads to the next thing that is so important about this is if Trump had not
20:37
won, it is reasonable to assume that we would have seen the degradation of our gun rights
20:43
and our rights to express ourselves through religion and speech.
20:46
And in addition to that, Roe and Casey would still rule and government agencies like the EPA
20:53
would very likely have their powers expanded. Again, I go back, I mentioned my uncle Dan now,
20:59
basically every week, but whenever he and I were discussing the 2016 presidential election,
21:03
if you haven't heard me talk about this before, he said, Kyle, the Supreme Court is way too important
21:07
for you to, you know, get all up at the about Trump not being a good guy. And I was, you know,
21:11
standing on my morals and saying Trump and Hillary, neither one of them have my, you know,
21:15
they don't represent the basics of human decency and the standards that I would uphold for myself.
21:19
So I can't vote for either of them. And boy, could I've not been, I could not have been more wrong.
21:23
About that. The Supreme Court is that important because just look at it. Can you imagine if it was
21:28
like seven, two, like seven technically liberal justices throwing Roberts in there and two solidly
21:35
conservative ones, Alito and Thomas who are both pretty old, like Alito and Thomas probably
21:39
aren't going to, you know, go another 10, 15 years on the court. I mean, this is such an
21:43
unbelievably important time. And I'm so glad that Trump got those picks and not Hillary.
21:49
But I guess the last thing here on this before we move on to the quick hitters is the reason why
21:54
this story is important is we as men, we must stay engaged with what's going on around us so that
22:00
we can effectively push back darkness. Again, we equipment to push back darkness. You are not
22:06
equipped to push back darkness. If you don't know where the darkness is, or if you see the
22:10
darkness, but you have no idea how to fight against it. Again, I use the example all the time. You're
22:14
so far, you know, frustrated and flustered when you go to your, you know, school board meeting and
22:18
you see some of the, the woke stuff that's in your kids classrooms, but you don't know how to fight
22:21
back against it. Like, aside from just getting out there and screaming for 60 seconds during your
22:25
public comments, what exactly are you doing to be able to affect change? Because if you're not
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going to do it effectively, then you don't need to do it at all. But as men, we are able to push
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back against this darkness, but we have to fight with the right tools. We have to fight with the
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right weapons. And again, it goes back to the scripture I use from the very beginning of this
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podcast, which is when justice is done, it is joy to the righteous, but terror to evil doers as
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Proverbs 21 15 in the ESV. And I want you to think about that scripture. I'll read it again. When
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justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but terror to the evil doers. Who are the people
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that are wailing right now in the streets? Again, I'm so thankful that the riots have not been
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anywhere near George Floyd summer, right? Sorry, St. George Floyd, George Floyd summer, right?
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I'm so glad for that. But these are the people that are just like unbelievably a guest
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at the fact that the states now have the rights to choose their own laws as it pertains to killing
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babies. And they're a gas that the state that they live in is going to have just as battle laws,
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if not better for people that think like them, right? They're going to be more permissive of
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abortions, right? But it's not the righteous. They're not the righteous ones right now.
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Again, when justice is done, it is the joy to the righteous, but terror to the evil doers.
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So for those of you that were celebrating when Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey was
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overturned. That was you being righteous. That was the joy to the righteous. It was the evil
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doers were the ones that were screaming out in sheer terror. That's a good thing to remember.
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All right, guys, let's get into the quick hitter segment. We are going to discuss this first one
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here. So the mass shooting in Illinois that took place on Independence Day. That's Monday of this
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week. So this is according to Ryan King of the Washington Examiner. As locals celebrated the 4th
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of July at Highland Park, this is outside of Illinois. On Monday morning, a gunman believed to have
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been perched on a nearby rooftop open fire, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more.
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Robert Cremo 22 was taken into custody as a person of interest following an extensive manhunt.
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And it was later revealed that he had posted videos appearing to muse about committing violent acts,
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including one video from 2021 that appeared to show him driving down the street that appears to be
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part of the parade route a little bit later in the article, it says this authorities recovered a
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high powered rifle from the scene of the shooting. Officials have not divulged what type of rifle was
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recovered, but Rotoring said she believes I think she's someone with police force there or the DA or
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something like that. She said she believes the firearm was purchased legally. Law enforcement
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is currently working to trace the origins of the weapon. A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol,
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Tobacco and Firearms and Explosive Set. Despite reports of alarming social media posts, Cremo's
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uncle said he saw no signs of trouble. Noting Cremo had not had been unemployed for about two years
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and largely clapped to himself as he attempted to break out as a rapper. Okay, so obviously,
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my initial thoughts on this work, just like you guys, I was enjoying the Fourth of July,
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I was enjoying Independence Day and you know, taking care of the kids and making sure the
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life is okay and like doing all those different things, we weren't able to do some of our normal
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Fourth of July stuff just because with the kids being so young, but obviously super tragic,
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super terrible. Just to be at a parade like that and then have something like that happen,
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it is a different kind of evil. Okay. Now, I do think that we should all wait for more information
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to come out because immediately everybody jumped to their side, the pro gun or the anti gun side
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or all these different things, the pro police and the anti police side, all these different things.
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We need to wait because, you know, as I sit here, I'm recording this the day before this comes out.
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We barely have enough information to make a call here. We don't know a whole lot about this kid
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yet. I say he's a kid. He was 22 years old, but we know that he was a troubled young man. His uncle
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is super wrong about that. He was troubled. He posted these violent videos. Again, he was
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obviously influenced by rap music because he was trying to break out as a rapper. His particular
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style of rap was very, very violent. This was a very, very slight guy is like 120 pounds,
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like really, really small guy. So he's one of those guys that gets a firearm in his hand and he
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thinks, Oh man, this makes me a man. I'm a big man now, right? But here's what we know for sure right
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now. Anti gun Democrats will use this as another example as to why they should take firearms away
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from people like me and you. Because again, you and I weren't perched up on a rooftop trying
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to shoot up a fourth of July parade, but they don't care about that. They want your evil firearms
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taken away from you. They want my evil firearms taken away from me. Even though in this case,
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as we saw, this firearm was apparently purchased legally. And again, this is in the state of Illinois,
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which has some of these strictest gun laws in the entire country because Chicago's there.
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And yet they have some of the highest rates of gun violence anywhere in the world, right?
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By not the world anywhere in the country, I should say, because there's crazy gun crime
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in Central and South America. But again, everybody kind of ran to their side. And again, this is
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just another example for those people. Another thing that we know for sure is most of the focus
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will be on the firearm. We know that and not the killer. Okay. They want to focus in on what
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perpetrated this evil. And in their minds, it was the firearm that did that. I mean, guys, I sent
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this email out to all of you guys, but I just recently was on the unbelievable podcast over in the UK,
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where I was debating a anti gun pacifist, Christian activist named Shane Claiborne. And he kept talking
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about guns killing people and all these guns that have killed people and all these people that have
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died from guns and all these things. And I kept correcting him and saying guns are inanimate objects
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actually had my AR right here in front of me. And I loaded it with one of those evil 30 round
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magazines. And this thing was boy, it was scary weapon. It's got it's Sarah coated. It's got, you
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know, pistol grip on the back and a vertical grip on the front had a suppressor on it and a scope
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and like the whole the whole nine yards, right? I loaded it, kept it on safety and set it down
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in front of me for the rest of the interview. And don't you know what that damn thing didn't get
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up and bite anybody. That thing didn't get up and shoot anybody, right? But that's what happens
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when you do univariate analysis. And that's what all these people tend to do is you look at a
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disparity or you look at something that happens and you do the first level of analysis and you
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just accept it, right? You say, Oh, we have all these guns. Look at all this gun violence. I bet
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you if we take away the guns, we don't have any more of this gun violence. Again, that young man
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was a he became a criminal, but he wasn't a criminal. He was just a person with the intentions to
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commit a crime when he bought his firearm. This isn't minority report. We can't know when evil
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is going to happen. But another thing we saw is that these whiny sheep, you know, type people,
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they were inadvertently advocating, you know, right after this, to make themselves less safe.
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These sheep were literally advocating for things to make themselves less safe.
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So there's a guy on there's a guy on Twitter that I saw I didn't save it or anything like that.
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This was a guy that was at the parade with his two young daughters and his wife. He said when
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the shooting started, he grabbed his two young daughters and took off running, tried to get to,
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you know, house nearby, his wife ran a different direction. It was four or five hours before they
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could actually come back together and know that each other was safe and blah, blah, blah. And he's
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talking about, you know, and then there was another guy talking about, I can't go anywhere anymore.
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I can't go to, you know, a parade. I can't go to a school. I can't go to a mall. I can't go to a
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grocery store. I can't go to a blah, blah, blah. And all these people, all they're doing is providing
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ammunition, no pun intended to people that want to take firearms away from people. Now,
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it's easy to say as a guy right here that wasn't in that situation. Oh, well, I would have reacted
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differently. But again, this guy had his wife and two kids there and he was clearly not armed.
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Now, that doesn't mean that if he was armed that he would have been able to, you know,
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pull the gun out of appendix position, immediately identify where the threat was and take it out.
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But it doesn't rule that out either. And this is a sheep. This is a good example of a sheep
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that wants to whine about all these evil things happening around him. And yet he doesn't want to
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be part of the protective, you know, gap between him and the people that he loves, including himself,
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I would think. Again, it's these people that just think, Oh, if we can get rid of guns or if we can
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turn guns into garden tools or do any of those different things, all of a sudden evil people won't
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do evil things. And I'm sorry, in a situation like that, I don't want to be sitting there
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with my only weapon being my legs and how fast I can run away from the threat. I'm sorry, I'm just
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not into it. So my big takeaway on this first story is that if you're an anti gun person,
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okay, I know there's probably not a whole lot listening, at least not listening still.
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But if you're an anti gun person and you're sitting around waiting for that mass casualty event
30:25
that will cause us to quote unquote do something, keep dreaming. Okay. Now that is not in any way,
30:30
shape or form me advocating for any of these things to keep happening. But you keep thinking like,
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okay, is it going to be a shooting at a country concert in Vegas? Nope. Is it going to be a shooting
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out of school in Texas? Nope. Is it going to be shooting at a Fourth of July event? Nope.
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Nothing is going to make someone like me say, you know what? That was so egregiously bad.
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Here are my firearms now. Because what you don't understand anti gun person is that a
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law abiding citizen like myself handing my firearms over to the local magistrates to the government.
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And they're not going to destroy them. They're going to keep them. Right? That doesn't make me safer.
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That doesn't make the people around me when I have my firearm on me safer.
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Because I'm not evil. I'm never going to use that firearm to kill an innocent person. Right?
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But I would use that firearm in order to kill somebody that is trying to actively
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kill me or the people around me. Someone that's evil and evil demon possessed criminal. Like,
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that is why I have my firearms or if the federal government decides they want to infringe on my
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rights to the point or a or a government from outside the United States wants to come here and
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infringe on my rights. That's part of the reason why I have these firearms. Again, go back to the
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episode where I talked about the U of all the shooting. I think it was episode 315. It will
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be in the show notes. Again, you're not advocating in your behalf on your behalf. You think you are,
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you think you're advocating for something that will be to your benefit, but it will only be to your
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see full terms at mintmobile.com. All right, guys, next quick hitter here, Jordan Peterson, the great and one and only Jordan Peterson got banned from Twitter.
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So this is according to Jordan Peterson at the Daily Wire. Because if you didn't know now, he is actually a part of the Daily Wire. He signed a multi-year distribution deal where his podcast and other video content is going to be distributed to the Daily Wire. I think that is so unbelievably cool.
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But here is from a little op-ed that he wrote on the Daily Wire website.
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A few days ago, I pinned an irritated tweet in response to one of the latest happenings on the increasingly heated culture war front in response to the decision of an actress,
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slash actor named Ellen slash Elliot Page. I am employing this awkward and impossible multiple naming style because it is now apparently mandatory and probably doing it wrong.
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Nonetheless, as you're doing it wrong in is the whole point in what has been made mandatory, but also to make a point.
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I have essentially been banned from Twitter as a consequence. I say banned, although technically I have been suspended, but the suspension will not be lifted unless I delete the quote, unquote hateful tweet in question and I would rather die than do that.
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And hopefully it will not come to that, although who the hell knows in these increasingly strange days.
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So if you're wondering or if you didn't see the tweet, here's the tweet. Okay, so he tweeted, remember when Pride was a sin and Ellen Page just had her breast removed by a criminal physician.
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Okay, that was the original tweet. So this is, according to the Daily Wire, Twitter's explanation said that Peterson violated the rules against hateful conduct and accusation he vehemently desires, then denies. Okay, so here's the thing.
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Ellen Page is an actress. She was in Juneau. She was in a bunch of different things. And then she kind of went through this thing where I think I'm gay. I think I'm non-binary or whatever.
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And then she decided, okay, I'm a boy. I'm obviously a boy. I've been a boy my entire life. I'm going to be male and I'm going to do all the things in order to be male.
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So she got a top surgery done. So she basically had her boobs cut off. You know, she had other things. I think she had ab implants and all kinds of other things so that she would appear more masculine.
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Okay, so here's my reaction to all of this. His tweet is 100% accurate. And that's why he was banned.
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Again, this was a tweet. Remember when Pride was a sin? He tweeted this during Pride Month, the Holy Insainted Pride Month, and Ellen Page just had her breast removed by a criminal physician.
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That's all true. So when you say remember when Pride was a sin, you're basically saying, hey, people don't look at Pride as a sin anymore, which is exactly where we're at.
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We literally just got done with 30-something days of people having pride over their sinful lifestyles. So obviously, it's something that people have forgotten.
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And Ellen Page, right? I have no problem calling her Elliot. Whatever your given name is. I have no idea, but I'm not going to call her a him by any stretch of the imagination.
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He or she, see, here we go, she had her breast removed by a physician. And I think people got, you know, really messed up with the criminal physician part, but a criminal or sorry, a physician takes the Hippocratic oath and they basically say they're not going to do any harm.
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And when you remove healthy breast tissue off of a woman, right, thus creating even more negative potential outcomes for them mentally, that seems pretty criminal to me.
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But that's why this was banned because we live in the thing where up is down, left is right, blue is red, and that's kind of the life we're living right now where something like that that's true is just seen as hateful.
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Okay. Also, we knew this would happen eventually. Jordan Peterson has been stepping in it and stepping in it on purpose and sometimes on accident since we found out who he was with Bill C-16 over in Canada, right?
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And that kind of launched him into the stratosphere, especially right before he released 12 rules for life, which basically launched him into a different universe, right? But we knew this would happen eventually.
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Because when a guy speaks this much truth, when a guy speaks about authoritarianism and totalitarianism, totalitarianism as much as he does, becomes an issue for the powers that be, especially when they control all the levers of the public square, which kind of leads to the next point, which is that Elon Musk might bring him back.
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Again, it's going to take a while for Elon Musk to fully take over the reins of Twitter, but he also might not.
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Again, Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist, as far as we know, but we have no idea how he's going to rule once he actually takes over the reins. He's signaling that he's going to do it in a pretty conservative way, but we don't know that for sure.
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But also, there are a lot of people saying, and these are people that are on my side, kind of the conservative side, they said it doesn't matter that Jordan Peterson was canceled. He's so big. He's undeniable at this point. He's basically not cancelable.
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But it actually does really matter because my understanding was that he had millions of followers on Twitter. These are people that get direct access to what he's thinking in that exact moment because he doesn't really do immediate thoughts on Facebook or Instagram or any other type of social media side. There's a bunch of people that clip his stuff on YouTube and on TikTok and all that.
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But that is his one way to get out his immediate thoughts to his audience.
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And Twitter just flips a switch and says, "Oh, you're done now."
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An interesting timing. This was, I believe, just a few days after he announced that he was going to be a part of the Daily Wire, or just a few days before, it was kind of all around that time, right? So we probably should have been able to see this coming.
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But my big takeaway on this story is that Jordan Peterson is 100% making the right call by not deleting the tweet, which may seem as counter to the point I just made, saying, "Hey, you know, now as people aren't going to have direct access to it."
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To his thoughts and, you know, his stream of consciousness or any of those types of things. But if he were to delete that tweet because the tech overlord said that he needs to and he's supposed to, it literally goes against every single thing that he has been saying in preaching since he came to prominence.
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He has done so many great things for humanity and so many great things to the people that have followed him and have listened to him and read his works.
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And if he had deleted that tweet, even quietly, I don't know that he would have recovered. It would have made guys like me look at him like really a scant and just be like, "Mmmm, did you just do something that you said that you would never do? Did you just play into the totalitarianism playbook?"
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So I stand by him. I obviously hate it for him that he's lost his ability to tweet for now, but we'll see how it goes in the future.
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Our next quick hitter here. Let's look at the spiking drug overdoses in the state of Oregon after they decriminalize essentially all hard drugs.
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So this is according to Stacey Barrett. She's an attorney at criminaldefenselawyer.com.
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In November, 2020, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of what they call street drugs when voters passed ballot measure 1-10.
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Effective February 1st, 2021, possession of the following amounts of drugs for personal use will be a class E violation, which is similar to a traffic ticket.
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With a maximum punishment of a $100 fine or completion of a health assessment with an addiction treatment professional.
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So less than one gram of heroin, less than one gram or less than five pills of MDMA, less than two grams of methamphetamine, less than 40 units of LSD, less than 12 grams of psilocybin, that's mushrooms or whatever, less than 40 units of methadone, less than 40 pills of oxycodone, and less than two grams of cocaine.
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Could you possibly see this going wrong in any way, shape or form? Well, you guessed right.
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So according to Leonardo, for Cino of the post millennial, according to the Oregon health authority and their 2022 opioid overdose public health surveillance update on May the 19th, opioid overdose deaths have become sequentially worse in the past three years.
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In 2019, the state's deaths total 280 in 2020. That number rose to 472. And in 2021, those deaths reached a staggering 607. That is a 216% increase from 2019.
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Now, you might say, you know, Kyle, you know, when you went down that entire list, you know, there wasn't, you know, anything on there about, sorry, the opioids or like that wasn't on there, like, except, you know, you could look at oxycodone or different things like that.
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But when you get these types of drugs on the street, they're laced with any number of things. And one of those things happened to be fentanyl and other things as well that we see these people that they can't get their opioids anymore through their pharmacists or through their doctor.
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And so they go to the street to get them. And if they can't get the direct thing that they're wanting, they'll do something else to try to take the edge off or take the pain away, right?
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So my initial reaction to this is, obviously, this is the reality of a more loving and progressive approach to drug drug use and drug crime.
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Because Oregon is obviously very, very, very liberal leaning state, not just in Portland or something like that. It's a very, very liberal leaning state. And these people thought they were doing the right thing.
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When they voted for this, they're like, yeah, this makes sense.
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Because eventually it'll go to where the government can produce some of these things and actually sell it. And they were sold on the lie that this is going to affect the black marketing, basically eradicate the black market.
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And they're just like, you know, the war on drugs has it worked. And so we're going to try something different. We're going to do something like what Europe did or what I think was Portugal or somewhere else where they basically have, you know, they basically made all crimes or all drug crimes illegal or something like that or decriminalize them or whatever.
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This is the obvious thing that you could see coming.
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Because this loving and progressive approach is not tied to reality, like at all.
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Again, it's a univariate analysis where you're just like, oh, these people, they just keep getting locked up and they keep going back to drugs. Well, let's just legalize it. And then all of a sudden, everything will be better.
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And this is also one reason, one of many, why the legalized all drugs people, they just really need to shut up.
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Because in Joe Rogan talks about this all the time, there's prominent people on Twitter and everybody else that has podcasters like, we just need to legalize all drugs.
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You want to get rid of the black market? You want to make the cartels not as effective? You just legalize all drugs and it'll be just fine.
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We're seeing a microcosm of what could be a national crisis.
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Because let's say they just snap their fingers and all drugs are legal in the United States of America.
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Do you honestly believe that the cartels on a Mexican are going to be like, oh, gosh darn it.
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Those crazy little miscreant Americans, they outsmarted us. I guess we're not going to sell drugs anymore.
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Of course not. And we see this evidence in a state like California, which has a bigger black market for illegal drugs than they ever had before the legalization of marijuana.
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It's bigger than it's ever been way bigger than it's ever been. And you think to yourself, well, why?
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Well, is it not obvious? You have way more people using it now that it's legalized.
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Because there are people like me that are rule followers. And then when the rule has changed, it's like, all right, maybe I'll try that.
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I would never do that. But it's like, maybe I'll try that now.
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So now you have all the people that were using marijuana beforehand in the state of California.
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Now you have all these other additional people using it. And what the cartels are doing is they're undercutting the price of the state sanctioned facilities where you can buy the dispensaries.
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Because they're putting a tremendous tax on those things. And people are like, gosh, I can pay this amount for an ounce or for a blunt or I could go to my dude on the street and pay this amount and get the same thing.
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Maybe it's even better weed. And people are just absolutely flummox. How could this possibly happen? It's like, I don't know. Well, if you used your brain for more than seven seconds before you put this law into effect, you probably could have seen this as a legitimate outcome.
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And they compare the United States to what we see in these European countries like, oh, they, you know, they got rid of these laws and things are better. We're not the same.
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You're talking about a country that has like one one hundredth the population of our country.
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And our country is already, you know, on pills about everything, right? You roll your ankle. You get a bottle of pills. You have a bad day. You get a bottle of pills, right?
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It's different than anywhere else probably in the entire world. So you can't keep looking at these examples from overseas and apply it to what we see here.
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And the biggest impact of all this, guys, will be on children.
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It will absolutely be on children. I can't remember if it was Oregon or another city, but they're seeing an insane uptick in THC toxicity in minors.
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And THC, again, that's the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana.
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This has a tremendously negative impact on the brain of children. It's causing schizophrenic breaks for these kids.
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You know, having a THC in your system when your brain is not fully developed leads to a myriad of other issues for these people. Again, your brain is not fully developed until you're in your mid 20s or something like that.
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And again, a lot of these drugs that people are doing now, and if you're a weed person or you talk to people that are weed, people are like, man, the weed now is so much different than it was when I was a kid, right?
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They were literally almost essentially smoking grass back in the day. Now they're smoking or taking edibles or doing rubs or different things like that that have a crazy amount of THC in them.
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And it's causing tremendous amounts of negative impact. That's what was my biggest argument here in the state of Oklahoma, where I didn't want us to legalize recreational use of marijuana, which we haven't yet.
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It's all medicinal still, you know, quote, unquote, medicinal. It's because when kids, when something like that is legalized, kids will start using it more.
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Kids will get their hands on it more. And it has a way worse impact on them mentally than alcohol does, because alcohol, obviously, if kid drinks alcohol, they can get into a car and get into an accident.
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There's a lot of stupid things that happen with alcohol when kids are drinking underage. I totally get that argument, but it doesn't have the psychoactive effects of THC.
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Alcohol doesn't like it's a completely different ballgame. A kid can't drink Jack Daniels as a 15 year old and it changed their personality or caused them to have some sort of a schizophrenic break.
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But THC and marijuana, that that 100% happens. Okay. So the big takeaway on this one is that progressive drug policies are an abject failure in the United States have already established that and that will continue to be so, but also we have to close down the southern border.
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We've been talking about it and talking about it and talking about it and, you know, build the wall and keep building that wall and all the different things. Here's the reality. We sent $40 billion worth of aid over to Ukraine.
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It would have taken about $8 billion to create the barrier on the southern border, which would prevent a lot of what we're seeing now.
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Drug meals, literally walking across the border. And here's the thing. People are like, Oh, but people are getting drugs over with drones and tunnels and all in cars and most of it comes through our ports of entry.
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And so why is it that big of a deal? The thing is, is if you don't have to police the border as much because there's a physical barrier there, you can focus more of your assets on those other places.
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On on the borders where people are coming through and smuggling them in vehicles, you can focus on using LiDAR technology to scan to find for tunnels like you can use your resources in such a better way.
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Okay, but fentanyl is the largest killer of Americans age 18 to 45 right now, fentanyl overdose, not drug overdose in general, fentanyl, not COVID, not, you know, people being shot up at parades, fentanyl.
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Because people get hooked on opioids by these irresponsible drug pushers, otherwise known as doctors, and then they can't get the pills anymore, but they still need them because they have this unbelievable addiction to it now.
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So they go to the street to buy what they feel like is oxycodone or OxyContin or whatever the situation is. And wouldn't you know, there's fentanyl in there and it takes a very, very small amount of fentanyl to get someone to die.
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Again, St. George Floyd, second time I mentioned him on this podcast, he had three times the lethal limit of fentanyl in the system when he died while he was in police custody, which is a big reason to think he didn't die because of his death.
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He said officer put his knee on his neck. If he had just been found dead on the street, they would be like, wow, this is a clear overdose because he had his fixia or he had basically his heart exploded during the entire process, which is one of the things that Finn all will do to you.
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Again, this is a major, major issue. And I'm so tired, especially of conservatives or libertarians, not really conservatives. They're just like, Oh, whatever people want to do. This is a net negative for society.
47:35
I'm all for, Hey, you know, don't let the government tell you what to do in blah, blah, unless it's something that can literally kill you like this, where there's no real response.
47:44
What's the responsible way to use cocaine? What's the responsible way of using methamphetamine? This is way different than someone having a glass of wine or a whiskey after dinner.
47:55
This isn't even close to being the same thing, but you'll keep hearing me talk about it. A few months down the road, we'll get some more data on another state where all these upticks and information is going to be done.
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And overdoses and fentanyl deaths and all that. No, I'll just lament it again. And nothing will change. So here we go. But here we've gotten to the last part of the podcast here. This is the last quick hitter.
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I'm going to react to a viral video called the ride home. Okay. So a buddy of mine named Kyle Perkins. He's a guy that went to college with this is a guy that's on a lot of coaching.
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So he's coached junior high and high school athletes. He's a fantastic coach. And so he knows a thing or two about coaching and about the relationship between young athletes and their parents.
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Okay. So this video he posted this on his Facebook and then I saw it and it just kind of caught me weird as far as I can tell was first posted by an organization called True Sport on their YouTube page back in 2016.
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So this video is like freaking six years old, but the video for whatever reason that I have no idea and technically don't care went viral last month.
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So I'll have a link to the YouTube video and also a link to a tweet that had like seven million plays of the video or something like that.
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So it's like a minute and a half thing and the video starts with a dad getting into a car and his son, you know, getting into the backseat.
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It looks like his son's. Maybe I can't really tell seven, eight, nine years old. He's wearing a soccer uniform and all that. It's obvious. They're about to drive home from practice.
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So well, actually what I'm going to do if you're watching this on rumble or on YouTube, I'm actually going to show the entire thing because it's really, really short.
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I don't think I'll be violating anything. So if it gets, you know, cut out later, I apologize. You can go search for it. It will be in the show notes and those for you listening and audio.
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You'll still get the same idea, but just picture a dad in a, you know, suit and tie in the driver's seat in his son in the backseat, you know, looking stolen and downtrodden.
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So let's go ahead and go to the clip in the video here.
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So not your best practice. Can we agree on that?
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It seemed like you wanted to hang out with your friends more than practice.
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And that's fine if that's what you want to do, you know, just tell me because you can do that any time.
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Maybe we can skip your next game.
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Because choosing to waste your time, that's one thing, but wasting my time and your coaches time.
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That's selfish.
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You don't care about other people. You don't care about hard work. You don't care about teamwork.
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That's why you're always on the bench every time it matters.
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If you want to keep playing, you need to take a good, hard look at yourself and think about that.
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All right. So there you go. So people's reactions for the most part are just completely demonizing this father, like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe you did that.
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What a horrible, horrible person. All that poor kid. Again, this is not, you know, like a documentary.
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This wasn't like a real dad and a real son. This is just, you know, basically these are actors kind of playing a part or whatever.
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And so all the reactions were feeling bad for the kid, hate the dad. Oh, man, this is such a bad, bad thing.
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But I don't tend to be a contrarian on everything, but my reaction could not have been farther away from what these people were doing and saying, okay?
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For the most part, I am totally okay with this video and what was depicted in the video.
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I'm totally okay with it. Okay. Now, I'm going to the reasons why I'm okay with this video.
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First reason, the dad is present. Okay. The dad's there. Again, I talk about all the time in all race groups in all ages and different things like that.
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Dad is almost always not present. So I'm okay with the video in that aspect because dad's just there.
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But again, they only show the dad being around when he's doing something that they frame as bad, which I find interesting.
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So that's the first reason. Another reason why I'm okay with this is the dad is engaged enough
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to have this hard conversation with his son in the first place because the dad inherently had to have been at practice to have viewed the things that he viewed, right?
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So he's engaged enough to be a practice, not have his head buried in his phone or in a book or something like that.
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So dad was engaged enough. I like that. Another reason why I like it is he starts with a question.
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So kind of a statement question. But the dad says this to his son. Not your best practice. Can we agree on that?
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He didn't just tear into him. He started out with a question. Got the kid thinking.
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The kid automatically had to have been on his heels like, yeah, it probably wasn't the best practice, right?
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And then another quote, the dad says this. It seemed like you wanted to hang out with your friends more than practice.
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I think this was the real one that turned people away like, oh, you know, when you, when you place sports, like, it's so good.
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Because you get to develop these deep friendships and it's great. Why would the dad hate that?
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Like, that's kind of where people went with this. But here's the thing, guys. And you know this to be true.
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You don't have to play store sports to hang out with your friends. You don't have to play organized sports.
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Because here's the thing, organized sports, especially for school districts that don't have, you know, school sports or things like that.
53:34
These are very, very expensive sports to play. It's not just the equipment and the cleats and the uniforms and all those different things.
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It's traveling. There's a ton of time commitment with youth sports.
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Like I look back on all the baseball that I played on all the traveling all star teams I played for.
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And my parents were there for every single tournament and staying in hotels and driving.
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And I mean, gas wasn't a thousand dollars a gallon like it is now. But like, man, tons of money and time that my parents spent while I was just having fun playing sports, right?
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And here's the deal is if the kid is just going to fart around with his buddies,
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you can do that at home for free.
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Have all your buddy, all your buddies over, play video games and eat pizza rolls. That's not very expensive.
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But buying a bat and buying cleats and buying a whole uniform and traveling all over the all over creation during the summer months, right?
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Think about all the people that are playing baseball right now, all the kids that are playing baseball right now.
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When gas is the price that it is and hotels are more expensive, everything's more expensive.
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And you know, your team in Edmund, Oklahoma, you have to drive to Dallas for a tournament, right?
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This isn't a small thing. So again, if the kid clearly just wants to hang out with his buddies, there's perhaps a better way to do that.
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Another reason why I like this is the dad says that it's selfish for the kid to waste his time and his coach's time.
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Okay. And everyone's like, oh, no, it's not the kid that's selfish. It's just the dad's selfish. But here's the thing.
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The dad is 100% in the right about this. That is 100% true.
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It is a hard truth, but it is true.
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There are kids that play U sports that are wasting their parents time and wasting the coach's time.
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They're not listening to the coach. They're farting around. They're not taking it seriously.
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And like that's not a good thing. It goes back to the point I just made about the amount of time,
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effort and money that goes in from the parents in order for the kid to just screw off. Like,
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I'm just not a big fan of that. And I guess the last thing here in terms of I like it,
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there was this quote here. So I think this was the very, very end.
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If you want to keep playing, you need to take a good, hard look at yourself.
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I love that line from the dad. I love that line from the dad because he's giving the kid a choice
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from the very beginning of this statement. If you want to keep playing, so the kid has to decide,
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do I want to keep playing? Or do I not want to keep playing? Do I want to take this seriously?
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Or do I not? I think that's a good thing to put your kid in that headspace.
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You need to take a good, hard look at yourself. I agree with that.
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Now, how much internal dialogue can an eight or nine year old have with themselves as it
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pertains to them playing sports? Not a crazy amount. Again, it's not an adult we're talking about
56:08
here, but you're giving the kid an option saying, if you want to keep playing, obviously I'm fine
56:13
with that, but you really need to take a good, hard look at what you're doing. Now, for intellectual
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honesty, which I preach about all the time, here is one thing that I saw in that short video that
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the dad said that I wasn't, you know, crazy about he said this quote, you don't care about other
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people. You don't care about hard work. You don't care about teamwork. That's why you're
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always on the bench every time it matters. That one caught me a little rough. It was that last
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part because his kid may not care about other people. He may not care about hard work,
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and he may not care about teamwork, but there's probably a lot of reasons aside from that that
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he's on the bench when it matters. Okay, I felt like that was a low blow that the kid probably
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can't internalize well. I couldn't think of a way, you know, philosophically, where dad could turn
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that around to be a great teaching moment for the kid. Okay, but again, overall, I'm fine with almost
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all of this. That was the only part that was like, eh, that was probably a little bit much.
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Okay. Now, above all, this just shows the inherent issues like I've talked about several times on
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the show already with only doing a univariate analysis. Okay. So at the very, very end, they put
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this quote up on the screen. The quote was this, if you didn't see it, it just said this up there.
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It's at 70% of kids quit sports before high school. 70 kids, 70% of kids quit sports before high school.
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So the obvious implication here is they're doing this. They're quitting because of concerned or
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overzealous dads getting onto their kids on the drive home. Okay. Which begs the question,
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is it possible that there are other, perhaps many other reasons why kids quit playing sports?
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Like a kid becoming interested in something other than sports, like maybe music or drama
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or speech and debate or model you in or their church, a youth group or civic groups are on
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and on and on and on. Is that possible? Maybe the kid sucks at sports. Maybe the kid just really,
58:11
really bad at it. And they want to, they're gravitating towards something that they're better at.
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Maybe they, they're a really, really good student and they're like, man, I'm wasting so much time,
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you know, at football practice, when I could be reading books, as opposed to getting concussions,
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right? And maybe they go to a school where it's really, really, really hard to make varsity,
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right? I went to a very competitive six a school in high school. It was hard to make varsity
58:33
regardless of the sport that you picked, right? Because we had so many good athletes and there
58:37
were so many kids that wanted to play. Some kids aren't built for competition. So that could be a
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reason why they quit. Maybe they developed a physical ailment or an injury or a sickness that kept
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them from continuing. Okay. And I could go on and on and on. There are so many reasons why kids
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quit sports. Okay. But when you do this, again, univariate analysis, like, Oh, 70% of kids quit
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sports has got to be because their dads are hard on them. It's like, or not, I'm sure there are
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some kids where that's the thing is like, Oh, it's just not fun anymore. I don't want to do it.
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They could just be in a crappy kid. That that could be what they're doing at that moment. Okay.
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But here's my big takeaway from from this, this video and this whole thing. You absolutely
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should be hard on your kids within reason. You should be hard on your kids. Okay. Now,
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I want to be clear about this, what I'm not advocating for. I'm not advocating for you being
59:28
that dad. Okay. Major air quotes for those just listening to this, that dad, the dad that couldn't
59:33
hack it, the dad that didn't make it to the majors, the dad that didn't get the college offer,
59:38
that is living through their child, trying to make sure that their child, you know, gets on the PGA
59:43
tour someday or that their child can turn pro in whatever random sport that they're getting
59:47
them into. Hey, you know, we're not going to focus on doing all the sports. We're going to,
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you're going to be a wrestler and you're going to be a wrestler from the age of, you know, four
59:53
and up and you're going to be a collegiate wrestler and you're going to go and you're going to become
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an all American Bob that dad. I'm not advocating for that. Kids can feel that they can feel the
1:00:01
pressure. You know, one of the most legendary coaches in wrestling lives right down here close
1:00:08
to me. His name's Hardell Moore. I've had him on the show before. Like he's very, very adamant
1:00:13
about dads that are like that. He's like, no, I don't have time for that. He's like, that kid's
1:00:16
seven years old. That kid just needs to show up at the tournament on weight. That's his biggest
1:00:20
accomplishment. And if he does well while he's wrestling, that's fine. And if you notice,
1:00:24
a lot of these team captains, someone actually did a study this years ago, they studied all
1:00:28
these team captains and almost none of these team captains for all these different sports
1:00:31
all over the world, right? From the NFL to major league baseball to EPL, everything.
1:00:34
These kids were not the best players on their high school teams, maybe not even in their
1:00:38
collegiate teams, but they developed into being one of the most important players on their team
1:00:42
because they had that leadership ability and they had that knack for it. They weren't the
1:00:45
most talented, but they had the knack for it, right? And so kids might be missing missing out on that.
1:00:51
But again, you can be hard on your kid without being that dad that's trying to live through your
1:00:55
kid. Okay. Now, I think I've told this story on the podcast before you, you have to make sure
1:01:01
that kids focus on the one thing that they can control and that's their effort and their output.
1:01:06
That's all they can control. Now, I learned this accidentally from my father because in sixth grade,
1:01:12
I was playing football at the time. And again, at sixth grade football, this isn't, you know,
1:01:16
no one's getting watched by, you know, the local university to see if they're going to get a scholarship
1:01:19
offered. So our team was terrible. Our fifth grade year, we won zero game scored zero touchdowns.
1:01:24
Our sixth grade year, we won our first game scored some touchdowns, but I think we lost the rest of
1:01:27
them. It was just bad, bad year. So we go to practice, I think it was randomly like a Saturday
1:01:31
practice or something like that. And I feel terrible. I feel awful. I'm clearly, clearly sick.
1:01:38
So I don't have a high output practice. I was slow on the sprints. My mind was elsewhere when
1:01:44
we were running plays and different things like that. And I got to tell you, in the short drive
1:01:49
from the field to my house, my dad ripped me up one side and down the other, right? Similar,
1:01:55
actually way, way worse than what the dad did in this video just destroyed me in here. I'm sick.
1:02:00
I mean, I wanted to give full effort to practice, but I couldn't, I physically could not do it.
1:02:05
And later that day or the next day I went to the doctor, they confirmed I had the flu that I was
1:02:10
sick. And my dad's way of apologizing to me. He didn't say I'm sorry, but he got me a couple of
1:02:15
boxes or bags of like Parmesan goldfish, which was like my favorite at the time or something like
1:02:19
that. And I've always remembered that because it was like, that's dad saying sorry in his own way.
1:02:23
And he gets it. But the reason why my dad did that was the same reason why he would get mad at me
1:02:33
for sports related things all throughout my sports career. The only time my father would get mad at
1:02:38
me was when I didn't give full effort. Again, my dad is not this deep. He's not sitting there
1:02:45
reading Marcus Aurelius and doing deep philosophical thinking about how to, you know,
1:02:49
enshrine these great rights of manhood and different rights of passages for his son and
1:02:53
different things like that. That wasn't just who that just wasn't who my dad was. But he
1:02:58
instinctively knew in a way and instilled this in me that you can only control your level of effort.
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So for baseball specifically, I would have games where I would strike out three times,
1:03:09
ground out one other time and have a few errors in the outfield. And the only reason my dad would
1:03:15
rip into me after the game would be on that ground out if I didn't sprint through the bag at first.
1:03:24
Effort. Because in, and I know when you get into upper levels, you see guys dog in it,
1:03:28
not really running hard, all those different things. But the best baseball player on planet
1:03:32
earth right now is a guy named Mike Trout, who goes hard on just about everything, right? And
1:03:37
he's the best. He knows the guy's probably going to throw him out, but he's going full bore almost
1:03:41
all the time, right? But my dad would only get into me if I didn't give full effort. If I didn't
1:03:45
sprint to my position, I usually played outfield. If I didn't sprint to my position and sprint back
1:03:49
to the dugout, you know, if I struck out and went to the dugout and spiked my helmet and threw my
1:03:53
bat and threw a little hissy fit and all that. Oh boy. Oh boy. Was I going to have a rough time
1:03:58
on the way home? But if I struck out three times, had a couple of errors in the field and had a
1:04:03
ground out and I sprinted into my position, did all those different things, we were just getting
1:04:07
the truck and go home. There was no shame. There was no, you didn't have your head in the game
1:04:11
and we're going to go home right now and we're going to hit a thousand balls and you know,
1:04:14
we're going to worry, we're going to worry about your plate discipline and we're going to talk
1:04:16
about it. We're going to. Nope. Nope. Never once. My parents technically didn't care if I played
1:04:20
sports or not. But if I did play full effort, full effort all the time. So inherent in this video,
1:04:28
going back to this video, it would seem that this kid was probably playing around, farting around,
1:04:32
not giving full effort at practice. And if you don't give full effort at practice unless you're,
1:04:36
you know, some sort of savant in your sport, you're probably not just going to turn it on when
1:04:40
it's game time when the lights are on, when everybody's focused on you and you need to have
1:04:43
output not only for yourself, but also for your teammates. So I'm totally okay with a dad coming
1:04:50
down hard on his kid that obviously was not giving full effort. Okay. And we live in this world now
1:04:55
where it's seen as mean and rude and judgmental. If a father comes down on his kid hard for something
1:05:02
like this, for lack of effort and oh, you know, they just weren't feeling it that day and gosh,
1:05:06
they're developing friendships and don't be so crazy. It's not like they're going to be a professional
1:05:09
athlete. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about controlling the controllables. I got
1:05:13
that from coach Moore controlling the controllables. You can control your effort and your output. And
1:05:19
that is it. So for all of you complaining about this video, stop it. You're wrong.
1:05:24
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