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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it. Hi, guys. We have made it all the way through to the end of 2021,
0:55
and that is what today's episode is about. We are doing a wrap-up of the year that was 2021,
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but before we get into that, guys, I just want to remind you and just thank you to all the guys
1:03
that have hopped in here at the end of the year to become donors to Undaunted Life and to what
1:08
we're doing here with the podcast, with the devotionals, with everything else. We literally
1:11
cannot pull this off without you guys, so I just wanted to thank you for all you guys that have
1:15
gone to our website to do that. But for those of you that have not, go to undaunted.life/donate.
1:20
That's where you can hop in and be a one-time donor or a monthly donor to make sure that we
1:24
can continue to equipment all around the globe to be able to push back darkness. But let's go
1:28
and get into 2021. So I did a review last year of 2020 because 2020 was such an insane year.
1:34
2020 was an absolutely bonkers year, and now I'm like looking at 2021, and it's like, okay,
1:39
it didn't seem as bonkers, but it was still kind of bonkers. Like, is that just a thing now?
1:43
Like, every year was kind of crazy, but now with the 24-hour news cycle, does everything seem
1:48
absolutely insane? You know, anyway, we don't really know. We don't absolutely know, but let me go
1:53
in and review what 2021 was like for me personally, okay? So baby T number two, baby Thompson number
2:00
two is hot on his way, and he's coming in hot in early of 2022, but we found out this year that my
2:07
wife is pregnant with our second boy, so we're so excited and thankful for that. But also, you know,
2:11
with new life comes the losing of a current life. And so I actually lost my last two grandparents
2:16
this year, both of my grandparents on my dad's side. So that wasn't very fun. It wasn't very nice.
2:20
I've done some things to be able to commemorate them. But you know, tough year to lose my grandparents,
2:25
absolutely. But then when we go into the podcast, we saw some explosive growth with the podcast this
2:30
year. So if we go back to the episode where I talked about where we're going for it, where we're
2:34
absolutely, I think it was episode 190, that hey, we're going to really go for this podcast thing.
2:38
We're really going to go for getting this content out to way more people. We've seen that happen
2:42
in a big way this year. We have grown by hundreds and hundreds of percent of growth this year. And
2:47
that's been a lot due to you guys, due to some of the things that we've been able to do getting
2:50
me on some other people's shows and some other things. But I just want to thank you guys so much
2:54
for sharing the show around. And also for all the new listeners, we're glad that you're here.
2:58
Also, we doubled the podcast output, which to you guys may not seem like a lot, but used to,
3:02
I would release one episode a week. And if there was some sort of a big thing that happened in the
3:06
news, I would talk about that and it would be kind of a special episode. But we've moved to two
3:10
podcasts a week, right? So we're basically like, we're kind of in this, you know, mode of releasing
3:15
an interview on Tuesdays and releasing just a regular episode on Thursdays. But man, I mean,
3:20
that is double the amount of work for what we're having to do here behind the scenes. And so that's
3:24
been an explosive thing for us as well, just doubling the output of the podcast. We released
3:27
the how to build a godly and manly foxhole series. That was a devotional that thousands and thousands
3:33
of you guys have taken down. And I've even talked to some of you guys that have like taught that
3:36
to your churches and to different people like that. So that's really been awesome.
3:39
We did a lot of interviews. I talked about that in our best podcast episode about all the interviews.
3:43
I think we had, you know, almost three dozen different people in the podcast that we did
3:46
interviews with. Another thing for me personally, train jujitsu and powerlifting all year and doing
3:52
those things. No major injuries, you know, small bumps and bruises along the way. But I mean,
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if we go back to my 2019, like I said, I had two surgeries that year, it was a hard year for
4:01
surgeries. I feel like I'm kind of getting in, you know, major knock on wood. I'm kind of getting
4:05
into that, that mode of being able to train a lot smarter, you know, as I age, you know, I turned 35
4:10
this year, that type of thing. This year, I also read more books than I ever have. You know, by the
4:14
time that you hear this podcast, I will have read 45 books for this year. So I would say all in all,
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it was a very, very good year front on to life, a very good year for me personally and for my
4:23
family as well. But now we need to get into what was happening everywhere else. And with this
4:27
particular episode, we're going to get into some of the biggest stories that were happening this
4:31
year. But I really want to get into and this will be later in the podcast. So make sure you stick around
4:34
for that. Some of the most ignored stories that we saw from this year, whether that was with news
4:39
or politics or something like that, I'm going to give in, get into what I believe is the biggest
4:43
news story of 2021. And also the biggest news person of 2021. So make sure you stick around for
4:48
that. But we'll start a little bit light here. We'll start about with a world of entertainment. So
4:52
let's go into the highest grossing movie of the year. And this just happened. Okay. So this
4:58
happened as of a few days ago, but Spiderman, no way home, it went over $1 billion in worldwide
5:03
earnings in just two weeks. And that's without a Chinese release of the movie. Okay. And so number
5:08
two was the the movie Shanghai and the legend of the 10 rings. I guess that's another comic book
5:12
thing. But then number three, I thought was really interesting because this was number one for a
5:16
while. It's a it's a kind of a Chinese propaganda film called the battle at Lake Chang Changen.
5:22
Changen. Sorry. That almost grossed a billion dollars worldwide. And it grossed a ton of money
5:29
here in the United States as well. So I don't know it's a little bit weird. You know, everyone's
5:32
concerned about, well, China can't make their own movies. So they have to, you know, make sure
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Hollywood keep Hollywood happy. No, they don't. Apparently they can make huge movies. Okay. The
5:39
biggest album of the year was an album called sour by Olivia Rodrigo. Going to be real honest.
5:45
No idea who that is. Haven't heard a single song off that album. But the biggest song of the year
5:50
is driver's license by Olivia Rodrigo, which I believe was off the sour album. So for all of
5:54
you, Olivia Rodrigo fans have just been waiting on me to mention her on this podcast. There you go.
5:59
I mentioned her or well, I just assumed her gender. I'm assuming that's a her, but maybe it's a
6:04
Z's or something. I don't really know. But good for her. Glad she had such a big year.
6:08
Also, the most popular YouTube video of the year, which this is kind of weird. They're calling it
6:12
the most popular YouTube video of the year. This is according to YouTube, but it didn't have the
6:16
most views, which was weird. Okay. But the most popular YouTube video of the year is a video by
6:22
Mr. Beast called I spent 50 hours buried alive that had 150 million views. The best-selling
6:28
nonfiction book that I could find with some of these, you kind of have to, you can't really take
6:32
this chart and that chart and kind of put it all together kind of gets mixed up. But the best-selling
6:36
nonfiction book is atomic habits by James, James Clear. And I talked about that on last week's episode
6:41
or, you know, the episode from earlier this week. I thought that was one of the most disappointing
6:45
books that I read this year, but that was a book from three years ago that is still the best-selling
6:49
nonfiction book. So he's doing something right. Just didn't really, you know, scratch my itch, I guess.
6:53
And then the best-selling fiction book of this year is a book called It Ends With Us by Colleen
6:58
Hoover. No idea what that is, but there you go. The most watched TV series on television was NCIS.
7:04
And the most watched TV series on streaming was called Squid Game. I don't watch either
7:09
show, but I've heard a lot about both. Great. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. But then we have the
7:12
most liked tweet of 2021. And that is from January the 20th, 2021 from the now president or actually
7:19
co-president Joe Biden. He tweeted, it's a new day in America. It's a new day in America.
7:26
It got four million likes because apparently people thought, great, orange man bad. He's out
7:31
of office now. Now we have Joe Biden. Things are going to go great, right? Right? Yeah, more on that
7:38
here in a second. But now let's get into the world of sports on the world of sports. Unfortunately,
7:42
Major League Baseball, the Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros in six games. I say, unfortunately,
7:46
because I can't stay in the Atlanta Braves, but they played the only team that I would have rooted
7:51
for them to play against in the world series. And that was a Houston Astros. So they beat them
7:55
in six games in college football, Alabama won another national title beating Ohio State 52 to 24.
8:00
The Stanley Cup finals was won by the Tampa Bay Lightning. I believe they went back to back.
8:04
They beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games. Then we also have the 2021 Olympics. It should
8:08
have been the 2020 summer Olympics, but they moved it to 2021 in in Tokyo. The United States won
8:13
the most medals and the most gold medals, Simone Biles, you know, she was a quitter and she was
8:18
celebrated for it. But then the big one, the big highlight for me from the Olympics was
8:22
Gable Stevenson. You know, that dude's an absolute gangster winning the way that he did winning the
8:26
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Also, it was a big year for new champions in the UFC. And so here are the new champions that we saw
9:05
in order of when they won. Francis and Ganyu became the heavyweight champ by beating Stipe
9:08
Miyochich on March the 27th. Rose Nami Eunice became the women's strawweight champion beating
9:13
Zhongwei Li on April the 24th. Charles Olivera became the lightweight champion by beating Michael
9:18
Chandler on May the 15th. Brandon Moreno became the flyweight champ by beating Devinson Figurito
9:23
on June the 12th. Glover to Shira. He became the light heavyweight champion at the age of like 42
9:28
by beating Jan Blohovitch on October the 30th and then Julianna Pena. Holy cow, Julianna Pena
9:34
became the women's bantamweight champion by beating the goat, the female goat, Amanda Nunes,
9:39
just a few weeks ago on December the 11th. Also in the world of boxing, we saw Tyson Fury and
9:43
Deontay Wilder, you know, go for their trilogy fight. Tyson Fury actually KO Deontay Wilder.
9:49
And that was on October the 9th of this year, I believe it was in like the 11th round or something
9:53
like that. And so he kept his WBC, the ring and the lineal heavyweight titles. This was our third
9:57
fight. This is a third fight where Tyson Fury absolutely completely outbox Deontay Wilder. But
10:02
Deontay Wilder knocked Tyson Fury down twice in this fight. Great fight. But that was the
10:06
highlight for the world of boxing, at least from my vantage point. But then we have kind of, in my
10:10
opinion, what the biggest sports story of 2021 was. And you haven't heard me mention the NFL yet,
10:15
because again, I don't support the NFL. But I feel like if you took 2021 as a whole, the biggest
10:19
sports story was Tom Brady winning his seventh Super Bowl, but this time not with the New England
10:23
Patriots. He took the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team that was in the doldrums. It led them to the
10:28
Super Bowl and they beat the Chiefs who no one thought, you know, could be beaten, right? Absolutely
10:33
insane. I've been a Tom Brady hater for most of my life because I was a, you know, paid manning fan
10:37
and, you know, the Colts and the Patriots were big rivals and all those types of things. I just
10:41
can't hate on the guy anymore. Again, I don't care about the NFL. I don't follow the NFL. I have no
10:44
idea if the Buccaneers are doing well this year or not. But the fact that he won his seventh Super Bowl
10:49
title. Remember when Joe Montana having four was like insane? Like how is anybody ever gonna pass
10:54
that? He has seven now. And this one without Bill Belichick, absolutely huge story. But then the
10:59
dumbest sports story of 2021 has to be Simone Biles absolutely has to be right. And it's not
11:05
necessarily, I guess it is because of her actions, but then it's been all the reactions after her
11:09
actions because in the middle of the Olympics, she quits on herself and quits on her team.
11:14
And I guess quit on her country because that is who she's representing in the Olympics. She's
11:18
wearing, you know, the stars and bars on her on her chest and all those different things she's
11:21
representing in the United States of America. And she quit. And then all of a sudden, we're all
11:26
supposed to pretend that she didn't actually quit. Again, this is the greatest female gymnast of
11:31
all time, right? I don't think that's really any debate. She is fantastic. She is amazing.
11:36
I hope she continues to do well. She competes into the future. But she gets all the way to the
11:40
Olympics and then decides, Oh, I'm not mentally stable right now enough to compete. She didn't
11:46
just deal with it. She didn't find a way to get out there and still compete. I think she ended up
11:50
doing one particular thing. She she competed in one thing and got like a bronze medal.
11:54
But people were thinking she was going to win five gold medals in this Olympics. But it's just
11:58
the dumbest sports story that we're supposed to look at her and feel pity for her. And I'm not
12:02
trying to demean anyone that has any serious mental ailments or things that are bothering them.
12:07
But even to this day, she's not being diagnosed with any type of mental disorder,
12:11
any type of mental thing that happened. She just quit. But again, we're supposed to be big fans of that
12:18
somehow. Now we need to move into some of the noteworthy deaths from 2021. Some of these,
12:23
you might remember some of them you might have forgotten. But Hank Aaron, one of the greatest
12:26
baseball players ever died at the age of 86. Bob Dole, you know, big time in the Republican
12:31
party died at the age of 98. Colin Powell, you know, former secretary of state died at the age of 84.
12:37
Gary Paulson, who's the author of the book, The Hatchet, which a lot of you guys have read with
12:40
your sons. He died at the age of 82. Comedian Norm McDonald died at the age of 61. Bobby Bowden,
12:45
you know, the great legendary coach from Florida state football coach died at 91 Bismarke and DMX
12:50
to hip hop artists Bismarke died at the age of 57 DMX died at the age of 50. Rush Limbaugh,
12:55
one of the most important voices and conservatism that we've had for years and years and radio and
13:00
things like that, he died at the age of 70. Larry King, long time show host died at the age of 87.
13:05
And then long time and legendary manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tom Lee Lissorta
13:09
died at the age of 93. But now let's get into some actual news stories. And we're going to get into
13:15
actual categories where I'm going to kind of, I guess you give out awards for certain things like
13:18
this. But I want to go over some news that you might have forgotten about. Because here we are
13:23
sitting here at the end of December of 2021. And you know, things that happened just a few months
13:28
ago seem like they happened decades ago. So I want to kind of run through some stories that
13:31
you may have forgotten that actually happened this year. First of all, Joe Biden was inaugurated
13:35
as co president of the United States that happened in January. Trump got impeached in January, right?
13:40
So because there was the January six stuff and he got impeached for that. So he got impeached for
13:44
the second time that was in January. Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and Facebook that
13:48
happened in January. There was a huge container ship that actually ran aground and blocked the
13:54
Suez canal for six days that happened in March. It created a crisis around the globe. Also,
13:59
the first operational space flight by a private company successfully was pulled out by SpaceX
14:04
that happened in May of this year. Also, there was a condo in Surfside, Florida that collapsed
14:09
and killed 98 people that happened in June. There was the implementation of the Texas Heartbeat
14:14
Act, which actually basically eradicated abortion after six weeks after fetal heartbeat could be
14:19
detected that happened in September this year. Then we have Gabby Petito when she went missing.
14:24
This was dominating the news cycle for weeks and weeks and weeks and that happened really in the
14:28
month of September. And then Brian Laundry was her fiance and basically what happened is he likely
14:34
strangled her to death will likely never know because he was found dead a few weeks later after
14:39
having shot himself in the head. So that was a story that dominated the news this year.
14:42
Then we had the Kyle Rittenhouse trial that actually went down in November. He was acquitted on all
14:46
charges for what he did in terms of self defense and what he did in Wisconsin in 2020. Then we had
14:52
the Virginia elections that happened in November. I talk a lot about that on episode 253 of this
14:57
podcast, Glenn Yunken, who I called by a different name on that podcast inexplicably for half the
15:01
podcast, but he won when he should not have won. He should have got blown out in the state of Virginia,
15:06
but there was kind of a red wave that happened in Virginia, which might carry on into 2022
15:10
with another red wave. Then we had the Amad Arbery trial. He wasn't on trial. Obviously he was the
15:15
young man that was killed. You know, I think it was in 2021 when he was killed. But Travis McMichael,
15:21
Gregory McMichael and William Brian Jr. were all found guilty of his murder and of other charges.
15:26
So that happened this year. That trial concluded in November. Then we had the tornadoes that ripped
15:30
through the United States in December. You know, there was likely over 100 people that were killed
15:35
as a recording of this podcast. There were people I believe in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky. There were
15:39
a lot of other states where, you know, there was a lot of tornadoes that ripped through and unfortunately
15:42
it killed a lot of people. Then we had the Jesse Smollett trial that actually wrapped up in December.
15:47
He was found guilty on almost all charges. I think there's one charge he wasn't found guilty of.
15:51
But basically he was found guilty of faking a hate crime and, you know, creating hoax and
15:55
all those things and wasting taxpayer dollars to have the police go and find this magical person
15:59
that didn't actually kill or hurt him or something like that. Then at the end of the year in December,
16:04
we had Joe Manchin, who's the Senator from West Virginia. He killed Joe Biden's Build Back Better
16:08
Bill, right? So the thing that was just going to throw trillions and trillions of dollars at
16:12
problems that we don't actually have, Joe Manchin stood up and said, yeah, we're not voting for that.
16:16
So that bill may be completely dead because I just don't know that they're really going to try
16:19
to force that through in an election year next, next year. And then we had Kim Potter. So that
16:23
was the police officer who shot Dwayne Wright on April the 11th of this year. So she thought she had
16:29
her taser. She actually screamed, taser, taser, taser, as Dwayne Wright was trying, sorry, not
16:33
Dwayne Wright, Dante Wright, Dante Wright. But she was found guilty of two counts. And she was found
16:39
guilty of first degree manslaughter in one of second degree manslaughter. So as a quick aside here,
16:44
the first degree manslaughter charge made no sense in this case. I have no idea how the jury came to
16:48
say that she because basically first degree manslaughter is that you meant to hurt this person, but maybe
16:54
you didn't mean to kill them. Okay. And so as we see from the very beginning here, I don't know if
16:59
this woman should have ever been a cop or if she had ever had something like this happen before,
17:02
because she had been on the force before, but she was holding her taser thinking she was holding her,
17:06
her, you know, her side arm, right? She thought she thought she was holding her Glock, which if
17:11
you've ever held those two things that that shouldn't ever happen. And in that particular
17:15
situation, I just don't really feel like, you know, first degree manslaughter really warranted
17:18
things. But another thing that one's really talking about in terms of the Dante Wright thing
17:22
is again, he wasn't pulled over because he was black. He wasn't pulled over because he had,
17:26
you know, something dangling in his rearview mirror. He was pulled over because they noticed
17:30
that his license was suspended or not suspended his drivers. Let's get it together. That his
17:36
gosh, the the plate on the back of the car. Holy cow, you know, having complete brain fart was
17:41
was expired, right? His tag was expired. All the stuff was expired. Then they found out he had a
17:45
a warrant out for his arrest for assault and all these different things. He was a horrible,
17:49
horrible person. And he was getting back into a car, a several thousand pound
17:52
weapon at that point to take off and leave the police. So I don't know that the police weren't
17:56
completely justified to shoot this guy because this was a dangerous criminal who was again,
18:02
getting in a large vehicle to take off running, which could have put a lot of other people in
18:05
danger. But again, that trial came and concluded in the month of December, a month of December.
18:09
And the things that we had throughout the entire year was the school board meetings and all the
18:13
chaos that was happening in school board meetings across the country. I spent a lot of time talking
18:16
about those on episode 245 and 247 of this podcast. And you know, that that was one of the dominant
18:22
stories really of this year. And the reason why I was so dominant is because it brought things to
18:26
the fore that a lot of parents weren't really paying attention to, they weren't really paying
18:29
attention to pornographic content in their kids classrooms, to LGBTQ books, to other gender
18:35
nonsense and junk that's being taught, all the race hustling that's happening by these teachers
18:40
who think that these kids are their kids, right? Not just something that they're doing as a job,
18:44
but that was really something that dominated the news this year. And then last thing here that I'll
18:47
kind of cover is the inflation crisis. So everybody knows this. This is not news to anyone. But I mean,
18:53
we're up 6.8% on inflation this year in 2021. And that's the biggest jump that we've had since
18:58
1982. But everything is more expensive. Energy in general, right? And we're going to go into a cold
19:04
winter here eventually. And it's going to be a big issue for people, food, other goods, gas,
19:09
new cars, used cars. There's a major, major crisis here. And no one seems to be addressing it. But
19:14
I will tell you, when you just blow a bunch of money into the economy that we're doing here in
19:18
the United States, it's going to create a spiral for inflation. That's only going to get worse and
19:22
worse. So those are some of the biggest stories from this year. But now I want to get into some
19:26
from a categorical standpoint. The first one I want to get into is the most concerning news story
19:31
of 2021. And this is very, very underreported. But it's the illegal immigration crisis that
19:36
we're experiencing here in the United States. Okay, the southern border is wide open.
19:42
The cartels know it. People that just want to get into this country illegally. They know it.
19:46
Okay. And the reason why it's the most concerning is because not only is it going to have ramifications
19:50
for us as a country, having to pay, you know, taxpayer dollars to take care of these people
19:55
that are here. A lot of these people are, you know, working, you know, outside of the government
20:00
purview. They're not paying taxes. They're creating a strain on the system. They're creating a strain
20:04
on border towns. But also a lot of the people that are coming over the border are criminals. These
20:09
are not good people that just want to come over and get a good start for their family. There are
20:12
certainly a lot of that as well. But these allow these people are dangerous. And there are people
20:16
in this country that are losing their lives are losing their businesses because we don't
20:20
have a secure southern border. But also we'll get into some more things here a little bit later
20:24
about what the drug cartels are doing and how it's affecting people here in the United States
20:28
directly. But that is easily the most concerning news story of 2021 because it's going to have
20:32
tendrils that stretch out into into more years and there's going to be a lot more issues to come.
20:37
And again, Democrats, I think, and a lot of people have made this observation. They're kind of shifting
20:42
their focus from black people as a group as a block and switching it over to Latino people or
20:47
what they would call a tinks people, even though they don't want to be called the tinks people.
20:51
But these people are being focused on and you know what's coming at some point in the future,
20:55
you know, and who knows if if Joe Biden's reelected or something like that happens,
20:59
they're going to try to take all these tens of millions of people that are here in the United
21:02
States of America, illegally, they came through the back door, not the front door. They're going to
21:06
try to just make whole they're just, you know, by by pin, they're just going to kind of dictate
21:10
that these people are all United States citizens. Okay. And that's going to create a enormous voting
21:16
block for the Democratic Party. Again, lots of concerns over this. But again, wide open southern
21:20
border, this most concerning story of 2021. Now, the most insane news story of 2021 is the Biden
21:27
administration enacting a vaccine mandate on private businesses. Now, this is still going to be
21:33
worked out. The Supreme Court is actually going to be looking at this, this case in the early part
21:37
of January of 2022. So really just a couple of weeks from now. But the fact that the Biden
21:42
administration is dictating to a private business, what they are able to do as a private business
21:47
is absolutely stunning, absolutely shocking. I couldn't believe it whenever they did the news
21:53
conference where Joe Biden announced that this was going to happen. And the other thing that's
21:57
insane about it is the reaction a lot of businesses had. Because a lot of businesses just said,
22:03
okay, well, I guess we'll just go ahead and do that. Because I know a lot of business owners
22:09
that are pro vaccine themselves that have had the vaccine, but they're, they're also pro liberty.
22:14
And they don't want anyone to be telling them what they should be doing with their company
22:19
and ergo their employees, basically forcing their employees to do something to inject an
22:25
experimental vaccine, which isn't even a vaccine. It's more of a gene therapy, but inject this into
22:29
their bodies and just, you know, basically because the government said so. So I don't really have a
22:34
read as to what the Supreme Court's going to be doing on this. But I think it's a term,
22:39
it would be a tremendous attack on individual bodily autonomy and freedom and liberty in this
22:44
country. If they uphold the Biden administration saying that certain companies that meet these
22:49
basic standards that they just made up whole cloth can just all of a sudden force them to do
22:53
something that involves their body and their personal health, right? So that's the most insane
22:57
news story of 2021. Now let's get into the most overblown news stories. I'm gonna do a couple of
23:03
them of 2021, the most overblown news stories of 2021. Now the most overblown news story of 2020,
23:09
I said was the killing of George Floyd. Okay. But this year, one of the most overblown stories
23:14
was the trial of Derek Chauvin. Okay. Because again, everyone, this was back in April,
23:20
everyone tried to pretend like this had anything to do with race.
23:25
The race hustlers, the people that make their money offer race hoaxes, all these different
23:29
things they had to make this case, which had nothing to do with race whatsoever.
23:33
They had to make it about race. And some people, I'll say that and they're like, oh my gosh,
23:38
what do you mean this had nothing to do with race? It's like, wait a minute, wait a minute,
23:42
you have no evidence to suggest that this did have anything to do with race.
23:45
So what are you talking about? You're saying that clearly Derek Chauvin
23:51
killed George Floyd. You actually would say that he murdered George Floyd because he was black,
23:55
because George Floyd was black with no evidence. And so the trial, though it was interesting,
24:03
should not have been the wall to wall news coverage trial that we saw. And again,
24:07
as I said back on earlier podcasts this year, where I really went into detail in this case,
24:11
I think George Floyd is mainly responsible for his death that day. And the fact that this was
24:16
this national and really international news story was absurd to me. This is a guy that most likely
24:22
died from overdose from drugs that he injected into his own body, that he ingested. He made the
24:28
decision to do that. And through all these other extenuating circumstances, he unfortunately ended
24:32
up losing his life. I wish that wouldn't have happened to him. I wish he would have made better
24:36
decisions that day. I wish he wouldn't have broken the law, which would have caused the police to
24:40
be called in the first place to that to what was happening. But it was just so such an overblown
24:46
case. There was a lot of chicanery going on with the trial. There's there's evidence that there was
24:50
a BLM sympathizer on the jury, which is a gross negligence by the jury selection in the judge to
24:56
allow that to happen. The jury was not sequestered during the time. So they saw all the the threats,
25:00
they saw the stuff on the news. We had, you know, public figures basically making veiled threats
25:05
towards the jury. If they didn't, you know, bring the right verdict back or those types of things.
25:09
So I think Derek Chauvin does have a really good case for appeal. That was one of the most
25:12
overblown news stories of 2021. And the other one was January 6th, the supposed insurrection.
25:19
Now I want to go back to January of this year because I recorded an episode that day. And I said,
25:24
you know, I think it was called, you know, the potentially the darkest hours in the, you know,
25:28
in Republican history, the darkest 24 hours in the history of the Republican Party,
25:31
because they had just lost the seats in Georgia, the two Senate seats in Georgia, which they should
25:36
not have lost. And then you had the January 6 thing. And for a while, it really looked like
25:43
January 6 was this concerted effort to try to subvert the government and overthrow the election.
25:48
But the further you look at the video from that day and some of the things that happened,
25:54
I just don't know that the insurrection was the point. Now I'm not going to be one of these
25:59
people that's going to be an apologist and all these people were just playing around. And it was
26:03
no big deal. Those people shouldn't have been there. They should have been arrested for trespassing.
26:06
They should have been arrested for a myriad of other things. But if I were going to create an
26:12
insurrection, right, just me, I'm not a part of a militia. I'm not a part of any like secret
26:17
Facebook groups that have any thoughts around this. But you know what I would do? I would probably
26:22
bring a gun. I'd probably bring several firearms and the guys I would bring with me would probably
26:29
bring their firearms. Because if we were really wanting to take over the government to overthrow
26:33
the results of an election, which was supposed to be the fair selection in history elections,
26:38
somehow, right? Don't you think somebody would have been caught with a gun there? Because to date,
26:43
we have no evidence to suggest that anyone that was arrested and some of them are still languishing
26:48
in prison today that any of them had a gun. Again, I just have to ask you, wouldn't you have drove in
26:54
from wherever else in the country into Washington, D.C. with weaponry that day if you were going to
27:00
throw overthrow the government? Again, that that evidence alone lets me think that this was,
27:07
you know, something that got out of hand that you had people. And I know there's some conspiracy
27:11
theories about how there was, you know, federal agents in the crowd that actually open up doors
27:14
and encourage them to come in and all that. And man, I don't know enough to say one where the
27:18
other on that. But again, I thought that this was a way overblown story. The reason that it's
27:22
overblown is because they had to make sure that Trump wasn't just out of office, but that he was
27:26
dead, essentially, that he could no longer be heard from that he couldn't be on Twitter,
27:31
that he couldn't be on Facebook, that the odds of him ever coming back and running again for office
27:35
would basically be off the table. So January 6th has to be the story, which again, to any degree,
27:42
and this is one of the reasons why I really hope Donald Trump does not announce that he's running
27:46
in 2024, is because he will never be able to lose the stain of January 6th. There's no way.
27:50
Think, think about all the things that they said that were not true, leading up to the election
27:54
before this January 6th thing happened, right? He's this horrible racist, he's this horrible this,
27:59
he's this horrible that, and oh, you know, he's a Russian cat's paw and all these different things,
28:03
all these things that were not true by any stress of your imagination, but it didn't matter that
28:07
it wasn't true. It was the narrative. So now you have all that that's still baked into the cake,
28:12
and now you put January 6th on top like icing. I'm just sorry, he's nuclear at this point,
28:17
like you just can't go anywhere near Donald Trump. I don't think that he can be anybody,
28:21
even a half dead Joe Biden in 2024, especially January 6th. But with that being said, I do think
28:27
is one of the most overblown stories from 2021, the supposed insurrection on January the 6th.
28:32
But now we need to talk about some of the most ignored news stories of 2021.
28:37
There were a lot of them, a lot of mainly ignored news stories. The first one is natural immunity.
28:43
And I'm talking about COVID, obviously, but natural immunity was almost completely ignored.
28:49
There was a study out of Israel that a lot of you have heard about. 2.5 million people
28:54
were involved in this study, okay? And it said that people that never got COVID but are vaccinated
29:01
are between 6 and 13 times more likely to get COVID than someone that already had COVID
29:08
and now has natural immunity, okay? Again, 2.5 million people were part of the study in Israel,
29:16
okay? Now also from the story, and this is actually or from the study rather, this is actually a quote.
29:20
The risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated
29:28
and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher, unquote. So again, natural immunity was completely
29:35
ignored all year because they want you to get the jab because if you think that you can just get
29:40
COVID and for the most part, we can assume that it's going to be mild for you, then you may not get
29:45
the vaccine, which is going to affect the bottom line for all these companies that are making all
29:50
this money off of these vaccines by shipping them all over the globe and saying, no, you don't just
29:54
need one, you need to, whoops, you need a booster. Every time you get another jab, they make more money
29:58
and all these people that are advocating whether they're in the news or in politics or something like
30:02
that, these people are making money too. But that was almost completely ignored this year. Any idea
30:07
of natural immunity and with that, any idea of just being healthy because we have all these vaccine
30:13
mandates and passports and all those things. How about we have a health passport where you show
30:17
people in order to get into this gym or get into this movie theater? Here's the workouts I've done
30:22
this week. Here's the food I've eaten so far today. Here's how much weight I've lost or gained in the
30:27
last six months, right? But we can't do that because that's body shaming. Another very, very
30:32
ignored story of 2021 is that Merriam Webster changed the definition of anti-vaxxer. Now, you might be
30:38
thinking, why is anti-vaxxer even in the dictionary? Well, whenever you have a culturally or colloquially
30:43
used term, basically someone has to define it. And that's what Merriam Webster is in the business
30:48
of doing. So they had a definition of anti-vaxxer that they had to put, you know, in there, you know,
30:53
few years ago, but they added to the definition of anti-vaxxer this, a person who opposes the
30:59
use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination. It's that last part or regulations mandating
31:07
vaccination. So according to Merriam Webster, right, who's supposed to be neutral, this is just a
31:12
definitions resource, right? You're an anti-vaxxer. If you don't think that you should be able to
31:17
shove down vaccine mandates on people that have objections to them, whether physical objections,
31:22
health objections, religious objections. Now that means you're an anti-vaxxer.
31:25
It's kind of a big problem. It's kind of a Nate 1984 problem, whenever you're changing wrong
31:31
think and you're changing what words mean. Because now you're giving ammo to the people that are
31:36
major, you know, vaccine mandate people, right? Or vaccine mandate people, right? This is this
31:41
is something that's a big issue that I think a lot of people ignore. Another one, and this might be
31:46
the story of the year for a lot of people, but it's the absolute explosion of fentanyl overdoses.
31:51
So people overdosing from fentanyl use, okay, specifically fentanyl is now the leading cause of
32:00
death in the United States for people 18 to 45. I'll say that again. Just think about this.
32:06
Fentanyl OD, not OD in general of any substance. Fentanyl overdose is now the leading cause of death
32:14
in the United States for adults age 18 to 45. So going back to the southern border thing,
32:21
where do you think all the fentanyl is coming from? It's coming through the southern border.
32:24
They're seizing on essentially a weekly basis, enough fentanyl to kill tens of millions of people
32:31
in the United States in insane amount of fentanyl. There are people that are buying
32:35
what they think to be knockoff opiates on the, on the, you know, black market or from their local
32:40
drug dealer that are laced with fentanyl. And these people are ODing and dying, right?
32:44
And you have a lot of people that are having these issues caused by these lockdowns. Maybe they
32:49
lost their job. Maybe they never really gotten the swinging thing. Maybe they've just bought
32:53
into all the lies about how they should be completely paralyzed with fear and how they
32:56
should sit in their homes and basically never come out. And a lot of these people are abusing
33:00
medication. A lot of these people are abusing other drugs. And somehow fentanyl gets in their
33:05
system, whether they meant for it to or whether they didn't mean for it to. But
33:10
when's the last time you heard about the fentanyl explosion?
33:12
I mean, I think Tucker Carlson talks about it on Fox News, but have you heard Don Lemon talk
33:18
about it on CNN? Have you heard Rachel Maddow? Rachel Maddow talk about it on MSNBC? Have you
33:23
heard about it on the front page in the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Wall Street
33:27
Journal for that matter? No one's talking about this. Why not? Because if you shut down the southern
33:34
border, there's still going to be fentanyl that gets in. It's almost no way to stop it. You know,
33:38
they're very resourceful. These these cartels down in Mexico, but it's not a focus at all.
33:43
So the leading cause of death for people age 18 to 45, you would think would be COVID
33:47
according to the news, but it's not. It's fentanyl. We're not talking about it. It's being completely
33:51
ignored. Also, one of the most ignored stories of 2021 is the Waka Shah terrorist attack. Again,
33:57
that was just here recently where Darryl Brooks killed six people and injured dozens more when
34:01
he drove his SUV. The SUV did not drive itself. They drove his SUV through a Christmas parade
34:06
and intended to kill people. I went into a lot of detail now on episode 261 in this podcast,
34:12
so you can go and check that out. But we haven't heard anything about that case.
34:15
Because after we found out who the person was that did this, Darryl Brooks,
34:22
and we found out what race he was, and we found out some of the things that he believed in some
34:26
of the organizations that he supported, like Black Lives Matter or Democrat organizations.
34:31
Oh, all of a sudden, we don't care about this person that drove his vehicle through a parade with the
34:36
intent of killing people. We're not hearing about the fact that he was out on almost no bail after
34:41
trying to run over his baby mama with the same vehicle. All of a sudden, the story's not that
34:47
interesting. Could it be because it doesn't fit a narrative? Absolutely. And when we're keeping the
34:52
narrative thing going, I'll talk about it. This probably the last story I'll talk about in terms of
34:55
most ignored stories of 2021, but a white kid was murdered by a black man while the white kid
35:02
was riding his bike. Okay, you may never heard of this story, but Darry assessment or sessums,
35:08
right? This is a black guy. It's 25 years old. He shot a five year old white kid named Cannon
35:13
Heinen in the head while Heinen's two younger sisters watched. This kid's riding his bike.
35:20
This black man walks over puts a gun to the boy's head, blows his head off right in front of his
35:24
sisters. This, this young kid, Cannon essentially died in his father's arms, right? His dad runs
35:30
outside, you know, Darry assessment or sessums that already taken off in a car. And you know,
35:34
he's basically holding his son as he died in his arms, right? Horrible, horrible story.
35:38
But again, have you heard about the story? If you have, if you heard about it recently,
35:45
probably not. And again, this is kind of an easy thing that a lot of people have done
35:50
is switch the races and let's see what it would have looked like. Let's say it was a black kid,
35:56
five year old black kid riding his bike and all of a sudden some white man who's motivation,
36:01
we don't know, walks up to the black kid, puts a gun to his head and shoots him in the head
36:06
right in front of the sisters, dies in his father's arms. We would still be hearing about it.
36:11
It'd be every night on the news, there would be some vignette and some other story, you know,
36:17
talking about this situation, how white supremacy was the reason for this, how this is somehow Trump's
36:21
fault. That's all we would hear about. But basically, people didn't even know this happened.
36:25
Now, I don't think it's a macro news story, right? It is a horrible, horrible, tragic evil that
36:33
was done in this situation to Cannon Hine and his family, right? But it's not indicative of
36:39
anything larger necessarily. We don't have any evidence to suggest that Darry assessments
36:43
is being motivated by Black Lives Matter or motivated by, you know, the Hebrew Israelite movement
36:48
or something like that. And he had any particular animus towards white people. It just seemed like
36:52
he was a very troubled man who did something incredibly evil and he deserves to die for what
36:56
he's done, right? It's not any bigger than that. But again, if it were flipped, there would be all
37:02
kinds of things that we would have to consider and kind of war with as the American people,
37:06
right? But again, we just ignore the story of the murder of Cannon Hine. But now we need to talk
37:12
about the most talked about news stories of 2021, right? And these aren't going to be a shock to
37:17
really anyone. But the most talked about news story of 2021 has to be COVID, right? Because we
37:22
went from the Alpha variant to Delta. And then we've gone from Delta Delta to Omicron, right?
37:28
And the thing is, is this had to lead the news. And you basically couldn't go a day of reading the
37:35
paper or a night of watching the news where COVID wasn't part of the story. Because as soon as Delta
37:40
came, it was like, people were so thankful, like, Oh, you know, it's not dead. You know, we can keep
37:44
our lockdowns. We can keep the things that we want to do. We can keep controlling people.
37:48
And and you know, it's great, right? There are people that are cheering for people to get sick
37:52
so that they can be right. And this is all why we've got vaccinations. And somehow,
37:56
we have millions and millions and tens of millions of hundreds of millions of Americans that are
37:59
vaccinated. And yet Delta, you know, blew through and it killed a bunch of people and all those
38:03
different things. But now we're not we're at Omicron. And I feel like the reaction to Omicron
38:09
has been more extreme than the reaction to Delta. And for all intents and purposes and based on all
38:14
the available data, Omicron is not even close to being as deadly as Delta. I've talked about this
38:19
before. Other people talked about this before. It seems as if Omicron is like 70 times more
38:24
transmissible than Delta was. But it's like, not nearly as deadly. There are a lot of people that
38:32
are asymptomatic or have very, very mild symptoms like a scratchy throat and a little bit of a fever
38:37
or a body ache or something like that. And so Omicron is showing up a lot more like the common
38:41
cold. And yet we're treating it like it's Ebola. We're treating it like it kills 30 or 40% of the
38:47
people that get it. But Omicron could literally be a godsend. And you know, if you could talk
38:53
about a situation in such ways as as a two year pandemic. But if this is something that is not
38:59
killing people, if it's spiking in cases, but never spiking in hospitalizations or death,
39:04
as one of the best things that we could possibly hope for with COVID because of what we know about
39:08
natural immunity. Because if you could be chosen, if you could choose like, Hey, you can get this
39:13
stick. We don't really know what the long term ramifications are you for are for you or any issues
39:18
that might happen with you physically from this experimental vaccine or gene therapy. Or you can
39:23
get something that feels like the cold, but it will give you antibodies that are six to 17 times
39:28
more likely to protect you in the future. I know what most people would do, especially
39:33
healthy people with no other comorbidities, right? But it had to be the most talked about thing.
39:38
It had to be the thing that everybody focused on because without it, we lost a lot of narrative.
39:42
Everything this year that's kind of big that we're talking about had a narrative attached to it.
39:45
And COVID has to be bad. It has to be deadly. Otherwise, we can't keep you from doing the things
39:50
that you want to do. We can't keep you or your kids out of school. We can't control the things
39:54
that you're doing. We can't make you do a passport. We can't scare you so much that you vote for
39:59
our people to keep them in office, right? So obviously, COVID was one of the most talked about
40:03
news stories of 2021. Another of the most talked about news stories, and these are kind of attached,
40:08
but inflation and the supply chain crisis. So with inflation, we talked about that a little bit
40:13
earlier. And again, it was almost like the news sources, especially with the left-leaning news
40:17
sources and mainstream news sources. They were talking about this because they had to,
40:21
because it was all that, you know, common everyday people could focus on because it's a big deal
40:26
for most common everyday people, right? Inflation is a huge deal. But then you did have all these
40:31
stories where it's like, Oh, is it really that big of a deal that it's not the dollar store anymore?
40:35
It's the dollar 25 store. Well, yeah, 25% increase makes a big difference for people that are going
40:40
to dollar tree at the end of the month or try to make ends meet, right? Trying to buy a toothbrush
40:44
or a toothpaste or some medicine for their children or something like that. Yeah, 25% increase
40:48
makes a huge difference for people whose wages have gone down maybe that year, whose hours maybe
40:53
have been cut, right? And then you had the supply chain issues, which a lot of you guys, you know,
40:58
for Christmas this year, you had a lot of issues. Maybe you weren't able to get the present that
41:01
you wanted to on time. Maybe you're a business that buys a lot of trucks and yet you can't get
41:05
trucks right now for the normal price. You're paying, you know, 10, 15, $20,000 above sticker
41:10
price, just so you can get a, you know, a vehicle at the time that you needed or wanted or something
41:14
like that. Those are two of the most talked about things. And those are going to continue to be
41:18
probably just because the calendar turns over to 2022 doesn't all of a sudden mean inflation is
41:24
not going to go anywhere. And guys, we don't see any evidence to suggest an inflation has peaked yet
41:30
either or that these supply chain crises are not going to continue to be to be poor. And the thing
41:35
that you have to think about is we didn't see the supply chain crisis really in this form or fashion
41:41
for months and months and months. And there was the initial shutdown. Remember two weeks to
41:45
sow the spread, all that stuff. Remember that there was a supply chain issue that was created
41:49
there. And people said, Hey, it's going to take a few months for everything to kind of kick back
41:52
up into gear. But here we are almost 24 months later, almost two years later. And we're still
41:58
having the same issues. There seems to be something else that's going on. Okay. So those are some of
42:03
the most talked about news stories, COVID inflation and supply chain crisis. But now let's go ahead
42:07
and get into the biggest news story of 2021. And in my opinion, I think the biggest news story of
42:12
2021 is the fall of Afghanistan. I think it has to be the fall of Afghanistan. Another thing that
42:17
a lot of people don't want you to remember, especially as we march our way towards the midterms next
42:21
year, they don't want you to remember that Joe Biden almost single handedly got, you know,
42:25
untold numbers of Afghans killed as we continue to move on to the future and got American soldiers
42:31
killed. But again, in August of this year, the United States made a pull out of Afghanistan,
42:37
an unwarranted pull out of Afghanistan. Apparently it was against the better judgment of some of
42:41
the generals. I say some because some were actually wanted to pull all the the troops out. We pulled
42:46
our troops out. We left billions of dollars of weaponry around for the Taliban to take over and
42:52
the Taliban came in and snatched up the country basically in minutes. What felt like minutes,
42:57
right? And we've talked to Holly McKay. We have another episode coming out with her
43:00
soon where we're going to be talking to her about what she saw on the ground, how the Taliban took
43:04
over a city that she was in was in a building that she was in. Actually, when she and I were
43:08
talking, it was is a big, big, horrible thing for her. But the reason why it's the biggest story
43:14
is because it is a direct cause of bad decision making a bad leadership from Joe Biden and the
43:21
rest of his administration. And they seemingly don't care. You know, we've heard about that story of
43:27
that family that was hit with the drone where it wiped out an entire family like killed six or
43:31
seven kids or something like that. The family has still not been given any type of reparation.
43:35
They have not been contacted by the United States government, even though the US government
43:39
in the State Department said that they had contacted this family and tried to help them out.
43:42
It's just not true. It's flat out false. They're lying to the American people.
43:46
But again, I try not always get people to remember. That's why I tell people to follow Holly McKay
43:51
and go back and listen to our botching Afghanistan series because it's so easy for
43:56
Afghanistan to be in the news for a week, week and a half and for us to move on because of some
44:00
random news story, right? Some pop star got pregnant or some pop star thinks that she's a
44:05
non-binary person now or this movie comes out or Trump said something out of speech that people
44:10
thought was off-color or Joe Biden pooped his pants or whatever the news story is. And we forget about
44:15
what's happening because it didn't just happen. And now it's over because the Taliban is trying
44:20
to play nice right now. They're trying to pretend like they're a legitimate government that hey,
44:25
we're not terrorists, right? And there is a difference between the Taliban and al-Qaeda and
44:28
Boko Haram and ISIS and ISIS. I know there's differences, but it's differences in gradient,
44:33
not differences in kind, right? So their gradient might not be as forceful and as bloody as
44:39
ISIS K or something like that. But they're just as evil. They're just as evil and they're going to
44:43
be just as deadly. But right now they're trying to get all these, these governments that are frozen
44:47
assets and in aid to the country to unfreeze those assets. But eventually there's going to be a lot
44:51
of blood in the streets. And there is going to be a famine that's going to happen in that country.
44:55
There's going to be a lot of people that die over this winter because of malnourishment and
44:59
basically starving to death. A lot of children are going to die. And this is in addition to the
45:02
people that are going to lose limbs because they're stealing food or, you know, women not being able
45:08
to go to school and all these different things that are not good for the Afghan people. And again,
45:13
it all comes back to the decision of Joe Biden basically saying, yeah, let's pull our troops out
45:18
because oh, I don't have a reason. Right. So easily for me, it is the biggest news story of 2021,
45:25
the fall of Afghanistan. This is going to be one of those things that I think will stay in the Joe
45:29
Biden administration that if the people that write the history and they do it accurately,
45:33
this will be one of the defining things about his failed presidency. And here's the thing.
45:38
This was in August. The dude had barely been in office for half a year and he'd already destroyed
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so many things in our country created all these crises. And this was his kind of like coup de
45:50
gras. This was his main thing. This was his featherness cap. It's like of all the horrible
45:54
things that you've done. This is the one that's going to lead to the most bloodshed and death.
45:57
Biggest news story of 2021, by far, in my opinion, the fall of Afghanistan. And just to keep the
46:03
moment I'm going, let's go ahead and do the biggest news person of 2021. And no surprise,
46:08
it's co president Joe Biden. Okay. The reason is is because since he's been in office,
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not even a full year at this point, it has been crisis after crisis after crisis, most of them
46:19
his causing and his administration's causing to the fall of Afghanistan, which we just talked about,
46:26
the immigration crisis, which we've talked about, the inflation crisis, mainly brought on
46:30
by blowing a bunch of money into the economy when it wasn't necessary, seeing an incredibly slow
46:35
recovery when we should have had a booming year for our economy, vaccine mandates,
46:40
the vilification of unvaccinated people playing into the racial culture wars and all those different
46:45
things. Joe Biden, even though he's barely sentient, barely alive, he's had his his way
46:51
in all these different situations. And also his continued decline, his cognitive decline.
46:56
Again, I don't laugh at him whenever I'm watching him give a speech and he can't get
47:01
through a sentence that's on his teleprompter. It's sad. I wouldn't laugh at your grandpa.
47:06
That was having trouble remembering, you know, where he put his briefcase or remembering the name
47:11
of his, of his nurse or, you know, slurring his words. That's not funny. We're supposed to just
47:16
ignore it because he's a Democratic president. You know, he's the president representing the
47:21
Democratic Party. And he, well, he's better than Donald Trump, obviously. He's not nearly as evil as
47:25
that horrible orange man, right? But this guy is going to define the news cycle until he decides
47:31
that he doesn't want to anymore, which we'll get into now. But again, the biggest news person of 2021
47:36
is easily co-president Joe Biden. But now I want to kind of go into what we can look forward to for
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2022. I'm going to go ahead and project what I think are going to be likely some of the biggest
47:45
news stories that we can expect. The first thing is obviously COVID, COVID, everything COVID.
47:50
And I said this last year as well on the wrap up episode for 2020, COVID has to be the standard.
47:55
So look for another variant. So Omicron's coming out, but there's going to be another variant. I don't
48:00
know the Greek alphabet. There's going to be one after that. That's bad. Maybe it's going to be
48:03
double Delta or something like that. But I've heard some other people kind of pointing this out and
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it's mainly like Republican or conservative commentators and strategists around the end of
48:14
summer next year. Maybe August or September or something like that. Watch for the Democrats and
48:20
the people controlling Democratic cities to claim that they've won the battle with COVID.
48:25
That they've gotten enough people vaccinated. There's enough natural immunity. They're going to be
48:30
talking about natural immunity at that time. What I think is going to happen before the midterms
48:34
next year where they're going to have a new variant, which again, I've called the midterm variant,
48:38
which is going to scare all these people into voting or so they think or they're going to claim
48:43
victory over the pandemic. What could be better for you going in than the continuation of the
48:48
pandemic or pretending as if you're the ones that solved it, right? So look forward to that in 2022.
48:54
Also with the midterm elections, obviously, that's going to be a big thing. By all intents and purposes,
48:58
we should see a huge red wave. The Republicans should easily be able to take back the house and
49:03
potentially take back full control of the Senate, which would be completely damning for the last
49:07
two years of the Joe Biden presidency. So that's something to look forward to. But also everything
49:12
that we're talking about here revolves around co president Biden, but it also revolves around
49:15
the former president Donald Trump and whether or not he's going to announce that he's running in 2024.
49:20
He said that he's not going to announce until after the midterms, whether he intends to run for
49:24
president 2024. So we can see that neither November or December of 2022, whether or not Donald Trump
49:30
actually says that he's going to be running for president. That's something that we can all kind
49:32
of look forward to and see what he's going to do. Also, something to continue to look at is the
49:36
continued cognitive decline of Joe Biden. That's something that we will continue to see because
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they're going to keep rolling him out in front of the cameras in 2022. They really can't hide him
49:46
much more than they're doing already. So we're going to be seeing the continued cognitive decline.
49:50
Hopefully, we see a lot more news entities come out and basically talk about that, honestly,
49:54
and say, Hey, this is a huge problem. But also it's going to be interesting to see in 2022,
49:59
the democratic pivot away from Joe Biden. Okay, because we, I don't think that it's smart money
50:06
to say that Joe Biden's going to run again in 2024. He's already said, yeah, if I'm healthy,
50:10
I'll run again in 2024. But he's in a steep decline and he's got three years left before
50:14
that finish line comes. I just can't imagine that coming. The problem Democrats have is the other
50:19
people that are in the clubhouse. So Kamala Harris, co president Harris, she is worse with voters
50:25
than Joe Biden is her her ratings and her approval ratings are down in the 20s.
50:29
So you can't really put Kamala Harris out there. And again, the only reason she's vice president is
50:34
because she's one female and two, she's black. Joe Biden said as much, right? So they can't really
50:39
pull her off the bench. Then they pull out someone maybe like Pete Buttigieg, who's only apparent,
50:43
you know, qualification for being president is that he's a gay guy, which is not really a great
50:48
qualification. Hey, I choose to have sex with men. So vote for me for president. Oh, also I was
50:54
the failed failed mayor of a really, really small city in Indiana. Yeah. And so that's not really,
50:59
you know, giving out too many touchy feelings. But then yeah, people talking about Hillary Clinton.
51:04
I think that new Gingrich was talking about how he thinks the Democrats are going to position
51:08
Hillary Clinton to come off the bench and make another run for president. And the thing is,
51:12
if she runs against Trump, she'll beat him this time because they're not going to, you know,
51:15
ignore the, they're not going to ignore Wisconsin. They're not going to ignore Pennsylvania. They're
51:20
going to go to these states and try to win. And you know, who knows how they will actually pull that
51:24
off. Here's the other thing that we might see in 2022, if not, you know, in 2023,
51:28
is what the Democrats might do. They might pull out a Hail Mary, which will solve all their problems.
51:34
And that would be Michelle Obama, Obama running for president.
51:36
Because I just got to tell you, Michelle Obama, if she runs, she'll smoke anybody that the
51:43
Republicans put up easily be Donald Trump, easily beats Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley,
51:50
Ted Cruz, like smokes, all of them. She is one of the most popular human beings on the planet,
51:56
and certainly is one of the most popular people in the United States.
51:59
Because again, for eight years, she was by her husband, but kind of in the background,
52:02
you know, doing her programs for fat kids and all those different things like that.
52:05
She became this Oprah, like God, like figure for a lot of women and a lot of people in the United
52:09
States. And you're going to get the warm fuzzies by, you know, filling in the bubble for Michelle
52:14
Obama. So Republicans better assume or better hope that she did, you know, keeps her Netflix deal
52:19
and keeps writing big books. And you know, does speeches here and there and doesn't get into the
52:22
race? Because if she analysis that she's in the race, it's over. I really think it's over.
52:26
Now, other stories that we can look forward to in 2022, continued inflation already talked about
52:31
that. There's some huge Supreme Court decisions that are coming down. Obviously, at the very
52:35
beginning of January, they're going to be looking at the vaccine mandates. That's a big one.
52:39
But the big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big one is the decision on the Mississippi law,
52:43
abortion law, that's going to be the abortion rights thing that we should see in early June.
52:48
Because if depending upon how they decide could be the overturning of Roe v. Wade,
52:52
or the incredible tamping down of the ability for people to kill unborn children in the United
52:57
States. So that's going to be in the summer. So be on the lookout for that. Also, the Beijing
53:00
Olympics are going to be happening in the winter Olympics. So the United States is doing what
53:04
they're calling a diplomatic boycott of the games, which what does that mean? Oh, so Joe Biden's not
53:08
going to go over there and fall asleep while watching figure skating. Oh, big deal. But you know,
53:11
we're going to see a lot of things right now because there's a lot of focus on, you know,
53:14
some of the human rights abuses that are going on in China and the things that they're doing to
53:17
the Uyghur Muslims and all those different things. So that's something we can look at in 2022.
53:20
Hollywood might be moving away from the woke stuff in 2022. I don't have hopes that that's going to
53:27
happen. But with a Spider-Man movie, apparently, the Spider-Man movie did a lot of stuff that was
53:31
kind of against the woke movement. And so Hollywood seeing like, Hey, we can make a billion dollars in
53:36
two weeks. If we stop, you know, treating our fans as if that they're idiots or simpletons if they
53:42
don't support our way of thinking politically. So we might see that in 2022. Also, we're going to be
53:47
having two total lunar eclipses. So those are blood moons. So two of those in 2022, there's not
53:52
going to be another one until 2025. So that's pretty awesome. For those of you soccer fans,
53:55
for the four or five of you that listen to this podcast, the World Cup is happening in November and
53:59
December. Just an update, the United States men are just as horrible as they've ever been. So you
54:03
can't assume that they're going to go on a deep run. But hey, World Cup's happening in November and
54:06
December of 2022. But here's maybe the biggest thing that we can look forward to in 2022.
54:11
And that is the national treasure that is Betty White. She's turning 100 years old on January the
54:18
17th. I am personally throwing a party for Betty White. You're all invited. I'm probably going to
54:23
talk about it here on the podcast. But that is something that in our most divided time,
54:29
maybe as a people group here in the United States, since the Civil War, can't we all come together
54:34
around Betty White around one of the sweetest, nicest, funniest ladies that's ever existed in
54:40
our country? I sure as heck, I'm going to do it. I hope you guys join me. But my parting thought
54:45
for 2021 may have been a good year for a lot of you guys may have been a rough year for you.
54:49
But don't look at 2022 as anything different. Okay, when you go from December 31st to January
54:54
the 1st, it's just another day. You're the same you. Don't pretend that January is somehow different.
55:01
Oh, this is your I finally get into shape. This year I start reading the books and this is your,
55:04
I do the thing and start the business and whatever. You're still the same you. You've got to have
55:09
resilience. You've got to have a plan and you've got to have discipline. Don't make January an idol.
55:16
Okay, because then guess what? January is going to give way to February. And what's your plan then?
55:23
Not a whole lot of people do their New Year's resolution starting in February or March.
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It's the same you. You've got had discipline. You've got to make the moves you need to make.
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Okay, rely on God. Keep your spiritual life intact. Forward spiritual, mental and physical
55:37
resilience. And 2022 should be good year for you, brother. All right, guys, before we let you go,
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we are going to do a quick resilience boost out on daunted life. Our mission is equipping
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men to push back darkness with content that for just spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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So I've got two links for you today. The first one is the, the study that I told you about over in
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Israel. So the, the name of this link is comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine induced
56:00
immunity, reinfections versus breakthrough infections. So I've got the entire study there for you.
56:05
So you can go into the full text of the study and read that to make sure I wasn't just blowing
56:08
smoke. And the last one is a link to the federalist website. I would have done it with a different
56:12
website, but the federalist random, a really nice piece on this, but it's called black man,
56:16
shoots five year old in the head point blank, but the race obsessed media don't care. And so that
56:21
really goes on the story of Canon, who is, was murdered and all those different things. So you
56:25
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