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This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
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All right, guys, you have been with us all year. Most of you have at least, and we're bringing
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2022 to a wrap. All right, if you're listening to this sometime, there are just a few hours left
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in this year. And this has been a huge year. And so this is our year in review episode. We're
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going to go into all the stuff that went down this year. But before that, I just want to say thank
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order at origin Maine.com. That will be in the show notes. Now, before we get into everything
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that's gone down in the year of 2022, I just want to do like a little personal update for 2022 because
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there were some kind of huge things that happened for me personally in 2022 that these are highlights
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for me. I guess you could say the first thing in January is I got my purple belt. And so I started
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training jujitsu back in, I guess I would have been the summer of 2017 and have competed, you know,
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quite a bit. I've trained a whole lot. I haven't competed a ton, but I've competed. I haven't,
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I've done a lot of training. I've had a lot of injuries, a lot of ups and downs. But I did an
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entire episode earlier this year about me getting my purple belt, but it's a big deal because, you
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know, for those of you that don't know, you go white belt, blue belt, purple belt, and then it's
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brown belt, black belt. And you know, that's, that's basically it. So I'm right there in the middle of,
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I guess this pathway to the black belt and jujitsu, which doesn't mean your jujitsu journey stops,
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it means that it's really just starting in a lot of ways. But very, very big moment for me,
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very, very happy for that. To a degree, it's like, okay, you can kind of hide if you're a crappy
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blue belt. But if you're a crappy purple belt, it's like, you know, it's a bad reflection,
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not only on you, but on your gym. And so obviously trying to live up to that is a big thing for me
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moving forward. Then in March, we welcomed our second son to our family. So Eli Thompson,
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we just call him squish. He came in March. And so we've, you know, I don't know that I've ever
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seen a happier baby. This baby smiles all the time. Like, you know, if you're having a bad day,
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come over to my house and just walk up to my baby and say hi, and he will smile at you and you will
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feel better. So that happened back in March. And then at some point this summer, I don't know if
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it was June or July, I got the greatest, most awful gift possible. And that was an air-dined
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bike. I got the rogue echo bike. And so for those of you that have never been on one of those
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things before, this isn't like one of those stationary bikes where you stop pedaling and it still keeps
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going. And it kind of keeps a momentum going for you. I mean, you've got the, you know, the pedals,
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but then you've also got the the arms on there. And if you stop moving, this thing stops moving.
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Okay. And it is awful. But I got to tell you, it's a great thing for any of you guys that are
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needing quick cardio. Because if you do 10 minutes on that thing, where you go 20 seconds on 10 seconds
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off, 20 seconds on 10 seconds off, what is that 20 sets of that, you're going to be dead.
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Especially if you're actually pushing it, if you're trying to hit a particular miles per hour or
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calories or something like that, it is an absolute big thing. But big highlight for me, that's a
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great addition to the home gym. And then follow up with December of this year, getting that red
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stag, getting to go on that red stag hunt. If you go back to episode 400 of this podcast,
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I talk a little bit about that hunt and some of the things that I learned on that. But once
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in a lifetime hunt, I'm so happy to have the stag meet in my freezer and the Euromount on the wall
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in our living room. And it's just fantastic that we were able to do that in December again. Shout
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out to Heath for for taking me out, fan of the show for taking me out and and showing me a great
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time. And then also helping lead that hunt. But also this year, and this something I talked about
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on the best books of 2022, this is most prolific year for me reading ever. So I read 54 books in
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11 months. And I can just tell you, I just don't see that happening again. We're going to be doing
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some things that we're going to be announcing here very, very soon. That is going to adjust
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some of the things that we're doing next year with a podcast. And so it's not going to be as many
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interviews. We're still going to have great interviews and great guests because we know you
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guys want them. But I mean, it was getting to the point where it's like, you know, three or four
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interviews a week, all of those had at least one, maybe multiple books to be read. I don't read very
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fast. I don't have a whole lot of time to read. And so but you know, that is kind of a high water
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mark for me. So all you guys that are reading a hundred plus books per year, man, shout out to
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you guys are crushing it. But that was a good one for me. And then also just for the podcast in
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general, we added a third weekly podcast, which may not seem like a lot to you guys.
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But going from because we've released at least one episode a week since 2017, we have not missed
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and we're not going to miss unless something crazy happens. And then when we expanded to two,
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you're doubling your output. I know that simple math, but you're doubling your output. But then
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adding another podcast on top of that, making sure that we get three podcasts out to you a week.
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That that's a lot. Like that is a whole lot. So it's a lot of dedication, but it's also a lot
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of sacrifice to get that to you. So guys, if you know people out there that are doing a daily show
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or something like that, or even if they've got a team of people behind them, that also helps quite
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a bit. But man, that takes a lot of effort. And so even if you're not a huge fan of it,
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you should respect what they're doing and you compliment them and send them a note telling
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them how much you appreciate it. Because I guess you should do that for the people that are actually
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doing good work. Because you can just turn the microphone on five days a week and just ramble
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for an hour, I guess. But if you're actually putting in the research, if you're putting in
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the time and effort before interviews and stuff like that, it is certainly a big deal. So let's go
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in and get into some stuff for 2022. I always kind of do this like at the end of the year,
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like, Hey, what were the big movies or the big songs and all that? So let's just do a random
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rundown here. So the highest grossing movie of the year was Top Gun Maverick. It was $1.4 billion
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dollars globally. And then you had Jurassic World Dominion, which was at a billion dollars,
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and then Dr. Strange, the multiverse, whatever movie it was right around a billion dollars,
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which it's like, how are people still going to the superhero movies? Like, haven't you guys gotten
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the point? The world's definitely going to end. And then it doesn't end. And it's the same thing,
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but it's two and a half hours of the same thing. And yeah, it's cool special effects. But it's 2023,
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guys. I mean, of course, they're going to have good special effects. They're spending a billion
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dollars on the movie. They can probably make it look cool. And then I didn't know a single human
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being that thought the Jurassic World movie was good. And then on Top Gun Maverick side,
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I hate to even admit this out loud. I may be the only person left on the planet that hasn't watched
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it. That was that came out right around the time Squish was born. And when he was really young, and
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I mean, just being able to peel off for a few hours to go and do that just by myself,
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because my wife isn't really into movies like that was just not something that was in the cards.
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And so I still haven't watched it is on my list. Guys, the next time I get a free
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however many hours it needs, you know, two or three hours, I will definitely check that out and watch
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it. Then we have the biggest album of the year was Midnight's by Taylor Swift. So for all you
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Swifties out there, there you go. And then the biggest song of the year was As It Was by Harry
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Styles. And I'm pretty sure he was wearing a dress whenever you recorded that. So there you go,
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Harry Styles, he had a big year. Good for him. Next one here, the most popular, I guess,
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whatever that means, YouTube video of the year. Okay. So it's always kind of weird, you know,
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how they how they categorize it because there are show, you know, things that blew up that were
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already on YouTube from years ago. But anyway, according to YouTube, it was a video called So Long
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Nerds by Technoblade. And so Technoblade, I'm not familiar with this person, but he's an online
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gamer. I'm not sure even what game he played. But apparently he got sick, didn't really tell
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anybody about it. No one even really knew who he really was. He was just this Technoblade moniker
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or whatever. But he got sick. And then he made this video and it was just kind of a goodbye to his
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fans and his father was a part of the video or whatever. And so that was the biggest YouTube video
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of the year. The best selling nonfiction book of the year was Atomic Habits by James Clear.
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Now, if you've been listening to the show for at least a year, you will know that I mentioned that
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on last year's episode at the end of the year, because it was also last year's number one best
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selling nonfiction book of the year. At least this is according to Amazon. And I just got to be
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honest, I have no idea why this book is such a mega hit bestseller. Because I think I talked
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about this because I read it last year. And I think I gave it the award of my most disappointing
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book because everyone was talking about this book and I'm so excited to read it. And then I read
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it and I was like, this book should just be called How to Be an Adult. Like being an adult 101.
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There was nothing in this book that if you're super type A and you get stuff done,
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you didn't really learn anything from this book. Right. And so the fact that this is just
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selling millions and millions of copies, I mean, good for James Clear, but I just don't get it.
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The best selling fiction book of the year is it ends with us by Colleen Hoover. That was also the
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same number one fiction selling book from last year. So I think that's a romance novel or something
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like that. But that's really crazy that the best selling nonfiction book and the best selling
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fiction book were the same two years in a row. So I mean, those people are making money hand over
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fish. So you know, cheers to you guys. All right, now we need to go to the most watched TV series
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on television. Now I went to a lot of different places to try to find this. And I think I got this
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data correct, but it might be a little bit off who freaking cares. But in terms of television,
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like actual on television was better called Saul because this was the last season of the
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Breaking Bad prequel because, you know, and well, I won't give any spoilers if anybody's in the
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middle watching it. It's not nearly as good as Breaking Bad, but it was, you know, big. So this
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was a final season. And then in terms of streaming stranger things, so I've not watched Stranger
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Things. I don't know anything about it. But apparently it was not, you know, on the streaming
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site or whatever for a couple years, I took a couple of years off and then came back. So that
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was the biggest one. And then also the most like tweet of 2022 was on April the 27 2022 by the new
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owner of Twitter. Now Elon Musk, he said, next I'm buying Coca Cola to put the cocaine back in.
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And so that got 4.7 million likes to date. So that was the biggest and most like tweet of 2022.
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LinkedIn is pretty great at a lot of things, like helping you tap into the latest trends and
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insights in your field. We cannot stop your co-worker from tapping her pencil. LinkedIn can help you
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find new jobs that align with your career goals. We cannot help you find the source of that weird
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smell in the office fridge. And while we can't stop your co-workers from bringing their hobbies
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into the office, LinkedIn can help you bring your career to the next level. LinkedIn is the network
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that works for you. Now we need to go to the world of sports. I always like to do a little
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rundown of what happened in the world of sports. In terms of Major League Baseball,
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we don't need to talk about who won the World Series because they're the absolute worst,
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but we'll get to some more baseball here in a second. In terms of college football, Georgia
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finally got over the hump in beat Alabama. They actually trounced them 33 to 18 to capture their
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first natty since 1980. I know that made my buddy, Joby Martin, happy he's the only person I know
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that actually went to Georgia. So good for him. Then in the Stanley Cup finals, the Colorado
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Avalanche beat the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to capture their first Stanley Cups since 2001.
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And I think the Lightning were they had won two Stanley Cups in a row again, guys. I'm still just
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trying to figure out how to be a hockey fan. So I think the Tampa Bay Lightning were going for a
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three-peat in the Colorado Avalanche ruin that party. And then this was a year for new undisputed
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UFC champs. So Yuri Pahoska, he won the lightweight title. He beat Glover to share on June the 11th.
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That title, the lightweight title is actually vacant now because Yuri Pahoska had, you know,
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basically could be a career ending shoulder injury. And then they had kind of a new fight,
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and that didn't really work out. So Glover to share is actually going to be fighting again
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for the title next year. Then we have Alex Bahada. He won the middleweight title by beating Israel
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out of Sonya on November the 12th. He knocked him out in the, you know, basically in the last
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few minutes of the fifth round. And similar to that, we had Leon Edwards take the welterweight
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title off of Kamara Usman on August the 20th. And so hopefully we can all, you know, stop with this
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Kamara Usman's the goat stuff. Or, you know, Carl Kamara Usman's even like the welterweight
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goat because he was still so far behind George St. Pierre, but George St. Pierre never got head
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kicked and knocked out in the last minute of the championship fight. So there it is. Now that's
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over. Then we have Islam Makhashiv. He won the lightweight title by beating Charles Oliveira
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on October the 22nd. Wasn't even a close fight. He absolutely destroyed him. Then we had Devison
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Figurito. He won a re one, the flyweight title beating Brandon Moreno on January the
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22nd. That was their trilogy fight. They're actually going to be fighting for a four-time
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early next year. Then we had Amanda Nunes, the goat women's fighter. She won the women's
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Bantamweight title back from Julianna Pena, who had had beaten her in the previous fight.
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It was a one-sided fight that was back on July 30th. And then Jean-Louis, she won the women's
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strawweight title by beating Carlos Barza on November the 12th. That, you know, really was
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never in question because Carlos Barza, you know, she's a fine fighter, but she won the weirdest,
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worst fight of all time against Rose nominee Unis. And so that fight should have been the
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rematch between John Whaley and Rose nominee Unis, but that's not the way it worked out.
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But it'll all work out next year. I'm sure they're all fighting each other in the world of boxing.
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You know, it's been a whole lot of time watching boxing, but Canelo Alvarez was like the number
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one, everything everywhere. He only lost a Floyd, that kind of thing. But he got beat by a guy named
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Dimitri Bivol, Bival, however, you say it on May the seventh and just got smashed by this guy.
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So that happened in boxing in the World Cup. All you people that watch soccer, Argentina actually
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won. And I think it was their third title ever in first one since the 80s or something like that.
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But as much as this pains me to say it out loud, because I just I'm not a fan of the guy,
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this does solidify Lionel Messi as the greatest soccer player of all time.
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Because I think Paylay is still the guy with, you know, three, three World Cup titles or something
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like that. But Messi had won every single award that you could possibly win as a team, you know,
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as a member of a team as a captain of a team, but also as an individual, but he had never captured
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the World Cup final, the World Cup gold. And I think he won the golden boot as well.
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And so that does solidify him. That may have been his last World Cup, but he's certainly going to
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go out on top if that's the, that's the end for him. Then we had the biggest sports story, in my
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opinion, of 2022. And in all the world of sports, sorry, just hit my microphone in all the world
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of sports, everything that we've done. Aaron Judge becoming the undisputed home run king.
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So in Texas, at the Texas Rangers, the Yankees were on the road. Aaron Judge hit his 60 second
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home run of the, or actually had a buddy in the crowd with a son and they got to watch that.
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The 60 second home run. And you know, he passed Roger Maris, who had hit 61 home runs in Babe Ruth,
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who had hit 60 to become the undisputed champion now, or the home run champion. So here's the thing,
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being the new home run king, people are like, well, wait a minute. Didn't Sammy Sosa hit more
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in a season? Yeah, he hit more in two seasons. So did Mark Maguire. And so did Barry Bonds.
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But all those guys, their, their blood type was Tropicana when they did that. They were as juicy
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as juicy gets. And yes, it does make a huge difference. If you already know how to hit the ball,
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being like basically one giant pectoral muscle with two arms coming out of it.
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Yes, that makes a huge difference in your ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark. And so Aaron
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Judge, who we have had no negative thing about that he's ever been on any type of performance
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enhancing drug or anything like that always, you know, seems like he's been a bang up guy.
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He hits the 60 second home run. I think we need to stop referring to Sammy Sosa,
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Mark Maguire and everyone talking about Barry Bonds being the, the solidified home run king.
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It is Aaron Judge from here on out. He's not the AL home run king. He is the home run king
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of all time for a sport that's over 150 years old. So congratulations to Aaron Judge,
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the biggest sports story of 2022. And then we have the dumbest sports story of 2022.
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And that's Leah Thomas. And so this is the dude that's pretending to be a chick so that he can win,
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you know, swimming races. He's an NCAA swimmer that swam for pin. This guy is just like,
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he's like gonorrhea. He just won't go away. Like, you know, he was a thing in 2021. And then he
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became a thing in 2022 as well. And now as we get closer to the next summer Olympics,
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we're still going to be talking about this guy and wondering if he's going to get clear. And as it
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looks like right now, he's not going to be able to beat up on the women and compete against them
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in the pool and all these different things. But the thing that I liked about what happened around
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the stuff with Lee autonomous is this dude was starting to get the ridicule that he deserves.
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And it was especially after the pictures came out when he's standing on the podium at the NCAA's.
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And then you have the girl that got second place and the girl that got third place.
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And then the girl that didn't make the podium but got the fourth best time.
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They all took a picture together because that was the legitimate top three. And then you have
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this gargantuan dude standing off to their, to their right, I think. And he's holding his,
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you know, first place trophy or something like that. And it's like, that's it. That's it right
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there. Everyone knows that we need to crop out that humongous dude that beat these girls
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and focus on the girls that actually won. But I just, I really feel bad for the girl that got
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fourth place because she got nothing. She literally walked away with nothing. No trophies, no accolades.
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You know, I don't know if that affects her ability to compete in the Olympics or any of those
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types of things, getting endorsements or, you know, now we have the name image and likeness stuff
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with NCAA. So she may have lost out very well, lost out on money because she didn't podium at the
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NCAA's. But this dude did because he grew his hair out and wears lipstick occasionally and says,
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Oh yeah, I know I have a twig and berries and I know I'm basically lived my entire life as a guy.
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But yeah, yeah, sure. Let me just go ahead and compete against the girls. Okay. But that is
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certainly the dumbest sports story of 2022. Now we need to look at noteworthy deaths of 2022.
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So there were a lot of people that you may have heard of that died this year. So I'm just going to
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run down those lists real quick. So actress, Kirstie Allie died at 71. Famous pitcher Gaylord
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Perry died at 84. I think he's first pitcher actually to win the Cy Young in each league,
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the AL and the NL. We have music legend, Jerry Lee Lewis died at 87 Bruce Souter, who's
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you know, a Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. He died at 69 Angela Lansbury,
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famous actress died at 96 royalty in the country music space. Loretta Lynn died at 90 royalty
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in the hip hop space. Coolio died at 59 literal royalty. Queen Elizabeth II died at 96.
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Michael Gorbachev, who is the last president of the USSR died at 91. Olivia Newton, John,
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the singer and the actress died at 73. Vince Scully, the greatest broadcaster in the history of sports,
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not just baseball, but in the history of sports died at 94, who some people consider to be the
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greatest basketball player of all time. Certainly the most championship rings of anybody in professional
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basketball. Bill Russell died at 87. Herschel Woody Williams. He was the last surviving medal
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of honor winner from World War II. He died at 98. Ray Leota, the actor died at 67. Another, you know,
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royal person who is royalty in the country music space Naomi Judd died at 75 comedian Gilbert Godfrey
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died at 66. Taylor Hawkins, who's the drummer for the Foo Fighters died at 49 after an overdose.
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Meat Loaf, the singer and actor died at the age of 74. And the famous actor and comedian Bob Saggot
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died at 66. There were certainly others, but those were some of the notable deaths from this
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elite this year. But now I want to go into talking a little bit about some news stories that perhaps
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you've forgotten that actually happened in 2022. Because if you pay attention to the news cycle,
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which I obviously encourage you guys to do and encourage, you know, all of you to do at different
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points, you see these stories and you're thinking to yourself, Oh my gosh, that's so crazy. And then
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something happens a week later and you're like, Oh my gosh, that's so crazy. And then something
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happens three days later and it's like, Oh my gosh, it's so crazy. And so it's really easy to kind of
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forget that stuff actually happened here in these last 12 months. So let's go down a short list of
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those. On January the 22nd of this year, this was the beginning of the freedom convoy in Canada.
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Yeah, that seems like it happened like five years ago. That was this year guys. And so these are the
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people that were being locked down by that dictatorial idiot up there. That's basically locking down
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the entire country and and trying to, you know, enforce things upon the Canadian people. And so
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the freedom convoy started, they drove down to the capital of Canada and they were just kind of making
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things hard for for the boy king of up there. And the craziest thing that I guess happened with all
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that is not only did the truckers basically not get anything that they wanted, they got a whole
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lot of negative stuff they they were, you know, having bank accounts seized. There was a lot of
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craziness that was happening up there with with the prime minister. And so that's just something
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we all need to kind of keep an eye on because some of the stuff that happened and some of the
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emergency things that were put in place because these truckers decided to peacefully protest was
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absolutely insane. Then back on March the 9th, Ernest Shackleton's ship, the endurance was found
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in the anti-artic, which was amazing because obviously it's freezing, you know, well below freezing
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frigid waters. And so it preserved a lot of the ship. And that's the ship that is from the book by
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Alfred Lansing endurance, which I talked about as well. So the fact that they found the ship,
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you know, in a lot of ways intact was fantastic and amazing. And then on March the 27th,
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Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars. Yes, that happened this year. I just remember that's
20:53
I mean, in a lot of ways, that's probably the most talked about thing that we heard about this
20:56
year, at least in the pop culture world. And then on March the 28th, which is a day after that,
21:00
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed the parental guides and parental rights and education bill.
21:05
This was basically keeping element that, you know, the government schools in the state of Florida
21:11
from basically indoctrinating children with gender ideology before fourth grade. So it was like
21:17
third grade and below and that was called the don't say gay bill and all this nonsense. But
21:20
that was signed this year. Then on May the third, that was the day the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion
21:25
of the overturning of Roe v. Wade came out. And so that was released by Politico. It was Justice
21:30
Alito's draft opinion. So that was a huge deal. And here we are sitting here at the end of December.
21:35
Do we know who leaked it? Do we know which office which justice had somebody in their office leak
21:41
a draft opinion, which is I guess never happened in the history of the Supreme Court. Are we just
21:45
gonna forget about that? I guess we are. Then on May the 24th, Rob elementary school, there was a
21:49
shooting there. That's in Uvaldi, Texas. So 21 people killed 19 children and two other adults
21:55
that were killed there. Obviously one of the worst mass shootings that we've ever seen.
21:58
We talked a lot about that this year. Then on June the 1st, Johnny Depp won his defamation case
22:03
against his insane ex wife Amber Heard. So that was on everybody's minds for multiple months. And so
22:09
if you're anything into pop culture, that was something that dominated your year. Also in June
22:12
the 1st, the daily wire launched Matt Walsh's documentary, What is a woman? And so you're not
22:17
gonna see this on anybody's like best documentaries of the year list, especially in the mainstream
22:21
media, because they want this thing to go away. But that is probably the single biggest thing that
22:25
the daily wire has ever produced. And that includes everything that Ben Shapiro's done,
22:29
everything that Andrew Clavin's done, Michael Knowles, Candace Owens, you know, kind of the
22:33
whole team is the biggest thing they've ever done. And if you have not watched What is a woman,
22:36
you need to get a daily wire subscription at least just to watch that. They don't June the 8th and
22:40
armed man Arett was arrested outside of the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home.
22:45
And this man intended to kill the justice. Now again, if this would would have been someone outside of
22:50
my horse home, so it would have just been, we'd still be hearing about it. But that news story
22:56
went away like a fart in the wind. That thing disappeared almost immediately. But some guy was
23:00
literally arrested outside of a, you know, justice is home. And they said, yeah, I was going to kill
23:04
this person. And then it's like, Oh, yeah, well, we don't need to talk about the rhetoric around
23:07
the Supreme Court and around the Roe v. Wade decision and those types of things that we
23:10
don't really need to mess with that. Then we have on June the 30th, Jordan Peterson inked a deal
23:15
with the daily wire. So that is a huge thing because Jordan Peterson is one of the most dominant
23:19
intellectuals in the public space really all over the world. The guy's selling out arenas right now
23:23
going on a speaking tour and inking a deal with the daily wire is an absolutely huge thing. I'm excited
23:28
for everything they're going to be producing as we move forward. Then on July the 8th, we have former
23:31
president of Japan or former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe was assassinated. So he was
23:36
assassinated in a country where they they have some of the strictest gun laws in the world. But
23:40
this guy basically made a homemade gun that could shoot one bullet and he shot it at Shinzo Abe and
23:44
killed him. Then on August the 8th, the totally nonpartisan and nonpolitical FBI rated former
23:51
president Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago. We still haven't gotten all of the gist of what's
23:56
going to happen from that. But that was obviously something that was unprecedented. And then also
23:59
in October the 24th, co-president Joe Biden announced his student loan forgiveness plan,
24:04
which he sim it seemingly something that he knew was never going to go through,
24:09
but it might get him some extra votes in the midterms. And it actually seemingly worked out.
24:14
So all these morons are like, Oh, I want my shoe loads to get taken away.
24:18
They just said, yeah, I'll vote for this person who literally can't even spell his name at this
24:21
point. But that happened on August. And then on September the 1st, co-president Joe Biden delivered
24:26
his continued battle for the soul of the nation speech in Philadelphia, where he essentially called
24:30
everyone that disagrees with him or everyone that doesn't vote for him, a dangerous magga
24:34
Republican. So that was something where he's basically cascading everybody. And then he wants
24:37
to complain about the temperature of the electorate and how, you know, there's no unity. Well, you
24:41
have a hand to play in this, sir. Also September the 16th, that was the murder of Mysa, or I think
24:47
it was Masa Amini by the Iranian religious morality police for not wearing her hijab properly.
24:52
And so that led to a bunch of protests that are ongoing in the country of Iran. And that is a,
24:57
it's just kind of an insane thing to think about like even as bad as things can seem here in the
25:02
United States, we're not having police officers pulling women off the streets because they're
25:05
not wearing things properly. But in that Muslim country that is dominated by Sharia law, that's
25:10
exactly what happened. Now the religious morality police are claiming that, oh, you know, she got
25:15
sick and that's what happened. But they basically they beat this woman to death. And it's led to all
25:19
these people revolting in Iran. So we'll have to keep an eye on that. And then on October the 28th,
25:23
Elon Musk officially took over Twitter as its new owner. Again, as I've said to you before,
25:28
this guy is a leftist. And we need to be concerned about what he's going to be doing with this platform
25:32
as we move forward. We can't just trust that he's going to do everything that we would like.
25:36
But he's just gotten into the job. He's going to be stepping down a CEO soon and giving the
25:40
reins. Somebody else will have to see. And then the last news story that you may have forgotten
25:44
is the world population passed eight billion people on November the 15th of this year. And so
25:50
to all those people that were like, if we get, you know, past six billion people on the planet,
25:54
we're just going to have people, you know, starving all over the place because of global warming and
25:58
and you know, since you know, we can't sustain the things that are happening and we can't have
26:02
subsistence farming and all of that. What about those people? Because the only people that are
26:05
starving to death here in this world right now, it's not because of the climate, you see,
26:11
it's not because of natural disasters. It is almost entirely because of corrupt governments
26:16
that are keeping their people down and, you know, abusing them and basically keeping them from
26:22
eating, right? That that's essentially how we've gotten to this right now. So the other people in
26:27
the planet, they're not searching around for food. They're not scrounging. They're not eating crickets
26:30
or anything like that. But guys, those are all the things that happened this year. All the news
26:34
stories that went down that you may have forgotten about. All right, now I'm going to give some
26:39
attention to some news stories. And I'm actually, I guess I gave them their own categories. You can
26:42
look at them at awards. This is awards week here on on Don't To Life of Man's podcast. So maybe
26:46
these are the awards. So the first one that I want to give out is the most concerning news story
26:51
of 2022. And that is people have completely forgotten about the plight of the people of Afghanistan.
26:58
Because in August of 2022, that was the one year anniversary of the United States disaster
27:04
of pulling out of Afghanistan, not just pulling out in general, but the way that we pulled out of
27:08
Afghanistan and the plight and chaos that that created for the people in Afghanistan.
27:14
Because we handed the country over to a bunch of sheep herding terrorists, right, the Taliban,
27:20
which are not a government organization. That is a terrorist organization. We're not supposed
27:23
to be negotiating with these terrorists. At least the State Department would like you to believe
27:26
that we're not. But then we're supposed to pretend like the Taliban is just, you know,
27:29
they're reformed and all these different things. But what is happening on the ground in Afghanistan
27:33
right now is horrific. There are people that are being murdered in the streets, the women who were
27:38
going to school and had jobs and were able to do all these things. They're no longer able to do that.
27:43
They're being subjugated within that community, obviously under Sharia law, because that's that
27:47
comes directly from Muslim ideology. And that is just something that that's very concerning to me
27:51
how quickly as a people, we were going to move on from that story. But guys, from the moment
27:56
we saw those people charging at H Kaya to try to get on the planes and the people falling from the
28:00
planes and all the stories about, you know, babies that were that were being murdered in front of
28:04
Marines to get the Marines to react and all these different things. I knew that it wouldn't
28:09
take us but a couple of weeks to forget about it. Because we don't want to see stuff like that.
28:13
Like we don't that's icky. It makes us not feel good. We'd rather watch, you know, a movie or
28:19
binge something on Netflix or listen to a new song from our favorite artisan and all that stuff's
28:23
fine. We don't need to only focus on the negative things that are happening. But we collectively,
28:27
as a people have forgotten about the men that lost their lives and their limbs while they were
28:33
there in Afghanistan, not just on our side, but also our allies as well. We're just forgetting
28:38
about those people. And we're also forgetting about what is befalling the Afghan people now,
28:43
because now that the United States has pulled out and another dominant world hegemon hasn't come in,
28:48
there's a power vacuum in Afghanistan. So you've got Isis, you've got Isis K, you've got Al Qaeda,
28:54
you've got the Taliban, you've got all these entities that they love working together ish
28:59
when they're fighting against the dominant devil, which is the United States of America,
29:03
right? But now when the United States of America is not doing things there anymore,
29:06
now those people are fighting amongst each other, which makes it even worse for the general
29:10
populace of Afghanistan. So a lot more could be said there, but we'll wrap that up there.
29:14
That is the most concerning news story of 2022. Now, the most insane news story of 2022 in my mind
29:21
is the red whimper that came on November the 2nd. So we heard all year guys, all year that there
29:27
was going to be a red wave in November that no matter what, the Republicans were going to win
29:32
the United States House of Representatives by a wide margin, they were likely going to take over
29:36
the Senate. And then we're going to see the actual downfall of the presidency of co-president Biden.
29:42
And that would march us to 2024, where we're going to have, you know, somebody that's going to take
29:46
over the White House and all of a sudden Republicans are going to have, you know, control of Congress
29:50
and the White House again, right? And then you've got the conservatives on the Supreme Court.
29:53
This is going to be great. And then November 2nd rolled around and basically none of that happened.
29:57
So the Senate is now 51 49 to the Democrats, which it should have never been that close.
30:04
So most people think we're thinking that Republicans would end up with 52 53 54 seats.
30:08
That didn't happen. Basically, a lot of governors seats that were supposed to flip didn't flip.
30:13
There were some good things that happened for the GOP on that day. But then as it sits right now,
30:17
I think it's going to be three or four person majority in the House of Representatives for the
30:22
GOP. And they can't even pick a speaker right now because there's a schism within the party.
30:27
And when things are that close, you can't have a schism. You have to have every single one of
30:30
the votes that could be whipped together at the same time. But this was just an insane story to
30:34
me because I want to ask Democratic voters and Joe Biden supporters, what exactly is it that
30:40
you've liked about the last two years? Because there has to be something because I know Democrats
30:46
will literally vote for anybody. They voted for somebody who's brain dead to be their
30:49
Senator in the state of Pennsylvania. They voted for someone who is literally dead to
30:53
win their seat in the House of Representatives. So don't vote for somebody with a D next to their
30:57
name. And I get that. Okay. I understand that you're philosophically more together than Republicans
31:02
are. But what do you like? You voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But what did you what do you like
31:08
about what he's done? Like, are there policy prescriptions that he's actually driven through
31:12
that? You're like, yes, this is great. The the insane levels of spending, the unbelievable
31:17
amounts of money that we're sending to Ukraine have things gotten better for you as the economy
31:22
has continued to go into the toilet and inflation has shot to the moon. What exactly we're looking
31:28
for. So all I can think of is that the Republicans are just so unbelievably bad at this.
31:34
Like, how is it possible? Like, has there ever been a situation in politics that was more ripe
31:41
for the the opposing party to overtake something and to take advantage of the horrible state of
31:47
affairs in the country than what we had this year in 2022? Because I can't think of one. Again,
31:52
I'm not the oldest guy in the world. But it's like, I understand history a little bit.
31:55
Almost every time there's a midterm election after the switching of the party in the White House,
32:02
that deceit that person's party will lose a ton of seats in Congress. It just didn't happen.
32:07
So it was just an insane story. No one can really tell us reasons why we've all kind of
32:12
pontificated and feel a lot, you know, philosophized about it. But that's the most insane news story
32:16
to me of 2022. Now we have the most ignored news story of 2022. And that is the somewhere between
32:24
four and five million illegal border crossings since Joe Biden took office. Okay.
32:31
It's really hard to put that into perspective. And again, I say somewhere between four and five
32:36
million. I know that that makes a big difference. But we don't know the exact numbers.
32:39
Because as many people that we know have illegally walked across our southern border
32:44
and just kind of disappeared into the interior of the country, there are several more that have
32:51
done so that went undetected. Okay. And the reason why this was the most ignored story,
32:56
well, I don't know, I think I guess the reason behind it. But there's some, there's some craziness
33:00
going on with all this right now, because this should be the dominant news story, I think, right?
33:05
Now Ukraine, not that even the stuff in Afghanistan, but it's the level of illegal border crossings
33:12
and how the country can't sustain all of that, especially when these are people that are not going
33:18
to come into the American way of life. They're not going to learn our language. They're not
33:22
going to become a part of our communities. They're not going to assimilate to American culture.
33:27
They're just bringing their culture to the United States and then just squatting here. Okay.
33:32
And this is not a time to quote scripture to me about the sojourner and all that.
33:36
I'm not saying that we should treat these people poorly, but what these people are doing is breaking
33:40
the laws of a sovereign nation on purpose. Now, you may not like the circumstances that
33:47
they're in in their country. And that's something that can be addressed. And that's something that
33:50
the U.S. could actually have a direct hand in. But there are people that are literally because of
33:56
morality, because of fairness, trying to go through the front door of the process of becoming American
34:00
citizens. And then you have people that are just walking in, just walking right in. And then just
34:05
you know, assimilating into their communities inside of the greater United States of America.
34:10
They're taking resources from these communities. And then I'm supposed to feel bad when a Republican
34:16
governor ships busloads or flies busloads of these people to these democratic cities and
34:21
democratic hotspots, these supposed sanctuary sites. And then they're like, Oh, we're being
34:26
overwhelmed. It's like, well, what do you think border towns in Texas and Arizona that have been
34:31
feeling this entire time? And so it's an astonishing thing. You obviously see what the Democrats are
34:38
trying to do, because at some point, the feckless Republicans are going to allow immigration reform
34:42
to come through. And what they mean by that is they're going to take everyone that's here illegally,
34:46
which is maybe in the tens of millions at this point. And we're just going to snap our fingers,
34:50
make them American citizens, allow them to come out of the shadows, as they'll say,
34:54
vote. And then Republicans will basically never be able to win another election again.
34:59
Now, some pundits, political pundits are like, well, wait a minute, you see a lot of Latino voters
35:04
that are basically moving towards GOP. And yes, that is true. But if somebody gave you your citizenship
35:09
for that country, and then is promising you that they will take care of you for the remainder of
35:14
your life in that Uncle Sam will become your daddy, that's going to be a hard sell for the
35:18
Republicans to convince them. No, we're not going to give you anything. We want you to work really,
35:22
really hard. And then yeah, you can have your citizenship anyway. That's a hard sell.
35:26
But also the new omnibus spending bill, the $1.45 or $6 trillion spending bill that went through
35:33
before the Congress adjourned, you know, the day before Christmas or Christmas Eve or whatever,
35:37
there was a clause. You maybe didn't know this. There's a clause in that bill that said absolutely
35:43
zero of the dollars of the one point, we'll say $1.5 trillion of new spending.
35:50
Okay, I actually think it was 1.6. That zero of those dollars could go to securing the Southern
35:56
border. And yet there was money inside that bill to directly go to countries, I believe they were
36:03
in Africa in the Middle East to help them secure their borders. Make that make sense.
36:09
Please explain that one to me. How, why, what exactly is the point of that?
36:16
And the Republicans just signed on to it. It's almost as if there's, there's something happening
36:23
that that maybe none of us are aware of. And again, it's probably the same thing as conspiracy
36:27
theorists have been talking about for years. And we're all just kind of coming to realize that
36:31
these things are actually coming true since 2020. And we can't believe anything or anybody anymore.
36:35
But this is such a crazy story to me because when Joe Biden or sorry, when Donald Trump took over
36:40
the White House in 2016, and the United States Congress was read as well, they really didn't do
36:47
anything on the border. And then interesting, there was a lot of talk about, you know, build that wall
36:53
and secure the border. And hey, you know, we seized enough fentanyl, the DEA season of fentanyl
36:58
this year in 2022 to kill every single American. That's just what they seized. That's not even
37:06
talking about the stuff that went up people's nose or the stuff that we haven't found yet.
37:09
Just the amount that we seize is enough to kill 300 and 30 million people. And no one's saying
37:16
anything about it. And apparently when the Republicans have power, they don't do anything about it.
37:22
But here's the thing, we've sent over $100 billion in actual dollars and equipment to Ukraine since
37:28
Russia invaded $100 billion. Do you know what the estimated cost to build a wall across the entire
37:34
southern border? The United States was supposed to cost $5 billion, literally one 20th
37:41
of that amount. We could have in a lot of ways secured our southern border. But Republicans
37:48
don't have the stomach to actually push that through and Democrats are certainly not going to
37:51
[inaudible] off a huge portion of their future electorate. So that is certainly the most ignored news story
37:56
of 2022, the unbelievable situation we have on our southern border. And then the most talked
38:02
about new story of 2022. Obviously just talked about it with the last thing is obviously Russia
38:06
invading Ukraine. It's certainly the most talked about new story. It is a sovereign nation invading
38:11
another sovereign nation. We knew that this was coming. A lot of people pointed out that after
38:18
the Russians saw what the Americans did in Afghanistan, they realized like, Oh, Joe Biden's a wuss.
38:24
He's he's a paper tiger. There's nothing he's going to do to us to push us back.
38:30
So we're just going to go. Now that may or may not be true, but it makes a lot of sense.
38:34
Because if you think there's a guy in the White House that's going to, you know, put a missile in
38:38
your rear end, you're probably not going to go messing around like that. But here we are in this
38:42
situation. What we're seeing in the only, I guess thing that we could see from that situation is
38:48
law, those same people that were pointing at the situation in Afghanistan leading to the
38:51
situation in Ukraine. We're also pointing to what the Chinese would eventually do with Taiwan.
38:55
But we're seeing right now what's happening with the international community, but mainly
38:59
the United States, arming and preparing the Ukrainians to basically push back against the Russians.
39:04
We're also seeing that the Russians were probably a paper tiger all along,
39:07
that their military was not sophisticated. Their, their soldiers are not sophisticated and they're
39:11
running out of, you know, military armaments and they're running out of soldiers to do their bidding.
39:15
So maybe that'll give China some pause that maybe Taiwan can actually defend themselves
39:20
quite a bit better than what everybody is expecting. But that's the most dominant news
39:24
story of the year. Obviously, we didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about on this podcast
39:28
because it's so complicated. You can't really trust anything that's coming from the Russian
39:32
media or the Ukrainian media. Because you all remember when Ukraine fired a missile,
39:37
we think on accident, but we don't know, into Poland and killed some people.
39:41
And then they immediately blamed that on Russia, said that Russia were trying to kill
39:45
Ukrainians and accidentally killed the Polish. And then they tried to raise more funds.
39:49
The Ukrainians of Vladimir Zelensky was trying to get more funds from the international community
39:54
because look what Russia is doing to escalate this war. Now they're killing Polish people.
39:58
It wasn't a Russian missile. It was a Ukrainian one. Again, we'll give them the benefit of the
40:01
doubt and say that it was an accident. But whatever it wasn't, right? There's so much
40:05
that could be talked about. But you know, that's that's basically the extent of what I'm assuming
40:09
will happen with that story. We'll just have to continue to follow that into 2023.
40:13
Now, the biggest news story of 2022 is obviously the Supreme Court overturning
40:18
Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that happened on June the 24th. I talked about that.
40:23
I talked about that case a lot. Dobbs versus Jackson women's health organization.
40:27
Obviously, I talked about my favorite podcast of the year was right after I got the news that
40:31
that had been overturned. You know, we've gotten stories that over 10,000 children have been saved
40:36
from the predation of either their mothers or these doctors or these organizations that just
40:41
love killing babies. And we'll do it. You know, if you give them, you know, somewhere between 500
40:46
and 2000 bucks, they'll make sure that your baby doesn't survive. It's a good thing.
40:50
Overall, it's a good thing. But it doesn't end the pro life fight in this country. As we've seen,
40:54
I talked about that on the last podcast. This doesn't mean that we can just turn off our brains
40:58
and assume that everybody's pro life and that Roe v. Wade being done with means that abortion
41:04
is illegal across the United States. Again, only somebody that's not paying attention would come
41:08
to that realization or come to think something like that. But that is the most dominant news story
41:12
of this year because it was almost like a defining moment when someone says God can draw a straight
41:19
line with a crooked stick. The first time I think I heard about that was when someone's talking
41:22
about Moses. But Donald Trump being elected in 2016, certainly his morality as a person is something
41:29
that you could easily call into question, his decision making, his impetuous nature, his bombastic
41:34
nature. But that man got three picks for the United States Supreme Court and all three of those
41:41
picks. So what would that have been? That would have been Kavanaugh, ACB and and Gorsuch,
41:46
all three of them voted to basically eradicate one of the worst decisions in the history of the
41:51
Supreme Court of the United States. So again, as I said, at the time, if we got nothing else for
41:57
Donald Trump, if we could just delete the first three years of his presidency, where everybody's
42:01
401k was through the roof. Everybody was able to sell their house. Everybody was able to find
42:04
a new job. Everybody was able to get a raise. And you know, inflation was down and you could,
42:08
you know, not have to make a decision between buying eggs or bread this week, you know, depending on
42:12
inflation and all that before COVID and all that stuff went down. If all that were deleted,
42:18
and this is all we got from the Trump presidency, it would be worth it. And there's a lot of policy
42:22
walks and people out there that are, you know, well, what about this? And you're saying that you
42:25
wouldn't have cared about this or that or military spending or anything? No, I would have cared.
42:29
But if I could trade all of that in one package for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Planned
42:35
Parenthood v. Casey, I would have done it. And I wouldn't even thought about it. I would have,
42:38
yep. I probably would have said yes before you even finished the offer.
42:41
So biggest news story, certainly one of the biggest is certainly the dominant news story of
42:46
the year, in my opinion. And it is one of the greatest news stories in the history of the United
42:50
States. And it's one of the greatest occurrences in the history of the United States, the overturning
42:54
of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey on June the 22nd. That is the biggest news story
42:58
of the year. And I wanted to do this at the end. I probably should have like switched these these
43:01
last two because I just got there talking about it. I want to talk about the biggest news person
43:05
of the year, but you have to give it to two people. Okay, the biggest news people of this year are
43:09
Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. Obviously, yeah, there's not a whole lot more that I can say
43:15
about these two men. But you had the world basically figuring out who Zelensky was and then, you know,
43:20
thinking he's like the greatest person ever all of a sudden. And then you have the ultimate super
43:24
villain, super villain rather with Vladimir Putin. And we've seen kind of the chinks in the armor
43:30
with the Russians as they've invaded. And then we've seen the things that Zelensky's done. And
43:34
we got a closer look at him whenever he came and spoke to Congress to a joint session of Congress
43:37
a couple of weeks ago. But those are the dominant people in terms of news for 2022. But before we
43:42
let you go, I would be remiss if I didn't at least look forward to 2023 and look at the likely news
43:49
stories that are going to be dominating the landscape in 2023 and actually look back at my list from
43:54
last year when I did this. And you know, a lot of the things I did predict predict that would happen
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or at least hey, these are going to be dominant news stories. So let's see if I can do it again.
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But one thing that we need to look for in 2023 is the continued well planned invasion of the
44:08
United States by illegal immigrants. And yes, I'm using all that language specifically
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continued because it's going to keep happening well planned because it seems to be invasion
44:20
of the US by illegal immigrants. Because if 5 million people walked across a sovereign nation's
44:28
border in less than two years, wouldn't wouldn't you think it was an invasion? There have been
44:35
wars that have been started by a fraction of that many people coming across the border into another
44:40
nation. If you think about this way, a fraction of that number of people walked across the Ukrainian
44:46
border, like the Russian army that walked across a fraction of that walked across and invaded.
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And it caused the entire war to the entire world rather to think, oh, World War II is coming,
44:57
or World War III rather, sorry. And just think about that. We've again, I'm not saying that
45:03
people that are crossing our southern border are enemy combatants. But when you think about
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what's happened at the border, gang members, drug lords, terrorists, people that are on our
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terrorists watch list. And literally, my Senator James Langford pointed this out when he was
45:17
addressing the Senate earlier this year. Just this year, we border patrol has arrested
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somebody from every single country on the planet at our southern border, all of them.
45:32
And that includes countries that don't like us very much. Iran, North Korea, China, Russia,
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there have been nationals from those places that have just walked across our southern border.
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Because again, we found people from all those countries. But what about the people that we
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didn't find? What about the terrorist cells that are now sitting in the United States that just
45:52
walked across our border? Because they couldn't just get a visa. They couldn't just fly to New
45:56
York or take a boat to Florida and then just kind of walk in. They just went to Central America
46:01
and went to Mexico and just kind of walked their way through. But yeah, that's something we need
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to look at as we go into 2023 is a continued invasion. Also in 2023, it's going to be Trump,
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Trump, Trump, everything Trump. Obviously, he's going to do everything he can to dominate the
46:15
news cycle because he announced he was running for the president in 2024, like as early as you
46:20
could possibly announce. And so he's an exhausting person to follow entertaining,
46:25
but exhausting. So that's something that you have to expect. He's just going to be the dominant
46:29
news hegemon for 2023. And this goes into the next couple of things, which is Republican
46:34
presidential primary race will take shape. So by the end of next year, by the time I'm recording
46:39
this next year, Lord willing, we will know everyone that's going to be in the race for the Republican
46:43
side. Because you have to do a lot of fundraising. You have to do a lot of campaigning. If you're
46:49
going to just go into 2024 and be ready for the election in November of 2024. So hopefully Ron
46:55
DeSantis gets in the race. I certainly want him to go up against Donald Trump. But I also want
46:59
to see some other folks. I want to see, you know, Marco Rubio. I want to see Ted Cruz. I want to
47:04
see Nikki Haley. I want to see Tim Scott. I want to see Mike Pence. I want to see these people in
47:08
the race because I want to see what they've got. I want to see if they can take out Donald Trump.
47:12
Again, I have my doubts, but we'll see. And then also we've got the religious liberty case that
47:16
is currently before the Supreme Court by June of next year, we should get a decision on that.
47:21
Depending upon which way that goes, it could definitely affect religious liberty in our country
47:26
for the foreseeable future. So this is a case that was brought by a website developer who somebody
47:31
was going to do a gay wedding. They wanted this person to do their website. Obviously the gay
47:34
couple did this on purpose because they're activists and this person's like, no, I'm not going to do
47:38
that. I'm a religious Christian. Like I don't want to use my skill sets to build a website for
47:43
something that I think is immoral. Obviously they were sued blah, blah, blah. Here we are now. It's
47:46
at the Supreme Court. They had the oral arguments, I believe last month in November, but we're going
47:50
to see that decision coming up in June. So we need to keep an eye on that. Also, we're going to see
47:54
the continued push by the LGBTQ revolutionaries because they're pushing into all areas of education,
47:59
certainly the government run K through 12 schools. So the revolutionaries are just going to keep going
48:03
down the roads that they're going down. But I want to include in that the continued normalization
48:08
of pedophilia because for some of you, this year was the first year that you realize, wait a minute,
48:13
people are trying to normalize people that want to have sex with children,
48:17
adults that want to have sex with children. Maybe this was the first year you heard the phrase
48:23
or the term minor attracted persons. They're not pedophiles, you see, they're just minor
48:29
attracted persons, just how you're straight or you're gay or you're by. They're just pedophilic.
48:36
But again, we're not allowed to say that they're minor attractive persons. That doesn't mean that
48:40
we should take them out into the country and shoot them and leave their body for the buzzards to eat.
48:44
No, no, no, no, no. We just need to understand them more. Again, the push is not going to stop.
48:50
This is the logical endpoint for this. Again, I say this all the time I use this as an example.
48:55
But if an eight year old can choose their gender, then why can they not choose their sexual partner?
49:00
And if you can be transgender and your gender has nothing to do with your biology or your
49:07
gonads or any of that, then why can't you be trans aged? Why can't you be a 55 year old male
49:14
that identifies as a 16 year old male as you're raping a 12 year old male?
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Explain to me how that doesn't follow. So we got to continue to look at that.
49:24
Also, the escalation of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, again, we don't really know what
49:29
Vladimir Putin's going to do because if he feels like it's hopeless, maybe he pulls back. If he
49:33
feels like it's hopeless, maybe he blows off a nuke. We don't really know. Another story we need
49:37
to be looking at in 2023 is the European Union, European Union running out of energy. So this
49:43
is something that a lot of people pointed to that we're going to have a very cold winter and that
49:47
the green energy push in the in the European continent is going to just basically fold in on
49:56
itself. What people don't realize is with all these green initiatives in the European Union,
50:01
they were shutting down nuclear, which is the cleanest form of energy that we have, but they're
50:05
shutting down nuclear for some reason, because they watched some show about some nuclear reactor
50:10
going down. And then they put in all these other green initiatives for solar and wind and all these
50:17
things that are clearly not reliable. But what they've done is in order to backfill all of those
50:22
unreliable green sources of energy, these European countries have started deforesting at an
50:27
unbelievable rate because they turned the wood into these pellets that they burn to create energy
50:32
so that whenever you're sitting in your home, when it's below freezing in some European country,
50:37
that your heater can actually kick on. But the European Union is probably going to be running
50:41
out of energy at some point this year. They're buying a lot of gas from Russia, which is helping
50:45
them on this side of the war. But I, this isn't going to teach anyone the lessons that it should
50:50
teach because the green activists, the the climate activists, they're going to continue to push,
50:55
they're going to continue to put, you know, tomato soup on classic paintings, they're
50:58
going to continue to glue themselves, you know, to these factories that create combustion engines,
51:03
they're going to continue to do these things because they just don't understand how words work.
51:07
They also don't understand the reliability of energy as we move forward. That great, you bought
51:11
an electric car, but the amount, everything that's built on that car from the rubber in the tires
51:18
to the plastic on the inside panels to the metal on the outside to the paint, everything was created
51:23
in a factory that is ran by oil and natural gas and coal, all of them, and potentially nuclear as
51:29
well. And so you feel really good about plugging your car in whenever you get home at night,
51:35
but you don't realize that it's not being filled up with unicorn farts and fairy dust.
51:40
It's energy that is coming from plants that use oil and gas and coal and nuclear. And so
51:46
the European Union and what they're doing now, trying to bring some of their nuclear plants back
51:52
online should give a hint to us as Americans to stop moving towards the path of green energy
51:58
because green energy is fine as a substitute are not as a substitute rather. But as a supplement,
52:03
I should have said a supplement. It's a very good idea to do that. But at the end of the day,
52:07
the best forms of energy are the ones that we have right now. And the coal that we burn in the
52:12
United States is the cleanest coal anywhere else. We're the only country that is getting our emissions
52:18
to go down by doing the things that we've always done. We're just doing them more efficiently and
52:22
better. And you know why we're able to do that? Because we're the richest nation in the world,
52:26
and only the rich nations can care about things like this, because there are tens of thousands,
52:31
hundreds of thousands, even millions of people that are dying on a, you know, in a decade from
52:35
burning dung and wood inside of their huts and getting cancer and, you know, getting all these
52:41
different inhalation diseases and things like that. So those countries don't really care about you
52:45
in your electric car and the battery that was made out of coal, that was mined somewhere where
52:50
they're polluting the environment just to get this stuff out of the ground. They don't care
52:54
about that. They care about being warm for the winter. They care about having a fire so that
52:58
they can, you know, cook their food. So that's a lot that, you know, I just threw out there to you,
53:02
but we'll have to look at that as we go into 2023 as well. And the same as last year,
53:06
I mentioned the continued decline of co-president Biden. It's kind of like you don't really need
53:11
to say a whole lot. I think we all get it at this point, but his cognitive decline is astonishing.
53:16
Every time he opens his mouth, it is astonishing. And even though we don't really see him very much,
53:22
now as it is, over the next two years, you can assume that we're not going to see him at all,
53:25
because the Democrats were able to get Joe Biden, a dead person elected in 2020,
53:30
basically by telling him to stay in his basement and eat ice cream. And to think that they couldn't
53:35
do it again, especially if Donald Trump runs and wins the Republican ticket, you're crazy. You're
53:39
out of your mind. Of course they can do it again. Now, if they're able to get him four more years
53:43
in office, they're going to replace him before he goes or he unfortunately for him and his family
53:48
won't make it another four years. His decline is precipitous, but we'll just have to continue to
53:52
watch that. And the last thing I want to talk about is the furtherance of the recession.
53:55
That's probably going to be the dominant news story. There were little things that the United
54:00
States government and the co president Joe Biden administration were able to do to kind of keep,
54:04
you know, with duct tape and bandaids and bubblegum, they were able to kind of keep some things
54:08
squared away until the midterms. But everyone is assuming that 2023 is going to be a bloodbath.
54:13
That housing, there could be a bubble that burst there. Recession is going to be definable,
54:20
even though we've already had multiple quarters in a row of negative growth, which is the definition
54:25
of a recession. We're going to have inflation that's going to continue to go up the plight
54:31
and hurt that's going to come even to American families is going to be astonishing.
54:35
So we're going to have to look at that. But guys, even in all the things that I mentioned,
54:38
which I mentioned a lot of things on this podcast and there's a lot of things that are concerning.
54:41
The last message that I want to give you a 2022 is that regardless of what happens.
54:47
So let's just say I just I'm like a, you know, a clairvoyant and I predicted the future and
54:51
all the things that we should look for in 2023. And let's just say I'm exactly right on all the
54:55
stories of 2022. Regardless of what happens, God is still in charge fellows and ladies that
55:01
listen to the show, God is still in charge. This is not outside of his purview. And this is not
55:07
outside of his control. Now he's going to rework everything to bend towards the flourishing of his
55:14
people and towards his glory. If you read anything in scripture, that that's the story that you
55:19
get from scripture is that he's going to bend things towards his glory. Because again, the Bible's
55:23
not about us. The Bible is about God and his glory. Okay, certainly. But don't put a whole lot of
55:28
effort and time into thinking about what's happening in the news cycle and letting that
55:34
define your entire life. Now, I obviously talk about the news cycle a lot. We did well over 100
55:39
episodes this year, where the news cycle was basically at the center point of all those episodes.
55:42
I always encourage you to think that those things are important and to pay attention because
55:47
you can't push back darkness if you don't look at it. If you're one of these, I want to be known,
55:52
you know, for for what I'm for not what I'm against people and I don't want to look at evil and I
55:55
don't want to hear evil and all that. Then you just want to operate that way. That's not good.
55:58
I don't think God wants us to be like that. We also have to put our faith in Christ that
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even if our house comes down around us and we're left with the clothes on our back and our loved
56:06
ones, we still have God in that moment. We still have the truth of the gospel. We still have the
56:12
sacrifice of Jesus so that we would have a way to spend eternity with the Father. And in heaven,
56:19
in eternity with the Father, we're not going to be worried about 401k. We're not going to be
56:24
worried about people coming through the Southern Board of the United States. We're not going to
56:27
be worried about any of that because we'll be with the Father and that's all we need. All right,
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