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This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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We've made it to the very, very end of 2024, and guys have just got to tell you, it has
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been one of those years, and we'll get to that in just a second.
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undaunted.life/donate, and also we are always just so, so thankful to all of our donors.
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But we need a wrap of 2024.
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2025 is right around the corner.
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And just to talk a little bit about my 2024, more so than any other year of my entire life,
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it was a collection of incredible highs and astonishing lows.
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That's essentially what my year was like.
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So the highs, I mean, obviously I just mentioned one, becoming the number one, I guess realizing
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because we became it and then didn't know it for months and months and months.
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They should really like send you a plaque or something like that.
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But we became the number one show in the world for Christian men, unbelievable high.
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The successful piloting and public launch of the Dominion program.
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Guys go to undaunted.life/dominion, undaunted.life/dominion.
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If you don't know what we're talking about, but we did a private thing, where we piloted
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it and went so well, and then we launched it publicly and that's done well.
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I spoke live from Church of 1122 down there in Jacksonville, and so that was an interesting
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thing getting to do my pro-life presentation down there for a nice audience down there.
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But in terms of lows, you know, some of this, you know, I've talked about on the show, but
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obviously losing a member of my foxhole, Zach Foster.
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Him dying was just an astonishing low, someone my age dying right there in the church parking
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lot right in front of his wife, just terrible and everything that comes off of that, losing
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my best friend, Roman the Giant, and, you know, going through what all that looks like.
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And obviously I've talked a lot about just even me talking about it on the show and what
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that's done for some of you guys in the audience.
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And then just some crazy stuff that happened to and around me earlier this year, which I
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thought was going to end undaunted life.
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You know, a year ago, a year and a half ago, I guess, I thought undaunted life was over
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because I thought my voice was gone.
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I thought I was never going to be able to talk ever again because I was in between vocal
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court surgeries.
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First one was not successful.
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So for those of you that have just found me in the last year, yeah, last, I guess, what
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would it have been?
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I think I got vocal court surgery in April and it wasn't successful and I had to go back
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under the knife and get the same surgery in June, basically to give them another shot
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at it.
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And in between surgeries, I could barely talk.
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I couldn't really even talk like above a whisper.
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And so I thought that this entire thing was done.
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And then, you know, I just learned some stuff earlier this year, you know, about my family
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and extended family and just things that I just, I never thought was possible and just
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things that I was not aware of and just crazy, crazy stuff.
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And you know, the thing with 2024 and some of you guys will understand what I, what I
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mean by this, you don't really know quite what God is doing.
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Not like, Hey, why aren't you paying attention, God?
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But like, you know, God's working and you know, God's trying to do something and trying
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to get your attention, but you don't know exactly what it is.
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You don't really know exactly what direction he's pointing you in.
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And what you try to do is you try to take it day by day, step by step.
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And I mean, guys, there were times this year where it was hour by hour, like I was just
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trying to make it to the next hour, trying to figure out a way just to get to the next
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hour, just to see what the next hour had in store for me.
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I mean, there, there's some, again, highs and lows this year, crazy, crazy light and
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crazy, crazy dark.
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And so I am just very, very thankful that I have a foxhole.
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That's why I'm on you guys all the time about creating a foxhole, getting those three AM
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guys, getting those guys that'll help you bury your dog, because without guys like that,
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this would have been an absolutely, probably impossible year to navigate.
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And so I'm thankful for that.
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I'm thankful for all of you for being so encouraging all the time with how much this content is
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landing with you and the life changes you're making just because I decide, you know, a few
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times a week to scream into this microphone.
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And so very, very thankful for all of you.
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Thankful to God for putting us on this trajectory with undaunted life and to continue anointing
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it and blessing it and so very, very happy about all of that.
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But to wrap up 2024, we need to look at some things that happened this year, see if there's
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some things that maybe some of you guys forgot about.
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So in the world of entertainment, the highest grossing movies of the year worldwide, number
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one was inside out to with 1.7 billion worldwide.
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So don't know what that is, but maybe you do number two, Deadpool and Wolverine.
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That was 1.3 billion worldwide.
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I actually did go watch that, which I missed a lot of the inside jokes because I don't
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really do the comic book thing, but it was a funny movie.
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And then number three, Despicable Me 4 got almost a billion, just right under a billion,
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which is that where we're at now?
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Two out of the top three are in basically Deadpool and Wolverine.
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That's essentially a sequel because there's been Deadpool movies and Wolverine movies.
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Can we not come up with anything new guys?
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Come on.
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All right.
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Now in the world of music, we're just going to use Spotify because it's probably pretty
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close.
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But when you build board isn't really relevant anymore and you're looking at streams, no
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one buys music anymore.
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So according to Spotify, the artists of the year is Taylor Swift with 26.6 billion streams
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of her songs.
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The most streamed song of the year is the song Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter for whoever
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that is and whoever is a fan of her.
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So congratulations to her.
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And the most streamed album is by Taylor Swift.
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It's the tortured poets department, the anthology.
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So Swifties, you had a big year.
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Now if you talk about the biggest podcast show of the year, this is getting according
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to Spotify, the Joe Rogan experience is number one, the skanky porn podcast, call her daddy
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is number two and then Huberman lab is the number three podcast of the year.
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Now let's talk about YouTube, the most popular or whatever that means because it's kind of
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weird.
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They don't really release these numbers that often.
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But the most popular YouTube video of the year is baby shark dance by Pinkfong.
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So I guess just until the end of time, I guess baby shark dance is just going to be the most
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popular YouTube video just because it's played constantly.
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And since I can't find accurate stats on some other stuff that I normally talk about, let's
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just give you some of my favorites in the world of entertainment because again, it's
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so hard to find this.
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So my favorite musical album of 2024 is Father's and Sons by Luke Combs.
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So I recorded an episode about that about that album.
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I can't remember when that was, but it was this year, but an absolutely incredible album
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released by Luke Combs, Father's and Sons.
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So that's my favorite album of the year.
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My favorite song of the year might, you might think it's going to be something metal, some
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super aggressive, actually it's the song Psalm 23 by Phil Wickham.
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But it's specifically on an album called I believe hometown version.
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So Phil Wickham, his normal versions of songs is really poppy typically a lot of synthesizer,
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a lot of stuff going on.
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I'm not as into that.
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I'm into stuff that's a little bit more dressed down, some of his acoustic stuff.
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But this album is just very, very unique.
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It's all Phil Wickham stuff, but it's just recorded in a different way.
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And so when I look at my Apple music, I listened to that song more than I listened to any other
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song this year.
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So Psalm 23 by Phil Wickham, my favorite TV show of 2024 is if I have time to watch TV.
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So I just did the chosen season four, so all you people that hate the chosen, you're going
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to hate that answer.
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But hey, it is what it is.
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And then my favorite movie of 2024 is Gladiator 2.
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So there's some haters out there about Gladiator 2, but I think it's because you walked in
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with the wrong expectations.
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You walked in thinking, this is somehow got to live up to the greatest movie of all time,
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which is the first Gladiator, which is not possible.
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It's just not possible.
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There's never going to be a better movie made than that.
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It's got everything.
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Okay.
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But this movie was one of the most visually impressive movies I've ever seen in my entire
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life.
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There were some things that, you know, you were kind of left wanting some in some areas
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when it pertained to, you know, certain dialogue and certain places in the plot and things
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like that.
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But I thought it was thoroughly pleasing to watch and it had like the coolest scene.
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Maybe that I've ever seen and it doesn't, no spoilers here, but one of the early gladiatorial
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scenes inside of the call, see him, this dude comes in on a rhinoceros.
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He's on a rhinoceros is back and he's got like a, I guess, you know, he's got this rope
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and he's just basically standing there.
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So he's got like this, this rhino by rains and he's basically standing as he's coming
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into the arena.
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And then he does the gladiatorial battle on the, like, on the back like it's a horse,
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but it's a rhinoceros.
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One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
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So that's my favorite movie of 2024.
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Now in the world of sports, let's remind you of some stuff you may have forgotten.
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So recently in Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers smashed the New York Yankees
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in five games and then proceeded to buy up every good free agent.
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Baseball's got a major problem here because three of the top four teams left were the
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Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, and then I refuse call them the guardians, so the Cleveland Indians.
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And so those three top teams, those were all the top teams in terms of payroll.
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And so it's like, you have the Los Angeles Dodgers that have a payroll that is like equals
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the gross domestic product of most of the South American countries that you could name.
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And so that's going to be a problem moving forward.
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But if you're a Dodgers fan, you enjoyed it.
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In terms of college football, Michigan beat Washington to win their first national title
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in a very long time.
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Stanley Cup finals or Stanley Cup final.
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I can't remember what you say.
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Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers in seven games.
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So again, can Canadian teams just can't seem to win the Stanley Cup.
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In terms of the UFC, we have some new undisputed UFC champs as we wrap the year in Bantamweight.
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We have Marab Devosvili.
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Another way we have Iliad Taporia, welterweight, we have Belal Muhammad, middleweight, we have
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Dr. Stuplessis, or Dr. Stuplessi, women's flyaway, we have Valentina, Chef Chanko, and women's
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Bantamweight, we have Julianna Peña.
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So guys, we've literally entered the most impossible UFC era ever for spelling and pronouncing
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champions names.
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But I did my best there.
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In the world of boxing, Jake Ball beat up an elderly person when he fought Mike Tyson.
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It was supposedly the most watched boxing match of all time, but I don't know that you
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could actually call it a boxing match.
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But in terms of the biggest sports story of 2024, we've got, I'll mention a couple, we've
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got the United States dominating the medal count again in the summer Olympics.
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So you know, you could have assumed that that was going to happen.
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But for all of you people here, especially in the United States of America, I think the
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combo of the transfer portal and name and mention likeness, the NIL, I think it's ruining college
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sports.
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And I think we're watching it before our very eyes.
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There was a story that I saw recently where the Washington state football head coach.
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He said that he mentioned some players, I don't think he mentioned them by name, but
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he's like, we had some guys that got no D one offers, nobody wanted these guys.
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But we did.
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We saw some potential.
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So we brought them in.
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And for a couple of years, we coached them up, we trained them up and we made them into
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really solid football players.
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And then they entered the portal because they were going to get some NIL money from another
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school.
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And it's just like, okay, if we're going to take the veil off, let's just take it off
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completely.
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Let's just call these guys professional athletes or call them semi pro or something like that.
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Let's get rid of the, hey, they got to go to class and oh, they're getting an education
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and all those everything.
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Let's just get rid of all that, right?
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They at least for football and men's basketball, which are typically the only sports that make
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money collegial.
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But I think if you just had NIL, it wouldn't be a problem, but and if you just had the
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transfer portal, it wouldn't be a problem, but the combo of both, I think is ruining
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one of my favorite things, which is college sports, specifically college football.
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But the dumbest sports story of 2024 has to be the WNBA, not knowing how anything works.
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And so I don't want to flow on this because I think I'm going to talk about it a little
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bit later.
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But the WNBA got a golden goose dropped right in their lap in Caitlyn Clark and they spent
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the entire team trying to kill her on the court and then trying to destroy her off the
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court.
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And you know, she was just quiet going about her business.
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And there was some, you know, nerdy website that looked at every single individual player
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in the history of the WNBA and did this whole big statistical analysis, find out who the
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most efficient, who had like the most efficient offensive season in Caitlyn Clark was head
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and shoulders above every single woman that has ever played in the WNBA in terms of offensive
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efficiency.
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And it was her first season and she was coming off a long collegiate season and a run to
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the final four in the women's, you know, March Madness thing, right?
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And so basically I don't remember players when Michael Jordan took over the league in
13:18
the 80s and into the 90s, complaining about all the people that were coming to watch their
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team play the Chicago Bulls.
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You know why?
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Because they're not morons because they knew that if there's more eyeballs on the league,
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that means there's more money in the league and if there's more money in the league, that
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means when they go to re-up or get a new contract, they're going to get paid more.
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But apparently all the dumb dums around the WNBA have no idea about that yet some, what
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was it?
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The Washington mystics owner said, you know, when Caitlyn Clark was put on the cover of
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Time magazine as the athlete of the year, well, why couldn't they have put the entire
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league on the, on the cover?
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Because that's not what they do.
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You moron.
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Like, what's wrong with you?
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Like, okay, did y'all give out an MVP this year for the, the WNBA?
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Because I think you did.
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This person's name, but they gave out an MVP.
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Why didn't they just give the MVP to the whole league?
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Because that's not how any of this works, right?
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And so you got the WNBA literally doing everything they can to be as irrelevant as possible.
14:09
And I think they're winning.
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on the squat rack.
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And the biggest problem is not your schedule.
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It's actually where you're trying to get your work in.
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How about you guys stop making excuses and build yourself a home gym?
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They built gyms for teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and even the UFC.
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All right, in terms of some noteworthy deaths in 2024, obviously this one is close to my
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heart.
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Country music star, Toby Keith, died at the age of 62.
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And I just got to tell you, as an Oakie, and I mentioned this to my wife the other day,
15:49
and she confirmed it.
15:50
There was like mourning across the state.
15:53
You could feel it.
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Like, and I'm not being hyperbolic, you could literally feel people's sadness across the
15:58
entire state of Oklahoma when he died because he was our son in a way.
16:02
And so losing him was hard for Oakies, but you know, them's the brakes.
16:06
Also double murderer and former football star O.J. Simpson died at the age of 76.
16:10
Super-sized me, documentarian Morgan Spurlock died at 53.
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NBA and UCLA great and legend Bill Walton died at the age of 71.
16:18
The NBA logo Jerry West died at 86.
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Willie Mays, probably the second or third best baseball player ever died at 93.
16:26
Former Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe died at 89.
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Fitness star Richard Simmons didn't think that guy would ever go.
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Yeah, I thought he was just going to keep going, energize your bunny style until rapture time,
16:36
but he died at 76.
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Conservative political pundit, Lou Dobbs died at 78.
16:41
The actor that played Apollo Creed, Carl Weathers, he died at 76.
16:44
English actress Maggie Smith died at 89.
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The guy who played Darth Vader, Mufasa, one of the greatest voices of all time.
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James Earl Jones died at 93.
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MLB hits King Pete Rose died at 83.
16:54
DeCambe Mutumbo died at 58.
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Legendary music producer Quincy Jones died at 91.
16:59
And for those of you who don't know, DeCambe Mutumbo, former NBA star, he would block shots
17:03
and go, no, no, no, and wag his finger.
17:05
Anyway, just yesterday, I'm recording this, you know, kind of middle or towards the end
17:09
of December, Ricky Henderson just died.
17:11
So Ricky Henderson, the greatest lead-off hitter in Major League Baseball history, you
17:15
know, a preposterous amount of steals.
17:17
That guy died at 65.
17:18
For those of you that listened to the Church of 1122 podcast, the sermons by Joby Martin,
17:23
you remember that guy that yells out and says, "Amen" right in the middle of his sermon.
17:27
So they just called the guy, "Amen" Frank.
17:29
He passed away just a few weeks ago.
17:31
I think he was in his 60s and so, you know, wanted to make sure we acknowledge him because
17:35
we know there's a lot of people that are missing him at Church of 1122 right now.
17:38
But also Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' political futures died.
17:41
So a lot of deaths happened in 2024.
17:44
But now let's get into some news that perhaps you've forgotten about that actually happened
17:48
in 2024.
17:49
And every year when I do this, I go back through my show notes, I go back through some news
17:52
reels, and I'm like, "Crap, that happened this year."
17:54
So the pagan opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics, I think you guys remember that.
17:58
We had hurricanes that ravaged the Southwest United States and, you know, the people in
18:01
those areas are still struggling.
18:03
There's still ways to get those people help.
18:05
So guys, make sure that you're still on top of that.
18:07
SpaceX literally caught a rocket in mid-air as it was coming back to Earth.
18:12
And if, you know, Elon Musk were like a big Kamala Harris supporter, it would have been
18:15
the greatest thing ever, ever done.
18:16
But people tried to like, "Tut, tut," like, "Oh, it's not that big a deal."
18:19
Also, Christopher Nolan won Best Picture for Oppenheimer.
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And I just got to tell you, of all the Christopher Nolan films I've ever seen, that's probably
18:24
the worst one.
18:25
I mean, I really like a lot of the stuff that he's done, but I literally sat there for like
18:29
three hours.
18:30
I was like, "Oh, my gosh.
18:31
This movie.
18:32
This movie just will absolutely never end."
18:33
But he got off the schnide, he finally won Best Director.
18:35
France became the first country in the world to include access to abortion in its constitution.
18:40
So congratulations, France, on sacrificing more babies to Molok than anybody else could
18:44
ever imagine.
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Good for you.
18:46
The Francis Scott Keybridge in Baltimore collapsed after it was hit by a cargo ship.
18:51
Taylor Swift became the first musician ever to become a billionaire just from songs and
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concerts.
18:56
Chad GBT4 went live.
18:58
Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records, which is hilarious
19:03
looking back now.
19:04
642 million people voted in India's general election, which set a record for the world
19:08
in terms of world's largest election.
19:10
Joe Biden, remember that guy?
19:12
He was bounced after the debate.
19:14
Remember that?
19:15
So he's the guy.
19:16
He's definitely the guy he's better than he's ever been.
19:17
He goes in the debate and basically can't mush words out of his face and he gets replaced
19:21
by Kamala Harris.
19:22
A duct tape, taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million in a New York art auction.
19:28
So if you don't think money laundering is a thing, allow me to present to you exhibit
19:32
A.
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And then also Joe Barton and Joe Barton.
19:35
Joe Biden pardoned his son for any crimes and all crimes that he committed over a 10-year
19:40
period, which was the same period that he and his family were profiting from foreign
19:44
actors.
19:45
So a lot of news happened this year, but now we need to get into some of the main things.
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We're going to give some category.
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So I guess you can consider these to be awards, but let's go ahead and get into that.
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The most concerning news story of 2024.
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So the most concerning news story could be, I guess, the escalation towards a worldwide
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conflict.
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There's escalations of conflicts between Israel and Islamic fundamentalist groups, and also
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the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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And then circling the drain on some of those situations are certainly North Korea and
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China.
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And so obviously if we're going to be going towards some sort of nuclear war, a nuclear
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Holocaust, if you will, a, you know, Dan, if we do, Dan, if we don't mutually assure
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destruction and I feel like we certainly got closer to that, especially with a dead person
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running the White House here in the United States.
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Now when we get into most of these other things, obviously there's going to be a theme to this
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because there's, there's basically the entire world revolved around what was happening politically
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in the United States this year.
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But the most insane news story of 2024 obviously has to be Trump escaping assassination by
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centimeters.
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Again, I think, I think we kind of forget that there was a point in the election cycle where
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people kind of forgot, remember when Trump had his head almost turned into a canoe?
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Remember when a bullet barely graced his ear because at the last second he turned his head
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just a little bit, like, do we remember the fact that basically nobody is asking any questions
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about the shooter anymore?
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It's almost as if it never happened, but we literally got the most insane crazy picture
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of all time perhaps in terms of political history in the United States is him standing
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up bleeding from his ear, you know, holding his fists in the air saying fight.
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But the most insane news story was that and then obviously another guy tried to kill him
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while he was playing golf in Florida a little bit later on that year.
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So absolutely insane news story.
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In terms of the most ignored news story of 2024 is the continued decline of the birth
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rate in almost every major economic country in the world.
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This is something that no one is talking about.
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I think of all the top countries in terms of economic output, I think Israel is the only
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country that is currently above replacement rate as it pertains to their birth rate.
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So being above replacement rate means that you're going to have enough people in the
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future to basically take care of the people that are currently in your population.
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So the United States, Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada, like Brazil, all these countries,
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they are way below replacement rate China, Japan, they're way, way, way below replacement
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rate.
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And that is a major, major issue, but we basically don't think about it at all.
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So I guess we're just going to keep whistling past that graveyard.
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Now let's talk about the most talked about news story of 2024.
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And that is obviously the 2024 presidential election here in the United States because
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it doesn't matter even if you were in the United States, Trump being elected or Trump
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not being elected would have a huge impact on everything around the world as it pertains
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to geopolitics as it pertains to economics going on around the world, shipping lanes,
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warfare, everything that you could possibly imagine.
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It's easily the most talked about news story because even if you weren't listening to nightly
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news or to conservative or liberal or supposedly middle of the road, breakdowns of politics,
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we were all talking about the presidential election.
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Now it's finally behind us.
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So everyone's eyes are on 2026 at this point for the next midterm.
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All right.
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Then we got the biggest news story of 2024.
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And I'm going to expand this out a little bit further than the United States in terms
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of politics.
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But it's the global shifting politically in terms of the landscape to the right.
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So this includes the Republican landslide victory in the 2024 general election.
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So the Republicans maintain the House of Representatives took over the United States Senate and then
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also took over the White House, obviously with Donald Trump and JD Vance.
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And the interesting thing about the story as well is we're seeing right where it shifts
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in a lot of different countries currently in Canada.
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By the time this comes out, Trudeau may actually resign.
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And so there could be new leadership in Canada.
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By the time you guys are hearing this, that's definitely it looks like the trend.
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A lot of European countries that did this kind of open borders, let whoever in, let's not
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make sure these people assimilate, they're realizing, well, that was a terrible idea.
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Oh, doing this European Union thing where we can't, you know, Italy has to think about
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what Germany wants and not just what's going to be best for Italians.
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That seems to be breaking out.
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Obviously, years and years ago, yeah, Brexit, whenever they left the EU, there's a whole
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lot of things going over there.
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But really around the world, we're seeing a shift more towards the right because people
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understand, even if they don't agree with some of the things on the right, that it is better
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for human flourishing.
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And then also obviously the biggest news person of 2024 is Donald Trump.
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The dude has his own, I guess, orbit around him, he's got his own gravitational pull.
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I mean, if you think about every single person, every single important person as it pertains
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to the 21st century, there's not a single person that has been more important, more
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talked about, more studied, more criticized than Donald Trump, there's not a single person
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that's even close.
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You know, I'd be like, well, what about Barack Obama?
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Like first black president, even though, you know, he was deeply corrupt, had major issues,
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was not good for flourishing of Americans and all that.
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But even him, he wasn't the biggest news person, because again, Republicans didn't like him,
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but we were like the country's going to end if he gets a second term.
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That wasn't what it is.
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But easily the biggest news person of this year of 2024 is Donald Trump.
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And he'll probably go ahead and take the title for next year.
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But before let you go, again, a little bit of a shorter one as we wrap up the year with
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all these wrap up episodes, I'm going to make some predictions here for 2025 of some of the
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biggest news stories.
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So they're not like predictions like this is what I think is going to happen.
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But these are the things that we really need to focus on, and it's really going to be at
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the head of everyone's attention.
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So Trump's first 100 days in office.
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So if we can get through the inauguration, like I still am not fully convinced that we're
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not going to have a bunch of bloodshed or things set on fire during, you know, leading
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up to the inauguration.
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Inauguration, there it is.
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But those first 100 days are obviously going to be very, very important.
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It's going to signal a lot for the world and certainly for the United States.
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So we need to see Israel versus Iran and US, the United States versus Iran, because obviously
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the Trump administration was very harsh on Iran, had basically bludgeoned them financially
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and they were not in a good place.
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But then Biden gets into office and also Iran is thriving again.
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So Iran is obviously taking care of a bunch of rebel groups and Islamist terrorist groups
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to make sure that life on in Israel is as horrible as possible.
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And so we're going to have to keep an eye on that.
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Obviously the continued war between Ukraine and Russia, will there be a settlement?
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Will Russia get their land grab?
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But then basically the world will be over.
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Is Trump going to have any involvement in that?
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That's obviously going to be a big story.
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The mass deportations that are being signaled here in the United States of America, and
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I hope that this happens.
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Obviously, I hope that it begins with every single criminal that has made their way into
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this country, that they are kicked out of this country and that they stay on the other
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side of an actual border like a wall and that we actually have enforcement of deportations
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and things like that.
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But obviously, whether you're pro that or anti that, that's going to be a center point
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of the talking in all the different news as we get into next year.
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Also the continued conservative push for a lot of Western countries, I just talked about
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that one.
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And the last one I'll talk about and this one, I don't want to say it's the scariest,
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but we'll just kind of have to see the introduction, perhaps of artificial general intelligence.
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So there's artificial intelligence.
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There's, you know, chat GBT that can help you write a paragraph or help you figure out
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a good quote for your Christmas card, but artificial general intelligence will be an
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absolute game changer.
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It will make entire industries obsolete.
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It'll eliminate entire jobs.
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It'll free people up in a way that it's never been able to free them up before.
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And we'll have to determine is this going to be a net negative or a net positive?
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Is this going to turn into iRobot where it starts to think on its own and do things on
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its own and to be able to affect us on a day and day basis in a negative way?
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We'll have to see, but in terms of timelines, in terms of when the new chat GBT is going
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to be out, I think that would be chat GBT five or artificial general intelligence AGI 2025,
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I think is the year for that.
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So we'll have to see how it goes.
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