The Sevan Podcast - Some As$h0l3's WIR | Live Call In

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

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Come on. Oh, exciting. Did you send it to me? Maybe. Someone didn't pay their internet bill. Starling bill. Do you ever see something on Instagram and you're like, holy shit, this is what Instagram was made for. This is like, this is it. This guy cracked the fucking code. Like this new shirt. Oh yeah, I got mine too.

I got to wear mine. Yeah, that's nice. Oh, it's my favorite one. I saw this this morning and I had to watch it like five times in a row. I just couldn't believe it. I'm like, wow, this is what Instagram is for. Just this is it right here. a little bit of sugar I Didn't even know they made him in Spanish. Oh my goodness Jake Chapman. I'm down. Yeah There's a double meaning Shrek is so underused Shrek is the what do you mean underused? Have you never made it to the Shrek side of the internet? No, but it should be oh my god Have you never made it to the Shrek side of the internet? No, but it should be used.

Oh my god. Dude, Shrek is like, it's like a, there's a little, there's a microcosm of the internet that just uses Shrek as like, they just love Shrek. It's insane. It's like, it's all over the place. I love what me and David Weed agreed. That's why I love the internet. Look at that shirt that guy had on the first date.

Oh my gosh. David, this is a Christmas show. Okay, Caleb, I have a question for you. Suze, I have a question for you. Okay. What was something you, I wrote three things down that I knew as a young man or as a little kid that just were a no-no.

But I just didn't understand why adults didn't know it. knew as a young man or as a little kid that just were a no-no. But I just didn't understand why adults didn't know it. I give you, I mean, to give you a first one. Okay. Um, uh, uh, when I, when I went to go take my driver's test and they had it in foreign languages, that made no sense to me. Like you're going to drive and you don't speak English? Like, on so many levels, how does that work?

What if you get in an accident? How do you talk to the person? How do you talk to the cops? How do you read the signs? How are you, like, culturally in tune with the other fucking 10 million drivers on the road? I was just like, this makes no fucking sense. Like, I just knew.

And to this day, I know. It's like wow I'm smarter than the than the people running the show Like how like if you can't speak English you shouldn't be driving not in this country Well, I mean you could I have more issue with like the reading than the necessarily like Speaking doll of the activity of driving is not is universal Like like I knew that the driver's test should not be given in foreign languages Should only be given in English. I mean in this country in Mexico should be given in Spanish Sound very inclusive though. It seems it's not it's not it's totally not inclusive

This is not gonna do all someone's gonna clip this it is listen. I'm a hundred certain. It's not inclusive Like the same way the rides at the amusement park none of my kids can ride them like six-year-olds can ride them But my ten-year-old can't cuz it's too short This kid started to jitzy yesterday Six and he's two inches taller than obvious like fuck And he's two inches taller than Avi. I'm like fuck Okay, do you have anything like that like you just knew you were like yeah, that's that's not good. That's not And I knew that like religion was kind of a crackpot

like I asked my mom early on we had a yeah, like we had a friend who I Guess the ceremony to become a sister or a nun or whatever is like a it's like a marriage with God or whatever And so then I was like, well if it's a marriage, why is it like? That God can have multiple wives, but nobody else can kind of thing Felt it was unfair. I thought yeah, I thought that was weird Like if yeah, I don't know. I was like, that just none of it doesn't seem right. You got any, Sousa?

I mean, I got no. Let me let me give you another one. Burning things and inhaling the fumes, all my relatives smoke cigarettes. And I was like, that can't be good. I just knew that you're burning. Say that again. The smell of it and stuff grows you out as a kid, too. I got used to it.

I used to like you know what I really like? I like the lighting of matches and I like the first hit off a cigarette. If I was in the room after that, it was kind of disgusting to me. But I always like the original. But I was always like, wow, this is you have to be really retarded on Some fucking super level to think that your lungs like you should be burning something and then just hanging out over the fumes and breathing a man

All day hey, I'm not saying it's not fun I'm not saying it's not fun. I'm just saying I's not fun. I'm just saying, I just, it's, I just knew it was stupid. I like a good cigar. And my final one that I knew right away is a warming up plastics. Like if a plastic bottle was in the car, like on a summer day, I knew, I knew microwaves were horse shit.

Just as a kid, the first time I saw a microwave, I was like, there's no fucking way this can be good. There's no fucking way this thing is just targeting this object heating it up and none of that shit in the containers. There's no way. I just thought of those three today. I was like smoking, burning, inhaling fumes, heating up plastics and then eating, eating off them or using them and fucking retarded girls.

Oh no, no, no. Drivers license test for non-English speakers. It's just crazy. How do you feel about Bluetooth and Wi-Fi? Man, it's a struggle for me every day because I'm addicted to my AirPods, but something doesn't seem right about those either. It's a great thing. It doesn't mean I don't do them. something doesn't seem right about those either. It's a great You know doesn't mean I don't do them it doesn't mean I don't do them I've been known to like take the plastic bottle that sits in the door jam

Take a sip off it not very often though once a year maybe in the door. I Knew hand jobs were right Yes, those are kind of lame did Mine are lame or hand jobs then no hand jobs are lame they call it underneath that one From the time from the first time my uncle gave me one I knew I didn't like it. Oh, that's a good follow-up Caleb. He got you up Caleb he got you. Holy smoke. Oh shit have they added a letter to DEI? It doesn't even matter it's gone. Diversity, equity, inclusion and be belonging. Unless you voted for Trump. Belonging to what? Yeah, I just, listen, Standee Randy says hand jobs are lame. We'd say hand jobs are underrated.

The hand job is a really weird phenomenon. Wow. Why would I have somebody else do it when I can just do it myself? It requires context. A hand job requires context. So you're thinking about it just in a normal hand to hand to junk scenario. I'm talking about a little reach around. Caleb, I'm talking about a little reach around in public. I'm talking about time like flexing around your waist and letting your girl check for loose change in your pocket. Okay. That's what I'm talking about. Hey, I saw something the other day.

I don't think I've ever said this on the show. I think I thought about saying it once on the show. I saw something the other day that was crazy. I walk into the bathroom and my son's in there and he's taking a shower and he's peeing in the shower. But he has this hand Wrapped behind his waist Holding his penis just think about that

Just think about that he has this he has one so I go I walk in there I'm like Hey, dude, I'm first. I'm tripping. I can't even believe what I'm seeing. I think I'm thinking like he's photoshopped in there I'm like, hey, can you do that with the other hand and he reaches around so that I'm like, hey Joseph I could call my other son his twin. I'm like come in here a second. I'm like go get in the shower He's like, yeah, I'm like, can you pee holding your hand? Can you hold your penis with your hand wrapped around your back? He's like, yeah, no problem Just next time you're in the shower, just even like, I wouldn't even think about doing that. I'm gonna like hurt my shoulders. He had his hand, he was peeing, he was holding his and he was holding his penis like a cigarette. He was holding it like this. No way. I swear to God. He ashed it at the end just to get the

laugh. Do you remember all this shit? It's so crazy wait till you have little boys all this shit. You see them do with their penis. It's so funny It's all the shit used to do as a kid You forgot used to do like put push it inside you and let it pop out again Like they'll just be watching TV just doing that. I'm like, oh shit. I remember doing that. I remember doing that Just slapping it around, shaking it, just like... It's crazy. It's crazy. I don't ever want him to lose that skill.

It's one of those things I'm gonna ask him to do once a week because I just want him to keep his mobility. A skill? Hey, that's like GoWod 2.0. That's like that's like on a whole nother like go wad 69. Yeah Reach around your back. I've never even my wife does a shitload of yoga. I've never seen her do that Reach around her back and check the check the oil Wow Only ten minutes in and that's we've baked. I'm happy I can still wipe my butt. Crazy.

Small luxuries in life. It's crazy, crazy, crazy. Dave Castro, we can review. Oh, but just so you know, Tim Walz has taken it to a whole other level, by the way. Don't you worry, illegals. You came into this country illegally, no problem. It's done. A packed room at the St. Paul Armory erupted after the governor's signature made drivers license for all the law of the St. Paul Armory erupted after the governor's signature made drivers license for all the law of the land.

It's done. A packed room at the St. Paul Armory erupted after the governor's signature made drivers license for all the law of the land. And I want to tell you something to all the women listeners. And I want to tell you something to all the women listeners I Had a great follow-up line here like yeah noted women are so fucking stupid see how that's just all women They're celebrating that illegal aliens Can get driver's license, but then it hit me those aren't women those are all trannies Yes, yes, dude, there are no women Yes, yes, dude. There are no women left in Minnesota, dude.

It's done. It's done. St. Paul Armory erupted after the governor's signature made drivers license for all the law of the land. She's back, Poodle. She's back. Minnesota only has two, Minnesota is the only only it's 95% male did you know that there's no there's no there's no all the women left because women have no rights there anymore it's just just men and then men parading to be women the entire state it's like a safe haven for trannies that's a fact sounds like a dude paradise you know what I mean yeah that's just I get in shit yeah Merry Christmas you have your own state Minnesota reach around for everybody

just a bunch of dudes a bunch of dudes that look like chicks you know for for Christmas the state's giving out drivers license and transition drugs free transition transition drugs man I remember when I was like 19, 20 years old, I got a big argument with my dad about how illegal should have driver's license. Oh, really? There are people too, dad. Yeah, unbeknownst to me,

to say that now they're registered to vote and they have these other things and they don't contribute to society in terms of at least tax dollars. For housing. Hey, how about just, like, I'm not even worried about that. How about just follow the rules of the country? Hey, it's it's a law in the country It's there for a reason. It's like littering Yeah, but they're slowly eroding all the laws. Yeah

for 400 7-elevens have closed nationwide in 2024 yeah, I mean everything is behind a frickin' security gate back here, except for Sunblock. 7-Eleven said it's because I was reading the story. They give every reason, 7-Eleven corporate gives every reason except the real reason. It's so funny. That was a joke. What did they say? Yeah, I know.

I don't want me to click. It's not a fucking lie or anything. It makes me think, you know, I'm't want me to click. It's not something you want or anything. I'm being compared to people on the internet. The article I was reading is because people have stopped smoking cigarettes and pivoted to Zins. I'm like, with no explanation why that would cause you to close. It said sales nationwide at 7-Elevens are down 7%. They were just giving up all these reasons. But there's there's only one reason why the 7-elevens are closed

It's crime. Is it it's crime? it's just because they're being fucking robbed fucking because like ever since George Floyd cops refused to engage and All their sins are being stolen No, hey when those things get ransacked, I mean, how many of those do you think a private seven 11 owner could sustain like their place just gets destroyed and all their inventory gets jacked up. It's like, you know what I mean? When we see it on the internet, you're like, wow, that's crazy.

That place looks destroyed. And then you go through and you have to clean up that mess. And then you do it in dollar amounts of like destroyed inventory and everything else, like that's a, that's a big thing to shoulder, dude, just imagine like one to three percent of your inventory is unaccounted for. And you probably have a couple broke fridges that you don't have to fix. Yeah when your margins are razor thin to begin with like not only are you not making any money but now you're just in the negative. Or what? A Matthew a little off subject but still pertinent to the conversation kind of a satellite issue a vaping is like sleeping with your sister It'll do the trick, but you probably should have just stuck with the warehouse down the street fair solid Christmas comment

I'm gonna tell you guys I feel safer with you guys here like I could be a little freer with my tongue Wow, thank you. Thank you. You guys give me confidence. Yeah, you guys give me confidence. It's awesome. Yeah Yeah, this is cool if we drove together I'd probably go over 70 miles an hour I feel like I feel safer Wow speed limit 65 you go 70. Yeah, okay if I could be in the back seat of the car in front of us. Imagine if you could... Imagine if you couldn't account for 30% of your spending or haven't passed an audit in five years. Yeah, the Pentagon is a disaster.

Yeah, what a nightmare. Thankfully, we're still getting paid though. We almost had that government shut down. Almost. Okay so Dave Castro came on this podcast, absolutely murdered it. 99 positive comments which is kind of crazy. A lot of times you want some negative comments. If you're getting all positive that's not good, but this one, I'm glad he got all positive. And then I haven't watched his, um, uh, the Dave. I haven't lost, watched his re week, week. I haven't watched his week in review yet, but I did read the, um, comments.

Oh shit. He has 22,000 subscribers. Yeah. It was too pretty good. doing pretty good must be nice and his and his and his comment section is crazy It's just all positive Oh on his to I haven't looked at any of it. Yeah his his is um, his is crazy. Mm-hmm It's pretty short and sweet video. It's good It's the fact that nothing is very punishable crime until a huge dollar amount has reached in damage or theft. Even if the bad guys were arrested, the city or state would choose to do nothing. Yeah, that is a big problem.

In all the blue states, all the prosecutors have been put in by Soros, and they're told not to prosecute. What we need is we need a way bigger threshold. What we need is every citizen needs to go on police rides because with the cameras, the citizens demand way too much from the fucking police and you need to go on these rides so you could learn like, hey, okay, you go ahead and approach that fucking car. Yep. And you see, because cops are doing shit and they're being judged by their cameras for shit that like, on like, Hey man, in my opinion, if you tell someone

to put their hands on the outside the window and they reach for their, um, what's that door called where you store your glove box, you reach for your glove box, man, you immediately tased. Just like, sorry, you getting tased. Well, it's crazy. In Pleasanton, they made the city municipal people go through a few training exercises that the cops go through as far as like how close we let somebody get, that could be a potential threat or like how do you act if

somebody's acting like I write or something like that. And every single one of them failed because they either didn't shoot at all and got killed in the scenario or they shot way too soon and it wasn't a need to actually use lethal force yet. All of them failed. And these are the same people that are up there, you know, chanting to fund the police and all this type of shit. Yeah. And the second, in the second you, um, um resist arrest the cop should be absolved of everything after that Everything you resist arrest. He pulls out his guns and shoots you that's fucking on you You should you should not be allowed to resist arrest from a guy who has a gun

And why is that? What if you fucking take the gun and shoot it shoot back and hit a lady pushing a stroller? You should not be allowed to... resisting arrest is fucking insane. Resist like... and I think you should be able to talk back and shit if he's like hey show me your ID and you're walking down the street and you're like I don't have to. But then what? You could tackle to the ground and taste. You get tackled to the ground and tased. I mean, there's, there's, there's, I mean, there's, the cop has to be working within the confines of the law. But he rolls up to the car and he's like, put your hands out by outside the window and

you're like, no. And then he's like, Hey, get out of the car. And you're like what for and at some point when the cop can't see your hands it's on. Or if they walk into a Nordstrom's and you're stealing and they go to apprehend you and you resist, man I think they should be allowed to pull the billy clubs out and fucking put you to sleep. The stealing is completely out of fucking control.

Yeah. The stealing is absurd, but I mean, that's what we get. What we tolerate. Yeah. We tolerate all of it. We tolerate open drug use in California. We tolerate just blatant stealing. We tolerate, um, people who are not legally here in the country and breaking the laws to have driver's license.

Like we just The tolerance is just so high that there is no more standard and it's not writing all of our all of our laws Which is making it harder for businesses to survive. I Watched it. I watched a video of a 7-eleven Being robbed this morning. It was kind of weird too because the top said, God, what did the, it had writing on it. And it said something like 7-eleven's mostly being closed down in black neighborhoods. But everyone robbing the store was white, Asian, and Mexican. It's kind of an anomaly I think. Okay, Dave Castro, Week in Review.

I don't see Doug. It looks like the furniture's maybe moved around a little bit. I don't remember that. Oh, it's the love seat that's now? On the right. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that not a love seat? You mean our right? Yes, the singular seat on the right. Yeah, I don't think that's a love seat, but who cares?

I'll let you get away with that. Is that the cup chair? Is that what they call that? I haven't heard that, but it's the one that they put in the hotel room that's like off to the side in front of the bed oh wait wait a second I'm gonna click this video I'm gonna click this video over here first Andrew Hiller what is this oh this is great 2, 3, 4, 5 Wait that music can't be Yeah, yeah, we're fucked Oh shit, he did a press with it. Wow. No, holy shit. Yeah

That's nuts, right? Holy shit Andrew is holding a hundred and ninety three pounds. Yeah on a barbell dude, so he's got to balance it much harder oh My how can their grip strength be so different I? Wonder if that's the biggest no no Wow that's insane In job strength, and you have to hand job strength. Yeah

That you think it just means hillar jacks sophomore you decide that's great that's crazy okay yeah that's pretty insane oh the volume is gonna be low you want me to play it I don't think it's my fault. I think it's Dave Castro's fault. Third, 2024. Volumes. Volumes low, huh? I'm gonna lower my volume. Sorry guys, it's not my fault. Retards have good grip strength.

I'm gonna try that with my kids. So Andrew held his body weight in one hand and hung. Yeah. Oh yeah he weighs 193. Yeah. He could fucking like save a woman falling out of a building or like oh he could he ever seen the movie Guardian where he like holds on to the guy until he gets back to the coast it's like that. He could hold somebody until they get back to the coast Yeah, wow Yeah Excuse me You would think Kaleepa would have great grip strength from all the jiu-jitsu he's doing

Yeah, that's what I thought too Kind of trash honestly he's doing. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Kind of trash, honestly. I'm gonna have Avi do that today. He has insane forearms from playing tennis, just insane and from doing jiu-jitsu. They're like cankles. He doesn't even have a wrist. It's just one tube stake from his shoulder to his hand. It's like Popeye. He's probably about 53 pounds. He could probably, you think he could do bodyweight? I don't know that. I'm going to find out. I'm going to make a little video on it. That'd be crazy if he could hold the same amount as Kalipa. That would be wild. I'm on as Kalipa. That would be wild.

It's obviously been several months since I've done one of these. Last one was at the games. Been thinking for the past few months when I was going to do another or when I would come back. Didn't really prioritize it. Didn't really feel like it for a while and Yeah, yes, i'm not buying any of these reasons

Uh dave I'm not really buying any of these reasons. It wasn't approved. I mean, it didn't feel like it. Yeah, I didn't want to get asked how it was on the internet. John Woolley made a post that said Dave Castro is back. And then took a screenshot and a link to his YouTube channel. It's, hey John, why didn't you write, the asshole from California is back? Because we know that's what you call Dave.

I thought he was talking about you. Why didn't you call it that? The asshole from California is back. You made a video calling the asshole from California. Why is it the call it that? The asshole from California is back. You made a video calling this calling the asshole from California. Why is it the Dave Castro now? Why don't you call him the asshole from California? Just stick with it. Asshole from California.

AFC. TDC. AFC. Asshole from California. AOC. Wow. More acronyms. Love it.

AFC. And then in the last week or so, Jennifer from HQ, from the media team, she asked if I felt like I was ready to get out there again. And I said, yeah, I think I'm ready. And then she actually suggested, hey, what do you think about going on seven? And, uh, I was like, all right, I think that might be a good way for me to start getting back out there prior to even doing the weekend review like I am now. And so, um, I popped Dave cherry, I popped Dave's charity and it was Jenna's idea. Yes, Jenna, huh?

Think he hears that a lot you think she hears that a lot Dude, I'm giving Kenneth full credit for that. That's the first time I've heard it. She has a great sense of humor. Yeah That's the first time I've heard it. She has a great sense of humor. Yeah, she I think it was low on Dave's video. Oh the volume. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. You're ten minutes behind About a week ago after that We let him know hey Dave's willing to go on I'm willing to go on but't, but I didn't want it publicized at that point. So then we, we talked and I told him, he's like, Hey, is there anything you want me to stay away from? And I'm like, you can ask

whatever you want. It just, you know, I'll handle it how I handle it so that was Saturday night went on sevens podcast and It felt good to get out there I felt a little rusty Hey, this almost doesn't seem like the same guy that was on my podcast This is very different. This is like you just woke up or something. Yeah, this is this is like hostage tape, Dave Okay This is like you just woke up or something. Yeah, this is this is like hostage tape, Dave. Okay. I did not feel like doing it. Look at Jake Chapman. Hahahaha. Hahahaha. Hahahaha. Hahahaha.

What did I do? What did I do? Man, he's drunk off olive oil. Maybe. Heik is doing good today. What's that thing on his eyelid? On his right eyelid? God, this motherfucker hasn't aged in 20 years. Oh, maybe like a, what is it like the, you know when you get like, stye?

Stye? You think he has an infection? Maybe. I mean, got the dirt a lot. Yeah. I thought you got those from eating ass. Jake? That's Pink Guy.

He's been really struggling. He hasn't showered since the games. Oh, fuck it. He still has game smut on. I love it when my boys are fighting and one of them sits on the other one's face and they just go pink guy. I love that line. Talk to the community in this way again, because I've been out there since the games even with

the community for various events. I've been on the road a lot and so I've interacted and obviously continued to work and do all things related to CrossFit. So I've been involved but I have not obviously in this format. So did the podcast, felt good about it. He asked me about the weekend review on that and I said yeah I it. He asked me about the weekend review on that. And I said, yeah, I think I'm ready to start the weekend review. And so it's Monday. That's when I typically did my weekend reviews.

I didn't even actually, I didn't want to do it today, but it's like, I'm shocked. He did it today. I'm shocked. He did it so quickly, but I think it was the right thing to do right mm-hmm and I think he said he was gonna do it and so he's like whether he wanted to or not he said it and that was his first public thing so he can't go back on that yeah just where did he say he was gonna do it when he was on my show yeah and he was

gonna do it on Sunday yeah I don't even remember that Well, he it's I think it's smart tear the band-aid off and before you get like cold feet again. Just go. Mm-hmm I gotta get back on it and get on the routine of doing it and create the discipline of doing it. So here I am going to start them back up officially today and hopefully stay on the weekly cadence of every Monday checking in and giving an update on mostly things related to CrossFit and what's going on with initiatives or stuff we're working on. This one here today's, I don't have a lot to say other than I just, again, want to create the muscle memory and the discipline of doing it. Hey, this is not the energy he had when he came into my studio.

When he came into my studio, it was like, it was fool Dave. It was like, I feel like I'm talking to a fucking a sword. You know what I mean? Like I feel all the sharp edges and everything and like he's ready Like he's ready for combat. Mm-hmm, like five five, you know what I mean? Like he's basically he was like I had this energy when he came in here is go ahead ask me whatever the fuck you want I'm ready. Fuck you Yeah, I got you but I think too like doing this by yourself as you know

Like getting on the camera Sometimes you like might have these ideas or even if you're not quite have the energy to do it that day Do you turn it on you're kind of like oh shit here we go? Start to get through it And so that's what I think I'm but I am glad he tore the bait off and did it and obviously Dave publicly if he says he's gonna do something does it and so For these reasons I'm in He loves your support seve. Yeah, but I mean

maybe, but I mean I didn't go easy on him. I just went for it. Any question I thought to ask, I just asked it. And I don't know if it was like an... I wouldn't categorize it like easy or hard. I think it was just categorizing like the questions that needed to be asked. Like in that scenario, it's not like you were pushing him into corners or something like that to screw up his presidency. Like I think that were on everybody's mind. And frankly, I think it humanized them quite a bit in this scenario.

Yes. Yeah. He, he, he crushed. I don't think he could have come out doing better. Easing back into it. Missionary first. That's right. I'm sure Dave is a bit hesitant to open up.

I'm glad he's back. Strap on those brass balls and do it, Dave. Yeah. And so, if you do want to hear more from me or more about what's been going on, check out that Sevan interview that he did Saturday night. Other than that, I have a bunch of, I talked about this on the Sevan thing, but I have a bunch of, I talked about this on the seven thing, but I have a bunch of trips coming up, a bunch of travel, actually international travel even that I'm excited about. And so kind of enjoy this downtime for the next week or so and get back at it early January.

All right, that's it. Oh, short one. early January All right, that's it Oh short one thanks for tuning in and I will see you next week Caleb if you had to tell if you had to tell If you had to tell someone what you saw, what would you say? These uncomfortable's I mean when you've never seen him just sit there and be like Like he just looked a little stressed like he He really did not want to do that Dude, look at all these fucking positive comments

Well All right. So it's basically the whole summation of this one is, is like, hey, I'm gonna start doing these again. That's it. That's the only thing he said, right? Hey, I'm gonna be doing these again. I'm back. All right.

That was strange though. The way he ended it, like how Caleb said, without like big deep breath towards the end. It didn't seem different. Yeah, very much different. It was like a weird... You didn't know how to end it. Yeah, it was like a relief between like, I did it and like, but I couldn't tell if it was like, alright, it's over, the first one's done. Or like, oh boy, we're getting, like I'm stepping back into the ring of fire. I can't really tell what that

You went blurry Susie, yeah There you go Hey did did um, did any of you guys watch this I can't I can't believe I missed this I Want this was at 615 yesterday. I wanted to watch this live so fucking bad. Yeah, definitely worth the watch. If you haven't already, Chase was on fire. What? Oh, that I figured he would be. He was on fire and I really liked a lot of what he had to say.

All of it really, his whole perspective of the games and yeah, it was great. Definitely go check it out. Why the CrossFit Games does not need to be a professional sport 13 I want to read the comments here real quick. I'm curious if WFP has stated the reason for providing guaranteed funding. Oh, that's the willmore ad Fitness League. Mm-hmm I Think you nailed it take it 100% an event or competition I was not fully on board on the beginning. Now I am after watching the whole thing.

Y'all don't understand that McDonald's became bigger and better because of Burger King and vice versa. Get that pop. No, no. Sorry. Seven's dog. This person is saying that, uh, competition with CrossFit will make it. Uh, bigger and better.

Hmm. I don't think that fits here. Um, no, I'm okay. If okay official. I agree with the show premise But can we all also agree the games has to stick to set of rules qualifications path to the games for more than one year? You know, it's interesting for me. It is the same every year the nuances as a fan The nuances don't faze me at all the fact that there's an open and a semi-finals in the games every year That's like all I need. I don't I've never been one to care about the the nuances. I mean, I understand how the

athletes would really care. And it doesn't affect me at all. Doesn't make it confusing for me at all. No, and every sport does every year that there's a there's a revamp and in some sort of rules, you can look at Formula One, you look at the NFL, Major League Baseball, they're always running some sort of rule change. Like in the past five years, baseball went from like no timer on the pitch clock and now they have a timer on the pitch clock. And then the college football playoffs went from having like whoever the top two teams were in the nation, they played for the championship and that was it. Now they have an eight, 18

playoff and then they play off and then whoever wins that goes to the championship. It changes every fucking year. It doesn't even matter. Thank you, Caleb. Yeah. I was going to say, as long as the structure like dates, I think is the main thing like nuances of standards and different things like that, like sure might be like annoying or frustrating, but as long as you have the dates of like, Hey, it's going to start at the end of February and go through March.

And then you're going to do this time. And then if the games is going to be here, you as an athlete, I presume you have a pretty decent amount of information there, at least to like, kind of know your season. Yeah. Like as a fan, you don't like, you don't care whether, um, there's three open workouts or five, you don't care if the semifinals is in four locations or 10 locations, you don't care if it's six workouts or 12 workouts five you don't care if the semi finals is in four locations or ten locations You don't care if it's six workouts or twelve workouts. You don't really care if it's

All the same programming or different programming I mean you care to the point of like it's fun to talk about but it's not like distracting you like oh I can't follow this and you throw your hands up in the fucking air. It's not the Rubik's Cube Yeah agreed and I also think too that the secret, like kind of withholding information on dates and different things and not saying that they do this a ton because we do have a lot of the dates that are out now or even like locations.

Like I would say like coming off of the secrecy stuff a little bit is probably going to be in their best interest moving forward. Like not everything needs to be this shrouded in secret message, uh, you know, mystery, like where are they going to compete at? What are the dates going to be like? Start releasing all of that stuff. Number one, so you can have more promotion behind it. Right?

Like if it's going to go to Albany, New York, or if it's going to do one of these things, like get us fucking excited about it. Don't hide it until the last minute and then be like, oh, we're going to go to Albany, New York. It's like, okay, no one's fucking excited. Show us where it's going to be. Everybody let us plan. Let us know the area, the hotels, like make it exciting. Promote it.

Every Super Bowl, you know, like months in advance, like almost the year before, you know, where the Super Bowl is going to be. Same thing with the college ball playoffs. You know exactly where the college football playoffs are going to take hold and you're going to be able to like, you're going to get your hotel, you're going to plan for a year. Everybody's going to save up for it and they're going to make it a whole thing. If they know well in advance, the Olympics is the same way. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. A hundred percent. You know exactly where they're going to be four years in advance every two years. And then you can plan for it. It's the same thing. Yep. I would do early bird promotions behind it and sell packages to affiliates. Oh, exclusive stuff.

Like, Hey, if you're an affiliate owner, you could buy a block of tickets that is like five, 10 and 15 and it's at a discounted rate as you go up and block and tickets. And we're going to let the affiliate owners prioritize themselves and their members first so that way you're really feeding the base and then you're giving more exclusivity as being an affiliate owner or being a part of an affiliate. Like bucket incentivize it people come on It's not that hard. This is me sitting here right now thinking of two ideas

Still the best podcast in the CF space. Hold on a second Are you on crack? No, it's like about yeah The problem with your triple crown will be... Nah, I don't give a fuck about that. Yeah, good. Alright. Careless.

Yeah, man. More opportunities. Just do the thing. Fuck. Thumbs down. Fuck you. Take that, motherfucker. Alright.

Son of a bitch. Yeah, bitch. Thumbs down. Why don't you have good questions anymore, Seve? Okay, a couple things here I'll go with your premise of why I don't have good questions anymore. Don't call me Seve. I Don't have questions anymore because the podcast is hugely successful. I don't have good questions anymore because I've made too much money. I don't have good questions anymore because I'm trying to Suck Dave's dick and

Make sure I get access to the games. I don't have good questions anymore Because I'm lazy I don't have good questions anymore because I ran out. I don't have good questions anymore because they all leave through my penis and are in your mom's stomach. Oh, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Hey, Merry Christmas. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on a second. You know how this works. Slow and steady. It doesn't. Oh, it doesn't work. Are you there?

There we go, take two. Merry Christmas. Wait, that's my daughter. That's a kid. Oh, that is a kid. That's my daughter. I thought that's my daughter. I thought you were just squeezing your balls really hard. No, I was I was doing the obvious reach around. It's actually not obvious. He doesn't have that mobility, but but it's one of the twins.

Sure enough, I just want to give credit where credit's due. We can't all be that lucky. Merry Christmas. Yeah, dude, Merry Christmas. End of the year, just want to wish y'all Merry Christmas. Love what y'all do. Still supporting y'all. Just a little bit busy, so I can't get in the chat all the time. But Merry Christmas, Kayla, Susa, Savon, all the listeners, and Happy New Year. Nah, Merry Christmas, dude. Thank you.

Yeah, man. All right. Y'all have a good one. Bye. Bye. I too love you, bye. Hey, can we get to see about podcast, Mike, for Christmas? What's wrong with the cheapest one they sell at Guitar Center?

Hey, uh, um, uh, do for Josh Bridges again. Yeah, I've been sending. We're bugging him. Listen, I probably shouldn't say this because someone's going to think this is true. No one will come on anymore. That's it. I'm toxic. Casey Acri. Maybe we can have Casey on. Maybe we can stoop down to the adaptive athletes. The better comparison that rules changing would be that every year the teams drop every player

and then the following year has a different way of deciding who's going to make a team. You mean like if you win? You mean like you can't have the same team every year? I didn't see, sorry Casey, no one cares you're not on the CAC, CrossFit Athlete Council. I didn't see, was Casey's name one of the ones? No, I don't, I didn't remember seeing him. I didn't see him either. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be stuck to having people like, this year it It's gonna be like I'm only gonna get people like Austin Hadfield on You know what I mean? Nice Daisy McDonald. Oh

Yeah, I changed mine to the beat the B team podcast Athlete I should do serious athletes who still have a day job Athletes who actually work for a living that's gonna be at this series is athletes who are missing a limb or still have a day job that's a good group of people Heidi was saying we need a Hobart and Kate again for the news fuck that over that show. I'm almost ready to tell you guys how I really feel about that show those guys Almost ready dude. It's been like five years. Fuck those guys. I love them. They're great, but fuck them. I Ain't doing

Like Yikes Like, yikes. If you're in a conversation with me and you're fighting back your reactions because you're afraid you're going to get canceled, then fuck you. Don't like, you get one show, you're one show and done. You know what I mean? Like when I had that guy, Heyko on who was injured from the vaccine from Norway, right when we got off the show, he told me all, he gave me all these reasons in this list of shit of like wish he could have said but he didn't feel comfortable saying.

Pussayyyy And I've had a lot of guests like that, like repeat guests and I ain't, I'm not like, fuck that. C'mon man! Yeah. Hey caller, what's up? Ocho? Hola amigo. Hey, what's going on guys? What's up ese?

I'm actually talking to you guys. Yeah, this is crazy But I just want to say first off start off Merry Christmas Thank you guys for keeping it real in a space that needs it. You sound like Christian Harris Nah, I'm not. I'm uh, my name's Carlos. Oh Are you black guy? No, I'm not. I'm a the Yeah, great for Carlos. Yeah, in English, definitely. You should have said Carlos. You should have said in English, Carlos. You should have said in English.

I do live right here in San Diego next to Tijuana. So I play baseball in Mexico all the time, so that's cool. No shit, you did, really you did that. You played on an American team and you guys would travel to Tijuana? No, no, I played right near Right in South Bay and college So I played in a league right down in otai right across the border where I would walk down there every Sunday Oh shit, that's cool

Yeah, it was fun. Super fun. Yeah, that's cool But yeah And then you'd laugh at the guys as they went back to their fucking cardboard Homes and you walk across the border your air-conditioned And then and then the friends that are rich they live on top of the hill and mansions and we just watch them too I just love those colors. Oh my God. It's like high class and no class.

But we love it. TJ's awesome. Are you still in San Diego? Yeah, I live in San Diego right here in like San Diego, La Mesa. Cool. Good town. Good, good weather. Good weather.

Yeah. But honestly I'm calling in cause I don't even know. Um, I just started, I'm gonna run a marathon tomorrow or Christmas for like a charity started with me just wanting to run for my grandma. I do cosplay. So it's like kind of like this dude named Will Gudge. He does like a foundation where he runs and it just touched home for me for doing cosplay and like all these hero awards.

And I was like, I could run for my grandma and like represent her because she'd passed away from cancer. So. Touched home right away. And now like I'm trying to donate to a charity at children's hospital right there and, uh, it's right off the eight Oh five San Diego. You're a good dude. And so I'm running a marathon tomorrow morning and I want to

bring some attention to it. I have no other clue how to do it besides I was like, Sevan podcast, there's call ins. Like, I don't even know. And I call, so I'm calling in right now just to see if I can put my Instagram and the GoFundMe is in my bio. Yes, what's your Instagram?

Ocho underscore five. O-C-H-O. Undersquare? Underscore five underscore five five. Yeah F IVE. Yeah, I got it Are you holding your balls kind of yeah, you know, you gotta keep You're too buff to run a marathon, you're fucked. Dude, that's the thing too, CrossFit bro, we can do anything.

Like I'm telling you, it's just part of the game. Like, you know. Hey, is that your kid on a bike? Yeah. Oh, congrats, dude. Yeah, he's sick bro. Like dude, my kid's kids just like your kid, bro. He's jujitsu He doesn't love it jujitsu. He writes skateboards and all that stuff. You know, almost in Cali like that's awesome okay, so people go to your go fund me page and

Yeah, don't donate now And then the thing is to like I'm not really I just want to bring I had no clue how to bring attention to this and I'm like, you know did I watch the seven podcast big people call in and so yeah but yeah I exactly and I was just gonna do it for my grandma but I'm like this is bigger people are I can run for people that are passed away who are hurting the kids I was a EMT so I would go to Children's Hospital and see these kids so I wanted to just if I could bring a smile to the face That'd be so you know, okay. Well, I took the minimum donation of 50 and cut it in half and donated. Oh

Dude, I appreciate minimum. I I would try not to put no limit on there anything. It says minimum donation Well, it just starts at 50 and it recommends It recommends a hundred but I gave you 25. Yeah, I'm going to change that because right away it was like what do you want? I'm like I don't know people could put 50 cents or a dollar I don't know I'm just trying to bring some you know. Refresh that Caleb see if you see my name in there. Yeah it is 95 raised.

Oh yeah nice okay. Dude thank you I appreciate that man. I gave you a thousand dollars. Oh yeah, nice, okay. Dude, thank you, I appreciate that, man. I gave you $1,000. Oh no, no way. It doesn't kill me. It doesn't kill me. It doesn't kill me. It doesn't kill me.

It doesn't kill me. All right, Carlos, thanks for doing what you do. Keep raising a strong son and thanks for calling me brother. Yeah, man, appreciate you guys. Keep doing your thing. Good luck on the run tomorrow, dude. Thank you. Good luck to you

Cuz I like I want to talk this process that's do I have a lot of Still the same way and stuff, you know, so that'd be cool to talk sometime I'll call in okay and learn to talk a little bit faster and then you're good your goal only feedback to you Okay, bye. I'll pass it now. Okay. Bye. There it is back to you. Okay, bye. I'll talk faster now. Okay, bye. There it is. There you go. Seema's got it. Mass mappied ol. Oh, giant set of tits right on Mike when he comes in. Welcome to the show. Mike, what did you say? Those. Mine or those? Mike, I didn't tell the boys you were coming in today. You're surprised.

You're a surprise guest for them. Come on, Mike. I like surprises. Mike, where are you? What state are you in? Wyoming, Wyoming. And I had I had asked Jared Ellis to come speak to us about kind of what is Christmas for those of us who don't know and like me and Jared was busy with his flock of millions and you said that you were are you are you a pastor?

Yeah, yeah, I've been here in Laramie, Wyoming for 13 years and before that West Virginia and Before that I taught high school and was an adjunct professor in Indiana And what is a pastor? Before that, I taught high school and was an adjunct professor in Indiana. And what is a pastor? I mean, not to get all, you're just the shepherd of the church. I'm in a smaller church, so for me, it's not book deals and going on speaking circuits. It's mopping floors and hospital visits and taking care of people and whatever's going on in their life from the really great

times to the really bad times. Just being there with them. And so on Sunday mornings, you get up every Sunday morning and you go, is there an actual like a building, a structure you go to and hang out with people and talk to them about the Word and the Bible? Yep, yep. Every Sunday I probably preach 45, 44 times a year and at our church, and there's all different kinds of ways

you can do it, but the way we do it is we usually just go straight through books of the Bible and just we go through it. And my history background, I like to put things in historical context and what this means and where this is at and do those things. I didn't grow up in church, so that was a big part of my journey was figuring all that stuff out and then felt like I was called to help others on that same journey.

I don't want to put a lot of pressure on you, but your father has sent his son to listen to you today. That's the, do you remember House of Lloyd? Do you remember like when all the moms of America would have like the Do you remember House of Lloyd? Do you remember like when all the moms of America would have like the parties in their homes and you try to get people to buy stuff? That's the classic House of Lloyd Jesus picture. Completely inaccurate, but everyone knows it. Let me see this. It looks like he was one of the guys on Starsky and Hutch or Dukes of Hazzard.

Exactly. Exactly. And clearly he was very Middle Eastern, so all the pictures are not quite accurate. But Bo Duke is Jesus. And so, can you make it through the entire Bible in a year in that 44-week period? Oh, no. No. Like, we were one whole year in just the book of Revelation, which is a tough one that they say I read somewhere that pastors should never teach through two books, the Bible Genesis and Revelation. And we've done both in the last five years and it takes about a year to go through each one. Yeah, revelations scares the shit out of me. Yeah, yeah, it's a very unique letter. I don't know much about it. But just like the

fact that it's the end of the book and there's actually an ending, I don't like that part. Well, there's about a million fingers of who believes what those endings are. So that's the toughest part. Cause no one agrees. Okay. It's almost like, uh, some of the debates you guys have on this channel of different things, CrossFit. It's very similar. No one agrees or lands. It is going to be risky for you. Cause every time we do have someone come on and talk about the Bible, there's so much pushback from the audience.

They're like, well, he got it wrong there. You're not supposed to do that, or you're only supposed to pray here. You don't like, I like that. One of my friends told me you can't pray for dead people. I was like, oh shit, I didn't know you couldn't do that. Yeah, there's a lot of that, and I've got thick skin, so bring it. There's a, I mean, in the core of all of it is relationship. I mean, the whole story of the Bible is creating people who rejected God. And he steps out to, um, that's awesome.

Jesus. Thank you. Uh, there's a, and then he steps out to have relationship with us and the whole journey is us to be in relationship with him. And sometimes we make it really complicated, and sometimes we make it, we water it down to where there's no connection on our part. We just want it easy, and it's not always easy. Okay. Well, I'm going to ask you to make it easy.

Can you tell me what is Christmas? Christmas is the celebration of when God in flesh, Jesus, came down to earth to live a life that we couldn't live. And then he lives a life as a child all the way to adulthood, and he starts his public ministry when he's about 30-ish years old. And then about three years later, he is killed for being a rebel against the religious elites and bringing the truth of what God wanted also all to know so Christmas is the birth of hope it's the celebration of If you read the Old Testament the way I like to frame it is the Old Testament or the promises it's stolen from a pastor in DC named Mark Dever, but The Old Testament the promises of God that he's made and when Jesus appears, it's those promises fulfilled.

And so, when you read the whole Testament, it's crazy. Like, it's Yellowstone and everything Taylor shared and wanted to write in a movie, all crazy through the Old Testament, and then you're just waiting for this hope to arrive. And so, the Old Testament is a theme in the Old Testament, or the story in the Old Testament, I guess the theme is that there's a guy, the Son of God is coming. Yes. And in the Old Testament, do they actually give his name? Do they actually say it's going to be, his name is going to be Jesus? No. The name that's typically used is Messiah, which in Hebrew means anointed one. And so there's all kinds of they just were waiting for a leader to free them. They're just waiting, they're waiting for God to show up. And so all these guys in the Old Testament show up and they're failed and they're flawed and they're terrible. And like you read through it was

it was a struggle preaching through Genesis, because there was all these patriarchs, these major figures of the Bible, and they were always cowards. And when they encountered a village, he would go, Hey, honey, tell them you're my sister, because if you're my wife, they're going to kill me and take you. So say we're just brother and sister. And then she would go off and be in some other dude's house for a year and then get discovered. Like, we're humanity. We're pieces of trash a lot of times. And so the Old Testament just consistently shows we're terrible and we need help. We're terrible. We need help. And the promise is that God's going to send that help because we can't do it ourselves.

And then on December 25th, 2024 years ago, Jesus was born? Well, not probably not December 24. Probably. And we only know this and I'm just people debate this and people in the comments will yell and I'll get a message I'm sure. But if this what we know for facts that there were shepherds in the field with their flocks, and they came in to see this baby in a manger. Well, if it's wintertime, and I've been to Israel once and Jordan once, it's still cold there. It still has you're probably not going to be in the field when there's nothing in the field for your sheep, they're probably not going to be in the field. So the debate is, was it spring or fall? And we kind of predate the six months of John the Baptist because their cousins, it was probably in the spring, but it's always celebrated around here. And there's people believe that there's the church, early church trying to stop people from worshiping a Roman god. And so I was like, Hey, you guys are worshiping

this false god. So how about we just say Jesus instead? And then you get the presence and the trees and all the stuff come alongside. And it wasn't bad for the church to do that. It was the church trying to just point the direction towards Jesus instead of all this other stuff. And I looked up the definition of manger. So you put a gun to my head, I'm saying it's a spring. So when I look up the word manger, it says a long open box or trough for horses or cattle to eat in. Yes. And so Mary was in one of those troughs and she gave birth to Jesus? That's a debatable thing too.

Some people say the animals were held in manger or held in stables were caves Mm-hmm. It could have been a cave where animals were and so the the line in Scripture there was no room in the inn In those near eastern homes the animals slept in the basement of the house So it's kind of like those super cool real hip above apartment garages that are all over internet now But the underneath wouldn't be your car be your animals and that and then you would now. But the underneath wouldn't be your car, it would be your animals. And then you would keep them close so they wouldn't be killed, but they also were a heating factor because the body heat of the animals would rise up to the house. So it's probably one or the other, either a cave where animals were or it was the basement of someone's house. They didn't have any room upstairs, but you can sleep in the basement if you want and with the

animals. So this is Jesus's birthday party Yep, big time and it should be a party like people sometimes and that's what that's what makes the holidays hard because we also are in pain and we've got bad things have happened and Then people are all happy and but it should be a big party. It should be the celebration that hope has arrived And did they know did anyone know it was Jesus right when he was born? but it should be a big party. It should be the celebration that hope has arrived. And did they know, did anyone know it was Jesus right when he was born? The family did because that classic nativity scene that we have you see everywhere, the shepherds, angels spoke to the shepherds and said, this is the one. And so in Luke 2, the shepherds show up and they find that here he is.

And then they go tell the whole town, they come back. And so there was definitely people at the time, but they were waiting for this leader. They wanted to see the proof in the pudding. So they believed and there were even the wise men that you see in the nativity. Probably came about two years later. They found out about this, the story spread. The local Roman leader wanted this Messiah killed, so they even killed all the children two years and younger during this season when the Wisemen came.

So there was definitely a buzz about the whole region that the Messiah has arrived, and He's going to upset everything. So they started killing babies hoping to... Who was that? Who was trying to kill Jesus from the onset? It was the Roman leader at the time, and so he wanted... He heard the buzz, this Messiah is going to help the Jews rise up, and so he passed out an edict that said, kill all of the kids. And so, when that happened, they left.

Mary and Joseph and Jesus fled, and they left left the countryside and then they eventually came back. And but there's the story of the wise men coming, following the star and following to find this Messiah. They show up and they find him. They follow all the religious texts. They find him. These weren't believers in Judaism or Jesus. And when they show up, they disappear. They don't go tell the leader that they found him because so something happened even with them to where they're like, this, there must be something special about this. So the wise don't turn him in. And the wise men just vanish. No one knows what happens to them after they Yeah, there's debates. There's, there's people have written stories and books and extra biblical

stuff that they, they've named them and all these things. And all we really know is they brought gifts and that they show up and they took off. And so they didn't go back to the leader and say, hey, we found him, here he is, go kill him. They just spated off into history because they didn't want to betray the person they just saw and found. It was pretty cool. Were the parents, Mary and Joseph, given any special direction on how to take care of the Son of God? It's stressful enough having a kid. I can only imagine, like, by the way, yours is special.

They raised him as a normal boy. There's a scene in their life that when Jesus is around 13, they take him to the, to Jerusalem, to the temple. And this is like hysterical because it's a big caravan of people. You go to the, you go to the temple, you make sacrifices, you go back home and you celebrate a festival. Well, they, it's a big caravan of people. And so Mary and Joseph get back in the caravan,

and they're headed back home. And it's like two and a half, three days later, and they realize, where's Jesus? Where'd he go? They just thought like, oh, he's in his cousin's wagon, or he's over here. And he was nowhere to be found. And so they hotfoot back to the temple, and they find him hanging out with religious leaders. And he's like, well, why else would I be? I'm in my father's house. I'm doing my father's work. And so they snatch him up and he gets berated. And then we hear nothing about Jesus from age 13 to his 30 early 30s. And people debate that like, what was he doing? And it seems logical that he honored his mother. He knew he was supposed to be there for a reason, but he honored his

mother and said, okay, Mom, I get it. I need to be your son. I need to do this. And then he waits until it's time until his siblings are old enough to take care of mom, his siblings. He worked with his dad. He probably worked a blue collar masonry job. And then he goes off in his public ministry and takes off.

He knew he was Jesus? Yeah, he knew. He knew from, I mean, we, and the only, we don't have, it's not laid out in perfection, but I would say... Am I sorry? Am I Jesus? I mean the Son of God. That's what I meant. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, he knew. He knew. He knew who he was. And you see that throughout the, the, all four Gospels in different ways show that, but the four Gospels, he knew exactly why he was there. He knew exactly who he was.

And he chose to not use all that power that he had just for his own gain or to just topple things. He did it in a way to show us a way that we're supposed to love each other by relationship and sacrificing for each other. It's really beautiful. Let me ask you this. This is off-subject. You think anyone else is born knowing who they are? You think that's just born knowing who they are? You think that's just a one-off? That's a deep question. Like, like he came, he came loaded with software. Where's that?

I don't know. Yeah. I don't know that we're, I mean, it's that nurture nature conversation of, I don't know that we're loaded. I think we're probably built with characteristics that are, that are God given, but I don't know that we're, I don't think we're, I don't think we're attached to that identity that because I believe we can change. I believe we can, we can be different.

We can change. So I don't know. We're hardwired for it. I think we have proclivities. I think there's some things we're kind of DNA coded and we have, but I don't know that it, that gives us We just have to say I was born this way and this is how it is because we see change all across everybody's life So if this is Jesus's birthday and someone doesn't

believe in Jesus then this holiday is kind of to them no different than like I don't know Halloween or Valentine's Day or it's completely contrived. Correct. And that's when you see the move tour and we all do this like there's three Christmas trees in my house. There's the kids one with all the stuff they've made over the years, and there's the two upstairs. My daughter has one in her room, but none of that has anything to do with Jesus. And so we love to celebrate the holiday. The mood of the holiday is family and connection and togetherness and celebration. And so if you're not a person of faith, then you just kind of shift it towards that. Did Christmas come quick?

When did it become like a real, like a substantial movement? Was it after Jesus died? Yeah. People celebrating the birth of the boy many years later. Yeah. And it was, the church kind of really solidified it. I don't know the date. I'd have to hit the Google machine, but it was with hundreds

of years after his death, it became something, but people commemorate, um, they either commemorate or consecrate things of great. Look at that. Three 36. Caleb is the man. Um, you have all of the different moves. Like if you go to Israel and you look at places and historic sites, there's 2,000 years of history that's

built on top of what was there when Jesus was there. And so if you go tour the temple, when you want to see the temple wall, you actually have to go underground to see it. They've dug it out, and you go underground, because everything's built on top. And so when they start commemorating things, that's usually, it's a good cultural history that people have not done anything with certain things. They built churches to things because that was a special moment. Like I got

to go to Sodom and Gomorrah a few years ago, and it's, which is the story in the Bible that there was wickedness in these cities and they're destroyed by fire. If you go there today, it's an ashy. No one built on top of it. No one's done anything there. You can drag your foot in the ground and you still see ashes. It would be like today if if we built a brand new building on the 911 site, that would be a terrible thing because there's a cultural memory of death and destruction and sadness and we would never do that. And so you can't, the same thing happens in the Middle East throughout all of cultures where bad things happen. People leave it alone. It's kind of cursed. They don't touch it. If you, if something's

really powerful for Christians, then people will build stuff on top of it to get rid of it. Um, which in a small version, uh, we see that in some cities where churches get turned into breweries and they get turned into a part of it's just because churches fall apart. And but I also think there's a little bit of a stick of finger in the eye of people that are faithful and let's let's put something different here and instead of just tearing it down. But people have a cultural memory and I saw I think December 25th since it was 336 there's a great cultural memory of this is a day to celebrate.

And whether it's Jesus or I'm going to celebrate a guy coming down a chimney and putting things under a tree, I want to celebrate. Since I've been a little kid, I always wanted to buy an old church. Sometimes I'll go on Trulia and just look at old churches because they're just cool. Usually, you know what I mean? They'll be big, they'll be cheap, they'll have just a ton of stuff, you know what I mean? Big kitchens, a big hall that I could put like a basketball, you know what I mean, they'll be big they'll be cheap. They'll have just a ton of stuff You know what? I mean big kitchens a big hall that I could put like a basketball. You know what I mean? Like I Got I hope that's not blasphemous Trish. What the frick is mer

It's a spice. Okay. There you go Trish. It's a spice it actually I I didn't I don't know Frank I think mer is the one that smells like It actually I didn't I don't know Franken I think mer is the one that smells like So is it still around? Yeah, well, I bought some in a Petra in Jordan I bought some frankincense and some mer they didn't have any gold around I'm not sure why and I probably couldn't afford it anyway, but Yeah pepper That's what smells like like, clove, cinnamon, and pepper. And then...

It's just soapy. I don't know. And Mike, is there anything that... Oh, here we go. Hold on real quick. The Bible has over 69,000 cross references by 40 different authors across three continents over thousands of years. The book is a miracle itself."

100%. I have a chart because since I started and I show it and I've worked with college students and stuff over the years, but the time between the original writings in the New Testament and the time that it happened are so close that people always say, well, it's a telephone game and we don't have this and you can't. It's all been mixed up. There's more historical evidence. There's like 1500 copies of the New Testament around the Mediterranean, and they all jive within like a 95% accuracy. But Plato, Aristotle, the Iliad, the Odyssey,

all of these great books of history, there's 900 years between the author writing it and when we have a copy of that work. And so if we want to play that game with the scriptures, that we can't trust its historical validity, then you have to throw out all of Western philosophy and Greek philosophy because we have more copies of the New Testament than we have of all those other historical documents. It's just a bad argument. It's just an argument to try to get you to say you can't trust the Bible. And I get it. When people are antagonistic about it, I don't fault them for that. That's where they're at.

But it's just a bad historical argument. And I forgot who just put that up, but that's an accurate statement. There's all these cross references from different authors, different times, and where there's conflict, it's not substance conflict. It's just conflict of maybe a word here or a word there. But there's confusing parts of the Bible. There's parts that I wish I understood better, but it doesn't mean it conflicts itself. When was the Bible complete? I think it was canonized in the first 200 years of the church. It was canonized.

They said it's closed. This is it. But it was written over thousands of years and the New Testament itself was written over 150-ish years. After his death? So like 150, so 150 AD? But the close ones, like when Paul was alive and the gospels were written

and some of the other letters were written and they were added too. But like if you read the gospel of Mark, that's the eyewitness testimony of Peter. That's Peter telling the story to the author Mark. Like he's just the writer, Peter's telling the story. And so when you read it, that's a guy that was with Jesus. Luke was with Paul. He wasn't with Jesus, but he was a historian. And Matthew was the tax collector that was

with Jesus. And John is the disciple was with Jesus. So you're getting, it's kind of like when a news event happens and you get multiple reporters writing about the same thing and they get, did for interviews, they get different ideas. They're not wrong. They're just different takes on the same story. And when was the second copy made? I don't know when the actual printed, when it was officially put together, probably around the same time, 336. I'm guessing someone wrote, because someone had to rewrite it by hand to make a second copy.

Yeah. And then a third copy. And then by the time of the New Testament, and there were like 1500 handwritten copies spread throughout the Mediterranean, and you can go get one in Greece and you can go grab one from Turkey and they're going to be almost the same. Maybe a little scribal error here and there, but there, you can trust the New Testament. Jose V. I'll say the past two years, my faith has gotten me through a lot of pain. Also, you all in the chat hanging out with my,

or is it like hanging out with my dysfunctional family. Why do you think so many of us take that journey? So many, especially young men, it seems to be young men, they spend the early part of their life trying to disprove the existence of God. It seems to be like a theme with young men. I think it starts off as the rules. There's things in there that say, like, hey, you should wait until you're married before you hook up with a chick.

Hey, you probably shouldn't get drunk and do these things. Hey, you shouldn't live selfish lives. You should give and do these. When we're younger, we want to flex. We want to do our thing. We want to sow our oats. And, and then a different part in our life, we come through and we go, you know, it's, it really isn't fulfilling being with a different person every week. It's more fulfilling to have somebody that I wake up to the next day, and I'm with them, and I'm committed.

And chasing all the money, we've seen that over all the years doesn't really get anybody. I mean, I'm not saying it's not fun. You can't be happy, but there's a death inside that you're just unfulfilled. And I think people, as they get a little older, maybe face a little pain and suffering, or it just doesn't, you can't figure it out. You're like, why am I feeling this way? Where's this coming from? You start searching. And hopefully there's good people that allow for that space for the search, allow that space for questions. And they don't get freaked out when you don't agree. And there's just's good people that allow for that space for the search, allow that space for questions and they don't get freaked out when you don't agree or, and there's just some good people that can say, you know, I never thought of it that way. Um, and I think I'm fortunate. I used to, that I had a whole different background, so I'm very not like,

I'm a chapel with the police department and I go to the same class five to six days a week. That's that, that CrossFit class and the guys I hang out with the dark humor and the crassness and it's all just part of life. And so because I live in that world, I'm okay with big questions and little questions and doesn't have to be some perfect theological answer. We can disagree on stuff and Wyoming's a unique place. It's still, we can talk and disagree and have big time differences, but then we go get a beer together

and we're going to laugh and have fun together. We're not going to uninvite you because it's just not like that here. That's unheard of. What about people who are just looking? So you know, like I might pick a book on investing and I might follow the practices of investing, you know what I mean? Like put 20% in the stock market, put 3% in Bitcoin, put 20% in real estate. And I find some sort of protocol that leads to wealth, right? And comfortability and sustainability and you know, longevity and retirement. What about people who don't necessarily believe in God, but why not just use the Bible as the protocol to live your life for a happy life. Like just as a manual, like, okay, what, you know, these are some good

protocols to follow, um, in order to be happy and safe and, and, and, and basically on the most part had just have great mental health. Yeah. I think Thomas Jefferson tried that when he, he did all them. He cut all the miracles out of the Bible and published it. And, um, and people hate him miracles out of the Bible and published it. And, and people hate him for that or disagree with him for that. And I don't know the mind of Jefferson. I really appreciate him as a leader in our country and historically, but I think he was trying to take out the parts that people would be worried about and give them that. But I think you're right.

Like if you, I just last Sunday I was talking about, uh, like the basics of humanity. Like if you put the 10 commandments in places, like I don't know that that's people don't understand that that's just the basics to not be an animal. Like that's not really, if your ideal is just go to the 10 commandments, I'm just not going to kill people. I'm not going to cheat on my wife. I'm not going to steal stuff. That doesn't, that's not like lofty things. But that's the basics for humanity. If you just follow those without any kind of faith, and probably the God one you won't like, but the other eight of them, if you follow those, you'd be a pretty stand up citizen. The thing is, is the first one you can't even...

Like I can't even, I can't push against or do because it just, it doesn't mean anything to me, right? I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me. Like I don't know, I don't know what that, I don't know what Lord means or God means or God's means. So I can just pass on that one and just like, I just can just like hold it. You know what I mean? Okay, like I don't understand this one. But these other ones, you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Okay, that one doesn't make sense to me either. I don't have to worry about that one because I can't even comprehend it. Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day. That Sunday? Well, it's really getting at that version, but the actual passage

says take a Sabbath. And so you're supposed to take one day a week, 52 days out of the year to just be thankful. You don't work. You don't like one, you'll like this one, Saman. But I think you have, but there's, there's one Jewish writing said you should make love to your wife at least 52 times a year on the Sabbath. Like it should be a celebration. It should be a, it should be a party. You should be a party. It's like Thanksgiving every week. And so if you toil six days a week and you work hard six days a week and you take one day to rest and just enjoy and just be with your family and your friends, then you're going to have a much more balanced life. That's really what it's getting at. I do like that. Honor your father and your mother. I remember reading that the first time. And I was probably in my 20s. And I just decided I was going to try never to say no to my parents again. That's cool. You know what I mean? And

boy, there's nothing, the inner peace you get once you accept your parents. I think that's the cornerstone of foundation or cornerstone of being an adult. Once you take all responsibility and accountability and you absolve your parents of anything that you were holding against them. Honor your father and your mother. Yeah, that one's huge for peace of mind and happiness. You shall not kill. Crazy important. You shall not commit adultery. Crazy important.

You don't want to keep secrets and turn into a snake. You don't want to. I think it makes man weak. You shall not steal. Same thing as adultery to me. Like you don't want to slither around like a snake. You don't have to hide and keep secrets and be in the shadows. You want to be free. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. What's that mean?

I lie about your neighbor. Like if there was a false witness is like, Oh, my neighbor stole that or my neighbor did this. Make accusations against your neighbor. Don't lie about people. Okay. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. Yep.

That means right. Connected to adultery, but to your neighbor's wife. Yep. Don't lust after your neighbor's wife. Right. Connected to adultery, but just stay with your wife. You could think she's hot, but you shouldn't start visualizing that you're bending over the couch cushion or something like that. Exactly. Yeah. That's what I tell guys.

It's like, man, what if I see a college girl running down the road? Is that lust? I go, well, if you see beautiful things, lust is when you round the block and go get a second peek or a third peak. That's when you get into some dangerous territory. Yeah. It, you know, it's the same thing with when I hang out with someone and we're looking at a flower, we're looking at a sunset and they immediately go, that's

so beautiful and I kind of feel sorry for them because they've already like, they've already started labeling it and naming it and they've already started taking it somewhere and it's so much better if you just don't do that. So many people struggle with that. Like, Hey, you don't have to react to that. You can just see a sunset and like keep it better than beautiful. Yeah. Well, I can't visualize, so it's fucking great for me. Like, yeah, it's great. Um, and, um, and you shall not, uh, covet your neighbor's goods.

Be okay with the car you're driving. Yeah. And I would take that one step further and be happy for your neighbor who is driving. Who is driving. Be happy for your neighbor for what they do have. Be happy for them. Don't covet it.

And what's crazy is, so that's the baseline. And then when Jesus comes, we celebrate on Christmas, when he becomes an adult, the religious leaders of the day took those 10 commandments serious and they put all these rules. So that's when it's like, oh, I can't do this, I can't do this, I'm so afraid of breaking this one

or doing this, they made all these rules and it pushed people away from God. Because they couldn't fulfill the rules. And so then Jesus shows up and says, Hey, I know you can't follow these rules because these are impossible. You need me. And so you go to the sermon on the Mount and you go to his teachings and he drives it home like it's not, you can't just say, well, hey, I didn't cheat on my

wife well, but you've had all these other moments where you've tried. You've been flirting. You've been doing this. It's not, yeah, you haven't cheated on your wife, Well, but you've had all these other moments where you've tried, you've been flirting, you've been doing this. It's not, yeah, you haven't cheated on your wife, but you don't talk to her. You can't stand her. You don't wanna be around her. You can't just say, hey, I'm a man and I didn't cheat,

but you're terrible. Like you put your hands on her, you talk down to her. You're a terrible person. And so when Jesus comes along, he says, Hey, it's your heart. It's not good enough just to say that you didn't touch another woman. You're not loving your wife. Well, it's not good enough to say that you're not coveting your neighbor's stuff. You're, you should be helping your neighbor. You should love your neighbor. You can't. And so that's kind of the back to the circle, like the promises of God, or this is how life should be. And he says, but it's

really tough. You can't do this on your own. So I'm going to come down and grab you. And I'm going to show you how I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you how to live that life. But he didn't even have a wife. Nope. What's he know? I don't have one anymore. So I'm not sure if I can even talk about it either. And so he's born on this day, and why does God send Jesus down here one more time? Why does he send us down here? To rescue us. To save us. If he wouldn't have come, what would the situation be like then?

He knew, so if... If He wouldn't have come, what would the situation be like then? You would have to live a perfect, rule-based life and never slip up ever in a life of perfection so that you could be near a holy God, and none of us can do that. So, when I was in college studying history, and I was a believer, but I really didn't trust the Bible. Do you remember when Jesse Ventura was governor? Yeah.

Years ago. Yeah. He was on CNN once and he said that, uh, the Bible is for weak-minded people. And I remember being a guy who believed in Jesus, watching that gone. He's right. And I had come to this logical place because I read the Quran. I read the upon Ashad's, I read the back to Vita. I was, I was on a journey.

Me too. And at the core of all of them was you live a good life, polish yourself up, and then you'll achieve nirvana or whatever version you want. Yeah. And I'm studying history going humanity sucks, we kill each other all the time, we steal from each other all the time, we're selfish turds. None of this, I can't do this. And so I had already said yes to Jesus, but I was also like more solid in this truth

that I don't think, I know you can't earn this love. And so it has to be him coming after us. That's the only thing that makes sense. And so the Bible became real to me and I wanted, I taught high school, but then I started reading the Bible way more and studying it way more. And then it just turned and I wanted to teach the Bible. But at the core of that was I can look at the landscape of the world and how evil we can be to each other and go, we need a rescuer. And so that's the story of the God of the

Bible is that he steps out of heaven to rescue us because he knew, he knows we can't do this. We need his help. And so he shows us the way, Jesus shows the way, and then you get super theological. Then he sends the Holy Spirit after he dies to live in us and to be part of our lives and to help us to live that life we want to live. I'm picturing Jesus holding mankind with one hand and holding God with the other hand. No? I mean, maybe it's one, but if it's a big hug. If He wouldn't have been there, that's a big hug. It's a big hug.

Okay. Yeah, because theologically we say... Isn't Jesus, you described it as sort of a bridge. He very much is. He bridges that gap. His payment for our sin on the cross bridges that gap for us to be able to be with God. Very much so. Jose Ramirez, did Jesus take 2020 off?

Great question. Well, I can tell you, he didn't in Wyoming. Wyoming is the land of the free. We did not take 2020. He was riding horses. He was in Wyoming. Yup. There was people at Colorado, which I'm 30 minutes from the Colorado border.

And they were writing thousand dollar tickets for people to go out on a hike on their trails. And so when, when they had to do that, they couldn't stop you at the border. They were driving up to Laramie. There's a great hiking rock formation. People do a lot of off-width rock climbing where you're upside down. They were all coming up to Wyoming and camping and staying. And we would just go, remember this.

Remember the free state. Just remember this. But it was good. Were there any other free states too? Like, wasn't there like one of the Dakotas didn't play? Idaho and South Dakota. Montana was pretty, as soon as you got outside of the larger cities, people were pretty reasonable.

People were pretty like, Hey, there was one governor though, that was like, I think it was South Dakota, that chick, call me or know me. I think she was like, fuck you. I ain't doing this at all. Yep. There were, there were a lot of us that were, were like or know me. I think she was like, fuck you. I ain't doing this at all. Yep. There were a lot of us that were like, I wish our governor had a little more guts like that. But he did good here, too.

But we also, like I even told my church, if we shut down for the two months the governor said to, but then as soon as he said open, we opened. And it was just like I would talk to people. It's like, hey, if you want me to wear a mask, then just say, please wear a mask. I've got one in my pocket. I'll put it on.

But we're going to be, we're going to have a relationship in this. We're not going to get a pick on each other, get mad at each other. We're not going to do that. And I had people, you know, we're sick at the time. And I just, I had, I had COVID. It was Christmas Eve in 2020. I woke up on my stomach hurt and I was like, man, I think this might be my appendix. I'm not sure. And you know,

I Googled it, pushed on my gut, went to the hospital. They did an emergency appendectomy on Christmas Eve, diagnosed him with COVID had to go in the COVID unit, which was these poor nurses putting on positive pressure gear and all this stuff. And it's like, Hey, just bring me some soup and go away. I don't need you. I'm fine.

I got out on Christmas day, got home, smoked a prime rib, had Christmas, my family. The next day I shot two pronghorn for my garage window and we skinned them out and butchered them and just kind of rolled through it. It was just not a big deal. And that's how it was around here. I did the first funeral of a COVID patient here. And I was part of the disaster team in our County and they announced it. We're here. It's happening.

And I said, Hey, just so you know, I don't, I don't, I'm not bound by HIPAA. Um, I know the lady, she was 102 and she passed and we should be careful, but the sky's not falling. Let's just be honest with things. And it just was different here. People weren't mad at each other. Well, there were a few, but we don't listen to them anyway. What town do you live in?

Laramie. It's a, that's a big town for Idaho, right? For Wyoming. Yeah. For Wyoming. that's a big town for Idaho, right? For Wyoming. Yeah for Wyoming. That's a well, there's only there's only half a million people in our state. Yeah The biggest city Cheyenne was 65,000 and we have if the university It's the only four-year school in the state and if everybody's here we have about 35,000 Probably just it fluctuates. You have an Apple store there? No, no Apple store.

We don't have a Lowe's or a Home Depot. Wow. Yeah. Do you have a drive to Cheyenne? You have it. You have an A's hardware and it's everything's double. Double the price. Always.

Yeah. It's a, it's a really cool town because it's, if you go to Walmart, you'll, you'll go down one aisle and it's college students were in Chaco's and North face and you're around the corner. And it's a literal cowboy that came in to get supplies with boots on and Stetson and everybody gets along and everybody takes care of each other. And it's a cool place. God, I want to live there.

The wind and the cold, like it's currently 29 degrees and the we're at 7,000 feet. So like my gym is CrossFit 72 20. And, um, we have t-shirts from the gym that say, uh, workouts at sea level don't count. have t-shirts from the gym that say workouts at sea level don't count. And then we have like all the, even at the university of Wyoming, every, every visitor sports locker room says, how's your oxygen? They try to psych them out because they're at 7,000 feet when they fly in from all these other places. And it's pretty cool place. What's the biggest event you do in Laramie?

Like is there a rodeo or is there like a like a nerd convention? Like I don't know. The every every summer we have on 4th of July the community comes out for a 4th of July in the park and it's just called Freedom Has a Birthday. It's a big community event and then we have Jubilee Days, which is kind of our county fair city with the carnival stuff. But any outside events? Like does anyone come there like for a computer convention or like Comic Con or no? How's your gay pride parade there?

Uh, it's pretty small. The Matthew Shepard incident happened here, which is what most people remember. Which was which was a young man that was, he was a gay young man that was murdered outside of town and it was a big deal and the, um, I forget the name. I just lost the name of the 1998. Oh, that was, that was 26 years ago. And was that like some sort of huge political event? Yeah.

And it kind of, it was kind of the, the, the pride communities, Rosa Parks moment and kind of went throughout the culture and throughout, but here in town, you know, like when the, when the black lives matter protests happened, it was people just walking down the sidewalks and stayed in the courthouse and there's been protesters on campus, but they just do things silent. People are pretty cordial around here. They're not, and I don't know if it's the fear of things will get Western fast or if it's just that people don't really get

in each other's business like that. Is your governor a Republican or Democrat? He's a Republican, but that depending on who you talk to in the coffee shop, people debate how much of a Republican he is, but he's a Republican. Gotcha. We had a, we had a Democrat governor several years ago before I moved here and he was very well respected. Why did you move there?

Uh, for the, I was, I was a associate pastor, like a junior past, I don't assistant pastor in West Virginia. And it was time to, I wanted to be a lead pastor and I've found associate pastor, like a junior pastor, assistant pastor in West Virginia. And it was time to, I wanted to be a lead pastor and I found, uh, on Denver seminary's website, this church was listed and I sent, you know, applied and came out and visited and fell in love with it. So I'm in love with it. I, there was a time in my life, I thought I was going to be, you know, leading a big church, um, cause I thought I was that cool when you're young and full of vinegar, but

God saved me by bringing me to a small town. I'm wired for talk to a guy on Sunday that's struggling and we can go fly fishing on Monday and talk about what's happening or go spend six hours in the mountains hunting for elk and have big time life conversations and guys at the gym that, um, that every time a song comes on that mentions heaven or mentions Jesus, there's always one or two people go put that in your next sermon preacher. And so then last thing was two summers ago, I did we were going through Proverbs, I did a whole sermon of just rock lyrics that mentioned God or Jesus. And I said, I'm going to do it. But

you guys have to come. And so then like 20 guys from the gym all showed up and we had a good time. That's awesome. And I'm, I think I'm wired more for that just to be with people. It's been time instead of being, not having nothing against big churches and guys that are much better authors or speakers than me, but I'm just wired to be in proximity to people and hang out and do life with people.

Hey Mike, thank you so much for coming on. What a great show. What a great guest. Yeah, thanks for sharing all that. You've gotten some faith conversations over the last few years of, and I've like, man, I'll fly out to California just to hang out in your studio. Like I'll go on my dime. I would rather do it in person. Faith Week. we can do it anytime. I'm available. All right, be careful I don't want I know that what if what if God I don't even want to say it out loud. Never mind. I can say what if well I just say what if it's the devil luring you out here? What if I corrupt you? I

Always I mean I can't I can't since that's a freedom- a freedom reduced state, I can't bring any of my, my explosive toys, but I've always got a blade. I'll be good. All right. All right. Good. All right. Thank you.

Thank you very much. You're a wonderful guest. Thank you, sir. Merry Christmas. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Mike Berry. God, I love the people who listen to the show.

He's a nice guy. Mason Mistral, Faith Week sounds terrible. No, it would be cool. Did he vote for Liz Cheney? I love pastors and preachers and I love all that shit. Especially when they know they their shit like him. Yeah, it's a lot better when they can actually articulate it. And I don't sense a defensive bone in his body.

No, not at all. One of my sales reps is a country singer who gave a concert at the Jubilee every year, Leslie Tom. You know, it's funny is when I said your big events, I was like thinking like more like out of town stuff. You know what I mean? Like like this Comic-Con come stuff. You know, I mean like like this comic-con come there You know what? I mean? Like yeah, they have like a convention center and shit happens there. Yeah, like could the CrossFit Games be there No, they don't have a venue. I want to type biggest venue in biggest venue and

Laramie I bet you it's the University of Wyoming's football stadium I don't know how to spell Laramie I bet you it's the University of Wyoming's football stadium I don't know how to spell Laramie la r a m IE Okay, I got it. It's a 200,000 square foot building with indoor seating capacity of 11,000 Laramie Wyoming sports facility. Oh And you're right probably is at the University. Oh yeah, wow, you could do the... Wow, look at this. Yeah, that's University of Wyoming. Look at this. Yeah, I like this a lot. Hey. So I'm on podcast meetup in Wyoming.

Yeah. Do you have any questions about Jesus? You'd like me to answer. I'll navigate that myself. Okay. I'll figure it out. No offense. No offense.

No, none taken. None taken. None taken. No offense no offense no none taken and untaken none taken someone's a convert now, you know British for once a lot. Hey, are we doing kill Taylor tomorrow? That's why I called in we got an air out at where we got to figure everything out live on air. Yeah Yeah Let me see are we doing oh I better I have a kill Taylor thread, let me see if Oh, are we? Don't ask our don't ask our when

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. you're a real businessman. When are we doing? Kill my kids are like, hey, do you have podcasts tomorrow? I'm like, yeah, podcast every single day. And they go, can we open presents without you? If you're in the podcast room? Fuck no. Open presents without me. Hey, you know what? This is going to be a test for my kids this year, Gabe. Oh, I'll just send Taylor a link, see if he comes on. I bought my kids used shit from eBay. And if my parents would have bought me used toys, I would have been so butthurt. Why? I mean, that's dope, to be honest with you. I just wouldn't have liked it. I don't like your shit.

Let's see if Taylor comes on How do you think they're gonna react? I don't know I Think they'll be chill. I don't know. I was a spoiled little fucking bread. I Think they'll be chill. I mean it's a gift regardless, right? Yeah, you don't really think that. Like I was making fun of them. I said, hey guys, don't expect anything cool from your mom. She probably brought you like shoes and shirt.

Oh, you know what my wife bought my kids? God, I hope my kids aren't listening. I was ripping my wife yesterday for what she bought them. You want to know what she bought them? Boys, if you're listening, turn this off. You ready? Socks? Sheets.

I'm like, yeah. And she's like, they really they're they're like a spotted like cows. And I'm like, dude, what are you doing? And she's like, they wanted these. I'm like, they don't want them for Christmas. They want that shit. Like, kids don't want clothes. They want that next Wednesday. Sheets. Exactly. Are you fucking kidding me? I'm like, you're just like my mom. All moms are the same. Sheets! Exactly. Are you fucking kidding me? I'm like you're just like my mom. All moms are the same. They fuck Christmas up. I always like after 30. That's like a gift. Like if you're oh after 30 yeah buy someone clothes yeah. I'll take that. I need socks and underwear every single Christmas. I appreciate that. Oh Bill. I got a video of Bill Grendler doing the

hanging thing. Did you see that hanging thing that? Oh, wow. Oh, Bill's a hawk. What? No, no. Bill's a hawk. Oh, yeah, Bill's got that.

No problem. You guys want to see that? He probably is all jacked up on um, uh paper screws paper street colony. Oh Yeah, sure. Yeah, he's for sure fucking cheating Look at look at bill. I Wonder how much that kettlebell is We think that is 70 some odd pounds 88 Jesus is. What do you think that is? 70 some odd pounds? 88. Jesus. Damn. Like it's nothing.

And ridiculous. And for an old person. That's good. Yeah. Look at him. Look at the camera too. Look at him. Now he's taking a piss. Oh, God. He's taking a piss. Oh God. Oh my god. He is savage. Oh don't show that's heavy. Oh Nelly. Oh Nelly. Please no one go back and look at that. Please. Do you know what that one was Caleb? I sent that to you. Yes Let's look at this one, I'm so sorry for whoever how do you do it so clean What do you mean oh Shit this is bill was 135 on a barbell Oh my god look at my god around it. Yeah, what a fucking spider man's like surfing on it. Oh

My goodness Olivia I bought my daughter paper street coffee when she was 11. She's been addicted since well, that's good Well, that's not though I don't agree with that message, but thank you I appreciate it. Yeah Before though he um, the gremler said he held 88 pounds for 20 seconds in 135 pounds for 8 seconds John Young held 80 pounds for 10 seconds. Wow. I think my fingers are going to hurt. Yeah, I don't think I don't even know if I can hang from one arm. I hurt myself.

Jesus, I am so sorry. I'm so sorry. You know who you are. I'm so sorry. So sorry. You know who you are. I'm so sorry. So sorry. Okay. Kill Taylor. Tomorrow.

I don't have a time. It's a great, great question. But Taylor self will be coming on here. Paper Street coffee will be putting up another thousand dollars for Christmas. You can win it. Olivia cursed at her. Again. Yep.

Again. Or gone. Holy cow. She got three grand. You sent her three grand. Gabe. You sent her three grand. You sent her three grand. You sent her three grand. You sent her three grand. You sent her three grand. You sent her three grand. You can win it Olivia cursed at her Again, yep again or gone

Holy cow. She got three grand you sent her three grand Gabe yeah. Yeah that very same day Damn imagine that at what how was she 17? Yeah, something like that Just three grand just killing. When she travels, she sleeps in the same hotel room as her parents. That's how young she is. Bam, she probably didn't even, she probably gonna, bam, three grand right before Christmas,

right before the new year, just on the holiday break. She'll get some lip gloss, probably some energy drinks. Definitely. What drumsticks can your kids use on the electric drum machine thing? It's just regular wooden drumsticks. I'll send you a picture of it. It's pretty cool. Just regular wooden drumsticks. She shares a towel with her dad, right? Seve? Yeah. All good kids do. I dry it off with my kids. I dry it off with my son. Your kids, my, go ahead. I wish I could dry off with my kid. Um, I'm going to send them my, my favorite drumsticks that I used to use. Oh, that's awesome. Hey your kids towels like this big

Like 24 by 24 inches No, man, we went to the doctor to two days ago and he's already at four months He's weighing and measuring with a ten month old waist and measures. Oh, wow That's awesome God don't you just love don't you just love seeing them eat and poop? It's like you've never been so happier because it just shows that the machine's working, right? You don't get a lot of feedback from a fucking baby. As long as they're fucking eating and pooping, you're like, we're good. In the beginning when he wasn't pooping, I stressed like there's no tomorrow.

And then I was like, is this supposed to happen? And then he takes that first black shit the McCose the McCosin one or whatever the for that first black shit they takes a trip he just started solid like two days ago actually avocados oh nice nice yeah we're starting him with the avocados and trying to keep it to some healthy fats and reduce the The crazy carbs and starches in the beginning that all kids get Yeah, I I can remember putting the boys in that little uh in a high chair

And just putting avocado there and them just grabbing it and squeezing it and smearing it all over their fucking faces and hands and it's cool Yep, that's exactly where he is right now. I just trying to figure out how to eat just smear around All right. Hey, I will I'll keep you posted I'll know soon. I sent Taylor a link and I text him. Maybe, I don't think I can call. I'm gonna see if I can call him right now while you're on. Do you wanna hold on for a second? No, no, no, that's all right.

You can just text me. We're going to my parents' house right now with the kid, he's just waking up. But if we do have a kill Taylor tomorrow, and not if, when we have a kill Taylor tomorrow, it'll be 20% off all subscriptions. So if you sign up for a subscription, you know how our coffee is normally like 23, 24 dollars, 2369 exactly. Yes. Um, it'll, it'll be,

it'll be discounted to like 18 something. Wow. That's a hell of a deal. Okay. For the hour for subscriptions. Right? Okay. Yes, sir. All right. Thank you, brother. All right. Thank you, brother. All right. I'll talk to you. Merry Christmas. Everyone. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Oh, paper, paper street coffee. Oh, today's my mom's birthday. Oh shit. Her birthday, Rosemary. Yeah. I would call her and wish her a happy birthday. That's probably the last thing she wants. Somebody just sent me a new picture they found of Dave when he was on when he was in SEAL

Team 6. Oh, wow. With Rumsfeld. Wow. Damn. Isn't that sick as fuck, dude? Yeah, Dave was deep undercover. Dude, man jammies

and a little star? That's crazy! My man's out to kill some people. Damn. Yeah, that's sick as fuck. Lucas Parker's in there. Yeah Damn All right, I don't have anything good to share on Christmas Eve I should I should

We did illegals getting Drivers license probably I got people Biden commuting death sentences. I probably shouldn't do that. Let me see if there's anything. Okay, here, this one's good. This one's chill. This is a guy, this is a homeowner catches a thief

stealing Amazon boxes off his porch. Okay, here we go. That's why you fat. Look at 3D. No, no, you can have it. You can have it. You got it, brother. You thought it was some snacks in there?

Look at you. You can go ahead and take it. It's a big box for a big back. Come on, come on and get it. It's a big box for a big back. Come on. Come on and get it. I know you need it. I I think I was confused bro. Oh, I I know I think you hungry and

people act abnormal when they hungry. You've seen the Snickers commercial. Come on and get you a little box. Don't try to run either. Big back you to be a thief Mo come on and get it at this point. I just want you to get the steps in You never know it could be some workout equipment in there

Fuck dude Mike we can't be staged. Fuck you. don't ruin it Mike who cares It's funny. Oh my goodness What did we do before the internet? Nothing fun Let's see if I have anything else fun, oh here we go I'm gonna do this later on today. I'm gonna do this later on today. I'm gonna do this with my boys.

This Instagram account shows you how to make tools like out of wood. And this is, this one's how to make a mallet. This one's really cool. Nice. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh.

Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. I want that saw. Yeah, hammers.

How to make hammers. Damn, I fucked that up. Good job, Justin Are you gonna get your kids a block of wood and be like hey you can make a hammer out of this if you try Hard and believe in yourself Merry Christmas. Yeah. Hey, I love cross. I love just I love nipples pointing just like Just headlights dude. Yeah, I just don't like symmetrical nipples What you know what I mean? Like I prefer like they're just wandering around Do you know what I mean? Like just they're so big that they're just inner shirt ones pointed off up up into the right ones Down to the left. Oh my god

Those are like retarded nipples Uh, my boys are gonna have my boys are gonna be so capable Yeah My boys are gonna have my boys are gonna be so capable Yeah For also also fake those little wire saws are nearly worthless. No shit. They are Just like you clock Mmm Joel, I'm barely at the Mike Barry part this dude blows the other pastors out of the water solid understanding of scripture and history reliable for sure Yeah, lazy eye nipple. Yeah. Sir.

She stood. Uh, I don't like symmetrical nipples. That was a little harsh. It's not that I don't like them, but like I think it's I think it's fun when they're like when each kids doing its own thing You know and that's why like I don't have a problem with like like people have problem with fruit in my yard because it doesn't Look like the fruit in the grocery store. You know what I mean? It's not all perfect We have no problem with that. You know what I mean? Like an apple that has like a barnacle on it

Or you know what I mean? Persimmon like a war like I like if a worms in there I just cut the worm at the part where the worms at and just throw them back in the garage in the backyard. If there's a worm in it I'm not eating that. Like if there's a hole in my in my fruit I'm not doing that shit. It's fine. It's fine.

It's fine. I can't really do any of these other ones. It's all just like kids getting raped at schools. Oh my god, dude. You need some joy in your life. Yeah, it's just, it's just, uh, let's see, this one says Disneyland. This one might be fun. What's this one say? Uh, oh no, that one's not fun either.

I got nothing. Kids for cash. Um, hey, do you know what is crazy? I'll leave you with this. I got nothing. Kids for cash. Hey, do you know what is crazy? I'll leave you with this. This is crazy. They're about to test George Floyd's heart. Just now? Yeah, they're going to they're doing some test on George Floyd's heart. Right. Let me let me see. It says a court grants Derek Chauvin access to test George Floyd's heart

tissue and bid to overturn federal conviction. Federal judges approve a motion for allowing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to examine heart tissue and conduct additional testing on fluids preserved from George Floyd as part of Chauvin's ongoing effort to overturn his conviction. Now, how the fuck would they still have George Floyd's heart, but they burned the guy cremated the guy Who killed Trump two weeks after he killed him? Shit dude, I don't know that's weird That's a very interesting question that's inconsistent right guy takes shot of president You got to keep him on ice for a little while and like make sure the investigation's inconsistent, right? Guy takes a shot at the president, you gotta keep him on ice for a little while and like,

make sure the investigation is thorough, right? You don't just fucking throw him in the fucking incinerator two weeks later. Uh, yeah. I don't know. But you keep George Floyd heart tissue around? Because somebody else is getting convicted convicted for it. Like, so they like need to maintain the evidence. But like the guy who shot at George Floyd, they're like, well, it's one guy. We got everything. He's fucking dead.

Dead now. There's no you mean the guy who shot it. You mean the guy shot at Trump? Yeah, sorry. I wish I wish you would have shot at George Floyd. Sorry. My bad. Taylor texted us back. Oh Tomorrow 2 p.m. Oh my time or your time. I think yeah good question or your time

So what if you're in the car I don't give a fuck I Don't give fuck that probably made Taylor hard gave him an erection Unless he's getting roadhead right now, then he probably doesn't want to be interrupted. Can I ask you a personal question? I don't know, man. Sure. This picture that someone sent us just now of this girl? Yes. Did she pull her boobs up before she took that picture? Let me examine the evidence.

Yes. So she didn't just walk up? You don't think she just walked up and just took that picture? No, I think she walks around like that all the time. Like she just naturally does that. But look how high her boobs look. Yeah, I know. But so before she took that picture, did she pull them up? You know what I mean?

You know how you'll see girls adjust their boobs in their bra? Yeah, that's what she did. Before she... I want to show you, I don't want to accuse her of something she didn't do. Not that I think there's anything wrong with adjusting your titties for a photo. There's nothing wrong with adjusting your titties for a photo There's nothing wrong with adjusting your titties at all no, oh boob tape like boob tape. Oh Yeah, I've heard of that too it like you like I think you put it on top of your boobs and then I like lifts Them up so they're just constantly up

How do I share this without like sharing everything like what do you do? I go to what like if I just want like I have it open. How would I how would I share this without like sharing everything? Like what do you do? I go to present. Like if I just want, like I have it open, how would I, how would I share just? Present, share screen, window. Entire screen? Go to entire screen. No, no, no, no, no, window. Window. And then do you have it open as like a preview? Or are you just looking at it from the text? as like a preview? Or are you just looking at it from the text? I'm just, just from the text.

Do I have to save it as something first? So if you open it in the text, like double click it, open it, it has a window. And then that window on the top right, it says open with preview. Yeah. Then click open with preview. Okay.

And then it'll send it to- Oh, oh, you da man. And now I won't accidentally show private texts? Exactly. There you go. So how do I... Oh, shit. I put a blue line on it.

Yeah, so those were perched up for that photo? Probably not for the photo, but they were perched up for that photo. Probably not for the photo, but they are in they are perched up in the photo. Yes. But I mean, if I went like that, my tits don't come higher. What I'm asking you is, is she gave the camera to someone reached in, lifted up her tit, lifted up this tit and then did this. God, that hurts my shoulder. How look at her fucking mobility.

Can you do that? Can you get your, how does she do that? I don't know. She's hot chick. Oh, Olivia says it's the bra. What brand is that? LSKD. God, I hate to support them. I got my wife one of those she looks

Amazing. All right. Yeah They did the they had the whole no, it's the bra they had the whole rainbow flag Yeah, I know but their shit just looks so good Has Brian put it to her? Oh Brian friend? I don't know. It's a good question. LSKD is the best.

Yeah, totally. If you want to support child genital mutilation and shit like that. They have those shorts. They have those shorts that Brittany Weiss was wearing. They were like sold out. I tried to get some of those for my was wearing. They were like sold out. I tried to get some of those for my wife for Christmas and they were sold out. That's all Brittany Weiss' fault. I don't trust any organization that celebrates any sexual activity on their front end.

Like they had their building and they had... What about on the back end? Yeah, that's fine. That's what that room was for in the video shop you know with the beads and you walk in but if you're forward-facing i love butt sex and i love gay sex and that's your forward-facing like element to the or straight sex any kind of sex like fuck you like get out of here um like unless you're like a condom company you know know what I mean? Or a blow-up doll company. That's cool It checks out yeah

Taylor says his time 2 p.m. His time. Oh Oh shit, okay So that's um 11 a.m pacific standard time. Oh i'll um I love sex too. Fuck you too. Yeah. I love sex too. How about that? The pastor said 52 weeks a year. Yeah, once a week, dude. Yeah. You got to. Or you just make up for it in one week every month like I do. That's good. Okay, tomorrow.

So we'll schedule that. What is that? That's 11 AM Pacific standard time. Tilted. Yes. And, and, and, and, and 20% off on all subscriptions from Paper Street Coffee. Yeah, I think 2 p.m. is good too, right in between everything. That way I can, I'm gonna wake up, I'll do a quick show with Greg tomorrow. Excuse me. And then... Yeah, we should do a 30-minute warning. That's a good idea. Maybe have Susie go on the Instagram or something.

And then, yeah, before Kil Taylor. Oh yeah, and then give the, hopefully it'll go on the Instagram 30 minutes before, maybe even in the morning. And then we'll do the show. All right. I Did a hundred double unders yesterday Cool shit, I did one double under one single one double under one single and then I Will no no no no no then I got the ten double unders and then I did a muscle up or two or three And then I came back and I did that for ten rounds just to just you know Nice to see if I can do yeah today. I'm gonna try do you do the dub is barefoot? Yeah, I Got drilled a few times yesterday

Fucking hurts dude, oh my god, those are the ones where you just want to like Oh Those are the ones where you just want to like Kick a puppy dude. I hate that It I think I gave myself neuropathy or whatever like one of two of my toes on my right foot like haven't felt from getting hit with the rope so often just fucking sucks. But today I think, well today it's raining and I can only really jump rope outside. But next I'm going to start trying to do like two double unders in a row. Okay. I just don't want to like shit the bed in the open. I always shit the bed in the open because I can't do double unders or my muscle-ups suck or something like that

You know what I mean? So I want to at least make sure like I don't get stopped somewhere You know what I mean by that Yeah, like there's like points in the workout where like you're not gonna be able to go any further because you're just your skills Yeah, I can't do that. Yeah Yeah, so basically Yeah Yeah, so basically I like the dogs muscle ups My goal is is if I can do like seven strict muscle ups and I could do 20 double unders

That's kind of like my unbroken. That's kind of like my goal in the next And the next month don't blow your Achilles a kid from what oh Dude, I'm fucking Armenian dwarf. We don't even have Achilles. Just like fucking, I'm like a piece of cartilage. One giant. I don't even have this wires that you have. Oh, how are your strict handstand push-ups? That's a good question. I'm assuming great. Yeah. I'll try. You have pretty good assuming great. Yeah. I'll try a pretty good pressing strength. Yeah. I haven't been upside down in a

long time though. I just fuck around with some doing some handstands. There's not gonna be like handstand walking in the open is there can't do that either. Fuck. They've had that for sure. They have. Yeah, because it was like a it was like Diane 2115 nine hands and push-ups deadlifts But then it was like it they did this Or 15 12 9 or something deadlifts with a heavier weight and then a 25 foot handstand walk in between or 50 foot handstand walk in between That was in the I didn't even yeah, I didn't even finish the first one

Because that was the year they had that stupid ass fucking handstand push-up standard Yeah, there's no fucking way I'm lifting there was 3-5 there could be 315 in the open Yeah It was 225 to 315 I'm gonna tell you this right now. There's no fucking way. I'm scaling the open So like if I can't do it, I'm just gonna stand there with my thumb in my butt I'm not doing I'm not doing I'm not doing like I'm not scaling it 21 reps for 315

Yeah, no wild I mean, like, I'm not scaling it. 21 reps for 315. Yeah, in the wild. Yeah, the most I've deadlifted, you saw, the most I ever deadlifted, you saw me deadlift, I mean, the most I've deadlifted in the last 10 years, you saw me deadlifted at Greg's house. I was 295.

Merry Christmas, fellas. Have a great day with your family. Thank you, you too, brother. Thank you, Mr. Olson. Always good to see you. Isn't the master's weight less? I don't think it gets like, gets pussified until you're 55, which sucks.

Cause I'm already like completely pussified. Thank God my shoulder feels a little better. Still hurts, but,, technically 21, 15, 9 and 3, 15 but I didn't make it farther than that. Yeah, I'm screwed if they have it. Well, that's kind of cool. 55, the weight goes down. Yeah, I need it to go down. Oh, if Wooly...

Yeah, you can still consider it RX. I don't think Wooie's older than me. Somebody just said he was. 50 something 5454. Seve your take on rich bashing Greg. I didn't hear it. I mean, I kind of Greg kind of bashed him when he was on the show last week a little bit. Still bashing.

Minor bashing. Basher mom. All right. And on this note, thanks guys. Good seeing you guys. Thanks for hanging out on Christmas Eve. Remember, we're all gonna be doing that workout that some asshole in California program very soon. I need a picture of Dave Castro on a shirt and it just says some asshole in California. Oh that should be like the new Dave Castro is a prick shirt. Yeah. Now it's just, yeah, that's good. I like that. All right. Oh, Jesus. Kenneth the Lab 2025, open, brought to you by some asshole in California. Talk to you guys soon. Love you guys.

Oh, is today Friday? No, it's Tuesday. Oh, okay. I thought I was doing the Binge Bros tonight. Alright, talk to you guys later. Bye bye.