Road Trippin to G3: Preview of G3 and Debate Report

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well greetings and welcome to the dividing line my name is james white coming to you from um to be honest with you i think i'm in north carolina sometimes he is not even sure uh starts getting blurry after a while uh but uh drove down from uh somewhere in virginia too not big places you know uh if you're if if i was looking for staying at fancy spots i koa is generally not fancy spots and this is definitely not a there's koa um holiday and koa journey and the holidays are fancier than the journeys i'm on a journey right now so i don't really take note of any of that stuff i've never been in a pool at a koa um i do want to find the uh laundry i think it's over there i hope so do need to do some laundry tonight um but uh other than that i don't really care too much about all the rest of it as long as it's got electricity water and sewer that's all that matters it's just all the rest of it is somewhat on the academic side of things so anyways uh great to have you with us we uh i still have people who aren't who are like are like so are you seriously in an rv look if you've got that background that's the rv that's this is an rv yes this is uh there's the roof up there um this is the front of the unit uh there are sadly uh many deceased bugs outside that wall because that's that's the front end that's the business end that's what hits the air and uh takes out some pretty big nasty bugs along the way and uh we got to get that cleaned off each trip and uh because it's best not to leave that sitting there in the sun because bug guts baked on not a good not a good combination just stuff you learn uh when you uh when you do the rv life and so i will be parking um this little beastie in atlanta and uh then tomorrow night i've gotta i've gotta pack luggage you know how long it's been since i've packed luggage uh i'm gonna forget stuff you just there's just no way i mean i had gotten really good at that but it's been years now and i'm gonna forget stuff hopefully not underwear because that would be the worst thing to forget i think um but i i'm gonna have to pack stuff up for three days because uh my dear wife is flying into atlanta she flies she doesn't care about all that stuff and uh uh so we're gonna be staying at the hotel there uh for g3 and so i've got to pack up what i need from here and bring it with me down to the convention center and once again i know i've mentioned this on uh wednesday starting at nine o 'clock in the morning there is a pre -conference jeffrey johnson starts it off i speak in the afternoon there are 45 minute presentations uh from people who are staff members uh faculty members at grace bible theological seminary and then at the end of all that will be a they're even calling it a mini debate and i'm like um it can't be a mini debate i have a specific topic my topic is government overreach masks vaccines and the navy seals and they asked me to do that because of our involvement with the seals and the stance that we took from the start uh apology i never closed um we you know certainly had a few people in the congregation that um wore masks but i would say they might have represented one percent two percent at the most um and certainly today i don't know of anybody who goes oh man i wish i had gotten the vaccine i'm gonna run out and get it now i don't know anybody um pretty much everybody that i know who withstood the pressure is just going whew when you see all of the stuff going on and all the excess mortality and and and i honestly i don't think we've even begun to see everything that we will eventually see well if we are allowed to eventually see it let's let's put it that way so um i'm gonna be talking about that um but i'm not going to be presenting a defense of post -millennialism or anything related to that so i'm not really sure what the debate part's going to be because i know that other people will be making positive presentations for their perspectives um in their presentations um but i won't have that opportunity so i'm not really sure what that's going to turn out to be but we'll see uh it'll be it will not be boring i can guarantee you that so that's on wednesday then on thursday uh everything gets going at full speed and uh we'll be at our we have a booth alpha omega has a booth jason lyle is going to be at g3 for the first time and so i'm definitely going to pop over to jason's booth for a while and say hi to him uh jason lyle's the smartest man i've ever met and if you don't know jason lyle and uh biblical creation institute you need to go by and you're going to be there go by his uh his booth and say hello and say james white said you're the smartest man alive and i wanted to come see you and he will smile and rue the day that you met me so um go see go see jason lyle um at his booth and then of course uh jeffrey rice is going to be there um and uh he will have some really cool stuff available there and i know he's made up at least a few of his now incredibly popular and famous johnny cash rebinds and i had i guess i had seen some of them in passing but i really hadn't made all the connections uh but he does this uh all black black ribbons just velvety black leather i think it's the calls it double shot or something like that um and then dyes the pages edges black as well and he calls it the johnny cash you know the man in black so um it is it is not the bible named sue so we can put that one to rest right now but it's uh it's it's the johnny cash so uh go by uh post center slugs uh rebinding they've got they'll have their uh stuff there too and i normally go over and hang out for a few minutes over there uh as well and say hi to folks and um we'll be taking all of we'll be doing all the selfies and the book signings and and i will be at the gbts well i'm supposed to be at the gbts uh booth on friday i've got to double check the exact time on that um but after the debate on wednesday who knows i i they may have burned me an effigy by then and uh and and so that won't happen so we'll see uh but uh yeah pray for me as i try to get there by nine o 'clock in the morning on wednesday because um josh bice just sent me what he called a pro tip on how to get to downtown and avoid the worst traffic so i'm gonna try to follow his instructions and then he made me feel much better uh when he told me that they have special valet parking that you can arrange which they've arranged for me uh when you have a huge truck that's you know almost seven feet tall 21 feet long um and uh because josh has a truck that's even bigger his i think is a 350 i am mine's 2500 he'd be a 3500 so uh that doesn't necessarily mean it's necessarily physically bigger but it's supposed to have stronger springs um because he had a 40 some odd foot rv that he was pulling mine's only 35 anyway uh his would be parked down there as well so he's already arranged all that stuff that makes me feel a lot better um i just just didn't want some kid jumping in that truck and down into down into the depths of a i don't know where uh because she doesn't fit into places like that she's just too big so uh anyway so that's coming up at g3 but looking forward to seeing all of you um this past weekend wait a minute before i before i start talking about the conference and the debate because i do i do need to talk about the debate um before i do that i want to uh do something that again some some folks could be like i don't care about any of this stuff all right fine this has obviously been a major part of my life for a long time um i have ridden a bicycle 161 000 miles now and i don't do as much riding outside anymore um we sort of lost control of my heart situation uh not in a oh i'm about to die type thing but in a um who knows when it's going to go crazy type type thing for years we had that very much locked down but as i've aged that has now changed and uh sometimes it'll just hit and it really impacts it impacts the regularity of my training and the main thing it does is you know only a few years ago and i would still love to be able to do this i'm sort of mourning the loss to be able to do this but i would get up at 1 30 in the morning during the summers and i'd be on the road by 2 30 and i'd do a metric century i'd ride 100 kilometers uh by time the sun rose and i love that uh being out there in the desert uh dodging coyotes literally um i love that and i get a lot of stuff listened to and um it's not that i can't do those rides anymore i can but i don't have the confidence to do it uh if if something happens heart -wise uh 50 miles from home at 3 30 in the morning uh my wife's not gonna even you know sure she's gonna come get me but it's gonna take her a long time to get there and so i'm doing a lot more of my riding indoors now for obvious reasons and i'm very very thankful that there are options now to where i can get just as good a workout um riding in Zwift or RGT or RUVI um on a smart trainer as as i can outdoors and to be honest with you after COVID hit riding outdoors is much more dangerous um i used to be able to take what's called the

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Arizona Canal to get out of the city and get out where it's safer to ride ever since COVID the canal is basically unrideable all the underpasses have been turned into homeless drug centers they're not safe between the people the dogs all the stuff that they put down there the excrement the urine uh and the needles uh it's just it's just not safe to do it and so stuff has changed it really really has so anyways point being uh i am a cyclist and that means i'm interested in the sport as well and uh there are three grand tours each year so unlike football fans who have one day of the super bowl we have nine weeks because a grand tour is a three -week stage race um you have two rest days but there are 20 21 stages and they normally cover uh well over you know around 20 to 2300 miles depending on how much climbing is in them and the first one's in May the

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Giro d 'Italia so the Tour of Italy the the Big Daddy is the

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Tour de France of course in July and then the Vuelta a España the Tour of Spain is in August September and of course

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COVID messed all the all of them up too but I've been following these for years 10 years ago

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Chris Horner an American won the Vuelta a España and I thought that was great because Chris Horner was 42 stinking years old when he won the

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Vuelta in 2013 and all us old guys are like yeah we can still do it it was great so that was really pulling for him but um this year there has been one team that has become completely predominant for a long time it was called

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Sky then they changed their name to Ineos the Ineos Grenadiers they're being eclipsed now by a team called

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Jumbo Visma which is a European sponsored by a European grocery store chain and they have the two biggest general we'll call general category riders

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Jonas Vingago who interestingly enough worked in a fish factory until just a few years ago he he they would take fish in and he sorted fish that's what he did until it was found out he could really ride a bike and I mean he went to the top of his sport at an incredible speed and he's won the last two

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Tour de France editions Taddeo Pogacar won the two before that and they also have

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Primoz Roglic from Slovenia and uh he's just been a a force for a long long time now and he's won the

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Vuelta I think four times and he won the Giro this year so the point is

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Jumbo Visma won the Giro with Primoz Roglic in May they won the

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Tour de France with Jonas Vingago in July and then they brought both

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Roglic and Vingago to the Vuelta a España which made everybody go this will be interesting when you have two leaders they both want to win um what happens because I know a lot of people don't understand this this is a team sport

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I mean you look at stuff like football rugby soccer football and the rest of the world uh baseball these are all team sports and everybody goes yeah you need to have good pitching good catching you need to have a good quarterback you have to wide receivers got a good defensive line depends on what sport you're looking at believe it or not cycling is very much a team sport in the

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Grand Tours you're you're riding literally 100 to 120 miles per day for three weeks okay being in the peloton drafting having a team around you is absolutely vital you cannot win one of these things on your own you can't just go in there and I'm not going to worry about anybody else

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I'm just going to blow everybody away can't be done um the the sport is just too competitive so everybody was wondering what's going to happen and for many years there's been a

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American from Durango Colorado by the name Sepkus and Sep is what's called a super domestique which means he's a worker and it's his job to protect the

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GC riders how do you protect somebody well you um literally literally for example if the

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GC guy uh it's it's a really important part of the climb and their bike brakes you jump off yours and give him yours and wait for the car to come get you and get you a new bike um but more normally you sit in front of that GC guy and you draft for him you break the wind for him so it's easier for him to get up the hill and you just kill yourself literally you just when when you see these domestiques when they get done with their pull at the front sometimes they come to a complete stop they are wiped which means they don't end up normally very high up in the standings because you know then they lose a whole lot of time going the rest of the way up uh but he's called a super domestique and probably recognized as the best in the business well here's the point this is why

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I'm telling you all this um Vingago and here's by the way here um here um that's not what

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I wanted I wanted uh this sorry about that here's uh here's here's what happened uh three guys in the colorful jerseys the guy in the yellow is is

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Vingago the yellow jersey is the winner of the Tour de France the guy on the right that's Primoz Ruglic he's in the pink jersey winner of the

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Giro d 'Italia the guy in the middle is Sepp Kuss and he is in a red jersey red jersey is the winner of the

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Vuelta a España and so one team won all had one had different guys win each one of the

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Grand Tours now oh stop that so but what happened was that's not what their plan was a

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Sepp got into a what's called a breakaway the breakaway got a bunch of time everybody expected him to lose it in the time trial but he didn't he he defended it and so they go into the last week and all the discussion was about okay they have the leader and in fact they're one two three but they have two guys who are the

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GC you know they've won Grand Tours but every Grand Tour that they won all four that Roglic won and the two that Vingago won guess who pulled them through those things

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Sepp Kuss did they wouldn't have won those without Sepp Kuss and so it was amazing to me to watch the ethical and moral discussion going on in the cycling world when

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Roglic and Vingago kept getting closer and closer and closer to taking Sepp out of the red jersey uh because they you know top of mountains all of a sudden they take off and get time on their teammate you're not supposed to do that and it was fascinating to watch the morality play that ended up taking place um in regards to cycling and did these guys owe anything to Sepp Kuss if you'd seen him on the 20th stage in Tour de

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France he crashed at high speed he had blood all over his face most of this tour most of the

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Vuelta he had bandages he still had bandages over his left eye because he had gotten torn up so bad and most people figured oh he won't go to the

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Vuelta now he's just all beat up and he's like oh no no in fact that's the amazing thing he rode all three

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Grand Tours most professionals you did you don't have enough time to recover but he did he survived it and he won it and eventually

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Jumbo Visma the pressure on them well it's amazing they did the right thing they restrained

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Vingago and Roglic and i'm hoping you know i'm i like to think the best of people i'm hoping that when they rode across the line together you know one two three and they have their arms around each other and all the rest of this stuff i'm hoping they really meant that there's a lot of people that are like man they must have really threatened

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Vingago and Roglic with a gun to get them to not take the jersey away from Sapkos because the team would have just been ravaged if they had by everybody in the sport and everything else

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Christian Vandervelde was commenting on it and he said the same thing so it was fascinating though to see the the morality play and because i'm sitting back going y 'all don't really have any any basis for saying all this stuff um you don't realize how much you're borrowing from the

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Christian worldview for all the categories you're using here so it is interesting to see it and again a lot of that goes back years and years and years the traditions and cycling and stuff like that where'd that come from well primarily from the

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Christian worldview and um but it was fascinating to see and congratulations to Sapkos um he says in fact it's really funny the mics were open at the at the finish line with the final stage and so he's it's done he's won it and his wife's there and i hear it very clearly you hear her say don't you ever do this to me again and and Sapkos pretty much said he says hey i'm back to my domestique role i i my intention in 2024 is to be leading um

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Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard up the mountains in the Grand Tours again and it won't be me going for the wins i will be doing what i've done all along i'm perfectly happy with that um this was awesome this was incredible but i'm not going to become a

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GC contender i'm not going to be one of the one of those types of guys and that's sort of the kind of guy he is i don't see any evidence he's a