Order of Man - 5 Lessons Learned From the LA Fires ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 No one is coming to save us.

00:00:02.240 It is on us.

00:00:03.780 We need to be prepared.

00:00:05.480 We need to be ready, able, and willing to self-rescue.

00:00:09.100 We need to be smart and pay attention.

00:00:11.260 My first priority is to protect my children

00:00:13.520 and to make sure they are taken care of.

00:00:15.660 That is my very first priority.

00:00:17.600 Do you guys have evacuation routes?

00:00:19.680 Do you have meetup points?

00:00:22.120 Do your kids know how to drive a vehicle?

00:00:25.040 Do they know how to dial 911?

00:00:26.880 Do you guys have backup batteries?

00:00:30.980 You're a man of action.

00:00:32.640 You live life to the fullest.

00:00:34.100 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.

00:00:37.040 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

00:00:41.120 You are not easily deterred or defeated.

00:00:43.820 Rugged, resilient, strong.

00:00:46.560 This is your life.

00:00:47.660 This is who you are.

00:00:49.060 This is who you will become.

00:00:50.800 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:53.820 you can call yourself a man.

00:00:55.740 I want to talk with you a bit today about the LA fires

00:01:01.000 and a bit of an ancillary to that is the flood relief efforts in North Carolina.

00:01:07.160 There's a lot of lessons that can be learned

00:01:08.880 and a lot of lessons that we need to learn

00:01:10.680 in order to best prepare ourselves and the people that we care about,

00:01:15.400 our families, our friends, our coworkers, and our community members.

00:01:19.440 And it's painfully, painfully, in the most literal sense of the word,

00:01:24.540 how obvious it is that we have some ineptness going on.

00:01:30.060 We have a lot of blame shifting and pointing fingers.

00:01:33.700 We have a lot of confusion.

00:01:36.420 Clearly, there's some things that need to be addressed

00:01:38.980 when it comes to these issues.

00:01:41.200 And today, I want to talk with you about five things

00:01:43.240 that I think we can learn as men

00:01:44.900 that will help us be better protectors, providers, and presiders.

00:01:49.280 Now, as I talk a little bit about these lessons,

00:01:52.040 the last thing I want it to be is something that is insensitive.

00:01:57.260 And I realize that family members are missing,

00:02:01.780 people's loved ones are dead,

00:02:04.140 that their homes are destroyed,

00:02:05.740 that their memories are burned to the ground.

00:02:07.180 I understand all of that.

00:02:09.120 And I can certainly appreciate, for lack of a better term,

00:02:13.600 to some degree, what these people must be going through.

00:02:16.820 So I want to be aware of that and present of that

00:02:19.140 as I talk about the issues

00:02:20.880 and as I talk about things that we can learn.

00:02:22.940 And I think both can exist.

00:02:24.800 We can be sympathetic and empathetic

00:02:26.340 towards what people are going through

00:02:28.400 and also work to extract the lessons

00:02:31.120 that we ought to learn

00:02:32.140 from these horrific and tragic experiences.

00:02:35.660 Before I get into all of that,

00:02:37.360 I do want to say my friends over at Montana Knife Company

00:02:40.540 are doing a fundraiser to go to disaster relief

00:02:45.840 in North Carolina for the hurricane

00:02:47.660 and then also for victims

00:02:49.500 of these California, LA wildfires.

00:02:52.600 So if you go to montananifecompany.com,

00:02:56.220 they're doing a special thing.

00:02:57.920 They've got a Come Hell or High Water t-shirt

00:03:00.780 and a Come Hell or High Water Zippo.

00:03:03.760 And for every, if I understand correctly,

00:03:05.920 $5 that you spend on either of those

00:03:08.760 or both of those items,

00:03:10.400 you get a ticket to a giveaway

00:03:12.720 that they're going to do.

00:03:14.060 This is a custom Damascus steel knife

00:03:16.860 forged by Josh Smith.

00:03:18.620 And if I understand correctly,

00:03:20.520 the handle is an antler

00:03:22.580 from country music singer Chase Rice's bull

00:03:26.860 that he shot.

00:03:28.020 So you can win that.

00:03:29.880 But in addition to that,

00:03:30.900 the cost, every dollar that's made

00:03:32.920 towards those shirts and those Zippos 0.78

00:03:34.680 goes straight to relief efforts.

00:03:37.020 So if you're trying to figure out

00:03:38.100 how you can support and donate

00:03:39.580 and do your part in some small way,

00:03:43.580 montananifecompany.com.

00:03:45.160 It's right there on the home screen.

00:03:46.980 If it's not, just type in Come Hell or High Water

00:03:49.480 and you'll get a shirt,

00:03:51.520 you'll get a Zippo.

00:03:52.640 And then of course,

00:03:53.200 you'll be entered in to win

00:03:54.440 the knife,

00:03:56.120 the custom knife made by Josh Smith.

00:03:57.840 And I think there's some other giveaways

00:03:59.000 with other great organizations

00:04:00.300 that wanted to get involved.

00:04:01.500 So check that out.

00:04:03.180 All right, guys.

00:04:03.540 Well, let's talk about this.

00:04:04.360 Let's go through the stats.

00:04:05.160 Number one, 24,000.

00:04:06.640 These might be a little outdated now,

00:04:08.100 but 24,000 acres burned over.

00:04:10.700 Over 12,000 structures destroyed

00:04:13.460 and demolished and brought to the ground.

00:04:14.960 And as of right now,

00:04:16.760 the latest death toll that I heard was 25.

00:04:20.160 And I'm sure that's going to be,

00:04:21.440 unfortunately and tragically,

00:04:23.360 so much higher than that

00:04:24.340 because there's many, many people missing.

00:04:27.120 And I think at this point,

00:04:28.320 the efforts are going towards

00:04:29.520 stopping and containing this fire.

00:04:31.140 And then there'll be recovery efforts from there.

00:04:33.860 So I'm sure that death toll,

00:04:35.120 unfortunately, again, rises.

00:04:37.060 And you have guys like Gavin Newsom,

00:04:39.140 the governor of California,

00:04:41.820 Karen Bass, the mayor of LA.

00:04:43.640 And they're pointing blame.

00:04:45.180 They're shifting blame.

00:04:46.200 They're not taking responsibility.

00:04:47.720 They're not really answering questions, honestly.

00:04:50.440 They're being very political,

00:04:52.240 which I wouldn't expect anything different

00:04:53.980 from politicians,

00:04:54.760 but we need to hold these people to account.

00:04:57.440 We need to ask them to take responsibility.

00:04:59.160 And we need to hold them to task

00:05:01.000 when it comes to managing our towns

00:05:03.840 and our cities and our states

00:05:04.920 and even this country.

00:05:06.380 You know, if Gavin Newsom

00:05:07.260 could literally do nothing about these fires

00:05:09.420 to better prepare,

00:05:10.360 then why is he even in an office?

00:05:12.000 Why do we have governors?

00:05:13.540 If their job is not to be aware

00:05:15.460 of these disasters that could come up

00:05:18.180 and the threats that are present to our communities,

00:05:21.600 then what is the point of even having a governor?

00:05:25.100 Either it's your responsibility

00:05:27.200 and therefore your problem to deal with

00:05:30.500 or we don't really need you in office at all.

00:05:33.760 That's the only two options there.

00:05:35.580 So let's start holding

00:05:37.220 some of these politicians to task

00:05:39.060 and people need to lose their jobs on this.

00:05:41.620 And if there's gross negligence,

00:05:43.540 there needs to be some criminal penalties as well.

00:05:46.000 It would be the same

00:05:46.780 if you were driving down the road

00:05:49.040 and you were on your cell phone

00:05:50.300 and instead of paying attention to the road

00:05:51.720 and you accidentally hit a pedestrian,

00:05:53.080 you would face criminal penalties and liability.

00:05:56.840 So let's not rule that out of the equation

00:05:59.400 when it comes to our public officials

00:06:01.660 in gross negligence

00:06:03.460 when it comes to cutting budgets,

00:06:05.800 mismanaging finances,

00:06:07.660 putting other initiatives like DEI initiatives

00:06:10.560 and other projects

00:06:11.760 ahead of the important projects

00:06:13.600 that your taxpayer dollars are going towards.

00:06:16.440 Something to keep in mind.

00:06:17.400 But let's break this down.

00:06:18.360 Number one, guys,

00:06:19.080 we need to understand

00:06:20.040 that no one is coming to save us.

00:06:22.980 It is on us.

00:06:24.560 We need to be prepared.

00:06:26.120 We need to be ready,

00:06:27.860 able and willing to self-rescue.

00:06:29.840 We need to be smart and pay attention.

00:06:32.100 I've seen in some of these natural disasters

00:06:33.800 where people will dig in their heels

00:06:35.980 and they'll let their ego

00:06:37.020 and their arrogance get in the way

00:06:38.320 and they won't listen to evacuation orders

00:06:40.280 and they'll stick around way too long

00:06:42.280 and put themselves and other people

00:06:45.980 in harm's way, potential death.

00:06:48.960 I think if there was some sort of a warning

00:06:51.480 here in Southern Utah where I live,

00:06:53.420 I would do whatever I could

00:06:54.760 to get me and my family to safety,

00:06:57.600 even if it meant some of my own personal sacrifice.

00:07:01.740 I'm not gonna sit around and wait

00:07:03.200 and hope that things work out.

00:07:04.740 I'm gonna be smart about making sure

00:07:07.280 my first priority is to protect my children

00:07:09.680 and to make sure they are taken care of.

00:07:11.800 That is my very first priority

00:07:13.280 and everything else is secondary to that.

00:07:16.400 So I'm gonna make sure that we have food,

00:07:19.840 that we have training, that we have supplies,

00:07:22.580 that we have vehicles,

00:07:23.680 that we have gas ready for the vehicles,

00:07:25.700 that we have skill sets that we would need to learn,

00:07:28.240 that we have evacuation plans.

00:07:30.040 You know, how many of you have a plan with your family

00:07:32.780 if there was a house fire or an earthquake

00:07:36.860 or an intruder that you've actually gone through

00:07:41.020 and you've drilled with your family

00:07:42.480 what you would do in each one of those situations.

00:07:44.800 And if you haven't, there's room on the table.

00:07:47.860 Do you guys have evacuation routes?

00:07:49.940 Do you have meetup points?

00:07:52.560 Do your kids know how to drive a vehicle?

00:07:55.340 You know, even if they're underage,

00:07:56.540 do they know how to drive a vehicle?

00:07:57.820 Because if you've got a 14-year-old child

00:08:00.280 and you can't drive

00:08:01.420 or you're incapacitated for some reason,

00:08:03.780 can your 14, 13, 14-year-old drive you to safety?

00:08:07.700 Do they know how to dial 911?

00:08:09.700 Do you guys have backup batteries?

00:08:11.980 One thing that my friend and fellow co-hosts

00:08:14.200 with this podcast said, Kip Sorensen,

00:08:16.600 is he's got ham radios.

00:08:18.760 And he's got a group of guys in the community

00:08:20.520 that also have ham radios

00:08:21.880 that are talking about what I don't really know.

00:08:24.400 I need to get into this and look into this.

00:08:25.860 This is one deficiency for me,

00:08:27.260 but how they can communicate,

00:08:28.980 what channels they need to be on,

00:08:30.360 and how they can rally around each other

00:08:32.160 in times of chaos and death and destruction,

00:08:35.780 which is what millions of people

00:08:38.200 are dealing with right now

00:08:39.300 between Florida relief efforts

00:08:41.940 for the hurricane several months ago

00:08:43.780 and what we're seeing here,

00:08:45.060 these fires in LA.

00:08:46.380 I mean, this is going to be the most costly.

00:08:50.580 I'm talking tens of billions of dollars.

00:08:53.220 I think I heard $60 billion roughly,

00:08:55.980 just under, of potential damage from these fires.

00:08:58.560 This is catastrophic.

00:09:00.960 And these cities are just being burned to the ground,

00:09:03.040 and it's not over yet as of this recording.

00:09:05.100 So it's probably going to go on longer,

00:09:07.060 and I think we need to be a little bit more prepared.

00:09:10.000 Get yourself out of there.

00:09:11.540 Get yourself into a better situation

00:09:13.060 where you're safe and you're secure.

00:09:14.440 But in the meantime,

00:09:15.000 for those of us who aren't confronted

00:09:16.720 with the immediacy of a natural disaster like this,

00:09:19.760 we ought to be thinking,

00:09:20.860 what are our weak points?

00:09:22.240 Where can we be better?

00:09:23.320 How can we improve?

00:09:25.000 You can go to the podcast that I've done

00:09:26.920 with Mike Glover,

00:09:28.600 Fieldcraft Survival,

00:09:30.860 and listen to some of those.

00:09:33.240 You can go check out Fieldcraft Survival,

00:09:35.760 and he'll have some really good ideas for you

00:09:38.160 on what you can do and resources

00:09:39.760 to improve your own personal situation

00:09:42.680 when it comes to these things.

00:09:43.720 But again, nobody's coming to save you.

00:09:46.160 It's all going to be on you.

00:09:47.980 Number two, if you don't already know this,

00:09:49.680 and most of you listening to this do, 0.99

00:09:51.680 the government is absolutely inept. 0.97

00:09:54.340 It's expensive. 0.98

00:09:56.720 Oftentimes, very, not often,

00:09:58.500 always very inefficient.

00:10:01.320 The government is self-interested.

00:10:03.620 It's just designed to just keep feeding

00:10:06.720 the monster of big government.

00:10:08.500 And we can see in situations like this

00:10:10.280 how negligent things were,

00:10:12.340 how mismanaged things were.

00:10:14.600 Everybody pointing fingers at somebody else.

00:10:17.120 I heard Gavin Newsom say that

00:10:19.140 it wasn't a state reservoir that was empty.

00:10:22.380 It was a local reservoir,

00:10:23.640 which, okay, we need to evaluate

00:10:25.360 honestly and objectively what's going on.

00:10:27.660 But those kind of things,

00:10:29.360 especially in moments like this,

00:10:31.500 not only do they look like finger pointing,

00:10:34.160 they are finger pointing.

00:10:35.540 Yes, you can figure out who dropped the ball.

00:10:38.180 But at the end of the day,

00:10:39.600 the buck stops with you.

00:10:40.960 You're the governor of the state.

00:10:42.460 That is your primary responsibility,

00:10:45.080 as is Karen Bass's responsibility for LA

00:10:48.260 as the mayor,

00:10:49.140 the highest elected official in that town.

00:10:53.300 Guys, the government is horrible.

00:10:55.640 I mean, it really, really is.

00:10:57.460 And I'm not anti-government.

00:10:58.920 I think there needs to be some governance

00:11:00.580 in the type of democracy or republic,

00:11:04.500 I should say, that we live in.

00:11:06.000 Governance is important,

00:11:07.400 but we need to keep it as minimal as possible.

00:11:09.620 And we need to make sure

00:11:10.660 that we're bringing outside people,

00:11:12.300 primarily entrepreneurs,

00:11:13.360 who are smart and innovative

00:11:15.300 and efficient and effective

00:11:16.900 and know how to deploy resources

00:11:18.640 because they have finite resources.

00:11:21.140 The government has an infinite amount of resources

00:11:24.320 because if they run out,

00:11:25.320 they can do one of two things,

00:11:26.440 tax us, steal our money.

00:11:28.340 And not all taxation is theft,

00:11:30.860 but excessive is.

00:11:32.260 And we need to elect a representative

00:11:33.800 who understand that

00:11:36.220 and know what that line is

00:11:37.500 as we talk with them

00:11:38.480 and we get ourselves elected.

00:11:41.640 But yeah, we need these people

00:11:43.280 to do what we want them to do

00:11:46.680 and to put our interests first.

00:11:48.200 Shutting down borders, for example,

00:11:51.360 arresting criminals.

00:11:52.440 I'm going to talk about some of this stuff.

00:11:54.220 Putting important initiatives, 0.59

00:11:56.180 not DEI type bull crap, 0.94

00:11:58.280 ahead of making sure 0.97

00:11:59.520 that we're aware of the potential threats

00:12:01.740 that we could get ourselves into.

00:12:03.960 And not every area is prone to the same risk.

00:12:06.860 When I was up in Maine,

00:12:07.960 the likelihood of a fire destroying,

00:12:10.240 you know, tens of thousands of acres

00:12:12.580 was significantly diminished

00:12:14.140 because there's water everywhere

00:12:15.680 and it's absolutely green

00:12:17.580 and lush everywhere.

00:12:19.940 Versus LA, you know,

00:12:21.280 you have a drought and it's dry

00:12:22.780 and there's debris and everything else

00:12:25.120 and foliage and fallen trees

00:12:27.220 and shrubs that need to be cleared out

00:12:29.720 and cleaned up.

00:12:31.480 And so the risk of a fire is greater.

00:12:33.780 The risk of a blizzard

00:12:34.940 and a power outage in Maine

00:12:36.180 could potentially be higher.

00:12:37.600 So depending on where you're at,

00:12:39.140 you really need to pay attention to that.

00:12:40.900 But there's an interesting development here too.

00:12:42.760 And that is these insurance companies.

00:12:44.140 When you have, like I said,

00:12:46.140 $60 billion of loss,

00:12:48.600 I don't know if the statistics are true,

00:12:50.600 but one statistic I saw

00:12:51.760 that is that roughly half of that,

00:12:54.080 it's probably even less,

00:12:55.620 is actually insured.

00:12:57.520 That means there's tens of billions of dollars

00:12:59.760 worth of property and damage

00:13:01.000 that is not insured.

00:13:02.520 And it's easy to look at the insurance companies

00:13:04.840 and point blame at the insurance companies.

00:13:07.400 An insurance company is a private company

00:13:09.140 and they make rates

00:13:10.940 based on their subjectness to risk,

00:13:15.600 the potential loss

00:13:17.060 that they would have to insure,

00:13:19.500 the likelihood of something

00:13:21.060 actually even happening.

00:13:22.360 And then they have to balance that

00:13:23.800 with what people can and will pay

00:13:25.600 in order to cover the potential loss.

00:13:28.840 I don't think insurance companies

00:13:30.920 are out there to gouge us.

00:13:32.360 They really aren't.

00:13:33.240 I won't lie.

00:13:34.380 They're not in the business

00:13:35.360 of paying out claims,

00:13:36.640 but they're legally bound

00:13:38.340 to pay out a claim if they need to.

00:13:41.240 But when you have a state

00:13:42.500 or any government

00:13:43.400 that comes in to a private company

00:13:45.320 and says,

00:13:46.000 this is the rate,

00:13:47.220 you won't be above this,

00:13:48.680 or here's the bureaucracy

00:13:49.640 and the red tape

00:13:50.380 and the hoops you need to jump through,

00:13:52.140 many of these insurance companies said,

00:13:54.540 hey, we can't insure this for that rate.

00:13:57.240 It's too great of a loss for us,

00:13:58.680 so we're out.

00:14:00.320 So these insurance companies

00:14:01.880 stepped away

00:14:03.100 and decided no longer to insure

00:14:04.760 a lot of these properties

00:14:05.620 in these areas,

00:14:06.440 and therefore tens of billions

00:14:07.680 of dollars worth of property

00:14:08.900 and items that are not insured.

00:14:13.020 That's because the government

00:14:14.160 got involved.

00:14:15.220 Now look,

00:14:15.560 there needs to be some rules in place

00:14:17.560 so that companies

00:14:18.680 can't take advantage of people,

00:14:20.520 can't manipulate people,

00:14:21.720 and can't do illegal things,

00:14:23.660 but determining prices

00:14:24.960 should never be set

00:14:26.120 by the government.

00:14:27.280 There's no regulatory body,

00:14:29.260 whether it's a small local municipality

00:14:31.020 or a federal government,

00:14:32.720 that can predict

00:14:33.800 the cost of things

00:14:34.920 better than a company

00:14:36.320 that has their money 0.99

00:14:37.920 on the line.

00:14:38.820 And people will say,

00:14:39.460 well, they'll just take advantage

00:14:40.180 of customers.

00:14:41.300 They might,

00:14:41.940 but it won't last long

00:14:42.940 in a capitalistic society.

00:14:45.720 Free markets

00:14:46.380 are a beautiful thing

00:14:47.320 because if the premiums

00:14:48.540 are too high

00:14:49.140 and there's competition,

00:14:50.160 instead of going to

00:14:50.860 ABC Insurance Company,

00:14:52.600 I'll just go to

00:14:53.560 X, Y, and Z

00:14:54.320 Insurance Company.

00:14:55.400 And that competition

00:14:57.180 fosters efficiency,

00:14:59.860 innovation,

00:15:00.940 driving down costs

00:15:02.100 for us,

00:15:02.900 the consumer.

00:15:03.900 But when the government

00:15:04.740 comes in

00:15:05.480 and automatically

00:15:06.480 starts inflating prices

00:15:07.860 or reducing prices

00:15:09.400 and setting

00:15:10.140 and dictating prices,

00:15:11.120 we're getting closer

00:15:12.660 to socialism,

00:15:14.440 if not communism,

00:15:15.640 when a government

00:15:17.140 is controlling

00:15:17.700 the means of production

00:15:18.720 and the cost

00:15:19.780 of goods and services.

00:15:20.840 There's 330 million people

00:15:23.380 here in the U.S.

00:15:26.280 It's probably higher

00:15:27.160 than that at this point.

00:15:28.520 We can determine,

00:15:29.540 330 million of us

00:15:31.200 can determine

00:15:31.820 better the price

00:15:32.880 of everyday objects

00:15:34.000 like this leather planner

00:15:35.720 or this computer

00:15:36.760 or that light

00:15:37.520 that I have right there

00:15:38.420 or my safe

00:15:39.320 than a government agency

00:15:41.000 and body coming in

00:15:41.860 and saying,

00:15:42.340 that safe should be $1,500.

00:15:44.440 No more, no less.

00:15:46.040 They have no idea

00:15:46.820 what it takes

00:15:47.420 to build that safe,

00:15:49.380 what materials

00:15:50.480 go into that.

00:15:51.600 The cost of hiring employees

00:15:53.580 or upgrading machinery

00:15:54.960 to put that safe together.

00:15:56.520 The value I think it's worth.

00:15:58.880 No idea at all.

00:16:00.020 Let insurance companies

00:16:01.140 and private institutions

00:16:02.300 set prices

00:16:03.240 dictated

00:16:04.300 by what the market demands.

00:16:06.860 And then the third component

00:16:07.800 of the government 0.98

00:16:08.500 being inept, guys, 0.93

00:16:09.440 is that we just have to get involved 0.99

00:16:11.000 in local politics.

00:16:13.620 We can't avoid it.

00:16:15.220 I've avoided it

00:16:16.120 for a very long time

00:16:17.160 and it's just clear

00:16:18.080 and evident at this point

00:16:19.140 that if we continue

00:16:19.860 to avoid it,

00:16:20.640 we'll continue to have 0.96

00:16:21.380 these rats

00:16:21.980 and these snakes

00:16:22.880 leading us

00:16:23.900 and representing us

00:16:24.860 and making horrible,

00:16:25.820 horrible decisions

00:16:26.440 on our behalf.

00:16:27.880 All right,

00:16:28.080 number three,

00:16:28.800 DEI,

00:16:29.620 diversity,

00:16:30.300 equity,

00:16:30.620 and inclusion

00:16:31.020 is a sham.

00:16:32.540 Do you all get this now?

00:16:34.080 Do you understand?

00:16:35.900 It's horrible

00:16:36.520 that you have

00:16:37.440 so much destruction,

00:16:39.860 so much carnage,

00:16:40.940 so much wrath,

00:16:42.340 and so much death

00:16:43.600 in order for people

00:16:44.880 to get it

00:16:45.260 through their thick skulls

00:16:46.640 that DEI 0.98

00:16:47.820 is an absolute travesty

00:16:50.140 and, quite frankly,

00:16:51.420 an evil concept.

00:16:53.860 The fact that we need

00:16:55.340 to hit some quota

00:16:56.520 based on immutable characteristics

00:16:58.740 is, in itself,

00:17:00.420 racist.

00:17:01.520 And contrary to cultural belief,

00:17:04.920 yes,

00:17:05.540 there is racism

00:17:06.460 against white people, too.

00:17:07.680 And I'm not here

00:17:08.240 to compare who is treated

00:17:10.220 more poorly

00:17:10.860 or less poorly.

00:17:11.620 Racism exists.

00:17:12.560 I know that.

00:17:13.200 But when you start

00:17:14.720 making rules

00:17:15.820 or agendas

00:17:16.760 or initiatives

00:17:17.600 that base it

00:17:18.560 on immutable characteristics

00:17:19.780 like the color

00:17:21.040 of our skin,

00:17:23.260 you're naturally

00:17:24.560 not going to get

00:17:25.860 the best people

00:17:27.100 or women, 1.00

00:17:27.940 for example.

00:17:28.660 And I'm not saying

00:17:29.220 women are not good 1.00

00:17:31.100 at certain things. 0.72

00:17:31.820 I'm not saying that

00:17:32.780 whether you're black or white,

00:17:34.020 you are good

00:17:34.740 or not good

00:17:35.280 at certain things.

00:17:36.080 That's not what I'm saying.

00:17:37.620 What I'm saying is that

00:17:38.800 if color

00:17:39.520 is the primary motivator

00:17:41.160 or sex

00:17:42.680 is the primary motivator

00:17:44.300 for hiring you,

00:17:45.740 then that means

00:17:46.300 I could

00:17:46.940 and very realistically

00:17:48.200 will overlook

00:17:49.500 someone who is

00:17:50.680 supremely qualified.

00:17:52.580 But if I have

00:17:53.720 a standard

00:17:54.280 of qualifications

00:17:55.240 that need to be met

00:17:56.100 for a firefighter,

00:17:57.260 let's say,

00:17:58.360 I don't care 0.99

00:17:59.220 if you're black. 0.99

00:17:59.920 I don't care 0.74

00:18:00.340 if you're brown or white.

00:18:01.340 I don't care

00:18:01.720 if you're a man

00:18:02.280 or a woman.

00:18:02.680 I don't care

00:18:03.020 if you have red hair

00:18:03.760 or a beard

00:18:04.220 or this or that.

00:18:05.000 It doesn't matter to me.

00:18:06.460 What I care about

00:18:07.540 and private companies

00:18:08.760 know this

00:18:09.280 is can this person

00:18:10.740 do the job

00:18:12.200 and for what

00:18:13.740 I'm willing to pay them

00:18:14.800 and what they're willing

00:18:15.860 to expect in return

00:18:17.280 payment-wise,

00:18:19.140 are they going

00:18:20.200 to produce

00:18:20.860 maximum output?

00:18:21.920 If that's the person,

00:18:23.060 that's the person

00:18:23.720 I'm going to hire.

00:18:24.800 But you get institutions,

00:18:26.300 academia,

00:18:27.260 government,

00:18:27.860 and even

00:18:28.640 a lot of

00:18:29.500 DEI initiatives

00:18:30.920 inside of

00:18:31.840 private organizations

00:18:33.780 and there's

00:18:35.000 some reasons

00:18:35.800 for that

00:18:36.320 that I think

00:18:37.300 we addressed

00:18:37.920 just recently

00:18:39.140 in one of the podcasts

00:18:40.100 as to why

00:18:40.940 that is the case.

00:18:42.120 I'll have to remember

00:18:42.660 I can't,

00:18:43.820 I was talking

00:18:44.220 with somebody

00:18:44.640 about that.

00:18:45.040 I'll have to think

00:18:45.500 about what that was.

00:18:47.160 But we can't have

00:18:48.940 DEI in place anymore.

00:18:50.760 I don't care

00:18:51.580 who you love.

00:18:52.560 I don't care

00:18:53.060 who you sleep with.

00:18:53.940 I don't care

00:18:54.560 if you're a man

00:18:55.340 or a woman.

00:18:55.880 I don't care 0.99

00:18:56.500 if you're black, 0.98

00:18:57.120 brown,

00:18:57.480 white,

00:18:57.720 or any other

00:18:58.760 color of the spectrum.

00:18:59.980 It doesn't matter.

00:19:01.560 Can you get the job done?

00:19:03.100 If you're a white guy,

00:19:04.160 cool. 0.90

00:19:04.980 If you're a black woman, 1.00

00:19:06.180 cool. 0.96

00:19:06.760 It doesn't matter.

00:19:07.620 Can you meet the standard

00:19:09.560 and get the job done?

00:19:10.900 So we're going to reject DEI.

00:19:13.180 We're going to laugh

00:19:14.400 and mock anybody

00:19:15.460 who tries to initiate

00:19:17.860 these sort of ideologies

00:19:19.560 into our institutions

00:19:20.980 and our governing bodies

00:19:22.540 because it's dangerous.

00:19:23.980 Clearly,

00:19:24.620 it's destructive

00:19:25.480 and it actually promotes

00:19:27.360 some horrible things

00:19:28.400 like racism

00:19:29.980 and infighting

00:19:31.340 between sexes

00:19:32.360 and races.

00:19:32.860 It's a horrible,

00:19:34.040 horrible,

00:19:34.260 evil thing

00:19:35.020 under the guise

00:19:35.960 of equality.

00:19:37.980 We just got to figure that out.

00:19:40.020 Number four,

00:19:41.060 criminals ought to be 0.92

00:19:42.040 caught and punished.

00:19:43.140 Now,

00:19:43.360 what does that have to do

00:19:44.100 with fires?

00:19:45.140 We don't know

00:19:45.780 all the details

00:19:46.440 about how all of these fires

00:19:47.720 were started,

00:19:48.260 but we've seen plenty

00:19:49.300 of evidence

00:19:49.860 that there are people

00:19:51.720 that are now starting fires

00:19:53.340 in Southern California.

00:19:55.360 I just read

00:19:56.160 that one community,

00:19:59.240 a group of citizens

00:20:00.440 placed an individual

00:20:02.560 under citizen arrest.

00:20:03.700 this happened to be

00:20:05.020 a homeless man

00:20:05.820 who come to find out

00:20:07.580 is here in this country

00:20:09.000 illegally

00:20:09.560 and he had a blowtorch

00:20:12.380 and he was setting fire

00:20:14.200 and trash cans

00:20:15.000 and trees on fire

00:20:16.520 and these citizens

00:20:18.500 arrested it

00:20:19.220 or placed him

00:20:20.220 under citizen's arrest

00:20:21.080 and now he's been

00:20:21.900 charged with arson

00:20:23.980 or whatever else

00:20:24.920 the charges might be,

00:20:26.000 but we can't have criminals

00:20:28.340 walking the street,

00:20:29.340 okay?

00:20:29.760 Like,

00:20:30.380 if you're going to steal,

00:20:31.280 if you're going to commit arson,

00:20:32.960 if you're going to commit violence,

00:20:34.120 if you're going to come

00:20:34.860 into this country illegally

00:20:35.940 and you start acting

00:20:37.080 out of sorts

00:20:37.900 or out of ways,

00:20:38.740 we need to have harsh

00:20:40.060 and strict punishments

00:20:41.040 for those individuals.

00:20:42.420 We can have empathy,

00:20:43.640 we can have bleeding hearts

00:20:44.500 and all that kind of stuff,

00:20:45.420 but where's the empathy

00:20:46.120 for the people

00:20:46.740 who are impacted

00:20:47.400 by what these thugs 0.94

00:20:48.420 and sons of guns do? 0.96

00:20:50.380 Like,

00:20:50.680 there's no empathy

00:20:53.120 for the people

00:20:53.980 who would be victimized

00:20:55.320 by individuals

00:20:56.120 who would love

00:20:56.940 to prey

00:20:57.420 on innocent people.

00:21:00.620 As men,

00:21:01.420 we have to put our foot down.

00:21:03.620 If you commit a crime,

00:21:05.660 then you should be held

00:21:06.560 accountable for that crime.

00:21:08.060 You should serve your sentence,

00:21:09.380 do your time,

00:21:10.300 hopefully,

00:21:11.260 you know,

00:21:11.580 you can be rehabilitated

00:21:12.720 into society

00:21:13.480 and you can be

00:21:14.180 a productive member

00:21:14.980 of the society

00:21:16.100 in which you live,

00:21:16.820 but at the end of the day,

00:21:17.980 you need to be punished

00:21:19.120 and harshly

00:21:20.240 for what you did,

00:21:22.320 especially,

00:21:23.500 as in most cases of crime,

00:21:24.940 it impacts somebody else.

00:21:27.820 We've got to put our foot down

00:21:29.140 on criminal convictions.

00:21:31.580 And California is notorious

00:21:32.800 for letting people

00:21:34.400 out of jail,

00:21:35.840 for reducing sentences.

00:21:37.580 Joe Biden just commuted sentences

00:21:39.500 for,

00:21:40.980 it was like 30 or 40 individuals

00:21:43.120 who were on death row.

00:21:45.680 That should not be tolerated

00:21:47.300 and it should not be allowed.

00:21:48.880 And anybody who makes

00:21:50.220 those kind of exceptions,

00:21:51.920 whether it's the George Soros DAs,

00:21:55.500 and these politicians,

00:21:57.180 we ought to remove them

00:21:58.780 from their office.

00:21:59.920 We ought to remove them

00:22:01.000 from any sort of influence

00:22:03.040 or power

00:22:03.640 and we ought to say,

00:22:04.500 no,

00:22:04.900 criminals are going to be convicted

00:22:05.960 and we're going to keep

00:22:06.720 our community safe

00:22:07.580 and we're going to support

00:22:08.560 our law enforcement

00:22:09.440 who handles these situations

00:22:11.520 and keeps the rest of us

00:22:13.140 in a functioning

00:22:14.140 civil society.

00:22:17.580 And then the last point here,

00:22:18.920 guys,

00:22:19.140 and this is one

00:22:19.660 that a lot of people overlook

00:22:20.900 and I may have overlooked

00:22:21.900 this 10 years ago,

00:22:22.880 but ever since I got into

00:22:25.380 hunting and being more involved

00:22:27.580 in the outdoors,

00:22:28.400 I realized more and more

00:22:29.540 that humans are animals.

00:22:31.160 Now,

00:22:31.480 we like to say

00:22:32.180 that we're sophisticated

00:22:33.000 and of course,

00:22:33.980 we're very intelligent

00:22:34.820 and we've evolved past

00:22:36.160 other species,

00:22:38.120 of course,

00:22:39.240 but we're also animals

00:22:40.560 and we're also part of nature.

00:22:42.660 We don't get to

00:22:43.980 take ourselves out of,

00:22:46.680 we don't get to separate ourselves

00:22:48.200 from what happens in nature.

00:22:49.720 So when you have waterways

00:22:52.780 that are being diverted,

00:22:54.420 for example,

00:22:55.300 from northern parts

00:22:57.160 of this country

00:22:57.740 and Canada

00:22:58.360 into the Pacific Ocean,

00:23:00.640 when those waterways

00:23:01.900 can very easily

00:23:02.840 be diverted

00:23:03.380 to fill up

00:23:04.240 our reservoirs

00:23:05.640 to keep us safe,

00:23:07.600 those aren't good decisions.

00:23:08.980 Now,

00:23:09.140 you might say,

00:23:09.760 well,

00:23:09.940 it's keeping this fish alive

00:23:11.340 or this plant species alive

00:23:12.840 and while I can certainly

00:23:13.880 understand that,

00:23:14.900 in this case,

00:23:16.680 we are part of nature.

00:23:18.980 Now,

00:23:19.120 we have to do it responsibly.

00:23:21.320 We have to do it wisely.

00:23:22.860 We have to do it

00:23:23.380 with conservation in mind.

00:23:24.620 We have to do it

00:23:25.080 with generational

00:23:25.920 long thinking

00:23:28.520 so we can have

00:23:29.560 a good place

00:23:30.220 for our kids

00:23:30.720 and our grandkids

00:23:31.340 to live,

00:23:32.560 but it's no different

00:23:33.620 than,

00:23:34.380 other than it's more sophisticated,

00:23:35.920 than a colony of ants

00:23:37.540 building an anthill,

00:23:40.340 building a home.

00:23:41.460 Now,

00:23:41.660 you could say,

00:23:42.060 well,

00:23:42.180 they're destroying

00:23:42.780 the environment around them.

00:23:44.200 Are they?

00:23:44.600 Or are they part

00:23:45.380 of the environment?

00:23:47.100 So,

00:23:47.480 we don't get to take ourselves

00:23:49.300 out of the conversation

00:23:50.900 about us being part

00:23:52.320 of nature.

00:23:53.040 We have to balance

00:23:54.160 our own personal needs

00:23:56.060 as a species,

00:23:56.980 as human beings,

00:23:58.100 with the needs

00:23:59.720 of the wildlife

00:24:00.640 and the flowers

00:24:02.280 and plants

00:24:02.880 and vegetation

00:24:03.400 and trees around us.

00:24:05.160 It's a symbiotic relationship.

00:24:07.040 But when it gets

00:24:07.640 so one-sided

00:24:08.560 that we'll put ourselves

00:24:09.720 in danger

00:24:10.440 because of,

00:24:12.300 you know,

00:24:12.600 a special

00:24:13.120 obscure plant species

00:24:15.540 or some sort

00:24:17.740 of animal species

00:24:18.820 that,

00:24:19.600 you know,

00:24:19.860 doesn't have any

00:24:20.540 real relevancy

00:24:21.380 in the way that we

00:24:22.340 operate our day-to-day lives,

00:24:23.560 I'm not here to tell you

00:24:25.080 that we just get to,

00:24:26.400 like,

00:24:26.500 run roughshod

00:24:27.400 over all that God

00:24:28.960 has created.

00:24:29.900 We have a responsibility

00:24:31.180 for stewardship,

00:24:32.100 but we also have

00:24:33.160 a responsibility

00:24:33.880 to take care

00:24:35.180 of ourselves.

00:24:35.760 And I think there's

00:24:37.360 a way to find

00:24:38.100 the balance

00:24:38.640 between ensuring

00:24:40.000 that we can

00:24:41.040 create a beautiful

00:24:42.720 country

00:24:43.420 and maintain

00:24:44.400 a beautiful country

00:24:45.280 and also serve

00:24:46.360 our needs

00:24:46.760 to keep ourselves

00:24:47.660 safe,

00:24:48.540 secure,

00:24:49.300 alive,

00:24:50.020 happy,

00:24:50.520 healthy,

00:24:50.960 thriving,

00:24:51.260 and an opportunity

00:24:52.540 for freedom

00:24:53.660 and liberty

00:24:54.260 and fulfillment

00:24:55.180 in our lives.

00:24:56.520 And I don't know

00:24:57.100 what that balance is

00:24:58.460 and we'll have

00:24:59.600 a lot of discussions

00:25:00.380 about that

00:25:00.960 and we can continue

00:25:01.560 to talk about

00:25:02.180 what that balance is,

00:25:03.160 but, you know,

00:25:04.560 when it comes to

00:25:05.060 hunting,

00:25:05.440 for example,

00:25:06.260 I love being part

00:25:08.080 of the hunting community

00:25:08.920 because,

00:25:10.280 yes,

00:25:11.160 I'm extracting

00:25:12.000 resources

00:25:12.780 from nature.

00:25:15.700 If I go out,

00:25:16.560 for example,

00:25:17.680 and I kill a deer

00:25:18.960 and I bring that home, 0.97

00:25:20.120 that deer is no longer

00:25:21.020 in nature,

00:25:21.520 but that deer is here

00:25:22.380 to feed my family

00:25:23.300 and my friends

00:25:24.020 and my community members

00:25:25.080 and we enjoy

00:25:26.440 having that food here,

00:25:28.580 but we do it responsibly

00:25:29.860 and I pay licenses

00:25:31.140 and I pay taxes.

00:25:32.500 I'm actually in nature.

00:25:34.260 I'm close to it.

00:25:35.800 I'm committed

00:25:36.440 to making sure

00:25:37.320 that we have good,

00:25:38.680 local,

00:25:40.000 thriving wildlife

00:25:41.720 and vegetation

00:25:42.560 so that I can continue

00:25:43.880 to hunt

00:25:44.320 and my kids

00:25:45.060 and my grandkids,

00:25:45.940 if they choose to do it,

00:25:46.820 they can continue

00:25:47.360 to do the same thing.

00:25:48.640 It's a symbiotic relationship.

00:25:50.500 When somebody says,

00:25:51.340 well,

00:25:51.700 I can't believe

00:25:52.600 you'd kill an animal.

00:25:53.660 Well, 0.95

00:25:54.580 it's way better

00:25:55.800 for me to go into nature

00:25:57.200 to provide

00:25:58.100 and contribute

00:26:00.240 towards conservation efforts,

00:26:01.720 even if it's

00:26:02.640 so I can hunt.

00:26:03.640 It's not the only reason,

00:26:04.980 but that's a reason.

00:26:06.700 It's way better

00:26:07.520 to do that

00:26:08.180 than to go down

00:26:09.820 to your local grocery store

00:26:11.600 and pick up some meat.

00:26:14.260 You know,

00:26:14.420 you call it meat,

00:26:15.260 but that is an animal

00:26:16.360 and then consume that.

00:26:18.060 Like,

00:26:18.220 which is the bigger drain

00:26:19.460 in the wildlife,

00:26:23.400 in nature?

00:26:24.480 I would argue

00:26:25.880 that it's the mass-produced

00:26:27.620 slaughterhouses

00:26:28.800 and everything else.

00:26:29.460 And I'm not even here

00:26:30.080 to say that

00:26:30.460 that's entirely bad.

00:26:31.660 You know,

00:26:31.780 the way we do it,

00:26:32.500 again,

00:26:32.680 we have to have

00:26:33.400 some level of civility.

00:26:37.120 We are an evolved species,

00:26:38.920 but at the end of the day,

00:26:40.320 we're part of nature

00:26:41.340 and we ought to be

00:26:42.120 more involved in nature

00:26:43.320 when it comes to

00:26:45.000 managing waterways,

00:26:47.300 managing reservoir levels,

00:26:49.460 even going in

00:26:50.480 and clearing out debris.

00:26:51.600 I mean,

00:26:51.740 how many companies

00:26:52.640 would pay logging companies?

00:26:54.260 I don't know

00:26:54.760 the answer to this.

00:26:55.500 If somebody knows,

00:26:56.120 please tell me.

00:26:56.740 If you're a logger

00:26:57.400 or in the industry,

00:26:58.040 let me know.

00:26:58.880 How many logging companies

00:27:00.080 would go in

00:27:00.820 and pay the state

00:27:02.080 of California,

00:27:02.860 I should say

00:27:03.780 the citizens

00:27:04.480 and the taxpayers

00:27:05.100 of California

00:27:05.840 to come in

00:27:07.520 and pick up

00:27:08.820 dead fallen trees

00:27:10.940 and to clean up

00:27:12.180 the debris

00:27:12.620 so that they can use it

00:27:13.680 in their business?

00:27:15.660 I'm sure that would happen.

00:27:17.200 If not that,

00:27:17.880 maybe even just people

00:27:18.880 who need to collect

00:27:19.900 firewood for the winter.

00:27:21.260 I mean,

00:27:21.400 there's opportunities here,

00:27:22.820 but to say like,

00:27:24.080 we're not going to clear out

00:27:25.000 any of the vegetation at all

00:27:26.160 because, you know,

00:27:26.740 we need to leave

00:27:27.240 the forest alone. 1.00

00:27:28.040 That's stupid. 1.00

00:27:29.420 Clearly it's stupid, 1.00

00:27:30.400 but most people 1.00

00:27:31.720 don't look beyond

00:27:32.780 just a few,

00:27:35.220 a little bit more thinking

00:27:36.380 about,

00:27:36.860 hey, you know,

00:27:37.480 we realize

00:27:39.220 we want to protect the forest,

00:27:40.480 but this is actually

00:27:41.340 protecting the forest

00:27:42.200 when we pull the dead trees

00:27:43.260 out of here

00:27:43.740 and we do controlled burns

00:27:45.400 and we manage the water

00:27:46.500 effectively

00:27:47.080 and we let the reservoirs

00:27:48.540 be full

00:27:49.140 and then we can start

00:27:50.380 worrying about

00:27:51.100 now do we pump it

00:27:52.220 into the Pacific Ocean?

00:27:53.500 There's things

00:27:53.920 that we can do here

00:27:54.660 and we got to get rid 1.00

00:27:55.940 of these stupid ideologies 1.00

00:27:57.180 that keep us 1.00

00:27:58.260 from doing practical things,

00:27:59.840 pragmatic things

00:28:00.740 that keep ourselves safe,

00:28:02.420 keep us fulfilled

00:28:03.140 and also

00:28:04.020 find the balance

00:28:05.400 between us

00:28:06.120 and the symbiotic relationship

00:28:07.320 we have with the wild.

00:28:09.420 Those are the lessons

00:28:10.220 that we can learn.

00:28:10.780 There's a lot more,

00:28:11.340 I'm sure.

00:28:11.920 No one's coming to save you. 1.00

00:28:13.800 The government is inept. 0.99

00:28:15.300 DEI is a sham. 1.00

00:28:16.920 Criminals ought to be 1.00

00:28:17.500 caught and punished

00:28:18.160 and humans are part of nature.

00:28:19.920 We don't get to

00:28:20.500 absolve ourselves

00:28:21.500 from that.

00:28:24.520 Again,

00:28:25.080 if you want to support

00:28:25.960 and I hope that you do,

00:28:26.900 I'm personally supporting

00:28:27.780 as well

00:28:28.320 towards the relief efforts

00:28:30.060 for the victims

00:28:30.840 of these LA fires

00:28:32.040 and also the victims

00:28:33.660 of the floods

00:28:34.680 mainly in North Carolina.

00:28:36.240 Head to

00:28:36.880 MontanaKnifeCompany.com

00:28:38.980 Come Hell or High Water

00:28:40.320 Shirt,

00:28:40.780 Come Hell or High Water

00:28:41.620 Zippo

00:28:42.140 and every,

00:28:43.840 I think it's $5.

00:28:44.820 You can look on there

00:28:45.680 but I think it's every $5

00:28:46.780 that you spend

00:28:47.660 on those two items

00:28:48.900 you will be given

00:28:50.460 a ticket to entry

00:28:51.380 for the custom forged knife

00:28:53.240 by Josh Smith

00:28:54.740 using Chase Rice's

00:28:56.740 antler

00:28:57.740 which is,

00:28:58.460 it's a beautiful knife.

00:28:59.460 You ought to go check it out.

00:29:00.300 If nothing else,

00:29:00.960 go check that out

00:29:01.620 but I would highly encourage

00:29:02.980 you to support as well.

00:29:04.620 We are a brother's keeper

00:29:05.580 and it's crucial

00:29:06.560 that we help

00:29:07.600 where we can.

00:29:08.660 If we can be there,

00:29:09.680 great.

00:29:10.020 If we can't

00:29:10.560 but we can donate financially

00:29:11.660 and that goes towards

00:29:12.600 relief efforts,

00:29:13.320 whatever we can do

00:29:14.860 I think we have

00:29:15.320 a responsibility to do it

00:29:16.360 especially since we're

00:29:17.380 trying to be good

00:29:17.940 protectors,

00:29:18.600 providers,

00:29:19.200 and presiders.

00:29:20.440 Alright guys,

00:29:21.720 those are the things

00:29:22.300 that men can learn

00:29:22.920 from the LA fires.

00:29:23.760 I hope that helps.

00:29:24.380 If you have other thoughts

00:29:25.080 and ideas

00:29:25.520 or you think I'm

00:29:26.040 completely off base 0.99

00:29:26.920 and I'm ridiculous, 0.94

00:29:28.020 please let me know.

00:29:29.020 We'll have a healthy

00:29:29.640 discussion about it

00:29:30.520 and maybe you can

00:29:31.320 shed some light

00:29:32.280 on some things

00:29:32.820 that I don't quite

00:29:33.660 fully understand

00:29:34.420 as I hope that we do

00:29:35.860 for you.

00:29:36.780 Alright guys,

00:29:37.520 we'll be back next week.

00:29:38.440 Until then,

00:29:38.880 go out there,

00:29:39.300 take action,

00:29:40.240 and become the man

00:29:40.900 you are meant to be.

00:29:43.320 Thank you for listening

00:29:47.800 to the Order of Man podcast.

00:29:49.840 You're ready to take

00:29:50.600 charge of your life

00:29:51.500 and be more of the man

00:29:52.640 you were meant to be.

00:29:53.900 We invite you to join

00:29:54.840 the order

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Order of Man - January 17, 2025

5 Lessons Learned From the LA Fires ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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