Order of Man - January 17, 2025


5 Lessons Learned From the LA Fires ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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Length

29 minutes

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178.39336

Word Count

5,343

Sentence Count

285

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

5 things we can learn as men that will help us be better protectors, providers, and presiders in order to best prepare ourselves and the people that we care about, and our families, our friends, our coworkers and our community members.


Transcript

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
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,
00:09:51.680 the government is absolutely inept.
00:09:54.340 It's expensive.
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,
00:11:56.180 not DEI type bull crap,
00:11:58.280 ahead of making sure
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
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
00:16:08.500 being inept, guys,
00:16:09.440 is that we just have to get involved
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
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
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,
00:17:27.940 for example.
00:17:28.660 And I'm not saying
00:17:29.220 women are not good
00:17:31.100 at certain things.
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
00:17:59.220 if you're black.
00:17:59.920 I don't care
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
00:18:56.500 if you're black,
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.
00:19:04.980 If you're a black woman,
00:19:06.180 cool.
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
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
00:20:48.420 and sons of guns do?
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,
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,
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.
00:27:28.040 That's stupid.
00:27:29.420 Clearly it's stupid,
00:27:30.400 but most people
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
00:27:55.940 of these stupid ideologies
00:27:57.180 that keep us
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.
00:28:13.800 The government is inept.
00:28:15.300 DEI is a sham.
00:28:16.920 Criminals ought to be
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
00:29:26.920 and I'm ridiculous,
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
00:29:55.240 at orderofman.com.