Order of Man - Be Prepared in all Things ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart

00:00:05.000 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

00:00:10.440 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who

00:00:17.240 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.800 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,

00:00:27.280 and I am the host and the founder of this podcast and the movement that is Order of Man.

00:00:31.720 As I do every week, I want to welcome you, whether you're here for the very first time

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00:01:49.760 you today, guys. Very, very important in the wake of natural disasters and active shooters and all

00:01:55.260 sorts of emergencies and different things that we might run into on a daily basis. And at the end of

00:02:00.840 the day, I think people are going to look to us as men for their salvation in a way to help these

00:02:08.540 people, whether it's our family or our neighbors or our coworkers, to help them thrive in the face of

00:02:14.600 difficult and potentially catastrophic situations. So we're going to talk about that. Before I do,

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00:04:01.240 discussion today, which is being prepared, being prepared in all ways and for everything.

00:04:07.000 I spent a lot of years in the Boy Scouting system. I was a Boy Scout when I was younger,

00:04:12.620 never made it to Eagle Scout. That is actually one of the things I would have done had I done

00:04:16.380 it all over again. And, you know, I've been vocal about the direction that the Boy Scouts have been

00:04:22.900 going. I don't think it's healthy. I don't think it's good. I think they've abandoned a lot of the

00:04:27.380 people that they initially and over the past 100 years have really tried to serve. But that being

00:04:33.820 said, when I got involved in scouting, I came across, it was an article or I don't know, something

00:04:40.560 in a magazine or online. And somebody had asked Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts,

00:04:46.120 about the motto, be prepared. And the person who was conducting the interview said,

00:04:51.380 what should you be prepared for? And Lord Baden-Powell said, anything. And that's exactly

00:04:57.880 what we're going to talk about today. Guys, we don't know what situations we're going to

00:05:02.120 encounter. And unfortunately, it seems to me that we are seeing more and more violence and atrocity.

00:05:10.060 Of course, we're going to run across natural disasters. And that's just anecdotally. I don't

00:05:14.680 know if there's statistics to support that. I think there are statistics out there that share and

00:05:18.580 say and support the idea that it is becoming safer, that society is generally more mild and

00:05:25.380 safer than it ever was. And I tend to agree with that. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be

00:05:31.220 prepared for the types of things that we may potentially face. And although you may never

00:05:36.620 utilize the skills that I will share with you today, it's not wasted. And you could be the small

00:05:44.480 percentage of individuals who falls into a difficult situation and people are going to look to you to be

00:05:51.100 the source of them getting out of this situation. Or maybe you're just getting yourself out of the

00:05:57.320 situation. And as I talk about what it means to be a man, we talk a lot about the core pillars,

00:06:03.500 the core tenants, which is to protect, provide, and preside. And specifically today, we're covering

00:06:08.640 two, which is to protect and also to preside, which is synonymous with leadership. So I'm going to get

00:06:17.220 into 10 areas. Now, this is not an exhaustive list. I know there's a lot of you listening who are more

00:06:22.620 experienced than I am, who have more information, who are, who have more expertise and knowledge on

00:06:28.180 what I'm going to share with you today. And so this is not meant to be exhaustive. It's not meant to be

00:06:33.320 an in-depth analysis or dissertation into everything that you're going to need to know to get yourself out of

00:06:38.260 these types of situations. But hopefully it gets you thinking. And that's the ultimate objective.

00:06:43.480 Again, when Baden-Powell said, be prepared for anything, that's what I want you to start thinking

00:06:48.160 about is expanding and opening your mind because you don't want to be in this type of situation where

00:06:53.380 some of these skills and resources are needed and you don't have them. And you end up putting

00:06:58.440 yourself in a bad situation and your loved ones and the people you're responsible for in a,

00:07:03.140 in a negative situation as well. I've thought a lot about this too, as we've been here in Maine

00:07:08.080 over the past, I think it's been three months roughly now. And there's a saying that I've

00:07:13.480 heard quite often. And the saying is in Maine, you're either preparing for winter or dealing

00:07:19.740 with winter. And as we start to cool off at nights and I can feel fall in the air, I can't help but

00:07:26.280 think that I need to prepare and make sure that we know what we're getting ourselves into. So let's

00:07:31.020 break this down guys. Again, 10 areas, I guess you'd say that I think are critical 10 areas that you

00:07:37.560 probably ought to focus on to some degree. And I would, I would rate yourself, maybe give yourself

00:07:42.080 a green, yellow, or red in each one of these categories. And if you notice you're a green,

00:07:46.840 great, keep, keep driving on. If you're a yellow, there might be some areas that you need to shore 0.97

00:07:51.120 up within each one of these categories. And if you're a red, then I would encourage you to 1.00

00:07:55.960 start working on these things, enlist the help of other people. There's other resource and websites

00:08:00.900 and podcasts and blogs that, that hone in on each one of these areas. So find those things

00:08:05.120 and, and get after it, make yourself a more well-rounded man and more capable of protecting

00:08:11.200 when the time comes. So here we go. Number one, food storage, food storage. It's just having the

00:08:17.600 basic food items that you need on hand. I personally recommend, and we have not currently,

00:08:24.020 because we just moved here in the past have built our food storage up to a year's worth of food

00:08:29.400 storage. That's something that we're currently in the process of rebuilding. My wife actually really

00:08:34.640 enjoys doing this. She cans and she preserves, and we've got fruits and vegetables and dry foods and

00:08:41.260 dehydrated foods and MREs and things like that all set aside so that if we are boxed in our home for

00:08:48.700 any amount of time, or we can't get to a grocery store or prices become outrageous, then we have the

00:08:54.740 food necessary to be able to survive. And it's not just about preparation in this context, because

00:08:59.960 there was a time, this was probably 10 years or so ago, maybe a little bit more where I was just

00:09:07.880 starting my financial planning practice and we were really, really struggling financially. And there

00:09:13.620 were a lot of nights that we pulled green beans out of our food storage and we were living off of rice

00:09:18.820 and beans. And we were really dwindling and, and, and diving into what we had set aside for a rainy

00:09:24.200 day. And that's exactly why it's there. A lot of the times when we think about being prepared,

00:09:27.980 we think about catastrophic events, but we don't think about the everyday events that we're more

00:09:33.900 likely to run across. So for us, having the food storage is a necessity and something that we've

00:09:40.700 actually utilized in the past and we will continue to utilize. So what I would suggest is when you're

00:09:45.740 doing your grocery run, whether it's you or your wife, that you just add a few extra things every time

00:09:51.940 you go to the grocery store. Cause the last thing you want to do is spend two, three, 500, a thousand

00:09:58.280 or more dollars on getting everything done all at once. When what you could be doing is just spending

00:10:04.640 an extra 10 or 20 bucks. Every time you go to the store to get some canned food items or non-perishable

00:10:10.180 items. Maybe you or your spouse is interested in getting into preserving. My wife is a quote unquote,

00:10:18.040 certified master canner. So she has this certificate and the training that she's gone through with it

00:10:22.760 from a community course that she went through over the course of, I believe it was two months

00:10:28.440 to learn how to do all this stuff. So making sure that you have food storage, making sure that it's a

00:10:34.380 year's worth set aside for a rainy day or a loss of a job or a natural disaster, or you being boxed in

00:10:41.280 critical. It's a very, very important piece of the preparedness puzzle. In addition to that,

00:10:47.220 and number two, I would say is learning to grow your own food. If you don't have a garden,

00:10:53.020 I would say that you might have a gap in, in your planning. Now this helps when prices are high or you

00:11:00.680 can't make it to the store, but man, there's something valuable in being able to dig in the

00:11:05.820 dirt and tend your own field and watch that, that crop go from seed to a sustainable food that you can

00:11:14.540 then utilize and enjoy and sit down and share with your, with your family. Uh, I think it's critical.

00:11:21.220 So we don't have our garden built yet. Uh, we had a very, very nice, I say, we, I should say my wife

00:11:26.720 because she handles this, this side of things, but had a very, very beautiful garden with all kinds of

00:11:32.060 things from lettuce to corn, to peas, to spinach. I mean, she had it all carrots, potatoes, onions. Uh,

00:11:41.140 it was, it was amazing. And as we moved here, of course, we don't have our garden going yet and

00:11:45.660 we're getting into winter. So we won't, but that's one of the things that she wants, right? As soon as

00:11:50.760 it starts to thaw is she wants me to build her some grow boxes so she can begin to garden and grow.

00:11:56.440 And I can't tell you how satisfying it is to be able to sit around the table and have a salad and

00:12:01.840 enjoy food that you grew with your own hands and you tended and you toiled and you, uh, poured your,

00:12:08.100 your energy into that thing. There's something very rewarding and fulfilling about that. And then

00:12:13.860 of course it helps you with, with your preparations. So I would say that's, that's number two gardening

00:12:19.840 and learning to grow your own food. Now, while we're on the subject of, uh, food, uh, and provisions

00:12:26.720 that way, I would also say, and this is number three, that you ought to learn to hunt. Now I know

00:12:31.940 there's going to be a lot of mixed feelings. Most of the men listening to this podcast are not going to

00:12:35.700 be mixed about their, the, the efficacy, I guess, if you will, of, of, of hunting. Uh, I think most

00:12:42.780 people understand that it can be done ethically and morally and correct. Uh, but I would say if

00:12:49.960 you're not involved in hunting, that you actually go out and you join a hunting party, you don't have

00:12:56.400 to hunt maybe necessarily right away, but that you go out with some guys who are hunters, who have some

00:13:00.960 experience, who have done some things in the past and you learn about the process. You learn about

00:13:05.120 what it takes to go hike around and harvest your food and all the planning that goes into it. And,

00:13:10.240 and, and what it's like to utilize a firearm or a bow or some weapon where you are killing an animal

00:13:16.680 so that you can take that animal, dress it, clean it, butcher it, break it down, uh, cook it,

00:13:22.920 and then ultimately consume it. And I know that the way that I'm saying that people are going to hear

00:13:28.060 this and think how barbaric, well, maybe, but I don't think so. We, as human beings have been

00:13:34.720 consuming animal products for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years. And it isn't until relatively

00:13:40.760 recently that people have even questioned this. And look, if you're, if you're a vegan or a vegetarian,

00:13:49.060 all the power to you, I have, I have no problem with that, but I'm just saying that if you decide that

00:13:55.180 you want to consume meat, that you learn the process of where it comes from, I think it's

00:14:01.240 disingenuous. And I think it's a little, well, I, I, I guess you're just taking it for granted when

00:14:06.740 you run to the store and you pick up a, uh, a package of steaks, or you eat a big greasy burger

00:14:11.700 at Burger King on your lunch break. And you don't really realize how, how that was actually secured.

00:14:17.260 Um, it's really funny when I, cause I hunt and I hear people who, who will say things like,

00:14:22.080 I can't believe you kill animals. And some of these people, they'll say it while they're choking

00:14:26.760 back on, on a, on a T-bone steak. And I, there's just this, this huge, huge disconnect between

00:14:35.220 people's consumption of meat and where it actually comes from. And you can have a whole lot more

00:14:42.100 appreciation for an animal. Uh, and you're probably going to eat it more sparingly when you have to be

00:14:47.920 the one providing it for yourself. In addition to that, if you can't make it to the grocery store

00:14:54.340 or everything goes South or we're in the zombie apocalypse, maybe I shouldn't say that. Cause

00:14:59.240 if I say that, then people are going to say, well, see, you don't need to be prepared. Cause

00:15:01.900 that's not going to happen. You guys get the point. If you're in a situation where you have to have food,

00:15:06.660 being able to go out into the field and shoot a Turkey or harvest an animal is going to be a valuable 1.00

00:15:12.180 skill to have. And I'm not telling you that you should break the law or, or, or break your

00:15:17.360 wildlife codes. It's not what I'm suggesting. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying do it within,

00:15:21.940 uh, the boundaries that we have set up as conservationists and, uh, being able to sustain

00:15:28.500 these wildlife resources. But man, if something goes South, it'd be a good skill to have now along

00:15:34.780 those same lines. I think that was number three. So we're on number four. So we talked about food

00:15:39.220 storage. Uh, we talked about growing your own food. We talked about hunting is that you probably

00:15:44.960 ought to have some firearms training. Now we can come at this from a couple of different angles.

00:15:50.080 So if I'm talking about firearms training in the context of hunting, well, you may want to learn

00:15:55.000 how to use a rifle so that you can shoot an animal from two, three, 400, 500, a thousand yards away.

00:16:02.920 You need to be able to make that shot. Maybe a thousand is a little long for, for most of us,

00:16:07.200 but you need to be able to make that shot. So understanding the different types of rifles,

00:16:11.480 rifles, understanding projectiles and how they, how they work, getting yourself behind a firearm

00:16:16.500 itself and pulling the trigger and, and feeling the, the kick and the weight of the gun and the

00:16:22.860 impact. You need to know how to use that rifle on the other side. I would say that firearms training

00:16:29.620 for tactical situations and home defense situations is very, very important. If an intruder breaks into

00:16:35.820 your home, it's very easy to say, well, I've got a gun and I'll be able to, I'll be able to take care

00:16:40.960 of myself, but I mean, you don't know if it's two or 3 AM and you wake up and an intruder's in your

00:16:46.880 home and you're caught off guard and caught by surprise. And you, you don't know how to use a

00:16:52.300 firearm. You've never been through any training in the past. You just have it because you think

00:16:56.060 that's what you're supposed to do. And you're still sleepy and a little delusional about where

00:16:59.640 things are. You're going to find yourself in a world of hurt. So you better understand everything,

00:17:05.280 all the nuances and intricacies about the firearm, the tool that you have to be able to dispense of

00:17:11.360 the enemy, to be able to neutralize the threat. So yes, learn how to shoot a firearm, go to your

00:17:18.240 local, um, firearms course, go to a range, uh, get some instruction. If you go down to a range,

00:17:25.700 uh, there's going to be flyers and things like that for people who, who teach tactical firearms

00:17:31.620 training and self-defense training. Those are all valuable, valuable skills to have. And look,

00:17:37.360 if you don't want to own a gun, because I think that's becoming increasingly common,

00:17:40.520 especially in the wake of these active shooter situations and pressure on corporations. Like,

00:17:45.760 uh, in fact, I think the latest one is Walmart and Kroger foods, uh, have been pressured and are

00:17:52.240 continuing to be pressured to, uh, ask their patrons not to carry open firearms. And look,

00:17:57.780 that's a whole other conversation. I wouldn't say it's in your best interest to open carry.

00:18:02.740 I choose to concealed carry for a lot of different reasons. And we're going to have some people on to

00:18:06.960 talk about that in future podcasts. That's not a rabbit hole I want to address right now,

00:18:11.060 but man, learn your way around, around a firearm, teach your children their way around a firearm.

00:18:17.840 Some of you may know this when I was little, I must've been, gosh, I don't know, eight, nine,

00:18:22.920 10 years old. Uh, I went out and played with one of my friends. In fact, I remember his name.

00:18:27.400 His name was Pete. We're outside. We're playing in the yard and in the street, we saw this,

00:18:32.060 this gun. So I ran over and I picked it up and I remember very distinctly that it was heavy.

00:18:37.860 And I thought it was a cap gun. Cause if you're my age, you know what a cap gun is,

00:18:41.760 where it has those little red rolls where you can either put them in a cap gun or you can take rocks

00:18:46.220 and scrape them across. And they had those little mini, mini explosions, if you will. Uh, those are good

00:18:51.860 days, by the way, that, that, that brings me back to good times. Anyways, I thought that this was a,

00:18:56.420 uh, this was a cap gun. And so I grabbed it and I brought it inside. And I remember saying,

00:19:01.260 mom, mom, look what I found. And she said, let me see that. And she grabbed that gun from me.

00:19:05.600 And she said, this is a real gun. And we had found a real, it was a small revolver.

00:19:12.040 And we had found that in the middle of the road, just chilling there in our neighborhood where kids

00:19:16.940 play. The likelihood that your children are going to come into contact with a firearm is,

00:19:22.400 is it's likely, I think it's high. And if you don't teach your children, whether that's at school

00:19:28.740 or a neighbor's house or somewhere, if you don't teach your kids their way around a firearm,

00:19:33.460 then you run into that idea that curiosity kills the cat. And if your kids don't respect firearms,

00:19:41.140 not because they haven't handled them, but because they have handled them, then you're doing them a

00:19:46.120 huge disservice. And you're potentially setting them up for not only failure, but something

00:19:50.620 catastrophic. I mean, how many times have we heard about a child who killed their, their school

00:19:58.080 friend while they were playing with dad's gun or shot themselves or shot a member of the family,

00:20:03.140 not out of some sort of desire to do harm, but because they didn't know their way around the

00:20:11.460 firearm. They didn't understand the four firearm safety rules and what this was all about. And they

00:20:15.220 got curious and ended up killing somebody or wounding somebody. So get familiar with firearms,

00:20:21.220 guys, teach your children about firearms. Let them use those things. My, my two oldest boys and

00:20:27.400 my daughter now too, from the time they were three, four or five years old had been exposed to firearms.

00:20:32.440 Now I'm not saying I'm going to put my three-year-old behind a, an AR-15 necessarily, although I'm sure a

00:20:37.460 three-year-old could handle one contrary to popular belief, but you know, maybe, maybe a little red

00:20:42.660 rider BB gun. And then we moved up to a pellet gun. And then we moved to a single shot 22. And

00:20:46.840 then we moved up to a four 10 shotgun. And then we moved up to the rifle series. So like you can do

00:20:52.700 this wisely. Uh, I'm not going to throw my kid behind a, a 50 cal machine gun, but I mean, we can do

00:21:01.020 this wisely. So do it, do it wisely. Uh, so that's number four, uh, number five, and I've got these in

00:21:07.600 all kinds of different orders. And I wasn't really sure how I wanted to talk with you about these today.

00:21:11.620 Cause they're not in any order in particular. And also I would encourage guys to go back. If

00:21:16.860 you're running right now, or you're, you're mowing the lawn or you're doing something else where you

00:21:22.900 can't document this stuff, just go back and listen to the episode itself. And then you can write these

00:21:29.000 things down again. These are the 10 areas that I would suggest not an exhaustive list, but the 10

00:21:34.340 areas that I would suggest that you, uh, consider, uh, learning, developing, growing, and becoming more

00:21:40.580 proficient in. So I would say for number five is I would say martial arts. If you're not doing some

00:21:47.140 sort of martial arts, then you're selling yourself short. There's all kinds of opportunities that you

00:21:51.780 can learn to turn the body that you have into a weapon. And I hope you never run across that

00:21:58.880 situation. The likelihood of you coming into some sort of physical altercation with another human being

00:22:03.700 is very, very low, but it's present. It's there and it exists. We don't prepare for these things

00:22:10.280 because the likelihood is high. We prepare for them because we might, we might encounter these

00:22:16.240 things. And what's interesting about all of the areas I'm talking with you today, and specifically

00:22:20.220 this point with martial arts is that even if you never use your developed skillset, when it comes to

00:22:27.160 martial arts in a physical confrontation with another human being, it is not wasted. There are so

00:22:32.360 many other valuable strategies and skills and mindsets and mentality regarding you being able to

00:22:42.320 handle yourself physically. Personally, I like jujitsu. Is it the end all save all? No. Wrestling,

00:22:49.600 jujitsu, karate, boxing, all of these have their Muay Thai, Krav Maga. All of these have

00:22:56.500 their, their place in your ability to train your body into the weapon that it can become and the

00:23:03.760 weapon that it might be called upon becoming. So get yourself enrolled, take some martial arts

00:23:10.380 classes. Most, uh, studios or gyms or dojos, whatever you want to call them, uh, are going to

00:23:16.220 be able to offer potential new students a class for free or a discounted rate to go try out or do a week

00:23:21.580 free. Go do that. Go see what you think. Go enjoy it. Go learn a few things and build some foundational

00:23:27.600 knowledge for making yourself the weapon that you're capable of becoming. It's number five,

00:23:32.740 martial arts. Uh, let me see if there's something along these same lines, you know, we'll just go

00:23:40.300 into emergency planning. All right. Emergency planning. What I want you to do is I want you to

00:23:45.420 think about as unpleasant as this, as this might be is to think about what, what scenarios might I run

00:23:51.340 into? What situations may I encounter? And if I encounter these situations, how am I going to get

00:23:57.900 myself out of these situations? Do I have evacuation routes at home? If there's a fire, uh, do I have

00:24:06.340 checkpoints in public spaces when I'm out with my wife and my family? These are all scenarios that you

00:24:12.980 ought to play out in your mind so that you can be prepared in, in these situations. And when you,

00:24:19.320 and when, and if you encounter these situations, it isn't the very first time you thought about it.

00:24:24.580 That's, what's important because if you've never thought about this stuff until you get yourself in

00:24:29.100 the situation, your reaction and response time is significantly slowed. And that slowdown in the

00:24:38.040 response time might spell the difference between you being alive and you being dead.

00:24:43.800 So sit down with your family, sit down with your coworkers. I mean, when's the last time you sat

00:24:49.920 down in a meeting or management sat down with you and said, Hey, in an active shooter situation,

00:24:53.840 uh, here's how we're going to handle ourselves. Here's how we're going to go on lockdown. Here's

00:24:57.840 how we're going to evacuate. Here's our procedures and protocols. And if you guys don't have that,

00:25:02.320 what a shame, what a shame, how many deaths could have been avoided had you had some sort of plan or

00:25:09.640 these people had some sort of plan in place to keep them safe in, in, in violence and, and horror

00:25:17.540 at this atrocity that we continue to see. And now I will, again, we'll, we'll talk about how to address

00:25:22.020 that stuff later, but I'm just telling you, if you find yourself in that situation, you don't want

00:25:25.840 it to be the very first time you thought about it. So you probably ought to have some sort of, uh,

00:25:30.580 emergency evacuation and emergency response, uh, planning and processes in place and make these

00:25:36.540 things written. Uh, we've sat down in the past with, with our kids and my wife, and we've done

00:25:41.940 this on a, on a Monday night is just kind of a family planning meeting where we've sat down and

00:25:47.100 we've said, okay, if there's a fire, what are we going to do? Here's the exits. Use this exit first,

00:25:51.480 use this next. If we run outside, then everybody go to the flagpole. If we don't see you at the flagpole,

00:25:56.160 we're going to assume you're still inside. And then dad's going to have to go in there and save you.

00:25:59.560 So this is all very clear. Like there's no guesswork here. And granted when, when, and if

00:26:05.860 again, we find ourselves in this situation, there's going to be variables that we maybe

00:26:08.760 didn't account for, but my goal is to limit those variables so that I give myself and my

00:26:13.980 family in this context, the best rate or chance of survival. So emergency evacuation and response

00:26:20.560 planning. In addition to that survival strategies, if you're out into the wilderness, if you're,

00:26:27.920 uh, if you're away from your home, if you're on vacation and you find yourself without the

00:26:33.860 provisions that you need to have to sustain yours or somebody else's life, um, what's your survival

00:26:40.460 strategies? Like how can you build a shelter? Can you, can you fish? Can you hunt? We talked a little

00:26:45.820 bit about that. Uh, can you start a fire? What's in your, your, your bag, your bug out bag or bolt bag,

00:26:51.620 if you will, that will help you survive in these situations. Do you have a knife on hand so you can

00:26:56.160 cut things to make shelter or cut rope or do whatever it is you need to do? Like if you don't

00:27:01.200 have these things in place, man, you're really, really going to struggle. And there's all kinds

00:27:05.400 of survival sites and podcasts. Uh, one book that I actually like, especially if you have kids is

00:27:11.800 hatchet. Now I know that's not an in-depth look at survival strategies, but at least it gets you

00:27:18.080 thinking and it gets your kids thinking about what they might do. Had they found themselves in

00:27:22.940 the situation that he did and hatch it. So there's things that you can do to not only keep yourself

00:27:28.120 engaged in these processes, but also involve your kids in a way that isn't mundane and monotonous and

00:27:33.800 boring, but actually exciting. And they want to learn about it. Like, have you ever sat down with

00:27:37.420 your boys and had them try to start a fire in multiple different ways using, uh, using matches,

00:27:43.700 using a lighter, using, uh, even like battery and steel wool, all kinds of different scenarios and

00:27:48.960 different ways to, uh, light a fire, a bow, a bow drill, like all the, all these things, uh, pretty,

00:27:54.600 pretty fun. And I think the kids like it as well. So what are your survival strategies? So I think

00:27:59.300 we're on that's seven. I want to say, um, I talked a little bit about provisions, uh, and I talked about

00:28:06.220 food, but it's not just food. It's, it's your bug out bag. It's lighting systems. It's,

00:28:13.680 uh, solar power. Should you need that and have access to that? It's, uh, keeping yourself warm.

00:28:19.980 It's having water filtration and purification methods. It's having a lighter on hand and having

00:28:25.400 your firearms. And if you have to leave in a hurry, where are you going to go? If you're stuck in a

00:28:29.340 snowstorm in your car, are you going to die and freeze to death? Or do you have the provisions

00:28:33.920 that you need? So what I like to do in this scenario is I like to think about all the places that I spend

00:28:38.200 the most time. So for me, it's at home specifically in my office. Uh, it's in my car for you,

00:28:43.620 it might be at an office outside of the home. Um, maybe you go on vacation somewhere a lot,

00:28:49.200 or, or you have a second home, but wherever you're spending the most amount of time,

00:28:52.920 you ought to think about what provisions you need in that place so that you can move and get from

00:28:57.760 point A to point B, or you can hunker down if that's what the situation calls for. And you would

00:29:02.260 survive by hunkering down or leaving or whatever it is you're going to be doing. What provisions do you

00:29:06.940 need? So I would just, I would quite literally create a list of items that you need and start

00:29:12.800 working through those line by line. A lot of the times people won't do anything because it's so

00:29:16.980 overwhelming when they see how deficient they are in these areas. They don't even know where to start.

00:29:21.240 Don't let that be you, right? I'm sharing with you 10 places and there's probably an infinite number

00:29:26.020 of places that we can go with this. Um, so that might feel and seem overwhelming. I get it. Maybe it

00:29:32.700 is to, to a degree, but don't let it overwhelm you to the point where you're not doing anything.

00:29:37.400 Just start with something and then move down that list. Again, you can come back and write this down

00:29:42.500 and I'll recap towards the end of the conversation. That way, if you're listening, you don't have to

00:29:46.800 listen to the entire thing. Again, you can go right to the end. So that was number eight was your

00:29:51.380 provisions. Uh, number nine and 10, I'll go through nine because I think that's something a lot of people

00:29:57.480 are aware of. And 10 is something a little bit different that I think a lot of people don't

00:30:01.540 necessarily consider. But number nine is just developing and honing your situational awareness.

00:30:07.940 Uh, when I had Pat McNamara on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, he talked about this 45 degree 0.99

00:30:12.920 culture, which I had never heard before. So I asked him to clarify what that meant. And what he talked

00:30:18.340 about was that most of us live on this 45 degree plane specifically with our heads in that we keep our

00:30:26.320 heads down, eyes locked and fixated on that little device, that little screen right in front of us.

00:30:32.340 And we have no idea of what's going on around us. That's when you get caught by surprise. That's when

00:30:39.540 you, you deal with an intruder or, or somebody who wants to mug you or whatever. That's when you deal

00:30:47.260 with it when you are caught by surprise. So you need to learn to be situationally aware. I'm saying you,

00:30:52.980 but we all, me included need to learn to be more situationally aware. Where are the exits in places?

00:30:58.580 Are you putting yourself in the back of, of a room with your back to the wall so that you can observe

00:31:04.760 and see everything that's going on around you? Uh, are you looking for a baseline of behavior with the

00:31:11.300 way people are acting and then trying to observe those who don't fall within that baseline? Uh, there's a

00:31:16.660 really, really great book on the subject called left of bang. If you haven't read that book, I

00:31:22.540 highly, highly suggest that you read left of bang. I can't remember the author right offhand. He was

00:31:27.920 on the podcast years and years ago, but again, it's left of bang. And I would definitely recommend

00:31:32.200 that you, uh, that you read that book and implement some of its teachings, including, I believe it's

00:31:37.060 called Cooper's color code, Cooper's color code in, into how you're assessing threats and then how

00:31:43.920 you're responding to those things as well. So Cooper's color code, which is in the book left of bang

00:31:48.640 among other places. But, uh, yeah, situational awareness, what's going on around you? How are

00:31:53.360 people behaving? How are people acting? What's your escape route? If you're running through

00:31:57.240 different scenarios, you can even make this a game with kids is that if X, Y, and Z were to happen,

00:32:02.940 what would you do? And then you talk through that. If ABC were to happen, what would you do? And you

00:32:07.280 work through that. That way you keep your, uh, your children again, engaged, but you're also giving

00:32:12.320 them meaningful, practical information to be able to apply. Should they find themselves in this

00:32:17.140 situation? All right, guys, the last one that I wanted to share with you. And again, this is

00:32:21.300 something that I think a lot of people overlook, uh, but it is to me something that you need to be

00:32:25.640 prepared for. And it is a tool in your tool belt. Should you find yourself in a bad situation? And

00:32:30.680 that is your ability to communicate your ability to communicate effectively. And I'm not just talking

00:32:36.480 about your ability to communicate with the threat itself, although you may want to do that,

00:32:40.920 but your ability to lead and to communicate in chaos and confusion, other people who you will

00:32:47.920 need to a enlist in helping you secure yourselves and other people. And then also being able to lead

00:32:55.580 those who would otherwise become victims of the situation they find themselves in. So how do you

00:33:02.080 communicate? Are you an effective communicator? Do people listen to you? Are you overly aggressive? And so

00:33:08.460 people shut down, are you passive and weak and timid? So they don't listen, or are you an assertive

00:33:13.320 communicator where when you walk into the room, you command in a way that that level of respect and

00:33:19.220 attention. And I'm telling you by interviewing, I don't know, over 200, maybe 250 men, highly

00:33:26.860 successful men. Now I can tell you that a lot of these guys, the majority of these guys, if you knew

00:33:31.940 nothing else about them, you would know there was something special just by the way they walk into the

00:33:36.500 room. These are people who are secure. They're confident. They're doing what they need to be

00:33:40.660 doing. They're definitely proficient in the areas I'm sharing with you today. And they know how to

00:33:45.660 communicate effectively to generate a response from individuals. And that's what you want.

00:33:51.620 You need to be able to generate the desired response from individuals, whether that's responding

00:33:57.560 in dialogue or whether that's responding to your orders, you need to be able to do that. So there's a

00:34:03.260 great book called the assertiveness workbook that I would highly, highly suggest that you work through.

00:34:08.460 Even if you are an assertive individual, this is going to teach you the communication styles,

00:34:13.640 and it's going to help you to be somebody who is more assertive so that when you speak, people listen

00:34:18.360 and you have the credibility and authority to cause people to act in a way that you would want them to

00:34:24.280 act, especially in these situations. So there's your 10. I know it feels like maybe I rattled these all

00:34:31.220 off and maybe I did. Again, it wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list. It wasn't meant to be an

00:34:36.140 in-depth analysis into every one of these scenarios. But it is something that's essential and something

00:34:41.780 that's important. And I realized that this podcast today might not be as exciting as some of the other

00:34:45.780 podcasts that I've done. I get that. But you know what? It still needs to be had. This conversation

00:34:50.200 still needs to be talked about, still needs to be addressed. And sometimes we can have the

00:34:54.740 motivational rah-rah in your face type conversations on this podcast where you get all hopped up and excited

00:35:00.020 about what you're doing or what you're not doing. And sometimes we're going to take a little more

00:35:04.640 practical approach, a little bit more pragmatic into how you ought to approach your life and how

00:35:09.880 you ought to step into the three pillars of masculinity. Again, protect, provide, and preside.

00:35:14.900 And I think we probably actually hit on all three of those today. So again, if you're listening

00:35:19.120 and you can't write these down or you haven't been able to write these down, you're in a place now,

00:35:23.280 or you want to come back, let me recap these. These are not in any particular order because I kind of

00:35:28.100 bounced around on this list from my notes here, but here's the 10. Number one, food storage.

00:35:33.920 Two, martial arts. Three, emergency evacuation and response planning. Four, firearms training. Five,

00:35:42.340 survival strategies. Six, learning how to be an effective communicator. Seven, growing your own food.

00:35:48.260 Eight, building and developing and harnessing or securing your provisions. Number nine is learning how

00:35:55.600 to hunt and harvest animals. And number 10, increasing your ability to be situationally aware.

00:36:01.900 So there it is, guys. I hope that helps. I hope that serves you. I actually hope that you never

00:36:06.120 have to use these things, but I would hate to find myself in a situation where one of these things would

00:36:12.140 have come in handy and I didn't adequately prepare or I didn't address one of these areas. And then I find

00:36:17.120 myself wanting or my family wanting and us being in a dire situation. I mean, stuff's going to happen.

00:36:24.220 We don't know what's going to happen. Emergencies, natural disasters, physical altercations,

00:36:30.080 violent encounters. I want you to be prepared for those things. Part of your job as a man is to lead

00:36:35.780 people effectively in these negative situations. And you can't do that unless you're prepared for

00:36:40.120 yourself. All right, guys, that's all I've got for you today. I hope that helps and serves you well.

00:36:44.600 If it does, let me know. Hit me up on Instagram. I'm most active over there. Share this with a friend

00:36:50.500 or a colleague, a brother, father, whoever. Another man that needs to hear the message of

00:36:55.160 order of man and reclaiming and restoring masculinity. This is a small part of it, but a

00:36:59.160 part nonetheless. Thank you again, guys, for being on the journey and the path with me. I couldn't do

00:37:03.060 it without you. Honored to stand shoulder to shoulder with you in this fight. And I will see you

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