Order of Man - CHAD ROBICHAUX ｜ The Battle for Our Boys and America's Soul

00:00:00.000 Men, as Memorial Day approaches, I don't think there's really a better time to have a very real and frank conversation about what it means to be a man in America today and why that question has, in my mind, never mattered more.

00:00:14.260 From the assault on boyhood to the spiritual warfare that's being played out in our homes and our communities, our military, just our culture in general, someone has to name what's really happening.

00:00:27.080 And today, we do exactly that. I'm joined by former Marine Recon Chad Robichaud, and we cover everything from the manufactured collapse of masculinity to what our military is facing in this post-COVID world, which we're still feeling the fallout from, what real leadership actually looks like, and why faith, not politics, is the only thing that holds when everything else falls apart.

00:00:54.480 so whether you're a veteran or a father or just a man trying to figure out where you stand this one

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00:01:06.720 chart your own path when life knocks you down you get back up one more time every time you are not

00:01:12.840 easily deterred or defeated rugged resilient strong this is your life this is who you are

00:01:19.700 This is who you will become at the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

00:01:27.640 Men, welcome to the Order of Man podcast. My name is Ryan Michler. Very excited. I've been talking with having Chad on the podcast for years now, and he did not disappoint. I'm very excited to get into this one.

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00:02:45.020 let me introduce you to my guest. A lot of you guys know who he is. Chad Robichaud.

00:02:48.900 He is a Marine recon. I was going to say former, but I know once a Marine, always a Marine,

00:02:54.880 but a Marine recon. He's a DOD contractor who has completed eight deployments to Afghanistan

00:03:01.840 as part of the joint special operations command task force, a JSOC. A lot of you guys have heard

00:03:07.860 of it. And after overcoming his own battles with PTSD and quite frankly, almost becoming a veteran

00:03:15.680 suicide statistic, he founded an organization called Mighty Oaks. This is a nonprofit. They're

00:03:21.680 serving the military and also first responder communities. They've got highly effective,

00:03:27.060 they're very faith-based resiliency and recovery programs. And he's spoken to over half a million

00:03:33.700 active duty troops and led, well, frankly, life-saving programs for almost 7,000 warriors

00:03:43.040 at Mighty Oaks ranches across the nation. In 2021, Chad also led the largest civilian

00:03:49.260 evacuation in American history, rescuing almost 17,000 people trapped during that whole Afghanistan

00:03:59.840 withdrawal debacle and that's a story told in his wall street journal best-selling book called

00:04:05.300 saving aziz that actually is currently being developed as a major motion picture

00:04:09.880 he's also a fox news contributor a board certified pastoral counselor and co-author of the thriller

00:04:18.280 series silent horizons featuring special ops hero foster quinn which also happens to be the

00:04:25.200 protagonist of his newest novel out today called riptide enjoy this one guys

00:04:30.060 chad what's up man so great to have you on the podcast i've been looking forward to this one

00:04:35.160 yeah no same thanks thanks for having me on and thanks for all you that you guys are doing

00:04:39.700 oh yeah of course i mean i think we're kind of running in similar circles and

00:04:45.120 you know at the end of the day both have a mission to help

00:04:47.960 men you you serve obviously men and women with your organizations and and me predominantly men

00:04:53.260 but I think all of us just want to see the world a better place, you know,

00:04:56.340 and, and if we can help people improve, then that's what it's about.

00:05:00.020 Yeah. It's just investing, investing in one another and one another.

00:05:02.820 And, uh, that's kind of was the mighty Oaks.

00:05:05.160 When we started mighty Oaks, it was a pay it forward effort.

00:05:06.940 It's grew into something really amazing. Uh, and, and now you're like you,

00:05:11.000 I just get out and speak as much as I can and try to encourage people to just

00:05:14.260 do better every day. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. No, that's cool. Um,

00:05:18.620 I was actually talking with, uh, uh, Nick Freitas just yesterday.

00:05:22.700 and he had, your name got dropped. I'm like, I'm actually, I've got a podcast with him tomorrow

00:05:27.100 actually. So he had horrible, horrible things to say about you. Yeah. He's, we, we tend to,

00:05:34.180 I just think the circle of speaking, we tend to be together quite a bit and we've, we've gotten

00:05:38.840 to where we just have, we just have a blast together. Yeah. He seems like such a solid guy.

00:05:42.900 And I think, you know, when you see guys like him and John Lovell and yourself and other people

00:05:47.240 in the community, but putting themselves out there, you can't help, but start to rub shoulders

00:05:51.920 and learn and grow from each other so it's a cool community yeah john john and i were just together

00:05:56.820 uh just just a couple we were at the white house together and uh he's he's another amazing he's

00:06:03.380 about to come on my podcast as well he's another great oh he is great guy yeah yeah he's he's so

00:06:08.280 great i just bought he's got the um uh the new program what's it called the stronger boy way

00:06:14.360 have you seen that the stronger boy way he told me about it and and it's super cool him his wife's

00:06:20.560 like a like he's an amazing father his wife's an amazing mother they're just they're incredible

00:06:24.420 you know it's funny as years ago this is probably five or so years ago now uh he and his wife and

00:06:30.480 kids came out to my property in maine and spent a long weekend with us and you know it's so funny

00:06:37.120 to see his boys and my boy his boys are rowdy and so to see them get together and they all had their

00:06:41.540 shirts off they're running around in the creek and then for whatever reason they thought it'd be a

00:06:45.420 good idea to get into a slap fight and so they're there with their shirts off just slapping the 0.95

00:06:49.900 shit out of each other and just having a good time. I'm like, this is exactly what it should 0.97

00:06:54.640 be like right here. Yeah. Yeah. For some reason we've gotten way too far away from slap fights

00:07:01.040 and roll around in bed with our shirts off. I think the, I think the world would be a better

00:07:06.020 place if it were. I think that's probably part of the reason that so many men are struggling

00:07:11.140 because we're told to sit down, to shut up, to color within the lines when separated from

00:07:17.100 military service, which is something you deal a lot with, you know, we're told to, to, you know,

00:07:21.800 be, be good members of the community and do what you're supposed to and, and toe the line. And I

00:07:26.780 just don't think that's conducive to growth for a man. Well, what do you think? No, I, but I think

00:07:32.760 it goes back to what you were talking about with, when you observed John's boys there, it goes back

00:07:36.680 to boyhood, you know, when, um, when you rob, uh, young boys of their adolescence and the ability

00:07:43.340 to be boys and to do what they're wired to do, what God hardwired and created them to

00:07:48.580 do, man, you take that away from a boy and you're going to have behavioral issues, call

00:07:56.240 it ADHD, whatever you want to call it.

00:07:58.820 And then you try to medicate it.

00:08:00.220 You can't conform someone to being outside of what God created them to be.

00:08:04.180 And so when you try to take a little boy and do that to them, and then at some point they

00:08:08.020 start thinking, well, I'm bad.

00:08:09.580 I'm not good.

00:08:10.320 And it's really – it just takes something that was intentionally designed to be something great and it misplaces it in society and then it turns out in adulthood to be tons of problems.

00:08:23.200 And it's no surprise that we have the issues that we have with men in our country today, all the way from the extreme side of terrible behaviors, getting in trouble and alcoholism, porn, fighting, all this negative stuff, all the way to the other spectrum of boys who just act like – or men who shave and act like boys or dress up like girls, right?

00:08:51.020 because the one thing that the one thing that we're supposed to be is the one thing that we're

00:08:55.720 not allowed to do all the way from boyhood and so yeah we got to get back get back to the basics and

00:09:00.900 just letting young boys be who god created them to be and then mold them and not just not pushing

00:09:05.620 against that but actually getting behind that embracing it yeah well i'm glad you talked about

00:09:10.180 that briefly that distinction between you know you said men who shave i use the term male versus man

00:09:15.940 right male is a matter of biology man to me is something so much more you know you have a birth

00:09:22.880 right in being a male but you've got to earn the right to be a man yeah i think i think i missed

00:09:27.580 it boys who shave right boys who shave yeah no i understood what you meant yeah do you think that

00:09:33.920 i don't know if we want to call it the war on boys that was something coined by dr warren

00:09:38.640 farrell who's a previous podcast guest i think that's a pretty accurate term and if you look at

00:09:43.520 All of the statistics from incarceration rates, suicide rates, drug epidemic, alcohol abuse, depression, anxiety, like all of it, even college enrollment rates, income is declining relative to our female counterparts.

00:10:02.280 Do you feel like it is simply misguided as far as we approach men or is it malicious?

00:10:10.960 I think it's both.

00:10:13.520 I think at its core, it's malicious, and it goes way back, probably 70, 80 years.

00:10:23.920 America is the greatest country in the world, not in the world, like in the history of the world.

00:10:30.840 God blessed America with this just amazing place of freedom, and we are the great light on the hill.

00:10:37.620 We're the beacon for hope around the world.

00:10:39.420 And without America, the world is lost into darkness, and the only hope that we have is through the salvation of Christ coming back.

00:10:47.180 I mean the world is over when America falls in my opinion.

00:10:51.280 And so if you look at it from a spiritual sense, which I believe very much is spiritual warfare, you have to take out America.

00:10:57.900 In order to take out America, you have to take out America's men.

00:11:00.700 And in order to take out America's men, you start with the family. 0.72

00:11:05.900 You have to start with the family. 0.85

00:11:07.120 So there's been an assault on the American family for about 60, 70 years.

00:11:10.380 I believe that it's come in the form of Marxism that infiltrated our schools and with our universities and all the way down now to the elementary school curriculums.

00:11:21.840 And so I think when you ask if it's intentional and strategic, I think yes on that front.

00:11:28.460 but also through that brainwashing and and over you know close to you know 70 80 100 years now

00:11:33.940 through that brainwashing and you have people that really believe this and they probably mean

00:11:38.120 some goodwill behind it so you have school teachers that are thinking well you know boys

00:11:41.020 you know there's you know violence isn't the answer for everything right so they they're

00:11:45.360 trying to do things what they think's right but but uh but ultimately they're calling little boys

00:11:53.120 and and and and robbing them of their their masculinity and so i think i think it's it's

00:11:58.180 twofold however uh where it gets scary is to see that this isn't just a a this isn't just a

00:12:05.820 deliberate strategic effort it's a very successful one it has been very successful

00:12:11.620 the reason we're aware of the reason we're aware of it now isn't because the the veil has been

00:12:16.500 lifted and we got to see behind the curtain it's because we're we're seeing the result of it that's

00:12:21.420 why everybody's become all of a sudden aware like oh my gosh this is happening we're indoctrinating

00:12:24.720 children in our schools and the reason that that's that has become revealed to us is because

00:12:29.160 we're seeing the result and the result is what's revealing and now we go back and when you have a

00:12:33.980 problem like you don't you don't know anything's going on with your car uh if you're not looking

00:12:38.080 at the doing the maintenance and stuff like that until the engine blows and you go back and say

00:12:41.340 why the engine blow oh i didn't change the oil back you know thousands of miles ago and that's

00:12:46.240 where now we see the result of what we have and our and our cultures are so broken and so we're 0.71

00:12:50.920 going back and looking and saying hey this is 67 years ago we let we let marxism start leading uh 0.93

00:12:58.680 in indoctrinating our school system and and and and leading our in in just uh taking apart the

00:13:05.640 nuclear family and this is the result that we have right now and i think a big part of it is

00:13:09.800 assault the very intentionally very strategic assault on the family and ultimately boys and

00:13:15.260 taking the next generation of men out in america and now you know there's guys like us but

00:13:21.500 unfortunately uh you know uh you know you're you're from what i know about you you're you know

00:13:28.780 the the type of man that we need in america right now unfortunately you and i are few and

00:13:33.540 four between in our culture and so that's why i mean i try to be yeah well that's why you're doing

00:13:39.280 what you're doing because you you somehow innately or maybe very deliberate you recognize that and so

00:13:44.820 you're going out and trying to bring that fire back in the men to bring them back to where they're

00:13:49.420 supposed to being who they're supposed to be uh for their homes and for their communities and for

00:13:55.200 our country and for this world like and so men that have that recognize the void of it and we're

00:14:00.600 like hey we like i can't do this by myself we need to raise up other men to step back into who they

00:14:05.960 were created to be to do what they were created to do or we or we lose it all and so that's why

00:14:10.540 you're doing what you're doing that's why i do what i do i mean i mean there's a lot of things

00:14:13.700 i do at mighty oaks and other things but at my heart what i care about most is men stepping in

00:14:17.880 their roles as to be the men that god created us to be and uh yeah it's it's interesting because

00:14:24.960 you use the analogy of the the car blowing up the engine blowing up and not checking the oil but the

00:14:29.780 reality is is that check engine light comes on and just like anybody who drives a vehicle you let that

00:14:35.380 check engine light stay on a little too long and it's inevitable my concern is that for the past

00:14:41.720 10 years of me doing this work, the check engine light has been blinking at us. And most of us

00:14:47.840 willfully, willingly just ignore it, hoping that, you know, maybe it'll go away. Maybe it's not as

00:14:55.280 big a problem as we think it is. And we don't do the maintenance or the upkeep that, that we ought

00:15:01.440 to be doing. Um, but the, the warning lights are there. I'm a little disheartened when I'm on

00:15:06.160 social media and I see all these feminized men, uh, these, these shaving boys, as you said, 0.99

00:15:14.260 uh, who are completely misguided about what, what it actually means to be a man and what this 0.80

00:15:21.600 country needs. You know, they get so focused on who the president is and their vitriol and hatred

00:15:25.880 towards, towards, you know, our current president Trump. And it's like, you know, I can see where

00:15:31.480 you're coming from but at the same time you're you're misdiagnosing the problem the problem is

00:15:37.360 weakness the problem is and not the the inability to be bold and courageous and stand up for truth

00:15:45.440 and righteousness but we just don't do it anymore it seems like yeah i'm a the reason we have a

00:15:52.020 i mean look i i'm a supporter of president trump there's a lot of things right now i don't like

00:15:56.380 But I am a supporter of President Trump. I was a surrogate on his campaign in 2020 and 2024 for veterans policy. I'm a supporter of Secretary Hegseth, Department of War. But they're pretty extreme dudes. And they came in and they started flipping over tables and doing things. And they're bull in the China cabinet.

00:16:17.460 the reason no doubt the reason that they had to be there is because you will let it go so far

00:16:23.600 that should not be necessary to have a a donald trump or secretary hexath type person in those

00:16:29.360 positions and we let it go we let it go so far um and so now it's necessary so for the people that

00:16:36.360 you know don't like the bullet in china cabinet uh personalities of secretary hexath or donald trump

00:16:43.600 then it's their weakness that allowed us to get that far to where we have to go in and right the

00:16:49.640 ship uh you got to bring if you let things get so far now you got to bring in a fixer right to fix

00:16:56.560 everything that's messed up the united states military which is supposed to be apolitical

00:17:01.180 colorblind gender gender does none of that stuff should matter right if they would have stayed 0.56

00:17:08.400 focused on warfighting, lethality, and mission, and not brought in DEI and wokeness and got 0.76

00:17:16.780 focused off of the training, they would never have to bring in a Secretary of Headstaff. 0.53

00:17:20.600 The Rican Secretary of Headstaff had to go in because he had to improve morale, recruitment, 0.97

00:17:23.860 retention, because we lost the morale. 1.00

00:17:26.680 No one wanted to be in the military anymore.

00:17:28.580 The lowest morale I'd seen in 30 years.

00:17:31.060 The recruitment was the lowest since Vietnam.

00:17:33.600 The retention, we lost all of our GWAT warfighters of 20 years, all left in the military because 0.99

00:17:38.240 they didn't want to be part of that garbage anymore they wanted to get out and so because

00:17:43.000 those all those numbers were down now they had to they had to get rid of all the standards the 0.50

00:17:48.260 entry standards i was going to marine corps boot camp and seeing the type of the lowest caliber

00:17:52.800 of men and women and i don't mean to be insulting to our troops because i love our military obviously

00:17:56.720 that's what i do but the low but we're having to bring the lowest caliber of people into our

00:18:00.120 military because the standards had to drop just to meet their recruiting numbers and so this

00:18:05.000 national security which we're still still doing the link which yeah there's a national security

00:18:08.960 but so you had to bring in a guy that would focus on those kind of things and and it has to be

00:18:14.340 radical i mean he has to come in and say hey like this is a systemic problem that's multi you know

00:18:19.860 multi-administration and so we need to fire people because if i was a ceo of a company i went and

00:18:24.760 came in to go over a failing company i'm looking at the line items of budget i'm going to look at

00:18:28.760 the and i'm looking at the personnel and the personnel are the problems they have to go so

00:18:31.860 Everybody's complaining about, you know, Secretary Hex has come in here.

00:18:35.920 He was only a major, and now he's firing these generals and stuff like that.

00:18:39.520 I mean, if I was the CEO of a company, I was taking over a failing company, I'm coming in, I'm firing people.

00:18:44.340 Like, I'm getting rid of the problems.

00:18:45.800 And so that's what he's doing.

00:18:46.800 And in less than two years, you see the morale of the highest that I've seen since I've been around the military since 1993.

00:18:56.500 The recruiting numbers are the highest in 15 years, and the retention are staying in.

00:19:00.960 and uh why because you know he had to come in and upright so but if the military would have never

00:19:07.240 lost focus if it would have stayed apolitical if it would have stayed uh colorblind and not

00:19:12.160 brought in dei and wokeness and all this crazy ideology and let the military do the job and

00:19:17.200 focus on being war fighters and being lethal and didn't go so far left you wouldn't have to bring

00:19:22.720 in a a sledgehammer beat excess to fix the problem and so for these people that are complaining 0.94

00:19:28.200 you know it's it's a result of of of uh of allowing that garbage to be you know in our 0.55

00:19:34.840 military in our culture in the first place yeah it's interesting because so i joined the army

00:19:41.300 national guard i did a tour in iraq in 2005 but i joined the national guard uh in 1999 and i went

00:19:49.860 to fort sill we were a artillery unit so fort sill and if i what's that well someone there for

00:19:57.300 a Florida observer school for the Marine Corps. Oh yeah. Ford observers. Yeah. So we were in, uh,

00:20:02.400 FTC. So that's where I was. So we work closely with Ford observers. But, um, if I remember

00:20:08.800 correctly, we were either the first or one of the first groups to go through in basic training as

00:20:14.980 a co-ed, uh, unit. And it was horrible. I hated it. And I hated it not because I don't like women

00:20:24.060 or something like that right but because i don't like inferior soldiers so anytime there was some

00:20:30.440 sort of uh you know physical requirement i remember doing road marches you know 10 mile road marches

00:20:36.720 and who were last the women but leave no leave no soldier behind so everybody else slows down 1.00

00:20:42.280 everybody else has to wait and you see this woman who's you know five foot zero uh you know a buck 1.00

00:20:48.600 10 and she's carrying 40 50 60 pounds of road gear like everybody else she just can't handle it 1.00

00:20:55.200 and it's not an indictment on women as as worthy lovely human beings it's an indictment on 0.70

00:21:03.640 capability and i think that's what you're saying is like hey if a woman can complete the same

00:21:08.120 standards that a man can by all means let's see what you got but there isn't one and i just don't

00:21:13.920 know why you use the word, uh, radicalized, uh, or radical. I don't think these are radical

00:21:20.760 concepts. They just are in today's, in today's culture. Yeah. It's just, I mean, it's, it should

00:21:27.040 be fundamental common sense. Like if you, you're, you're not dealing with, uh, when you're dealing

00:21:32.300 with combat readiness, obviously that's a very serious job. Like, uh, and so you bring whatever

00:21:38.640 the standard is, is a standard for mission accomplishment period. There's like set is yes,

00:21:43.220 should be colorblind gender neutral like none of those things matter it's the standard you bring

00:21:47.580 the warriors to the standard period you don't never you never bring the standard down to the

00:21:52.100 warriors to make fit your agenda and uh this is in this topic that we're talking about right now

00:21:58.800 seems to be sucked into like if i say that people hear us have this conversation we're conservative

00:22:04.180 we're republican we're like we have this chauvinistic view no this is this is this is

00:22:10.060 should be complete comment this is a political uh conversation this is like the standards we need

00:22:15.500 for our national security to keep the homeland free and protect people around the world who

00:22:18.980 can't protect them protect themselves and uh and anytime you start compromising that bringing

00:22:23.040 politics making politicizing it they're they politicize it intentionally so they could

00:22:29.020 demonize it and change it and they and our military unfortunately has become victim of that

00:22:34.500 starting in 2000 i mean it started a long time ago but but it really took a radical turn you

00:22:39.420 You know, President Obama in 2008 really took a pretty hard.

00:22:43.180 And unfortunately, the first four years of Trump, he was able to do nothing to turn it around.

00:22:48.700 And so it wasn't until now, until the last two years that we've seen it start to turn, you know, turn around.

00:22:57.620 All right, man, I'm going to step away from the conversation.

00:22:59.560 It's just a quick break.

00:23:00.840 I know you're excited about it.

00:23:01.920 I'm going to get right back into it.

00:23:02.900 I promise you.

00:23:03.920 But I want to tell you about something that I genuinely believe in.

00:23:07.820 I hope I believe in it.

00:23:09.420 it would seem like I would. Uh, if you're a man who's been feeling like something's missing in

00:23:14.800 your life, maybe it's purpose, maybe it's a brotherhood or accountability or just a place

00:23:21.460 where men actually sharpen each other, where we build each other up, where we hold each other

00:23:28.060 accountable. We, we lean on each other. We hold each other's feet to the fire. Then I want you

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00:23:36.860 because I'm pulling back the curtain on Tuesday, May 19th,

00:23:41.720 and I want you to be there.

00:23:43.380 It's at 8 p.m. Eastern, and it's not a sales pitch.

00:23:47.340 It's a real conversation about what it looks like

00:23:50.600 to build a life of intentional manhood.

00:23:56.240 And I think it's important

00:23:58.680 because manhood is grounded in something bigger than yourself.

00:24:01.740 It's forged in community,

00:24:03.820 and all of us are committed

00:24:05.460 to our own standards of performance.

00:24:07.620 And this iron council,

00:24:08.920 this brotherhood that I've built

00:24:09.900 over the past 11 years now

00:24:11.820 exists because isolated men

00:24:14.140 are losing the war

00:24:15.780 that we're talking about

00:24:16.620 on today's podcast.

00:24:17.600 The one that matters most

00:24:18.660 is the one at home,

00:24:20.240 the one in the mirror

00:24:21.140 and the one, frankly, for your soul.

00:24:23.820 So if that resonates with you,

00:24:25.300 you want to know more about it.

00:24:26.460 A lot of you guys

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00:24:48.980 slash preview. That's theironcouncil.com slash preview. Do not miss this one, gents. I'll see

00:24:56.100 you there what's your take on so we're recording this uh april 6th i think we're gonna release

00:25:04.540 this podcast in may so we're coming up on memorial day and obviously that's a a very solemn time a

00:25:10.440 very reverent time for a lot of us as america it should be for every single american but yeah it

00:25:14.860 isn't unfortunately but what's your take on us being in iran i don't know by the time this

00:25:20.480 releases if we'll be wrapped up or wrapping up in iran i hope that's the case you know but what is

00:25:27.000 your take on us being there and also what's amazing to me is the efficacy of of our fighting

00:25:35.300 force you know you think about maduro and venezuela how we could go into a foreign country

00:25:39.320 and kidnap their president uh because we want to and then you saw this thing just in the last

00:25:45.060 couple of days where two fighter pilots were downed and we go into deep enemy territory with

00:25:50.420 hundreds, if not thousands of special operators. And we go extract somebody who was there for 16

00:25:57.400 hours deep in enemy territory without having a single casualty. I mean, we're pretty incredible,

00:26:03.140 but I'm curious about your take on, on Iran and what we're doing there.

00:26:06.600 Yeah. I think I want to start answering it from the, from the back end of your question,

00:26:09.920 because take away anybody's opinion, if we should be in Iran, Venezuela, anything like that.

00:26:15.060 What we have seen previously, too, when you talk about when we went to take out those nuclear facilities a few months back.

00:26:24.080 Yeah, Forto and all that, yeah.

00:26:25.460 To Venezuela, to this recovery of these downed pilots.

00:26:29.840 What you're seeing in real time is the demonstration of the greatest military force in the history of the world.

00:26:34.900 And we have – who has been, by the way, underfunded, undermanned, underappreciated, undersupported, and very much restrained.

00:26:46.680 All those things have changed.

00:26:48.740 And so you see them manned with the right people.

00:26:52.240 You see them funded.

00:26:53.500 You see them with the support of leadership and unrestrained.

00:26:56.800 And now you're getting a display of the capabilities of the most incredible fighting force the world has ever known in the United States military.

00:27:04.900 And in the world, whether you agree, whether people agree with what we're doing in Iran or not, the world is noticing, right?

00:27:12.880 The world has taken note that the United States military is not to be messed with.

00:27:18.140 And it's not just, I mean, it's look, you got, we have the biggest, we have the most advanced technological military.

00:27:27.620 but the american people regardless of the issues that you and i have with our culture

00:27:32.900 and the things that we're doing still in contrast to the world the american people are still the 0.96

00:27:37.820 most resilient and tough gritty people in the world like i i've talked trash we all talk trash

00:27:45.060 about about our culture because we want it to be better i still want people to walk around barefoot

00:27:49.360 down down gravel roads like i did when i was a kid and have slap fights like john but still

00:27:54.820 I mean, you go to any of our you go to Bud's or the Q course or the pipeline for BRC and you see some, you know, 120 pound kid that just got his mullet shaved off when he showed up from Oklahoma at boot camp.

00:28:09.500 And he's like he's going through this first time he's ever in the ocean.

00:28:13.280 He's freezing his butt off to become a special operator like we still have those people in America and they still get out and serve.

00:28:20.840 And then you got – we have some of the smartest people in the world, these technical jobs.

00:28:27.620 All that comes together, build the United States military and do what we do.

00:28:30.840 And we just demonstrate it in the last year, the capabilities.

00:28:36.880 And, man, look, like I said, we're all impressed by it, but the world and world leaders are taking note.

00:28:42.460 And that's important.

00:28:44.240 It's very important for Putin, President Xi, Kim Jong-un.

00:28:49.580 So it is very important for these world leaders to see the strength of what they would face if they choose to test the United States military.

00:28:59.120 These are all – these demonstrations are very important in our national security.

00:29:02.480 So I think that's very noteworthy.

00:29:07.860 Now, whether we should or should not be in Iran, first of all, like I love Pete.

00:29:13.680 I was very happy the other day.

00:29:15.240 I was just bragging this morning.

00:29:16.000 I got a text from the secretary of war in the middle of war.

00:29:18.080 It was pretty cool.

00:29:18.540 like uh well i get to i get to you got a text this morning you said uh no a few days ago i was uh i

00:29:24.340 was at cpac yeah cpac and i was busting on secretary austin who's pete predecessor i think

00:29:30.960 i called him uh yeah i called uh secretary austin a double mass triple vax absolute duty secretary

00:29:38.020 and pete you know texted me that he appreciated he just meant you know and with the point i was

00:29:44.080 making it that pete's in the trenches with the guys he's not doing pt things for photo ops he's

00:29:48.500 wanting to know what the guys think he's wanting to connect with that's what leaders do and that's

00:29:51.880 a long i said that's a long way away from the double back double mass triple vax you know

00:29:56.880 absent on duty secretary uh austin which is true i mean um a leader's leader should be president

00:30:02.540 it should be have the finger on the pulse of the troops and that's what pete has done um and so

00:30:07.980 so i say that to say while while i support pete while i think he's a friend and while i think he's

00:30:13.300 He is the right guy for the job.

00:30:15.580 I think he and the White House has done a really bad job of communicating the why we are in Iran.

00:30:26.660 And I don't blame them for why they have done a bad job.

00:30:29.940 They have to be – I couldn't imagine being in his position or President Trump's position so frustrated with the media.

00:30:36.200 Like the media has completely – anything they say gets twisted.

00:30:40.880 And they say something important and it doesn't get reported.

00:30:43.040 They say they make a slip up that gets reported. 0.98

00:30:45.720 So they're frustrated with the media and their frustration towards the media has cleared this kind of flippant attitude like, hey, we don't have to tell you guys shit like it's none of your like. 0.96

00:30:55.140 And so they don't communicate well to the media, but behind the media is the American people. 0.80

00:30:59.120 And so when when the media doesn't get the full story and the American people don't get the full story, there's gaps of information.

00:31:07.680 And so when there's gaps of where conspiracies come from, conspiracies come from gaps of information.

00:31:13.040 we're we're humans are humans are inquisitive and so we're gonna if there's a missing piece

00:31:18.520 we're gonna fill in the blanks or we're doing it for israel right we're doing it as a humanitarian

00:31:22.660 crisis i'm sad for the iranian people but we shouldn't be putting our military at war for

00:31:26.740 humanitarian crisis iran like all these things we start putting all these filling in all these

00:31:31.180 blanks are we or putin's are we uh yahoo's puppet like and so we start filling in the blanks so i

00:31:36.620 Don't think that the White House or the Pentagon has reported the why.

00:31:43.260 And I could tell you 10 reasons why it would be good for us to go and do what we did in Iran.

00:31:49.340 One that I haven't even heard come out in the media from the Pentagon, which is that Iran, the three months prior to us attacking them, had started producing in the previous three months 100 ICBMs per month. 0.54

00:32:03.120 When the neighboring countries were only producing 20 countermeasures. 0.50

00:32:06.620 And these ICBMs are nuclear capable.

00:32:09.660 You can't have that.

00:32:10.580 That's not unacceptable.

00:32:12.280 It's like, hands down, you cannot have a country that makes threats to America, makes threats to the West, producing 100 ICBMs a month while the neighboring countries are producing 20 countermeasures.

00:32:22.560 You have to do something about that.

00:32:24.900 That alone would have been a clear message like, hey, they're doing this.

00:32:28.920 That's the threat.

00:32:30.700 Here's the countermeasure, which is not up to the part of the threat.

00:32:34.400 We have to do something.

00:32:35.960 Man, if they would just have communicated that, the American people would have got behind it.

00:32:39.640 So I think there's a lot of misinformation that's out to the public.

00:32:43.960 And I don't blame – again, I don't blame them.

00:32:45.660 They're frustrated with the media.

00:32:47.720 The media has not been fair, this administration, since 2000, since President Trump came down the desk later.

00:32:54.020 But so there's parts of going to Iran I love.

00:32:57.440 There's parts that I don't like.

00:32:59.560 here's i'll give you if you want to know i'll give you my idea of why i think that we're in iran

00:33:05.800 and the white house will never admit this and i don't and they probably shouldn't but this is

00:33:09.980 this is why i think if you look on the global stage the biggest threat to america is not iran

00:33:15.000 not venezuela the drug cartels which in numbers of people that are you know dying in america

00:33:20.880 the drug the fentanyl problem all those things are that's a ballot the the north terrorism is a

00:33:26.580 ballot fight. However, the biggest threat to America

00:33:30.560 is China. And 1.00

00:33:32.280 the Chinese government cannot function

00:33:38.080 without oil for probably more than a month. They have to have

00:33:42.680 oil because they can't produce their own. When I say oil, outside of China. They can't produce

00:33:46.560 their own oil to run their own economy for a month. They need outside oil.

00:33:51.060 The Afghanistan withdrawal was largely based on them being able to get

00:33:54.620 sanctioned oil from Iran into China. We moved to U.S. military. They were getting sanctioned oil 0.63

00:33:59.780 discounted from Iran. They're also getting oil discounted from Venezuela. President Trump has

00:34:06.540 a meeting with President Xi in April, and he's going to go into that meeting now, knowing that

00:34:11.600 President Xi has no more oil from Venezuela and no more oil from Iran. That's cut off. So President

00:34:17.660 Xi is forced economically to buy oil either from the United States or at minimum in the U.S. dollar

00:34:22.880 From a national security standpoint and a global security standpoint, I believe that President Trump in that move has checkmated President Xi through economic warfare.

00:34:36.480 And this is where people talk about President Trump playing chess while other people playing checkers.

00:34:42.560 I don't know. Maybe I'm – I don't know that for a fact.

00:34:44.860 Maybe I'm guessing and maybe he stumbled upon it.

00:34:46.920 It's accidental. 0.88

00:34:47.660 Nonetheless, I believe he's in a really good position with China over cutting off Venezuelan and Iranian oil from him, and it puts America in a really safe place from the threat of China.

00:35:02.880 so that's that's what i heard this i think it's an interesting theory i heard this um

00:35:09.760 i heard this statistic just the other day and i just actually pulled it up and it's on chat gpt

00:35:14.740 so i haven't had a chance to fact check this yet but it aligns with what i heard earlier is that

00:35:19.500 um china's about it says here that china is about 85 percent energy self-sufficient overall

00:35:24.940 all um but it does import a large share of its crude oil specifically it says here 17 roughly

00:35:32.400 percent comes from russia 15 from saudi arabia who might be more and more of an ally with america

00:35:39.420 as we progress and then roughly 15 of their oil supply comes from iran so you might say well

00:35:46.820 that's not a big deal but man you start cutting off 15 of the oil supply to our major international

00:35:52.560 enemy and it makes a huge, huge difference in their efficacy. Yeah. I heard an argument before

00:35:58.280 too, that the percentage was, but like you said, that's, that percentage is large and you start

00:36:04.860 taking out, take it away. Then the Venezuelan oil too. I don't know how much of that was factored

00:36:08.640 in. Yeah. I didn't see that on the list, but it's probably sizable as well. Yeah. So you take away

00:36:14.560 those two things and it puts president Trump in a really, really good position. So I was an

00:36:20.200 intentional about president trump i don't know was it is it is it a byproduct of it either way

00:36:25.400 it puts us in a really good position and um i think part of his ambiguity is what makes him

00:36:31.720 so effective uh you know you'll even hear a presser will say like maybe we'll do that maybe

00:36:36.220 we won't and we're not used to having a president like that a president normally you know obama or

00:36:41.120 somebody will come out and say here's exactly what we're gonna do and here's why we're gonna

00:36:44.040 do it and our enemies are listening and trump's like yeah we might do that or we just might

00:36:48.160 blow the shit out of you we we haven't decided yet yeah and that ambiguity but i think there

00:36:53.000 is a marketing problem and i i really like the point that you made up uh that you made about 0.99

00:36:57.680 um just the fact that we we've got to the point where there's a bull in a china shop you know i

00:37:04.140 saw a tweet from or a truth from president trump the other day and he was swearing about opening

00:37:10.680 the the the straight of poor moves and all this stuff and everybody's up in arms i'm like you

00:37:14.480 know what like i'd actually rather have somebody who's a little crude quite a bit crass but actually

00:37:20.540 sticks to his word and produces significantly better results than somebody who's polite and

00:37:26.420 nice but puts america in an inferior position yeah i mean um you know i'm in the church world

00:37:34.840 uh i'm a christian and i run a ministry so i'm in the church world and i went to when i so it's

00:37:41.500 john level at the white house we were actually there for faith leaders at the white house and

00:37:45.640 and so i'm around a lot of pastors that support the this administration and it's really funny

00:37:52.800 their position that they all they all say like hey he he is we we elected him as our commander

00:37:59.280 in chief not as our pastor in chief like he is not he's not a pastor he's not a you know he he's

00:38:04.180 not a spiritual authority it's it's great to see his him supporting the faith it's great in his

00:38:08.920 personal but that is whatever his personal walk is with god that that's all great but that's not

00:38:14.360 why we support we we supported him we supported him because he's he's strong he's decisive and uh

00:38:20.720 and he's he's putting america first and and that's that's why and he protects our constitution and

00:38:26.660 the religious liberties and so he has a lot of support from the evangelical community but uh

00:38:33.320 but he's not a pastor right and uh and and and he uses harsh words because he's a businessman

00:38:38.660 from new york and and unfortunately because of where america was allowed to go to we needed a

00:38:43.920 strong crude businessmen from new york to do the job and that's who's doing it right now and uh

00:38:49.140 when i want to say this because a lot of people don't know this and i know it was it was pretty

00:38:53.960 eye-opening to me when me and john went at the white house there's hundreds i don't know maybe

00:38:59.520 probably probably thousands of offices that fall under the white house and the executive branch

00:39:03.800 and uh and most of them are in the eisenhower building if you've been the white house lawn you

00:39:08.140 You have the West Wing where there's offices there.

00:39:11.360 There's 13 offices in the West Wing outside of the president's offices, 13 offices of the government offices.

00:39:17.340 And then you have the Eisenhower Building has a bunch of offices.

00:39:19.820 And then there's not enough to support all offices.

00:39:22.440 So off-site of the White House is other offices.

00:39:26.020 Even under President Bush, every office of faith has been off grounds of the White House, not in the Eisenhower Building, off-site of the White House lawn right down the street.

00:39:36.200 whenever someone's a president they pick whose offices go where there's only 13 offices in the

00:39:43.420 west wing whichever those 13 most important offices are that's going to have direct access

00:39:48.660 to the president and then and it is that's that says what's most important in that president

00:39:54.040 whichever 13 they pick again got it never never even in the eisenhower never faith officers

00:39:59.640 president trump put out of the 13 put the office of faith in those 13 in one of those 13 offices

00:40:05.380 Really?

00:40:06.060 And so of the 13 things that could be most important to the president is the Office of Faith.

00:40:11.760 And so while – and that's right.

00:40:13.880 If you've ever been to the West Wing, for those who have been to the West Wing, you have the Oval Office there.

00:40:17.980 The Situation Rooms – I'm sorry, the Situation Rooms there.

00:40:21.840 So when President Trump's in that Situation Room, he'll call, and the Office of Faith will come there.

00:40:25.600 A team will come in there, and they'll be praying over decisions and stuff like that.

00:40:29.160 It's incredible.

00:40:29.940 That's an incredible thing for people of faith to know that of the 13 offices they could have,

00:40:33.880 the office of faith is right there and the president the decisions the president makes

00:40:38.040 regardless of his language right is uh is covered in prayer i think it's pretty cool

00:40:43.460 i mean it is interesting you know language you know people get upset about language i'm like you

00:40:50.240 know i i think the uh well-placed swear word is actually a pretty tactical and strategic move at

00:40:55.380 times you know and and it gets like it's just noises yeah they're just noises that we make

00:41:02.460 with our mouth and we've assigned meaning to it but there's meaning there's significance there's

00:41:06.120 weight to it if it's done correctly he doesn't always use those words correctly i'll say that

00:41:10.120 but occasionally i think yeah that that's that's the marketer that's the the genius i think in the

00:41:16.320 um the branding and the marketing side of who he is as a human i've seen him use it like in like

00:41:21.180 you said intentionally to get like he get intentionally a place to get the reaction

00:41:25.280 exactly exactly he's how do you feel like so chad with with how embedded you are in the

00:41:33.160 military community and i know you've got the mighty oaks foundation where you guys are supporting

00:41:36.620 thousands and thousands of military members and veterans across the across the country and across

00:41:42.240 the world what is your what is your pulse on the morale that's something you brought up earlier the

00:41:49.460 morale of our military fighting force um like has that completely just done a 180 and in a matter of

00:41:57.000 what has it been you know 18 months as it is less than two years right than it was before

00:42:02.460 i've been you know i've been either in or around the military for almost 30 years consecutively

00:42:07.540 you know from active duty to reserves to being a contractor and then you know mighty oaks and

00:42:13.940 i've spoken over half a million troops on bases around the world and resiliency so i have a really

00:42:18.280 good pulse on you know over the three decades of where the military has been from administration

00:42:23.960 to administration and uh you know i've seen a really motivated time uh during the initial

00:42:30.040 part of of after 9-11 which is obvious like we get attacked on 9-11 you you were and you went

00:42:37.840 in 99 so you could probably remember that experience how the military was like oh yeah

00:42:41.900 let's go freaking slay everyone who's ever thought anything bad about us right like i was just a

00:42:47.200 yeah no doubt uh i feel like that's back that was that was under president bush i feel like that's

00:42:53.060 back right now and uh and and i just haven't seen that outside of that time outside just post 9-11

00:43:00.080 till right now this only time i've seen the military with that kind of mentality

00:43:03.500 and uh and you know we didn't have a big world event this time what we have had is a shift in

00:43:08.960 leadership and and it was a shift that people were craving people were so tired of i mean look

00:43:15.420 if you want to know what would broke the spirit of our military more anything and you know people

00:43:21.680 agree and disagree with this it was covet covet like broke the spirit of a lot of guys in our

00:43:28.240 military because i mean that that two years of just not training have being forced to take the

00:43:34.300 vaccine they kicked out over 10 000 of our warriors uh i mean who knows how really yeah i

00:43:43.120 I mean, my son was one of them.

00:43:44.520 My family served World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, all these multiple generations.

00:43:51.260 And then our service, consecutive service ends from the vaccine because my son was one of the ones to get kicked out as a Marine, not getting the vaccine.

00:44:00.620 He ended up going back in when they opened it back up.

00:44:03.560 But, I mean, it wasn't just the vaccine and being forced to take this vaccine, which, by the way, you know, I mean, what are we saying?

00:44:11.160 The Navy just did a test 900% in cardiac issues, 900% increase in cardiac issues for those who took the vaccine.

00:44:20.140 But I think a lot of military people knew at that time.

00:44:23.340 They didn't feel right about it.

00:44:24.280 They were forced to take it.

00:44:26.200 It just felt very political inside the military.

00:44:29.180 But all the training, like training was halted.

00:44:33.040 People couldn't train.

00:44:34.160 I remember going to speak at Marine Corps boot camp, and the guys were wearing masks. 0.82

00:44:37.120 They were like yellow from all the phlegm.

00:44:40.060 Imagine going to the Marine Corps boot camp and wearing a mask for three months.

00:44:44.800 Brutal, yeah.

00:44:45.540 It just really like – it just – the morale was just kind of robbed of the military during that Biden-Harris four years that it was just so desperate.

00:44:56.740 And so when you had this just radical change – that's why I talked about Pete being that bull in China shop, that radical change that shifted.

00:45:04.360 Like it was like having just a shitty boss forever and all of a sudden somebody comes in and just like cares about you and treats you well.

00:45:09.700 you're like going to be motivated and that's what that's what i think the military is like right now

00:45:13.560 it's just very very motivated and people are like you see a sense of patriotism that came back in

00:45:18.820 the military and the guys are motivated again and uh and it showed it like this is my opinion

00:45:24.000 but beyond my opinion it shows in their recruiting numbers their attention and the performance it

00:45:30.300 shows like uh i mean you could agree with me or not but you could also go look at the data if you

00:45:35.140 one thing done to do it and in a number of show yeah what do you think is the biggest challenge

00:45:42.040 for those uh military men who are separating from service whether they're aging out you know

00:45:48.220 voluntary separation what what are some of the struggles that they're dealing with especially

00:45:52.720 with regards to your foundation and what you guys support well i mean uh i mean it always comes down

00:45:57.900 that regardless what generation if it's during wartime or not wartime it's gonna be a sense of

00:46:02.120 purpose i would have said you know a few weeks ago that the biggest the biggest transition was

00:46:06.820 you know was just going from 20 years of war to no war uh but right now guys are still getting

00:46:14.420 to be you know involved in some stuff and even if you're not deploying tyran you still feel like

00:46:18.780 you're part of that right so it gives you that sense of purpose for being in the military

00:46:23.100 but man like when you take off that uniform uh or whatever role people capacity people played in

00:46:30.840 their role in service uh if their purpose was tied to a job and that job's taken away

00:46:37.980 then they fall apart and that's what i believe we see when we talk about veteran suicide

00:46:43.440 ptsd all the things that the transition issues uh these aren't issues about things that people

00:46:49.320 seen or did or experiences they had this this is an issue with people having a very clear mission

00:46:54.980 a very clear purpose important job they believed in and then when that's gone they and they can't

00:47:00.540 find that again, they feel purposeless. And so I love the military. I love the fact that I served

00:47:06.240 a military. You look around the office, I got all kinds of stuff around here that I'm very proud of.

00:47:10.140 And I know you do too, but I mean, we can be proud of those things and our identity not be tied to

00:47:14.740 those things. And this is a real dangerous part of being, doing any job that's important. The

00:47:20.160 military is just one of them, but you do something that's important and you should be proud of and

00:47:24.220 you can be proud of it but when your identity is tied to it and you get hurt uh get uh out of the

00:47:32.220 military something happens whatever and that changes abruptly for you then you feel like you

00:47:37.860 have no purpose and i believe that's the biggest issue that our villain community has always faced

00:47:41.980 uh is is have purpose one day and then not the next day mark twain is a famous quote that i love

00:47:47.400 you know it says the two most important days in a person's life or the day that they're born and

00:47:51.540 the day they find out why, right?

00:47:53.100 When we realize why we were created,

00:47:55.320 what are we here to do?

00:47:57.440 And that quote is so important

00:48:00.440 because what we oftentimes,

00:48:02.280 that why, right?

00:48:03.820 The day I'm born,

00:48:04.700 the day I find out why,

00:48:06.100 that why sometimes we fill in that blank

00:48:07.840 with a job.

00:48:09.320 And that job that we have,

00:48:11.280 as great as it may be,

00:48:12.640 being a service member or whatever,

00:48:15.100 as great as the job is,

00:48:16.380 that job's going to change.

00:48:17.920 And so beyond that job,

00:48:19.260 you need to have purpose at the core.

00:48:21.540 And that's why I believe faith is so important to answer that question.

00:48:27.300 I believe that, you know, we need to have to be who we're created to be.

00:48:31.460 We have to have a relationship with the creator.

00:48:32.540 So having that relationship with Jesus, being who you're created to be and living that purpose.

00:48:36.620 Understand that that fundamentally my purpose is in being the man God created me to be, to do the things he created me to do, to take all the gifts and talents he put inside of me.

00:48:46.180 Because we all are built with different gifts and talents and then how to use those outward in the world.

00:48:49.380 And sometimes those gifts and talents tie into a job and occupation of being a recon marine and being a contractor and being a leader at Mighty Oaks and writing books.

00:48:59.920 And those purposes and gifts and talents can go in different places, but they should be able to shift to that.

00:49:04.960 Those should never be my purpose because, again, it'll change, and it can be taken away from you at any moment.

00:49:12.760 but your core purpose through a relationship with your creator and being in living life by putting

00:49:18.720 those gifts and talents into just everyday living that can never be taken away from you so i think

00:49:22.860 that's the biggest thing at the core that's what mighty oaks does yeah i love what you guys are

00:49:28.760 doing and i think it's powerful when you have somebody who really understands that and decides

00:49:33.100 you know i can whether i'm doing this podcast or something else my podcast or my my purpose in life

00:49:37.940 is still going to be the same. And how I fulfill that might be slightly different.

00:49:42.360 The mechanism or the vehicle that I use to fulfill that purpose changes as technology changes,

00:49:48.260 as circumstances in my life change. But man, that's always going to remain steadfast for sure.

00:49:54.220 Yeah. I mean, look at what I do right now at Mighty Oaks and, you know, I have a podcast and

00:49:59.320 ambassador ships and write books. I mean, I love it. I get to do, I get to reach so many people

00:50:05.660 through that but i i'm very well aware that all that could be all that could change tomorrow

00:50:11.160 and because there's been times in my life where everything i hung everything into this job when

00:50:17.040 i was a contractor at jsoc like that job to me was the most important job on the planet and i was

00:50:21.880 like i can't believe i'm here i can't believe i get to do this there's nothing more important

00:50:24.720 like my whole life is like focused on this and it was going in a moment and when it was it crushed

00:50:30.720 like i it took me three years to even feel like i wanted to live again like i was devastated i was

00:50:37.920 ashamed i was dealing with debilitating panic attacks i was having died depression i i didn't

00:50:42.700 know i didn't know any like i went through phases of like wanting to kill myself to just not wanting

00:50:46.840 to live anymore and it was all because i had missing misplaced uh you know my purpose and uh

00:50:53.880 so i know now i live now knowing that as great as this life all the things i get to do now is

00:50:58.380 it can be taken away from me in a moment and when it is i just still need to be able to wake up

00:51:02.840 the next day and fulfill my purpose in a different capacity

00:51:06.700 yeah that's amazing well chad i really appreciate our conversation i know you've got a book coming

00:51:14.020 out too riptide it's coming out i think as of the release of this podcast today may 12th so

00:51:18.840 why don't you give a plug for the book let people know and then um also let us know how to support

00:51:24.380 mighty oaks yeah so i've written a number of books by the way uh mostly uh non-fiction so i've

00:51:29.980 written like saving aziz mission without borders those are my two two of my favorite ones and

00:51:33.600 unfair advantage uh and uh and they got to the point to where i can't i can't uh i can't keep

00:51:40.940 going around the world and make creating non-fiction stories to tell so i so i decided

00:51:45.720 to move into fiction space and uh it was it was just something i was excited about doing and

00:51:50.440 Tyndale Publishing reached out to me and, uh, and I partnered with Jack Stewart or Jack Stewart's

00:51:54.720 a top gun fighter pilot. So we had the ground side, the, the aviator side, which by the way,

00:51:59.260 Jack Stewart's ground time was with, uh, J sock as well. So he had ground time with that. So we,

00:52:03.940 we got in, and, and partnered with Tyndale and wrote a three book fiction series,

00:52:09.380 a military fiction series. And so, uh, the first one was called silent horizons, which,

00:52:13.540 which did phenomenal. We just won an audio award. Cause Ray Porter who did, who reads

00:52:17.980 uh jack carr's books um in the terminal list reporter read it so we won an audio award for

00:52:23.480 it and it was it was a usa today bestseller it did really well so book two riptide is coming out

00:52:30.020 may 12th and uh and you get to the main characters foster quinn named after one member uh foster

00:52:35.660 was uh one of my brothers who was killed in and uh is from we were at third force together he was

00:52:40.780 killed in in alabama province 2004 but it's an incredible story it's so much it's so fun it was

00:52:47.140 so great to work with jack because he's such a talented writer and so riptide comes out and as

00:52:51.280 just foster quinn's journey continues and uh yeah it was it's a it's been a blast to write

00:52:56.680 very cool man we'll sync it all up and uh mighty oaks is mightyoaks.org or where do we go

00:53:03.560 mightyoaksprograms.org and look we need all the support we can so anybody wants to support a

00:53:08.200 non-profit we're a phenomenal non-profit to support in a veterans uh service organization

00:53:11.980 space but more importantly than than that the most i know because your audience if there's a

00:53:17.320 veteran uh active service member veteran first responder a spouse of uh that needs help we don't

00:53:24.120 care what your story is we don't we we don't care what your discharge was whatever we are there to

00:53:30.100 serve zero strains attach we have intensive recovery programs we have resiliency programs

00:53:35.620 we have resources uh reach out on the website mightyelchprograms.org and we even pay for flight

00:53:41.040 stuff program so cover all costs and uh we have i think we have uh probably 50 camps going this

00:53:46.420 year so around around the country so and they're week-long intensives and there is it's completely

00:53:52.500 if people listening might think is that for me if we're not i can say yes it is for you because

00:53:56.800 it's for if you're lowest of low it's for you if you if you're in the highest point of your life

00:54:01.180 it's for you i wish i i actually need to do undercover boss and go back right now i could

00:54:04.780 use it. That's awesome. Well, we'll sync everything up, Chad. I appreciate you and what you're doing,

00:54:12.000 obviously, and your service to this country. Um, it means a lot and it means a lot. You'd

00:54:16.400 take some time with me today. So I appreciate you. Oh, absolutely, man. Thanks. Thanks for

00:54:19.060 what you're doing. God bless, man. And we're going to get you on my show. We've got the

00:54:22.320 resilient show, uh, the resilient show. We've got to get you on. I'd love to. Let's talk about that

00:54:28.700 too. All right, you guys, there you go. My conversation with Chad Robichaud. Like I said,

00:54:34.660 I've been working on getting him on the podcast for years. We finally made it happen. And he did

00:54:39.460 not disappoint as I told you in the beginning of this podcast. So if you want to connect with Chad,

00:54:45.260 hit him up on the gram, check out his organization called mighty Oaks, and also check out his newest

00:54:52.340 uh, his newest book called riptide. That one came out today as of the release of this podcast.

00:54:58.220 And then also, as I mentioned earlier, we've got the iron council preview call on Tuesday,

00:55:02.700 May 19th at 8 PM Eastern. Go get your spot locked in at the iron council.com slash preview.

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Order of Man - May 12, 2026

CHAD ROBICHAUX ｜ The Battle for Our Boys and America's Soul

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