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In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the discuss their favorite childhood movies, tv shows, and cartoons. They also discuss some of their favorite TV shows and movies they grew up watching. They also talk about some of the worst movies they ever watched as kids.
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
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your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
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you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Mr. Kip Sorensen, what's up, brother? It's great to see you after
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a two-week hiatus. I'm looking a little darker than you, which is not usually the case.
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I noticed a little tan. All the Mainers are going to lose their mind with someone with a slight tan
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hanging around. The Mainers call anybody from out of state or from another area. You're either a
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flatlander or you're from away. With the golden glow I have going on right now, they will definitely
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know that I am from away, especially in the midst of the snowstorm we're dealing with today.
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What's a flatlander? What's that? I don't even know why they call it that because I was...
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Because Main's kind of flat. Flat relative to Utah, which is where I am.
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Yeah. Interesting. Maybe they're like, what is it on Dumb and Dumber? I thought the Rockies
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would be a little bit more rocky than this. That John Denver is full of shit, man.
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Oh, that's a good show. I need to bring that up through the archives.
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Yeah. It's a great show. So yeah, we've been trying to introduce our kids to some various
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classics and Dumb and Dumber was definitely on that list, including Wayne's World. That
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was on the list. And then there's some other more serious ones like Braveheart. We watched
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not too long ago together. Gladiator. What else? Legends of the Falls, a great movie. I don't
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know if they've watched that one yet, but yeah, we try to introduce them to some of these really
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good ones. We did the same thing and we grabbed some childhood favorite movies that we liked.
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And then we're like, man, this is inappropriate, right? I was like, why would my parents let
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me watch these shows? It was really funny. Yeah. We were watching Shrek the other day
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and noticed how much sexual innuendo was in that. Totally.
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But if you got to ask... It's an adult cartoon. Kids have no idea.
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That's right. Yeah. And that's the thing. Is it really inappropriate for kids if they don't
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get it? Maybe not. I think it's just deployed to make sure that the parents are somewhat
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entertained because they're the ones paying for the movie tickets to get their kids there. So if
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it's not entertaining for the adults, the adults are like, screw that. I'm not going to that.
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Totally. I love watching Shrek. I think it's funny. What's the childhood story where the kids
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find a shipwreck and it's like in the mountain. Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Oh, that's good. Are you talking about Goonies?
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I know. I don't know why I forgot the title, but I love Goonies and we were watching that
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with our kids. They're cursing the whole time. I'm like, oh yeah. No cursing, but I'm like,
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this is a great show. And they're like, you're parents that you watch this?
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We watch occasionally old Looney Tunes or you know what is the worst, the worst movie? Pinocchio.
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Pinocchio. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember when I was a kid, I was scared of Pinocchio. Number
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one, that movie was scary. Eaten by the whale. And then he gets kidnapped by, I think a fox and
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a bear, if I remember right. And then they get taken to this groomer Island where they're grooming
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all these little boys and they call them jackasses. They're literally turning them into donkeys.
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And then they're all, they're all smoking. I'm like, this is a horrible, horrible show.
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They're trapped. Pinocchio is trapped in a cage with these two pedophiles. Like this is a horrible,
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horrible show. Oh, weird. That's Disney's intro into woke ideology. I suppose.
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Oh my gosh. Land before time. No, no. Never ending story. I watched that like a couple of years ago.
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The worst movie of all time. I loved it as a kid, as an adult, it is miserable. I just remember that
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white dragon. I think it was that he flies on if I remember. Flying dog.
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It's flying dog. That's what it is. Yeah. All right. Well guys, maybe, uh, maybe what you can
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do is you could submit your favorite childhood movies and then we could come up with some sort
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of archive to introduce our children to Pinocchio will not be on the list. Neither will never
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ever be a child approved movies for order of man. That's right. That's right. All right. All right,
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brother. Let's get into it today. Yeah. We're going to fill the questions from our Facebook group.
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That's facebook.com slash group slash order, man. Join us there. Paul beam expectations.
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I don't understand how we can have standards, but no expectations.
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Well, I don't, I'm not sure that no expectations is, is appropriate. I may have said that in the past.
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So let me, let me give some nuance to that. If you're going to have expectations for certain
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people, then they have to be stated and agreed upon. It's, it's not, we've talked a lot about
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covert contracts. So for example, if you expect your wife to do certain things around the house
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or to behave a certain way or to respond to you a certain way, and yet you haven't communicated that
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clearly to her and she hasn't agreed upon that expectation, that's where I would say, no, you
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shouldn't have that expectation because you haven't been fair to the other party. But Kip, if you and I
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are in a business agreement and we are in this context, we're friends, but in this context, a
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business agreement, then there are some expectations that I have of you. And I've communicated those
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expectations and you've communicated your expectations to me. And if either one of us fail to meet those
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expectations, it's not a surprise of what those are. And of course there's going to be consequences
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to that. So we have standards about the way that we perform. We have standards about the way that we
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show up and what we do and how we communicate. And here's the, the, the set expectation and it is what
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it is. Now there's other people that I don't think we should have expectations of that. We just don't
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have the right to have expectations of, you know, like I don't expect people. Uh, what are the things I've
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been doing over the past, I would say two months, really, really hard is hitting the gym very heavily.
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And I don't have any expectations about my friends should go to the gym. Or if I go to the gym, then the
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people there should do workouts the way that I approve or deem appropriate. It's not really my place to have
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an expectation of them. All that I can worry about is my own personal expectation and agreements with myself
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and the standard I hold myself to. I'll give you an example. I was doing some reps this morning.
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I can't, I can't remember what it was. Maybe it was some weighted, you know, front squats or something.
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I can't remember. And I was doing these reps and I lost track. I was supposed to do 12 of them and I
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lost track of them. And I could have just finished up and say, yeah, I think I got 10, but I did two more.
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Just maybe I did more. I don't really know. I lost track, but I know for sure I hit my,
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what I was supposed to hit, I probably did a little bit more, but I'd rather do that than
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not do enough. And would anybody catch me on that? Is there anybody in the gym to critique that? Is
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Johnny Loretty, who's my fitness trainer and nutritionist, would he, would he know about that?
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No, but I do. And so I'm really, really working hard to hold myself to my own personal standard.
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So I hope that answers the question, but yeah, there are people that you should have expectations.
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I have expectations of my children. I have expectations of you. I have expectations of my wife.
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I have expectations of other business partners and all of that is communicated clearly. And if I
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don't, then I have no right to be upset when they fail to meet my covert contract that I've created
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in my mind and not shared with them. Totally. One resource on this that's super great that I think
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he's done an amazing job and he's been on the podcast, John Gary Bishop. He has an entire section
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of his book, I think around just expectations and, and he latches onto the area that not on the
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communication, you know, which I totally agree with, but eventually, right. There becomes a time
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where we had expectations. Maybe there were people outside of our realm of control. We have expectations
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around how the government is, but we're not in a position necessarily to communicate those
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expectations per se, or maybe we do communicate and, and those expectations aren't met. His premise
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is learn to let go of them. So you can deal in reality because sometimes we have expectations
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of the way things should go and we, and we won't let go of it because well, Ryan, I shouldn't have to.
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Right. I shouldn't have to be dealing with this in my life. It's I have, and I won't let go of the
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expectation. I shouldn't have to deal with these struggles. I shouldn't, it shouldn't be this
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difficult and we'll hold onto it so much that we don't deal in reality. And, and so I totally agree
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have expectations, but also learn to let go of them and deal with what is so. And, and sometimes our
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expectations, we have all, I don't know, there's so much, I don't know if it's ego or the desire to
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want to be right, but sometimes we'll just hold onto them and not deal with reality.
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Yeah. Well, and I think you brought up a key phrase should not. So it's, you know,
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that you have expectations of people, whether it's healthy or unhealthy, you know, you're dealing in
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expectations when you say should and should not about other people. Kip should do this. My wife
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should do that. My kids should not do this. That those are expectations that you have. And again,
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sometimes that's appropriate. My kids should not backtalk their mother. They know that that's an
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expectation. And so we talk about that. And then here, here's something. If I see another kid
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backtalking his mom, well, he shouldn't do that. What? Like, why would I have that expectation of
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that other child? I've noticed that as I've tried to let go of this need to control, I think that's
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where it comes from. Life has just got better. I'm happier. I'm more carefree. I can focus on more
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important matters because I'm not worried about what that kid who I have nothing to do with should
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and should not do. Yeah. And see, even here, it applies in order of man. Look, I can tell you
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guys, a man should, a man should not, a man should do this. A man should do that. Look, I have my own
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shoulds and should nots that I need to work on clearly. Yeah, totally. And I communicate this
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stuff to you guys. But at the end of the day, like if you come to me and you're like, well, Ryan,
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you know, you said this, but I don't do that. I don't care. It's not my expectation that you do it
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the exact same way as me. All that I want to do is share some victories, share some, some setbacks,
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and hopefully it inspires you to live a more meaningful life, but it's your obligation to
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take what works and leave what doesn't and run it through your own filter in your own life.
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I really don't have an expectation as to whether or not you do something that I suggest. It doesn't
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matter to me. Yeah. And I just wanted to point out, there's some serious things in life that,
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that this shows up in, right? If we're dealing with death or, or disease or an unhealthy family
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member, sometimes we'll latch onto those and say, I have this expectation. I shouldn't have to deal
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with this, right? I, I, I shouldn't have my father pass away or my kids shouldn't have the sickness or
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these difficulties. Well, but they are. So let it go. Well, and I think that's where, and we're beating
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a dead horse now, but I think that's where your own expectations come in because that's going to help
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you navigate those things. So for example, if you have a loved one pass away and you worry about
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your locus control, which is how you handle yourself, then you're going to be able to navigate
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that successfully, including helping other people navigate it. Or if you're going through a breakup
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or a divorce, um, or, uh, a layoff or, or, or economic hardship, you know, there's things beyond
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your control. And I'm not saying it makes it, well, no, I think I am saying it makes it easier
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if you focus on your own expectations. So the world could be crumbling around you. And if you say,
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Hey, you know what, in these dark and, and destructive and challenging times, my expectation
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or my standard is that I show up like this kind of man. I, I think that is going to help you handle
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it more easily than if you put it all on your wife or your kids or the economy or the president
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or something that's completely beyond your control. So put the expectations on your shoulders of how
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you perform. I think that's a better approach to it. Dallin Michael, what kind of rites of passage
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can I do with my daughters or is that my wife's job? The sons I have ideas that I feel, um, the sons I
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have ideas that feel natural, but the girl I'm struggling with. Yeah. I thought a lot about
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this. I, I actually, I don't think that it needs to be different for your daughter. I really don't.
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I actually, I've been toying around with the idea that maybe it's more important for your daughter.
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I'll give you an example, martial arts. I spent some time with a good friend, uh, in Costa Rica over
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the past week and a half. Uh, his name's Rick trimmer. He's been on the podcast. He's a good friend of
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mine and he's also so it's back. Yeah. And he, he also, him and his wife happened to be business
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partners with revitalized, uh, womanhood, which is a very cool program specifically with focused on
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women, similar to what we're doing here with the order of men. Anyways, the, the reason I bring
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that his name up is I think he's six, five. He's a very imposing, intimidating figure. And we were
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talking about safety as he travels him and his family travel extensively. And we, like I said,
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we were down in Costa Rica and he said, you know, here's some things I don't go to unsafe places,
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but he said something interesting. He said, you know, people don't mess with me.
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He's six, five. He, he, he's, he's, he's a fun, loving, happy, friendly jokester.
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But I would like, if I'm, if I'm trying to victimize somebody, I'm not going to mess with
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a guy that's six, five skipping that guy, right? Like I'm going to go to the next guy or, or maybe
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even the woman, right? Yeah. Not the guy at all. Cause I'm looking for the path of least resistance.
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I'm looking for the easy target. Well, women are easier targets than men. It's just, look,
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people are going to say that's misogynistic or that sexist or whatever. It's the reality. Okay.
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They're smaller. They're, they're easy, easier to, uh, to, to handle if, if needs be, I think
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generally, I know this might get me into some trouble. Women generally tend to be a little bit
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more naive than men do. Generally, the more loving they're, they're less skeptical. Yeah.
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Right. Totally. So I think if you're talking about martial arts, for example, it might be
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more important that a woman or, or your daughter in this case learns that than a man, I'm not saying
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a man shouldn't, I'm saying it might be more important that she does than your son does.
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Yeah. Or it might be more important that she knows how to change a tire than your son does.
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Cause she's the one who's at risk. If her tire blows out on the side of the road and she's all
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by herself and she's changing her tire on the highway, she's at greater risk than a man is
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in any, in any circumstance. So I would suggest that all the things that we talk about with rite of
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passages with hardship and challenge and struggle and adversity. And those things should be introduced
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to your daughter just as much, if not more so than your sons. The only difference is that when you
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talk about, is that your wife's job? No, it's not her job to offer rites of passages because women
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don't offer hardship in that relationship. That's not their role. That's the man's role. It's your job
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to introduce hardship and struggle and toil. Think about on a small micro level. When your
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daughter's learning to ride her bike, she's what, four or five, six years old. She's learning to ride
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her bike and she falls. What does the mom do? Runs over. Oh, sweetie. Oh, are you okay? Oh,
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let me brush off the dirt. Let me get the rocks at it. Let me kiss your boo-boo. Let me get you a
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bandaid. And that's the mom's job. That's not wrong, by the way. It's a nurturing, loving approach to
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concern it for her well-being. The man says, hey, dust it off. I know it hurts. I know it's a little
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bloody. Just wipe it off. Get the gravel out of there and put your helmet back on, right? And
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you know, get back on the bike and encourage her to push past the fear and the pain. And that's the
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man's job. So, it's the man's job to offer the rites of passages because it offers hardship.
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It's your wife's job to make sure that she turns into a fine young woman, a beautiful, lovely woman.
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She's supposed to be teaching her femininity. She's supposed to teach her how to nurture
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and how to nourish and how to support and how to love. That's your wife's job. Your job is to offer
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the hardship and the fortitude to get through those challenges. Yeah, I like it. Although I have a hard
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time, imagine Asia going, oh, it's okay. She's the same as me. We're like, for sure. Get back up,
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you pansy. But let's be honest, that's masculine energy. Totally. I mean, that's, and I'm not saying
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she's masculine, but that is. But she has masculinity in her, just like we have feminine. Of course.
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Of course. Totally. Like it. Tyler Henderson. I work out five, six times a week, drink plenty of
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water throughout the day. And I'm very intentional about how I eat. Additionally, I get about seven
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hours of sleep a night on average. Caffeine intake isn't insanely high, but I do drink a cup of coffee
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in the morning and in the afternoon after lunch. You're making us look bad here, Tyler. That said,
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I still tend to get pretty tired throughout the day. Any tips on maintaining better energy levels?
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Maybe some things that I can work well for, or that has worked well for you.
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Yeah. So I'm going to give you like a physiological answer. Well, I guess you're
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both physiological, but I'll give you the physiological answer and then I'll give you
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the mental answer. So let's, so let's just address the physiological first. Go get your
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hormones checked. Go get your, go get your blood worked up, do a workup, figure out where your
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testosterone levels are, figure out how, how that's all regulated so that you can see, you know,
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your, your testosterone might be critically low. Mine, mine was, mine was in the 200s. It's been a
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while and I haven't checked it. I don't, I don't take testosterone. I did for a little bit and I
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might do it in the future. But I, I feel more energetic. I feel I'm getting bigger. I'm leaning
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out, but I wanted to try it by number ones. I stopped drinking alcohol. That was huge.
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That fact. I don't know if you drink alcohol, but that was huge. Uh, and I was shocked. Like how
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completely shocked how quickly I lost weight and my energy levels went up when I stopped drinking.
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Amazing. So there's that. Uh, but my testosterone was in the two hundreds, but I, but I've done a lot
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of different things, including diet, exercise, again, stop drinking. And I, I'd be, I need to go get
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my blood worked up now. Cause I bet it's higher. Cause I feel like I have more energy, more stamina,
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more focus, more control. So I would definitely say, get your hormones checked.
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So that's the physiological, the mental side of it. I would ask yourself, what is my purpose in life?
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What, what is it that I'm passionate about? What is my purpose? You know, what, what things do I see
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in life? What are, what are hills that I'm willing to die on? Like what causes am I fighting for?
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What gets me excited outside of being a, be a husband and my wife, uh, being a father to my
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children? What is it that really, really drives me? And if you can't answer those questions,
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we really got to dive deep and figuring out why that's the case. Cause I know a lot of guys and
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I can see it in their eyes. When I drive by them on the road, they're 50 pounds overweight.
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They've got, they're sitting in their wife's minivan. They're going to a work, a job that
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they hate. And you can see the desperation and torment in their eyes. I don't want that for you
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guys. So I would suggest that there might be some deep work here needed to figure out,
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are you living and stepping into God's plan and purpose for you? Because if you're not,
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no wonder you're tired. No wonder you're exhausted. No wonder there's nothing that gets you going
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to revved up throughout the day. Hormones mentality of purpose.
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Jeremy clay, how to stay plugged in. I've had mentors, et cetera, for most of my life,
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but there are periods of life I unplug and I won't, and I won't say I don't listen to them,
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but self-thinking wins. And that never goes as good as listening to the council. Any thoughts
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plugged in to what exactly? Like he's saying self-thinking, but I, I actually think, I believe
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that self-thinking, which if I don't know what he's saying, but I would say is like intuition,
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maybe, you know, he's saying, listen to counsel. I'd actually say, listen more to intuition than
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listen to counsel. I'm not saying don't listen to good, wise, credible counsel, but every time I
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followed my gut, I, things have gone well. Every time I've deviated from that, things have not gone
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so well. So at a, at a, at a core, I would say, no, do follow your gut and then figure out from
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your counsel, how to take action and navigate what your gut is telling you. That that's what I would
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say. But also read the question one more time. Cause I had one more thought and I took a note,
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but now I kind of lost track. Read the question one more time for me.
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And I, I'm, maybe I'm messing up, but it's a little hard to read here. So how to stay unplugged,
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how to stay plugged in question mark. I have had mentors and et cetera for most of my life,
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but there are periods of life I unplug and I won't say I don't listen to them, but self-thinking wins
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and that never goes as good as listening to counsel. Okay. So I, yeah, I think what I'm hearing
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is that he's getting stuck in his own head and it's negative. It's like, you can't do this.
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You're not good enough. What makes you think you deserve this? Who are you to dot, dot, dot.
00:22:21.420
Those are all thoughts that all of us have. Yeah. You can entertain them for a minute and then just
00:22:29.220
decide to shut them off. I think about those things every day. When I go through my failures,
00:22:34.780
my setbacks, my challenges, I think to myself, who are you? Who are you to do this? Who are you to tell
00:22:41.520
men how to be men? Who are you to, to, to run this organization? What makes you think you're
00:22:46.300
special? And the reality is, is all of that's true. You know, like, who am I, who am I to tell
00:22:51.640
guys what they should do when I'm keenly aware of my own struggles and my own faults. And I don't
00:22:56.880
entertain those thoughts for long because what I say to myself is who am I not to like, who am I not
00:23:03.000
to share my struggles and my faults? Who am I not to share the things that have worked well for me that
00:23:08.640
might inspire one other man to do something in his life that's going to move them in a positive
00:23:13.500
direction? Or who am I not to hold up a warning sign and say, don't do this. This is what I did
00:23:20.360
and it didn't work. And I suggest that you don't go this route, that you go that route over there.
00:23:26.780
Who am I not to do that? What a shame if I cower and I hide and I slink away into obscurity because
00:23:34.340
I'm so worried about my fragile ego that I can't take my lessons of failure and setback and victory
00:23:41.220
and translate those or gift those to somebody else. Who are you not to do that? So sure,
00:23:48.460
if you want to entertain those thoughts, if you need to let them rumourate in your mind a little
00:23:52.040
bit and bounce around in your mind, give them an expiration date. You know, hey, look, feeling down
00:23:57.880
on the dumps. I'm going to take an hour and I'm going to unplug from my mentors or my emails or
00:24:03.720
whatever. Or I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to take a three-day vacation or even a staycation.
00:24:09.160
And I'm going to think about this. And then I'm back to work. That stuff expires. I'm not going to
00:24:14.460
sit around and wallow in my own self-pity. And one thing that's worked well for me when I do that
00:24:20.140
is I don't let it just bounce around in my brain. You got to get it out. You got to get it a release
00:24:27.340
valve. And one way you might be able to do that is by journaling. So go ahead and take out a journal
00:24:33.140
and say, I don't feel worthy. I don't feel good about myself. I don't feel successful. Like write
00:24:39.820
all of it down because now you're purging the toxicity from your mind. You got to get it out of
00:24:44.720
your brain and just dump it somewhere. And maybe you just take that piece of paper. And at the end
00:24:50.400
of every day or every gripe session you have, you rip it up, you throw it away, you burn it,
00:24:54.480
you do whatever, but at least it's out of your mind. And don't believe for a second that you're
00:24:59.080
different. The most successful people in the world have these same exact thoughts. You're not
00:25:05.640
different. You're not broken and you're not doing it wrong. We just need to move you to phase
00:25:13.020
B, which is, okay, maybe you aren't good enough right now. Well, what can you do to be better?
00:25:20.360
You know, maybe you aren't a great husband and that sucks to wrestle with. So what are you going
00:25:26.300
to do about it? Maybe you're 50 pounds overweight and you don't feel confident because you look in
00:25:32.880
the mirror and you can't even see your dick anymore. Okay. Like that sucks. And now, so what
00:25:39.720
are you, that's phase B, what are you going to do about it? And now you get to work. Cause I'll tell
00:25:45.020
you what, I've never felt bad in the midst of actively working to improve myself. Maybe before,
00:25:50.920
maybe after, but not while I'm actively doing it. I like the idea of just finish the thought.
00:25:59.840
Yes. Finish, finish the thought and come up with a conclusion. So even if you're thinking
00:26:04.880
negative about yourself and you're kind of beating yourself up, okay, deal with it. And then what?
00:26:11.040
So that's how I feel. So what are you going to do about it? Finish the thought. We need to stop
00:26:16.400
being lazy with the thoughts that enter our minds and follow them to a conclusion or determine what
00:26:21.140
the conclusion is or to your point, what's the action? What are you going to do about it?
00:26:25.880
It's, it's when we don't do that, that everyone goes, Oh, you're so negative. It's so bad for you.
00:26:31.260
Yeah. It's only bad if you do something. It's right. It could be really great if you actually
00:26:36.620
have it cause action. So take some action out of it. Yeah. Look, I think, I think guilt and shame
00:26:47.100
and remorse and even a guilty conscience. I think that's healthy. Like everybody says,
00:26:57.880
Oh, you know, you shouldn't feel ashamed. Oh, you shouldn't be embarrassed. Oh, you shouldn't.
00:27:02.640
Why? What, why if you've done some horrible things, why should you not feel ashamed about that?
00:27:10.200
That's, that's, those are, that's God's way of saying, Hey, that's not right. Integrity.
00:27:16.680
Yeah. What you're doing isn't right. Let's say you participate in that. Let's say you step out on
00:27:21.260
your wife and you feel sorrow and grief and remorse about that. Well, yeah. Why shouldn't
00:27:28.860
you feel that way? You dishonored your wife and you failed on a commitment to her. You should feel
00:27:33.720
bad about that. So then you drive, not, not drives you into pit of despair, but drives you into doing
00:27:41.180
something better. Totally. That's the purpose of it. And, and here's the, if you don't mind me,
00:27:46.820
just psychoanalyze in a little bit, what we do is we'll put a label about who we are.
00:27:52.840
So that way it draws like, and I really think we do it because it means there's nothing for me to do.
00:27:58.320
It's also very lazy. So if I, if I make a mistake and I go to the position of, let's say I'm,
00:28:05.420
I'm overweight. I'm, I'm such a lazy ass, right? If I go to the area of label,
00:28:11.560
then it's like, well, and that's just who I am. That's just where I am. Yep. Can't do nothing
00:28:16.960
about it. But, but if my messaging is, I have fat, I'm out of shape, then I can have a conclusion of
00:28:24.580
what are you going to do about it? But if I give myself the label, then it's just like,
00:28:29.120
I'm, it's a form of throwing my hands up and there's nothing I can do. And what's unfortunate,
00:28:35.000
and it's really disempowering because now you've taken it to the whole extreme level. You've
00:28:39.500
identified yourself and your self-worth based upon addressing the issue, which would draw action.
00:28:46.140
So just be mindful of kind of those labels that we put on ourselves. It's really a form of washing
00:28:51.100
our hands of responsibility. I think that's true. Well, one example that's specifically accurate in
00:28:57.580
my life is alcoholism. I could very easily say that I'm an alcoholic and I've been to meetings
00:29:06.080
where people have been sober for decades, 20, 25, 30 years, one in particular, 30 years.
00:29:15.440
And she still introduces herself as I'm an alcoholic. No, you're not. Are you susceptible
00:29:22.420
to alcohol in a way that other people are not? Sure. Yeah. I'll give you that. I am like with my
00:29:28.860
mentality and my personality. If you give me a drink, I'm having all the drinks as soon as possible.
00:29:35.140
That is my nature. That is my personality. That is the way my body is made up. Am I an alcoholic?
00:29:42.600
Yes. If I choose to be, or I could say, you know what? I'm not going to do that. I'm going to
00:29:49.240
refrain from that. I'm going to control myself. I'm going to exercise some discipline. So am I
00:29:53.980
susceptible to it in a way that other people are not? Yes. I would say yes, but I'm not going to
00:29:59.960
define myself that way because I have the power to do something about it. What's next?
00:30:04.920
Peter, Peter Zeffo. When does it stop? When does it stop hurting between jujitsu two to three days a
00:30:12.300
week? I was like going negative, right? Between jujitsu two to three days a week, light weightlifting
00:30:19.400
and a daily walking and running regimen. Something hurts all the time at 48 years old. Is this just the
00:30:25.720
cost they're trying to get and stay in shape? I think you're looking at pain as a negative.
00:30:32.640
I will tell you, I always have a low level of pain somewhere.
00:30:38.220
It's my joints or sometimes my hip or my lower back, or I wake up in the morning and I'm like,
00:30:46.120
oh, even now I can, I'm hunched over right now. So even now I can feel myself. I'm like,
00:30:49.780
open yourself up, man. Cause jujitsu is all about like balling up, right? It's like open. Like
00:30:55.540
nobody's trying to attack you right now. Open yourself up. Okay. Open up as something I have
00:31:00.540
to do. And that actually feels pretty good right now as I'm doing it. Um, yeah, but I always have
00:31:05.040
a low level of pain and I like it. Me too. I actually like it. Maybe I'm a masochist, but I'm
00:31:10.900
like, hell yeah. My elbow hurts. Awesome. That's cause I, I did something with it or somebody put me in
00:31:17.800
arm bar and I learned not to be arm barred anymore. Like that's awesome. Or you know what? I held it
00:31:22.120
a little too long, but I escaped, but I maybe should have let go. I'm like, no, like I escaped.
00:31:26.700
I'm good. Right. Or if I get a black eye or a bruise, I'm like, hell yeah, that's awesome.
00:31:32.100
Like I'm keeping the bruise. Cause that means something happened today. Yes. Now I'm not talking
00:31:37.100
about injury. Okay. Injury is different, but there's always a low level when I'm at the gym and I'm like,
00:31:42.520
oh, that hurts. I'm not saying I'm going to get myself injured, but I can feel the difference
00:31:47.040
between stop doing that. Cause you're going to injure yourself or that eighth and ninth and 10th
00:31:51.760
rep is going to be really hard. And your muscles and your body and your mind, you're going to be
00:31:56.020
saying, don't do that. And then keep doing it. And then you have to like shake off your legs or you
00:32:00.400
can barely walk when you get out of the gym. Like hell yeah. I can't make it down the stairs. I love
00:32:05.140
it. Yeah. I did. Yeah. You got to hold onto the handrails and like do dips down the stairs. Cause
00:32:09.700
your legs don't function, bro. That's life, man. That's, that's how it should be. So I will say that if
00:32:15.900
you're in pain or you're injured, that's something different. And maybe you should look at changing up
00:32:22.420
your training. Maybe, maybe you are going a little too hard. I got injured. My pec separated the,
00:32:29.100
the tendons. Um, and I think part of it was, I was being stupid. And I also think another part of it
00:32:37.740
was that I was exhausted. I was beat down. And, and part of that was because of my unhealthy
00:32:43.900
lifestyle with the drinking, but I was also training like four to six days a week on top
00:32:50.800
of other training. And I was just, I think I was just compromised in addition to being stupid.
00:32:56.400
So both of those go hand in hand and that's a problem. So if you're in pain and it's causing
00:33:02.460
diminishing performance, then yes, reevaluate. But if you're in low level pain, good for you, man.
00:33:09.340
That's awesome. You're way better off than 95% of the other guys out there who are always
00:33:15.180
comfortable, but miserable too. Right. Yeah. You use the analogy of, you know, the, the things
00:33:23.380
on our dashboard, right. In our, in our vehicles telling us warnings. And that's how I see it too.
00:33:28.860
Like I, you know, I was doing, um, hack squats the other day. I hate hack squats. I didn't even put
00:33:34.580
plates. I'm the only dude there. What is that? What's a hack squat? It's, it's leaning and it's
00:33:41.020
a sled, but you're standing. Oh, God. Yep. I know what you're talking about. So, and I'll do those
00:33:47.560
hack squats. I don't even put a plate on there. I'm doing 30 reps, hack squats, not a plate. I'm
00:33:53.200
over there screaming like a girl. Cause it is so hard. And, but my point being is I was doing those
00:33:59.860
hack squats and mine. I felt pain underneath my knee, not normal, right? Not that's different.
00:34:05.200
And I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, no, no, no, bad, bad call where I go wrong though, is I'll be
00:34:12.820
tempted to go, well, I'm not going to do hack squats. And last week I was like, no, no, I'm not
00:34:18.980
going to do hack squats, but you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go over there in the open
00:34:23.200
area. I'm going to grab a plate, put my heels on that plate. And I'm going to do air squats and maybe
00:34:28.660
throwing 50 to a hundred. It's going to be miserable. They're going to be on fire, but I,
00:34:35.540
I worked around it, right? Just like jujitsu. I want to say go less, but maybe train, change the
00:34:42.400
way you're training, right? Use less aggression, focus on technique, get some movement in running,
00:34:49.800
running. It's the same way I could run and hurt myself. But once I start feeling some pain, I'm like,
00:34:54.540
okay, wait a second. Am I heel striking a lot? How do I change my run? Are my,
00:34:58.640
legs aligned, right? Like use it as signals on the dashboard saying, Hey, you know what? Pull
00:35:04.060
over, get some oil, get some gas, put some windshield washer fluid in your car, pivot and
00:35:10.620
adjust a little bit, but don't stop. Yeah. Good call. Well, it's really your call. I just
00:35:16.720
regurgitated something you said. That's why I liked it so much. Hundreds of times I've heard you share
00:35:21.480
stories. Oh, I know. I like it. He's bringing up the dashboard story again. Here we go.
00:35:26.900
Rolling his eyes. I didn't, I figured I didn't know what hack squats were. And now I know,
00:35:31.220
cause I don't do half-ass shit in the gym. I go heavy and I do five reps. That's right.
00:35:39.940
Yeah. When you get older, they start, you got high reps. All right.
00:35:42.840
How old are you? 43. Okay. Yeah. So two years older. Okay. So in two years. Okay.
00:35:52.400
All right. Will Trujillo, what is one thing or several things that have surprised you most about
00:35:59.040
your sobriety? Is this a, this is Billy, right? Billy Trujillo from the iron. Okay, cool.
00:36:03.780
Yeah. Is this a will on there? Yeah. He put will, or at least his Facebook says, will I'm assuming he's
00:36:10.660
trying to mix it up on us. Yeah. I thought so too. The one and only Billy, maybe it's not the one and
00:36:16.320
only. Um, all right. What, so what is it? What's the five, what's the most important thing that
00:36:20.980
surprised me or several things that have surprised you? Yeah. About sobriety. Um, I actually did a
00:36:28.100
podcast, uh, like a week or two ago, I think a Friday field notes. I'm actually going to pull it
00:36:34.540
up because I, I, I thought a lot about what it was and I'll tell you what the five were.
00:36:44.240
I should just be able to know them, but at the same time, I put a lot of thought into like, what,
00:36:48.180
what have I learned about myself through this? Uh, let's see. What the heck? Where is it?
00:36:55.460
What five months of sobriety has taught me. So these are like eight, nine things here. Um,
00:37:03.620
number one is that I realized that you reach rock bottom when you stop digging the hole,
00:37:09.880
like, you know, people will say, Oh, I've hit rock bottom, but then they continue in that behavior.
00:37:15.200
And it's like, well, then you haven't reached rock bottom because it's going to get worse.
00:37:19.340
Yeah. So when you change the behavior, that's rock bottom. And I'm not saying that it's easy.
00:37:24.580
You're always going to be comfortable even climbing yourself out, but you've got to stop
00:37:27.720
digging first. And that, that's what I'm trying to do. Uh, number two, I have a lot of emotional
00:37:34.280
baggage that I was not aware of. And a lot of that stemmed from my childhood and some resentment.
00:37:42.780
So I've been working through that. Uh, number three, I'm pretty good at hiding this behavior,
00:37:50.000
which I need to be aware of because I can deceive myself and others fairly well.
00:37:56.140
Good at it. No, I'm good at it. You know? And, and so I need to be careful of that because it's
00:38:00.920
easy to pull the wool over my eyes and say, Oh no, no, you're good. You're good. And then
00:38:05.760
something happens externally and you're like, Oh shoot, I'm not good. Uh, I just buried that for a
00:38:11.320
while. I wish I would have recognized it earlier because then I could have done something about it
00:38:16.200
earlier. So I got, I got to be careful with that. Uh, number four, I am, well, this one sounds
00:38:23.180
narcissistic, but it's true. I'm, I'm actually pretty incredible. Like I know that sounds
00:38:30.000
narcissistic, but I was pretty high functioning as, as an alcoholic. Uh, but I kept recaptured three to
00:38:37.060
four hours every single day. And immediately as I recaptured that three to four hours, I mean,
00:38:41.860
you should have seen the production at home and in the business. And so I'm pretty incredible.
00:38:48.740
Again, I know that sounds so narcissistic, but I think it's important to know like, Hey,
00:38:53.720
you know, you're pretty good. Imagine what you can do with all that untapped potential.
00:38:59.420
Uh, number five, alcohol does not make me a better person or a better anything. Cause that's one of the
00:39:06.040
lies I used to tell myself. I used to tell myself I do podcast drunk and I used to tell myself,
00:39:11.440
go ahead. Well, I was just going to probably ask what you're about to say. Like, how, how do you
00:39:16.120
feel like it made you better in some way? Uh, in pot, when it came to podcasting,
00:39:21.740
I felt like it loosened me up and then I could ask different questions that maybe I wouldn't
00:39:26.920
normally ask a social, like really like, yeah, the, the, the typical thing that teenagers use,
00:39:32.100
right. It's like, Oh, well, you know, I'll drink because I I'm more enjoyable to be around at a
00:39:37.600
party or I'll be willing to talk to people where I normally would be shy or whatever.
00:39:42.300
And I would even do that with my family because I tend to be a pretty high, strong person.
00:39:46.860
And I know that can be overwhelming for people at times, including my wife and kids. And I thought
00:39:52.460
that drinking would loosen me up. And sometimes it did a little too much. And other times I thought it
00:40:01.840
was, but I was actually just wrecking, wreaking havoc in my, my relationship with my wife and my
00:40:07.120
kids, but I thought I was being fun and it wasn't fun for anybody, but me. So, um, here's one that
00:40:15.380
was really surprising. Number six is that people appreciate transparent leadership. So when I came
00:40:21.340
out with this information, specifically in the iron council, I thought we were going to have mass
00:40:25.860
exodus fallout, people were going to be pissed and people had a right that they had a right to be
00:40:30.760
that way actually. Totally. And that didn't happen at all. I had a couple people, Lee, you know, a
00:40:38.760
little, very little. In fact, one of those person, people who left actually reached back out to me.
00:40:45.520
They're back in the iron council. I'd reached back out to me and they apologized. They had some
00:40:50.360
experiences with alcohol in their young life with somebody else. You triggered them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:58.160
And completely understandable. So I thought people were going to leave, but in fact, if anything,
00:41:04.860
it's, it's made me a better leader and it's connected me to people on a deeper level because
00:41:12.140
they see that I'm a human being and that I have my own faults. Uh, number seven, trust is easy to
00:41:19.040
destroy and very difficult to rebuild. That's not a surprise. I'm just in the midst of it right now.
00:41:25.380
It's very easy to destroy and hard to rebuild. Uh, number eight, your course of action will change
00:41:31.840
when the pain of the current reality that you put yourself in is greater than the struggle of the
00:41:40.720
change. So let me read that again, because I want to be really clear on that. Your course of action
00:41:46.340
will change when the pain of the current reality is greater than the struggle of the change.
00:41:56.180
So the pain I experienced by hurting people became so great. And, and I became so aware of the change.
00:42:04.740
It was, it was, it was now easier for me to change than it was to continue to go through that.
00:42:12.420
Yeah. And then the last one is number nine, that I've allowed the spirit of God back into my life.
00:42:19.720
I've, I've always been spiritual is not the right word. I've always been aware of God,
00:42:26.180
but I've, I've, I'm, I'm slowly, that was hindering it. Yes. And I'm, it's a barrier, right? It's just a
00:42:33.340
wall. And I'm deliberately and intentionally trying to bring that back into my life in a lot of ways
00:42:39.580
for the first time. So those are, those are some things that's a podcast I did. Uh, that one came
00:42:45.560
out January 6th. So about what's that three weeks ago or so. Yeah. Estevan Ortiz, Ryan,
00:42:53.780
I've seen or heard of some of the other sources around the internet that promote help to promote
00:43:00.420
to help young men. I'm not talking about Jordan Peterson or David Goggins or any, anyone that you've
00:43:06.280
usually promoted. I'm talking about influence influencers, like on YouTube that promote red
00:43:12.180
pilling advice on women. And if they're for the streets or not, there's Andrew tape. That's very
00:43:18.620
controversial amongst the internet lately with some of the things that he says about a man as well.
00:43:23.780
There just seems to be a lot of sources now that promote to help young men. And some take on the
00:43:29.700
whole thing can be pretty extreme that, that I think will possibly hinder young men instead of
00:43:35.980
helping them grow. So just would you would, so I would just like to hear your take on it all due to
00:43:43.260
you being more relatable in the sense of having more traditional things like a wife and family.
00:43:48.300
Thank you in advance for what you do love the podcast and the advice that you give. So kind of
00:43:54.160
the, the original question is really sources are on the internet around promoting, helping young men
00:43:59.960
because right now, right. Everything's kind of what we're talking about or red pilling and that it kind
00:44:05.140
of stops there. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's pros and cons of the whole red pill idea. I think it wakes
00:44:11.560
us up to the reality of, of life, you know, the way, sure. And the way that women think, I think
00:44:18.720
there's some, some valuable information there, the way women behave and think and act. You got to take
00:44:24.660
it with a grain of salt because it's so broad and generalized and sweeping that it just doesn't
00:44:29.760
apply to all women. You know, that talks about all women are promiscuous, which isn't true.
00:44:33.960
Um, it does suggest that women are hypergamous, which I agree that they'll measure, they'll let
00:44:39.900
they'll, they'll marry or partner up. I agree with that. Men will, men are willing to partner across
00:44:46.040
and down. Women are willing to partner across and up. Like I agree with that. So, so what does that
00:44:51.060
teach us? Well, does that mean women are bitches? No, it means you should be able to add value to the
00:44:56.360
woman that you want in your life. So level up. You better level up. Yeah. That's what I get. That's what
00:45:00.720
I gleaned from it anyways, you know, but I think there's a big part of the red pill movement that
00:45:05.640
says, well, no, you don't have to level up. Those bitches need to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's
00:45:09.340
like, yeah. Okay. Well, how are you going to change approach to this? Yeah. And that's exactly what I
00:45:15.540
wrote right here that I take notes on this stuff and I haven't read these, these comments, but I wrote
00:45:20.400
right there as you were reading that question, I wrote red pill promotes victimhood, red pill taken to
00:45:25.860
the extreme. I'll say promotes victimhood. Women are this way. World is this way. They're out to
00:45:31.760
get us. There's no good people. Marriage is this, this is that, and there's nothing you can do about
00:45:37.320
it. And everybody is your enemy. And I don't agree with that. I don't agree with anything that paints
00:45:43.400
me as a perpetual victim. Now there's a difference between being a victim, I think, and maybe it's just
00:45:48.520
semantics. So bear with me being a victim and then being victimized. I know that there's situations
00:45:54.000
where people are victimized. That's an act of aggression or violence or manipulation against
00:46:01.040
another person. But being a perpetual victim is just blaming everything and every external
00:46:06.700
circumstances and things that aren't even relatable to your situation as to why you're such a loser in
00:46:12.280
life. That I don't agree with. You are not a loser. You are not a victim. Not all women are out to get
00:46:19.320
you. The world is not a horrible place. And if you feel like it is, it's probably more an indication
00:46:24.580
of the way that you show up rather than the way women or other people show up. I love women. I think
00:46:29.460
that there are some phenomenal women. I think there's some evil women, just like men. But I think
00:46:34.220
there's some phenomenal women who would love to be in a relationship with a man who adds value and
00:46:38.840
contributes to society and has a mission and has purpose and is actively looking for those men.
00:46:44.440
A hundred percent. Cause I hear from them. I get messages from these women who want men like that.
00:46:51.340
So other resources, ideas, maybe even books for order of man is a great resource.
00:46:57.920
Like you're, you're in it, man. Dive fully in. Like if you believe in what we're doing,
00:47:02.860
ask yourself, what more could I be doing with, with regards to this movement? Are you in the iron
00:47:07.180
council? No, maybe, I don't know, but let's assume you're not. Well, there's an avenue.
00:47:12.200
Have you read sovereignty? There's a book. Have you read masculinity manifesto? There's a book.
00:47:16.800
Have you been to one of our events? There's a resource. Yeah. Legacy event with boys. Yeah.
00:47:22.140
You're, you're part of it, man. So dive all the way in. And I'm not saying ours is the only
00:47:27.080
art of manliness. That's a great resource. I would say that's really good for
00:47:31.160
practical life tools and things, you know, planning practical, like things around your
00:47:42.180
house, skillsets, stuff like that. Very good resource, art of manliness.
00:47:46.960
And, and this is tough too, because like, I think sometimes, I mean, guys do it with us.
00:47:52.540
It's all or none. Right. And if Ryan's not right all the time, then it's not a good resource.
00:47:58.660
Right. Like I, surprisingly enough, I get messages and I had this guy message me online saying,
00:48:05.680
Kip, the fact that you swear, I've lost all respect for you. I'm done listening to order,
00:48:10.560
man. What a ridiculous thing. And I'm like, Hey, first off, I like the feedback,
00:48:15.680
but like, I've lost all respect for you. I'm like, that seems extreme in my mind, but it reiterated the
00:48:21.880
thought process that we have a tendency to go, well, there's only knowledge. And if it's, and the
00:48:27.260
knowledge is only good. If all of it's like perfect, right. Rational mail. Great book. Do I agree with all of
00:48:33.080
it? No. The boy crisis. Great book. Do I agree with all of it? No, right. There's nuggets in
00:48:40.520
knowledge in all things. And we need to be mature and we need to realize that there's avenues of
00:48:46.880
knowledge that we can latch on and grow and learn from, but it may not all be quote unquote, perfect
00:48:53.020
either. Right. And, and that's actually how I feel a hundred percent. Yeah. That actually includes
00:49:00.100
Andrew Tate as well. I like, cause you, I think, did he mention Andrew Tate? I don't know if he
00:49:04.400
did. I like what the guy has to share a lot of the time. He has some good stuff sometimes.
00:49:09.540
Like that's true. Like I listened, I'm like, Whoa, yeah. Great point. And then also I listened,
00:49:14.340
I'm like, that guy's an idiot. So he's both, he's not God's gift to young men or ladies. And he's also
00:49:23.420
not Satan. Like he's, he's just a man who has, has some life experience that are, that is different
00:49:32.100
than mine. That is different than yours. And he sees some things through a lens that I hadn't
00:49:37.560
thought of that. I'm like, that's interesting. And then he sees some other things. I'm like,
00:49:40.420
that's not interesting or it is, but in all the wrong ways, just like me. So, yeah. And it's a
00:49:46.200
perfect example, Ryan, I'm sure if we went back 10 years and you were preaching what was right
00:49:53.180
based upon your paradigm of 10 years ago, and you look back at something you said, you'd be like,
00:49:58.360
yeah, I don't agree with that anymore. Because in that area of your life, that was true. That was
00:50:04.820
the best advice and you've grown, evolved. And guess what? It's probably not anymore. No different.
00:50:12.220
And, and, and that's where I have some empathy, right? Because I see even Tate and I go,
00:50:16.200
man, this guy's crazy, but I'm like, but it's where he's at. Give him 10 years and he'll probably
00:50:21.580
look back at some of the things he said and think, yeah, that was stupid. That's actually not, you
00:50:26.720
know, one of the problems is that the internet's not going to let you forget. So if Andrew Tate or
00:50:32.540
me or anybody else says something, and then five years later, I say something at odds with what I
00:50:37.940
just said, people will go back and like, well, five years ago, you believe this. Yeah. Five years ago,
00:50:43.100
I was a different man than I am right now. And if I think a hundred percent the same as I did five
00:50:49.360
years previously, what in the world have I been doing in the last five years? Totally. If like,
00:50:56.660
so what I'm supposed to have the same perception of the world as when I was eight years old,
00:51:03.620
according to your logic, that's asinine. You should be changing constantly. Your perception of the world
00:51:10.680
should be changing as you're listening to this podcast in real time. And I'm not saying that
00:51:15.140
everything is going to be different because I said it, but now you have a new input that changes the
00:51:20.480
equation. Yeah. Right. When I read a book, my life changes not drastically, but I read it. I'm like,
00:51:28.840
oh yeah, Nietzsche, you know, I never considered that before. That's interesting. Do I agree with
00:51:33.560
everything? No, but that's interesting. Can I apply that? Yeah, I can. And then I try to apply it in my
00:51:37.860
life or I hear something and I'm like, you know, I don't, I don't agree with that. I don't like that.
00:51:42.140
So then I don't apply it, but it's still in my head and I'm still thinking about it. And I'm still
00:51:46.360
making decisions based on that information. All right. Two questions, rapid fire. Cause I know
00:51:51.660
we have to wrap up. Levi Brickley, as a single man, 28 years old with no kids, never married,
00:51:58.600
what would be your advice on how to prepare for a family and the right woman?
00:52:02.380
I would focus on some key areas. So I would focus on my, and these aren't in order necessarily.
00:52:11.400
And by the way, this is the same for married men too. So it actually works out pretty well.
00:52:15.720
Don't stop doing these things Levi after you get married, because these are the reasons why you got
00:52:20.360
married. Right. Number one, I would focus on my physical health. So I would be at the gym every day
00:52:27.620
or training jujitsu or whatever. I don't care. Maybe it's running marathons, hiking, rucking,
00:52:33.320
whatever your thing is cycling, not soccer, but everything else is okay. So your physical health
00:52:40.460
nutrition obviously falls into that. So we have physical. Um, I would also work on mental. Uh,
00:52:47.080
and the way that I would work on mental is I would do things that are difficult and they might be
00:52:51.420
physically related, like going to run a Spartan race, for example, that's physically related,
00:52:55.020
but it's mental toughness and fortitude, but it might, might also be something that you're afraid
00:52:59.120
of like, um, public speaking. Maybe you're really afraid of public speaking. And so you find a couple
00:53:04.020
opportunities to go speak in public. Maybe you're afraid of confrontation. And so, uh, you decide to
00:53:10.180
have a difficult conversation with a parent or a friend that you've needed to have for a couple of
00:53:14.980
years, or it might even be as simple as just asking for discounts everywhere you go, because you
00:53:19.980
don't like, it feels awkward and uncomfortable. And so you go do it and you force yourself into being a
00:53:24.880
little bit more mentally resilient. So you have physical, mental, emotional, really dial in your
00:53:31.900
emotional wellbeing. And the best way that I've found to do that is to work with a therapist,
00:53:36.660
uh, and, or not, or, and journal. So when you're feeling away, happy, glad, mad, sad, angry, whatever,
00:53:45.020
that you start documenting this and not just documenting how you feel, but why you feel it and where it comes
00:53:50.400
from. So I'm mad because Kip didn't show up on time. And because Kip, why, so why does that make
00:53:55.560
me mad? Because I feel disrespected. You were, yes, you were. So, but let's, in this hypothetical
00:54:01.720
world, you were early today. So let's say, uh, you're late and I'm mad. Okay. Why, why does that
00:54:13.600
make you mad? Well, I feel disrespected. Yeah. Okay. Well now I feel disrespected, but why do I
00:54:19.000
feel disrespected? Oh, because of this experience that I had in the past. So like you start to
00:54:23.760
uncover it. Right. And then you can deal with it appropriately. So if I'm angry and I should be a
00:54:29.460
little upset about that, if we agreed to it, like the expectation conversation, then I should tell you
00:54:35.340
that like, Hey Kip, I'm here on time. I need you to be here on time. Cause I have a schedule and I
00:54:40.820
respect my calendar and I respect yours. So I need you to respect mine too. Fair enough. Done.
00:54:46.440
That goes back to the mental toughness. Cause now we're talking about confrontation.
00:54:50.640
Um, spiritual get right, get right spiritually with God, with the universe, with a higher power,
00:54:57.340
whatever you want to call it. I don't like all that other stuff. Everybody talks about God.
00:55:00.860
They just call them something different. The people who talk about the universe and the muse,
00:55:04.180
they're talking about God, but for whatever reason, they're like, God, I can't say God,
00:55:08.480
the universe is going to help me. No, God is going to help you. But if it makes you feel better to
00:55:14.740
call it the universe, that's fine. Power, but it's, it's God. So happen to that. What, like,
00:55:21.860
what is my purpose here? What is his plan for me? What am I supposed to be doing? I'm divine. Like,
00:55:27.480
how am I supposed to be showing up? How do I manifest it? How do I get closer to being that kind of
00:55:31.920
person? And then the last is financial, get your financial affairs in order, get your money, right?
00:55:40.000
Get your, get out of debt, start learning how to make more money, more income. Cause that means
00:55:44.240
you're adding more value and you start dialing this stuff in. You're going to be a magnet to women.
00:55:52.020
And you got to be careful with that. Cause you're going to attract all sorts of women.
00:55:57.060
Cause what do women do? They partner up, partner up. So that's okay. It's okay that they partner up.
00:56:05.860
Just make sure that disparity is not too great. Cause it, cause it could be very tempting when
00:56:12.020
you're a high value man to find a low value woman. Cause she's giving you attention. But if you're doing
00:56:17.080
all those high value man type activities, high value women are also going to find you attractive.
00:56:21.560
So just be selective and be careful with that. Like it, Michael Graham. How do we save our young
00:56:29.360
men and sons? And can you paint the picture of the world we live in? If we don't.
00:56:37.480
A rap rapid fire for sure. Yeah, I know. Yeah. That's a quick question for one minute.
00:56:42.840
Can we, can we revisit that? I do have to jet. Cause I want to be respectful of my next guest
00:56:47.840
time. Can we revisit that one? Yeah. I, I, there's a lot to do there. So we'll question
00:56:53.600
number one next, next week. Yeah. Put a, put a, put a marker on that one. Cause that's a good
00:56:58.460
question. And I have, I think I have some good answers. So let's, let's hit that one first next
00:57:03.640
week. Okay. Excellent. All right, gentlemen, you heard it. We got questions today from our Facebook
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00:57:34.760
That's it. All right, guys. Great questions today. Hopefully, hopefully we gave you something
00:57:38.320
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00:57:43.880
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