KIRK CAMERON | Becoming Men of Faith and Character
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Kurt Cameron is an actor best known for his role as Mike Seaver in the 80's sitcom Growing Pains. He s also a prolific producer of faith and family focused films and projects. In this episode, we talk about what he dubs the moral meat grinder, why direction is more important than perfection, the power of divine intervention and guidance, and how to become a man of character.
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You know as well as I do all the cultural dangers ourselves, families, and communities are presented
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with and as much as we'd like to pin it on some politician or outside factor beyond our control,
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the bigger issue is that the greatest threat is ourselves and our unwillingness to face the
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challenges that we see. My guest today is Kirk Cameron. He's an actor and most well-known for
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his character Mike Seaver on the 80s hit sitcom Growing Pains. Today Kirk and I talk about what
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he dubs the moral meat grinder, why direction is more important than perfection, the power of divine
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intervention and guidance, the deconstruction of society, and how to become a man of faith and
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character. 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 you are not easily
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deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is
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who you will become at the end of the day. And after all is said and done, you can call yourself
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a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler. I'm your host and the founder of
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the Order of Man podcasting movement. And I want to welcome you here. We are trying to enlist men
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into the movement to reclaim and restore masculinity. And on this podcast, we're doing that by interviewing
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incredibly successful men from all facets of life, actors like we have on today, or athletes,
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politicians, academics, New York Times bestselling authors, entrepreneurs, any man that is successful
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in his own right and has a story or information to share. We're trying to break down his thoughts and
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ideas and hopefully implement them to some degree in our lives. So I've got a good one lined up with
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Again, that's originusa.com slash hunt. All right. With that said, guys, let me introduce you to my
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guest. Again, his name is Kurt Cameron. He's very well known for his role as Mike Seaver in the 80s
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sitcom growing pains. But since then he's invested his time and attention and energy and money into
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producing faith and family focused films and projects. He's been featured recently very much
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so for his American campfire revival. And in September, he's going to be releasing his newest
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feature life mark, which is about the value of the womb and the beauty of adoption. Admittedly,
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Kirk is a bit of an anomaly in the entertainment industry. We talk about that for his outspoken
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conservative views on societal issues and his faith, which frankly, to me, makes him stand out
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as someone who at least at a minimum is willing to stand by his convictions. And you know, as well
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as I do, we need more of that in today's world. Kirk, what's going on? So great to see you and have
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you on the podcast. Hey, thanks so much for having me on. This is, this is super cool. Great to be here
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with you. Yeah. We were talking about beers before we got started. I was going to say yours isn't quite as
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as red as mine, but I don't know. Is there some red hidden in there? You know, now listen, it sounds
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like you just said beers and you're talking about like a red ale right now. We know he said beard,
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beard, both. Okay. Both. Okay. We, so we were talking now on, um, order of man podcast about
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beards. Yes. And beer. Yes. Yes. Yes, I do. Yes. I do have a little red in my beard and I see that
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you do too. Now I have some Scott, Scottish ancestry. Do you, is that where yours is coming
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from? No, uh, I am mostly Irish and German, Irish, Irish. And I do have some French in there as well.
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German. Yeah. Irish and German. I'll leave the, I'm a little Scottish and German. Yeah. Bro,
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we're kind of, we're kind of cut from the same cloth. I think that's, that's where we're getting
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these. We are. These manly red beards. All right. Well, like I said, everybody, every guys, guys,
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we, we did joke earlier that, uh, you know, they, they, we have words for people who don't have
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beards and those words are women and children. Right. So thank you for pissing off half of my audience.
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I really appreciate that. Well, Ryan, I want you to piss them off too, because, uh, you had
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mentioned to me that we have a moral obligation. How, how does, how does that line of thinking go?
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Yeah. We have a moral responsibility and obligation to grow these beautiful beards on behalf of two
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groups of people, the men who can't quite grow it as well as we can. And the men who let their wives
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tell them they can't. No, your viewership just went down. We're just pissing everybody off.
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Did, did we start this wrong? No, I think we started it right. Because, you know,
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let's just keep going. Here's the deal. The, the people that are remaining are the important ones.
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Those are the people we want to talk, talk with today.
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Well, look, man, you're a, you're a bit of an anomaly. Uh, and, and this is one thing I wanted
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to address and lead this discussion off with you're, you're a bit of an anomaly. I think maybe
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you don't think that, and of course you have a different view than I do. Uh, when it comes to the
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entertainment industry, um, you're, you're very outspoken about your Christianity. Uh, you're,
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you're very outspoken about your, uh, conservative viewpoints politically. Uh, and I think that from
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my perspective, you just don't see that in the entertainment industry to the degree that you're
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presenting it. I'm very curious about that. Yeah. I guess I am an anomaly. I think so. When,
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when, when, if you think about teenage actors, think of them from the, from the eighties, the
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nineties, the early two thousands, whatever, and you sort of see what's happened to them over the
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course of a couple of decades, um, often it's not a pretty story. And I understand why, because I grew
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up in the Hollywood industry and number one, the value system there is not one that leads to,
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to health and happiness most of the time. And then you add money, which gives you opportunity
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to go down the most extreme roads of, um, pleasure and convenience. And that often is a train wreck.
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So for me, I know that I'm kind of an anomaly to be a guy who grew up on growing pains as a sitcom
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back in the 1980s and marry my on-screen sweetheart, stay married for 31 years. And we have six
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children. And, uh, I, and, and, and I still am deeply in love with my wife and I have a faith
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in God, but I don't, I don't credit myself for figuring that stuff out. Um, some stuff happened
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to me when I was 17 years old in the, in the middle of growing pains that I never wanted, that I never
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looked for, but it made all the difference and it sent me in a different direction. So, um, I guess I
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am an anomaly. I'm kind of the prodigal son of the Hollywood system. I didn't turn out the
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way I'm well, the way I'm supposed to, uh, according to that design. Um, right. I, I should
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sort of be all over the tabloids for, uh, having destroyed my life and a few marriages and maybe,
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maybe caught, you know, uh, abusing women with, and, and, and, and have a Coke problem, but I don't.
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So, so I am a bit of an anomaly. What are, if you don't mind sharing to the degree that you're
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comfortable, of course, what, what were some of those things that took place or that, that were
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going to change the trajectory of your life when you were young? Yeah. Well, Hey, after the beard
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comments and conversation, what's the point of holding anything back now? Exactly. It's all on
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the table. We're just going to put it all on the table. Uh, so let's see when I was, uh, 14 years
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old, I started this TV show called growing pains. And, uh, this is a sitcom back in the 1980s. And it
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was when we really only had three channels, ABC, NBC, and CBS. And so it was hugely popular.
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And in fact, Leonardo DiCaprio got his start on growing pains. I actually, I've seen some
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of those episodes. Yeah. Yeah. So you can go back and you can see that. And so it was a
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really popular show. Uh, everybody wanted to be on that show. And when I was 17 years old,
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I was a professing atheist who had, I was making more money than my dad. I was going to all the
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parties in Hollywood and there really wasn't anything that I didn't have that I wanted.
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I could just go buy it or get it. And, and then I met a pretty girl and I chased her
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to where I caught up with her, which was at a church with her family. And I heard a message
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from the preacher that I didn't believe because I'm an atheist, but it got under my skin and caused
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me to ask some questions and then begin searching my heart and soul and realizing that, you know
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what? There are a lot more brilliant people than I am in medicine and science and astrophysics
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and all sorts of other disciplines that believe stuff I don't believe. And maybe I've got some
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things to learn. And that led me to ultimately at praying and asking if God is real, if you're
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there, would you please show me? And would you make me the person that you want me to
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be? And that led to me going down a different road in my life than a lot of my friends who
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wound up in jail or committing suicide. You know, my friend, my friend on Growing Pains
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who played Boner, that was, that was his name, by the way, is his nickname on the show, Boner.
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Um, I, I, from what we understand, he, he killed himself, um, Corey Hain, um, and, and River Phoenix
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and others, right? It's like, there's this pressure cooker of a life that you live in as a young
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child actor. And often it, uh, it wrecks you. And so for me, having faith in God rather than faith in,
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um, something that doesn't make any sense or explain the world very well, in my view,
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uh, helped me to avoid the moral meat grinder and sent me on a path that led to being married for 31
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years and having six kids and a happy, healthy life, working on projects that I'm passionate about
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and are hopefully making a difference. Yeah. Well, I think they are. And I want to get into some of
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those things, you know, for, for most of the men listening, they're probably not going to obviously
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resonate with the specifics of your story, but I still think there's guys. I'm actually one of
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them who was not atheist, but really didn't have a practicing faith until I met my now wife. Uh,
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and, and so it's very similar. God's always got a pretty girl in the formula somewhere. Doesn't he?
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He knows that's how to get us though. I mean, if you look for it, if you look for it, you can find it.
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That's right. That's right. But I, but I'm wondering, because I know there's a lot of guys who have
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had similar experiences, uh, and then we as men tend to get tempted and distracted and fall short of
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our ideals and, and the things that we want. How did you, especially in the environment that you were
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in, inoculate yourself against some of the temptations and some of the trappings of success,
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like I'm sure you were exposed to. Great question. Great question. We need strong men. Men are being,
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um, um, um, feminized and, uh, you know, virtually, uh, encouraged to sort of castrate themselves and
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not speak like men and act like men and just sort of be softer and more, uh, meek and mild. And, uh,
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I love what Jordan Peterson says. Uh, he says, men, uh, you need to be dangerous. I mean,
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become a monster and then learn how to get that under control. Good men, uh, are not men who are
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harmless. Good men are dangerous men who know how to protect and defend and fight for what matters,
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what counts, what's, what's true, what's right, what's good and noble. Um, those are the heroes in
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our, in our stories, in our movies. Those are the heroes of songs and poems. Um, and those are the
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how do you inoculate yourself from the temptations? I don't think you do. I don't think you can. I
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think temptation comes. And I think that challenges will, I moral challenges, physical challenges,
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any kind of challenge will either, uh, make you stronger or reveal your weakness and, and give you
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an excuse to become weaker. It all depends on what you're made of. So, uh, kind of like, if you think
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of the sun, uh, the sun melts wax, it also hardens clay. What's the difference? Same sun. It's because
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those two substances are made of different things. Right. And when I have faith in God, the Bible tells
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me something happens to me when I recognize my moral depravity and weakness and ability to be led
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astray by the, the wicked desires of my own heart, when I embrace that and I don't make excuses for
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that. And I turn to the one who can overhaul my character and my, my faith, give me identity and
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purpose and destiny. He says that, that something happens. He, he changes the desires of my heart.
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I have something called the fear of the Lord. Um, I have the spirit of God, which is my joy and my
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strength. And slowly, but surely I begin to win those battles over temptation, which produces character in me.
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Now don't get me wrong. I'm not what I could be. I'm not what I should be, but Ryan, I'm not what I
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was. And I'm, I'm, it's not about perfection. It's about direction. And as long as I'm moving in the
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right direction and not sliding back and making excuses for myself, as I hurt my wife, hurt my kids
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and those around me making excuses, as I slide back into immaturity or kindergarten,
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Christianity, then I can say, God helped me to be the man you've created me to be today. Um, I need
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your, I need your strength. Lead me not into temptation. Why? Cause I'm weak without you,
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but deliver me from evil today. Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory. And I'm here to serve
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you. Uh, that's where my strength comes from. That's where the victory comes from. And, uh, and you can
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have it if you recognize who you are and your need for God and then deny yourself and begin to follow
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him. You, I mean, clearly it sounds like you have a tremendous level of faith in God. How do you,
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when you're talking about your projects a bit ago, how do you determine what are projects that I would
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assume you want to be his projects based on what you're saying and that they're not your projects or
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the things that are your own, maybe selfish desires? Great question. If I want to answer both
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of the things you just mentioned. So, so help me if I forget the second, by the time I get to it,
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the first thing you said, I've already forgot it, but we'll, we'll get at some point we'll loop back
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around to it. Remind me about how do you pick projects that are, you know, not just my projects,
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but, uh, maybe divinely appointed projects. Um, but first you said, I have really strong faith in
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God. I'm great faith in God. Well, why shouldn't I have great faith in God? Why shouldn't you and me
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and everyone have great faith in God? By the way, that's not a compliment to me. That's a compliment
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to God, similar to the faith that you have in your doctor. If I said, Ryan, you've got great faith in
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your doctor. That's not complimenting you. That's really saying something about the ability of your
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doctor that you trust him so much. He must be amazing that you will let him cut open your body
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and do surgery inside of you. You've got great faith in your doctor and we should have nothing
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less than great faith in God. When we look at what he's doing, he's keeping our heart beating at night
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while we're asleep. He's causing the sun, uh, to, I'm sorry, the earth to spin on its axis and orbit
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around the sun to where we can plan the day and the night. And this, this interview right now at
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this time, and we can count on the seasons and a billion other things that work inside of us. My
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friend, he just passed away from pancreatic cancer. When's the last time you thought about your bile
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duct? When's the last time you thought about, uh, the ability to, to, to produce the hormones and the
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chemicals necessary for you and I to think and have this conversation. And yet God's making sure that
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regularly these things are occurring so that we can enjoy life. Um, now we live in a broken world.
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And so that's not always the case, but I'm saying that we have reason to have great faith in God
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because he is faithful. Uh, all right. The other thing you had mentioned was how do you, how do you
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pick your projects? You know, sometimes I do wonder Ryan, if, if, if this is a project, that's my idea
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or whether God's given it to me. And then other times it just seems so obvious, but I don't know
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it when it's happening. It's usually when I'm looking in the rear view mirror that I recognize
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that it's kind of like, um, you know, um, being an actor for me in general, I wanted to be a doctor.
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I wanted to be a surgeon. I want to be like, like Ben Carson. I love biology. I wanted to get into
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the human body and sort of, and make a lot of money and be a doctor. And then something happened
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to where my mom took me to this agent I interviewed. And all of a sudden I'm an actor and it's not
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something I wanted to do, but it appears to me now that, that God had a plan all along. Same with
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meeting my wife. I met an actress on a Hollywood set, uh, in California and she lived in Buffalo,
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New York her whole life. Um, I thought with the chances that I would meet an amazing woman
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of faith and character in Hollywood, an actress, no less, uh, we're slim to none, but I look back
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in the rear view mirror and I go, man, God was kind to me. He was good to me. So when it comes
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to projects, I'd love an email, uh, addressed from heaven saying, Hey Kirk, this is the next
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movie you ought to do. Wouldn't that be nice? Usually what happens is, um, you follow the recipe
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of, um, have an attitude of gratitude, expect God to open doors for you, pay attention. Don't,
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don't despise the little insignificant things and make decisions that you think are going to honor God
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and bless other people. And I think that puts you on the right road. And then you get to sit back
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and enjoy the way that God begins to fill in all of the blanks. Um, that's, that's at least the way
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that I, I, I view it. And I look in the rear view mirror and say, man, growing pains is one of those
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things. My wife was one of those things, uh, being an atheist who comes to faith in Jesus in Hollywood
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must be one of those things. I certainly wasn't looking for that. And then this new movie life
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mark that, that I'm doing, uh, this was something that I had no intentions of making, but when it got
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dropped in my lap, uh, I had no choice. What do you mean? You had no choice. Explain that. Cause
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clearly you do have a choice. Okay. Um, so I'm, I guess I'm using a bit of hyperbole there, but I know
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I just, I would like to hear what I think a lot of us would, you know? Yeah. So I'm all as an actor,
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you're always between jobs, right? It's like, Hey, I'm going to be waiting tables here in a week.
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If I don't get another gig, uh, right. I'm going to be doing DoorDash over Uber. If this new movie
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project, somebody would be very surprised if they saw you pull up to deliver their pizza. I gotta say
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that might actually be funny. Although that can be, that could be really fun. Um, that can be like
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DoorDash karaoke. We could have a whole new show that we can do. That's right. Look at these
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divinely inspired ideas, right? Right on this podcast. That's right. That's right. We're coming
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up with them right now. Um, or these could, or those could be epic failures. Yeah. Those could
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be our own selfish pursuits for sure. Somebody sent me a text and said, Hey, watch this,
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watch this little documentary. It's about 20 minutes long and it's based on a true story.
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Uh, so I watched it and man, I was balling like a baby. I was ugly face crying in my living room.
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Because it was this true story about an 18 year old girl who changed her mind on the abortion table.
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She raised, she, she gives birth to her son after hiding the pregnancy for nine months.
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And then she places him for adoption. She thinks she'll never see him again.
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19 years later, he calls and he wants to meet her. She thinks he probably hates her guts for
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abandoning him as a baby. And he wants to meet her to say, thank you for this great life he's been
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given and for this family that he has. And, uh, I saw this and said, Oh my goodness, I've got six
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children and four of my kids are adopted. My wife is an adopted child. This is like their story.
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And I wouldn't have any of them. If someone didn't change her mind about abortion.
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And, uh, in fact, not just someone, but six people, six moms or five moms. And, uh, I said,
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this needs to be turned into a movie. So I got the rights to the, to the life story. And then I called
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my buddies, the Kendrick brothers. Those are the guys that made, uh, the movies fireproof,
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courageous war room facing giants flywheel. Uh, and I said, do you guys think this would make a
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good movie? Because I'm about to sink a lot of time and money into this. And they said, not only
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would it make a good movie, we want to make it with you. We, we, we think God is, is urging us
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to make a movie about this subject. And Ryan, get this, this movie about the value of life and the beauty
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of adoption. We started it two and a half years ago. And we had no idea that when we finished it
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and got it ready to go out into movie theaters, the timing, which is going to be September 9th is
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going to be two months after Roe versus Wade is overturned at the Supreme court. The timing couldn't
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be more perfect. So I look at that and I go, did I plan that? Did I orchestrate and mastermind this
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thing? I didn't. In fact, the script of the movie is based on what actually happened and the words
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that came out of their mouths. When we interviewed the birth mom and the birth dad and the kids,
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we couldn't have written the script any better than what we have right now in the movie life mark.
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When you, when you do a project like life mark or, or, or anything, you had a, um, a homeschooling,
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uh, an event that I think is over now. If I remember that took place in July. Uh, and then
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American campfire revival, clearly it's about more than just entertainment, which is what we think
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when we see a movie, it's like, Oh, I'm going to be entertained. I might be a little inspired.
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You know, what is your mission when you choose a project like, like this, like life mark? Uh,
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what, what is, what is it that you want out of it? And how do you know it's a success?
00:24:18.140
Sometimes I don't look for getting something out of it. Other times I think, yes, I want to inspire
00:24:25.180
or give hope on a particular topic or educate on a topic. So with the homeschool awakening,
00:24:31.800
um, COVID hit, I don't know what you think about COVID the great, uh, pandemic or plandemic or
00:24:38.620
scandemic or however you want to describe it. Um, millions of children were told to stay home
00:24:47.860
and their parents watched on their computers, what these kids were being taught. And millions
00:24:55.000
of parents were horrified at the things that they were being taught. They were being taught,
00:24:58.720
uh, to choose their own pronoun. They're being taught to hate our country. They're being taught
00:25:03.340
a completely revised version of American history. And ultimately these parents and the trust that they
00:25:12.260
put in public schools was being undermined, um, dramatically. And so they yanked their kids
00:25:17.940
and didn't send them back to school. And suddenly we have millions of families who are homeschooling
00:25:23.240
and we homeschooled our children for a number of years. And there is an amazing awakening taking place
00:25:31.340
across the nation among parents. And I thought we should document this because people are looking for
00:25:36.100
answers. They want something better than critical race theory and gender queer theory and the 1619
00:25:42.100
project for their kids. They recognize that there is a concerted effort out to destroy Western
00:25:48.180
civilization and America specifically, uh, to usher in some authoritarian government. And they don't want
00:25:55.260
their children to be played as pawns in that scheme. And so homeschooling is, is a world of opportunity
00:26:03.320
for them that provides hope and options that many people just aren't aware of. So I made the homeschool
00:26:09.320
awakening documenting the everyday adventures of 17 American homeschool families who are on a mission
00:26:16.360
to put faith and family back into education. So I was hoping for that to occur, uh, in that movie,
00:26:25.820
but then other stuff like the American campfire revival was just me being locked in my backyard
00:26:31.360
because I live in California with a governor who put us all under house arrest, uh, during the
00:26:36.460
pandemic. And we just sat, sat back and we're watching the first hundred days of the new
00:26:41.840
president's administration. And all of these things begin to roll, roll down from Capitol Hill
00:26:48.240
that were terrible. And I'm, and I'm thinking to myself, well, what do we do as the family of faith?
00:26:53.740
Do we just sit back and complain and whine and say, Oh, the end is near. Let's just, uh,
00:26:58.900
hope the rapture gets here, uh, you know, by March, or do we have our own 100 day plan? Uh,
00:27:05.360
how about we get off the defense and get on the offense and start to do things like William
00:27:09.560
Wilberforce did and, uh, end slavery. How about we get off the defense and get into the arena and
00:27:16.020
we do stuff and become the brave hearts and the George Washington's and the Bonhoeffers of our day
00:27:20.800
driven by faith with a love for people. So I said, I got a hundred day personal plan.
00:27:26.660
If you want to join me on Facebook, join me. I'm going to make a campfire in my backyard for a hundred
00:27:30.960
consecutive nights. And I'm going to, uh, obey the executive orders and the mandates from heaven,
00:27:37.140
which are, if my people will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways and seek my
00:27:44.640
face, then I will hear their prayers, forgive their sin and heal their land. And I'm thinking to
00:27:50.240
myself, that's what we need. That is what we need. So how about we just do that? Maybe it'll work
00:27:56.120
for us like it did for the children of Israel thousands of years ago. And so I did that and
00:28:01.460
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and then millions of people were joining me in my backyard
00:28:06.380
for a campfire revival meeting. And I talked through a book called the American covenant.
00:28:12.500
In fact, I'll show it to you. I got it right here. This book right here, the American covenant.
00:28:17.900
And, uh, it basically documents what our founding fathers and our forefathers and foremothers before
00:28:24.460
them, the pilgrims understood. And that was that they were in sacred relationship with God and they
00:28:31.500
applied the heavenly principles found in the scriptures to every aspect of their life, their
00:28:38.240
personal life, their marriage, their home, the works of their hands, their businesses, their spiritual
00:28:43.360
life, and their civil government. When they did that, they ended up laying out the blueprint for what
00:28:50.160
later became the declaration of independence, the constitution, which ultimately allowed free
00:28:57.660
enterprise to flourish religious freedom, political freedom, resulting in the freest, strongest, most
00:29:02.700
blessed nation in the history of the earth. And these are the kinds of things that happen where I'm not
00:29:09.160
looking to get something out of it. I'm looking to, um, not lose my mind. When I see evil crouching
00:29:17.160
in on me and my family, I want to fight back and overcome evil with good men. Let me take a break
00:29:24.700
very quickly from the conversation. I want to talk with you because, uh, I've got a new book coming
00:29:29.080
out. You might already be well aware. Uh, it's going to be hitting the shelves on September 27th,
00:29:34.060
this year, 2022, it's called the masculinity manifesto. And in it, I make the case that men are
00:29:41.060
not the enemy of society and are in fact, an integral part of the solution to what ails us.
00:29:47.600
I cover the mindsets of masculine leadership. And most importantly, I break down characteristics
00:29:53.420
and behaviors and men and how to harness them for productive outcomes for society as a whole.
00:30:00.400
Now I'm planning on going big with this book and I need your help to get the word and mission out.
00:30:05.700
So please, if you would pre-order it, pre-order it, if I can say that now, uh, wherever you get
00:30:11.720
your books again, it's called the masculinity manifesto releasing September 27th. Thank you
00:30:17.420
guys. You know, what else is so powerful about what you're saying is when you're talking about
00:30:22.720
hundreds of thousands or even millions of people joining you, I think a lot of the times us as men
00:30:29.060
believe that we can't make a difference that, you know, we're just one person or maybe we can impact
00:30:34.740
our family, but we certainly can't extend it out from there. And then here you are talking
00:30:38.820
about these incredible projects that are impacting literally hundreds of thousands of people. I guess
00:30:44.340
what I've seen is so many men not willing to take action because it doesn't meet or they don't have
00:30:50.140
any hope that it will meet their standard of impact in the world. Yeah. But that's just not true.
00:30:57.820
I get the feeling, uh, you know, what can one guy do? And I'm not just offering up some platitude
00:31:03.120
that, well, you know, you know, just, just one guy can take, but listen, when it's one guy or one woman
00:31:11.280
in partnership with God, it's not, you have an unfair advantage over the opposition.
00:31:19.940
That's true. Um, you, we could take story after story throughout history, but just, just think of
00:31:26.240
one guy named Patrick St. Patrick, 1500 years ago. Here's one guy who at 16 years old was,
00:31:36.520
was kidnapped in England and sold into sex trafficking and slavery. He was thrown into a
00:31:44.440
boat and taken off to an Island that nobody wanted to go to. Not even those in the Roman empire wanted,
00:31:49.840
had anything to do with it because there were people there who fought in the nude and they chopped the
00:31:54.340
heads off of their, uh, enemies. Uh, and it was this crazy place called Ireland and he goes there and
00:32:03.260
he came from a Christian family. And so while he's praying on a hill, watching sheep, God gives him a
00:32:10.060
vision and he miraculously escapes this, this prison that he's in. And you think, wow, the guy just got
00:32:17.120
out, you know, I mean, just, just barely against all odds. He survives this. Well, he believes that
00:32:24.460
he has been saved for a purpose and he gets on mission with 12 of his friends and he gets ahold of
00:32:31.340
a Bible and he goes back to the place where he was enslaved and he confronts the King converts the King
00:32:38.100
and he ends up setting up churches and schools and changing the laws of Ireland and liberating an entire
00:32:46.000
nation who then sends out missionaries to other parts of the world, ultimately leading us to a place
00:32:53.320
where the reformation happens and the printing presses is created and the Bible is printed and the entire
00:33:00.020
world has changed. And you go, what were the chances that that one guy could do something? He was a kid.
00:33:05.340
He was kidnapped and turned into a slave, but him with God is an unfair advantage over the forces of
00:33:13.180
darkness. And you could say that about King Alfred. You could say that about Braveheart. You could say that
00:33:17.480
about William Wallace. I'm sorry, William Wilberforce working to abolish the slave trade. You could say that
00:33:23.980
about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. It's always against all odds. But, but, but John Adams said, it does
00:33:33.040
not take a majority of men to prevail, but rather a committed, irate minority who is set on setting
00:33:44.700
brush fires of freedom in the minds of men. You do that and there's no telling what will happen.
00:33:52.880
You inspire more and, and more will come and join you and history can be changed.
00:33:59.220
I think this is a big reason why the powers that be would attempt to undermine two fundamental units
00:34:08.140
of a thriving culture or society. That is the man. And that is the nuclear family. And that's not to
00:34:17.280
dismiss what women of course bring to the equation either, but without women, we wouldn't be here.
00:34:22.940
And with that's right. Uh, uh, you know, women wouldn't be here. We need each other. That's
00:34:28.020
right. There, there is a, um, there is a, there is a deconstructing of society by undermining the
00:34:36.500
value of, of men, undermining the value of women and undermining the value of children and undermining
00:34:43.900
the family itself. Uh, each of us has, has a critical role to play.
00:34:47.800
So how then does, um, cause what you're talking about, uh, I believe, and I see it even in my
00:34:56.700
own life to a degree, uh, with what we've been able to do. And I, and I love that you
00:35:00.560
look back on projects and you think, well, this was divinely inspired, but you didn't know it at
00:35:04.760
the time. That's very much how I feel about our movement here. I didn't realize that, which I feel
00:35:10.240
now is that God was literally setting this up through me. I didn't feel that when I was doing it.
00:35:17.140
I certainly feel it now. Uh, but all the things that you're talking about require an element of
00:35:23.520
courage. And I think it is so sorely lacking in society and culture today. We have been conditioned.
00:35:30.120
We have been sedated. We have been medicated. There is just a lacking of courage in otherwise very
00:35:37.680
capable and goodly men. That's right. Yeah, man, you're, you're exactly right. Um, there's a guy
00:35:47.060
named Dinesh D'Souza. Uh, he makes a lot of documentaries, so you may be very familiar with
00:35:52.140
him. Um, I remember him telling a story once, uh, where he talked about, uh, a lion who was being
00:36:00.080
controlled by a lion tamer with a whip, this skinny little guy. And you've got the lion who's big and
00:36:07.020
powerful. Now who is more powerful, the lion or the lion tamer? He asked Ryan, what's, what's the,
00:36:13.620
what's the obvious answer to that question? Well, the, who's more powerful, the lion or the lion
00:36:18.100
tamer? The lion. Yeah. He can eat them as an appetizer, just in one bite. However, the lion has
00:36:25.560
been convinced that the lion tamer is in charge. That's why he can get him to do those tricks.
00:36:32.760
Ever since he was a little kid, that little cub was trained to obey the man. If he only understood
00:36:41.740
his power, if he only understood what he was capable of, that lion tamer would run out the door
00:36:51.580
because he doesn't stand a chance. And I believe that, that men and women of faith who are educated
00:37:01.000
and they have character and they have self-control are like that lion. And if only we would recognize
00:37:11.320
who we are and the power and influence that we have and throw off the lies that we've been told
00:37:18.620
since we were little kids. And it's even worse for the, for the young, young boys today who are,
00:37:24.920
who are growing up. I mean, these are our future men. What are they going to be like? I mean,
00:37:29.180
they're being told that they can become, they can be a girl if they want to right now. And that maybe
00:37:34.500
they shouldn't really even, there's so much we could go into about this. Uh, I know that's not
00:37:39.740
the point of our podcast, but, but I think the point is we need strong men of faith and character
00:37:48.920
faith because we need the fear of God. If we don't have the fear of God, um, we tend to want to slide
00:37:56.120
into the position of becoming God ourselves and trying to, trying to manipulate our own little
00:38:01.580
mini kingdom and, and sort of be the sovereign of our own little, uh, make believe universe where we
00:38:08.180
start ordering people around and dominating other people that destroys stuff. When we have the fear
00:38:13.340
of the Lord and we recognize that we're not the creator of all things, we're, we're creatures.
00:38:17.320
Um, now that puts us in perspective and when we have character, um, that, that, that allows us to
00:38:29.260
take truth, mix it with compassion and actually go out there and change our world for good.
00:38:35.060
One of the concerns I think, or at least factors that I've began to recognize is what, why, why,
00:38:42.820
why are we so sedated? Why, why are we, why are we so passive when we should be more assertive or even
00:38:49.560
aggressive in moments? Why, why do we see problems, but don't really step into them? And one realization
00:38:55.680
I'm coming to is that for a lot of us, it feels like there is so much to lose, right? I think about
00:39:02.280
this story you're telling with the lion and the lion tamer. Now, look, the, the lion is probably not
00:39:06.720
aware enough to realize that if he leaves, he's going to have a significantly harder time finding food
00:39:12.240
than, than it being fed to him, you know, on a, on a nine to five type schedule. But we're aware of
00:39:20.000
that. We know if we ruffle feathers, we know if we step out of culture's line, that there are real
00:39:27.320
world consequences to what we might be, uh, unlocking. Yeah. But, but, but that's what I'm,
00:39:36.140
that's what I was trying to say. Well, that's what I was saying earlier is, um, do you, do you really
00:39:43.160
just, I mean, is, is that what we want? Do we want to just lay down on our, on our, on our backs
00:39:48.360
and, and just be passive? Um, I think that that's kind of what the revolutionary war was all about.
00:39:57.220
I think that's what Patrick Henry was talking about. I think that's what Braveheart was talking
00:40:02.340
about. They said, you know what? I would rather die than allow another man to enslave me
00:40:12.140
and to be emasculated and not be able to defend my wife and my kids and work and enjoy the fruit of
00:40:23.680
my labor. This is what God built me for. And I want to be set free in my heart. I don't want to
00:40:31.040
be in bondage to the, to the snakes in my head and the demons in my heart that wrap me up in alcohol,
00:40:36.880
uh, or substance abuse or in abusing other people to cope with my pain and shame and guilt. I want to
00:40:43.420
be free from all of that. And not only that, I want to free the, I want to liberate my world.
00:40:50.220
I don't want tyrants out there abusing other people. That's what we're here for. And
00:40:57.380
that's what's led to the great liberating moments of history. These are the heroes in every great movie
00:41:05.120
and every great story, people who trade their freedom, which, which is tough, which requires
00:41:16.260
personal responsibility and massive risk-taking because there's no guarantees. But if you trade
00:41:22.060
that for being spoon-fed on a nine to five schedule and willingly locking yourself into a cage,
00:41:31.700
I think you've missed the point of this great life that God's given you. Um, because you're not free.
00:41:42.240
And if you're not free, you're, you're, you're in bondage and you're in slavery. And, uh, I think
00:41:48.020
that's the great adventure of life is embracing the risk and getting in partnership with God and
00:41:55.360
going out there to change the world. You might die in the process. Braveheart did. I don't think he
00:42:02.400
regrets it. Um, I don't think he would change the story. Uh, Jesus did, uh, they, they impaled him on a
00:42:09.120
cross, but he wouldn't change the story. God is the best script writer of all. And the hero that you
00:42:16.880
want to be, uh, is never the guy in the movie who, uh, wusses out and takes a bribe and hides in the
00:42:24.520
corner and, uh, just gives into his lower nature rather than sacrificing himself for a higher cause.
00:42:32.440
Uh, if that's the guy that you want to be, and that's the kind of guy I want to be,
00:42:36.020
uh, we have to embrace the unknown and the risk and we need to go for it.
00:42:41.360
And I think there's also this, uh, element of faith that you've been talking about as well, that
00:42:45.920
as you take these risks and you step into these unknowns, doing the right thing is,
00:42:50.760
is obviously clearly it's the right thing to do, but we also have to remember that there's going to
00:42:55.380
be a path that will be forged when you do the right thing. Like you're going to suffer in a lot
00:43:01.120
of ways. There's going to be some decisions you have to make where you will suffer or your family
00:43:04.980
might suffer. Maybe, maybe it's as simple as at work being asked to go against your, your
00:43:12.000
principles and then having to quit. Well, your family's going to suffer. You're going to have a
00:43:18.620
hard time paying the bills for a month or two, but then also may will be paved.
00:43:24.460
Yeah, you're right. Absolutely. But we got to, we got to say to ourselves, if we say like,
00:43:28.140
oh man, I don't want that to happen. No, bro. Suffering is inescapable. The problem is
00:43:35.120
if you go down that route so that you don't suffer temporarily by losing your job. Now
00:43:41.160
you're going to suffer later, worse or worse than that. Your kids are going to suffer. And they're
00:43:46.560
going to look at you and go, dad, why didn't you be a man at the moment you needed to be a man?
00:43:52.200
Why didn't you stand up for that stuff? Why didn't you think down the road instead of just
00:43:57.700
doing what was convenient at the moment? I'm not saying it's easy. Of course it's not easy. I don't
00:44:01.540
want to be burned at the stake. I don't want to be drawn and quartered. I don't want to be locked
00:44:05.900
in a prison. I don't want to lose my job. I don't want any of that stuff. I want to be hanging out
00:44:10.260
with you on this podcast. I want to, you know, I want to have a nice cup of coffee and enjoy time
00:44:15.080
with my wife. But guess what? If George Washington had said the same thing and he didn't man up,
00:44:21.120
if he didn't, you know, have balls of titanium and do the right thing, trusting in the justice of his
00:44:31.120
cause, depending on the protection of the almighty, we wouldn't be having this conversation and we
00:44:37.940
wouldn't be enjoying these blessings. And that challenges me. I'm no George Washington, but having
00:44:45.240
heroes like that makes a difference. And I've known men in my own life who have been mentors to me.
00:44:50.520
One of them just died. His name is Marshall Foster. In fact, I just mentioned this book he wrote
00:44:54.780
called The American Covenant. And he details the inspiring stories of men of history.
00:45:00.380
My buddy Marshall just became one of those men.
00:45:05.560
He inspired me. He was a man of courage, a man of faith. And he helped me to remember that we should
00:45:12.360
not be just whining and complaining about the darkness around us, crying in our Chick-fil-A soup,
00:45:19.100
waiting for Jesus to return and rapture us out of here. We need to be liberty men and women of faith
00:45:28.740
and character, conduits that bring heaven to earth. That's the kind of person that I want to be.
00:45:36.800
And I think deep down inside, every man wants to be that.
00:45:41.920
I agree. I agree with that. Are there times where in your career that you've been passed over or
00:45:49.460
blacklisted for any of your political viewpoints, perspectives, Christian faith-based perspectives,
00:45:59.860
Yeah. I'm sure there have been. There's parts in films that were very successful that I passed up
00:46:07.360
because, hey, you know what? I told my wife at the altar that I'm going to love and cherish her,
00:46:13.120
forsaking all others, so I'm not going to sleep with this girl in this movie.
00:46:17.380
And so, yeah, I missed out on that. Okay. But guess what? I don't know where those actors are in
00:46:24.460
their own personal lives, but I can tell you where I am right now. I just went away on a very romantic
00:46:30.360
weekend getaway with my wife of 31 years, and we're in love. And I'm moving down a road of projects
00:46:38.980
like Life Mark the Movie and American Campfire Revival and other kinds of things that I'm so much
00:46:46.260
more passionate about than about just doing some popular movie that's going to make me a bunch of
00:46:53.760
money. I want a life of meaning and significance. I told you I just went to the funeral of my mentor,
00:47:02.020
one of my best buddies. Man, that's how I want my funeral to be. People were up there and they
00:47:07.980
weren't tears of regret. It wasn't just telling old stories about my old drinking buddy and our
00:47:14.780
exploits in college. This is about a man who changed my life. This is about a man who didn't make money
00:47:20.720
his priority. He was in control of money that other people wanted to use to advance the kingdom of
00:47:30.360
goodness and light. And he directed a lot of that stuff with wisdom and courage and character. And
00:47:36.780
he inspired us to want to be men that make a difference, to be the William Wilberforces and
00:47:42.980
the Bravehearts of the world. That's what I want to be. I think all men know that we need to be that.
00:47:52.340
Unfortunately, we're listening to messages from people that shouldn't matter to us. And we end up
00:47:58.700
taking out this masculinity and strength by screaming and yelling at the flat screen TV,
00:48:06.740
watching Monday Night Football or killing people on video games with our friends, rather than slaying
00:48:15.040
the cultural giants of evil and wickedness by advancing the good and what is right and getting
00:48:23.200
involved with educating our children and loving and serving our wives and crushing it in business
00:48:30.060
so that we can build the culture we want rather than whining and complaining while we watch Fox News
00:48:38.400
or CNN and see what other people are doing while we sit on the sidelines. Let's not be that guy. I don't
00:48:44.780
want to be that guy. And it took me 51 years to kind of figure that out. But I want to lean all in.
00:48:53.340
What are some of those cultural giants that you see as wicked or threats to our existence and
00:49:01.100
well-being? That's a good question. And we have a long discussion about this. I don't see politics
00:49:07.340
as an evil giant. I think that politics is a tool that shapes culture. I don't see public education
00:49:16.640
as an evil. I think education as an evil. I think education is a sacred responsibility that belongs
00:49:22.940
to parents. So when we complain about mandates coming down from heaven or we complain about what's
00:49:31.000
happening culturally, I say that happened on our watch. When I see big tech or big government or big
00:49:40.720
business, you know, squashing and constricting our freedoms and the things that lead to human
00:49:49.440
flourishing, I say, we as men allowed that to happen on our watch. Our fault, not somebody else's fault.
00:49:59.920
They're just running the plays that we should be running and they're running them better.
00:50:04.400
Um, but when we start running the plays and we're doing it for the honor of God and for the blessing
00:50:11.440
of our families and our neighbors, I believe another player comes onto the field and helps us.
00:50:17.920
And that's the almighty and that's called revival. And that's when entire communities and nations and
00:50:23.760
cultures turn around. It's happened throughout history over and over again. It's happened in America.
00:50:27.960
America. And so, um, it's, it's, it's, it's like that famous quote, the only thing necessary for evil
00:50:36.220
to advance is for good men to do nothing. That's, that's the cultural giant of wickedness, laziness,
00:50:44.300
apathy, complacency, uh, given in to the, the urges of your flesh and your stomach and just becoming
00:50:55.400
a blob rather than a beast for the good. Are these the kind of things that you address in the, um,
00:51:05.720
uh, the, I can't, the American campfire, uh, revival, are these the kind of topics that you
00:51:11.540
address? Are you, or what else are you talking about in those things? So primarily with the
00:51:16.100
American campfire revival, I've been, uh, teaching through this book called the American covenant.
00:51:20.540
Um, and it, it, it, it again goes back to what our forefathers and mothers knew that we have
00:51:27.960
forgotten. We wonder why we're in this mess that we're in today. And we think that politics can save
00:51:33.580
us by electing the right guy, or, uh, we think that overturning a law at the Supreme court can save us.
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Uh, no, it ultimately can't. The only thing that can save us is what our forefathers and foremothers
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understood. And that is that nations become free and, and, and prosperous when men become free and
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prosperous in their heart. When, um, John Adams was asked, uh, it may have been Sam Adams. I get the
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two confused. Uh, Sam Adams makes a great beer. Uh, John Adams made for a great president. Uh, but,
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but, but, but one of them said, when he was asked about the revolution, he said, which revolution,
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which revolution are you talking about it? Because there was a revolution that took place long before
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the war of independence. It was the revolution that occurred in men's hearts. It was a shift
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from focusing on self, which leads to suffering and shame and pain and guilt
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to a focus on the bigger picture, stepping back and saying, God made me on purpose for purpose.
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I have a purpose here and I want to lean into that. And I want to bring more of heaven to earth
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in the, through the days that God's given me. Once that occurred, they were fighting for something
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like Luke was fighting to defeat the death star. And there was no stopping him. Right. And the force
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was with them. And I believe that the powers of heaven are behind good men of faith and character
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who are not focused on pleasing themselves, but honoring God and becoming a conduit of what is good
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and right and true, uh, here on earth. Well said, man. Well said. It inspires me. How do we,
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uh, how do we learn more about your projects, including life, Mark, uh, the American campfire
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revival, everything that you have going on. How do we learn more about this stuff?
00:53:45.500
Well, um, thank you for asking. You could just go to Kirk Cameron.com. I got everything listed there.
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So just kind of search around and you can find all kinds of cool things. Um, that American covenant
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book is just, is just a, a, a treasure chest of principles. Um, there's so many. I wrote it down.
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I'm going to get it right after this is done. I want to check that out. And it's not just the
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principles that made this a great nation. It's stories of the men who embodied those principles
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and what they did against all odds. When all hope seemed lost, they were part of that irate,
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tireless minority who were committed to do the right thing over the long haul, believing
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that God would use it to bring about flourishing for them and for their nations.
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Well, we're going to sync everything up. So the guys know where to go. I've been following you for
00:54:41.160
a long time. I love your social media profiles because I follow along there, all your projects,
00:54:46.200
man, what an honor and a treat to be able to talk with you. I, I really appreciate you sharing some
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time with me and great beard, great beard. Yeah. Oh, Ryan, thanks for encouraging me so much. And I
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appreciate what you're doing. And, uh, you know, if, if all of us just ask that question, uh, God,
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what do you want me to do? You know, I'm not, I'm not Ryan and I don't have his beard. I don't have
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his podcast or his platform, but I got, I've got some kids or I've got a job or I've got some time.
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Um, man, I love to pray, man. I care about people. God, maybe I've got some extra money.
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What do you want me to do? If we all do that, the gates of hell will not prevail against us.
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Agreed. Agreed. Thanks again, brother. I appreciate you.
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All right, man. There you go. My conversation with the one and only Kurt Cameron. I hope you
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enjoyed it. Obviously a lot of passion in this guy. And I love to have that and hear that passion and
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see what he's excited about and see what drives him because those things are, are frankly, what,
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what drive me and motivate me and inspire me. So I hope you're walking away inspired. And more
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importantly, I hope you're walking away with the desire to do something about it, not just be
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inspired for the next hour, but to actually take this information, apply it in your life in a practical
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way and serve the people around you. That's what it means to be a man. So let's make that
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happen. All right, guys, make sure you subscribe, leave a rating review, check out the masculinity
00:56:16.740
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00:56:23.000
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00:56:39.300
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