Order of Man - November 03, 2020


Raising a King | BRECKEN MICHLER


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

189.67119

Word Count

9,533

Sentence Count

874

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

In this episode, Ryan Michler is joined by his oldest son, Brecken, to talk about their relationship, the challenges our youth face, and his own personal fitness journey that he s been on over the past 6-8 weeks.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 If you've been listening for any amount of time, you know what I think about modernity
00:00:03.640 and masculinity. In fact, I'm often asked about my thoughts regarding raising children
00:00:08.960 in times like these. And while I think my children's generation have some serious and
00:00:15.420 unique challenges, I am very hopeful for them and how they will rise up in the face of those
00:00:20.560 challenges. And today I'm joined by my oldest son, Brecken, to talk a bit about our relationship,
00:00:26.580 the challenges our youth face. And I also ask him questions specifically from our Facebook group
00:00:32.860 members about his own personal fitness journey that he's been on over the past six to eight
00:00:38.140 weeks, including motivation, accountability, and discipline. Now guys, this is a great episode for
00:00:42.940 any man who wants to tune in, but I would highly, highly suggest that you listen in. If you have
00:00:48.480 children, listen with your children and you want them to be more motivated and disciplined.
00:00:54.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart
00:00:58.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time you are
00:01:04.660 not easily deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are.
00:01:12.040 This is who you will become at the end of the day. And after all is said and done, you can call
00:01:17.360 yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler and I am the host and the
00:01:22.840 founder of this podcast and the order of man movement. I have got one that's different for
00:01:28.040 you today. Uh, I'm joined by my son. He's 12. He has been on a very powerful fitness and health
00:01:36.440 transformation over the past six to eight weeks. And I had made a post in our Facebook group and
00:01:41.280 on the socials. And a lot of you guys had congratulations for him, but you had a lot of
00:01:46.480 questions as well, because you have your own children who you would like to see thrive and be
00:01:51.440 motivated and disciplined as my son has been. So, uh, hype, hyper, uh, focused and disciplined over
00:01:58.180 the past six to eight weeks. So I'm going to answer, or at least ask him some questions and let
00:02:03.040 him answer those. And as I said earlier, if you have children, uh, then I would highly suggest you
00:02:09.100 have them tune in and listen to this one before we get into the conversation. I do just very quickly
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00:03:01.920 All right, guys, without further ado, my son, again, 12 years old. Uh, he has been inspiring
00:03:07.800 lately and he's been a beast when it comes to losing weight to getting strong over the past six to eight
00:03:14.720 weeks. He's lost. Actually, I don't want to steal any of his thunder because he did talk about this
00:03:18.700 and he's very excited about it. So he has lost a lot of weight. He's gained a lot of strength,
00:03:22.360 uh, and he is on a terror as it comes to his fitness goals and ambitions. And I thought this would be
00:03:29.400 a powerful and unique opportunity for him to share and for you to gain some insight for your own path
00:03:35.780 as a father. Breckin, what's up, my man. Glad to have you back in studio. I mean, it's just our house,
00:03:41.260 but glad to have you here nonetheless. Thank you. Pretty exciting morning. Uh-huh. What happened this
00:03:46.280 morning? Got turkey down. Turkey down. That's right. How many hours do you think we put in
00:03:52.540 hunting so far? Turkeys, that is. Oh, many hours. They're sneaky little bugs. They are. But we got
00:04:00.960 one today, so that's good. Yeah. We were actually about to hit record on the podcast earlier, this
00:04:06.020 podcast, and we looked out my office window and saw turkeys. And so what did we do? We booked it out
00:04:12.040 there. We got out. We're walking around in the lower field and we think the turkey saw us and
00:04:17.960 they turned around and started walking up more. So we hopped in the tree stand and some of them came
00:04:23.200 down and, uh, the group called a few strays back. So they headed up and got scared off. And then we
00:04:31.280 were driving back and we're like, Oh, we know where we're going. They're going. Yeah. We took that back
00:04:35.780 road and, and, and sat right by where we thought they would be. And they came down exactly where we
00:04:41.680 thought they would be. How are you feeling as you, uh, right before you went to take that shot?
00:04:46.560 So shaky. I was like, they're going to see me and run off, but I think they did see me,
00:04:52.200 but I just got a shot on them before they, before they totally caught on to you right there. And then
00:04:57.360 I remember you shot and you like jumped up. You were so excited. I was like, shoot it again.
00:05:01.900 And I'm like, what? And then I'm like, but it was a good shot. You shot him right in the face
00:05:07.420 and, uh, blew out one of the, one of the bird's ribs. It looked like that thing was, was done for.
00:05:14.660 And then we took it down, we tagged it and did everything we needed to. And then we took it down.
00:05:17.980 I got it registered or I think registered. I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah. We registered it.
00:05:22.360 And then, uh, we brought it back and what did we do?
00:05:25.960 Cleaned it up, got some nice turkey breasts and some lakes, and we're going to cook them up on the
00:05:31.800 Traeger tonight. Is that what we're doing? Traeger? Pretty sure. Mom's doing Traeger for us,
00:05:36.100 huh? It's a good way to, uh, good way to start the day. I figured, you know, we were going to
00:05:40.500 podcast, but I figured, man, that'd be a great way to start off the podcast and let the guys know
00:05:44.100 that you've had some hunting success. That's the first animal that you've recovered. Correct?
00:05:50.440 Yep. I mean, you've been on hunts and we've hunted and you've hunted with your grandpa and
00:05:55.640 you shot a pig a couple of years ago in Texas. That was a dang good shot. I just think it was a
00:06:00.580 little high and we never could recover it, but, um, it's got to feel good. Yeah. Right on that.
00:06:07.020 It's good. Well, so I don't know if you know why I wanted to do this with you today, but, um,
00:06:12.360 I had made a post and I think you knew that I made a post about your, uh, weight loss journey and you
00:06:18.980 getting strong and fit and everything else that's been going on over the past eight weeks or so.
00:06:24.100 And, uh, a lot of the guys were very impressed and they want to get their kids, their sons or their
00:06:29.680 daughters on the same path. And they had some questions and rather than answering on a, on the
00:06:35.040 Facebook group post, I thought, you know, we would just do that here and we'd bring you back in the
00:06:39.040 studio and we would answer, or, or I would ask you some questions and then you can answer those
00:06:45.000 questions. And then the idea would be that the men who are listening would invite their sons and or
00:06:50.860 daughters to listen in. So hopefully they get some motivation because sometimes it's, it's different
00:06:58.440 when it comes from a peer rather than if it comes from me or it comes from their dad. So I thought,
00:07:03.580 okay, well, here's you at 12 years old. And if they're, you know, anywhere from, I would say nine
00:07:07.880 to 16 or somewhere in there that they would actually be pretty inspired by what you've been doing.
00:07:12.780 Yeah. Um, yeah, it's been fun that it's hard getting up and working out, but you say you work
00:07:21.160 out, but you got to work on that diet. Like I would work out and I just get back and eat, but
00:07:27.640 I wasn't losing any weight. So I'm like, I've been working out. I don't know what. And then you
00:07:32.500 guys just told me that I'm eating a lot. So I've been doing a diet and working out and it's worked
00:07:37.820 good. Yeah. So we're going to get into the specifics, into the nitty gritty, the details,
00:07:42.040 and, uh, you can inspire us with your level of motivation and discipline, which, and I, I hope
00:07:48.040 you know that I'm inspired by it. Thanks. Do you know that? Yeah. I moved. I've talked about,
00:07:53.060 hopefully. I mean, I try to, I try to talk to you about those things. Yeah, you have. So I've been
00:07:58.000 motivated, inspired by what you're doing. Cause usually it's you keeping me on track better than
00:08:02.580 me or mom are keeping you on track. You've been super disciplined. Thanks. Even the guys that came
00:08:07.600 out to our event, they knew how disciplined Chris, in fact, asked, he said, or he said that he had
00:08:14.300 offered you a cinnamon roll or something. Nope. And you were like, nope. And he, he said he was super
00:08:19.700 impressed with that. So anyways, good work, bud. Thanks. All right. Let's get into these
00:08:22.900 questions. So again, these are from our Facebook group and these are specifically for you. So I'm
00:08:28.100 going to fire away and, uh, let's get after it. Okay. All right. So Sean Saylor says, this is not
00:08:34.680 like so much fitness, health, diet related, but he does say, what are some things that you wish you,
00:08:40.380 you had been known or been taught? And we still have time cause you're still here. So what are some
00:08:45.500 things that you wish maybe beforehand or even moving forward as you get older and become a young
00:08:51.840 man? And you already are a young man, but even older, uh, what are some things that you would
00:08:55.440 like to, to, to know or to be taught? Uh, I think I could use a little more discipline. I I've snuck a
00:09:04.520 few snacks in. I need to be more disciplined. Yeah. That's surprising. I haven't seen it at the,
00:09:10.220 at the beginning, but I've been getting more disciplined and, um, there's always something
00:09:16.180 to learn. I don't know yet, but along the path I'll find out. I don't know yet.
00:09:20.820 What are some things that you're excited about? Obviously hunting has been a big thing for you.
00:09:24.760 You've really wanted to learn about hunting. Uh, not only is hunting good just because of what it is,
00:09:30.540 but talk about a great source of healthy food. You know, that, that Turkey, for example,
00:09:35.960 that you shot this morning, it was, it probably wasn't even more than an hour from the time that
00:09:41.580 you shot it to the time that we registered to the time that we broke it down, brought it in the
00:09:46.440 kitchen. Mom put it in some milk. Cause we've heard that with Turkey that takes away some of the
00:09:50.760 gaminess. I mean that not even an hour that that's going to be the healthiest source of protein
00:09:56.620 that you could possibly find. It's not processed beef jerky, which is more like a rubber stick.
00:10:02.460 Although we do eat some of those, um, it's, it's high quality stuff. So hunting has been big.
00:10:09.380 Uh, jujitsu has been something you've really been interested in and just, just strength,
00:10:14.120 like lifting in general. I like, I've been doing a lot of CrossFit and I think that's fun because
00:10:19.300 all the different movements and all the different things you can do to work on muscle and losing
00:10:25.420 weight. Why, why have you been so motivated lately? It's been, like I said, it's been, I think six to
00:10:31.580 eight weeks and I've, and I told the guys, I've never seen you as motivated as you are right now.
00:10:36.320 So what is it like? Why right now? I think I've watched, uh, Mr. Olympia before and I'm inspired by
00:10:44.540 those guys, the bodybuilders. And that's what got me sitting on the couch. I'm like, I need to get
00:10:50.540 going. I need to be doing this. So that's what inspired me. What, uh, so Mr. Olympia. So they do
00:10:56.680 like, now they're not CrossFitters. They do like strong men, like bodybuilders, powerlifting,
00:11:01.240 not so much powerlifting. I think more, more bodybuilding. Bodybuilding. Yeah.
00:11:04.880 Is that what you want to do? Or do you just already like CrossFit? Like what is it that
00:11:08.340 specifically you want to do? Um, I have no clue. I really want to be fit and I feel like I'll have
00:11:15.400 a better life if I'm fit. How so? In what ways? Uh, I feel like you'd be able to do more physical
00:11:22.600 stuff and be able to get out and do more and without need to have a lot of discipline and
00:11:29.360 all that stuff that comes along with it. So. I mean, it's true. I mean, that's what I tell the
00:11:33.700 guys is, is wherever you improve in your life and let's just take fitness in your diet for in this
00:11:39.200 instance, wherever you improve in your life, it's going to naturally and inevitably improve other
00:11:45.460 areas of your life, whether it's your studies and your schoolwork, uh, or relationships with
00:11:50.880 us as your parents or eventually with a girlfriend and fiance and a wife and children. That's weird to
00:11:57.800 think about, huh? Yeah. You like girls yet? Yeah. Yeah. Have to admit. Yes. That's a good day.
00:12:05.980 There's nothing wrong with that. We don't tease you about girls, right? Because we don't tease our
00:12:10.080 family about girls because it's important and it's good. Like why would you tease somebody about
00:12:15.520 something that's actually good and you want to encourage them to, to be engaged in? Yep.
00:12:21.140 Care to elaborate? Nope. Just like Jocko. Good. Perfect. All right. Uh, let's move on from here. So Adam
00:12:28.960 Boyce says, uh, he enjoys all of our podcasts, but this one he's very excited about. He's raising a,
00:12:35.680 uh, rate, excuse me, raising a generation of young men that are accountable, disciplined
00:12:39.020 and capable, uh, is one of the most important things that we as men do. So not really a question
00:12:44.200 in there, but he's saying how important it is that we raise, uh, accountable, disciplined
00:12:48.820 and capable men. What are your thoughts with that? Yeah. They're, they are able to lead more
00:12:55.360 and they're someone to look up to and be inspired and motivated by. So we need more of stronger
00:13:02.960 men around. And, and, and children too, right? Yep. Children, everyone. I mean, life's pretty
00:13:10.580 easy if you think about it. Yep. Like if you get cold, you turn on the heater. If you get
00:13:15.160 hot, you turn on the air conditioning. You want a piece of beef jerky. You don't have
00:13:18.340 to go. I mean, you don't need to go out and hunt. You just go to the store. Just go down
00:13:22.740 to the store and get some beef jerky or get, you know, that, that, that, that meat that's
00:13:27.340 pumped full of hormones and all that sort of thing in order to, you know, drive the price
00:13:31.960 up for it. And it's just not good, you know, so life. So what I've acknowledged and what
00:13:38.320 I recognize is that life is pretty easy and we need to create some, some hardships for
00:13:44.760 ourselves. So what, what I've seen you do, and you've been pretty active for years, but
00:13:50.600 again, specifically over the past couple of months is you're very disciplined when it comes
00:13:55.080 to your diet. You work out every single day without fail, sometimes twice a day, actually
00:14:00.660 you're very active during the day. You're way more active than you would be in the past.
00:14:05.060 Like normally you might, you know, sit down and take it easy and kind of bum out a little
00:14:09.080 bit. But now, I mean, you're up and you're running around and we built that really cool
00:14:13.260 pulley system in the barn yesterday. Yeah, that's fine. Tell them about that. Um, in his post,
00:14:19.360 it said training Rocky style today. So have you seen Rocky for when you watch, have you seen
00:14:24.580 any Rockies? I failed you. I failed you. All right. We'll get you on some Rocky movies,
00:14:29.660 but continue. So we found some old pulleys that were in our barn and we found an old rope.
00:14:36.320 So we're like, we'll just tie the pulley up there, put the rope on there. We had a lot
00:14:41.160 of leftover tires from the previous owners. So we just threw those two tires down. We tried
00:14:47.320 three. That was too heavy for me. But, uh, yeah, I just, we pull up the tires every day.
00:14:54.100 How many have you done today? Two because my grip hurts super bad. Somebody Jitsu and yeah,
00:15:01.040 we trained Jiu Jitsu this morning. Didn't we? Um, somebody had made a comment on our post about
00:15:06.420 the pulley system and they said something like, where's your gloves? Men don't wear gloves.
00:15:14.200 Exactly, man. We're trying to build strong, capable, calloused hands. We don't need any
00:15:19.160 gloves to do that. What are your, what's your thoughts on gloves? Men don't wear them. That's
00:15:23.220 what you think. Hey, you wear gloves hunting. So cause it's cold out there. Yeah. I don't wear gloves
00:15:31.920 too much. I just don't like them. All right. You don't even wear gloves when we hunt. Nope.
00:15:38.440 What's up with that? I'm a sav. You're a sav? What's a sav? Savage. Can't even say the full word,
00:15:44.420 huh? No, it's just cooler if you say sav. All right. Fair enough. Bring that microphone in a
00:15:50.640 little bit to you when you talk. Get it all up in your grill. There you go. Uh, all right,
00:15:55.380 let's move on. So Chris, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I think is how you'd pronounce his last name
00:16:00.260 or Soraketti questions for your quote unquote, little guy. Not so little anymore. No, nope.
00:16:08.260 Uh, what is it about your dad that motivates you? Uh, he's strong and he always goes and does stuff
00:16:16.480 and, uh, he's never sitting on the couch too much. He's moving around, working out, going to jujitsu,
00:16:23.420 hunting, traveling to hunt. And yeah. So you're inspired by how active I am. Is that what you're
00:16:29.500 saying? Yeah. Active and how strong you are. And yeah. How about, um, what do you see in the way
00:16:37.180 that I treat mom? What, tell me, tell me about your perception of the way that I show up, you know,
00:16:43.420 the things that we do together, that sort of thing. It's important to, um, I don't know how to put it.
00:16:50.120 It's important to look good. And, um, I don't know what to say. What do you mean? It's what,
00:16:58.120 explain that important to look good, like me to look good for her. Is that what you're saying?
00:17:01.980 Or what are you saying? Is that the question like that? No, I'm, I'm more asking, you know,
00:17:06.800 like, what do you see? What lessons are you learning from the relationship that I have with mom?
00:17:12.120 Um, that you guys love each other and you spend time together and you argue a little bit. Everyone
00:17:20.820 does that, but yeah, it's just good to watch you guys in a relationship and, uh, going through
00:17:28.400 stuff. I have no clue. No, I'm just, I'm looking at you. Is that good? It's your answer. Yeah. How do
00:17:35.520 you feel about that answer? Okay. Yeah. Then it's good. Yeah. You don't, it's not, it's not a right
00:17:41.480 or wrong thing. It's just, I, I am really curious as to whether like what you see, you know, what's
00:17:46.700 good and, and what we could work on and what you like and what, how, when you see it, you know,
00:17:51.900 what you take away and learn from it. Um, the other thing I really like doing together and we
00:17:56.420 haven't talked about this yet too much is the store. Yep. I really like doing the store together.
00:18:00.720 Mm-hmm. Listen to Cody jinx and packaging up, um, swag and all that stuff. It's fun.
00:18:10.280 What's your favorite, what's your favorite element of the process? Um, is it signing notes? Is it
00:18:18.160 packaging hats? Is it? I like writing the notes because I know that, uh, someone will get that
00:18:25.740 note. Yeah. Just makes me feel good. Yeah. No, we get, I get it. I, and I try to show you,
00:18:30.720 as many as I can, I can't show them all to you because I would be on the phone all day long,
00:18:34.020 but there's guys, you know, who take pictures and, and they post that card that you write
00:18:39.400 and they just, they love it. They love it. It is cool. Cause you did that. Uh, it's also cool to do.
00:18:46.960 I like doing inventory and like reordering supplies cause we can see how much we've sold. And then
00:18:52.880 you're learning a lot of practical skills as well. I mean, you're learning math, you're learning money
00:18:56.680 management, you're learning inventory management, organizational systems, uh, how to, how to,
00:19:02.860 how to be efficient, not fast, right. But efficient. So you're learning a lot of good stuff just through
00:19:08.040 the process of having the store. More kids need to go through that and learn that stuff.
00:19:13.340 I think so. I mean, school is important because you can learn a lot of some of the things that we
00:19:17.580 talked about, but I think it's really valuable when you do it in a real world setting, like,
00:19:23.320 like the store. Cause what happens when somebody, you know, gets the wrong size or we send it to
00:19:27.940 the wrong address that costs us money. It makes us not look as favorable in their eyes. So there's
00:19:32.940 real world consequences for not doing it correctly and not doing as a good and efficiently and
00:19:38.720 effectively as we can. Or when our inventory is off and somebody orders an extra large, cause it
00:19:44.200 says we have one in inventory and we actually don't remember they ordered a double extra large and
00:19:48.220 we had to refund their money. Right. Cause we want to make sure they get taken care of. But still
00:19:52.060 that that's, I try to look at it and think, okay, well, they're going to be, that person's
00:19:56.280 now going to be disappointed. Yep. And I don't want people to be disappointed when they think
00:20:00.440 of what we're doing. I want them to be, I want to exceed expectations. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't
00:20:06.680 feel good letting someone down like that, like not having their shirt or like that guy with
00:20:13.220 a PayPal, PayPal e-check. Like we couldn't send his order out till that went through. It's just,
00:20:19.760 yeah, that's how work goes. Yeah. Well, I like that you said it, it doesn't feel good to let
00:20:24.840 people down. Talk about that a little bit. Uh, you just get the feeling inside your gut
00:20:30.220 and it doesn't feel good. You just want to fix it. So we try fixing most of the stuff
00:20:36.000 comes across like refunding, sending them this, the right shirt size, all that stuff. Usually
00:20:43.700 we'll, we'll throw a little something extra in there, like a decal or something. Yep.
00:20:48.820 Yeah. No, it's good. It's good. You know, like it's funny because in most of society, it seems like
00:20:55.440 people are working so hard to ensure that you never have any moment where you would feel bad
00:21:03.300 about something. What do you think about? Do you understand what I'm saying? Like most of society is
00:21:08.340 trying to make it easy and comfortable so that you and other children don't, don't ever feel bad.
00:21:15.140 But what do you, what do you think about that? It makes you stronger mentally. If you have,
00:21:19.720 if you go through hard things, like I forgot, like hard times create strong men,
00:21:26.960 good times create weak men or something like that. Yeah. I think it goes, uh, uh, hard times create
00:21:33.320 strong men, strong men create good times, good times, good times create weak men, weak men create
00:21:39.160 hard times. Yep. That's a great quote. I like that quote. It's good that you know that. And so
00:21:45.000 that's, what's funny is society has done a lot of kids and injustice by keeping them bubble wrapped
00:21:49.680 and keeping them safe and ensuring, you know, they never feel bad or get their feelings hurt.
00:21:54.860 And there's a bully punch them in the nose. That's all you got to do. Am I right?
00:21:58.680 I think that's all you need to do. I think you're right. So making yourself capable to be able to do
00:22:03.300 that and the confidence to stand up for yourself. Some kids just don't have that confidence because
00:22:07.320 they've never been put in a situation that's tough. You know, like when we were at jujitsu this
00:22:12.260 morning, you know, you roll with two grown men, you're training with two grown men and we don't
00:22:18.060 totally take it easy on you. No. I mean, we scale back so you can work through the things,
00:22:21.760 but still you're working hard, but that's good, you know, and it's uncomfortable and it's hard.
00:22:27.460 And at times I'm sure it's discouraging maybe for you with Brody. If he gets me caught in
00:22:32.740 something. Yeah. Oh, frustrating. Don't know how to get out of it. And just it's good. Yep. It's
00:22:39.820 good because it gives you a new perspective and a new lens to look at things through. All right,
00:22:43.380 let's move on. Uh, Tom Russell, he says, it sounds like he has done a very, uh, done very well
00:22:49.960 holding himself accountable. He's talking about you. I would like to hear some of the strategies
00:22:54.040 for holding yourself accountable. We'll definitely tune in with my 12 year old son.
00:22:58.560 So he's got a 12 year old son. This is Tom Russell. So he wants to hear your thoughts,
00:23:03.680 your ideas, your strategies on holding yourself accountable. What does accountability mean to
00:23:07.940 you first? Let's, let's hit that first. It means that you're, I've said this a lot, disciplined
00:23:14.020 and you know, your responsibilities and you fulfill those responsibilities.
00:23:19.220 So when it comes to responsibility, why? So you have, you have a lot of responsibilities. The
00:23:25.100 store is one of them, uh, doing chores and things around the house. You have schoolwork. There's
00:23:29.800 responsibilities around here that you have. Why do you feel like that's important? Because that's
00:23:34.140 one of the things you said is that I'm accountable to my responsibilities. What, what, what makes you
00:23:39.180 accountable? Why is that important? What's your mindset there? Uh, I know it makes your family
00:23:43.840 proud that you're listening to them and doing what they want you to do and, um, helps you a lot.
00:23:50.860 And it gives you something to do and like a pet, something to take care of and make sure you,
00:23:57.000 yeah. You know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying. Yeah, no, I get it. Uh, you have a dog,
00:24:03.040 you know, you have other responsibilities. And so it's not always fun to have to let the dogs out,
00:24:08.060 you know, late at night before you're going to go to bed or, uh, or, or do the dishes. You know,
00:24:12.500 sometimes you're like, well, I just want to go play. Well, okay. But you got to do the dishes
00:24:15.760 first. Yeah. So what, so accountability is, is doing the things that you said you're going to do
00:24:22.120 that you committed to doing. So Tom says here, what are some strategies for holding yourself
00:24:27.440 accountable? Um, we're doing, well, I'm doing Steve Weatherford's monobolic metabolic, metabolic,
00:24:35.520 uh, reset. And the thing that you do is you eat big meals, like healthy meals, uh, breakfast is eggs
00:24:44.920 and sausages. And that will help you, um, stay not, you won't be hungry throughout the day till the next
00:24:55.280 meal because you had a big healthy meal before the other. So you're not doing a bunch of snacking
00:25:01.040 throughout the day, which is like what, I mean, let's be honest, that's what you used to do. Right.
00:25:04.540 Yeah. And that's what I do a lot too, is I liked it. I like to snack late at night.
00:25:09.140 That's my downfall. Chips and salsa. Chips and salsa. That's right. Everybody knows that about me
00:25:13.420 because I've talked about it on the podcast. Um, so, all right, so let's, uh, so you're doing Steve
00:25:19.080 Weatherford's metabolic reset, which is really cool. You and mom are doing that. Let's say that, uh,
00:25:24.320 mom makes a delicious batch of cinnamon rolls or brownies or these delicious items and you see
00:25:33.440 one sitting on the counter and nobody's looking and you're like, dang, that looks really good.
00:25:38.300 What? Cause I know you, you wouldn't have one. Oh, last night with the Pillsbury biscuits. Like I was
00:25:44.060 like, I like looked at the nutrients facts. I'm like, no, too much. Yeah. I was like, no, no, no.
00:25:50.160 So, so, but what is it that keeps you accountable or keeps you on track? Are there things that you
00:25:56.900 say to yourself? Like, okay, I want those, I want those biscuits. Give me those, give me them
00:26:02.120 biscuits. Or, or is there like, what is it that you do to like not eat the biscuits? Cause I want to
00:26:09.940 eat the biscuits. And so do other people. Um, usually I grab a fruit, like an apple or banana. That's
00:26:15.740 what I have if I'm hungry during the day or something. And sometimes with breakfast, I have
00:26:22.260 milk. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so you just replace it with something else. You just substitute it out
00:26:27.460 for something that's healthier. Cause fruits and vegetables are good to have. Yeah. Oh yeah,
00:26:32.960 definitely. So that's what I do. Um, what's, so what are your, what's your goal? Like I know
00:26:38.240 you want to talk about your, your stats right now. So let's talk about your weight. Okay. Um,
00:26:43.740 so what do you weigh right now? Uh, 134. Okay. And you are down how much? 20 pounds,
00:26:50.680 20 pounds in like a couple of months, which is awesome. Yeah. And then what was your body fat
00:26:56.120 percentage when you started? Uh, like 22 body fat and now it's 16 body fat. That's awesome.
00:27:03.020 That's so good. What are you trying to get to? Uh, I'd like to get, try to get to 15 and then I want
00:27:09.820 to try going down to 10. 10 is pretty low. Yeah, I know. We'll look at it. If I keep building that
00:27:16.160 muscle. Yeah. And we can always evaluate it too. Like, you know, okay. So, okay. So you got,
00:27:21.200 uh, 16 trying to get under 15 now is your goal, right? You said, okay. And then what,
00:27:26.400 so do you remember your, uh, muscle percentage? Do you remember?
00:27:31.060 I was like 46 and now I'm at 50% muscle. So is it 50% or 50? Yeah. 50%? Yeah. That's awesome. So 4%
00:27:41.580 in muscle mass is what you've put on. Yep. So you've lost six pounds in body fat or excuse me,
00:27:48.120 6% in body fat and you've gained 4% in muscle mass over that same timeframe. Yep. Dang kid.
00:27:56.280 Uh, what other goals do you have? Do you have goals to compete in bodybuilding? Is that something
00:28:02.800 that sounds interesting to you? I'd like to try CrossFit games and Olympics and the Highland
00:28:09.560 games sound pretty fun. That would be cool. We need to look into that. Yep. You're going
00:28:13.980 to be a big kid. How tall do you think you're going to be? Uh, 6'2". I bet you're going to
00:28:19.260 be taller than that. Like grandpa or something like Andy, like 6'4". I think you're going to
00:28:24.360 be six, three or six, four. You think when, when do you think if ever you'll be able to
00:28:30.260 take me? Never. The answer is never. No, you're getting older. I'm getting stronger. I might
00:28:37.920 be getting older. I'm also getting stronger and I'm also getting wiser at an accelerated
00:28:42.280 pace. Okay. So let's, let's hear an answer. When do you think you'll be able to take me?
00:28:49.360 A year? 25. At age 25? Dude, that's like 13 years away. I don't know. It's going to take
00:29:02.580 you 13 years to be able to compete with me? Probably 16. 16? In four years you think you're
00:29:10.580 going to be able to take me? Take me at what? What's the competition? I don't know. There's
00:29:16.640 lots of competition. Yeah. Pick one. What do you think? Arm wrestling. You think at age
00:29:21.920 16 you're going to beat me at arm wrestling? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Okay. Deal. You got, you
00:29:27.560 guys heard it, heard it here. So at 16, Bracken and I are going to arm wrestle and see. Anything
00:29:33.580 else? How about jujitsu? How long before you can take me at jujitsu? A while. You're pretty
00:29:40.180 good. It's all relative. Hey, you're a blue belt. Yeah, I am, but it's all relative. There's
00:29:45.100 always somebody bigger, faster, stronger, smarter, better than you. It's going to be
00:29:48.700 me. All of those things? You're going to be better than me? I hope so. That's the
00:29:52.980 goal, right? Like that, shouldn't that be my goal as a father? Yeah. Like I hope that
00:29:57.680 you're bigger, faster, smarter, more successful, all of those things than I am. I hope that.
00:30:03.200 I'll still always be able to take you. Old man's strength always prevails.
00:30:06.440 You're laughing. All right. Moose says. Moose? Moose. Mustafa Abdul Wahid, but he goes by
00:30:15.440 Moose. He's in the Iron Council. He's one of our team leaders in the Iron Council. He
00:30:19.200 says, what challenges do you set for yourself? Do you want to set for yourself next? We kind
00:30:24.440 of talked about that a little bit. And then also what scares you to think about doing?
00:30:30.160 Like scares in a good way, not like afraid, but like what's like a goal where you're like,
00:30:34.220 I'm a little afraid of that, but it would be good for me. That sort of thing.
00:30:39.240 Trying to think of a goal that I'm scared of. Well, there's probably a lot of goals that I'm
00:30:43.460 scared of. Let's hear them. Can't think of any right offhand. Maybe that's something you should
00:30:49.720 think about. Yeah. Is like, what is something that you're nervous about, but you want to do,
00:30:55.380 but it's a little scary and you'd really have to push outside of your comfort zone.
00:30:59.900 I can't think of one right now. I know. And then what I'm saying is maybe this is a good time to
00:31:03.680 start thinking about those things. Yeah. Cause we have this area that we operate and that's our
00:31:09.960 comfort zone. Right. And so imagine this comfort zone is a circle and we're right in the middle
00:31:14.000 and we'll do all of these little things and activities from hunting and trying new things
00:31:18.260 and going to CrossFit and jujitsu and schoolwork and approaching girls, like all of these things,
00:31:23.180 just wherever in that circle that we're already comfortable with, but no additional growth takes
00:31:28.480 place in that circle. All of the growth takes place outside of the perimeter of that circle
00:31:33.940 and you're on where you're uncomfortable, right? There's no comfort. There's less comfort in those
00:31:40.640 things. But when you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn new things. That's when you get new
00:31:45.520 feedback. You know, like when you go to jujitsu, when you very first started, you were probably pretty
00:31:51.060 nervous, right? Yeah. And some grown men. Yeah. So that was outside of your comfort zone. Do you get
00:31:58.420 nervous now? Sometimes. Maybe a little. Probably learn something new at night. But is it, is it easier
00:32:05.540 or harder for you now? It's definitely easier. Right. Cause your comfort zone expanded. And now if
00:32:12.600 you want to get better, you got to step out of that and then out of that and then out of that.
00:32:17.180 Yeah. Cole was scary with rolling with. Cole was, he was. Those bread cutter chokes. I have
00:32:22.640 bruises on my sternum. And he's got those like long, like strong bony limbs where he would just
00:32:29.820 dig his elbows or forearms or shins. Even me, like he would dig, I mean, what is he? 15, 16 years old?
00:32:36.400 15. 15. And he would dig his shins right across my leg. I'm like, Oh, that hurts. Yeah. It hurts.
00:32:42.220 Yep. But you're still going. He's got to come back. We got to get him coming back. He's got school
00:32:46.660 and things. So he, it's a little tougher for him, but yeah. Um, any other goals or challenges that
00:32:51.820 you want to do next? Uh, I'd like to try building more muscle if that's a challenge. Yeah. That's a
00:32:59.140 challenge. Well, like muscle, where, where do you want to build more muscle? Obviously everywhere,
00:33:03.420 but like, where do you want to focus? Um, I'd like to get some abs, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do some
00:33:09.220 core exercises. Cool. I like that. We can use that pulley for some core exercises. Oh yeah. Like some
00:33:15.740 twisting. You could hold it. Yeah. You could lay down and like pull it or do some crunches
00:33:21.200 with it. Um, or you can, you can sit and you could just keep the tire suspended and then
00:33:26.780 just twist and do like 10 of those as you're pulling, but you've got to keep your arms tight
00:33:30.920 and then just pull them down and then switch. Now you're twisting the other way. That would
00:33:35.520 really help. Yeah. So you just be a little creative and you do it every day, right? Somebody had
00:33:40.060 said something about like, Oh, is he going to get burned out with training every day?
00:33:44.080 No. Your body just evolves to what you demand of it, you know? So, all right. It's weaker
00:33:51.680 when I don't do training. That's right. Yeah. All right. So Lee, Leandro, Bella, Verna,
00:34:00.000 Verno, Vernocchi. So I would say that Leandro, Bella Vernocchi. This is amazing. Ryan
00:34:04.900 Mickler is an example of the good harvest of what has been sown. Uh, would he like to answer
00:34:09.000 the things he will advise others on his age to become more disciplined? Uh, so he's, he's saying
00:34:14.420 what advice do you have for somebody your age so that they can be more disciplined, uh, and
00:34:20.860 motivated? Um, eating and working out. You could be, that's hard a little better. Yeah. That that's
00:34:30.300 hard getting up and saying, gotta go work out. It's hard. Once you're sitting on that couch,
00:34:35.400 you're like, gotta go work out. It's hard getting up from the couch and going and working
00:34:39.960 out. Totally. Yeah. Why do you do it? Me? Yeah. Oh, because I want to keep my body like
00:34:47.020 this. Why? That's what you have to do. Cause it feels good. It just feels better. Feels
00:34:53.080 like you're not dragging around that extra weight and feel light and lean and light and
00:34:58.500 lean. Awesome. Yep. Cool. I like it. Anything else to help others your age be more disciplined
00:35:05.260 and motivated? Maybe not necessarily like what, I mean, what is important, but maybe there's
00:35:10.720 some, some mindset, some things they could be thinking about. Um, it's hard. Think on that
00:35:21.480 a little bit. Okay. Think on that. Planning has been important for you. Planning out your
00:35:28.360 day, thinking about what you want to accomplish. That stuff's important. And you also have,
00:35:34.140 I mean, obviously I'm a bit biased when I say this, but you also have parents who are deeply
00:35:38.460 vested in making sure that you're doing these things too. Yeah. So we're presenting these
00:35:42.460 opportunities and I'm not trying to toot on my own horn here, but we do need to acknowledge
00:35:46.420 that there's always other people who will help us along the path. You know, for example,
00:35:52.180 when we were out hunting this morning, we had some success this morning, which was great.
00:35:57.180 Well, we never would have been in this situation if it weren't doing the podcast, if we were doing
00:36:02.520 the podcast. But what I was going to say is we'd never be in this situation. If it were not for
00:36:06.880 Colin Cottrell taking me on my first hunt, taking you on your first hunt, it's always important that
00:36:12.840 we acknowledge that there's other people who've helped us to get to where we are. It's never us
00:36:18.400 by ourselves. There's things that you have done a very good job on, but there's also opportunities
00:36:23.780 like mom gets up with you three days a week. I get up with you two to three days a week early. I mean,
00:36:30.060 we're talking five o'clock in the morning to get up and do those things. So we need to acknowledge
00:36:34.780 others on the path as well. That's important. Cool. Looks like we've got a couple more here. Okay.
00:36:38.880 Okay. All right. So Charles Jake Messimer says, what do you feel your father has given you morally?
00:36:45.320 Do you know what morally is? Morally is your, like who, who you are more than your, your strength
00:36:55.000 and your physical, it's your spiritual wellbeing. It's the way you think about things. It's the,
00:37:01.740 it's knowing the difference between right and wrong. That's moral morality. What do you feel your
00:37:08.260 father has given you morally that has helped you be on the path of becoming a better human?
00:37:13.960 And that's his first question. And then, uh, I'll ask his follow-up question to that in a minute.
00:37:20.240 Um, just every time you fall getting back up, like, like, um, last week he didn't train too much
00:37:28.860 because he had the kids, but this week you're trying to get as much training as, as in as you can
00:37:35.040 so that you can go hunt. And then when you come back, you can train more. Yeah.
00:37:40.740 So if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying still honoring your commitments, even
00:37:45.360 though things come up, you, you see me doing that and that motivates you. Yeah. Cool. What else?
00:37:52.540 There's a whole bunch.
00:37:53.780 What lessons, what are some of the important lessons do you feel like I've taught you throughout
00:38:01.600 your life up to this point? Oh, that felt good. Pop those knuckles. Yeah. Um, I don't know.
00:38:11.380 Just like, just never giving up. Like I said on that next one, it's really, I feel like you've done
00:38:19.520 that a lot. Like, um, when I slept in for the event workout, you're like, come on, you gotta
00:38:27.640 go do burpees in the cold grass. I'm like, oh, come on. Hey man, you snooze, you lose. Yeah.
00:38:34.620 Is that my fault or your fault for you not getting up? My fault. Even though you were supposed
00:38:39.840 to wake me up, it's my fault still. Well, I did tell you I was going to wake you up and
00:38:44.400 I just forgot cause I got excited and it went out there. So I will take some, some burden
00:38:49.780 of responsibility, but also you can get up too. Yeah. Set the alarm. That's right. All
00:38:57.420 right. Cool. Uh, he also says, this is his followup question. Then we'll get to the last
00:39:01.060 one here in a minute. Uh, what actions of mine stand out to you that motivate you?
00:39:08.280 And you're looking at me like, you don't, what, what is it that I do? So you see me
00:39:17.460 okay. On a daily basis, right? You see me working, you see me interacting with you guys.
00:39:21.160 You see me doing the store. You see me hunting. You see me networking. You see me podcasting.
00:39:25.960 You see me doing jujitsu. I mean, I'm doing a lot of things every single day. I'm on social
00:39:30.100 media. What of those things stand out? And you're like, man, I really see him doing these
00:39:35.220 things. Cause here's what, here's why these guys are asking. They want to know what they
00:39:39.740 can do so that they can motivate and inspire their children. Uh, I like how you cut out
00:39:45.680 time for us. Like, um, usually it's at night. You always come up and build Legos with us.
00:39:53.780 And it's just nice that you've been working all day and you save some time to hang out
00:39:58.420 with us and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I try to do that and it's becomes increasingly difficult
00:40:03.360 with four kids. Yeah. But like, if you think about yesterday, I mean, we did a lot yesterday.
00:40:09.640 Can't even remember. We went hunting. Didn't we go hunting in the morning?
00:40:13.040 No, it was Sunday yesterday. Oh, that's right. Yeah.
00:40:16.060 Wasn't it? No. Yeah. What day is it? It's Monday. It's Monday. Okay. Yeah. So we didn't go
00:40:20.800 hunting. No, but we did, we did do something else. It wasn't hunt. That's why it wasn't hunting.
00:40:25.040 We did something else outside. Did the pulley thing? No, before that it's along the same lines
00:40:32.500 as hunting. Something with the food pot. No. Really? You can't remember? Oh, a tree stand.
00:40:40.320 Yeah. A tree stand. I was like, oh. We set up the tree stand. Which is a pain. It was a
00:40:46.500 pain. It's heavy. It's still a pain. It's kind of sketchy climbing up there every day. Yeah.
00:40:51.060 So we did that. And then we built the pulley. And then I also helped Eli. Eli came out and
00:40:57.920 helped me build the Lego table. So, I mean, it's hard to get that time with all of you
00:41:03.740 guys. Yeah. But I tried it. Eli's probably not going to hunt with us because he just is
00:41:07.880 not that interested. But he's like, let's build a Lego table. I'm all about it for sure.
00:41:12.240 Right? So doing the things that are meaningful to you, not the things that are necessarily
00:41:16.920 meaningful to me. Although I do like Legos and I do like hunting. So pretty safe there.
00:41:21.940 Cool. All right. Let's take the last one here and then we'll be done. Okay. So Jerry Lee
00:41:26.360 says, what is the biggest physical difference that you have noticed?
00:41:33.980 I've just lost weight in my belly. Is that stomach? Belly, stomach. Not kid word, belly.
00:41:42.240 Love handles have gone down. Yep. Fat in my armpits. My face has leaned out. Yeah, your face
00:41:50.500 has totally leaned out. Lost a little bit of a double chin. Yeah. What about from a strength
00:41:56.220 perspective? Do you feel stronger or do you just know you're stronger? Yeah, I feel stronger.
00:42:00.780 You feel like things are easier to move around. You're getting stronger at the gym? Mm-hmm.
00:42:06.960 How about jujitsu? Do you feel like you're stronger? You're able to better like hold yourself
00:42:10.640 and move and jujitsu is hard because the whole goal of somebody else is to make you feel like
00:42:16.860 you're skating on ice, you know? So just keeping you off balance. Yeah. Okay. So his follow-up
00:42:23.620 question is what is the biggest mental and emotional difference that you've noticed since being on
00:42:29.060 your journey? Uh, I definitely feel better about myself. Is that mental? That's mental. That's a
00:42:36.620 confidence thing. Absolutely. I feel way better about my body and yeah. What do you think about
00:42:43.380 emotional? So emotional, like emotional would be like if, cause it's okay to be emo, it's okay to
00:42:52.340 have emotions, right? Like people say, well, you know, it's okay to cry. Yeah. Sometimes. And
00:42:57.340 sometimes it's not okay to cry, but emotions are your feelings. So do you feel like you were able to
00:43:03.800 better control those emotions? Do you feel like you're more resilient or tougher emotionally that
00:43:10.280 things don't get to you? Is that something you feel or no? Maybe a little tougher with my emotions. Like
00:43:17.800 I don't throw fits too much anymore. Yeah. I mean, that's a good, that's, that's important because a lot
00:43:26.220 of the times when, you know, you're, you're not pushing against anything hard, whether it's another
00:43:31.820 human or weights or whatever, you know, you have no frame of reference for what is hard and what
00:43:37.200 isn't. And so, you know, you, you have a bad day at school and it's like, if you just got done
00:43:44.260 getting your butt kicked to jujitsu, then the day at school, isn't going to be as bad because it's not
00:43:50.640 as hard as what you did at jujitsu or you do a really hard workout. Cause I know you come home and
00:43:55.440 you get, get done with CrossFit and you're like, dad, my legs hurt so bad. And then everything else
00:44:00.660 just doesn't seem quite as hard. That makes you that you're more emotionally and mentally resilient.
00:44:08.040 Do you know what that means? Resilient? Talking to them, talking to the mic. I've heard you say a few
00:44:14.320 times, but resilient means you're able to just carry on in the face of hardship. So, you know, if,
00:44:21.600 if, uh, somebody says something to you or you have a bad experience or you get a bad,
00:44:27.980 uh, school day or you get in trouble at home, resilience is the ability to drive on, to do the
00:44:37.420 things that you know you should be doing and not let those types of things deter you. I'll give you
00:44:41.360 another great example. I know you've been pretty discouraged about hunting, right? And so one thing
00:44:46.940 that's really cool about you is you're very resilient when it comes to that, because, uh,
00:44:52.600 a lot of, a lot of kids your age would probably just not hunt anymore. They'd be like, this is stupid.
00:44:58.300 Uh, I don't want to do this anymore. That kind of thing. Uh, and yet you're like, no, let's keep
00:45:05.280 going. Sorry. I get these notifications. Let me turn this off there. Okay. There we go. And so you're
00:45:12.440 like, no, let's keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. That's resilience. Yesterday. I was
00:45:16.960 you're so frustrated. I was mad. Well, we went and sat on Saturday. We went and visited some friends
00:45:23.340 and, uh, your, your friend shot a really nice eight point and you were excited for him for sure.
00:45:30.980 But you were also kind of like, I want to shoot something. I want to shoot the eight point that's
00:45:35.640 in our property, but he comes out too early. So I'm like, never going to get a deer. Nothing's
00:45:42.420 going to work. Come out today and kill a turkey. Feels good. Yeah. You just got to put yourself
00:45:47.940 time in the field, right? Just time in the game. Just, and you, I remember you saying Saturday
00:45:52.320 night, you're like, well, how come he gets all the things? And I, and what did I say about it?
00:45:56.100 Do you remember? No. You said, well, how come like he's out there and how come he got that
00:46:00.340 buck to come in? Oh yeah. Time in the field. That's what I said. Right. I said,
00:46:03.780 they're out there all the time. His dad's taking them out. He's out. He knows where
00:46:07.720 the deer are. He's watching them. He's scouting them. They were sitting in the field last year
00:46:13.880 when you guys, you and him went hunting together, you were out there for hours and hours and hours
00:46:18.040 over a course of two or three days. Time in the field. You got to keep yourself in the
00:46:22.180 game. Yep. And then, and then you have something that pays off. Yeah. Like today, I mean, we
00:46:27.020 went down there to that lower trail and we, I thought we spooked them cause I didn't see
00:46:32.280 them and I'm like, ah, discouraged. Right. So what do people do? They quit, but we didn't
00:46:36.220 quit. We said, all right, let's go this way and we'll go up to the tree stand. We get up
00:46:39.780 to the tree stand. We were there in the tree stand for about an hour thinking maybe they'd
00:46:42.700 come down. They didn't come down. An hour. We were up there for an hour. We got in there
00:46:45.980 at 10, let's see, we got in there at 10, 15 ish and we got down just after 11. So maybe
00:46:51.380 just under an hour. So we get down and right as we get down, I'm like, let's you actually,
00:46:57.920 you said, you're like, I said, do you want to go back? And he said, let's just peek up over
00:47:01.460 this hill and we walked up over that hill and we saw him. So we got in the truck and
00:47:05.040 we went around and we ambushed him and it's just, it's resilience and you give yourself
00:47:12.060 a bunch of at bats. Yep. That was fun. That was fun. You're still in cloud nine about it,
00:47:19.500 huh? Yeah. All right, man. Well, that was the last question. So that's what the guys wanted
00:47:23.680 to hear. Uh, any parting words of wisdom for the men listening and they're going to be
00:47:29.460 dads mostly, uh, or their, their sons and daughters who are listening. Um, just go do
00:47:35.920 it. Just go do it. Just go get to work. Stop thinking about it. Do you want to send the ladies
00:47:42.320 who are listening a message or anything? All right, buddy. Stay cool. Hey man, I love you. I appreciate
00:47:52.900 you. Love you too. It's exciting to watch you grow and develop and become a fine young man. Um, I told
00:47:59.460 the guys, you know, I would stare at you when you were born and just like, look at what we have
00:48:05.120 created. You know, mom and I have created. And even now I watch you and I see you grow and develop and
00:48:10.240 at times struggle and other times do really well and figure things out and just like keep fighting and
00:48:16.380 keep going through it. And it's really cool to watch. It's cool to be part of. So I love you.
00:48:21.160 Love you too. All right. Thanks bud. Thank you.
00:48:25.780 Gentlemen, there you go. My conversation with my son Brecken. I hope that you enjoyed that one.
00:48:30.160 As I said, in the beginning of the show, a little bit different than we have done in the past, but
00:48:34.140 what a powerful opportunity. And I feel like if I have a chance to have him come in and
00:48:38.380 have a formal interview conversation, then I need to take advantage of it. And I hope that you're
00:48:43.240 tuning in with your kids and listening in and that you have some, some fuel, some motivation for them
00:48:49.580 to maybe get on their own kicks and to have some of their dreams and desires and work hard towards
00:48:54.480 those objectives. If you enjoyed the podcast, please let me know. And if you do let me know,
00:49:00.120 then I will make sure to pass that along to Brecken. He does not have social media. He's young still.
00:49:04.840 So we don't let the kids have social media. But if you, if you do share something with me on Instagram
00:49:10.420 or Facebook or Twitter, wherever you're doing the social media thing, and you want to tell him
00:49:14.620 something specific, then I will ensure that I make sure that he gets the message and, and, uh,
00:49:20.700 here's from you, uh, through, through, through me, his father. All right. So, uh, please connect with
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00:49:43.800 people know that we are here, that we have planted our flag in masculinity. And, uh, we're on the path
00:49:48.900 to reclaiming and restoring what it means to be a man. All right, guys, I will be back, uh, tomorrow
00:49:54.420 for our asking me anything. And of course on Friday for our Friday field notes, but until then go out
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