Rational Thinking in an Irrational World | SAL DI STEFANO
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In this episode, I sit down with my friend Sal DiStefano, who is the Co-Founder and Co-Host of Mind Pump Media, where they focus primarily on physical and mental health. In this conversation, we discuss logical fallacies, emotional hype, "victim" culture, why Superman isn't brave, and how to think rationally in an irrational world.
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Guys, you're really going to enjoy today's conversation with my friend and repeat guest
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Sal DiStefano. A lot of you guys may know him from Mind Pump Media, where they focus
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primarily on physical and mental health. But Sal is so well versed with trends in society
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that I really wanted to have this conversation today. We get into logical fallacies, emotional
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hype, quote unquote, cancel culture, victimhood as a perceived virtue, why Superman isn't brave
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at all, which is an interesting discussion, and ultimately how to think rationally in
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guys, with that said, I'm going to get into the conversation. Again, my guest is Sal DiStefano.
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As I mentioned earlier, he is the co-founder and also the co-host of mind pump media.
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The man is a natural intellect as you're going to hear in our conversation, but he's taken his
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passion for information and learning. And he has applied it to the realm of physical fitness.
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He's been through some ups and downs regarding his own path to health and fitness.
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Uh, but he's used his extensive research and knowledge to create their maps program. And
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you can learn more about that on their site. Uh, and then now along with his co-host, Adam,
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Justin, and Doug, they host the mind pump media podcast, which is reaching the masses. Uh,
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and it's been downloaded, downloaded tens of millions of times. So I hope you enjoy this
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conversation guys as much as I did. Sal, what's going on, brother. Thanks for joining me again
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on the podcast. What's up, man. Thanks for having me on again. I always have a lot of fun talking
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new. Yeah. Well, I think we're very much in alignment with, with, uh, with some of our
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thoughts about current events and society and masculinity and all the other things that I
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think we'll delve into today. Yeah. I, you and I do tend to agree. And I think even if we didn't
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agree, one thing that I appreciate a lot about you is that you, you appreciate objective, uh,
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discussion and debate. Um, you're not afraid of discussing and debating things with people who
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have, uh, you know, countering opinions. And, um, that is something that is unfortunately seems to
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be less common, um, these days than maybe it used to be. Yeah, that's, that's true. I actually just
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did a, uh, a podcast on, uh, logical fallacies and how people use these fallacies and debate and
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they get emotional and they start attacking character and they start addressing issues that
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aren't even really the subject of the conversation. And I mean, I can't say I'm immune to it. I fall
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prey to those things as well, but it's, uh, it's sad that intelligent discussion seems to be something
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that is, uh, diminished for sure. Oh yeah. And those are the favorite, uh, tactics. All those
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logical fallacies are, are the favorite tactics among politicians. They're so good and so effective,
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um, at using them. Um, and you know, unfortunately they, they work. Uh, so I think it's a good thing
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that people like you are trying to inform your audience of, okay, here's how an actual discussion
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can get played out. Here's how you can really find out the truth because then those tricks don't
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work as well when you're listening and you go, wait a minute, that's a straw man argument or wait
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a minute. You're just attacking that. You're not even countering the actual point, right? Make some
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other points. Uh, you're, I'm not listening to what you're saying. You know, you don't know the truth.
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You know, that's, that's a, that's something I think that we need to continue communicating.
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What, uh, you said that they work logical fallacies work, which is why they're employed.
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When you say they work, what do you think is the objective?
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Oh, well the objective. Okay. And we'll look at politics. Um, as an example, when politicians
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are on stage debating, what they're looking for are the one or two line zingers, um, that
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you invoke a lot of emotion and it's effective. It's what you, the thing about politics is it's
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very similar to marketing. It's actually the same thing. Sure. You're, you're, you're
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a hundred percent. And how do marketers get you to buy their products? It's all based
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on emotion. Most, most purchases are, are not based off of logic. They're based off of
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feeling and emotion. And so what they're trying to do is invoke emotion, give you a one or
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two liners. Um, and, uh, and that's what wins, um, elections, unfortunately. And a lot
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of it has to do with the fact that we just, you know, most voters don't really sit down and
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educate themselves well, uh, on subjects. They tend to hear one or two things. Oh, that
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reinforces this feeling that I have. Um, and, or that makes me feel a certain way, or I feel
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like a victim or wow, he really got her or she really got him. I'm going to vote for that
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person. And, um, it's unfortunate, but it's just, it's just the truth. So I think the key,
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and this is something that we initially, when we started a mind pump, our goal was to counter
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that in the fitness space because the fitness space is full of that as well. It's completely
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so full of that, like just terrible information that is being sold and it's being sold very
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well. And then on the other side, you have people who have the right information who are
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smart, who understand how the body works and nutrition works, how exercise works. And they're
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losing because they're not selling their ideas very well. They got the right information.
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They just suck at selling them. So what we need to do is get better at, you know, we have
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to fight fire with fire. I'm not going to beat the emotional zingers. If I sit here
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and I'm super logical and, you know, intelligent with my conversation, I need to have that, but
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I also need to sell it just as well or better. Otherwise I'm gonna lose the battle. So it's
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this information battle. And, um, it's just the reality. If you want to beat them, you got
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to get better at their game. Otherwise, uh, when, well, and I don't think it's wrong to
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necessarily use emotion. If we're talking about from a, from a marketing standpoint, it's
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just doing it in an honest way. You know, it's, it's not, not feeding on that emotion
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it with a, with a inferior motive or, or bad intentions. It's just using emotion in a positive
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way to, uh, solidify maybe the logical reasoning that you, that you bring to the table.
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Oh, totally. I mean, if you look at the, the fitness space, the ones that have won and continue
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to win the information, um, you know, game, the information contest or competition are
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the best marketers and communicators. It's not the ones with the best information. They're
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just really, really good at communicating their points in effective ways. Um, and they market
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it very, very well. And so they win and it's not the best, it's not the correct information
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that wins necessarily. It's the information that's communicated the best way. So what,
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and I, this is the case I've made for, for, for the last five years. I've, when I've talked
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to scientists and fitness professionals in my space, you know, I do this, this, this training
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that I'll do locally and now I'm doing it. I'm going to be going to the idea convention
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this year, which is a, um, it's one of the largest conventions of, uh, certified fitness
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professionals. So it's a huge, like fitness instructor, personal trainer, instructor thing's
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been going on for a long time. And this is the training that I like to do with these types
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of people is I'll go in there and I'll talk about all of the, I'll typically ask the audience,
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what are the most important characteristics of a, of a successful trainer or fitness coach?
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And they'll typically say things like, Oh, you know, passionate, motivated, you know, uh,
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motivational has good information, knows how to train people properly, knows nutrition,
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all that stuff. And I'll say, those are all important, but that's not the most important.
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Like what about results? It's not just that it's not even, that's still an important one,
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but the most important skill you can have as a fitness professional, uh, is your ability to
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communicate how, cause I'm trying to sell you an idea. I'm trying to sell you why you need to change
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your diet, why you need to exercise consistent. And I need to do it in a way that's truly effective.
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Now, if you take that and we expand it out, uh, into other, you know, fields or just everything,
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that's the truth. It's, it's not the right information that wins. It's the information
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that was sold the best. And those of us with the right information and people in fitness,
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for example, the scientists and the fitness experts, I tell them all the time, it's great
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that you have all the studies. It's phenomenal that, you know, the right information, but it doesn't
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mean shit unless you can sell it the right way. You're going to lose your clients, not going to
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listen to you and you're not going to impact the industry in the right way. So you need to spend
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as much time learning how to communicate effectively as you do with getting the right
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information. Otherwise it's, you're just not going to be effective. Yeah. I think this is actually a
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difficult thing to realize for some of these, uh, professions like, uh, attorneys, for example,
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uh, doctors are another one who think that, you know, the education itself, the information itself
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should be enough. And then they complain why their, uh, patients aren't following their treatment plan
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or, you know, why they're, why their clients aren't listening to their advice. It's not the
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information. It's your ability to communicate it. And, you know, if you want to be influential in
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people's lives, then yes, having the right information is a prerequisite. Learning how to
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communicate it effectively is what's going to get people to do what you want them to do.
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Oh, it's the most important skill, uh, in ever. I mean, communication is, I mean,
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it's how humans, you know, connect. And if you want to influence people, um, then you need to
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learn how to communicate appropriately, but there's another, uh, component that goes to it. Um, if you,
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cause the next, the next question people typically ask is, well, how do I get better at it? You know,
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what books do I read? Sure. How do I, there's nothing that can replace, uh, just good old fashioned
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practice. So if you want to learn, yeah, if you want to learn how to be a better squatter,
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you can watch videos, you could learn biomechanics, you could take courses,
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but in, and those can help, but none of those are going to come close to you going out and
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just practicing squatting every day. So how do you become a better communicator? Well, uh, you go
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and you find people who disagree with you, who are intelligent and you debate with them. But in order
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to be effective at this, you have to also be open to getting your mind changed and you have to be
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open to being wrong. That's what a real honest, uh, communication and debate is all about. It's
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not about I'm here and I'm not listening to you. I'm just trying to crush you and prove you wrong.
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Right. You're not going to get good at your skill. What you want to do is sit down and be like,
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I'm, if this person presents to me compelling enough information, I'm open enough to changing
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my mind. Now I know what my opinion is. And my goal is going to be to change this person's mind,
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this other person's mind, but, but I'm open to being influenced. And then you go out and you seek
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smart people who are open to intelligent debate, who aren't going to yell at you and call your names
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and all that other stuff. And you, you have these discussions with them, you debate with them.
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And boy, do you learn, you know, I, I, I, the last podcast I did with you, I talked a lot about,
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um, markets, free markets. I'm not an economist. Um, it's just been a passion of mine for a long time.
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But what I did for a long time was I would go online and I would debate very smart people
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who had opposing viewpoints. And sometimes they changed my mind. Other times I changed,
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but I got really good at being able to communicate what I was trying to say. Same thing with fitness,
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which is, you know, my field of expertise. So, you know, and that's an important thing. I think
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that's, oh my gosh, that's the, that's one of the crux, uh, cornerstones of a free society. It's like,
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how do we know what the best ideas are? If we don't sit down, hash them out and see which one
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wins. Let's compete. Let's get our ideas to compete. The winner is the best. And let's do
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this. And let's be open to having our minds changed. You know, that's such an important
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thing. I think we need to protect with everything we have. Well, you know, what's funny is that
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somebody might look at that and think, well, I lost, you know, because I'm, my mind was changed,
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man. You won that. Like if your mind has changed and you've been exposed to new information
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that causes you to think differently and expand your current perspective, like how would anybody
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consider that a loss? Like we're so, we're so worried about our pride and ego that we close
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ourselves off to things that might actually serve us pretty well. Oh, dude, I tell you what, man. Um,
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to me losing is being, is having the wrong information or being wrong and never, and never
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fixing it. Not knowing. Right. And acting on that wrong information. Yeah. Like if somebody changes
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your mind and they do a good job with it, it's probably because, well, it is for sure, because
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you've decided that this new information, uh, has given you the right information. And now you're,
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you're more on the right side. You're, you've got an opinion now that is more accurate,
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more truthful to you than the previous one. How is that a bad thing? I don't, I don't understand
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that. I think that's an excellent thing. I've had my mind changed, uh, so many times and,
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you know, each time I, I, when I'm done with it, it's like, wow, I can't believe I'm so happy. I had
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somebody on the podcast recently, um, who was, we were discussing, uh, technology and going into
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that podcast, my initial, my opinion was that, you know, technology is causing a lot of the new
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cases of anxiety and depression that we're seeing among adults and kids. Well, you know, he gets on the
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podcast and he's an expert on the subject and he goes, look, he says, if you look at the trends
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of depression and anxiety, they really haven't changed much through spikes and drops and whatever
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he goes. But what we are finding is that people who tend to be more depressed and anxious tend to go
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and use more technology. So it tends to be a part of the symptom rather than the, the, the root cause
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of it. Sure. And he made a very compelling case and I left it changing my mind. And I even told him
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on the podcast, I'm like, you, you, you blew my mind and you changed my opinion, uh, in some pretty
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fundamental ways. I loved it. You know, I left and I was like, wow, okay. I'm, I'm better off now than
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I was before going into that podcast. Had I gone in there with my stubborn, you know, like, ah, you
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can't change my mind. And if you do, that changes who I am and I got to win or whatever. I mean, what a
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terrible, uh, you know, non-growth minded, uh, way to approach things. Well, I think it's non-growth,
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but you know, I think it stems from a position of immaturity as well. You know, that's what little
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kids do, right? They don't get like my three-year-old, he doesn't get his way. What does
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he do? He throws himself on the ground, pounds on the ground, cries, screams, makes a scene,
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embarrasses himself and everybody else. And, and most of us never grow out of that. Like we,
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we do that as adults. It's so funny to me, you know, and, you know, and along those lines,
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because again, when we have discussions, we have debates and we're open about them,
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the best ideas come forward. And then what happens is these ideas, I'm talking now in a broad,
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like you want to look on a, on a real long scale, hundreds of thousands of years,
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then those ideas are tested. And the ones that tend to stick around are the ones that win in the
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marketplace of ideas. Not unlike, uh, you know, the free market where if you come up with a better,
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more efficient phone, you're probably going to win the market share, at least in the longterm. And,
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and the, the features of that phone that make it win are the ones that other phones
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then start to copy. And it's just, this is how, you know, this is how the marketplace works and
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ideas and customs work this way as well. So when you look at cultures, for example, you know,
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one thing that I like to look at is I like to say, okay, let's look at multiple cultures,
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old cultures that've been around for a long time, cultures that may not have had influence over each
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other. So sometimes you'll look at like, you know, uh, practices and maybe Eastern religion and
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Eastern cultures and compare those to Western where they didn't have tons of crossover or
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whatever, where are the commonalities. And oftentimes you'll find some serious truth
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in those things, you know, like I'll give you an example. Um, and I'll, I'll use fitness and health,
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uh, as, as my way to, to explain this, just because that's my, again, that's my area of expertise.
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When you look at fasting, for example, right. Uh, fasting has been practiced in multiple major
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religions. It's been practiced all around the world and multiple cultures, cultures that really
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didn't have any contact with each other. It was, you know, prized, uh, among the Greeks and the
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Romans and the, you know, Eastern medicine. It's in a Christian religion, Judaism. It's an Islam,
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still in Islam. Um, and when you, when you look at that across, you think, okay, there's gotta be
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some value. There has to be some serious value to this. Now, you know, 15, 20 years ago in the
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fitness and health space, fasting was totally, uh, it was a bad thing. There was nothing healthy or good
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about it. You talk to any fitness professional 20 years ago, any nutritionist or doctor, they'd say
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terrible. Don't starve yourself. Make sure you eat. That's really bad for you. Uh, but if you look
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at, again, the marketplace of ideas and you can look at all these cultures and religions or practices,
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like, okay, they've been doing this for thousands of years. There's gotta be some value. There's some
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truth to this. Why it's because it's been practiced for so long. Now, of course we have science and studies
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that show, Oh wait, there's real value. There's a biological value for a lot of people to fasting. Um,
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and there seems to be, um, a lot of emotional and, you know, maybe you can say spiritual or mental
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value from detachment, right? Detachment from food or detachment from other things, because you could
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do other types of fast as well. So I like to look at ideas like that as well. And I think what happens,
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especially in modern societies, we tend to take old conservative, if you will, I'll put in quote,
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uh, ideas. And we say, that's a stupid idea, throw it away. And you go, hold on a second.
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Uh, there's nothing wrong with questioning it and talking about it, but why does that idea
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in custom and practice exist? And why has it existed for thousands of years and all these
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different cultures and religions? There's some value to that. I think it's stupid. If we say
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it's dumb, let's throw it away. It's nothing, no problem discussing it and debating it,
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but let's not pretend that it's a dumb idea because it's existed for a long time. Humans have tested lots
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of ideas. I'm sure we're not the first ones to come out with new ideas and say, let's try this one
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out. Things have been tried out, right? The stuff that sticks tends to work. So there's value in
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that. Let's not, and again, it's our, I think it's our own, you know, narcissistic tendency,
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especially with modern times. We think we're so smart and we know everything and we know a lot
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of things, but there's some wisdom that, um, I think we could learn from for sure.
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Well, I think there's, there's some ideas that the outcome is as far as like what is best,
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right? Cause you said best ideas. So for example, we know, uh, and you would, you're more of an
00:20:48.220
expert of course than I am on this subject, but you know how to get strong. For example,
00:20:51.940
there there's ideas and there's practices and there's movements and there's lifts
00:20:55.540
that are objectively accurate. I think where we run into issues is when we have, uh, social ideas
00:21:03.480
that best is subjective, right? This is the best idea. Well, what does that mean? What does best mean?
00:21:09.400
Or when we run into issues where, uh, two ideas conflict with the goals of different people or
00:21:17.760
different parties? And I think that's where we run into more of an issue. Yeah, no, uh, a hundred
00:21:23.660
percent. Look, first off, um, again, ideas pass through the marketplace of ideas and the ones that
00:21:30.900
stick around and that you see practiced all over the place, um, are typically the best and doesn't
00:21:37.940
mean they're perfect by the way. It just means that they've worked out the best. That's why they've
00:21:41.740
continued to be used. The second thing is this, is that there's two, uh, two ways to view the world.
00:21:49.080
Both of them have value. Okay. One is in a general collective sense. So we can say, for example,
00:21:55.660
and I'm going to touch some third rails cause I know you like that. Yeah. Generally speaking,
00:21:59.280
we can say men have certain characteristics that have been observed for thousands of years. Women have
00:22:04.500
certain characteristics that have been observed for thousands of years. There's truth to that.
00:22:08.900
Okay. Definitely. Okay. But there's a second part that I think is also important, which is at the
00:22:13.920
end of the day, what's important though, is the individual. We have to always look at the individual
00:22:17.660
because you could have these general understandings and concepts, but when you go down to the individual,
00:22:23.440
sometimes things tend to be a little bit different. For example, I'll, I'll use one that's not as
00:22:28.880
controversial. Uh, men generally tend to be, uh, stronger, uh, especially in upper body strength,
00:22:35.340
pound per pound for pound and total, uh, strength than women do. This is not typically, most people
00:22:41.960
won't debate this. I think this is pretty, pretty well understood. Seemingly, you know, it seems like
00:22:46.140
more and more people will debate that, but okay. Yes. Yeah, I know. I know. Insane, right. Uh, but if you go
00:22:51.740
down to the individual, are there women that are stronger than men? Yes, we are. So, and what happens is I
00:22:57.280
think people start to confuse the two. So they'll say that's not true. There's women that are stronger
00:23:01.860
than men. Yes, they are. Okay. We're talking about generally speaking. Well, that's a logical fallacy
00:23:06.040
to talk to that point earlier is like you're using a small number or an exception to disprove a
00:23:11.980
generally true rule. Correct. Correct. And I think, and again, when we have to value and appreciate the
00:23:18.720
individual, but you also have to look at generalities and, and cultures tend to be shaped
00:23:23.800
around generalities, but you know, a great example of a, of an idea that, that isn't, I mean, and if
00:23:30.720
you look at it in the scope of, you know, human history is a relatively new idea, but was a brilliant
00:23:36.480
one and it won, right. It won. And the marketplace of ideas was this concept of, of individual liberty,
00:23:44.420
if you will, which, uh, most people would attribute to the, to the Judeo-Christian, uh, religions.
00:23:51.780
You know, they were kind of the first ones to really say, you know, all people are created
00:23:56.320
in the image of God. Therefore, all people have these liberties that were granted by God, not by
00:24:01.980
anybody else. So we should protect them. A very radical idea, by the way. Um, one that was, you
00:24:07.760
know, cause before that, who the heck would have ever promoted that there's no King or queen or anybody
00:24:12.000
in power who would have come up with that idea because it undermines their authority. Totally. So it was a
00:24:17.300
new radical idea. They put it in the marketplace of ideas and guess what? It crushed. It worked
00:24:23.200
exceptionally well. It's the best, it's a phenomenal idea. It's, it's much better than
00:24:27.060
Kings and Queens and tyrants. People do much better with it. And so that's a great one, you know, put it
00:24:32.240
out and let's try it out and let's, let's see what happens. Um, that's, that's, that has to do more
00:24:37.140
with the individual. Um, but there are, again, there's collective, you know, uh, truths that we can use
00:24:43.000
as generalities and there's nothing wrong with talking about those as well. And it's funny how,
00:24:47.460
uh, when it's convenient, people will choose one over the other, um, in order to try to make their
00:24:53.580
argument, which I find a little bit interesting. Like you said, they don't stick to the topic at
00:24:58.520
hand. They like to move away because, Oh, it's convenient for my, you know, for my argument.
00:25:02.120
Like, like I said, like the strength one where, Oh no men and women are, you know, there's no difference
00:25:06.200
in strength. Here's a female power lifter who could lift more than you can. Okay. I get that.
00:25:10.700
But, but, you know, generally speaking, that's not true. Right. Or, or another example, even using
00:25:15.680
that scenario is, uh, if you're in some kind of physical altercation, so this guy who, or this
00:25:21.020
individual who says, well, some women are stronger than men. And then you take this guy who maybe is
00:25:25.460
in a physical altercation or an emergency situation or needs a car lifted off of him. Who is he going to
00:25:30.360
choose a man or a woman? Yeah, of course. He's going to choose a man. Of course, of course. And it's okay.
00:25:36.340
Hey, you know, it's, it's so funny to me. And I think the pendulum is swinging the opposite
00:25:40.280
direction. I think, you know, for a little while there, there it was, the argument was
00:25:48.060
that there are no differences that we are all exactly the same, which is false on the individual
00:25:53.360
level and definitely false on the, on the general level. But that argument was made, no, we're all
00:25:58.580
the same or whatever. And I think that did a big disservice because it's okay to be different.
00:26:04.840
First off, let's talk on an individual basis. Let's forget general differences between men and
00:26:09.040
women. You know, if I have a friend who's taller or smarter or faster, or, you know, more empathetic,
00:26:18.060
a better communicator or a better listener or whatever. Okay. It's okay for me to acknowledge
00:26:24.420
these differences and to appreciate them. And the same thing for them with me. I think that's a
00:26:28.740
great, uh, I think that's a great way to have a relationship. I do that with all my friends.
00:26:33.380
Okay. Well, and it doesn't make you superior or that individual superior or you or him or her
00:26:38.460
inferior. It just means that you're different. Yes. And you should respect each other. If someone's
00:26:43.700
nice to me, then I'm going to respect them and be nice back to them. Uh, and so I think that
00:26:48.340
that's okay. It's okay to say, Hey, look, here's what we see. Generally speaking, men tend to gravitate
00:26:55.240
to these kinds of jobs. Men tend to value these types of things. Uh, in our studies, it shows that
00:27:01.940
men tend to be better at these types of things. And on the flip, women tend to choose these types
00:27:06.220
of things. Women tend to be better on these different things. Now, again, when you go down to
00:27:10.680
the individual, okay, fine. It doesn't mean anything. So if you're listening and you're, you know,
00:27:15.640
if somebody said to me, Hey, uh, women tend to be better communicators, which by the way,
00:27:20.520
studies show that women tend to be, uh, better listeners and better communicators. Generally
00:27:26.040
speaking, this is just something that's been observed in scientific studies now for a long
00:27:30.380
time. I'm a podcast host. Okay. I communicate for a living, right? This is your job. You're,
00:27:34.900
you're pretty developed at this. Yeah. So I'm going to, I'm not going to hear that and be like,
00:27:38.580
you know, get it all offended. I know I'm a good communicator. I might be the exception or one of
00:27:43.160
the exceptions to the rule. Okay. So what? It doesn't offend me because I know, I know what
00:27:47.960
I'm good at. It's not a big deal. Um, and it's also reality that for the most part, women generally
00:27:53.820
are a little bit better than men at communicating. That's, there's nothing wrong with that. I don't
00:27:58.000
think there's anything wrong with that. It's funny. It's like, uh, you know, uh, I'm about to get
00:28:01.740
married next, uh, next week. You are congrats, man. I didn't know that. And my fiance and I like to
00:28:08.220
have these kinds of discussion. I love her because she's so open to debate and discussion. She can be
00:28:12.900
very objective. And even if we disagree, we have great discussions. And one way that we really
00:28:18.660
learned to understand each other was to learn the general differences between men and women. So I'll
00:28:24.220
give you a great example. Okay. Generally speaking, women tend to be more conscientious, uh, than men do.
00:28:30.360
They tend to be better at multitasking, remembering things, and just generally being conscientious. Men tend
00:28:36.700
to be a little bit more single-minded, which has its advantages, uh, as well. We tend to be able to
00:28:41.980
focus on one thing and kind of hyper-focus. Now, how does that help my relationship? She handles 90%
00:28:47.500
of our scheduling and organization, uh, of our lives. Now, if her knowing this, she's a little,
00:28:53.240
she's cool with it. She's like, look, I know I'm a little more conscientious. You're a guy probably
00:28:57.740
doesn't come as naturally to you. I also know you as an individual, not a big deal. Rather than being
00:29:01.920
like, Oh, we need to be equal at this. We need to be the, just as good as each other and be pissed
00:29:06.160
off that she has to handle those types of things. And I'm not as good at them as it actually has
00:29:11.620
helped our relationship to kind of understand. Of course. I feel like that's, we're, we're,
00:29:17.100
we're losing that man. We're really losing that. And it's really, really sad.
00:29:20.700
It's a, it's funny. My wife and I like to joke. She, she teases me and gives me a hard time that
00:29:24.520
I'm so stubborn and jokingly. I always, I always respond. I don't see you complaining when you need
00:29:30.060
something difficult done. So yeah, I am stubborn, but that hard headedness is what allows me to
00:29:36.480
plow through a lot of barriers that other people can't, or don't necessarily want to, uh, plow
00:29:41.680
through. Oh man. I mean, if you take a really broad again, okay, this is not speaking to the
00:29:47.040
individual. I'm going to keep saying that caveat. Cause I know I'll get people pissed off and be
00:29:49.900
like, I'm not like that. Or I don't, I don't even, I'm, I'm done with the, with caveats and like
00:29:55.060
in little qualifiers and disclosures and disclaimers. To me, it's like, if somebody can't
00:29:59.920
understand that, uh, this is not a rational human being that I'm really interested in appeasing.
00:30:05.100
Yeah, I know it can be, it can be pretty damn frustrating.
00:30:09.920
If you take like this kind of broad general, you know, look at the, you know, the men and women,
00:30:16.140
and you start to look at the differences. One of the main differences between men and women is that
00:30:21.500
evolutionarily speaking, men are far more expendable, uh, than women are. So what I mean
00:30:28.480
by that is always protect the women, right? I mean, the men, the ones who go to battle,
00:30:32.060
the one, the ones who, who expose themselves to hardship and pain and the elements.
00:30:37.920
Yeah. And you think to yourself, why, no, why is that? Is it because we're stronger or because
00:30:41.660
we're whatever? No, no, no. I mean, you know, us being stronger is probably a result of that.
00:30:46.400
But why is that? Well, if you have a society of people and you kill half the women, that society
00:30:53.740
cannot, it will not continue to grow. It will, it will, it will, uh, it will cease to exist. You
00:30:58.120
need to have a certain amount of women, the ratio ratio to procreate because women can only get
00:31:04.060
pregnant once every nine months to continue the propagation of the species. Now with men,
00:31:10.340
theoretically you can kill 90% of the men, 90% of the men could be done and dead. 10% of the men
00:31:16.840
with all those women will be able to, uh, continue the species, continue that society.
00:31:22.360
That's a good point. I never considered that, but you even look at, uh, physiology, you know,
00:31:26.420
you look at a woman and the amount of eggs that she has available versus a man and his unlimited
00:31:30.580
potential for creating sperm. You know, it's like, well, it's fixed with women. It's fixed with men.
00:31:36.420
It's indefinite. Right. So evolutionarily speaking, uh, men would go out and they would
00:31:42.380
do this scary, dangerous, risky shit. They would go to war, um, because they could be killed. Um,
00:31:49.340
and by the way, you know, it's funny, we live in such a safe, amazing, we've done a damn good job
00:31:54.100
of creating an incredibly safe, civilized society, but still to this day, the riskiest, most dangerous
00:32:00.700
jobs are typically done by men or most men. And of course, all the risky, stupid shit, you know,
00:32:06.140
like men are far more likely to drive fast and drive drunk and do, you know, jump off a bridge,
00:32:11.180
do the fun stuff. Right. Yeah. Or, or you might even say stupid stuff, right? We, we take those
00:32:15.880
types of risks and it's just, it's a part of evolution, but you can take it, you know, even
00:32:21.260
a step further. So if you look at like, uh, if you look generally against speaking, when you look at
00:32:27.280
things like, uh, uh, uh, you know, insanity or brilliance, right? So brilliance as measured by,
00:32:33.660
uh, extreme achievements, crazy, insane, dedicated, you know, uh, single-minded achievements,
00:32:43.120
other end compulsive focus. Right. Yeah. Like you look at someone like, uh, uh, what's his name?
00:32:49.840
Elon Musk, right? Sure. Just insane, obsessive, compulsive, uh, brilliance. Now it could be good
00:32:56.720
or bad. I'm not saying he's a better person. You know, I actually wouldn't want to trade lives
00:33:00.360
with him. He's probably a little tormented by it and probably not the greatest father maybe or
00:33:04.840
whatever, but his obsessive focus is definitely yield us had yield has yielded benefits to society.
00:33:11.200
Right. But you look on the other end of the scale, you have mental illness, insanity, dysfunction,
00:33:17.080
violence, and that kind of stuff. So if that's the scale on one end, single-minded achievement
00:33:22.320
and brilliance on the other end, you look, you have insanity and just dysfunction. Men make up a larger
00:33:28.040
percentage of the ends. Women make up a larger percentage of the middle. Women tend to be less
00:33:33.240
insane, less of them in jail, but also women tend to not have that single-minded obsessive focus that
00:33:38.780
tends to produce really, really, you know, crazy discoveries and achievements. Again, there's always,
00:33:44.440
I'm not, this is a general thing that we're talking about. Now, why, now, why is that? Why is that?
00:33:49.000
Well, because nature can throw the dice with men. It throws dice. This is where the, the,
00:33:55.100
the risk, like, let's, let's see if this works. The experimentation.
00:33:59.360
Completely. A hundred percent. And there is a, there is a connection between
00:34:03.560
dysfunction and inside insanity and that, and super high intelligence or brilliance or single-minded
00:34:10.260
focus. We've known this for a long time. There's a little, you ever meet someone that's super,
00:34:14.160
super smart. They're also a little bit dysfunctional, a little bit weird.
00:34:17.960
Oh, I mean, you take, uh, well, Elon Musk, you take Mark Zuckerberg. I mean, these are,
00:34:22.160
these are strange human beings, you know, by the way we would measure it. Like if you interact with
00:34:26.700
these people, they're, they're strange, they're strange people. And we don't relate with them.
00:34:32.340
Right. And, and so nature rolls the dice more often with the male, uh, gender because we're
00:34:41.120
expendable, right? It can, it can screw up more times, uh, than it can with women because you
00:34:47.820
need, you need to have a certain amount of women with men. You could do with, you know,
00:34:52.160
with, with far less. Now that being said, here's the deal. I'm going to, I'm going to,
00:34:55.340
I'm going to play the other side. Now I'm going to balance this out. Right. Now you have a bunch
00:34:59.420
of guys who are hearing that message and they're walking around feeling superior because they're
00:35:05.020
like, yeah, I'm a man, men invent shit. Men do the single minded, whatever. No. What have you done?
00:35:12.440
Okay. So it's, it's okay to see these generalities, but don't identify with something
00:35:17.400
and either become a victim or feel like you're a bad-ass. If you yourself haven't done shit,
00:35:22.540
because I am just as responsible for the achievements of Albert Einstein, as is my
00:35:29.380
fiance. I'm not Albert Einstein, neither is she just because I'm the same gender. Right.
00:35:33.540
The ability, there's no correlation there. Right. It's just like people who want to place blame
00:35:39.400
on a group or feel like they're a victim because a group has been victimized in the past. You know,
00:35:46.420
like if you're, you know, it's like blaming all men because men tend to create, you know,
00:35:51.560
tend to cause more violence. Hold on a second. Yes. Generally men are more about more violent than
00:35:56.260
women, but down to the individual. I'm not a violent person. I haven't killed anybody. I
00:36:00.720
haven't done any shit. So don't blanket that statement. I also think we can't do that
00:36:05.280
to women as well. So that's what, that's what the balance is. And I think some people tend
00:36:10.480
to, and there's good and bad to either side. Right. It's like the, I'm going to identify with
00:36:13.620
all this, you know, like, again, like the people who identify with all the good stuff
00:36:17.420
that their, their gender or their race or whatever has done, you know, careful with that
00:36:22.600
because you're going to be blamed for a lot of shit. That's true, man. Let me hit the pause
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And we're going to be, uh, again, giving you the tools and resources you need. So do that very
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quickly after the conversation for now, we'll get back to it with Sal, even at a more, you know,
00:38:01.400
just a more, uh, foundational level. Like think about sports, for example, you know, when, when
00:38:06.740
your team does very well, it's like, yeah, we did it. We did it as if you had something to do with
00:38:10.680
it. And then when your team does horrible, it's like, yeah, they've sucked. They've sucked for
00:38:15.140
years. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're going to take credit when the team performs
00:38:18.960
and not credit when the team doesn't do a take credit when the team doesn't do well. Like if you
00:38:22.880
want it, you got it. You got to take all of it. A hundred percent. And again, I don't like to play.
00:38:28.980
I it's okay. First off there, you know, we, history is important. It's important to look
00:38:34.240
at trends. It's important to look at generalities, but if we identify with them as individuals,
00:38:41.200
that's where we start to run into problems. And if you're going to identify, then be balanced
00:38:46.040
about it. So I'll give you another great example. We're going to touch more third rails here.
00:38:50.120
Um, you see a lot of blame, uh, nowadays is cool in our culture nowadays to blame, uh, white,
00:38:56.240
you know, Christian males or white, you know, maybe to go further white, cisgender,
00:39:01.500
Christian males, straight. Right. Sure. Exactly. Um, which I think is silly, such a collectivist,
00:39:08.000
terrible thing to do again. You know, I, what have I done as an individual who can't place blame on
00:39:12.380
everybody? What have I done? But if you're going to place that blame game, if you're going to play
00:39:15.980
that game, let's be balanced with it. You're going to blame white, Christian, cisgender, straight males
00:39:22.520
for everything. You're going to have to thank them for all the good shit to them. Yes. If they had
00:39:25.720
that much influence and you want to blame them for all the stuff, well then thank them for everything
00:39:30.200
else as well. But see, people don't want to do that. They want to use the argument when it's
00:39:34.040
convenient and they want to avoid the other balanced side of it. And so that's the game I like to play
00:39:38.400
with you. When people come at me, you know, white, cisgender, straight males did this. I say, Oh,
00:39:41.940
cool. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Uh, but they also created free markets. They also invented,
00:39:47.080
uh, your cell phone and most of the things that you're using now. Right. And then, Oh no, no,
00:39:51.720
that's not true. How's that? Cause you know, it's like, okay, let's, let's, let's understand
00:39:56.320
generalities, but let's focus on the individual. That's the only way we're going to progress,
00:40:01.740
uh, together. It's the only way we're going to progress together. Well, and I think it also
00:40:05.500
places the burden of responsibility of surrounding yourself with the right people on, on you. Like
00:40:10.700
it's, it's your job to find the people who are going to motivate you and inspire you and treat you
00:40:17.220
right and uplift you and edify you. Like that's your responsibility. It's not anybody else's
00:40:23.460
responsibility to, to be that. Like you have to find those individuals. It's your individual
00:40:28.680
responsibility. Yeah. You know, um, I, one of the things I love so much about, uh, fitness is that
00:40:36.980
it's a very good black and white kind of, uh, you know, microcosm of how a lot of things work.
00:40:45.140
What I mean by that is, okay, I get a client, they come in, doesn't matter what their political
00:40:50.520
beliefs are. Doesn't matter religion, whatever they're coming in. They want to get in better
00:40:53.940
shape. So we can have differing opinions on everything else, but they're here to hire me
00:40:57.520
because they want to get in better shape. Here's the lessons that they learn if they stick with it.
00:41:01.380
And if I do a good job, they learn that they come in, they work hard, they get results. They learn
00:41:07.280
that if they're disciplined with nutrition and behaviors, that they're going to get good results.
00:41:12.840
They learn that behavior changes, long-term behavior changes are what result in long-term
00:41:18.640
changes in their body and their health. And they also learned that 99% of that is up to them,
00:41:25.180
that the, the one person who has the vast, the one factor that is the biggest impact on all those
00:41:31.640
things in fitness is them. And now that lesson, we can expand out into everything. You as an individual,
00:41:39.560
there is no single thing that has as much of an impact on how your life turned out, the things
00:41:45.780
that happened to you, everything else. Now, I'm not saying other things don't have an impact. Of
00:41:49.280
course they do. I'm not stupid, but the thing that has the most impact by far also happens to be the
00:41:54.220
thing that you have the most control over. Isn't that great? Right. That's a wonderful thing.
00:41:57.600
Oh, it's a, it's an amazing, beautiful thing. And it's also a empowering, a very empowering
00:42:05.960
thing. It's also will force a lot of growth. You know, I, I, you know, was it six years ago,
00:42:12.200
I got divorced and it was, it was tough. Divorce is always very difficult. I was married for 15 years
00:42:17.220
and it was really easy for me to leave that situation and blame, you know, the entire divorce
00:42:24.960
on my ex-wife to blame all the troubles, all the problems, all the things that went wrong on my
00:42:31.340
ex-wife. But, you know, I always try to, to, to think, what could I do? What could I have done?
00:42:36.500
What are the things that I had control over? And that's a tough thing to do in a situation like
00:42:40.520
that. I'll tell you, cause it's hard to come to the conclusion that, wow, I played a big role
00:42:44.100
in that as well. But I did, I sat down, took me some time. It's not easy because again,
00:42:49.780
you have to accept that responsibility. It's not easy to tell yourself that, oh shit,
00:42:53.560
the reason why things suck is because a large part because of me. Right. Yeah. Nobody wants to admit
00:42:57.440
that. No, it's hard, man. But I did, I sat there. I thought of all the stuff that I did wrong,
00:43:02.080
all the things that I contributed, how I could have done things differently. But what came out the
00:43:05.860
other end of it was I'm different now. I grew and I'm more empowered. I'm a better person as a result
00:43:11.240
for it. So it's not easy, just like in fitness, it's not easy. You're going to come in. I'm going
00:43:16.220
to tell you, you got to have to exercise on a regular basis right now. You're not doing anything
00:43:20.220
that's, that takes some, some discipline and structure. It can be hard. I'm going to tell
00:43:24.820
you that you're going to have to completely change how you eat. Uh, because, uh, you know, that's,
00:43:30.460
that's the only way you're going to get better health. And that's a real hard thing to do. I mean,
00:43:33.340
food is a big part of our culture and who we are and our emotions and all that stuff. But if you can
00:43:38.520
say to yourself, okay, a big reason for a lot of these issues with my health really is me and my
00:43:44.380
decisions. It's not my genetics. It's not my, why I was brought up. Sure. Those played roles. But at
00:43:48.660
the end of the day, I'm the one that makes those decisions. Hard thing to admit when you're, you
00:43:52.360
know, 50 pounds overweight. Okay. This was my fault. Or I had a heart attack. Okay. This might,
00:43:56.200
a lot of this may be my fault. Hard thing to admit, but if you do and you work on those things,
00:44:00.360
you grow. And with fitness, I love it because it's easier to convince people to do that with fitness.
00:44:05.820
It's harder to do that with the broader, the broader stuff. But if you can do that with
00:44:10.060
fitness, what I found is people start to apply that to other things. That's why it's a great
00:44:14.560
entry point into self growth and taking personal responsibility. And it's funny when you, when you
00:44:22.060
look at surveys of highly successful people by any metric, uh, you'll find that a greater percentage
00:44:29.500
of them, um, uh, you know, pay attention to their diet and their exercise. I think it's a great,
00:44:34.960
I think it's a, it's just a part of it. And a lot of times it's a great place to start.
00:44:38.960
So I could take somebody, I used to do this with kids. I would train teenagers. I love training
00:44:43.340
younger kids and older people were my two favorite demographic. And I'd take kids and I'd train them
00:44:48.060
and just through exercise and learning those lessons, they start doing better in school.
00:44:52.180
So they start picking better friends. They'd start making better decisions. Their parents would come
00:44:56.080
in and tell me all these. And I was just trained. I was just teaching them fitness. I wasn't,
00:44:59.380
you know, preaching to them about anything else, but it had a profound effect.
00:45:02.720
Yeah. I mean, there's so many lessons there. I look at my son, for example, and, uh, in, uh,
00:45:07.800
December we were working on deadlifts, like to, to improve our deadlifts. And I think initially he
00:45:12.040
was deadlifting maybe like 135, 145 pounds or so. And, uh, the beginning of this month, he's like,
00:45:19.600
all right, dad, I want to, I want to do a deadlift, see what I can do. And he pulled 165.
00:45:24.600
Yeah, man. He was so excited. Like just, just to see how excited he was about it, to see how far
00:45:31.760
his form had come to see his demeanor change just in one simple pull. And then to see that translate
00:45:39.160
over into, like you said, schoolwork and the way that he carries himself and the way that he
00:45:43.240
communicates with other people. Like it's such an, it's such an easy point of entry. It really is.
00:45:49.120
It's just an easy point of entry. And then everything just translates perfectly into the
00:45:54.200
It does. And, uh, right now what we're, what we're seeing, what seems to be this decline
00:46:01.160
of the, the understanding or valuing personal responsibility, um, of valuing our own power
00:46:11.160
and control and responsibility over ourselves and discipline. Um, we're starting to see it move
00:46:17.540
away from that and more into blaming others, blaming groups. It's not my fault. Uh, it's
00:46:24.080
everybody else, everybody else's fault. It's this very disempowering message. It's all, it's
00:46:29.520
a very pervasive, easy message to sell. And I think that's why it's, uh, it's spreading,
00:46:34.540
you know, but if I'm, it's interesting because if it, let's take, and I believe that that's
00:46:39.260
true. I believe what you're saying is, is accurate, but it, that thought doesn't improve
00:46:44.980
anything. Right. And I don't, I don't know that anybody actually believes somebody who,
00:46:49.940
who, for example, loves to play the victim card actually believes that they're going to improve.
00:46:55.080
So like, what is the point of playing that game? Uh, well, um, number one, it's easy to sell,
00:47:02.120
but number two, it feels good to be a victim. It feels good to be the person who it's not my fault
00:47:13.340
to absolve responsibility and to blame others. Um, people almost think it's virtuous. Like I'm a
00:47:20.040
victim. So, so I'm more virtuous than this other person. No, I mean, you're virtuous if you overcome
00:47:24.700
being a victim, but being a victim in and of itself, there's no virtue in that. No, no, there isn't.
00:47:30.560
But again, it's look, if I'm debating you and arguing with you, uh, an easy way for me to, to feel
00:47:36.020
like I'm winning is to claim a victimhood. It's like, Oh, conversations over debates over. I've had
00:47:41.660
life harder than you because of the following circumstances or whatever. So therefore I win,
00:47:46.620
like I, I, I win this, this battle is what they feel like. Totally. And it's an easy message to
00:47:51.420
sell. I mean, if I'm a, if I'm a politician and I really want to win a bunch of votes,
00:47:57.400
I'm going to go on stage and I'm gonna tell everybody it's not your fault. It's these people's
00:48:02.220
fault. Let's all band together and let's take their stuff or let's, uh, you know, tyrannize over
00:48:09.940
them or let's beat them because they're the ones that are causing all these problems. It's a,
00:48:15.400
it's a message that's been used by leader. Look, it's how Hitler people don't realize. A lot of
00:48:19.920
people don't realize Hitler was elected to offer. Right. He didn't just take power. They, they
00:48:25.600
elect and how did he get elected? He, he played that game really, really well. You see this with
00:48:31.160
the collectivist, uh, you know, uh, politicians of the day. Like imagine if a politician went up there
00:48:36.540
and said, Hey, check it out, everybody. Most of your problems are your fault. You're gonna have
00:48:40.860
to take responsibility. And then you got another guy up and it's like, Hey, look, it's not your
00:48:44.400
fault. It's everybody else's fault. Uh, vote for me and I'll make sure that you get what you deserve.
00:48:49.200
Who's going to win? I think, uh, if I understand correctly, maybe no more, but it seems to me that
00:48:53.720
Hitler played off of the, uh, terms of agreement after world war one and said, we, we got robbed in
00:48:59.040
this, right? So we're going to, we're going to rise back to power and, and overcome how we were
00:49:04.040
taken advantage of after world war one, a hundred percent. He, he had, and this is a, uh, like a
00:49:09.520
one marketing one-on-one, uh, you create a common enemy, you paint the picture, and then you put
00:49:15.940
yourself on the side of good. That's how you win people's, uh, minds. By the way, uh, this is a,
00:49:22.100
an effective strategy. Doesn't mean it's a necessarily a bad strategy. It's just an effective
00:49:27.700
one. It can be used in good ways. I would say in effective ways. I use that strategy
00:49:33.480
all the time. I will say things like the fitness industry, the supplement industry,
00:49:39.400
big arma, you know, I'll do that because it's effective. It's an effect. It's easy. It's easy
00:49:44.620
way to paint a picture, but that doesn't mean that the bad guys don't know how to use that as well.
00:49:49.880
And unfortunately the bad guys know how to use it better. I think than, than the good guys do.
00:49:54.140
I think they focus more time maybe, maybe because they don't have the right information. They're not
00:49:57.840
focusing on, let me, you know, Bernie Sanders isn't sitting there, uh, learning economics. Uh,
00:50:03.180
he's learning how to, how to get everybody to try and vote for him. Right. Well, yeah. I mean,
00:50:06.340
if he was learning economics, he wouldn't spout the nonsense that he spouts a hundred percent.
00:50:10.400
He'd be, his, his ideas would not be the same, right? He's spending all his time on how I can
00:50:14.320
get everybody to, to, to listen to me and like my ideas. Well, I think the difference here,
00:50:18.540
you know, we may, we may use the same tactics. I do the same thing. Order of man, right? It's us
00:50:22.460
versus them. Masculinity is being diminished. This is the problem, right? So I, we're all doing the same
00:50:27.120
thing. I think the difference is between the, you know, what you would say the quote unquote
00:50:31.300
good guys versus bad guys is what is the motive? So I think the bad guy guy's motive is to, uh,
00:50:38.620
collect power, right? Consolidate power. The good guy's motive is to empower those he's working to
00:50:45.320
serve, right? So I'm not trying to consolidate power. I'm trying to empower individuals, men in
00:50:50.400
this case, to, to lead their families, to lead their communities, to do well by themselves and others.
00:50:54.820
You're trying to empower individuals to get physically and mentally and emotionally stronger.
00:51:00.880
So you're not trying to consolidate and control that power. You're trying to give it back to other
00:51:04.420
individuals. Oh, a hundred percent. This is the, by the way, this is the, the conundrum that we run
00:51:10.680
into with, uh, again, with politics. It's like the people that desire and want power really, really bad
00:51:18.440
are the very people we shouldn't probably elect. And unfortunately, yeah, running for office,
00:51:23.240
we probably shouldn't want to elect those individuals. Yeah. You know, a good example
00:51:28.160
is like George Washington, right? After he won the revolutionary war, he, a lot of his followers
00:51:35.400
wanted him to, to crown himself King. Yeah. There was actually a movement to make him King. He said,
00:51:40.160
no, no, I don't want to be King. I want to protect individual Liberty. I want to create a,
00:51:47.460
you know, I want to be a part of a government that, uh, is designed to protect the individual
00:51:51.580
and that we're, you know, we're the government small and relatively, uh, powerless. Um, which
00:51:57.420
by the way, brilliant. I mean, if, if we, we, we aren't thankful enough for that, you know,
00:52:01.860
that idea right there, I think that's such a, it could have gone so, so differently, but there's
00:52:07.840
somebody who, you know, he, you don't want to really want to be the guy in charge, but everybody
00:52:11.220
said, no, you're going to be in charge. He said, fine, but we're going to run it this way where
00:52:14.240
the individual has most of the power. That's kind of the conundrum. It's like the person who's like
00:52:18.700
fighting to be the Congressman or the politician. It's like, Oh, you want power that bad? Maybe I
00:52:23.900
shouldn't elect you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a difficult set of circumstances.
00:52:30.380
And I have people, you know, are you going to be political or are you going to run for office?
00:52:33.900
I'm like, Oh no, why, why in the world would I want to do that? I'm sure you get
00:52:38.660
same type of questions and feedback. Yeah. I, you know, it's like the kind of people that I would
00:52:45.200
want leading are the reluctant, uh, leaders, the ones who do so out of necessity, responsibility,
00:52:51.340
um, and the ones that value, um, you know, my individual rights, uh, and liberties. Those
00:52:59.840
are the people that I want in charge. I don't want the, the, you know, Donald Trump is, uh,
00:53:04.820
there's some, definitely some aspects of him. I'll use him as an example. Cause I talk crap about
00:53:09.000
Bernie Sanders. I don't want people to think I'm one-sided. I'll approach this very balanced.
00:53:13.800
You know, certain that's good. Cause I tend not to do that so much. So, but, but, but I'm glad
00:53:19.260
we'll, we'll see both sides. This is good. No, no, no. I want to be very consistent. Um, and you
00:53:24.680
know, Donald Trump definitely presents some characteristics that I don't like. No doubt.
00:53:29.360
He definitely has some narcissistic tyrannical, you know, he's done some things where he tells
00:53:35.080
American businesses what they should and shouldn't do. And very ego driven, egocentric a hundred percent.
00:53:40.400
Yes. Yes. These are, these are characteristics. I'm not, uh, super, super fond of, you know,
00:53:45.760
the, the way he, he uses those things as if he, you know, he like desires to be king and,
00:53:51.520
and, and, and wants more power. I don't like that at all about Donald Trump. It's actually
00:53:55.740
what prevented me from, uh, voting from him in the first place, certain things he's done
00:53:59.540
that I, I like, and there's a lot of things he's done that I also don't like. I'm very consistent
00:54:04.260
with that. Um, and I think we all should be, I think we should all be consistent and be able
00:54:07.700
to say, you know, regardless of who you are, what side you're on, this is wrong. This is right.
00:54:14.760
Um, or apply the, apply the scrutiny, uh, to both sides of the aisle. Right. So what I, what I'll see
00:54:20.980
a lot of people do is they'll apply this, this scrutiny to Donald Trump, for example, but won't
00:54:25.420
apply the same scrutiny to Bernie Sanders or Barack Obama or vice versa. Right. Like if you're
00:54:30.440
to apply that scrutiny or have this, this, this criteria as a litmus test, then let it
00:54:36.180
apply evenly and broadly against all candidates, whatever side of the aisle they happen to sit
00:54:40.960
on. Oh gosh, what a dream. I wish everybody did that. I mean, you know, uh, Obama deported
00:54:46.360
more, you know, Mexicans than, than Trump did. Um, you know, but Trump is the, he's the super
00:54:52.280
bad, you know, racist deporter of all these, you know, these immigrants or whatever. Obama
00:54:56.920
was did a shit ton of it. We, you know, uh, Obama, by the way, you know, I, for the record,
00:55:02.900
I actually voted for Obama the first time he ran back in 2008. And one of the main reasons
00:55:07.220
why I voted for him was he was, uh, such a, he opposed a lot of the anti-liberty bills
00:55:15.680
and actions that Bush, uh, president Bush was doing, for example, Bush, you know, going
00:55:20.620
to war with Iraq, probably shouldn't have done that. They had nothing to do with September
00:55:23.580
11th, passing the Patriot Act, which brings a lot on our liberties. Definitely. You know,
00:55:29.180
the, uh, the NDAA, the national defense authorization act, which allows the government to take people
00:55:35.560
and detain them indefinitely without any, any judge, uh, or trial with any rule of law. So
00:55:41.600
literally the government could say you're a bad person, throw you in jail forever. And that's
00:55:44.980
it. Very, very scary precedent. And Obama railed against all that stuff, railed against government
00:55:51.940
spending railed against all that. Of course, when he got into office, he did the exact same
00:55:55.180
stuff. And actually he was, he was like Bush on steroids. Yeah. I mean, that's the hard thing
00:55:58.400
is, is what they say versus what they do is different. I mean, and, and this goes to both
00:56:03.400
ways, you know, like you look at Donald Trump, for example, and what he says is moronic. Like
00:56:06.820
a lot of the things he says is very idiotic. And then what he actually implements tends to
00:56:10.660
tends to have worked out pretty well. So it's like, yeah, they, it's hard because their words
00:56:15.320
aren't matching their actions. Right. I will say this about Donald Trump. He, he, you know,
00:56:20.480
I'm a big fan of, of politics. I like to look at it, um, and observe it like almost
00:56:24.300
like a sports fan, right. And kind of break it down or whatever. And, um, there's been
00:56:28.800
some brilliant modern politicians. And what I mean by brilliant is just very, very effective
00:56:33.920
at, you know, getting things that they want to get done or at swaying, uh, you know, public
00:56:41.240
opinion, right. Uh, Reagan was a brilliant politician, absolutely brilliant. The great communicator
00:56:46.300
Obama. I don't think you could find a more likable, uh, forget his actions. I, I, most of the things
00:56:53.280
he did, I was totally against, but his, the way he came across very likable, you trust him.
00:56:58.580
So in that sense, he was very brilliant. Trump is extremely brilliant, extremely brilliant. And
00:57:05.580
he does it in a very, very different way. I mean, the guy wins these battles in ways that
00:57:12.220
like, it's so hard to fuck with the guy, um, you know, go on stage and go toe to toe with
00:57:16.980
him. And he's going to bully people in ways that make him win, um, arguments the way he
00:57:23.740
handles the way he's handled situations. Like, uh, you look at the tariff war with China, which
00:57:28.720
I'm super, super against. I think, you know, people don't realize tariffs are just taxes.
00:57:33.060
So we all spend more money, but, uh, I hate to say it, gosh, the way he's working it, he's
00:57:38.580
winning public opinion pretty damn effectively. And if he wins in the sense that maybe China
00:57:43.440
drops a lot of their tariffs, Holy cow, that is a, that was a brilliant gamble, uh, on his
00:57:50.700
side. That's going to pay off politically, but it's funny because people, so let's say
00:57:55.520
these things pay off, right? Whether we're talking about trade wars and pulling out of
00:58:00.000
the middle East, those sorts of things they pay off. It's just fascinating to me that somebody
00:58:04.900
who would have this benefit of winning would, would be upset about it. It's almost like
00:58:12.960
betting against your own team. Like, I just don't understand because you don't like an
00:58:16.760
individual, why you'd bet against your own team and why you'd work against your own team.
00:58:21.060
Oh, I, I, a hundred percent. I think if we want to, if we all want to move forward, uh,
00:58:27.660
and progress, we have to all be objective and say things like that worked, that was good.
00:58:35.640
You know, um, you know, this, okay. So again, to be balanced, I'm going to use this example
00:58:40.060
against myself. So I'm a pretty outspoken, uh, free market, um, you know, supporter. I think markets
00:58:48.560
solve most problems far better than a central planning. I think markets allow for millions and
00:58:56.960
millions of people to come together in their own self-interest to work together, to figure things
00:59:00.720
out. Markets have, have done some incredible things for mankind and society markets in terms
00:59:07.100
of both business and ideas, just allowing these things to, to compete and the best things come
00:59:11.920
forward. I I'm a huge supporter of free markets. Okay. That being said, do I think we should have a,
00:59:18.760
a, an anarcho capitalist society where there is, where it's only markets controlling things,
00:59:25.840
where we don't have any kind of central planning at all or government interference at all? No. And
00:59:32.860
I'll give you an example of one that I actually got my mind changed on years ago. I used to be
00:59:37.540
super like free market, like to the point where I was like, no government intervention whatsoever.
00:59:43.040
And I had this debate with a very intelligent environmentalist who was quite balanced and
00:59:48.780
him and I went back and forth and he says, well, I think the environment needs some kind of
00:59:52.600
protection from, you know, markets. And I said, no, it doesn't, you know, private property ownership
00:59:57.740
of land and water. We protect our own land better than anybody else. If you want to see clean land
01:00:02.700
or you want to see conservation, go find private land. People tend to conserve. And so we went back
01:00:06.780
and forth and he actually convinced me of certain things. Like for example, um, protecting the
01:00:12.020
environment long-term. So if we look at the scope of a hundred or 200 years, markets tend to not look
01:00:17.980
that far. So we look at like the, yeah. So we look at like the air or the ozone layer, things that we
01:00:25.020
can't really own things where markets don't tend to exist or can't exist. Um, I could see a big
01:00:31.380
advantage. And if you look at the history of environmental laws, a lot of them, uh, were
01:00:36.860
terrible. A lot of them stifled innovation. A lot of them were used, uh, as weapons by tyrannical
01:00:44.720
government, but some of them did a damn good job. Like, like the, you know, like unleaded gasoline,
01:00:51.440
like that was a law. Um, we would still, we might still have leaded gas and at least we would have
01:00:56.620
had leaded gasoline for a lot longer. Um, you know, it was people that discovered, Hey, wait a minute,
01:01:00.120
this is causing problems, uh, with pollution and problems with our, with, with our mental states.
01:01:06.420
Um, you look at the, you know, how clean some of our lakes are and rivers. And some of that was due to,
01:01:11.960
to government, uh, regulation. And I've gotten my mind changed on that. So I think at the end of the
01:01:17.120
day, you got to look and say, okay, what's worked. Um, and sometimes, you know, sometimes things that
01:01:22.560
you don't necessarily like agree with as a whole, certain aspects of it definitely have worked.
01:01:26.380
And that's one of them. Yeah. I think the underlying theme of our conversation today is just rational
01:01:31.080
thinking, right? It's not being so wrapped up in emotion, not being so wrapped up in picking a side
01:01:36.660
and believing that, well, I, you know, identifying is I'm Republican. I'm, I'm a, I'm a liberal. I'm a
01:01:43.340
Democrat. I'm a, this, I'm a, that. And just being a rational human being who's, you know, here's the
01:01:48.160
thing too, is everybody that I've ever talked with pretty much wants the same thing. Like we want to
01:01:55.880
pursue things that are meaningful. We want to have a little money in the bank account. We want to have
01:01:59.240
some great relationships, uh, friendships and romantic relationships. Uh, we, we want to have some
01:02:04.940
experiences in life and outside of that, like everything else is okay, but that's pretty
01:02:10.080
much what we want. And I, I had, I have yet to have found a human being who isn't interested in
01:02:14.200
that. Uh, no, that's, that's a hundred percent true. And in a, in a country, um, like this one
01:02:20.740
and definitely in the world now, the world is becoming, uh, much smaller because we're so
01:02:24.840
connected. Sure. We have a lot of different ideas and opinions and customs and religions can
01:02:31.540
definitely differ. So you got to think to yourself, how are we all going to get along? How are we all
01:02:37.500
going to, to move forward? We have to have, there has to be an agreement on a basic structure of how
01:02:45.200
we're going to agree to move forward. And in my opinion, uh, because we're not all going to agree
01:02:50.580
on the same religion. We're not all going to agree on the same customs. We're not all going to agree on
01:02:54.800
the same politics, uh, basic understanding, a rule, a set, a set of rules that we all agree that
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we value. And in my opinion, the best example of that is that we all, although we all have
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different opinions or whatever, we all value liberty and freedom. This is why America worked
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in the first place. You had Catholics and Protestants and Jews, and you had, you know, men and women and
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of different, uh, different, whatever, all coming to this country, all having different kind of ideas
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and maybe opinions, but everybody, especially initially that came here all valued liberty and
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freedom. And so basically it was like this, you can't force me to agree with you, to agree with you. You
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can't force me to do business with you. You can't force me. You can't take my stuff, uh, through force. Uh,
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but we, I have to respect your liberties as well. We have to respect each other's liberties and let's leave
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it at that. And then if we agree, that's great. If we don't, whatever, but we need to agree upon
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that. And if we do that, uh, and we don't tyrannize over each other, uh, we're going to be
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just fine. The best ideas will come forward and we'll all be able to work together, but you have
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to have that some kind of a base, uh, respect. And that's the only one I can think of. And I haven't,
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no one's presented to me anything that's better that allows people of different ideas, different
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cultures, different beliefs to live together, uh, and choose to work together voluntarily,
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harmoniously. I can't think of anything. I don't know anything better than that.
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Well, you know, Sal, I wish I wouldn't have done this, but I'm on a bit of a time constraint today
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and I should have known cause we could have another two hours worth of conversation here. So
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I think we're going to have to do a part two on this. Cause there's a lot more that I had plans
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on talking about, but man, this time has just gone by so quick.
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Oh, no problem. I said, man, I have a lot of fun, uh, talking with you, hanging out with you.
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So for sure. And I'm not afraid to cover whatever. So next time you could talk about whatever the
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hell you want. Yeah. Well, we're going to get into some more, uh, maybe, uh, conflicting ideas,
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some things that are maybe not as popular or, or certainly, uh, polarizing ideas. Cause I think
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it's important. We discuss those things as well. Oh, you're getting me excited. Yeah, man. Hey,
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how do we, uh, or let me ask you this question. Oh, and I prepared you for this a little bit,
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but what does it mean to be a man? Oh boy. You know, usually for the most part, I'll say being
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a good father, but I think to speak a little bit more broadly, I think the value that, uh, is most
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respected and appreciated in men is discipline. Um, um, the man who is strong and dangerous,
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but is disciplined to not be dangerous and violent. The, the man who has the resources
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and the, the, the, the charisma to be with a thousand women, but who is disciplined to be
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with just one, you know, the man who has the opportunities to go live like a boy, uh, like
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Peter Pan for the rest of his life and buy cool things and party and whatever, but who
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is disciplined to raise a family, um, and do things that are, that are truly meaningful.
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I think among, among all things, I think it's, it's about discipline. It's about doing what
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is right, even though you could do a bunch of other stuff.
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That's a very interesting perspective on discipline itself. It, um, it almost alludes to the fact
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that you can't be disciplined if there isn't temptation, right? Like that temptation is what
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makes discipline, even a thing, even something that, that somebody possesses.
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That is what discipline. I told my kid this a long time ago. My, uh, my son was very afraid
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to, there was a competition he was going to be in and he was very, very nervous about it.
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Um, and then he did it and you know, everything turned out well or whatever.
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And we were talking about it and he said, I, he goes, he goes, Papa, I wish I was as brave as you
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are. And I said, what do you mean? You know, cause I want to, I want to kind of get his take.
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And he says, well, you're not afraid. You don't have any fear. I said, that doesn't make you brave.
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I said, Superman running into a fiery building isn't brave because the fire isn't going to hurt him.
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It's the, it's the man who could get killed by the fire that can still decides to run into that
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fire. That's brave. So you can't have discipline without temptation. You're not disciplined then
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you're just doing whatever you want to do. Right, right, man. That's great. That's a great
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perspective. Well, Sal, how, how do we connect with you, man? Where do we go? Where do we connect
01:07:23.840
and learn more about what you're up to? Well, the podcast is, uh, is mind pump. You can find that
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on any platform. We focus mainly on fitness and health, but we talk a lot about spirituality,
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current events, uh, you know, economics and that kind of stuff as well. You can also find me on
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Instagram at mind pump Sal. And then if you're listening and you want more fitness information,
01:07:45.420
we have a bunch of free books and resources that we've created. You can go to mind pump free.com
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and you can download a bunch of stuff on, um, that'll help you, you know, with your workouts
01:07:54.760
and nutrition. Right on, man. We'll let the guys know where to go. I appreciate you. I think we met
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must've been two or three years ago. I think it was at a, uh, it was at a Spartan race. It was like
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the Spartan championships, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And I really appreciate our friendship and getting
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to know you guys and everything that you're doing and you guys are up to, um, just appreciate you
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taking some time today. Thanks brother. Thank you, man. It's been very awesome. And to see you
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succeed, I think you're doing an exceptional job and you continue to grow. Um, and I think that's
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great, man. Congratulations. Right on. Thanks brother. Thank you. Gentlemen, there you go.
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My conversation with the one and only Sal DiStefano. I hope you enjoyed that one. As I mentioned,
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uh, previously, uh, that the, the guy's an intellect. I mean, obviously he's very well
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researched, uh, very thorough in his analysis and his thought process regarding current events
01:08:44.620
and the state of masculinity and just society in general, which is why I think that we enjoy
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our conversation so much. Now, if you're interested in connecting more with Sal, not only based on
01:08:54.180
what we talked about here, uh, but their physical fitness training and, uh, and health information,
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I got to tell you, it's some of the best information out there and they do an absolutely
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phenomenal job. So make sure you check it out. You can, uh, you can hit him up on, uh, on Instagram,
01:09:09.660
I think is where he's most active at mind pump Sal. So check that out, connect with him. Also let
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him know what you thought about the show. Uh, and let me know to connect with me on Instagram
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at Ryan Mickler, uh, outside of that, again, a reminder for the main event, which is may 29th
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want to tell you, I'm glad and honored that you tuned in, that you're spreading the mission of
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reclaiming and restoring masculinity. And I am honored to be in this battle with you.
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