Order of Man - February 25, 2020


Rational Thinking in an Irrational World | SAL DI STEFANO


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1 hour and 10 minutes

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201.38324

Word Count

14,122

Sentence Count

998

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary

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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Guys, you're really going to enjoy today's conversation with my friend and repeat guest
00:00:04.240 Sal DiStefano. A lot of you guys may know him from Mind Pump Media, where they focus
00:00:08.700 primarily on physical and mental health. But Sal is so well versed with trends in society
00:00:14.400 that I really wanted to have this conversation today. We get into logical fallacies, emotional
00:00:19.840 hype, quote unquote, cancel culture, victimhood as a perceived virtue, why Superman isn't brave
00:00:26.940 at all, which is an interesting discussion, and ultimately how to think rationally in
00:00:31.820 an irrational world.
00:00:32.800 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:37.760 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You
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00:00:49.640 is who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said
00:00:54.700 and done, you can call yourself a man.
00:00:58.020 Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler, and I am the host and the
00:01:02.640 founder of this podcast and the Order of Man movement. I want to welcome you here and welcome
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00:03:13.740 guys, with that said, I'm going to get into the conversation. Again, my guest is Sal DiStefano.
00:03:17.880 As I mentioned earlier, he is the co-founder and also the co-host of mind pump media.
00:03:24.040 The man is a natural intellect as you're going to hear in our conversation, but he's taken his
00:03:28.560 passion for information and learning. And he has applied it to the realm of physical fitness.
00:03:34.480 He's been through some ups and downs regarding his own path to health and fitness.
00:03:38.860 Uh, but he's used his extensive research and knowledge to create their maps program. And
00:03:43.900 you can learn more about that on their site. Uh, and then now along with his co-host, Adam,
00:03:48.320 Justin, and Doug, they host the mind pump media podcast, which is reaching the masses. Uh,
00:03:53.060 and it's been downloaded, downloaded tens of millions of times. So I hope you enjoy this
00:03:57.680 conversation guys as much as I did. Sal, what's going on, brother. Thanks for joining me again
00:04:02.540 on the podcast. What's up, man. Thanks for having me on again. I always have a lot of fun talking
00:04:06.480 new. Yeah. Well, I think we're very much in alignment with, with, uh, with some of our
00:04:10.640 thoughts about current events and society and masculinity and all the other things that I
00:04:14.280 think we'll delve into today. Yeah. I, you and I do tend to agree. And I think even if we didn't
00:04:19.800 agree, one thing that I appreciate a lot about you is that you, you appreciate objective, uh,
00:04:27.100 discussion and debate. Um, you're not afraid of discussing and debating things with people who
00:04:32.140 have, uh, you know, countering opinions. And, um, that is something that is unfortunately seems to
00:04:38.100 be less common, um, these days than maybe it used to be. Yeah, that's, that's true. I actually just
00:04:43.500 did a, uh, a podcast on, uh, logical fallacies and how people use these fallacies and debate and
00:04:50.760 they get emotional and they start attacking character and they start addressing issues that
00:04:54.680 aren't even really the subject of the conversation. And I mean, I can't say I'm immune to it. I fall
00:04:59.500 prey to those things as well, but it's, uh, it's sad that intelligent discussion seems to be something
00:05:04.240 that is, uh, diminished for sure. Oh yeah. And those are the favorite, uh, tactics. All those
00:05:09.560 logical fallacies are, are the favorite tactics among politicians. They're so good and so effective,
00:05:16.200 um, at using them. Um, and you know, unfortunately they, they work. Uh, so I think it's a good thing
00:05:22.220 that people like you are trying to inform your audience of, okay, here's how an actual discussion
00:05:29.260 can get played out. Here's how you can really find out the truth because then those tricks don't
00:05:34.160 work as well when you're listening and you go, wait a minute, that's a straw man argument or wait
00:05:38.460 a minute. You're just attacking that. You're not even countering the actual point, right? Make some
00:05:44.240 other points. Uh, you're, I'm not listening to what you're saying. You know, you don't know the truth.
00:05:48.640 You know, that's, that's a, that's something I think that we need to continue communicating.
00:05:52.700 What, uh, you said that they work logical fallacies work, which is why they're employed.
00:05:56.340 When you say they work, what do you think is the objective?
00:06:00.260 Oh, well the objective. Okay. And we'll look at politics. Um, as an example, when politicians
00:06:06.340 are on stage debating, what they're looking for are the one or two line zingers, um, that
00:06:14.620 you invoke a lot of emotion and it's effective. It's what you, the thing about politics is it's
00:06:20.500 very similar to marketing. It's actually the same thing. Sure. You're, you're, you're
00:06:23.740 a hundred percent. And how do marketers get you to buy their products? It's all based
00:06:30.680 on emotion. Most, most purchases are, are not based off of logic. They're based off of
00:06:35.440 feeling and emotion. And so what they're trying to do is invoke emotion, give you a one or
00:06:39.560 two liners. Um, and, uh, and that's what wins, um, elections, unfortunately. And a lot
00:06:46.120 of it has to do with the fact that we just, you know, most voters don't really sit down and
00:06:51.200 educate themselves well, uh, on subjects. They tend to hear one or two things. Oh, that
00:06:55.980 reinforces this feeling that I have. Um, and, or that makes me feel a certain way, or I feel
00:07:01.220 like a victim or wow, he really got her or she really got him. I'm going to vote for that
00:07:05.220 person. And, um, it's unfortunate, but it's just, it's just the truth. So I think the key,
00:07:10.940 and this is something that we initially, when we started a mind pump, our goal was to counter
00:07:17.660 that in the fitness space because the fitness space is full of that as well. It's completely
00:07:21.560 so full of that, like just terrible information that is being sold and it's being sold very
00:07:27.680 well. And then on the other side, you have people who have the right information who are
00:07:32.280 smart, who understand how the body works and nutrition works, how exercise works. And they're
00:07:37.060 losing because they're not selling their ideas very well. They got the right information.
00:07:41.540 They just suck at selling them. So what we need to do is get better at, you know, we have
00:07:46.900 to fight fire with fire. I'm not going to beat the emotional zingers. If I sit here
00:07:51.380 and I'm super logical and, you know, intelligent with my conversation, I need to have that, but
00:07:55.880 I also need to sell it just as well or better. Otherwise I'm gonna lose the battle. So it's
00:07:59.740 this information battle. And, um, it's just the reality. If you want to beat them, you got
00:08:04.160 to get better at their game. Otherwise, uh, when, well, and I don't think it's wrong to
00:08:09.040 necessarily use emotion. If we're talking about from a, from a marketing standpoint, it's
00:08:13.120 just doing it in an honest way. You know, it's, it's not, not feeding on that emotion
00:08:18.200 it with a, with a inferior motive or, or bad intentions. It's just using emotion in a positive
00:08:25.460 way to, uh, solidify maybe the logical reasoning that you, that you bring to the table.
00:08:31.500 Oh, totally. I mean, if you look at the, the fitness space, the ones that have won and continue
00:08:38.340 to win the information, um, you know, game, the information contest or competition are
00:08:44.820 the best marketers and communicators. It's not the ones with the best information. They're
00:08:49.280 just really, really good at communicating their points in effective ways. Um, and they market
00:08:56.180 it very, very well. And so they win and it's not the best, it's not the correct information
00:09:01.400 that wins necessarily. It's the information that's communicated the best way. So what,
00:09:05.460 and I, this is the case I've made for, for, for the last five years. I've, when I've talked
00:09:10.760 to scientists and fitness professionals in my space, you know, I do this, this, this training
00:09:16.900 that I'll do locally and now I'm doing it. I'm going to be going to the idea convention
00:09:20.940 this year, which is a, um, it's one of the largest conventions of, uh, certified fitness
00:09:25.800 professionals. So it's a huge, like fitness instructor, personal trainer, instructor thing's
00:09:30.200 been going on for a long time. And this is the training that I like to do with these types
00:09:34.620 of people is I'll go in there and I'll talk about all of the, I'll typically ask the audience,
00:09:38.700 what are the most important characteristics of a, of a successful trainer or fitness coach?
00:09:44.520 And they'll typically say things like, Oh, you know, passionate, motivated, you know, uh,
00:09:48.760 motivational has good information, knows how to train people properly, knows nutrition,
00:09:53.860 all that stuff. And I'll say, those are all important, but that's not the most important.
00:09:57.880 Like what about results? It's not just that it's not even, that's still an important one,
00:10:02.200 but the most important skill you can have as a fitness professional, uh, is your ability to
00:10:09.000 communicate how, cause I'm trying to sell you an idea. I'm trying to sell you why you need to change
00:10:13.400 your diet, why you need to exercise consistent. And I need to do it in a way that's truly effective.
00:10:18.760 Now, if you take that and we expand it out, uh, into other, you know, fields or just everything,
00:10:24.600 that's the truth. It's, it's not the right information that wins. It's the information
00:10:29.320 that was sold the best. And those of us with the right information and people in fitness,
00:10:34.920 for example, the scientists and the fitness experts, I tell them all the time, it's great
00:10:39.380 that you have all the studies. It's phenomenal that, you know, the right information, but it doesn't
00:10:44.260 mean shit unless you can sell it the right way. You're going to lose your clients, not going to
00:10:47.940 listen to you and you're not going to impact the industry in the right way. So you need to spend
00:10:52.480 as much time learning how to communicate effectively as you do with getting the right
00:10:58.580 information. Otherwise it's, you're just not going to be effective. Yeah. I think this is actually a
00:11:02.900 difficult thing to realize for some of these, uh, professions like, uh, attorneys, for example,
00:11:10.520 uh, doctors are another one who think that, you know, the education itself, the information itself
00:11:15.940 should be enough. And then they complain why their, uh, patients aren't following their treatment plan
00:11:20.880 or, you know, why they're, why their clients aren't listening to their advice. It's not the
00:11:25.840 information. It's your ability to communicate it. And, you know, if you want to be influential in
00:11:30.080 people's lives, then yes, having the right information is a prerequisite. Learning how to
00:11:35.460 communicate it effectively is what's going to get people to do what you want them to do.
00:11:38.400 Oh, it's the most important skill, uh, in ever. I mean, communication is, I mean,
00:11:42.920 it's how humans, you know, connect. And if you want to influence people, um, then you need to
00:11:48.560 learn how to communicate appropriately, but there's another, uh, component that goes to it. Um, if you,
00:11:54.500 cause the next, the next question people typically ask is, well, how do I get better at it? You know,
00:11:58.060 what books do I read? Sure. How do I, there's nothing that can replace, uh, just good old fashioned
00:12:03.680 practice. So if you want to learn, yeah, if you want to learn how to be a better squatter,
00:12:08.400 you can watch videos, you could learn biomechanics, you could take courses,
00:12:12.380 but in, and those can help, but none of those are going to come close to you going out and
00:12:17.080 just practicing squatting every day. So how do you become a better communicator? Well, uh, you go
00:12:22.020 and you find people who disagree with you, who are intelligent and you debate with them. But in order
00:12:29.180 to be effective at this, you have to also be open to getting your mind changed and you have to be
00:12:33.540 open to being wrong. That's what a real honest, uh, communication and debate is all about. It's
00:12:38.220 not about I'm here and I'm not listening to you. I'm just trying to crush you and prove you wrong.
00:12:42.880 Right. You're not going to get good at your skill. What you want to do is sit down and be like,
00:12:47.880 I'm, if this person presents to me compelling enough information, I'm open enough to changing
00:12:53.800 my mind. Now I know what my opinion is. And my goal is going to be to change this person's mind,
00:12:59.240 this other person's mind, but, but I'm open to being influenced. And then you go out and you seek
00:13:05.380 smart people who are open to intelligent debate, who aren't going to yell at you and call your names
00:13:11.780 and all that other stuff. And you, you have these discussions with them, you debate with them.
00:13:17.080 And boy, do you learn, you know, I, I, I, the last podcast I did with you, I talked a lot about,
00:13:22.440 um, markets, free markets. I'm not an economist. Um, it's just been a passion of mine for a long time.
00:13:27.260 But what I did for a long time was I would go online and I would debate very smart people
00:13:32.800 who had opposing viewpoints. And sometimes they changed my mind. Other times I changed,
00:13:38.940 but I got really good at being able to communicate what I was trying to say. Same thing with fitness,
00:13:43.520 which is, you know, my field of expertise. So, you know, and that's an important thing. I think
00:13:48.520 that's, oh my gosh, that's the, that's one of the crux, uh, cornerstones of a free society. It's like,
00:13:54.880 how do we know what the best ideas are? If we don't sit down, hash them out and see which one
00:13:59.140 wins. Let's compete. Let's get our ideas to compete. The winner is the best. And let's do
00:14:03.320 this. And let's be open to having our minds changed. You know, that's such an important
00:14:06.940 thing. I think we need to protect with everything we have. Well, you know, what's funny is that
00:14:11.640 somebody might look at that and think, well, I lost, you know, because I'm, my mind was changed,
00:14:16.000 man. You won that. Like if your mind has changed and you've been exposed to new information
00:14:20.780 that causes you to think differently and expand your current perspective, like how would anybody
00:14:25.000 consider that a loss? Like we're so, we're so worried about our pride and ego that we close
00:14:29.640 ourselves off to things that might actually serve us pretty well. Oh, dude, I tell you what, man. Um,
00:14:35.400 to me losing is being, is having the wrong information or being wrong and never, and never
00:14:43.920 fixing it. Not knowing. Right. And acting on that wrong information. Yeah. Like if somebody changes
00:14:50.020 your mind and they do a good job with it, it's probably because, well, it is for sure, because
00:14:54.300 you've decided that this new information, uh, has given you the right information. And now you're,
00:15:01.980 you're more on the right side. You're, you've got an opinion now that is more accurate,
00:15:06.220 more truthful to you than the previous one. How is that a bad thing? I don't, I don't understand
00:15:10.820 that. I think that's an excellent thing. I've had my mind changed, uh, so many times and,
00:15:16.760 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
00:15:23.640 somebody on the podcast recently, um, who was, we were discussing, uh, technology and going into
00:15:29.940 that podcast, my initial, my opinion was that, you know, technology is causing a lot of the new
00:15:38.800 cases of anxiety and depression that we're seeing among adults and kids. Well, you know, he gets on the
00:15:44.800 podcast and he's an expert on the subject and he goes, look, he says, if you look at the trends
00:15:49.160 of depression and anxiety, they really haven't changed much through spikes and drops and whatever
00:15:54.720 he goes. But what we are finding is that people who tend to be more depressed and anxious tend to go
00:15:59.020 and use more technology. So it tends to be a part of the symptom rather than the, the, the root cause
00:16:04.140 of it. Sure. And he made a very compelling case and I left it changing my mind. And I even told him
00:16:10.080 on the podcast, I'm like, you, you, you blew my mind and you changed my opinion, uh, in some pretty
00:16:14.220 fundamental ways. I loved it. You know, I left and I was like, wow, okay. I'm, I'm better off now than
00:16:19.280 I was before going into that podcast. Had I gone in there with my stubborn, you know, like, ah, you
00:16:24.380 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
00:16:28.160 terrible, uh, you know, non-growth minded, uh, way to approach things. Well, I think it's non-growth,
00:16:34.260 but you know, I think it stems from a position of immaturity as well. You know, that's what little
00:16:37.800 kids do, right? They don't get like my three-year-old, he doesn't get his way. What does
00:16:41.180 he do? He throws himself on the ground, pounds on the ground, cries, screams, makes a scene,
00:16:45.840 embarrasses himself and everybody else. And, and most of us never grow out of that. Like we,
00:16:50.660 we do that as adults. It's so funny to me, you know, and, you know, and along those lines,
00:16:55.620 because again, when we have discussions, we have debates and we're open about them,
00:16:59.500 the best ideas come forward. And then what happens is these ideas, I'm talking now in a broad,
00:17:03.980 like you want to look on a, on a real long scale, hundreds of thousands of years,
00:17:08.720 then those ideas are tested. And the ones that tend to stick around are the ones that win in the
00:17:15.860 marketplace of ideas. Not unlike, uh, you know, the free market where if you come up with a better,
00:17:21.920 more efficient phone, you're probably going to win the market share, at least in the longterm. And,
00:17:28.280 and the, the features of that phone that make it win are the ones that other phones
00:17:31.860 then start to copy. And it's just, this is how, you know, this is how the marketplace works and
00:17:36.760 ideas and customs work this way as well. So when you look at cultures, for example, you know,
00:17:42.320 one thing that I like to look at is I like to say, okay, let's look at multiple cultures,
00:17:48.020 old cultures that've been around for a long time, cultures that may not have had influence over each
00:17:52.740 other. So sometimes you'll look at like, you know, uh, practices and maybe Eastern religion and
00:17:57.680 Eastern cultures and compare those to Western where they didn't have tons of crossover or
00:18:01.500 whatever, where are the commonalities. And oftentimes you'll find some serious truth
00:18:07.080 in those things, you know, like I'll give you an example. Um, and I'll, I'll use fitness and health,
00:18:11.980 uh, as, as my way to, to explain this, just because that's my, again, that's my area of expertise.
00:18:16.600 When you look at fasting, for example, right. Uh, fasting has been practiced in multiple major
00:18:23.540 religions. It's been practiced all around the world and multiple cultures, cultures that really
00:18:26.960 didn't have any contact with each other. It was, you know, prized, uh, among the Greeks and the
00:18:32.540 Romans and the, you know, Eastern medicine. It's in a Christian religion, Judaism. It's an Islam,
00:18:38.640 still in Islam. Um, and when you, when you look at that across, you think, okay, there's gotta be
00:18:43.420 some value. There has to be some serious value to this. Now, you know, 15, 20 years ago in the
00:18:48.040 fitness and health space, fasting was totally, uh, it was a bad thing. There was nothing healthy or good
00:18:55.440 about it. You talk to any fitness professional 20 years ago, any nutritionist or doctor, they'd say
00:19:00.340 terrible. Don't starve yourself. Make sure you eat. That's really bad for you. Uh, but if you look
00:19:05.200 at, again, the marketplace of ideas and you can look at all these cultures and religions or practices,
00:19:08.860 like, okay, they've been doing this for thousands of years. There's gotta be some value. There's some
00:19:12.860 truth to this. Why it's because it's been practiced for so long. Now, of course we have science and studies
00:19:17.380 that show, Oh wait, there's real value. There's a biological value for a lot of people to fasting. Um,
00:19:23.640 and there seems to be, um, a lot of emotional and, you know, maybe you can say spiritual or mental
00:19:28.940 value from detachment, right? Detachment from food or detachment from other things, because you could
00:19:34.100 do other types of fast as well. So I like to look at ideas like that as well. And I think what happens,
00:19:39.140 especially in modern societies, we tend to take old conservative, if you will, I'll put in quote,
00:19:44.600 uh, ideas. And we say, that's a stupid idea, throw it away. And you go, hold on a second.
00:19:48.920 Uh, there's nothing wrong with questioning it and talking about it, but why does that idea
00:19:54.300 in custom and practice exist? And why has it existed for thousands of years and all these
00:19:59.240 different cultures and religions? There's some value to that. I think it's stupid. If we say
00:20:03.340 it's dumb, let's throw it away. It's nothing, no problem discussing it and debating it,
00:20:07.040 but let's not pretend that it's a dumb idea because it's existed for a long time. Humans have tested lots
00:20:13.040 of ideas. I'm sure we're not the first ones to come out with new ideas and say, let's try this one
00:20:16.780 out. Things have been tried out, right? The stuff that sticks tends to work. So there's value in
00:20:21.820 that. Let's not, and again, it's our, I think it's our own, you know, narcissistic tendency,
00:20:26.620 especially with modern times. We think we're so smart and we know everything and we know a lot
00:20:30.960 of things, but there's some wisdom that, um, I think we could learn from for sure.
00:20:35.800 Well, I think there's, there's some ideas that the outcome is as far as like what is best,
00:20:42.360 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.
00:30:08.420 It is completely.
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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00:37:56.020 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.
00:45:24.060 Oh, wow.
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
00:45:53.160 rest of life from there.
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
01:03:00.860 we value. And in my opinion, the best example of that is that we all, although we all have
01:03:08.660 different opinions or whatever, we all value liberty and freedom. This is why America worked
01:03:13.500 in the first place. You had Catholics and Protestants and Jews, and you had, you know, men and women and
01:03:19.760 of different, uh, different, whatever, all coming to this country, all having different kind of ideas
01:03:25.000 and maybe opinions, but everybody, especially initially that came here all valued liberty and
01:03:31.080 freedom. And so basically it was like this, you can't force me to agree with you, to agree with you. You
01:03:37.320 can't force me to do business with you. You can't force me. You can't take my stuff, uh, through force. Uh,
01:03:43.680 but we, I have to respect your liberties as well. We have to respect each other's liberties and let's leave
01:03:49.380 it at that. And then if we agree, that's great. If we don't, whatever, but we need to agree upon
01:03:53.420 that. And if we do that, uh, and we don't tyrannize over each other, uh, we're going to be
01:03:58.240 just fine. The best ideas will come forward and we'll all be able to work together, but you have
01:04:02.360 to have that some kind of a base, uh, respect. And that's the only one I can think of. And I haven't,
01:04:08.540 no one's presented to me anything that's better that allows people of different ideas, different
01:04:14.560 cultures, different beliefs to live together, uh, and choose to work together voluntarily,
01:04:20.720 harmoniously. I can't think of anything. I don't know anything better than that.
01:04:24.780 Well, you know, Sal, I wish I wouldn't have done this, but I'm on a bit of a time constraint today
01:04:29.100 and I should have known cause we could have another two hours worth of conversation here. So
01:04:33.440 I think we're going to have to do a part two on this. Cause there's a lot more that I had plans
01:04:37.360 on talking about, but man, this time has just gone by so quick.
01:04:40.740 Oh, no problem. I said, man, I have a lot of fun, uh, talking with you, hanging out with you.
01:04:45.160 So for sure. And I'm not afraid to cover whatever. So next time you could talk about whatever the
01:04:49.360 hell you want. Yeah. Well, we're going to get into some more, uh, maybe, uh, conflicting ideas,
01:04:55.160 some things that are maybe not as popular or, or certainly, uh, polarizing ideas. Cause I think
01:04:59.880 it's important. We discuss those things as well. Oh, you're getting me excited. Yeah, man. Hey,
01:05:03.900 how do we, uh, or let me ask you this question. Oh, and I prepared you for this a little bit,
01:05:07.760 but what does it mean to be a man? Oh boy. You know, usually for the most part, I'll say being
01:05:14.640 a good father, but I think to speak a little bit more broadly, I think the value that, uh, is most
01:05:21.040 respected and appreciated in men is discipline. Um, um, the man who is strong and dangerous,
01:05:30.780 but is disciplined to not be dangerous and violent. The, the man who has the resources
01:05:38.420 and the, the, the, the charisma to be with a thousand women, but who is disciplined to be
01:05:45.640 with just one, you know, the man who has the opportunities to go live like a boy, uh, like
01:05:52.680 Peter Pan for the rest of his life and buy cool things and party and whatever, but who
01:05:57.180 is disciplined to raise a family, um, and do things that are, that are truly meaningful.
01:06:02.740 I think among, among all things, I think it's, it's about discipline. It's about doing what
01:06:08.860 is right, even though you could do a bunch of other stuff.
01:06:11.040 That's a very interesting perspective on discipline itself. It, um, it almost alludes to the fact
01:06:18.480 that you can't be disciplined if there isn't temptation, right? Like that temptation is what
01:06:23.060 makes discipline, even a thing, even something that, that somebody possesses.
01:06:28.980 That is what discipline. I told my kid this a long time ago. My, uh, my son was very afraid
01:06:35.160 to, there was a competition he was going to be in and he was very, very nervous about it.
01:06:40.180 Um, and then he did it and you know, everything turned out well or whatever.
01:06:43.800 And we were talking about it and he said, I, he goes, he goes, Papa, I wish I was as brave as you
01:06:50.400 are. And I said, what do you mean? You know, cause I want to, I want to kind of get his take.
01:06:53.140 And he says, well, you're not afraid. You don't have any fear. I said, that doesn't make you brave.
01:06:57.420 I said, Superman running into a fiery building isn't brave because the fire isn't going to hurt him.
01:07:05.360 It's the, it's the man who could get killed by the fire that can still decides to run into that
01:07:10.680 fire. That's brave. So you can't have discipline without temptation. You're not disciplined then
01:07:15.540 you're just doing whatever you want to do. Right, right, man. That's great. That's a great
01:07:19.700 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
01:07:28.680 on any platform. We focus mainly on fitness and health, but we talk a lot about spirituality,
01:07:33.400 current events, uh, you know, economics and that kind of stuff as well. You can also find me on
01:07:39.240 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
01:07:51.340 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
01:07:58.940 must've been two or three years ago. I think it was at a, uh, it was at a Spartan race. It was like
01:08:05.140 the Spartan championships, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And I really appreciate our friendship and getting
01:08:10.560 to know you guys and everything that you're doing and you guys are up to, um, just appreciate you
01:08:14.820 taking some time today. Thanks brother. Thank you, man. It's been very awesome. And to see you
01:08:20.000 succeed, I think you're doing an exceptional job and you continue to grow. Um, and I think that's
01:08:25.100 great, man. Congratulations. Right on. Thanks brother. Thank you. Gentlemen, there you go.
01:08:30.300 My conversation with the one and only Sal DiStefano. I hope you enjoyed that one. As I mentioned,
01:08:34.560 uh, previously, uh, that the, the guy's an intellect. I mean, obviously he's very well
01:08:39.200 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
01:08:49.400 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,
01:09:00.040 I got to tell you, it's some of the best information out there and they do an absolutely
01:09:04.020 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
01:09:15.700 him know what you thought about the show. Uh, and let me know to connect with me on Instagram
01:09:19.800 at Ryan Mickler, uh, outside of that, again, a reminder for the main event, which is may 29th
01:09:24.660 through the 31st order of man.com slash main event and the father son event legacy experience,
01:09:30.260 uh, which is going to be held June 11th through the 14th. You can check that out at order of man.com
01:09:36.460 slash legacy. I hope to see you on the socials. I hope to see you at the events gentlemen. I just
01:09:43.100 want to tell you, I'm glad and honored that you tuned in, that you're spreading the mission of
01:09:47.140 reclaiming and restoring masculinity. And I am honored to be in this battle with you.
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