Rigging the Election, Owning Unnecessary Stuff, and Showing Up Powerfully | ASK ME ANYTHING
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Summary
On this episode of The O.C.O.M.E.S. Podcast, the boys discuss the recent FBI revision of crime statistics, how it impacts public trust in law enforcement, and why we should all be concerned about it.
Transcript
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There's a quote that I really like by Teddy Roosevelt that says,
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do what you can with what you have where you are.
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but if you go all in with where you currently are,
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in many cases, you'll find that you were the problem.
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And when you fixed yourself, your wife, your job,
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Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.
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When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time.
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At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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Second time that we're going to go live on YouTube.
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So if anybody's not yet following us over on YouTube,
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I just, I know, I know because I've talked with people,
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and do what we can do and use their tools against them.
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from our Facebook group at facebook.com slash group
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They're able to come in and check this out as well.
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Should we go to get into highlights or headlines?
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So the FBI recent revision did a recent revision
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which adjusted the data to reflect a 4.5% increase in crime
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rather than the initially reported 2.1 decrease,
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raising significant concerns around transparency
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33,000 robberies, and 37,000 aggravated assaults
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And it's just a prime example of them meddling,
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the term that we've heard of is rigged election.
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And, you know, obviously there's evidence of that
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But I think if you're just looking at it objectively,
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it was simplistic why because the shoes I had in
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that I had were the clothes that I wore the the
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groceries that we shopped for were the groceries
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that we ate mm-hmm like it was so nice because I
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didn't have this freaking garage with a bunch of
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shit that I never use that I'm managing that it's
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like all this energy just distracting me and it's
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like this burden you know I've heard this earlier this
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year but like and it's really been present for me
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too is like a lot of my mental happiness is really
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sometimes just having so much crap that I never use is
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like one of the most like the biggest sucker of my
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energy yeah it's the adage what you own owns you
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totally it's so true yeah do we have any uh comments
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in the chat that we need to go through before we get
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to the next question I on I see um no no just Rick
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kind of pinging guys saying hey you should join the
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I see if you're not already nice thank you that Rick
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yeah uh Joe Marino he's curious man knife Montana
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knife knife company fan he's curious particularly
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which which one that uh that you own oh which one did he
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say it that way which one uh which knives he is he did
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assume that it was more than one so good job there Joe
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you're you're correct so I so here's what I own I own the
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stub horn the flat tail uh oh hold on we got to get back to
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the rest of them and then I'll give you some real uh let me do
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this they're they're in the safe with his 10k and all his guns
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that's right so the speed go the magna cut speed go the black
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foot the stone wall the super cub oh I don't know that one
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the jackstone I don't know that one the marshal the bear
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tooth I own them all I have the culinary set I have all of
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them there's actually a few I don't have that I'd like to get
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here uh but you know what I'll give you some input here let me
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just pull this up oh I don't have their fillet knife either I
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need to get a fillet knife uh the one that I like I like the
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speed goat that's a very small that's the one you took
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hunting right was the speed probably I take that one hunting
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quite a bit yeah it's just nice it's small it's versatile it's
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very thin it's very lightweight I think he asked if that's the
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one that I carry around personally yeah as well it's either
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that or the war goat which is their tactical blade that's a new
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one I just got but I really really like the speed goat for
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that um the stone wall is probably one of my favorite knives and
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the stone wall is great for skinning uh breaking down me sure I
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still would probably go to the speed goat I'm breaking it down
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because it's smaller and you can get better cuts um but yeah I
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would say between the stone wall or the speed goat you'd be
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pretty pretty set but yeah I I love them all man I've got so
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many deeper Montana knife knives we need to you you since you have
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the influence you need to get him to have you seen kind of
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knives like grappling knives have you seen those oh yeah like uh
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with a kind of like the thumb yeah and it's like curved like curled
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yeah so you could be in a grappling match and then you don't have
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this weird cut this way it's it's right I mean as you hold on to
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might be working on that because they have their tactical stuff
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okay cool they could call it the grappler that would actually be cool I
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should tell I should tell them about that but um they should just call it
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the kip uh the kip mora I don't even yeah kip mora that's right
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I don't even see their uh tactical knives on here but they do have oh here
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it is oh they don't have one here but there's two different ones one's the
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war goat and the other one is the battle goat which I don't have the battle
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that's awesome all right last question from Tony Myers where does the iron
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counsel see itself on members or potential members that follow a
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polytheism nature-based spiritual following I thought this is a great
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question because guys might make the assumption right
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of what this looks like in the IC I don't I don't care not that I'm indifferent
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to it but that I that doesn't that is not an impact for me what I care
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about are the guys who are coming in do they want to be righteous men and if
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you want to be a righteous man then I want you part of the iron council if
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it's polytheism if it's more of a spiritual holistic earth type based if
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it's the muse if it's christianity catholicism buddhism I mean name it if
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you want to be a righteous man and you're here to learn and you're here to
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serve then we're all about it now I will say with that being said I'm the
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founder of order man in the iron council I'm christian so a lot of the
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messaging that you're going to hear is framed with a christian undertone we're
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not overtly spiritual or religious but you're going to hear a lot of the things
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that I share are going to be very much in alignment with christianity but you
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know what there's truth everywhere and many of the things that he believes I'm
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sure overlap and align with christianity we probably just say it a little
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different so that's not a that's not a concern of mine and maybe I'm going out
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on the limb here saying this I don't think I am but but I do think one thing
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that we do expect though is to guys have to be critical thinkers and not be so
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easily offended right like and that's what I love of what I have seen in the
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iron council is we've had group discussions with guys that that aren't
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religious that that might be atheist and they're not in their heads going oh
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that's a really interesting principle based upon what someone brings up in the
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bible that's that's exactly what should happen and and we shouldn't be showing up
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going oh well these guys don't believe what I believe and now I'm going to choose
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to be offended that is not going to probably cut it in the IC doesn't serve you
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doesn't serve anybody else right and and to be frank you're being a little uh
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yeah I was trying to figure out a better way of saying that but but you know
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have some critical thinking and we do expect that absolutely yeah yeah I
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actually think the same thing with regards to sexuality you know I I get I get a
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lot of messages from men who are gay who are who say hey is this okay for for gay
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men yes like as long as you know as long as you're there to learn and grow and get
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better and pursue something meaningful and significant and do good for other
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people with other people yes well what does that have to do with it totally you
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know and and I've actually been I have actually been surprised at how accepting
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our iron council members are of gay men I'm grateful for it but honestly I've been
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surprised I we've had a lot of gay men who are like man like I'm really glad I came
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here because on the surface if you're just looking at it and scratching the
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surface you might and you're in you're a gay man you might not think that you'd be
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welcomed but I have found the opposite to be true of just about every single one of
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our members it's it's pretty fascinating to me I like this quote this one's by
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Aristotle he says it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
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thought without accepting it and I feel like that's what we do really well inside of the
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iron council is that we have these thoughts and we don't always agree people
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have come after me I've gone after other people it's always done from a position
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of hey I care about you I want to understand what you're thinking I don't
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agree with it but I'd like to know more about it and and it's just not only is it a
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mark of an educated man but it's a mark of maturity like I don't have to get up in
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arms because you don't believe in God you know and I see I see this a lot of the
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times when when you mention Christianity a lot of people will use the term oh your
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little sky daddy or things like that and I can never wrap my head around why
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somebody would try to be deliberately insulting to a person who's trying to do
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right and good I that that I don't understand like regardless of where that
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sense of good comes from if that person is trying to do good and it comes from a
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place that you don't believe exists I don't understand why mock that I would
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think you would embrace that yeah well it's rooted in I don't agree with your
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with what you're saying but I see that you're trying to do good and you're trying
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to add value to the world and you're being a good dad it's like that's it that
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should be enough yeah well I was just gonna say it's it's rooted in in their own
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self-validation right that that's what it's really rooted in it's not rooted in
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anything other than that well to be fair though Christians and and other other
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religions do the exact same thing you know they look at other people
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judgmental less favorably not welcome so I mean it's not exclusive to people who
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don't believe in God it's also pretty notorious in those circles who you know
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want to want to make other people feel less than because they don't believe in
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their God so I see it on both sides to be fair yeah absolutely all right sir well
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that's a wrap you know that was fun uh thanks to the guys that actually you know
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threw some questions in in the live chat really appreciate you guys um listening
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in as always you can connect with Ryan on X and Instagram at Ryan Mickler uh and we
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did mention and there was a comment earlier about men's groups um although the
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iron council is closed until December um you can join us on our Facebook group and
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that's facebook.com slash group slash order of man there's one other reference and
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resource that I want to give the guys so on May 1st through the 4th of 2025 we had
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that's our first event of the year this one's really cool because I've never done
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this and I haven't seen many other people do this if at all I've partnered with
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three other notable people in the men's space and what's interesting is so many
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industries look at all of that as competition they would never collaborate on
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anything never in a million years yeah but we've decided to because I think yes
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technically you could say that it's competition but we think that our mission
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of helping men is more important than the perceived competition of it so I've
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partnered with Larry Hagner with the dad edge Connor Beaton with man talks and
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Matt Boudreau with Apogee strong to create this event May 1st through the 4th
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2025 just outside of St. Louis and if you go to themensforge.com you can get
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registered there's the standard package there's the VIP package there's payment
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plans but it's gonna be a conference style with the order a man's spin on it
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where you won't just hear from a bunch of guys including our guest speakers
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coming in talk at you you're gonna hear from them speak with you they're gonna be
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available to spend time with you to answer questions and we're gonna be hyper
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engaged in other activities that are gonna help build teamwork and camaraderie and
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support and learning about each other and facilitate growth beyond just what
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we're gonna do over that weekend so again if you go to the mensforge.com you can
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check it out awesome all right guys great questions today keep them coming we'll
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keep answering them and we'll be back on Friday for the Friday field notes until
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then go out there take action and become the man you are meant to be
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