Order of Man - October 23, 2024


Rigging the Election, Owning Unnecessary Stuff, and Showing Up Powerfully | ASK ME ANYTHING


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 6 minutes

Words per Minute

178.46362

Word Count

11,804

Sentence Count

185

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

27


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

00:00:00.000 There's a quote that I really like by Teddy Roosevelt that says,
00:00:02.480 do what you can with what you have where you are.
00:00:04.820 And that's kind of the ironic thing is that
00:00:06.840 you might not be happy with a relationship
00:00:09.120 or a job that you have right now,
00:00:10.960 but if you go all in with where you currently are,
00:00:13.280 in many cases, you'll find that you were the problem.
00:00:17.100 It wasn't the job.
00:00:18.420 It wasn't your wife.
00:00:19.680 It was you.
00:00:20.460 And when you fixed yourself, your wife, your job,
00:00:24.380 your economic situation, and your life changed
00:00:27.540 as a result of the influence you had on it.
00:00:32.200 You're a man of action.
00:00:33.880 You live life to the fullest.
00:00:35.340 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.
00:00:38.280 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time.
00:00:41.640 Every time.
00:00:42.700 You are not easily deterred or defeated.
00:00:45.040 Rugged.
00:00:45.800 Resilient.
00:00:46.760 Strong.
00:00:47.480 This is your life.
00:00:48.900 This is who you are.
00:00:50.300 This is who you will become.
00:00:52.020 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:55.060 you can call yourself a man.
00:00:58.240 All right, Kip.
00:00:59.100 It's good to see you, man.
00:01:00.440 Second time that we're going to go live on YouTube.
00:01:03.320 So if anybody's not yet following us over on YouTube,
00:01:06.360 please let us know.
00:01:07.500 YouTube is so frustrating, man.
00:01:08.760 We've got 335,000 subscribers over there.
00:01:12.180 And our videos sometimes, on average,
00:01:15.440 I'd say 1,500, 1,800 views.
00:01:19.220 I just, I know, I know because I've talked with people,
00:01:22.920 but our accounts are being throttled for sure.
00:01:25.420 Yeah.
00:01:25.540 And it's very frustrating.
00:01:27.640 So, but they're the platforms we have.
00:01:29.480 So we use them to the best of our advantage
00:01:31.700 and do what we can do and use their tools against them.
00:01:35.520 And here it is.
00:01:37.100 This is what we're stuck with.
00:01:38.360 And then there might be guys joining us
00:01:40.360 from our Facebook group at facebook.com slash group
00:01:43.000 slash order of man.
00:01:44.840 They're able to come in and check this out as well.
00:01:47.100 So glad we could do this.
00:01:48.240 New technology.
00:01:49.480 Very excited about it.
00:01:50.740 Yep.
00:01:51.960 The evolution of things.
00:01:53.880 Yeah, man.
00:01:54.420 Should we go to get into highlights or headlines?
00:01:58.080 Yes.
00:01:58.720 Headlines?
00:01:59.220 Yeah, absolutely.
00:02:00.360 Let me pull up.
00:02:01.460 Do you have a headline?
00:02:02.020 I've got one today.
00:02:02.960 Yeah, I have one as well.
00:02:04.720 Okay.
00:02:05.040 Why don't you go ahead?
00:02:05.740 Because mine's kind of,
00:02:07.120 mine's not so much of a headline
00:02:08.660 as much as it is a call to action.
00:02:10.540 So why don't you go ahead and lead us off?
00:02:12.320 Okay.
00:02:12.800 Excellent.
00:02:13.160 So the FBI recent revision did a recent revision
00:02:17.940 of their 2022 crime statistics,
00:02:20.040 which adjusted the data to reflect a 4.5% increase in crime
00:02:26.500 rather than the initially reported 2.1 decrease,
00:02:32.460 raising significant concerns around transparency
00:02:35.740 and public trust.
00:02:36.540 The update added 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes,
00:02:44.740 33,000 robberies, and 37,000 aggravated assaults
00:02:50.380 to the original figures,
00:02:52.240 which was made without public announcement
00:02:56.100 in the FBI press release.
00:02:58.080 And it just is a prime example of talk about
00:03:04.960 undermining public opinion,
00:03:09.060 manipulating public opinion,
00:03:10.800 and just a major issue with trust
00:03:15.420 around what is going on
00:03:17.940 and the lack of transparency
00:03:19.300 from a federal government perspective.
00:03:22.560 And it's just a prime example of them meddling,
00:03:25.480 probably in a political season.
00:03:29.120 And it's disgusting and pathetic.
00:03:32.020 I don't know what to say other than that.
00:03:34.120 Yeah, it is.
00:03:35.160 It's, you know,
00:03:36.420 the term that we've heard of is rigged election.
00:03:39.500 And you always hear Donald Trump
00:03:40.740 talk about a rigged election.
00:03:42.100 And I think when he says that,
00:03:43.300 he's talking more about the specifics
00:03:45.960 of ballot harvesting and some of that stuff.
00:03:48.620 And, you know, obviously there's evidence of that
00:03:51.240 to the degree that there's enough
00:03:53.280 that would overturn an election.
00:03:54.660 I don't know that that's the case.
00:03:57.000 But I think if you're just looking at it objectively,
00:04:00.120 yeah, cheating happens.
00:04:01.380 I mean, it's part of anything.
00:04:02.720 So of course there's cheating going on.
00:04:04.920 But the greater threat in my mind
00:04:06.680 to rigged elections
00:04:07.820 is the bureaucracy,
00:04:10.960 it's lawfare,
00:04:12.860 it's legacy media,
00:04:15.100 rigging information
00:04:17.040 that is passed down to us
00:04:19.000 as citizens of this country
00:04:20.220 in order to produce a desired outcome.
00:04:22.600 So when Biden and Harris's DOJ
00:04:26.600 comes out with a statistic
00:04:29.980 or a report through the FBI
00:04:31.540 that says,
00:04:32.420 oh, violent crime is down.
00:04:35.600 And then has to come out later and say,
00:04:37.660 no, we were off by six percentage points
00:04:39.740 on the fact that it's not even down,
00:04:41.500 it's actually up.
00:04:42.400 And Trump actually said this,
00:04:44.860 to his credit,
00:04:45.540 Trump actually said this
00:04:46.660 in the debate with Harris
00:04:48.460 and got criticized for it.
00:04:49.360 And the moderator,
00:04:50.220 quote unquote,
00:04:50.940 fact-checked him
00:04:51.940 and he said that
00:04:53.440 that wasn't accurate data.
00:04:55.340 And then this comes up.
00:04:57.220 This is the election rigging
00:04:58.620 that's taking place.
00:05:00.480 Yes, there's some
00:05:01.880 devious and deceitful ballot practices.
00:05:05.280 I mean, I think about,
00:05:06.140 for example,
00:05:07.120 voter ID laws,
00:05:09.720 things like that,
00:05:10.780 ballot harvesting.
00:05:12.520 That could be definitely
00:05:13.800 a shady practice.
00:05:14.660 But the greater risk
00:05:15.760 is that we are all being manipulated
00:05:18.000 through our Department of Justice
00:05:20.320 and through the legacy media.
00:05:24.000 Unless we can learn to cut through
00:05:25.740 all of that nonsense,
00:05:26.780 then we're never going to be able
00:05:29.220 to have an election
00:05:30.320 that's based on
00:05:31.120 all of the information at hand.
00:05:32.500 And that's what I want.
00:05:33.180 I just want all of the information
00:05:35.340 at hand
00:05:35.860 so I can make
00:05:37.020 the most informed decision
00:05:38.420 so that you
00:05:39.100 and everybody listening
00:05:40.100 can make the most informed decision
00:05:41.640 and then we can let the chips
00:05:43.020 fall where they may.
00:05:43.780 But there's very few
00:05:45.060 objective media outlets.
00:05:48.200 And objectivity is not
00:05:49.520 a necessity
00:05:50.880 as long as it's presented
00:05:52.360 as being subjective.
00:05:54.100 You know, I think of something
00:05:54.840 like the Daily Wire.
00:05:56.240 They're not an objective news source.
00:05:58.260 They don't claim to be.
00:05:59.800 But a place like CNN
00:06:01.000 or Fox News
00:06:03.000 or MSNBC,
00:06:04.040 all of these places
00:06:05.100 claim to be objective news sources,
00:06:07.840 objective journalists,
00:06:09.120 but they're clearly not.
00:06:10.620 And that's the problem.
00:06:11.560 They're lying
00:06:12.120 and they're deceiving
00:06:13.280 and they're attempting
00:06:14.340 to rig an election
00:06:15.340 through manipulation.
00:06:16.940 And I'm a huge advocate
00:06:18.620 of how do we learn?
00:06:21.440 What pivots and adjustments, right?
00:06:23.660 Because it's really easy for us
00:06:24.920 just to kind of complain about this.
00:06:26.940 But how does this apply to my life?
00:06:28.620 And one thing
00:06:29.600 that I would use this
00:06:31.080 as a learning opportunity
00:06:33.980 for a lot of us
00:06:34.880 of in what scenarios
00:06:37.600 am I trying
00:06:39.220 to manipulate
00:06:40.780 people's perceptions
00:06:42.400 and I mince words,
00:06:45.300 I leave out truths,
00:06:47.400 I cut corners,
00:06:49.020 I do things
00:06:49.960 because I'm trying
00:06:50.740 to manage what people
00:06:52.160 or how people
00:06:53.080 might perceive something.
00:06:54.840 Use that as a red flag.
00:06:56.580 We see this
00:06:57.060 in corporate America a lot.
00:06:58.380 Well, we'll do this
00:06:59.400 for the greater good
00:07:00.980 of our people.
00:07:01.760 And really what we should
00:07:02.680 be saying is
00:07:03.540 if they might have
00:07:05.480 a negative reaction
00:07:06.380 to what we have to say,
00:07:07.980 then should we be doing it?
00:07:11.420 And if that,
00:07:12.740 if we're like,
00:07:13.220 no, it absolutely
00:07:13.820 needs to be done,
00:07:14.440 then trust in people
00:07:15.260 and be transparent
00:07:16.000 because you're going
00:07:18.540 to erode trust.
00:07:19.440 It's not going
00:07:20.320 to serve you
00:07:21.160 in the long run.
00:07:23.080 And so use that
00:07:24.300 as a red flag
00:07:25.000 for yourself.
00:07:25.580 It's like,
00:07:25.840 oh, I can't say that
00:07:26.860 because,
00:07:27.680 well, why can't you?
00:07:29.000 All right,
00:07:29.300 are you out of integrity?
00:07:30.380 You need to clean something up.
00:07:31.540 Should you actually
00:07:32.160 be doing the thing
00:07:32.880 that you're doing?
00:07:34.200 And most importantly,
00:07:35.240 that's up to other people
00:07:36.520 to decide how they might
00:07:37.580 respond to something.
00:07:39.400 And sometimes
00:07:40.200 the simple question
00:07:42.100 we need to ask ourselves
00:07:43.520 is should it be said?
00:07:45.300 Should they know?
00:07:46.360 And if the answer is yes,
00:07:48.040 then you do it
00:07:48.880 regardless.
00:07:51.540 You know where else
00:07:52.480 this unfolds
00:07:54.200 is in the dating world.
00:07:55.020 My girlfriend and I
00:07:55.780 were talking about it
00:07:56.560 just this last weekend
00:07:57.560 where a guy
00:07:59.960 will go out,
00:08:00.700 for example,
00:08:01.140 with a woman
00:08:01.800 and a lot of the times
00:08:04.120 women have trust issues
00:08:05.500 because men are notorious
00:08:07.880 for not communicating
00:08:09.060 exactly what their
00:08:09.980 intentions are.
00:08:11.160 And she had said
00:08:12.120 something like,
00:08:13.760 well, yeah,
00:08:14.340 you know,
00:08:14.560 if a guy comes in
00:08:15.640 and says,
00:08:16.120 hey, I just,
00:08:16.700 I don't want to date you
00:08:17.520 forever.
00:08:17.820 I just want to sleep around.
00:08:19.540 You know what you were
00:08:20.240 talking about?
00:08:20.840 Is that a good thing
00:08:21.540 to say or not?
00:08:22.460 And my thought is
00:08:23.920 that's better
00:08:24.860 than not saying it,
00:08:27.420 but actually acting
00:08:29.300 that way.
00:08:30.080 So now you're sleeping
00:08:31.200 around with other women.
00:08:32.140 You've got this one woman
00:08:33.320 on the line.
00:08:33.900 She thinks you're trying
00:08:34.540 to be exclusive or serious
00:08:35.740 and you're not interested
00:08:37.180 in it.
00:08:37.920 And I know why
00:08:39.280 a man would do that.
00:08:40.320 He would do that
00:08:40.980 so that he doesn't
00:08:41.840 blow his cover
00:08:42.460 and can get all the play
00:08:43.360 he wants.
00:08:44.860 But it's better
00:08:45.920 for somebody
00:08:46.460 to just come out
00:08:47.020 and say,
00:08:47.400 hey, yeah,
00:08:47.760 I'm just interested
00:08:48.920 and fooling around
00:08:49.580 and playing around
00:08:50.280 than I am dating
00:08:52.400 exclusively with one person.
00:08:54.480 You know,
00:08:54.700 you see that all the time.
00:08:56.520 There's a page
00:08:57.480 that has been brought
00:08:59.100 to my attention.
00:09:00.480 It's like a Facebook group
00:09:01.920 that I guess guys,
00:09:04.220 women will post
00:09:05.080 guys' pictures on there
00:09:06.460 and say,
00:09:07.600 and it's called like,
00:09:08.400 am I,
00:09:08.920 are you dating this person
00:09:10.060 or something?
00:09:10.720 And they'll post
00:09:11.900 a picture on there
00:09:13.420 and then all the other women
00:09:16.160 will chime in and say,
00:09:17.000 oh yeah,
00:09:17.360 I've dated that guy
00:09:18.320 or that guy's dating
00:09:19.160 my sister right now
00:09:20.520 or whatever
00:09:21.220 and so they'll just
00:09:22.220 blow these guys' covers
00:09:24.360 and there's also one
00:09:25.320 for guys too.
00:09:26.560 So there's two different versions
00:09:28.100 but it's a little off subject
00:09:30.440 but the point is,
00:09:32.060 even at the micro level,
00:09:33.400 just state your intentions
00:09:34.580 and when you do,
00:09:36.960 you allow people
00:09:37.880 to make their own decisions
00:09:39.340 based on relevant,
00:09:41.900 pertinent,
00:09:42.340 accurate information.
00:09:43.700 God,
00:09:43.920 and it's so easier,
00:09:45.660 so much easier,
00:09:47.020 less stress.
00:09:48.020 So then,
00:09:49.320 oh,
00:09:49.700 for sure.
00:09:50.800 It makes me
00:09:51.580 exhaustive thinking about it.
00:09:52.860 You don't have to
00:09:53.760 continually lie
00:09:55.900 and then,
00:09:56.960 not only do you
00:09:57.520 not have to lie,
00:09:58.420 you don't have to lie
00:09:59.240 on top of lie
00:09:59.900 on top of lie
00:10:00.620 to cover up
00:10:01.320 the first lie
00:10:02.080 and before long,
00:10:03.420 there's a quote about it,
00:10:04.680 you can't even remember
00:10:05.680 what you were lying about.
00:10:07.380 You either,
00:10:07.800 A,
00:10:07.940 think it's true
00:10:08.700 or stumble all over
00:10:10.320 your stories
00:10:10.920 and get caught anyways.
00:10:12.600 Yeah,
00:10:12.860 totally.
00:10:14.140 Yeah.
00:10:14.860 All right,
00:10:15.080 man,
00:10:15.260 what do you got?
00:10:15.620 So my headline
00:10:17.080 is in the world
00:10:19.120 of politics
00:10:19.680 and this is not
00:10:20.240 so much a headline
00:10:20.920 but I was listening
00:10:22.420 to the news
00:10:23.280 or something this morning
00:10:24.180 and they were talking
00:10:25.300 about the disparity,
00:10:27.020 the gender gap
00:10:27.720 between women and men
00:10:29.320 when it comes to voting
00:10:30.260 and I pulled up
00:10:31.160 some statistics here
00:10:32.260 and generally speaking,
00:10:33.820 women vote,
00:10:35.040 about 55%
00:10:36.520 of the respondents
00:10:38.540 or voters
00:10:39.200 are women
00:10:39.680 and then 44%
00:10:40.640 to 47%
00:10:41.680 are typically men.
00:10:43.100 Really?
00:10:43.660 And so I,
00:10:44.300 yeah.
00:10:44.860 Huh.
00:10:45.600 Yeah,
00:10:45.820 so I pulled this up here.
00:10:47.040 This is from Target Early.
00:10:49.180 I don't know
00:10:50.580 the credibility of this site.
00:10:51.720 I'll go ahead
00:10:52.020 and throw this out here
00:10:52.720 right now.
00:10:53.120 It looks pretty reputable
00:10:54.080 and I think it's legitimate
00:10:56.860 but they're looking
00:10:58.100 at the early
00:10:59.220 and absentee voting reports
00:11:00.720 for this year's election.
00:11:02.240 So this is as of October 21st,
00:11:04.360 this morning,
00:11:05.400 2024
00:11:05.920 and it looks like
00:11:08.940 my eyes are going bad
00:11:10.560 so it just takes me a second.
00:11:12.740 53%
00:11:13.840 of the early voters
00:11:15.380 or the 13 million voters
00:11:16.720 that have cast early ballots
00:11:17.920 in the 2024 election,
00:11:19.920 53%
00:11:20.940 are women
00:11:21.540 and
00:11:23.180 44.7%
00:11:25.360 are
00:11:26.280 male.
00:11:27.560 Now you might be asking
00:11:28.420 where's the other
00:11:29.220 two or three percent?
00:11:31.060 Gender unknown,
00:11:32.140 whatever the hell that means.
00:11:33.660 2.3%
00:11:35.040 gender unknown.
00:11:36.200 I didn't even know
00:11:37.200 that was an option.
00:11:37.940 Oh, shit.
00:11:38.280 But I think it goes
00:11:40.180 to just show
00:11:41.060 that historically
00:11:42.000 women vote
00:11:42.780 in larger droves
00:11:43.900 than men do
00:11:44.580 and I think
00:11:45.720 that's unfortunate.
00:11:47.200 Not that I don't think
00:11:48.240 their voices should count
00:11:49.600 but that we should have
00:11:51.140 accurate representation
00:11:52.940 as men.
00:11:54.740 And I think there are
00:11:55.580 more women
00:11:56.200 in the country
00:11:56.980 voting women
00:11:57.580 than there are men
00:11:58.320 so that represents
00:11:59.020 a little bit
00:11:59.500 of the disparity
00:12:00.080 but it's very,
00:12:01.700 very crucial
00:12:02.200 that men get involved
00:12:03.440 because
00:12:03.940 you are going
00:12:05.220 to be impacted
00:12:05.980 by the decisions
00:12:06.660 that are being made
00:12:07.480 and if we allow
00:12:08.080 those decisions
00:12:08.680 to be made
00:12:09.260 by representation
00:12:09.980 that don't represent us
00:12:11.440 then we're going
00:12:12.660 to find ourselves
00:12:13.300 in a spot
00:12:13.780 that we don't like,
00:12:14.940 appreciate,
00:12:15.460 or might even be
00:12:16.200 dangerous or destructive
00:12:17.220 to our way of life.
00:12:19.000 So guys,
00:12:19.660 my,
00:12:20.140 and I'm not going
00:12:20.560 to tell you
00:12:20.920 who to vote for.
00:12:21.680 You all know
00:12:22.080 at this point
00:12:22.640 I'm voting for Trump.
00:12:24.020 He's not the best candidate.
00:12:25.520 I think we had
00:12:26.060 a really great candidate
00:12:26.960 in Ron DeSantis.
00:12:28.380 He governs well.
00:12:29.740 I think he presented
00:12:30.760 poorly
00:12:31.240 during the primaries
00:12:32.180 but he does govern
00:12:34.200 very well
00:12:35.180 and that's what I want.
00:12:36.440 I want a president
00:12:37.980 who can govern well
00:12:39.360 and he did that
00:12:40.100 but that's beside the point.
00:12:42.180 So here we are
00:12:43.180 with our candidates.
00:12:44.900 Make your choice
00:12:45.840 but make the choice
00:12:48.160 and actually take some time.
00:12:49.800 Go do it.
00:12:50.340 I've got my mail-in ballot
00:12:51.340 right here.
00:12:52.560 I just got it
00:12:53.120 in the mail yesterday
00:12:53.800 so I'm going to be voting
00:12:55.020 by mail
00:12:55.660 and you guys can do that too.
00:12:58.020 Just make sure
00:12:59.160 you cast your ballot
00:13:00.080 and I understand
00:13:00.940 what a lot of you
00:13:01.660 are probably already thinking
00:13:02.820 my vote doesn't count.
00:13:04.840 It doesn't matter.
00:13:06.700 Look,
00:13:08.060 I'm not going to get into
00:13:09.060 whether or not it does
00:13:10.000 but I will tell you this.
00:13:11.120 If you don't
00:13:11.880 it definitely doesn't count.
00:13:15.040 If you don't do it
00:13:16.440 or if everybody thought that
00:13:18.340 it definitely would not count.
00:13:20.300 It would increase the odds
00:13:21.500 of our vote not counting 100%.
00:13:23.740 Yeah.
00:13:24.920 So go vote.
00:13:26.600 I can't help
00:13:27.300 but people that have that mentality
00:13:29.180 what are the areas of your life
00:13:30.780 are you sitting back going
00:13:32.060 well, my opinion doesn't matter
00:13:34.340 and oh, there's nothing I can do.
00:13:37.040 Like there's trends
00:13:38.480 and when you show up powerfully in life
00:13:41.800 you show up powerfully
00:13:42.580 and when you're a victim
00:13:44.540 and you're waiting for other people
00:13:46.680 to dictate how your life happens to you
00:13:49.000 trust me
00:13:49.560 it's not just happening
00:13:51.000 on the political side
00:13:51.960 it's probably happening
00:13:52.760 in your marriage
00:13:53.460 it's happening in your family
00:13:55.080 it's happening in multiple areas.
00:13:56.580 It's just kind of a pathetic
00:13:59.180 a pathetic thing to say
00:14:01.900 oh, it's almost like a victim
00:14:03.900 or a weakness
00:14:05.060 like oh, nobody cares about insecurity
00:14:07.700 nobody cares
00:14:08.980 I'm not important
00:14:10.280 I don't like that
00:14:11.200 that's not anything
00:14:12.080 that we've advocated
00:14:12.960 over the past nine and a half years now.
00:14:14.880 Yeah, absolutely.
00:14:16.380 All right, so we're going to field questions
00:14:17.840 from the Iron Council
00:14:19.480 to learn more about the Iron Council
00:14:21.620 you can go to orderofman.com
00:14:23.180 slash Iron Council
00:14:24.260 our first question
00:14:24.880 Hey, actually Kit
00:14:25.620 before we do that
00:14:26.540 can I just
00:14:27.580 because we're trying to build up
00:14:29.120 the live previews
00:14:30.280 can I just give precedent
00:14:31.240 to some of the comments
00:14:32.800 and questions
00:14:33.320 that we had come in live already?
00:14:35.080 Yeah, yeah
00:14:35.680 in fact, I just saw one question
00:14:37.340 that is very much related
00:14:38.820 to what we just said
00:14:39.820 and so yeah, absolutely.
00:14:41.900 Do you want me to go ahead
00:14:42.600 and read that?
00:14:43.960 Yeah, why don't you read that question
00:14:45.040 we'll hit on that
00:14:45.620 and then we can move over to the IC.
00:14:47.120 Yeah, so we have
00:14:48.340 well, there's a couple questions
00:14:51.440 there's two things
00:14:52.300 I actually want to call out
00:14:53.580 so Franco
00:14:55.520 you know, he asked the question
00:14:56.980 how politically driven are you?
00:15:00.240 And so let's just address that
00:15:01.780 and then there's a comment
00:15:03.020 around the concept
00:15:04.160 around the lesser of two evils.
00:15:07.420 Yeah, well I'm extremely
00:15:09.080 politically driven
00:15:10.160 what is the phrase?
00:15:11.920 Politics are downstream of culture
00:15:13.480 or culture is downstream of politics
00:15:15.200 right?
00:15:15.900 So everything that we do
00:15:18.120 is impacted by the political realm
00:15:20.680 so for those guys
00:15:22.000 who are thinking
00:15:22.620 I'm not very political
00:15:23.700 my vote doesn't count
00:15:25.540 I don't want to get involved
00:15:26.640 et cetera, et cetera
00:15:27.500 you are involved
00:15:28.880 the only question is
00:15:30.660 whether or not
00:15:31.260 you're participating
00:15:32.140 you know, isn't it?
00:15:32.960 What's that?
00:15:33.380 NCP or NPC
00:15:35.620 non-player
00:15:36.420 non-computer player
00:15:38.960 have you heard of this?
00:15:39.820 It's like in the gaming world
00:15:41.020 it's like a non
00:15:41.780 when it's a bot or whatever
00:15:43.360 yes
00:15:44.360 yeah
00:15:44.700 that's what you are
00:15:46.420 you're running through a script
00:15:48.860 not
00:15:49.620 I'm not pointing anybody out
00:15:50.940 individually
00:15:51.420 but
00:15:51.780 I'm explaining the concept
00:15:53.720 you're running a script
00:15:55.440 and you aren't even in the game
00:15:57.600 you're in
00:15:58.120 you're there
00:15:58.600 you're present
00:15:59.200 in the consequences of the game
00:16:01.880 but you're not actually
00:16:03.280 an active player
00:16:04.220 what a pathetic way to live
00:16:06.480 so yeah
00:16:07.800 you should be informed
00:16:09.360 you should be educated
00:16:10.740 you should be running for politics
00:16:12.200 you should know
00:16:13.300 who your elected officials are
00:16:15.080 you should know
00:16:16.000 all of those things
00:16:16.880 so that you can actually
00:16:18.260 be involved in the process
00:16:19.900 because it is going to impact
00:16:21.640 your income
00:16:22.380 your taxation
00:16:23.580 your school districts
00:16:26.240 your county lines
00:16:28.240 your zoning
00:16:29.040 everything in your life
00:16:30.860 is because of what politicians do
00:16:33.220 for better
00:16:34.200 and more often than not
00:16:35.340 for worse
00:16:35.900 yeah
00:16:36.640 and politics is integrating
00:16:38.060 into our personal lives
00:16:39.380 so much more
00:16:41.040 than it ever has
00:16:42.380 and so
00:16:43.400 I could understand
00:16:45.520 back in the day
00:16:46.440 where we might be like
00:16:47.300 ah politics
00:16:47.960 it's this thing over here
00:16:49.340 are you joking
00:16:50.060 politics is everything
00:16:51.160 that's dictating your school
00:16:52.960 it dictates what your kids
00:16:54.280 are being taught
00:16:55.040 like
00:16:55.840 there is no separation
00:16:57.680 certainly not anymore
00:16:59.500 and there's a lot of
00:17:01.660 to your point
00:17:02.460 there's a lot of influence
00:17:03.560 on how politics
00:17:05.040 shows up in our lives
00:17:06.120 so
00:17:07.020 yeah
00:17:07.340 hop in there Franco
00:17:09.060 if you're not
00:17:10.060 the other question was
00:17:12.020 what about those of us
00:17:13.660 who would rather not vote
00:17:15.240 for the lesser of two evils
00:17:16.860 actually
00:17:18.540 I can actually get behind that
00:17:21.540 I would rather
00:17:22.780 if you
00:17:23.340 oh here's two reasons
00:17:24.540 a few reasons
00:17:25.480 you shouldn't vote
00:17:26.120 one you're dumb
00:17:26.880 I don't want you to vote
00:17:29.260 I actually think
00:17:30.260 it should be a little harder
00:17:31.080 to vote
00:17:31.440 and how
00:17:32.080 heaven forbid
00:17:33.280 I say that
00:17:33.880 it's a right
00:17:34.360 no it's not a right
00:17:35.320 where is it a right to vote
00:17:36.720 no it's a right to representation
00:17:38.300 but
00:17:38.680 nobody has a right to vote
00:17:40.460 I think we ought to consider
00:17:41.760 maybe making sure
00:17:43.540 people have some sort of
00:17:44.880 baseline
00:17:45.460 knowledge
00:17:46.800 about our political system
00:17:48.320 before they go cast
00:17:49.260 their ballot
00:17:49.960 I know that's going to be
00:17:51.660 controversial
00:17:52.200 but
00:17:52.680 I don't
00:17:53.540 we don't need more people
00:17:54.900 to vote
00:17:55.280 just to boost up the numbers
00:17:56.680 so
00:17:58.160 a couple of reasons
00:17:59.360 you wouldn't
00:17:59.840 you're dumb
00:18:00.380 you're ignorant about it
00:18:01.340 I actually don't want
00:18:02.200 those people to vote
00:18:03.040 because I already know
00:18:03.780 which way they're going to vote
00:18:04.620 anyways
00:18:04.880 and I don't want those people
00:18:06.040 to vote
00:18:06.440 and
00:18:07.760 if you don't
00:18:08.480 if you
00:18:08.940 if you in your heart
00:18:10.340 can't
00:18:11.320 support a candidate
00:18:13.060 and let's
00:18:13.600 let's take Trump
00:18:14.360 for example
00:18:14.920 because there's a lot
00:18:15.840 of people who listen to this
00:18:16.840 who are going to be voting
00:18:17.900 for Trump
00:18:18.360 and there's a lot of guys
00:18:19.260 who are listening
00:18:19.660 like how could you
00:18:20.740 look if you can't
00:18:21.940 that's fine
00:18:22.880 just don't vote
00:18:24.140 I understand that
00:18:25.600 that
00:18:26.180 I can
00:18:27.220 I can see why
00:18:28.560 that would be the case
00:18:29.480 and I don't think
00:18:30.520 that you're obligated
00:18:31.480 to vote
00:18:31.880 because you're
00:18:32.520 you're a citizen
00:18:33.300 like it isn't
00:18:34.020 your patriotic duty
00:18:35.120 if you don't feel like
00:18:36.720 it's in your best interest
00:18:38.660 I don't agree
00:18:40.000 with that necessarily
00:18:40.920 but
00:18:41.500 you have
00:18:42.620 you have
00:18:43.200 certainly the opportunity
00:18:44.180 not to vote
00:18:45.040 totally
00:18:46.700 well and
00:18:47.660 and when it comes
00:18:48.720 to third party
00:18:49.540 third parties
00:18:51.600 if we always
00:18:53.420 voted the two
00:18:54.140 political systems
00:18:55.220 then there would
00:18:55.940 never be a momentum
00:18:56.840 right
00:18:57.740 and a disruption
00:18:58.660 to
00:18:59.260 the two party
00:19:00.980 system
00:19:01.360 and so if you're
00:19:02.420 if you're trying
00:19:03.440 to buck the system
00:19:04.300 a little bit
00:19:04.860 and you want
00:19:06.160 to create momentum
00:19:06.920 for me
00:19:08.440 I'd absolutely
00:19:09.340 vote third party
00:19:10.780 knowing that
00:19:11.340 they're not going to win
00:19:12.180 but like
00:19:12.780 they're never going to win
00:19:14.160 unless people start
00:19:15.400 taking action
00:19:16.220 and showing
00:19:17.640 that like hey
00:19:18.420 that's a viable approach
00:19:20.380 you know what I mean
00:19:21.240 to our politics
00:19:22.180 and so
00:19:23.020 yeah
00:19:23.380 yeah
00:19:23.800 so vote
00:19:24.340 vote your conscious
00:19:25.160 for sure
00:19:25.820 but at least
00:19:26.780 do something
00:19:27.540 right
00:19:28.220 yeah
00:19:29.740 and I
00:19:30.060 I'm just pulling this up
00:19:31.020 here real quick
00:19:31.540 so I got
00:19:32.400 I have my ballot
00:19:33.060 right here
00:19:33.640 and I'm not going to show it
00:19:34.960 because I might have
00:19:35.600 sensitive
00:19:36.360 I don't think I have
00:19:37.180 sensitive information
00:19:37.960 on it
00:19:38.220 regardless
00:19:38.640 but we also have to remember
00:19:41.400 when we talk about this
00:19:43.620 everybody says
00:19:44.520 or just assumes
00:19:45.860 oh we're voting
00:19:46.560 for president
00:19:47.100 yes
00:19:47.780 true
00:19:48.500 but on here
00:19:49.600 we've also got
00:19:50.460 U.S. Senate
00:19:51.160 you've got your U.S.
00:19:52.780 you know
00:19:52.960 house district
00:19:53.600 whatever district you're in
00:19:54.500 you've got your state offices
00:19:55.580 attorney general
00:19:56.360 state auditor
00:19:57.160 you've got
00:19:58.240 state treasurer
00:19:59.420 state senators
00:20:00.920 county commissioners
00:20:02.460 county clerks
00:20:03.460 and then you've got
00:20:04.800 a couple of different
00:20:05.740 constitutional amendments
00:20:06.720 for the state
00:20:07.380 that is
00:20:07.880 and other
00:20:10.260 proposals
00:20:11.760 I'll call them
00:20:12.620 for changes
00:20:14.360 to
00:20:15.020 certain laws
00:20:16.960 so
00:20:17.600 you might not want to vote
00:20:19.700 for any of the political
00:20:20.940 presidential candidates
00:20:22.480 but there's a lot of other reasons
00:20:24.060 to vote
00:20:24.560 that
00:20:25.260 you might
00:20:26.060 want to consider
00:20:27.040 because
00:20:27.360 that's going to impact you greatly
00:20:28.920 yeah
00:20:29.740 absolutely
00:20:30.880 all right
00:20:31.860 we'll keep our eye on that
00:20:33.120 on that chat guys
00:20:34.200 as we
00:20:34.680 as we go through these questions
00:20:36.040 all right
00:20:36.800 Peter
00:20:37.220 Bentoncourt
00:20:38.100 I'm currently working
00:20:39.720 through the interview process
00:20:41.020 for promotional possibility
00:20:43.400 with my current employer
00:20:44.860 I've made it
00:20:46.240 I've made it past
00:20:48.280 my second interview
00:20:49.160 and should be scheduled
00:20:50.160 for a panel interview
00:20:51.280 later this week
00:20:52.180 I've done my homework
00:20:53.520 and I've been practicing
00:20:54.540 over the last couple of weeks
00:20:55.800 do you have any
00:20:56.500 last minute tips
00:20:57.840 when interviewing
00:20:59.000 via a live call
00:21:00.540 thank you
00:21:01.320 the
00:21:03.180 I think Peter's
00:21:04.280 probably been doing
00:21:05.220 a great job
00:21:05.820 just the fact that
00:21:06.440 he's asking us this
00:21:08.160 he's already into the process
00:21:09.580 the one thing
00:21:10.680 that I've seen
00:21:11.100 a lot of people overlook
00:21:12.100 when it comes to interviewing
00:21:13.260 is they think
00:21:14.760 because it's an interview
00:21:15.840 that the interviewer
00:21:17.480 is exclusively
00:21:18.980 allowed to ask questions
00:21:20.700 of the interviewee
00:21:22.060 and one strategy
00:21:23.600 that I've found
00:21:24.240 that is really
00:21:24.920 really
00:21:25.280 it's valuable
00:21:27.280 and it makes
00:21:28.260 an interviewee
00:21:29.280 a candidate
00:21:29.820 look really engaged
00:21:31.760 is asking
00:21:32.520 thoughtful questions
00:21:33.440 and if that candidate
00:21:35.320 can ask
00:21:35.800 thoughtful questions
00:21:36.600 but you have to be
00:21:37.280 a little careful
00:21:37.840 because you don't want
00:21:38.520 to ask too many questions
00:21:39.760 because then it comes
00:21:41.080 across as peppering
00:21:42.060 and a little bit weird
00:21:43.660 and you don't want
00:21:44.880 to ask questions
00:21:45.580 you should know
00:21:46.140 the answer to either
00:21:47.160 because then you are
00:21:48.700 showing that you did
00:21:49.760 not do your homework
00:21:50.660 but if you ask
00:21:52.540 thoughtful questions
00:21:53.460 something
00:21:54.400 and they can't be
00:21:55.520 general either
00:21:56.140 like what can I do
00:21:57.160 to be good at my job
00:21:58.180 no that's not
00:21:59.560 what I'm talking about
00:22:00.340 a thoughtful question
00:22:02.340 I don't know where Peter
00:22:03.200 what line of work
00:22:04.480 he's in necessarily
00:22:05.180 but a thoughtful
00:22:06.180 question might be
00:22:07.120 hey I know
00:22:09.240 the distribution
00:22:09.960 of sales
00:22:11.140 in the company
00:22:12.580 is
00:22:13.340 50%
00:22:14.900 online
00:22:16.300 30%
00:22:17.940 brick and mortar
00:22:19.160 and 20%
00:22:20.300 direct to consumer
00:22:21.160 whatever right
00:22:21.820 just whatever
00:22:22.480 the allocation is
00:22:23.320 from where you guys sit
00:22:25.980 do you want to
00:22:28.060 improve
00:22:28.800 those numbers
00:22:30.040 and if so
00:22:31.120 what are your targets
00:22:32.440 so that I know
00:22:33.300 if I were to come
00:22:33.900 into this position
00:22:34.520 I can have an idea
00:22:35.800 of what some benchmarks
00:22:36.860 would be
00:22:37.380 now that might not
00:22:38.560 apply to Peter
00:22:39.240 but I'm just giving
00:22:40.280 an example
00:22:40.920 that's a really
00:22:42.140 thoughtful question
00:22:43.180 that shows that
00:22:45.160 you've done your homework
00:22:46.080 and that also
00:22:47.220 you really care
00:22:48.260 about what their
00:22:49.360 objectives are
00:22:50.200 so I think
00:22:51.040 asking questions
00:22:52.440 just a couple
00:22:53.560 you don't need it a lot
00:22:54.640 just a couple
00:22:55.260 really poignant
00:22:56.520 well-timed questions
00:22:57.860 go a really
00:22:58.620 really long way
00:22:59.240 in an interview process
00:23:00.220 totally
00:23:01.000 just to add
00:23:02.700 to that same
00:23:03.420 exact concept
00:23:04.200 and I mentioned
00:23:04.740 this recently
00:23:05.960 I don't know
00:23:06.520 to who
00:23:07.120 I share my opinion
00:23:08.400 probably a little
00:23:09.000 too often
00:23:09.460 so I can't relate
00:23:10.580 or I can't remember
00:23:11.480 when I shared this
00:23:12.260 but have the mindset
00:23:14.040 that you're the CEO
00:23:15.780 and who you're
00:23:17.540 interviewing for
00:23:18.280 is the client
00:23:19.000 so what would you do
00:23:21.680 in that scenario
00:23:22.320 you would understand
00:23:23.320 your client really well
00:23:24.380 you would probably
00:23:25.500 have a little bit
00:23:26.500 of a strategy
00:23:27.260 and game plan
00:23:28.200 of what success
00:23:29.160 would be like
00:23:29.860 in that role
00:23:30.640 and position
00:23:31.240 and then in this interview
00:23:32.800 what are you
00:23:33.300 what are you validating
00:23:34.520 you're confirming
00:23:36.060 your understanding
00:23:37.900 and a little bit
00:23:38.580 of your game plan
00:23:39.520 and where they see
00:23:41.580 success measures
00:23:42.560 and how
00:23:43.560 what does winning
00:23:44.660 or what does success
00:23:45.720 look like
00:23:46.260 in that position
00:23:47.320 with a little bit
00:23:48.540 of like peppering
00:23:49.380 of what you think
00:23:50.580 it should be
00:23:51.220 but you validating
00:23:52.980 with them
00:23:53.500 I really do believe
00:23:56.140 that if you go
00:23:56.920 into this interview
00:23:57.900 Peter
00:23:58.240 with the perspective
00:23:59.340 that this is
00:24:01.280 this is a contract
00:24:02.820 to some extent
00:24:03.960 between you
00:24:04.540 and them
00:24:04.940 you're not
00:24:06.540 their employee
00:24:07.700 no
00:24:08.240 they might
00:24:09.360 have the opportunity
00:24:10.440 to hire you
00:24:11.660 for your services
00:24:12.620 and so
00:24:15.040 approach it
00:24:15.900 from that perspective
00:24:16.800 and trust me
00:24:17.900 you'll have
00:24:18.660 the right confidence
00:24:20.240 the right humility
00:24:21.580 the curiosity
00:24:23.320 and the focus
00:24:24.420 and the questions
00:24:25.040 necessary
00:24:25.640 to show up
00:24:26.840 in a really powerful way
00:24:28.000 when you think
00:24:28.860 of it that way
00:24:29.500 and for that matter
00:24:31.000 everybody that has a job
00:24:32.480 that feels like
00:24:34.000 a little bit
00:24:34.560 of their employer
00:24:36.440 dictates what they do
00:24:38.500 and what they don't do
00:24:39.560 all of us
00:24:40.600 should stop
00:24:41.180 and go wait a second
00:24:42.200 no
00:24:42.560 I'm choosing
00:24:43.920 to work for them
00:24:44.780 and maybe
00:24:47.080 it will work for me
00:24:48.040 maybe it won't
00:24:48.980 work for me
00:24:49.620 this is a
00:24:50.580 this is an agreement
00:24:51.700 I own my own career
00:24:53.280 and are they
00:24:55.020 paying me
00:24:55.980 and creating me
00:24:56.760 the opportunities
00:24:57.460 to learn and grow
00:24:58.140 if they're not
00:24:58.700 then I am exiting
00:24:59.640 and while I'm here
00:25:01.740 I'm going to ensure
00:25:02.320 that I'm successful
00:25:03.120 to this employer
00:25:04.140 slash client
00:25:05.000 and if I'm not getting
00:25:06.520 what I need
00:25:07.080 to be successful
00:25:07.800 I'm going to go
00:25:08.300 to you Ryan
00:25:08.820 and say hey Ryan
00:25:09.520 for me to be successful
00:25:10.960 in my position here
00:25:12.060 there's a couple things
00:25:13.180 I need from you
00:25:13.880 and I need these things
00:25:15.900 and if I can't get them
00:25:17.160 in time
00:25:17.560 I'm not going to be
00:25:18.240 successful in this role
00:25:19.380 and we address
00:25:21.220 those gaps
00:25:22.420 and we own
00:25:23.940 our employment
00:25:24.700 and we own
00:25:26.040 our services
00:25:27.100 in that way
00:25:28.660 and when you do that
00:25:29.980 you will be a better employee
00:25:31.200 but most importantly
00:25:32.100 you'll be in a position
00:25:33.300 of empowerment
00:25:33.980 and if you're not getting
00:25:35.180 what you need
00:25:35.680 to be successful
00:25:36.400 this is what top
00:25:37.460 top people do
00:25:38.580 they leave
00:25:39.440 because why
00:25:40.740 would I be at a company
00:25:41.840 where I can't be successful
00:25:43.580 in the role
00:25:43.980 because they're unwilling
00:25:44.980 to give me
00:25:45.420 what I need
00:25:45.920 to be successful
00:25:46.660 and you should
00:25:47.880 so I just
00:25:49.900 I keep stretching
00:25:51.700 all the questions
00:25:52.440 to be applicable
00:25:53.040 to more people
00:25:53.700 but I just can't help
00:25:55.300 but think
00:25:56.080 how many of us
00:25:56.900 are victims
00:25:58.200 of our employer
00:25:59.260 and we're sitting back
00:26:01.020 waiting
00:26:01.520 and hoping
00:26:02.140 we get what we need
00:26:03.180 to be successful
00:26:03.980 if you're not
00:26:05.320 address it head on
00:26:06.980 yeah
00:26:08.020 well I wrote
00:26:08.920 I wrote down
00:26:09.780 a couple things
00:26:10.320 as you were saying
00:26:10.860 that number one
00:26:11.480 is every single person
00:26:12.580 who has a job
00:26:13.240 is self-employed
00:26:14.460 absolutely
00:26:15.000 you are self-employed
00:26:16.940 you were deciding
00:26:17.660 to go work for yourself
00:26:19.100 I love that view
00:26:20.000 and I wrote something else
00:26:21.600 here because
00:26:22.280 well you know
00:26:23.480 an example of this
00:26:24.740 would be
00:26:25.240 if I were to say
00:26:26.100 to somebody
00:26:26.600 hey you need
00:26:27.300 to really serve
00:26:27.900 your client
00:26:28.380 somebody in the
00:26:29.020 accounting department
00:26:29.760 of a major law firm
00:26:30.880 for example
00:26:31.460 might say
00:26:32.080 well I don't have clients
00:26:33.520 well absolutely do
00:26:35.620 it's the partners
00:26:36.680 it's the law firm
00:26:37.640 it's the company
00:26:38.860 that is your client
00:26:40.200 to your point
00:26:40.800 and here's one thing
00:26:41.920 I wrote down
00:26:42.460 that I think
00:26:42.960 we really need
00:26:43.720 to make sure
00:26:44.160 we hit on
00:26:44.660 because you said
00:26:45.820 if you don't get
00:26:46.360 what you need
00:26:46.840 you can leave
00:26:47.560 you can only leave
00:26:48.900 assuming that
00:26:49.520 you have another client
00:26:50.440 so as a person
00:26:53.800 who is self-employed
00:26:55.200 which now we've identified
00:26:56.040 as everybody
00:26:56.740 you should always
00:26:57.860 be building out
00:26:58.800 your network
00:26:59.360 if you're
00:27:00.160 an accountant
00:27:01.360 at a major law firm
00:27:02.940 you should be friends
00:27:04.460 with every
00:27:05.300 partner
00:27:06.180 in every
00:27:06.880 single law firm
00:27:07.920 in your area
00:27:08.900 you should be working
00:27:10.620 with other financial
00:27:11.420 planning practices
00:27:12.440 and getting to know them
00:27:13.560 and taking them to lunch
00:27:14.720 and going on golf outings
00:27:16.520 with that
00:27:16.840 you should be networking
00:27:18.060 your tail off
00:27:19.360 not with the expectation
00:27:20.620 that you're going to leave
00:27:22.000 or anything like that
00:27:22.880 but the opportunity
00:27:24.060 so if you decide
00:27:25.260 hey this is not cutting it
00:27:26.500 my client's not getting me
00:27:27.580 what I need
00:27:28.180 and I've got to leave
00:27:29.340 you've got 10 people
00:27:30.860 that you can make a phone call
00:27:32.060 and be back to
00:27:33.180 having a good client
00:27:34.740 in a matter of
00:27:35.680 24 hours
00:27:36.700 so never believe
00:27:38.960 in your quote unquote
00:27:39.800 job security
00:27:40.840 sales guys don't believe
00:27:42.240 in that
00:27:42.500 they're always out selling
00:27:43.420 well you're a sales guy too
00:27:44.840 you're just not admitting it
00:27:46.380 so make sure you're networking
00:27:48.200 that's the last thing
00:27:49.000 I'll add on to that point
00:27:50.300 I love it
00:27:51.180 all right
00:27:51.640 Daniel Makina
00:27:53.120 do you feel
00:27:54.500 there's long term solution
00:27:56.100 for our country
00:27:56.880 for our country politically
00:27:58.360 it feels like
00:27:59.080 every once in a blue moon
00:28:00.400 we get someone
00:28:01.500 who does some good
00:28:02.440 for our country
00:28:03.120 but is quickly undone
00:28:04.600 by the next administration
00:28:06.060 with so much corruption
00:28:07.500 the country being
00:28:08.600 in 34.4 trillion of debt
00:28:11.380 and a great number
00:28:12.580 of people refusing
00:28:13.540 to wake up
00:28:14.280 to the destruction
00:28:15.060 of our nation
00:28:15.700 it often feels like
00:28:17.440 an unwinnable battle
00:28:19.080 well
00:28:21.780 it's
00:28:22.660 it's yes
00:28:23.360 and
00:28:24.200 generally
00:28:24.880 what's going to happen
00:28:26.000 is that
00:28:27.280 it's going to just
00:28:27.980 continue to get worse
00:28:28.920 until it falls apart
00:28:29.900 like
00:28:30.680 I hate to say that
00:28:32.160 but that's really
00:28:33.040 what ends up happening
00:28:33.960 you know
00:28:34.620 think about how many
00:28:35.340 countries have
00:28:36.280 eroded
00:28:37.140 how many countries
00:28:37.960 have disbanded
00:28:38.740 how many cultures
00:28:39.440 have come
00:28:40.380 and gone to greatness
00:28:41.400 the odds are
00:28:43.420 of that happening
00:28:44.100 is likely
00:28:45.000 something's going to happen
00:28:46.220 whether it's division
00:28:47.180 within the country
00:28:48.140 absorption
00:28:50.100 through another
00:28:50.740 country
00:28:51.540 this is going to happen
00:28:53.600 people don't believe it is
00:28:54.740 unless we can get
00:28:55.780 this thing right
00:28:56.480 and
00:28:57.060 I think we can
00:28:58.340 a couple of things
00:28:59.720 that we need to do
00:29:00.500 are we need to
00:29:01.720 close down the border
00:29:02.660 100%
00:29:04.320 and I'm not saying
00:29:05.680 don't let
00:29:06.240 people in
00:29:07.280 I'm saying
00:29:07.820 close it down
00:29:08.960 and start vetting
00:29:09.920 who is coming
00:29:10.500 into this country
00:29:11.240 we need
00:29:11.800 the biggest
00:29:12.620 the brightest
00:29:13.000 the best
00:29:13.500 now
00:29:14.260 some people will say
00:29:15.440 well that's not what
00:29:16.200 the U.S. was founded on
00:29:17.660 it was founded on
00:29:19.040 give us your poor
00:29:20.440 and your
00:29:21.020 disparaged
00:29:22.360 I can't remember
00:29:22.860 the exact term
00:29:23.640 but here's the difference
00:29:25.520 people who came
00:29:26.880 to this country
00:29:27.580 200
00:29:28.780 300 years ago
00:29:29.780 they were here
00:29:30.860 to actually work
00:29:32.300 to actually contribute
00:29:34.140 to get their piece
00:29:35.780 of the pie
00:29:36.420 that they went
00:29:37.420 and carved out
00:29:38.060 themselves
00:29:38.560 they migrated
00:29:39.800 from the east
00:29:40.560 to the west
00:29:41.160 and they faced
00:29:41.860 you know
00:29:42.980 savage tribes
00:29:44.140 and famine
00:29:44.880 and difficulty
00:29:46.040 and
00:29:46.560 and the natural
00:29:47.900 elements
00:29:48.460 in order to
00:29:49.160 go to somewhere
00:29:50.220 that had never
00:29:50.860 been explored
00:29:51.860 before
00:29:52.240 and to create
00:29:53.440 something
00:29:53.900 for their families
00:29:55.320 and they did it
00:29:56.360 at great risk
00:29:57.240 but when somebody
00:29:58.560 comes into this
00:29:59.180 country now
00:29:59.780 illegally
00:30:00.300 yeah they're here
00:30:01.160 for an opportunity
00:30:01.840 for sure
00:30:02.500 but it's on the back
00:30:04.100 of all of the work
00:30:05.340 that actual Americans
00:30:07.340 have created
00:30:08.460 it's the economy
00:30:10.140 it's the stability
00:30:11.100 it's the infrastructure
00:30:12.760 it's the logistics
00:30:14.200 of this amazing country
00:30:15.800 and that's the distinction
00:30:17.420 is
00:30:18.340 if I
00:30:19.340 if you could guarantee me
00:30:20.520 that somebody was going
00:30:21.240 to come here
00:30:21.660 and work their tail off
00:30:22.700 and you can
00:30:23.380 not guarantee that
00:30:24.940 but you can do that
00:30:25.800 through vetting
00:30:26.540 then that's a person
00:30:28.360 that we want here
00:30:29.240 somebody who's going
00:30:29.900 to participate truly
00:30:31.040 in the American dream
00:30:32.460 but it's not the American dream
00:30:34.360 and it never has been
00:30:35.200 to come here
00:30:35.700 and mooch off everybody
00:30:36.740 because you can't do it
00:30:37.900 in your own country
00:30:38.700 that's where I take issue
00:30:40.820 so close the borders
00:30:42.000 we also need to make sure
00:30:43.900 that we
00:30:44.680 get a hold
00:30:45.620 of this debt
00:30:46.260 we need to stop
00:30:48.620 acquiring so much debt
00:30:50.660 and there should be
00:30:51.860 accountability
00:30:52.620 that
00:30:53.820 that debt
00:30:55.140 needs to be
00:30:55.600 I'm talking about
00:30:56.380 the national debt
00:30:57.280 there needs to be
00:30:58.260 a national deficit
00:30:59.540 in that debt
00:31:00.300 and here's what I mean
00:31:01.820 when I say deficit
00:31:02.720 because politicians
00:31:03.520 are notorious
00:31:05.020 for their
00:31:05.860 being silver-tongued
00:31:07.340 if we acquire
00:31:09.360 two trillion dollars
00:31:10.420 worth of debt
00:31:11.020 this year
00:31:11.600 and then next year
00:31:13.560 we acquire
00:31:14.460 1.9 trillion
00:31:16.380 dollars of debt
00:31:17.560 this year
00:31:18.040 politicians call
00:31:19.580 that a deficit
00:31:20.220 that's not a deficit
00:31:23.040 we just spent
00:31:24.260 a little less
00:31:25.080 than we did
00:31:25.780 the year before
00:31:26.480 but we're still
00:31:27.400 1.9 trillion
00:31:28.460 more in debt
00:31:29.200 an actual deficit
00:31:31.280 means the deficit
00:31:32.300 went from
00:31:32.860 what is it right now
00:31:33.520 in 2024
00:31:34.620 35 trillion dollars
00:31:37.060 down to
00:31:38.280 33 trillion dollars
00:31:39.960 that's a deficit
00:31:41.300 and if politicians
00:31:43.300 can't do that
00:31:44.020 if our government
00:31:44.640 cannot do that
00:31:45.540 then we should
00:31:46.280 oust every single
00:31:47.240 one of those rats
00:31:48.100 because that's
00:31:49.220 exactly what they are
00:31:50.300 and they're putting
00:31:51.300 that debt
00:31:52.040 on the backs
00:31:53.080 of our children
00:31:53.680 and our grandchildren
00:31:54.500 but yeah
00:31:55.340 we gotta
00:31:55.660 maintain national
00:31:56.920 sovereignty
00:31:57.400 and control
00:31:58.300 of our finances
00:31:59.040 unless we can do
00:31:59.940 that
00:32:00.260 we're done
00:32:01.660 we're done
00:32:02.600 it's just a matter
00:32:03.080 of time
00:32:03.360 at this point
00:32:03.840 a quote by
00:32:04.920 Warren Buffett
00:32:05.840 he was quoted
00:32:07.100 this on CNBC
00:32:08.680 saying that
00:32:11.060 he could end
00:32:11.740 the deficit
00:32:12.340 in five minutes
00:32:13.520 he says
00:32:14.860 you just pass
00:32:15.740 a law that says
00:32:16.460 that anytime
00:32:16.980 there's a deficit
00:32:18.080 more than 3%
00:32:19.140 of GDP
00:32:19.980 all city members
00:32:21.040 of congress
00:32:21.660 are ineligible
00:32:23.260 for re-election
00:32:24.220 done
00:32:26.840 that's actually
00:32:28.360 a good way
00:32:28.800 to do it
00:32:29.260 because
00:32:29.620 the reason
00:32:30.620 that we're
00:32:31.020 in this mess
00:32:31.760 is because
00:32:32.400 they want
00:32:32.940 to get re-elected
00:32:34.260 yeah
00:32:34.460 so they over-promise
00:32:35.700 right
00:32:36.480 I mean Kamala Harris
00:32:37.960 did it just recently
00:32:39.040 she said that
00:32:40.320 we're gonna give
00:32:41.020 I think she's
00:32:42.100 I think she
00:32:42.700 narrowed it down
00:32:43.720 specifically
00:32:44.300 to black
00:32:45.400 business owners
00:32:46.580 or maybe just
00:32:47.800 black people
00:32:48.260 in general
00:32:48.800 a $20,000
00:32:50.800 forgivable loan
00:32:51.880 what
00:32:53.280 what now
00:32:53.820 like first
00:32:54.340 that's illegal
00:32:54.860 so there's no way
00:32:56.320 that's gonna fly
00:32:57.040 second
00:32:57.900 it's not the government's
00:32:59.160 job to give people
00:33:00.100 money
00:33:00.440 you know what
00:33:00.800 you could do
00:33:01.380 give everybody
00:33:02.540 a $20,000
00:33:03.700 tax credit
00:33:04.400 or maybe
00:33:05.480 a 5%
00:33:06.180 tax credit
00:33:06.900 or maybe
00:33:07.580 reduce all
00:33:08.360 of that taxation
00:33:09.140 that you're
00:33:10.100 imposing on people
00:33:11.060 and let them
00:33:11.640 deal with their money
00:33:12.380 the way they best
00:33:13.020 see fit
00:33:13.520 but it's these
00:33:14.700 programs that we
00:33:15.600 keep putting in
00:33:16.260 place
00:33:16.520 Medicare
00:33:17.020 Medicare
00:33:17.900 and Social Security
00:33:19.080 are bankrupting
00:33:20.200 this country
00:33:20.760 and no politician
00:33:22.220 can vote against it
00:33:23.080 because the minute
00:33:23.660 they do
00:33:24.240 all the baby boomers
00:33:25.800 start getting up in arms
00:33:27.540 and teary-eyed
00:33:28.540 about it
00:33:29.100 because they don't
00:33:30.520 want to lose
00:33:30.900 their benefits
00:33:31.500 they work so hard for
00:33:32.660 sure they don't care
00:33:33.560 about the remaining
00:33:35.100 generations of this
00:33:36.120 great country
00:33:36.720 but no politician
00:33:37.920 can even touch it
00:33:38.980 because they won't
00:33:40.740 get voted again
00:33:41.480 well that's a great
00:33:42.820 way to end that
00:33:43.680 problem is if you
00:33:44.520 don't touch it
00:33:45.180 you won't get voted
00:33:45.900 because you're not
00:33:46.400 eligible for re-election
00:33:47.340 and thus they don't
00:33:48.460 make the tough
00:33:49.120 decisions
00:33:50.480 and have the
00:33:52.600 difficult conversations
00:33:53.460 and continue to
00:33:54.600 over-promise
00:33:55.240 and then just
00:33:56.400 under-deliver
00:33:57.040 as politicians
00:33:58.260 one thing that
00:33:59.540 you mentioned
00:34:00.020 Ryan that I think
00:34:00.780 is fascinating
00:34:01.560 that we need to
00:34:02.220 remember is
00:34:02.780 you can't
00:34:03.780 have a welfare
00:34:04.660 state
00:34:05.260 and an open
00:34:06.400 border
00:34:06.760 those two things
00:34:08.660 are absolutely
00:34:09.700 in conflict
00:34:10.320 one another
00:34:10.800 we use the
00:34:11.540 example of
00:34:12.360 in the early
00:34:13.060 you know
00:34:13.800 founding areas
00:34:14.640 of this country
00:34:15.360 there was no
00:34:16.640 handout
00:34:17.200 people came here
00:34:19.460 for literally
00:34:20.200 one reason
00:34:20.920 it was to
00:34:22.240 claim land
00:34:23.040 and to have
00:34:23.860 freedom
00:34:24.260 that's it
00:34:25.800 no one was
00:34:27.100 going to save
00:34:27.900 them
00:34:28.160 no one was
00:34:29.440 giving them
00:34:29.960 handouts
00:34:30.560 the difference
00:34:32.220 now we have
00:34:32.960 government systems
00:34:33.740 that will
00:34:34.380 will take care
00:34:35.060 of you
00:34:35.340 we have all
00:34:36.120 all kinds
00:34:36.720 of handouts
00:34:37.360 and you
00:34:38.240 have an
00:34:38.480 open border
00:34:39.040 that doesn't
00:34:39.620 work
00:34:40.120 like those
00:34:42.160 two
00:34:42.360 items
00:34:43.640 will compete
00:34:44.260 with each
00:34:44.640 other in a
00:34:45.080 very negative
00:34:45.640 way
00:34:46.020 I'll give you
00:34:47.580 an example
00:34:48.040 my girlfriend
00:34:48.900 and I
00:34:49.120 earlier in the
00:34:49.640 year we
00:34:49.960 went down
00:34:50.400 to Del Rio
00:34:51.580 we went
00:34:52.080 and hunted
00:34:52.420 down there
00:34:52.920 but we
00:34:53.240 ended up
00:34:53.600 driving down
00:34:54.120 to Del Rio
00:34:54.600 to grab
00:34:54.980 some lunch
00:34:55.540 and we
00:34:56.520 were talking
00:34:56.980 with one
00:34:57.340 of the guys
00:34:57.720 that we hunt
00:34:58.100 with he's
00:34:58.460 the outfitter
00:34:58.960 guide there
00:34:59.540 and he said
00:35:00.020 hey did you
00:35:00.420 see anybody
00:35:00.900 in Del Rio
00:35:01.460 with a yellow
00:35:02.220 folder I believe
00:35:03.160 and I was like
00:35:04.740 a yellow
00:35:05.060 folder no
00:35:06.000 I don't
00:35:06.900 think so
00:35:07.480 like neither
00:35:08.020 of us
00:35:08.300 had seen
00:35:08.820 that
00:35:09.120 and he said
00:35:09.900 oh I said
00:35:10.680 what does that
00:35:11.060 what does that
00:35:11.460 mean he's like
00:35:12.260 oh if they
00:35:12.680 have a yellow
00:35:13.200 folder it means
00:35:13.920 they just
00:35:14.340 crossed into
00:35:14.900 the country
00:35:15.360 and that's
00:35:15.740 all their
00:35:16.060 documentation
00:35:16.780 along with
00:35:18.060 their $1400
00:35:19.280 check just
00:35:20.540 for coming
00:35:21.040 across the
00:35:21.580 border
00:35:21.840 what are we
00:35:23.660 doing
00:35:24.060 what are we
00:35:26.200 doing
00:35:26.700 and it's
00:35:27.520 that if
00:35:28.120 that's all
00:35:28.620 it was
00:35:29.060 we could
00:35:29.560 manage that
00:35:30.160 but that's
00:35:30.560 not all
00:35:31.140 it is
00:35:31.520 it is
00:35:32.140 such a
00:35:32.600 strain
00:35:33.120 on the
00:35:34.000 backs
00:35:34.300 of hard
00:35:34.760 working
00:35:35.060 Americans
00:35:35.560 and nobody
00:35:36.860 seems to
00:35:37.380 care about
00:35:37.820 it at the
00:35:38.160 levels where
00:35:38.640 they can
00:35:38.860 actually do
00:35:39.340 something about
00:35:39.940 it
00:35:40.180 yeah
00:35:40.980 all right
00:35:43.140 Joe Gunter
00:35:44.340 can you meet
00:35:45.700 your goals
00:35:46.340 without some
00:35:47.100 form of
00:35:47.740 spirituality
00:35:48.360 sure
00:35:51.260 goals are
00:35:52.240 amoral
00:35:52.800 yeah
00:35:53.860 why do you
00:35:54.940 think Joe
00:35:55.320 asked that
00:35:55.800 question
00:35:56.180 school shooters
00:35:57.540 going to
00:35:58.680 shoot up
00:35:59.640 schools and
00:36:00.160 kill kids
00:36:00.700 that's a
00:36:01.020 goal
00:36:01.280 yeah
00:36:02.460 your goal
00:36:03.080 your goals
00:36:03.740 are amoral
00:36:04.440 so you can
00:36:05.200 complete any
00:36:05.900 goal you
00:36:07.240 know that
00:36:07.580 that you
00:36:07.940 I guess put
00:36:08.680 your mind
00:36:09.020 to you
00:36:10.000 don't it's
00:36:10.420 not spirituality
00:36:11.020 is not
00:36:11.380 required
00:36:11.880 now I would
00:36:13.900 say I
00:36:15.460 think in the
00:36:15.880 spirit of the
00:36:16.460 way that
00:36:16.940 you're asking
00:36:17.480 it I
00:36:18.620 think goals
00:36:19.560 ought to be
00:36:20.040 virtuous I
00:36:22.040 think they
00:36:22.380 ought to be
00:36:23.020 moral and
00:36:23.780 righteous
00:36:24.180 pursuits
00:36:24.940 but I don't
00:36:26.360 think that
00:36:26.960 it's
00:36:27.420 exclusive to
00:36:28.460 righteous
00:36:28.880 pursuits
00:36:29.420 but as
00:36:30.340 a man who
00:36:30.840 is trying
00:36:31.260 to do
00:36:31.580 good and
00:36:32.040 be good
00:36:32.480 and be a
00:36:32.860 moral upstanding
00:36:33.440 person then
00:36:34.760 for me having
00:36:36.340 an element of
00:36:36.980 spirituality knowing
00:36:38.120 that even the
00:36:38.940 decisions I make
00:36:39.700 today are going
00:36:41.340 to play impacts
00:36:42.680 not only in this
00:36:43.360 life but the
00:36:44.000 next keeps me a
00:36:46.120 little bit more
00:36:46.660 in check
00:36:47.200 yeah
00:36:48.200 so I think
00:36:49.700 something that's
00:36:50.360 bigger than
00:36:50.780 ourselves is
00:36:51.500 crucial having a
00:36:53.360 moral compass
00:36:54.140 because if you
00:36:54.880 don't have that
00:36:55.420 moral compass
00:36:56.220 and by the
00:36:57.480 way I've
00:36:58.060 really debated
00:36:58.620 on this with
00:36:59.160 atheists like
00:36:59.800 do they have a
00:37:00.120 moral compass
00:37:00.600 and I'm going
00:37:01.280 to get to that
00:37:01.700 in a second
00:37:02.180 but if you
00:37:03.180 don't have a
00:37:03.640 moral compass
00:37:04.380 nothing matters
00:37:05.940 and you're going
00:37:07.040 to rob steal
00:37:07.880 cheat do
00:37:09.040 whatever you
00:37:09.480 can to get
00:37:10.700 out ahead of
00:37:11.340 whatever you
00:37:11.900 want so
00:37:13.620 yeah I think
00:37:14.200 it's not
00:37:15.780 required but I
00:37:17.040 think we ought
00:37:17.920 to have an
00:37:18.560 element of
00:37:19.380 spirituality built
00:37:20.800 into our plan
00:37:21.480 that's what keeps
00:37:22.280 us moving in
00:37:23.220 the right
00:37:23.480 direction
00:37:23.980 what were your
00:37:26.480 comments on
00:37:27.060 atheists
00:37:27.700 oh yeah I've
00:37:29.640 often wondered
00:37:30.340 for years
00:37:31.100 and this is the
00:37:32.060 debate you know
00:37:32.920 if atheists don't
00:37:33.680 believe in God
00:37:34.360 do they have a
00:37:34.860 sense of morality
00:37:35.580 well I know
00:37:36.520 plenty of
00:37:37.100 atheists and
00:37:38.680 agnostics who
00:37:39.700 have a deep
00:37:40.480 sense of morality
00:37:41.240 I would trust
00:37:41.760 them with my
00:37:42.300 kids I would
00:37:42.920 I could leave
00:37:43.580 my my safe
00:37:45.340 open right here
00:37:46.060 with ten
00:37:46.600 thousand dollars
00:37:47.160 of cash and
00:37:47.780 I could trust
00:37:48.340 them to house
00:37:49.080 sit for me and
00:37:49.740 not have to worry
00:37:50.440 about my guns or
00:37:51.260 money like I
00:37:53.120 think it's still
00:37:53.780 for an atheist
00:37:54.580 it that sense of
00:37:56.320 morality is still
00:37:57.220 there and you
00:37:58.380 might say that
00:37:59.220 oh well it's a
00:37:59.900 cultural sense of
00:38:00.920 morality they
00:38:01.360 wouldn't do it
00:38:01.860 because they'd get
00:38:02.400 in trouble that
00:38:03.360 might be part of
00:38:04.280 a reason we would
00:38:04.980 we all do that
00:38:05.940 right for example
00:38:07.140 speeding I would
00:38:08.760 speed everywhere and
00:38:09.740 I'd go 20 miles an
00:38:10.740 hour over everywhere
00:38:11.740 if I didn't think
00:38:12.540 that there was a
00:38:13.000 cop around the
00:38:13.620 corner so all of
00:38:14.580 us do that yeah
00:38:15.680 so I think it
00:38:17.340 really is just
00:38:18.460 inherent in us as
00:38:20.940 human beings and
00:38:21.980 I believe in some
00:38:22.960 instances it can
00:38:24.340 be overridden
00:38:25.120 through learning
00:38:27.760 and I'm not
00:38:28.800 saying this is a
00:38:29.260 good thing but it
00:38:30.380 can be over that
00:38:31.060 sense of morality
00:38:31.720 can be overridden
00:38:32.540 through learning and
00:38:33.620 brainwashing and
00:38:35.260 exposure to certain
00:38:37.260 things it can be
00:38:40.300 ignored you can
00:38:41.680 certainly ignore it
00:38:42.520 if you choose to
00:38:43.240 but ultimately I
00:38:45.520 think it's there
00:38:46.180 inherent in all of
00:38:48.020 us yeah I agree
00:38:50.200 Charles Phillips has
00:38:52.220 a question you know
00:38:53.360 around advice for
00:38:54.460 guys returning to
00:38:55.440 the Iron Council
00:38:56.240 and Charles I'm
00:38:57.180 going to add to
00:38:57.720 your question just
00:38:58.500 so because a lot
00:38:59.520 of our listeners
00:38:59.940 may not be a part
00:39:00.940 of the IC so maybe
00:39:02.840 said another way
00:39:03.640 what advice do you
00:39:04.680 have for someone
00:39:05.700 getting back on the
00:39:07.440 path of getting
00:39:09.860 their life in order
00:39:10.820 being goal focused
00:39:12.380 and trying to
00:39:13.580 improve them improve
00:39:14.840 their lives well
00:39:16.680 let me give you a
00:39:17.720 different example
00:39:18.520 and it might seem
00:39:19.140 silly at first but
00:39:20.100 I think it'll
00:39:20.580 underscore the
00:39:21.700 concept here let's
00:39:24.260 say it's Friday
00:39:26.020 afternoon and you
00:39:27.860 look in the mirror
00:39:28.560 and you're like man
00:39:29.560 I don't look good
00:39:30.460 I'm putting on some
00:39:31.220 weight I'm not
00:39:32.040 looking real good
00:39:33.020 on Monday I'm
00:39:34.960 going to go back
00:39:35.400 to the gym I'm
00:39:37.600 going to go back
00:39:37.980 on Monday and I'm
00:39:38.880 going to get after
00:39:39.320 it yeah okay
00:39:40.220 that's that's fine
00:39:41.600 Monday very common
00:39:42.620 right okay so let's
00:39:45.680 let's just for the
00:39:46.800 sake of argument say
00:39:47.620 you cannot go to
00:39:49.400 the gym until
00:39:49.920 Monday the question
00:39:52.620 then is what do
00:39:53.220 you do until
00:39:53.640 Monday do you just
00:39:55.020 eat everything do
00:39:56.240 you slack off are
00:39:57.380 you lazy do you do
00:39:58.520 nothing or do you
00:39:59.880 like just double
00:40:02.260 down you start
00:40:03.400 eating clean on
00:40:04.700 Friday night Saturday
00:40:05.940 and Sunday you go
00:40:07.820 for a walk with your
00:40:08.860 family you go for a
00:40:10.200 hike because there's a
00:40:10.940 mountain out there you
00:40:12.340 do some push-ups when
00:40:13.320 you roll out of bed if
00:40:14.400 you were serious
00:40:15.200 about it you would
00:40:16.500 do what would be
00:40:17.240 needed to be done
00:40:17.980 right now and so
00:40:19.520 when it comes to the
00:40:20.900 iron council or going
00:40:23.540 to the gym or improving
00:40:24.920 your family situation or
00:40:26.220 looking for a new job the
00:40:27.660 answer is always do what
00:40:29.880 you can right now do
00:40:32.300 what you can right now
00:40:33.660 and then on Monday when
00:40:34.620 that gym comes available
00:40:35.560 you better get your butt
00:40:36.600 into the gym but
00:40:37.580 there's plenty that you
00:40:38.300 can do right now and
00:40:39.620 so for guys coming into
00:40:41.320 the iron council the
00:40:42.160 question is what should
00:40:43.300 we do well we have the
00:40:44.400 systems you do the
00:40:45.380 system it's not really
00:40:47.400 even a question even if
00:40:49.380 you're a returning
00:40:49.900 member do the system so
00:40:53.900 I don't really know what
00:40:55.260 to say other than that
00:40:56.340 sometimes people think
00:40:57.580 it's not enough or
00:40:58.500 maybe there's something
00:40:59.100 different no it's just
00:41:01.300 do the system and
00:41:02.380 sometimes the system
00:41:03.360 isn't sexy you know
00:41:04.960 when you go into the
00:41:05.600 gym and you hire a
00:41:06.380 personal trainer and he
00:41:07.320 says do this many reps
00:41:08.420 this many times and this
00:41:09.840 much weight and you're
00:41:11.620 gonna do that five days
00:41:12.480 a week for the next two
00:41:13.740 months that's gonna get
00:41:16.340 tiresome but but do
00:41:17.780 that that's what works
00:41:19.400 I know it's not sexy I
00:41:20.940 know it's not exciting
00:41:21.800 but that's not really
00:41:23.740 what we're after we're
00:41:24.560 after results so do the
00:41:25.840 system but until you get
00:41:26.960 to the system do
00:41:28.240 everything else that you
00:41:29.020 can yeah and in the
00:41:30.900 live chat Rick Rick
00:41:32.260 asked the question you
00:41:33.480 know when is enrollment
00:41:34.480 for the iron council
00:41:35.380 open again that's more
00:41:37.300 likely going to be
00:41:37.940 December 15th Rick you
00:41:41.120 know roughly half a
00:41:42.380 month before the
00:41:43.720 beginning of Q1 yes
00:41:45.800 yep that's right we
00:41:47.400 usually do that we open
00:41:48.600 up every single quarter
00:41:49.800 and but enrollment
00:41:51.120 starts two weeks before
00:41:52.820 the quarter so we have a
00:41:53.800 two-week open enrollment
00:41:54.640 window so that'll be
00:41:55.540 December 15th ish yeah
00:41:57.720 something you said Ryan
00:41:59.640 that that I think is
00:42:00.860 profound you know we
00:42:03.020 use the example of you
00:42:04.460 know Charles coming into
00:42:05.580 the iron council or goal
00:42:07.220 setting or getting our
00:42:08.840 our fitness in in check
00:42:10.480 but some of us are might
00:42:13.800 be sitting in jobs that
00:42:16.220 we don't enjoy right and
00:42:18.720 we're trying to find the
00:42:20.200 new job right or we just
00:42:22.560 got divorced and we're
00:42:23.320 trying to find the the
00:42:25.360 next thing right like
00:42:26.700 there's there's there's
00:42:28.120 examples of kind of being
00:42:30.920 where we are not an ideal
00:42:32.560 state and looking for
00:42:34.500 something better and you
00:42:36.560 said there's power in
00:42:39.000 addressing it where you
00:42:40.200 are and we've mentioned
00:42:41.260 this multiple times on
00:42:42.640 the podcast and and I
00:42:44.660 and I think it would be
00:42:46.220 valuable for us to remind
00:42:47.500 guys like even if it's
00:42:49.320 the scenario of job the
00:42:51.140 answer is the same oh
00:42:53.300 man I really hate this
00:42:54.300 job I got to get out of
00:42:55.380 here okay yeah but until
00:42:57.340 then when where you are
00:42:59.840 like kill it where you
00:43:02.800 are be amazing where you
00:43:04.640 are far too often I
00:43:06.460 think we're constantly
00:43:08.160 looking for the thing to
00:43:09.540 change for us to show up
00:43:11.320 in a in a great way and
00:43:13.580 we're we're losing out on
00:43:15.600 all the opportunities to
00:43:17.720 grow where we are and the
00:43:20.560 unfortunate part is it's
00:43:21.700 probably on the backside of
00:43:23.040 doing all the shitty work
00:43:24.240 that you don't want to do
00:43:25.560 and that's the very thing
00:43:27.580 you should do to set up
00:43:29.480 the next step for you in
00:43:31.860 life and and that
00:43:33.560 principle is transcendent
00:43:34.800 across you know new jobs
00:43:36.800 new career getting to the
00:43:38.260 gym or even you know
00:43:40.620 looking for a better
00:43:41.360 relationship if you can't
00:43:43.140 like win where you are
00:43:44.300 there there's huge power
00:43:45.560 in that there's a quote
00:43:47.380 that I really like by
00:43:48.160 Teddy Roosevelt that says
00:43:49.180 do what you can with what
00:43:50.360 you have where you are
00:43:51.460 it's as simple as that
00:43:53.040 and speaking of that on
00:43:54.880 the subject of
00:43:55.840 relationships we had a
00:43:57.480 guy in the iron council
00:43:58.480 who is on the verge a
00:44:01.380 little bit of whether or
00:44:02.380 not he wants to continue
00:44:03.880 in in a marriage and it's
00:44:05.380 a pretty lengthy marriage
00:44:07.140 but they've had some real
00:44:08.380 problems over the past
00:44:09.380 years and it sounds like
00:44:11.980 she really wants to work
00:44:13.220 on things and he's kind of
00:44:15.540 on the fence a little bit
00:44:17.000 as to whether or not he
00:44:17.980 does but he said that he
00:44:19.620 would and I had a
00:44:21.120 conversation with him last
00:44:22.180 week and he's trying to
00:44:23.500 decide do I stay in the
00:44:24.420 marriage do I not I said
00:44:25.280 you know stop for a sec
00:44:26.420 because the first thing that
00:44:27.880 you need to do is go all
00:44:29.640 in yeah because you
00:44:31.320 haven't and and the way
00:44:33.120 that he was saying things
00:44:34.300 and the way he was talking
00:44:35.120 about it is he said I
00:44:36.240 would but he was I said
00:44:38.340 you go all in first and
00:44:39.800 then do that for a couple
00:44:41.540 of months and then let's
00:44:42.880 talk but we're not going
00:44:44.160 to make decisions until you
00:44:46.120 actually go all in and
00:44:47.820 stop riding the riding the
00:44:49.640 fence now I would love in
00:44:52.400 the next two months for him
00:44:53.480 to come but I don't know
00:44:54.180 if this will happen but it
00:44:56.100 has happened in the past for
00:44:57.540 him to come to me and
00:44:58.360 say hey man you know
00:45:01.040 what I actually want to
00:45:02.800 continue to work on this
00:45:03.680 relationship I was halfway
00:45:05.540 in halfway out you told me
00:45:07.280 to go all in so I did and
00:45:09.480 I can actually see
00:45:10.140 improvement in my
00:45:10.900 relationship and that's
00:45:12.460 kind of the ironic thing
00:45:13.620 is that you might not be
00:45:15.120 happy with a relationship
00:45:16.360 or a job that you have
00:45:17.560 right now but you're
00:45:18.860 sitting on the fence
00:45:19.660 you're not doing the work
00:45:20.540 that needs to be done and
00:45:21.340 so you think the grass is
00:45:22.420 greener over there but if
00:45:23.980 you go all in with where
00:45:25.060 you currently are in many
00:45:26.320 cases you'll find that you
00:45:28.500 were the problem it wasn't
00:45:31.140 the job it wasn't your
00:45:32.920 wife it was you and when
00:45:35.300 you fixed yourself your
00:45:37.380 wife your job your economic
00:45:39.580 situation and your life
00:45:41.460 changed as a result of the
00:45:44.280 influence you had on it and
00:45:46.820 maybe it's not as good as
00:45:47.980 where it needs to be because
00:45:48.960 you're not as good as you
00:45:50.220 need to be or can be so go
00:45:52.660 all in first and then we can
00:45:54.060 talk about quitting changing
00:45:55.200 transferring divorcing all
00:45:56.760 that kind of stuff later go
00:45:58.340 all in first absolutely
00:46:00.300 woody lord three ways money
00:46:04.120 can buy happiness is by
00:46:05.700 eliminating discomfort
00:46:06.920 improving health and
00:46:08.400 increasing freedom what are
00:46:10.620 some things you guys have
00:46:11.720 spent money on that was
00:46:12.940 well worth it or had a great
00:46:14.700 ROI in your personal life
00:46:16.500 what were the three again
00:46:19.220 eliminating discomfort
00:46:21.340 improving health and
00:46:23.980 increasing freedom I would
00:46:29.200 definitely say discomfort and
00:46:30.740 health I don't know about
00:46:32.460 excuse me discomfort and
00:46:34.080 freedom freedom the health
00:46:37.100 thing I don't know I mean you
00:46:38.940 can maybe buy some better
00:46:39.880 groceries you could get a gym
00:46:41.800 membership but you still have
00:46:42.800 to go do it right yeah yeah
00:46:44.820 so I don't know I don't I
00:46:47.700 don't really chase happiness I
00:46:49.120 don't I want to be happy sure as
00:46:51.440 a byproduct of me having a
00:46:52.720 fulfilling life but I don't I
00:46:54.820 don't really chase after that and
00:46:56.660 maybe we're just getting into
00:46:57.800 some semantical differences yeah
00:46:59.420 I'd much rather chase
00:47:00.460 fulfillment so in the spirit of
00:47:02.160 the question that you asked for
00:47:03.900 me spending money on a vacation
00:47:05.580 with the people that I love is
00:47:08.120 well worth it to me if I can get
00:47:10.520 away like my girlfriend and I we
00:47:11.760 got away to Vegas this weekend and
00:47:13.400 we did a cool hike and we went and
00:47:15.000 saw the sphere in Vegas and we just
00:47:17.620 had to really walk the strip and
00:47:20.080 Fremont Street and saw the
00:47:21.280 weirdos like it was a really good
00:47:22.680 time and it was well worth the
00:47:24.100 money that I spent to go down
00:47:25.400 there and enjoy that with her yeah
00:47:27.420 if I'm gonna take my son my oldest
00:47:29.520 son hunting with me you know we
00:47:31.840 went to Africa a couple of months
00:47:33.660 ago and to do that with him man I
00:47:36.420 remember a smile I remember the
00:47:37.900 conversations that we had and all
00:47:40.420 of that brought me yes a sense of
00:47:41.900 happiness but fulfillment as well
00:47:43.400 because I was able to fulfill and
00:47:45.740 realize some dreams and goals that
00:47:47.540 he's had since he was two since the
00:47:50.520 time he could talk so investing in
00:47:53.140 those trips with loved ones is really
00:47:55.820 valuable for me the other one is
00:47:57.680 investing in my own self-development
00:48:01.940 so a gym membership would certainly
00:48:04.080 fall into that yeah if I if I get
00:48:06.900 that I have that gym membership and I
00:48:08.500 go and I work out I'm stronger I feel
00:48:12.280 better about myself I'm healthier I
00:48:14.740 have more energy more clarity more
00:48:16.520 drive more focus maybe it's a course
00:48:19.440 that I need to buy on how to market
00:48:23.560 on tick-tock better or something you
00:48:26.040 know buying something that's gonna
00:48:27.480 help me develop and get better in
00:48:30.040 every facet of life has always proven
00:48:31.960 to pay dividends so I would say
00:48:33.480 that's the two places that I spend the
00:48:37.720 most money that brings the most
00:48:39.280 fulfillment and happiness to my life
00:48:40.700 yeah I'm same way I mean it's it's
00:48:44.700 you know France with the family was
00:48:46.900 that last summer summer before last
00:48:48.980 it's you know trips to Hawaii like as
00:48:53.040 silly as it is like you know my
00:48:54.900 ability to to put money to train to go
00:48:58.460 do jiu-jitsu is is not silly at all
00:49:00.820 major investment for me that like is so
00:49:03.620 worth it why do you say that silly
00:49:05.900 just out of curiosity no like just how
00:49:09.480 meaningful that is right like that is
00:49:12.680 so meaningful like it's not like oh
00:49:15.380 you learned some martial arts it's like
00:49:17.020 no like it's so part and so valuable to
00:49:21.180 my life like I'd pay even way more
00:49:24.220 money than I pay for what so what you're
00:49:26.460 saying is that it's not silly to you but
00:49:28.820 from the outside looking in it may seem
00:49:30.700 silly yeah yeah absolutely to people who
00:49:33.160 have never done it and it doesn't have
00:49:34.420 to be martial arts but it could be
00:49:35.960 hunting for me it's hunting yeah I'll do
00:49:38.180 that the way you do that with jiu-jitsu
00:49:39.980 I'll do that with hunting yeah and
00:49:42.380 people like oh I can't believe you
00:49:43.500 spend that much time and money yeah
00:49:45.020 because you don't like it the way you
00:49:47.020 Alan comes to mind he he races RC cars
00:49:50.540 yeah across the country like he has an
00:49:53.280 RV where him and his wife will load up
00:49:55.300 and they'll go get an RC like go race
00:49:58.200 other grown men with RC cars and it
00:50:01.280 sounds silly it does super sound silly
00:50:04.020 yeah because it's not our thing it's
00:50:06.660 not silly to him he loves like he finds
00:50:09.500 so much fulfillment in it yeah yeah and
00:50:12.060 I think that's awesome find your thing
00:50:13.580 whatever it is yeah totally the only
00:50:15.740 thing I'd add is time flexibility of
00:50:20.340 time and I've shared that before right
00:50:22.800 that's that's probably what wealth has
00:50:25.920 that's the increasing freedom is time the
00:50:31.560 margin and the ability to to not be stuck
00:50:34.880 in a grind of a nine-to-five the ability
00:50:37.380 to have flexibility to then experience
00:50:40.240 things because some guys might be
00:50:41.700 listening it's like well you know I'm not
00:50:43.940 in a position to fly to Africa I can't
00:50:46.740 take my wife my family to France for two
00:50:50.000 months yeah but you know what you can do
00:50:51.900 is hike the mountain together to go camping
00:50:55.880 together and trust me those experiences are
00:50:58.980 amazing and they don't take much money but
00:51:01.860 they require time yeah and so I think
00:51:05.740 financial freedom is more about my my
00:51:08.220 availability of time probably more than
00:51:10.180 it is anything else I would agree with
00:51:13.640 your time I would also agree with your own
00:51:16.200 mental well-being I'll give you a little
00:51:18.040 bit of a counterintuitive example that
00:51:19.680 hits mental well-being and time completely
00:51:21.960 counterintuitive and I never would have
00:51:23.580 done this two three years ago when I move
00:51:25.740 back to southern Utah I've got a home about
00:51:29.020 15 20 minutes from where I live right now
00:51:31.320 and I was considering it but it was being
00:51:33.840 rented out we have a property manager they
00:51:36.240 are renting it out and I told the property
00:51:38.220 manager hey I'm moving back I'm gonna we're
00:51:40.660 gonna have to have the tenants leave I'm
00:51:43.440 gonna move back when the lease expires and
00:51:45.140 he got it all taken care of and the more I
00:51:46.740 thought about it I'm like man this is cash
00:51:48.320 flowing like it's doing well I'll be a
00:51:51.040 little further away from the kids I don't
00:51:52.640 want to have that so I was gonna buy a
00:51:55.220 house but with everything that was going
00:51:57.640 on in my life at the time buying a house
00:51:59.440 it just it was a lot it was really
00:52:01.040 overwhelming and daunting and so I decided
00:52:03.240 to rent and so I found this really great
00:52:05.480 great place and it's the place that I'm in
00:52:07.120 right now and you know here's my here's my
00:52:10.700 monthly payment and utilities are included
00:52:13.480 electric and internet's included I don't have
00:52:17.660 to mow the lawn or the back lawn none of
00:52:19.660 that stuff is that they take care of that my
00:52:22.960 neighbors are great I love my neighbors they
00:52:26.100 look after my dog when I'm away like I've
00:52:28.580 live in a great place and three years ago I
00:52:31.300 never would have said oh yeah we you should
00:52:32.980 rent and now I'm like I don't know if I
00:52:35.300 ever want to leave my garbage disposal last
00:52:38.280 week went out and I called the landlord I'm
00:52:40.460 like hey the garbage disposals out he's like
00:52:41.840 cool I'll send somebody over in the next
00:52:43.700 couple days guy came over friendly guy
00:52:46.240 replaced the thing and he's like see you
00:52:48.440 later he didn't hand me an invoice I didn't
00:52:50.300 need to give him a check he took that up
00:52:52.240 with the landlord I'm like this is kind of
00:52:53.960 nice actually and so it's a little
00:52:56.340 counterintuitive and I'm not saying
00:52:57.700 everybody should own or rent or whatever
00:52:59.320 figure out what works for you but for me
00:53:01.280 not having to worry about that I'm actually
00:53:05.000 in the market for a house right now but a
00:53:06.880 rental not something I'm gonna live in
00:53:08.860 another rental property because I kind of
00:53:11.740 like this arrangement just for my own mental
00:53:14.940 well-being I can focus on other things that
00:53:17.520 are way more important than fixing the garbage
00:53:19.220 disposal in my house well and it and it goes
00:53:21.840 back to the book one of my favorite books on
00:53:24.320 this is essentialism it's like time and what
00:53:27.480 I'm hearing you say Ryan is is energy like
00:53:30.560 where are we spending our energy and and I
00:53:33.580 don't know about like when we lived in New
00:53:35.180 York I lived in New York for a couple years we
00:53:37.360 had this small apartment lower Manhattan and
00:53:41.660 it was simplistic why because the shoes I had in
00:53:45.100 my closet were the ones they wore the clothes
00:53:47.140 that I had were the clothes that I wore the the
00:53:49.620 groceries that we shopped for were the groceries
00:53:51.480 that we ate mm-hmm like it was so nice because I
00:53:56.460 didn't have this freaking garage with a bunch of
00:53:58.760 shit that I never use that I'm managing that it's
00:54:02.960 like all this energy just distracting me and it's
00:54:07.860 like this burden you know I've heard this earlier this
00:54:12.280 year but like and it's really been present for me
00:54:15.020 too is like a lot of my mental happiness is really
00:54:20.240 around energy management not time it's energy
00:54:24.360 management and what's sucking my energy and
00:54:27.920 sometimes just having so much crap that I never use is
00:54:32.360 like one of the most like the biggest sucker of my
00:54:35.240 energy yeah it's the adage what you own owns you
00:54:39.460 totally it's so true yeah do we have any uh comments
00:54:43.900 in the chat that we need to go through before we get
00:54:45.540 to the next question I on I see um no no just Rick
00:54:51.260 kind of pinging guys saying hey you should join the
00:54:53.320 I see if you're not already nice thank you that Rick
00:54:57.040 yeah uh Joe Marino he's curious man knife Montana
00:55:01.380 knife knife company fan he's curious particularly
00:55:04.500 which which one that uh that you own oh which one did he
00:55:09.560 say it that way which one uh which knives he is he did
00:55:14.460 assume that it was more than one so good job there Joe
00:55:17.120 you're you're correct so I so here's what I own I own the
00:55:20.660 stub horn the flat tail uh oh hold on we got to get back to
00:55:25.180 the rest of them and then I'll give you some real uh let me do
00:55:29.860 this they're they're in the safe with his 10k and all his guns
00:55:35.120 that's right so the speed go the magna cut speed go the black
00:55:39.360 foot the stone wall the super cub oh I don't know that one
00:55:45.980 the jackstone I don't know that one the marshal the bear
00:55:49.220 tooth I own them all I have the culinary set I have all of
00:55:52.360 them there's actually a few I don't have that I'd like to get
00:55:56.200 here uh but you know what I'll give you some input here let me
00:56:00.600 just pull this up oh I don't have their fillet knife either I
00:56:03.220 need to get a fillet knife uh the one that I like I like the
00:56:06.760 speed goat that's a very small that's the one you took
00:56:10.280 hunting right was the speed probably I take that one hunting
00:56:13.360 quite a bit yeah it's just nice it's small it's versatile it's
00:56:17.400 very thin it's very lightweight I think he asked if that's the
00:56:20.620 one that I carry around personally yeah as well it's either
00:56:24.360 that or the war goat which is their tactical blade that's a new
00:56:27.320 one I just got but I really really like the speed goat for
00:56:30.280 that um the stone wall is probably one of my favorite knives and
00:56:36.040 the stone wall is great for skinning uh breaking down me sure I
00:56:42.080 still would probably go to the speed goat I'm breaking it down
00:56:44.180 because it's smaller and you can get better cuts um but yeah I
00:56:47.760 would say between the stone wall or the speed goat you'd be
00:56:50.720 pretty pretty set but yeah I I love them all man I've got so
00:56:55.040 many deeper Montana knife knives we need to you you since you have
00:57:00.800 the influence you need to get him to have you seen kind of
00:57:04.000 knives like grappling knives have you seen those oh yeah like uh
00:57:09.000 with a kind of like the thumb yeah and it's like curved like curled
00:57:12.640 yeah so you could be in a grappling match and then you don't have
00:57:16.860 this weird cut this way it's it's right I mean as you hold on to
00:57:21.320 things yeah I don't know for sure but they
00:57:24.200 might be working on that because they have their tactical stuff
00:57:26.940 okay cool they could call it the grappler that would actually be cool I
00:57:31.780 should tell I should tell them about that but um they should just call it
00:57:34.980 the kip uh the kip mora I don't even yeah kip mora that's right
00:57:39.700 I don't even see their uh tactical knives on here but they do have oh here
00:57:45.780 it is oh they don't have one here but there's two different ones one's the
00:57:52.820 war goat and the other one is the battle goat which I don't have the battle
00:57:56.780 goat yet they're great at naming stuff too so
00:57:59.640 that's awesome all right last question from Tony Myers where does the iron
00:58:07.400 counsel see itself on members or potential members that follow a
00:58:12.360 polytheism nature-based spiritual following I thought this is a great
00:58:16.760 question because guys might make the assumption right
00:58:19.200 of what this looks like in the IC I don't I don't care not that I'm indifferent
00:58:24.860 to it but that I that doesn't that is not an impact for me what I care
00:58:30.000 about are the guys who are coming in do they want to be righteous men and if
00:58:35.200 you want to be a righteous man then I want you part of the iron council if
00:58:39.720 it's polytheism if it's more of a spiritual holistic earth type based if
00:58:45.980 it's the muse if it's christianity catholicism buddhism I mean name it if
00:58:51.420 you want to be a righteous man and you're here to learn and you're here to
00:58:54.060 serve then we're all about it now I will say with that being said I'm the
00:58:58.120 founder of order man in the iron council I'm christian so a lot of the
00:59:02.660 messaging that you're going to hear is framed with a christian undertone we're
00:59:07.460 not overtly spiritual or religious but you're going to hear a lot of the things
00:59:12.820 that I share are going to be very much in alignment with christianity but you
00:59:17.760 know what there's truth everywhere and many of the things that he believes I'm
00:59:22.580 sure overlap and align with christianity we probably just say it a little
00:59:26.380 different so that's not a that's not a concern of mine and maybe I'm going out
00:59:32.020 on the limb here saying this I don't think I am but but I do think one thing
00:59:36.940 that we do expect though is to guys have to be critical thinkers and not be so
00:59:44.100 easily offended right like and that's what I love of what I have seen in the
00:59:49.000 iron council is we've had group discussions with guys that that aren't
00:59:52.840 religious that that might be atheist and they're not in their heads going oh
00:59:58.080 that's a really interesting principle based upon what someone brings up in the
01:00:02.100 bible that's that's exactly what should happen and and we shouldn't be showing up
01:00:08.000 going oh well these guys don't believe what I believe and now I'm going to choose
01:00:11.360 to be offended that is not going to probably cut it in the IC doesn't serve you
01:00:16.280 doesn't serve anybody else right and and to be frank you're being a little uh
01:00:22.280 yeah I was trying to figure out a better way of saying that but but you know
01:00:27.600 have some critical thinking and we do expect that absolutely yeah yeah I
01:00:33.200 actually think the same thing with regards to sexuality you know I I get I get a
01:00:37.140 lot of messages from men who are gay who are who say hey is this okay for for gay
01:00:41.860 men yes like as long as you know as long as you're there to learn and grow and get
01:00:48.440 better and pursue something meaningful and significant and do good for other
01:00:52.680 people with other people yes well what does that have to do with it totally you
01:00:57.180 know and and I've actually been I have actually been surprised at how accepting
01:01:03.360 our iron council members are of gay men I'm grateful for it but honestly I've been
01:01:10.220 surprised I we've had a lot of gay men who are like man like I'm really glad I came
01:01:14.980 here because on the surface if you're just looking at it and scratching the
01:01:20.140 surface you might and you're in you're a gay man you might not think that you'd be
01:01:24.700 welcomed but I have found the opposite to be true of just about every single one of
01:01:31.200 our members it's it's pretty fascinating to me I like this quote this one's by
01:01:35.220 Aristotle he says it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
01:01:39.320 thought without accepting it and I feel like that's what we do really well inside of the
01:01:44.280 iron council is that we have these thoughts and we don't always agree people
01:01:47.160 have come after me I've gone after other people it's always done from a position
01:01:51.340 of hey I care about you I want to understand what you're thinking I don't
01:01:55.180 agree with it but I'd like to know more about it and and it's just not only is it a
01:02:00.580 mark of an educated man but it's a mark of maturity like I don't have to get up in
01:02:06.940 arms because you don't believe in God you know and I see I see this a lot of the
01:02:10.700 times when when you mention Christianity a lot of people will use the term oh your
01:02:17.280 little sky daddy or things like that and I can never wrap my head around why
01:02:21.820 somebody would try to be deliberately insulting to a person who's trying to do
01:02:25.440 right and good I that that I don't understand like regardless of where that
01:02:31.580 sense of good comes from if that person is trying to do good and it comes from a
01:02:36.340 place that you don't believe exists I don't understand why mock that I would
01:02:40.040 think you would embrace that yeah well it's rooted in I don't agree with your
01:02:43.420 with what you're saying but I see that you're trying to do good and you're trying
01:02:46.900 to add value to the world and you're being a good dad it's like that's it that
01:02:49.740 should be enough yeah well I was just gonna say it's it's rooted in in their own
01:02:54.340 self-validation right that that's what it's really rooted in it's not rooted in
01:02:58.400 anything other than that well to be fair though Christians and and other other
01:03:03.720 religions do the exact same thing you know they look at other people
01:03:07.040 judgmental less favorably not welcome so I mean it's not exclusive to people who
01:03:12.520 don't believe in God it's also pretty notorious in those circles who you know
01:03:17.920 want to want to make other people feel less than because they don't believe in
01:03:22.420 their God so I see it on both sides to be fair yeah absolutely all right sir well
01:03:28.060 that's a wrap you know that was fun uh thanks to the guys that actually you know
01:03:32.840 threw some questions in in the live chat really appreciate you guys um listening
01:03:37.980 in as always you can connect with Ryan on X and Instagram at Ryan Mickler uh and we
01:03:44.840 did mention and there was a comment earlier about men's groups um although the
01:03:49.080 iron council is closed until December um you can join us on our Facebook group and
01:03:54.340 that's facebook.com slash group slash order of man there's one other reference and
01:03:59.940 resource that I want to give the guys so on May 1st through the 4th of 2025 we had
01:04:06.080 that's our first event of the year this one's really cool because I've never done
01:04:11.760 this and I haven't seen many other people do this if at all I've partnered with
01:04:16.140 three other notable people in the men's space and what's interesting is so many
01:04:22.380 industries look at all of that as competition they would never collaborate on
01:04:26.720 anything never in a million years yeah but we've decided to because I think yes
01:04:32.020 technically you could say that it's competition but we think that our mission
01:04:36.540 of helping men is more important than the perceived competition of it so I've
01:04:43.180 partnered with Larry Hagner with the dad edge Connor Beaton with man talks and
01:04:47.920 Matt Boudreau with Apogee strong to create this event May 1st through the 4th
01:04:52.920 2025 just outside of St. Louis and if you go to themensforge.com you can get
01:05:00.600 registered there's the standard package there's the VIP package there's payment
01:05:05.460 plans but it's gonna be a conference style with the order a man's spin on it
01:05:13.000 where you won't just hear from a bunch of guys including our guest speakers
01:05:16.180 coming in talk at you you're gonna hear from them speak with you they're gonna be
01:05:21.380 available to spend time with you to answer questions and we're gonna be hyper
01:05:26.480 engaged in other activities that are gonna help build teamwork and camaraderie and
01:05:31.240 support and learning about each other and facilitate growth beyond just what
01:05:36.440 we're gonna do over that weekend so again if you go to the mensforge.com you can
01:05:40.560 check it out awesome all right guys great questions today keep them coming we'll
01:05:45.600 keep answering them and we'll be back on Friday for the Friday field notes until
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