Order of Man - November 20, 2020


The COVID Agenda ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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36 minutes

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178.33913

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6,507

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437

Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:04.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
00:00:10.420 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.220 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.780 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler,
00:00:27.700 and I'm the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. Welcome here. Welcome
00:00:33.180 back. It's good for me to get back into the swing of things. I've been out for the past couple of
00:00:38.300 weeks on some hunts, and I've got a few more hunts coming up. Hunting has actually become a pretty
00:00:43.900 big part of my life, especially during the fall. And as much as I don't like being away, I don't
00:00:49.680 like being away from my family. I don't like being away from the business because these are obviously
00:00:53.860 two things I'm highly, highly invested in. It is, it is nice to be able to go down a path and find a
00:01:02.140 pursuit and a hobby and an interest that not only makes me more self-reliant as a man, but just
00:01:07.320 something I enjoy. So I appreciate you bearing with me over the past couple of weeks in my absence.
00:01:12.080 Obviously we've had my co-host for the Ask Me Anything podcast, Kip Sorensen fill in for the past
00:01:18.620 couple of weeks and he's done a phenomenal job. And within our exclusive brotherhood, the iron
00:01:23.880 council, we've had Kip and other team leaders step up and I appreciate them being willing to do so.
00:01:30.900 One of the hard things for me is delegation. I've always struggled with delegation. And if you're
00:01:36.820 anything like me, you have to, you know, you think you can do it better. You want to be involved,
00:01:41.040 obviously. And so delegating tasks to other individuals becomes a challenge, but I've been
00:01:48.420 fortunate enough to surround myself with high caliber men who I have a lot of faith and trust
00:01:54.080 in. And so if you're tuning in and you've helped me in some way, continue to lead the movement in
00:02:00.040 my absence, I appreciate you guys. If you're just tuning in for the first time, this is your Friday
00:02:06.180 field notes. You're going to hear some thoughts and ideas that I have. I know what I'm going to share
00:02:10.440 with you today is going to be very polarizing. A lot of you guys are going to agree, adamantly agree.
00:02:16.260 And a lot of you are going to adamantly disagree. So this presents a very clear opportunity to have
00:02:23.760 a civil discussion. I had actually made a post in my, on my Instagram account several days ago
00:02:29.000 about the COVID agenda as far as I see it. And it, it, it triggered a lot of discussion. Most of it,
00:02:40.060 99% of it was very respectful, which quite honestly, I was a little bit surprised. Had a couple of guys
00:02:45.720 say, well, we're going to leave because you said this. And that's fine. I wish those individuals,
00:02:49.840 nothing but the best. But for the most part, everybody was pretty, even in disagreement,
00:02:55.160 pretty civil. And that's one thing I am working on. I think it's something that most of us as men can
00:02:59.920 do a little bit better job at is just maintaining our emotional, I don't know how to say it, our
00:03:09.300 emotional posture. I think that's the best way to say it. You know, you're not going to be broken
00:03:14.900 down. You're not going to be rash or, or, or sling the insults. You're maintaining your emotional
00:03:21.200 posture. And that's something I'm working on. It's something I've struggled with in the past,
00:03:25.800 quite frankly, because I get, you know, offended and I get feel slighted. And I, I, I take those
00:03:32.680 things personally. But if that is something I'm working on, because I think it makes us a better
00:03:36.580 men, better men just, just to be able to have some level of emotional intelligence. And so that is
00:03:43.760 something I'm working on. And I would encourage you guys to work on as well, especially in disagreement.
00:03:47.740 And there's a lot to disagree about in society today. Isn't there primarily, not even primarily,
00:03:53.740 but one of the big factors is the, the COVID response. I know a lot of you guys listening
00:03:59.520 are going again to agree. And a lot of you guys are going to disagree, but man, what a great
00:04:02.900 opportunity to have a real conversation. And that's what I want to do. I want to have real
00:04:06.300 conversations. I don't want to have safe conversations. You know, I don't want to talk
00:04:10.800 about things that are comfortable to talk about. I don't want to talk about things that all of us are
00:04:16.480 necessarily in agreement with because what's, what's the benefit in that? You know, if we all agree,
00:04:22.780 all we're doing is preaching to the choir. There's no benefit to that. It doesn't test us.
00:04:27.960 It doesn't push us. It doesn't stretch us to think differently, to, to consider a different
00:04:32.520 viewpoint. So I want to talk about the quote unquote unsafe things, the things that most
00:04:38.300 people don't want to talk about because it represents a threat to their own beliefs, to
00:04:44.940 their own existence, to their own perspectives. That's what I want to talk about. And that's what
00:04:49.780 this is going to be today. Cause we're going to talk about the COVID agenda. So in the post
00:04:53.580 that I made on Instagram the other day, I said, and I'm paraphrasing here, but I said essentially
00:04:57.740 that it's clear to me at this point that the COVID agenda, the COVID response is nothing more
00:05:03.420 than a thinly veiled excuse to undermine and dismiss three crucial, crucial areas of our lives
00:05:15.740 as men. That is our religious institutions. And I'm not talking about any denomination
00:05:20.880 in particular. I'll get into that in a minute. That's our family unit. You as the patriarch
00:05:25.560 of your home and small businesses. I know a lot of you guys listening own small businesses.
00:05:32.200 I own a small business. You work for a small business. And I think the COVID agenda at this
00:05:36.980 point, the response is designed, designed deliberately and intentionally designed to undermine and root
00:05:44.420 away religious institutions, the family unit and small businesses. Not coincidentally. And I said
00:05:51.940 this in the, in the post that I made on Instagram, not coincidence, coincidentally, those are three of
00:05:58.780 the largest threats against the overarching, overreaching desire for the government to rule every
00:06:09.520 aspect of our lives. Now I, I don't consider myself to be a conspiracy theorist. I believe that I'm
00:06:20.140 pretty grounded. I believe that I'm willing to, for the most part, look at both sides. I try to be
00:06:26.520 level-headed. I try to look at all information and best and make the best, best decision for myself
00:06:33.080 and my family and the people I have a responsibility for. So I don't get wrapped up in conspiracy
00:06:39.700 theories, but a lot of you listening might think to yourself, well, what you're talking about is a
00:06:44.860 conspiracy. And maybe that's the case. Maybe it isn't, but I honestly believe that the government
00:06:50.920 would love nothing more than to be our daddy, to control every facet of our life, to control production,
00:06:59.200 to control the means of production, to control the way that we think, the way that we behave,
00:07:05.560 the way that we act. I think there's a very clear agenda to move this forward.
00:07:10.680 And I think COVID is a big part of that. Now, let me be very clear on this. I believe COVID is a real
00:07:16.780 thing. So everything that I'm going to talk with you about today is not to undermine or dismiss the
00:07:20.720 fact that, that COVID exists. That is, it is a threat we ought to be aware of, that there is a danger
00:07:27.020 to certain demographics of our population. All of that is true, but also what a convenient
00:07:36.000 opportunity for the government to wrestle control of our lives. I wrote a book two and a half years
00:07:41.760 ago now called sovereignty, the battle for the hearts and minds of men. And every day that passes
00:07:47.980 in the wake of COVID and everything else, that book becomes more and more relevant.
00:07:52.700 Men, you need to maintain your sovereignty, the control over your own life. And that doesn't
00:07:57.580 mean you can't give it away to God, that you can't worship Jesus or whoever you decide to worship.
00:08:04.060 That's a whole other conversation. We'll get into that later.
00:08:07.220 It just means that you're making your decisions, your own decisions based on what you think is best
00:08:11.840 for yourself, your family, your loved ones, and the people that you have a responsibility for.
00:08:15.600 That might be your coworkers, your colleagues, your friends, your neighbors,
00:08:19.020 the people in your church congregation, wherever you're showing up as a leader,
00:08:23.000 you have a responsibility for those individuals and you need to maintain your sovereignty in order
00:08:27.240 to control not only yourself, but to give those people what it is they're looking for from you
00:08:32.860 as your leader. And that's what the government wants to do. And sometimes that works very well
00:08:37.600 for us. And sometimes it's at direct odds with our own wellbeing. And again, I want to reiterate that
00:08:43.340 I don't believe COVID is a fake thing. Now that said, I don't believe it's, it's as dangerous or
00:08:49.940 destructive as those who would love to be in power would have us believe, but I believe it is being
00:08:57.920 used and wielded as a tool for manipulation and control specifically again, with our religious
00:09:04.040 institutions, our family units, and our small businesses.
00:09:06.880 And the reason I say this, and the reason I'm talking about this is because those three things
00:09:14.480 are the foundation, the very foundation of the fabric of society, especially healthy, thriving,
00:09:21.200 free, liberated society. I mean, it's where we go specifically with religious institutions and
00:09:29.100 family units. It's where we go in turn to build our foundational operating system for the way that we
00:09:35.440 we will live our lives, right? Isn't that where you learn about morality and virtue? Isn't that where
00:09:42.220 you go to learn about hard work and commitment and dedication and sacrifice and honor? Don't you go to
00:09:48.080 your religious institutions and your family to learn those things? As a young man, I learned from my mother
00:09:54.060 about how to be a good and decent human being, how to work hard, how to sacrifice, how to commit,
00:09:59.900 how to be disciplined, how to just thrive in life. What, what, what's the difference between right
00:10:06.960 and wrong? I turned to the Bible and I turned to our bishops and our pastors and, and, and, and they
00:10:12.940 taught me about what was right and what was wrong and how to live a noble and virtuous life. I learned
00:10:19.860 about these things. And by the way, I also learned about being independent, being sovereign.
00:10:24.000 That you and I, as men have control over our thoughts and our ideas and our actions and our
00:10:29.840 behaviors, and they will lead to productive outcomes or destructive outcomes based on the
00:10:35.180 way that we perform and that we're responsible. We're responsible for the way that we perform.
00:10:42.060 We're the, we're responsible for the way that we show up and for what we do and what we believe
00:10:46.260 and how we perform and how we act. And there's consequences, both positive and negative to the way
00:10:50.220 that we show up. That if you do right, you will be rewarded. Whether that's additional income,
00:10:57.540 whether that's romantic relationships, whether that's job promotions and, and, and, and financial
00:11:04.120 achievements and career aspirations, you will be rewarded when you do what is right.
00:11:09.840 And when you and I make poor decisions, we will be, or we will suffer the negative consequences of
00:11:15.480 doing wrong, losing a job, declaring bankruptcy, going through a divorce.
00:11:23.660 That's the natural way of life. And yet we have the government who would love to tell you that you
00:11:29.940 don't have to be responsible for your decisions. You don't have to be responsible for your choices.
00:11:35.500 And what a shame, what a shame when we rob ourselves and the people that we care about,
00:11:41.180 the opportunity of pain and suffering and learning from their consequences, man,
00:11:45.100 I've made some dumb decision, decision, excuse me, from drug and alcohol use and abuse to
00:11:54.680 business failures and setbacks to struggling with the way that I led my wife and communicated with her
00:12:02.060 mistakes all along the path. And yet every single one of those has been an opportunity for me to learn
00:12:09.520 through direct and immediate and sometimes painful feedback, what works and what doesn't.
00:12:15.100 And so it's nice to think that, you know, maybe there's some entity like the government who can
00:12:19.880 come in and swoop in and rescue us from all our problems, but it comes with an expense. It comes
00:12:25.400 with a cost and that cost is your freedom. You know, I had somebody on this Instagram post that I made
00:12:31.300 the other day and they said, you know, is I, again, I'm paraphrasing here because I don't have it
00:12:36.960 pulled up right now, but they said something to the extent of, you know, most people aren't
00:12:41.220 responsible enough to take care of themselves. So isn't this a good thing? And I thought, man,
00:12:45.140 what a dangerous ideology. I believe in the power of human beings. I believe in the,
00:12:52.160 in the power of individual individuality. If I can say that the responsibility, I believe in those
00:12:58.120 things. And what a dangerous proposition to say, well, you know, there's so many people who can't
00:13:04.300 take care of themselves. So which shouldn't, shouldn't the government do something about it?
00:13:08.040 No, no. Guess who should do something about it? Cause look, I'll tell you, man, there's,
00:13:15.820 there's, there's people who are, who are beat up and downtrodden and, and lack the mindset to grow
00:13:21.320 and to thrive and, and, and to succeed in this life. There are those people. I'm not delusional
00:13:25.300 enough to believe or think that there aren't those people that are. So whose responsibility
00:13:29.300 are those people? Not the government's guys. It's not the government. You know, whose responsibility
00:13:34.980 is their families, their communities, the businesses they work with, their churches,
00:13:42.700 that's whose responsibility is. If I have a neighbor who's struggling financially, it's my
00:13:49.300 responsibility to help that individual. I might not mean financial contributions, although it could,
00:13:53.480 it might just mean that I go over and mow the lawn or that I, you know, buy, buy some toys for their
00:14:00.720 kids at Christmas. That's my responsibility. That's your responsibility as a man. The government
00:14:07.680 can't do it as well as you. And so again, you know, look, the COVID is a real thing. Again, I don't
00:14:14.180 think it's as dangerous as it's being made out to be, but it's a real thing.
00:14:17.320 But that's sad. I think it's being overused as a tool to manipulate and coerce and subject,
00:14:25.120 just subjugate us and, and have us be more and more dependent on the state in order to achieve
00:14:33.060 what it is that we want. And we learn those things through our religious institution,
00:14:36.820 through our family units, and ultimately through our ability to provide for our families and loved
00:14:40.720 ones through our small businesses. I mean, you tell me why Walmart can stay open, but the mom and pop
00:14:46.800 shop, the archery shop, for example, that I go to can't stay open or the gym that I go to can't
00:14:53.240 stay open, or they have to close at a certain time. You tell me why it's more important that
00:14:58.840 one company stay open and not another. Oh, because they're essential. Well, who are you to dictate to
00:15:06.080 me? What is essential? You don't get to decide that for me. I get to decide that for me. And I'm not
00:15:12.980 telling us to go out and be reckless. I'm telling you that you need to decide for yourself what's
00:15:18.920 going to be in your best interest and the best interest of the people that you care about.
00:15:22.980 And look, I believe every business has the right. Every religious institution has the right to decide
00:15:27.860 how they're going to respond to this COVID thing. So if a, if a, if a business, for example, decides
00:15:32.360 that they want to enforce wearing masks or social distancing or occupancy limits, then fine.
00:15:39.240 That's their prerogative. That's their prerogative. That's their choice. And you get to decide whether
00:15:44.100 or not you patronize that business. You know, I went into the, the grocery store, the convenience
00:15:50.460 store the other day. And the lady at the register said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. She put her hands
00:15:55.160 up. She's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You need a mask to be in here. And I said, thank you
00:15:58.980 very much. And I walked out the door and I went down the road and I patronized a store that didn't
00:16:05.200 require me to wear a mask. Now, some of you guys are going to say that's reckless. It doesn't
00:16:10.120 matter. Okay. The idea is that I get to make my own decisions and you get to make your own
00:16:15.500 decisions. So I'm not going to patronize stores that allow that, that forced me to wear a mask.
00:16:20.380 That's their decision. And that's also my decision, but you get to decide. Nobody gets to decide for
00:16:27.920 you. That's the point of sovereignty. Nobody gets to decide for you. And I sick and tired of having a
00:16:32.140 government institution or some power that would be, tell me how I have to live my life.
00:16:37.200 Now, some of those things are prudent. Some of you guys will say, well, you know,
00:16:40.560 government's mandate that you wear a seatbelt. Sure they do, but that's also my decision
00:16:45.960 because I recognize that if I get in a car crash on the way to and from wherever it is,
00:16:50.980 I'm going that wearing a seatbelt is likely to keep me alive, but that's my decision.
00:16:57.880 I decide to do that. And some of you will say, well, that's a bad analogy because
00:17:02.120 you wearing a seatbelt doesn't impact somebody else. Well, let's just take the car
00:17:05.540 driving. For an example, every day you get in the car, you put somebody else at risk.
00:17:11.320 You do statistically, you put other people at risk and yet you don't not drive a car.
00:17:19.040 You do what you need to do to maintain your safety, defensive driving, right? Being aware,
00:17:23.760 being alert, situationally aware, looking at what's going on and how it's going to impact you.
00:17:27.940 And I get it. Some of you guys will say, that's a bad analogy. It's an analogy,
00:17:31.260 which means it isn't perfect, but there's a lot of similarities,
00:17:33.300 but ultimately you have to decide what's going to work best for you. And I think stores and
00:17:38.980 religious institutions and small businesses should decide for themselves. And by the way,
00:17:42.800 if you're afraid or you don't want to expose yourself to COVID, I can respect that. I can
00:17:51.040 appreciate that. That's your decision. It's not my decision to make. That's your decision to make.
00:17:55.340 You're a capable human being. So if that's what you're afraid of, then you stay at home.
00:18:03.780 You shelter in place. You do what you need to do to protect yourself and your family.
00:18:09.000 But don't you dare tell me what I need to do. And some people will say, because I had a lot
00:18:14.320 of people comment, well, this is selfish. This is selfish. You know what? It's no more selfish
00:18:18.400 than a government body telling a small business that they have to close or shutting down entire
00:18:26.660 swaths of the economy that we know. For example, schools, for example, are not a huge center for
00:18:36.440 transmission of the disease. And yet we're going to shut schools down. Tell me why. Tell me why.
00:18:42.880 Oh, believe science, trust science. Okay. Show me the data that supports that schools need to be
00:18:48.480 shut down. I just heard Andrew Cuomo talk about, you know, the data. And again, I'm paraphrasing.
00:18:55.300 The data doesn't support that we need to shut schools down, but we made an agreement, an agreement.
00:19:02.000 What? So you're telling me the data and the science doesn't support that schools are the
00:19:07.220 major transmission of disease. And yet you made an agreement. This is the perception of safety,
00:19:12.260 not safety itself. People feel better, right? You're wearing a mask. You feel better. It
00:19:18.120 doesn't really help, but you feel better. So I don't think government institutions should come in
00:19:25.480 and say, we're going to shut down entire swaths of the economy, even if the, uh, the science doesn't
00:19:30.660 support it or that you have to tell a small business that they have to close. And yet these big
00:19:38.060 businesses can maintain their doors because they're a quote unquote, uh, essential business.
00:19:44.920 Walmart is no more essential than the mom and pop grocery store.
00:19:48.960 It's not, it's not, it's not, or that businesses have to close at a certain time. Uh, you know,
00:20:03.080 because the virus has a bedtime, like why should a business, for example, a gym have to close at 10
00:20:09.620 o'clock. What, what kind of sense does that make? That doesn't make sense to me. It's not rooted in
00:20:17.220 science. Number one at 10 o'clock from probably 10 to six, I imagine, or five somewhere in there
00:20:22.020 is probably the slowest time for a gym, which means that social distancing will naturally take
00:20:30.220 place because less people are there and the virus doesn't have a bedtime. So why can a company or a
00:20:38.020 business stay open from 9.00 AM to 10 PM, but they have to close their doors at 10 ridiculous, stupid,
00:20:45.520 moronic. Again, I'm not suggesting the virus doesn't exist. I'm saying that our response to the virus,
00:20:51.740 I say our, I'm talking about collectively. And from a government perspective is ludicrous. It's insane.
00:20:58.000 It's asinine. And yet we bought into it. And the inevitable result is more subjugation,
00:21:07.960 more towing the line, more doing what we're told, more believing that the government can swoop in and
00:21:14.000 save us and rescue us from all of our problems. It can't. And even if it can, it will do it inferior
00:21:19.560 to the way that we can do it for ourselves and the way we should be doing it for our community.
00:21:22.860 So what do we do about this guys? I mean, that's a real question, right? What, okay. So some
00:21:27.940 of you have stuck around and you're fully on board with what I'm sharing. And some of you are like,
00:21:35.080 okay, Ryan's full of crap and you've already tuned out. And if you have, you won't hear this next part,
00:21:39.520 but that's fine. For those of you who are still around, what do we do about it? That's the question.
00:21:47.500 Here's a couple of solutions. And I don't have it all laid out. I'm kind of just spitballing a
00:21:51.960 little bit here and shooting off the hip a little bit with this conversation, but here's what we do.
00:21:56.660 Patronize only those businesses who you support. You know, sick of seeing signs all around Maine
00:22:03.420 that say, I'm sorry, we would love to wear masks or not make you wear masks, but we have to have you
00:22:08.320 wear a mask because Janet Mills requires it. Man, take some freaking ownership.
00:22:13.760 Take some ownership. We require masks because we think it's safe. I can respect that.
00:22:23.900 I can respect that. If a business said, Hey, we, we require you to wear a mask and we'd like no more
00:22:28.100 than 10 people in the store, because we feel like that's going to be safer for you. I can actually
00:22:32.180 get behind that and respect that. And then I can make a decision. Do I believe that? Do I honor that?
00:22:38.400 Do I patronize the store? Do I go next door? But I'm so sick of seeing stores that say, well,
00:22:43.180 you know, government, governor Mills says that we have to do it. So we have to do it. Bullshit.
00:22:50.920 Bullshit. You decide as a business owner, have some balls,
00:22:57.360 have some testicular fortitude. Hey, we made this decision on our own and on our own. And this is
00:23:05.400 what we're going to do. Cool. I respect it. May not patronize you for one reason or the other,
00:23:09.800 but I respect it. Don't blame it on somebody else. So for me, and I would encourage you to do
00:23:17.000 this is let's continue to patronize stores that we believe in. I've never been a big fan of the
00:23:22.920 boycott thing. You know, I think that's a, um, an adult, an adult version of a, of a temper tantrum.
00:23:29.220 I don't like the boycott thing, but there's certain stores that I choose because I like them
00:23:37.220 better. Whether it's the way they treat me, you know, I've been in stores and they treat me like
00:23:40.480 an asshole. I'm not going to go back to that store. I'm going to go to the place next door
00:23:45.580 where they treat me respectfully and kindly and, and, and service my needs. Like that's where I'm
00:23:50.940 going to go. So what is it about boycott? It's about finding the stores that align with what I'm
00:23:56.180 after. And if a store says you, you have to wear a mask in here, well, then I'm going to
00:23:59.620 kindly decline that request. And I'm going to go to the store that doesn't require me to wear a mask.
00:24:06.000 Ryan, that's so selfish. No, it's not. I'm living my life. It's selfish to tell me I have to behave
00:24:13.240 and act a certain way because you're uncomfortable. If you're uncomfortable, you do. Why don't you go to
00:24:18.420 the store where everybody wears masks and that's your prerogative and that's your right. And I'm fine
00:24:24.480 with that, but to dictate what everybody else does. No, I'm not okay with that. I'm not okay
00:24:29.740 with that. So let's start patronizing the stores with some balls that can be run by men or women.
00:24:35.840 By the way, you guys understand what I mean. Stores with some balls that can stand behind what they
00:24:42.820 believe. Let's not acquiesce to these orders that don't make any sense. Like close your doors at 10
00:24:54.400 o'clock in the evening. No, if I'm a 24 hour gym, for example, I'm going to leave my gym open. If I
00:25:00.740 so choose for 24 hours, and you're not going to tell me whether I can or can't open and when I can
00:25:07.160 open and all that kind of thing. If you decide on your own that you want to close at 10, great.
00:25:11.420 If you decide you want to close it at four or five in the afternoon and spend the rest of your time
00:25:15.920 with your family, I commend you. I honor you. I respect that. I may not patronize your business
00:25:20.440 because it doesn't work for me, but I respect that. I don't respect you doing it because somebody
00:25:27.680 else told you to do it. And then you blame it on them. Well, you're a grown ass adult. Take some
00:25:35.660 responsibility. Hey, we're doing it this way because we feel this is best. Okay.
00:25:41.100 Or we're doing it this other way because this is what we feel is best. Great. I'll make my decision
00:25:46.260 based on what you believe and based who I think is best going to serve me.
00:25:52.460 So start patronizing stores that believe in what you believe. Don't patronize those other stores
00:25:58.680 because you know what? There's going to be some pressure. There's pressure from the government.
00:26:01.620 I think there's also some pressure from the consumer. There needs to be some accountability.
00:26:07.380 There needs to be some responsibility here. And if these stores don't see the type of growth or the
00:26:13.520 type of revenue they would like, because they're mandating certain things, then they'll feel the
00:26:17.720 pressure of that. And they should feel the pressure of both sides. And so they can make their own
00:26:20.560 decisions. If you're a business owner, you decide, am I going to follow this? Am I not? Because I'll tell
00:26:26.740 you what, if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of businesses across the
00:26:30.620 U S decide, you know what? We're not going to participate in this. We're going to run our
00:26:34.920 business the way we see fit and trust that our consumers, our clients, our customers are going
00:26:39.680 to make the best decision for themselves. If millions of companies across the country did this,
00:26:45.920 what are they going to do? What's the government going to do? Find everybody. I mean, they'll attempt
00:26:50.400 to, that's not going to go well. That's not going to go well. Continue to protest peacefully.
00:26:55.620 I'm not telling everybody to get violent. I'm telling you to protest peacefully, exercise your
00:27:01.880 first amendment rights, all of your rights, live your life, life, liberty, and the pursuit of
00:27:09.420 happiness. Live your life the way that you see fit. Here's what else I would suggest run for office.
00:27:17.260 Somebody asked me the other day on the ask me anything is a political office in my future.
00:27:21.360 It's not in my immediate future, but I, you know, the more I see what's going on in this
00:27:25.560 country, the more I recognize and realize that at some point I'm going to need to step up
00:27:29.140 within either city, county, state, or federal offices, politics, because I'm sick and tired
00:27:38.180 of these assholes running and dictating and telling everybody else what they need to do.
00:27:43.420 And these, these people have never held for the most part, a real job in their life where they've
00:27:48.760 actually had to add value. And they've had to let people vote with their dollars, whether or not
00:27:53.640 the value they offer to society is worth it or not. They mooch and they steal and they,
00:27:59.980 they, they, they, they squat on other people's taxes. I'm sick and tired of that.
00:28:07.600 I want people who know what it's like to run a business. I know what it's like to run a family,
00:28:12.220 know what it's like to, to struggle, to have to adapt and evolve and grow because what they
00:28:18.480 currently offer isn't valuable to people because they haven't paid for it. I've been in that
00:28:22.660 situation. I've told you guys, the first event we ever ran, I put a sizable deposit on a, on a lodge
00:28:28.520 in Southern Utah and not a single person showed up. So did I force or mandate that somebody had to pay
00:28:34.720 me because I was trying really hard. That's not how it works. I went back to the drawing board and I
00:28:42.180 said, okay, well, what I did, what did I do? Right? What did I do wrong? How can I fix this? And I fixed
00:28:46.020 it and I had 20 guys show up to the next event and they paid me to be there. And my goal was that I
00:28:52.700 would provide more valuable, more value to them than the value they paid me, which was the dollars
00:28:58.000 they paid me, that it was a mutually agreeable transaction. I think everybody who came to 20
00:29:04.560 men who came to that event would agree that it was many of them came back as proof that it was
00:29:08.920 valuable to them, but I had to figure that out the hard way. I had to lose money and time and energy
00:29:14.640 and sleep to figure that out. There wasn't any, any, any sort of, uh, of continual income stream.
00:29:21.480 I didn't get my nice little paycheck on the first and 15th of every month,
00:29:25.640 just because I was trying really hard. No, I had to add real value and people had to vote with their
00:29:31.620 pocketbook. I want men who have served in the military, who have sacrificed everything,
00:29:41.900 their entire lives, their families, their, their, their businesses, their other ventures,
00:29:47.020 their other interests and hobbies and activities, men who have sacrificed those things
00:29:51.680 to be the ones who step up into leadership because they're making decisions on behalf of other men and
00:29:57.220 women who will have to make those same decisions for themselves. And isn't it convenient for you to
00:30:03.400 write off 10, 20, a hundred thousand men and women to war when you don't have to personally deal
00:30:09.880 with the sacrifice of their commitment. We have a bunch of spineless cowards who have done nothing
00:30:19.380 in their life, running and dictating what we will do as American citizens.
00:30:26.040 So men, we need to step up, serve on your school board, coach your kids,
00:30:34.500 serve in the city council, get elected as mayors and governors, politicians, legislators,
00:30:45.400 president, senators, congressmen. Let's get an army of men inside of these offices who understand
00:30:54.420 what individual sovereignty means and spend more time focusing on leveling the playing field than
00:31:01.060 trying to dictate and coerce and manipulate so that everybody gets their quote unquote fair share.
00:31:07.080 I just want to clear the path. I want to be the bulldozer. I'm going to clear a path for you,
00:31:11.660 every American citizen to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's what our forefathers
00:31:18.040 wanted. That's what they sacrificed for. That's what they fought and bled and died for.
00:31:26.740 That's what I want for you. That's what I want for our country. That's what I want for my kids.
00:31:33.980 And again, this COVID agenda is all designed to strip any individual sovereignty and liberty away.
00:31:39.360 Again, not that the COVID doesn't exist, but that it's being used as a convenient and thinly
00:31:45.040 veiled excuse to wrestle control over our individual lives. Don't let it happen. Gentlemen,
00:31:53.320 make yourself strong, physically, mentally, emotionally, get your health dialed in,
00:31:59.360 get your finances dialed in, build up your provisions, run for office, patronize businesses
00:32:05.200 that believe in the same things that you believe in vote with your dollars in your pocket. Get out and
00:32:10.760 vote these politicians who are doing a horrible job out of office and vote the right kind of men
00:32:15.460 into office. This is what we need to do to be engaged. And I said this in the post before it's too
00:32:23.980 late, before we're tied, our hands are tied to be able to act and do what is right. This is a very
00:32:34.800 convenient opportunity for the powers that would be to wrestle control away from religious institutions,
00:32:39.540 family units, and small businesses. Those are the three pillars of society that I believe will radically
00:32:45.320 and drastically and positively impact and alter the course in which we live our lives. Family unit,
00:32:51.820 first, religious institutions, second, small businesses, third, in no particular order and all just as
00:32:58.560 powerful. And we, as men, individual sovereign men have a responsibility to step into these callings.
00:33:04.080 We won't be intimidated. We won't be manipulated or coerced. We won't be threatened
00:33:11.160 to honor and uphold our constitution, the declaration of independence, the bill of rights
00:33:17.540 that we can speak freely, that we can worship the way that we see fit, that we have a right to defend
00:33:24.320 ourselves and the people that we care about. These are all crucial and gradually and systematically
00:33:32.340 are being stripped away. Now, some of you will say I'm overreacting. I actually hope that I am.
00:33:39.480 I hope that I'm overreacting. I don't think I am, but I hope that I am
00:33:44.160 because I don't want to see this country come to a point where socialism and, and, and even
00:33:51.460 communism and Marxism is embraced. I don't want to get to that point. Oh, right. We'd never get to
00:33:56.720 that point. Bullshit. Famous last words right there. Oh, we're not going down that route. Let's ensure
00:34:03.500 that we don't let's be smart. Let's be safe. Let's acknowledge and recognize COVID for what it is.
00:34:12.920 Let's put the right people in the right position so that we can deal with this,
00:34:16.020 but let's not lose our minds. Let's not lose our freedoms. Let's continue to believe in the power of
00:34:25.420 the human spirit that each individual barring some sort of mental illness is capable of deciding for
00:34:32.500 themselves. And even if they aren't, let's protect those people. Let's protect our vulnerable.
00:34:38.540 Let's protect our elderly and let's the rest of us get back to work.
00:34:44.580 All right, guys, that's what I got for you today. Leave comments. I'm sure I don't even need to tell
00:34:48.500 you to leave comments on this one. You guys are going to leave your comments, positive and negative
00:34:52.280 anywhere in between, but let me know. Let's finish the conversation. If you're going to be a jerk about
00:34:56.940 it, don't. If you're going to be respectful about it and you want to have a real conversation,
00:35:02.000 let's do that. Again, that is something I'm working on. I'm not the best at it. In fact,
00:35:06.940 I'm probably the worst at it. I'm trying to let my ego get out of the way. I'm trying to respond to
00:35:12.200 people positively, even in disagreement. If you're going to be a jerk, that's one thing. If you're
00:35:17.220 going to disagree, cool. Let's talk about it civilly, respectfully, like men do. All right, guys,
00:35:23.040 please share this. It's important. Got to share this episode, share the podcast. The episode I did
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00:35:32.480 if you haven't listened to that one with tank, go listen to it. Powerful, powerful stuff.
00:35:36.360 In fact, I'll just tell you this. It's my highest podcast episode, single episode download day ever,
00:35:43.680 ever in the history of order, man. That's almost six years now, five and a half years.
00:35:49.140 Go listen to it, share it, take a screenshot, post it on Instagram, post it on Twitter,
00:35:53.720 parlor, YouTube, Facebook, wherever you're doing the social media thing, all at Ryan Mickler,
00:35:57.920 except for YouTube, which is at order of man. And let's continue this conversation. Let's be men.
00:36:02.880 Let's be free men. Let's make decisions in our own best interest, free of some government restriction
00:36:09.400 or mandate. You make your decisions and let the chips fall where they may. All right, guys,
00:36:14.360 I'll be back next week. Until then, go out there, take action and become a man. You are meant to be.
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