Order of Man - The Current State of America, Homeschool Vs. Public School, and Lack of Leadership at the Top

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,

00:00:27.800 and I am the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. I want to welcome you

00:00:33.040 back today. Last week, you got to hear from Kip, and Kip did a wonderful job riding solo. He didn't

00:00:38.920 have my insight, but he may have been better off for it because I think that was a pretty damn good

00:00:45.300 podcast. Anyways, I thought we would do the AMA with just myself today since I'm going to be gone

00:00:50.140 this week as well. I'm going to be recording podcasts with the one and only Andy Frisilla,

00:00:55.480 who I know a lot of you guys follow. And I didn't want you guys to think that I was abandoning you.

00:01:00.600 So I'm riding solo today. I'm going to answer questions from our Facebook group. I think we've

00:01:05.380 got about 30 questions or so, some better than others, but I'll get to as many as possible.

00:01:10.300 So if you guys are just tuning in for the first time, I don't know that this is necessarily the

00:01:13.960 best podcast for you to listen to if you're here for the first time, but you can, you certainly can.

00:01:19.000 Or you can listen to our interview shows, which are recorded every Tuesday, released every Tuesday,

00:01:23.720 I should say. And occasionally on Thursday, we've had quite a few guests over the past several

00:01:27.980 months. And then we've got our Friday field notes, which is me just riffing and sharing some thoughts

00:01:34.220 and ideas with you about life and what it means to be a man. And that's what this podcast is all

00:01:39.440 about. It's all about becoming better men. So without hesitation, we'll jump right into these

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00:02:05.260 yourself battle ready. So check it out at order of man.com slash battle ready. You might hear a little

00:02:10.620 bit of rattling around right here. If you're watching the video on YouTube, you can see, I got a new

00:02:14.560 little bracelet here and I don't wear bracelets, but I do when my daughter makes me a bracelet.

00:02:19.700 So if you hear some rattling around in the microphone, it's my bracelet that my daughter

00:02:23.300 made for me. So deal with it. All right, here we go, guys. Let's jump right into it. David Patterson.

00:02:29.700 He says, what is your take on the current state of America and all the chaos that's going on?

00:02:36.640 Well, obviously there's a lot there's, there's Corona virus and there's the black lives matter

00:02:41.460 movement. And then there's tearing down statues and there's civil unrest and there's defund the

00:02:46.760 police. And then I think I saw something about murder hornets two weeks ago. And there's a

00:02:52.980 potential new swine flu virus coming out of China. I mean, obviously we're in unprecedented times,

00:02:59.680 but I think it'll all start to clear itself up come November. That's what I think. I think this is

00:03:06.680 distraction. I think it's a ploy to get people riled up. I think that it's working. And I think

00:03:16.180 that we ought to just all take a step back. And like we said, when we were in middle school, just

00:03:20.460 take a chill pill, just relax, chill out for a minute. Okay. Look, we're coming up on, I think

00:03:28.360 actually as of the release of this podcast, I'm trying to think when we release this. Yes. 4th of

00:03:32.880 July weekend was, was last weekend, which is another issue right now. We're not supposed to

00:03:37.160 celebrate 4th of July because of whatever guys look, you can choose to be riled up about things,

00:03:43.820 or you can choose not to be riled up about things. Corona virus, I think is real. I think it's

00:03:49.540 marginally worse than the flu, which I've been actually saying for months now. And that's what

00:03:54.180 the data is suggesting and supporting. I don't think face masks are as necessary as everybody's making

00:04:01.140 them out to be. I also don't think that if you wear a face mask that you hate people and you don't care

00:04:06.680 about people and you want them all to die, which seems to be a popular narrative. I believe if you

00:04:12.600 want to wear a face mask, feel free to do so. I believe black lives matter, not the organization

00:04:17.900 so much as the statement itself, the words, I believe black lives matter. Now the movement is

00:04:26.720 something entirely different. And that's actually a pretty good strategy by the organizers of the

00:04:31.380 movement, black lives matter. Because if you say you don't support the movement and I'll tell you

00:04:35.620 why I don't support the movement. I don't support the movement because one of their things is to

00:04:39.300 disrupt and undermine the nuclear, the, the, yes, the nuclear family. And I am adamantly opposed to

00:04:46.680 that. Obviously, if you've been listening to the order of man podcast for any amount of time,

00:04:50.260 you know that the nuclear family is something that I believe is fundamental and foundational

00:04:55.720 to a healthy society. And so I'm not going to support any organization that wants to undermine

00:05:01.480 what it means to have a nuclear family, a mother, a father, and children engaged at home,

00:05:07.600 loving, supportive of each other. That to me is the single greatest thing that this society can

00:05:13.500 produce. And the more I feel like we move away from that, the more we move into situations that

00:05:20.260 are not conducive to healthy environments, to success and thriving in our livelihoods in

00:05:25.560 general. So I'm not going to support an organization that has that as one of their

00:05:30.260 foundational principles on their actual website. I've even heard the organizers of the Black Lives

00:05:36.180 Matter movement talking about being trained Marxists. I mean, you have to be a special kind of,

00:05:42.320 I was going to say stupid, but I'll just say, because I'm feeling generous today, a special kind of

00:05:48.160 ignorance to believe that Marxism and socialism can actually work. They never have worked. They never

00:05:57.680 will work. And the more we can reject and be just absolutely disgusted and repulsed by that idea,

00:06:06.360 the better off everybody else is going to be. So coming down off my soapbox guys, I think at this

00:06:14.700 point, we need to worry about ourselves. Like I've been saying for five years, we need to be worrying

00:06:19.180 about our families. We need to take care of our neighbors and the people that we have direct

00:06:24.520 responsibility and some sort of authority or just relationship with and let all this other bullshit

00:06:30.140 go to the side. And I'm not saying don't talk about it because we need to talk about it because

00:06:35.720 if we don't talk about it, then the 2% of misguided souls, and I'm using that very nicely and I'm trying

00:06:41.200 to be very respectful here. The 2% of misguided souls will dictate what the other 98% of us are

00:06:46.580 doing. So stop being silent. The silent majority thing that we hear about. I hate that phrase.

00:06:53.060 Let's be the vocal majority. Let's actually act and work and move towards a better society rather

00:07:01.220 than just working simply on ourselves. And that's part of what we're doing here with Order of Man.

00:07:05.780 And if you get any value from what we're doing here, then share it. All right, share it with your

00:07:09.720 friends and colleagues and coworkers and neighbors and whoever needs to hear the message of reclaiming

00:07:14.120 and restore masculinity. Every person needs to hear it. And it's your responsibility to share it.

00:07:18.800 So you're not so silent and you start being more vocal. All right, I hope I answered that question.

00:07:24.420 Tristan Schnizzle, Shinsle. I think it's Shinsle. Tristan Shinsle. He says spot and stock or blind stand

00:07:32.040 hunting. I do both. I actually prefer the spot and stock versus hunting from a blind or

00:07:39.660 stand. It's hard for me to sit still for any amount of time. If you've known me for any amount

00:07:44.900 of time, you know that I've got a lot of energy and I wouldn't say that I'm not capable of being

00:07:50.320 focused, but I lose focus very quickly. So having my mind and my body engaged in finding an animal

00:07:57.260 and stalking the animal and trying to get my shot is significantly more fulfilling and rewarding to me.

00:08:04.380 Now I'm not going to beat up on a blind or stand hunters. I hunt every year in Minnesota out of a

00:08:10.780 stand, uh, with my friends, Sam Rodriguez and Matt Schmigdahl. And we have a great time, but if I had to

00:08:17.700 choose, I would choose the spot and stock, the Western spot and stock. It's a lot more engaging.

00:08:22.520 It seems to be a lot more challenging. Uh, and, uh, we have a good time with it. So there you go.

00:08:27.220 All right. Tyler, uh, Ewing says, do you have any favorite solo drills for a BJJ?

00:08:38.420 Um, no, not really. I mean, I, I like to stretch when I'm by myself. Um, try to move,

00:08:45.680 maybe do some shrimping drills, things like that. I've actually considered one of those bags that

00:08:49.880 is like weighted and looks like a human. I don't know how valuable that would be. Obviously. I don't

00:08:54.340 think that would replace having a live training partner, but that might be something I'm interested

00:08:59.920 in something that I would get into, uh, if I'm solo, but yeah, I I'm probably not the best guy

00:09:05.380 to ask on that. There's probably other jujitsu podcasts or resources. In fact, check out jujitsu

00:09:11.360 jujitsu. Uh, but my friend, Nick, uh, Albin, and he's got some great information, all of that. Okay.

00:09:18.600 Ben Phelps. I'm not even going to answer this question. He's talking about the importance of

00:09:24.480 railroad engineers. I don't know enough about railroad engineers. And then he's asking if

00:09:28.560 trains are lame or unmanly. Uh, I don't know. That's kind of a weird question. So whatever.

00:09:34.880 All right. Travis fair junior. He says the state of law enforcement has caused me to rethink my life

00:09:39.480 goals for the safety of my family. In your opinion, how should I get started on YouTube podcasting

00:09:44.560 or mentorship? Um, I'm actually going to pull up some notes here. Bear with me because I did a

00:09:53.320 podcast the other day called, in fact, it wasn't a podcast. It was a show for the warrior poet society

00:09:59.460 network. If you got in, it's exclusive over there. So you won't hear it anywhere else. If you guys are

00:10:03.720 interested, go to order of man.com slash W P S N order of man.com slash W P S N. And I talked about,

00:10:12.840 uh, the rules for making money. And this ties in nicely, Travis, to what you have to share here.

00:10:18.120 So you're going to hear me shuffle through my notes here. Uh, the first step, focus on where

00:10:22.400 your time goes the fastest. Okay. So I know Travis, you're in law enforcement. Now I want you to focus

00:10:27.400 on where time goes the absolute fastest, because that's going to help you see where you have an

00:10:32.440 affinity, where you enjoy things like that. Number two, build a community. You need to educate,

00:10:38.300 inspire, and, or entertain these individuals around the answer to question. Number one,

00:10:44.360 focus on where your time goes the fastest. Number three, learn how to market. You've got to position

00:10:49.600 yourself as a marketer first, and then who happens to be offering fill in the blank based on questions

00:10:56.360 one and two. Number four, listen for clues from your audience. Your audience is going to give you

00:11:02.920 clues about what it is they're trying to accomplish, what they want to do, what they want to get done,

00:11:07.020 what their goals are, what their challenges and frustrations are. You can create solutions to

00:11:11.260 those problems if you listen to them. And number five, replicate what works. If something works,

00:11:18.120 do it over again. If it doesn't work, tweak it, refine it, hone it, and then do it again.

00:11:23.480 It's as simple as that. Not easy. This is a lot of work. I've been doing this for over five and a

00:11:27.420 half years now. Uh, but it is very simple. And it's a five-step formula. Focus on where your time goes

00:11:32.160 the fastest. Number two, build a community. Number three, learn how to market. Number four,

00:11:36.180 listen for clues. And number five, replicate what works. All right. Michael Davis, homeschool versus

00:11:42.680 public school in regards to teaching children history and instilling into the morals you want

00:11:47.400 them to possess. I mean this, look, the answer, we all know, we all know that the answer is homeschool.

00:11:53.700 Whether you homeschool or not, we all know that the answer to teaching children history and

00:11:58.580 instilling, this is most important, instilling the morals you want them to possess.

00:12:03.720 The answer is obviously homeschool. Everybody knows that even those who send their children

00:12:11.000 to public school. And I'm not even going to beat up on that. I mean, we sent our children to public

00:12:15.060 school for a very long time. Right now we do homeschool and we have for the past year now,

00:12:20.140 but if you want to instill your morals, then you need them to be around your morals. The majority of the

00:12:27.840 time, when you put them into the school system, inevitably, and inherently, they're going to be

00:12:33.420 learning different things from other people. And that's not, not always bad. You want them to be

00:12:38.180 well-rounded. You want them to have different thoughts and ideas and be able to think for

00:12:41.960 themselves. But if you want to instill a certain set of principles and morals into your youth, then

00:12:48.680 they need to be around you the majority of the time. So the answer is very clearly homeschool.

00:12:53.740 And anybody who thinks anything differently is just flat out wrong. And hear me when I say this,

00:13:00.880 guys, I'm not saying public school is wrong. I'm saying that if you want to instill,

00:13:06.780 to paraphrase this question here, the morals that you want them to possess, then they need to be around

00:13:12.280 you the most amount of time possible, which means you need to homeschool them. And homeschooling is

00:13:19.160 becoming significantly more viable, uh, significantly more conducive to ensuring that

00:13:25.800 they get the social element that they need. Because look, when I was, when I was in middle

00:13:30.560 school and high school, the homeschool kids were weird. I mean, they were straight up weird.

00:13:37.180 And you guys all know that to be true. If you're my age or older, they were weird. They didn't know

00:13:41.280 how to socially interact with other people. They, they, they lost a lot of the emotional intelligence

00:13:45.680 and dealing with other people. That is actually the value of public school. But learning is not the

00:13:52.040 value of public school. They're, they're learning what to think. They're not learning how to think

00:13:57.880 they're being conditioned. I mean, some of the things that I hear from young kids, young kids,

00:14:04.640 eight, nine, 10 years old is ludicrous and insane and disgusting. So the answer is obviously homeschool

00:14:16.220 and one benefit that's come from this whole coronavirus pandemic fear mongering thing that's

00:14:26.080 going on here is that more and more families are beginning to see that homeschool is a very viable

00:14:33.700 option to ensuring your kids get the education they need. And you can do it. You can do it.

00:14:41.620 Trust me. You can do it. We're doing it. I say, we, my wife is doing it. I work, I'm here in the house.

00:14:48.220 So I've created that environment with the help of her being able to support and teach. And it's been a

00:14:54.160 very good thing for us. So the answer is homeschooling, hands down homeschooling. Okay. Even

00:15:01.340 though there's value to public school, I'm not saying there isn't, there is value there. All

00:15:05.340 right. Frank Hart, why isn't there leaders at the top? And maybe before ranting on masculinity,

00:15:11.820 remember that those in charge are from a different generation that actually embraced masculinity.

00:15:16.820 You know, if you're going to ask me a question and qualify it and assume that I'm going to talk

00:15:21.660 about things like, I'm not sure why, why you're, why you're even asking. It sounds like you've

00:15:27.520 already got it. Okay. So if you've already had the answer, you already have the answer. If you

00:15:32.280 genuinely want to know my answer, I think the problem is, is there's a lot of conflict of

00:15:36.800 interest. I think the problem is people are, uh, enticed in, uh, just power hungry. They get drunk

00:15:45.760 on authority. Uh, and they're more worried about their, their election results than they're worried

00:15:53.940 about doing what's right by people. This is why I think that if you are an American and you aren't

00:15:59.500 fighting for term limits for our politicians, then you probably ought to consider that we need term

00:16:07.520 limits for our politicians. These assholes who are in power for 20, 30, 40 years. And you hear some

00:16:15.720 of these politicians. We're going to make real change. Well, dude, you've been here for 40 years

00:16:21.140 and you haven't done anything. So why are you telling us you're going to make changes right now?

00:16:27.340 Is it because you're saying what your constituents wants you to say? Is it because you're more worried

00:16:32.320 about your, uh, reelection potential than you're worried about doing what's right by people?

00:16:38.180 And if you're fooled by this, shame on you. If you're, if you're a citizen, a civilian,

00:16:42.800 and you're fooled by these politicians who have been in, uh, politics for 30, 40, 50 years,

00:16:50.140 and you think that they're actually serious this time, you're a fool. You're a fool. There's no

00:16:57.540 better way to put that. These people aren't serious about improving your, your life. They're serious

00:17:04.200 about improving their lives. And I want to get back to the point where we engaged in politics out of some

00:17:11.480 sort of civic duty and civil responsibility, not an opportunity to build insane amount of wealth

00:17:17.020 at the expense of our civilian population. It's bullshit. And every single man who's listening to

00:17:25.960 this podcast right now, better get behind the idea that we need term limits. So these assholes who've

00:17:31.340 been around for decades can get out of there and go try to add value in the real world,

00:17:37.460 in the private sector where they actually have to add value. And then people vote with their dollars,

00:17:43.040 whether or not they're valuable or not. This is the beginning of the solution to what we've been

00:17:49.760 plagued with from these politicians who are destructive and downright dangerous to our democracy,

00:17:56.920 to our Republic, into our way of life. So Frank, when you ask me, why isn't their leaders at the top

00:18:03.960 is because they're more worried about themselves than they're worried about other people? Because

00:18:08.640 we've created a system that rewards them for behaving that way. So we need to rearrange and

00:18:17.380 dismantle the system. So there isn't reward incentive for them doing nothing or for them doing things that

00:18:24.580 come at the expense of the average citizen like myself and Frank, like you,

00:18:28.640 this is a problem and we need to get behind it. We need to rally. And you know what? I don't even

00:18:36.740 care what side of the political aisle you sit on. I don't care if you're liberal or conservative,

00:18:41.100 Democrat, Republican, libertarian, anywhere in between.

00:18:49.000 It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you sit on. You should always be in favor of limiting

00:18:54.240 these people so that we know at least we have some idea that maybe these people aren't in it for the

00:19:00.380 career, for the notoriety, for the potential income, for the conflict of interest, but they're there

00:19:05.060 because they actually believe that they can do some good. I don't know if that's the case. When

00:19:10.460 somebody runs for politics, I have no idea whether that person believes they actually want to do good

00:19:15.760 or they just want to make a career in politics because we've created the incentive and the system

00:19:21.060 that brings that into question. That's what needs to be changed. Part of what needs to be changed.

00:19:27.240 All right. Obviously get a little, uh, fired up on this stuff. John, uh, Swarovski is how I'd say

00:19:35.040 his name. Swarovski. I think that's right. He says, are you familiar with the Tuttle Twins

00:19:38.780 series of books and are you using them in your homeschool curriculum? Excuse me. Do you think the

00:19:44.460 ideas and concepts they cover are lacking in today's society? And is the lack of knowledge part of why

00:19:48.800 we're in the mess we're in? I actually don't know about the Tuttle Twins series. Full disclosure,

00:19:52.720 I bought them a while ago and my kids are writing essays about the law right now. I don't know.

00:19:58.780 I don't know. I'm not familiar with what the Tuttle Twins series for homeschooling is.

00:20:03.080 We use a program called, um, the good and the beautiful, I think is what it is. In fact,

00:20:08.880 let me look right now. The good, cause I don't want to tell you wrong because the good and the

00:20:14.000 beautiful sounds like a soap opera, the good and the beautiful homeschool. Let me check it out.

00:20:20.780 I'm going to give you this resource. Bear with me. Oh my goodness. Sorry guys. Should have had

00:20:28.860 this pulled up. Yes, I was right. The good and the beautiful. That's the homeschooling curriculum

00:20:33.920 that we're using. We've been using it for the past 12 months or so now, and it's been very,

00:20:38.480 very good. We've had to supplement it with some other additional resources, but that's a,

00:20:42.120 that's a great starting point. The good and the beautiful. I'm not sure about the Tuttle Twins.

00:20:46.120 All right. David Osburnson. Have you ever read masters of command by Barry Strauss? I have not.

00:20:51.260 He says he would be a good guest on the podcast to talk about Alexander, the great Hannibal or

00:20:55.640 Julius Caesar. Good to know. I'll check it out. Bo Dobbs. I'm a single father of three kids whom I

00:21:02.240 have primary custody. I lost my job in it when COVID-19 started. Uh, I also run a woodworking

00:21:07.920 business on the side. I've been struggling with the decision of finding a quote unquote regular job

00:21:12.020 back in corporate America with being self-employed, pursuing my woodworking business. My fear for

00:21:16.660 making that jump is that I'm only the only source of income for my kids. I, and I, I know God will

00:21:22.880 provide for me, but I struggle with deciding which is the best option, self-employed or corporate.

00:21:28.000 I appreciate any advice and insights on how to sort through the fears, pros, and cons. Well, look,

00:21:32.560 I mean, there's risk in everything, right? I think people, most people would go to a quote unquote

00:21:36.820 regular job to eliminate risk risk because they think it's not there. But I think if anything,

00:21:41.460 COVID-19 has told us and taught us that there is risk inherent in any decision that we make.

00:21:48.480 And our job is to weigh the risk, the pros and the cons and decide what's best for us.

00:21:53.340 So Bo, if you're listening to this and anybody who might be in this boat, uh, you just heard me talk

00:21:58.520 about the five rules for making more money. Again, it's focus on where your time goes the fastest.

00:22:02.720 You're already doing that because it's woodworking. Number two, building a community around woodworking.

00:22:07.640 Number three, learning how to market. It's probably where you need to get good at. Number four,

00:22:12.100 listening for clues to what your audience wants. And then number five is replicate what works.

00:22:17.780 So use that formula. And by the way, you can do that while you're doing a regular job.

00:22:22.520 I had a nine to five. I was, in fact, it was like a nine to seven. I was doing financial planning.

00:22:26.540 Uh, and I was doing that for about a year and a half before I went full time with order of man,

00:22:33.200 but it took me a year and a half to build up order of man to the point where it replaced my expenses,

00:22:39.160 not my total income, but just my expenses. So I think if you need to find a regular job,

00:22:44.100 so you have the stability and income, then you do that, but you have a plan formulated in place,

00:22:49.280 uh, so that you can be out on your own. Yes, there's risk in being out on your own,

00:22:54.500 but there's also benefits as well. And you have to decide, you have to weigh,

00:22:57.840 is the steady paycheck more valuable to you? Or is the upward mobility and potential and growth

00:23:03.580 more about and the autonomy more valuable. And if that's more valuable, the latter,

00:23:07.880 then you need to go out on your own and you need to have a plan for doing it. Use that system.

00:23:13.920 All right, Steven Zeller. What's the state of the U S and world 10 years from now,

00:23:19.780 best and worst case scenario. Well, best case scenario, I can say we learned from all this bullshit,

00:23:24.500 and we start thinking for ourselves, we get rid of the mainstream media and we continue to support

00:23:30.100 outlets like order of man and other outlets that are independent of the collective media,

00:23:35.520 uh, so that we can get, I won't say unbiased advice. Cause I realized I'm biased as well.

00:23:41.140 Uh, but that we get options that we have an opportunity to access all sorts of information

00:23:48.160 without the gatekeepers. There's a lot of, uh, attacks on social media right now,

00:23:52.500 specifically with Facebook, mainly because Mark Zuckerberg is not folding to the mob,

00:23:58.540 which is what they love him to do. Uh, but he said that he supports free speech. Twitter doesn't

00:24:04.340 a lot of these other platforms don't. And it's indicative by the way they run their platforms.

00:24:09.060 So we need to be able to decentralize access to information. And I think podcasting is a very

00:24:17.200 powerful medium to do that. So best case scenario, we continue to do that. And people will begin to

00:24:22.500 make up their own decisions, uh, that will have some sort of, uh, you know, awakening realization

00:24:29.320 that the route that we're going is not conducive and not helpful for anybody.

00:24:35.320 Worst case scenario is that we don't learn these lessons immediately. And we are attacked. Uh,

00:24:41.720 our systems of democracy and the Republic are completely dismantled. We're attacked by some

00:24:46.920 outside force. Uh, there's a lot of real threats that if we don't get our shit and act together

00:24:51.600 could very well be, be a reality. So we better make sure that we have access to information. We

00:24:59.200 better stand firm. Again, this is not about the silent majority. We make ourselves the vocal

00:25:03.960 minority, excuse me, majority, the vocal majority. And we don't allow the 2% of people to dictate

00:25:10.160 what the 98% of us are doing. There's also something I've been thinking a lot about.

00:25:15.300 And I've been hearing a lot about this as well, is that we, as men who believe in strength and honor

00:25:20.300 and integrity and doing the right thing, uh, we need to win the cultural war right now, lefties,

00:25:28.020 and there's a difference between what it means to be a lefty and what it means to be a liberal. So

00:25:31.640 I want you to understand that distinction. If you're curious about that, you can check out my podcast

00:25:35.840 with Dave Rubin right now, the leftism, which is the extreme, extreme side. Well, it has been,

00:25:45.260 it's been the fringe side of the democratic party is becoming more mainstream.

00:25:51.900 And we need to reject those ideals and those ideas because they don't work. They've never worked.

00:25:57.520 In fact, all it brings is destruction and death and horror and pain. It's not what we want. So we need

00:26:06.620 to reject that. And we need to begin to think for ourselves. We need to introduce term limits for our

00:26:13.000 politicians. We need to step up into leadership within our cities and states and the federal

00:26:18.860 leadership as well. Otherwise we're going to see some very difficult times. I hate to admit,

00:26:24.260 I hate to say, but it's true. America will cease to be what she is because we're letting 2% dictate

00:26:30.640 what the 98% of us believe. All right. Bradley Chandler thoughts on the two-party system or third

00:26:37.200 party politicians. You know, look, I'm not, I'm not a historian. I don't study politics all that much

00:26:46.200 to be frank with you guys. But there's obviously issues with the two-party system. The two-party

00:26:51.680 system is an issue because there's, there's opportunities, for example, on a ballot where

00:26:57.040 you can literally check one box and it says, vote all Democrat or vote all Republican. And that's a

00:27:01.960 problem. Like, I don't want ignorant people voting. You know, you hear things like it's your civic duty

00:27:08.600 to vote. No, I actually don't want you to vote. If you're not educated on the issues, if you're not

00:27:13.240 involved, like I don't want you to vote. I want you to be involved. I want you to learn. I want you to

00:27:18.980 experience. And if you do, then I believe you should vote whatever side of the aisle that happens

00:27:23.020 to be. But when it comes to the two-party system, it's hard for me to understand why. Well, I get it.

00:27:30.180 It makes it easy. It's always the path of least resistance, right? If I can vote state straight

00:27:37.360 blue or straight red, then I don't have to think. And isn't that the point to let all these citizens

00:27:44.680 and the civilians be little cogs in the wheel of the politicians and the authority and the power

00:27:49.180 that would be. So educate yourself. Stop voting according to sides and start voting on who's

00:27:57.580 going to be in your best interest. And that might be a third party. I think having a third party,

00:28:03.540 a strong third party candidate would actually be something that would actually be very, very

00:28:08.940 valuable for society. If we had somebody who was well-known or well-recognized and Joe Rogan is a

00:28:18.040 great example. I'm not saying that he needs to run for politics or anything, but I was listening to a

00:28:22.240 podcast that he did with Jon Stewart. And it was apparent that via that podcast, there was a lot of

00:28:28.040 left-leaning thoughts and ideals because Jon Stewart tends to go that way. But I've heard of other podcasts

00:28:34.120 where he has very conservative ideals and thoughts. And I think that makes for an interesting person,

00:28:40.680 a well-rounded person. Most of us probably fall into that camp where we're not all Republican.

00:28:45.540 We're not all Democrat. We're all not libertarian. We're somewhere in between. And on certain issues,

00:28:50.180 we believe this. And on other issues, we believe this. And the two party system is obviously going to

00:28:57.300 create contention. That's actually the point of it. You're either this or you're this. And the labels

00:29:03.840 that we put on ourselves are very dangerous. So I think it's a real threat to democracy.

00:29:10.800 Let's see. I'm going to skip that question. Dallin Edwards. Can experience and research equal

00:29:16.120 out to be the same thing? No. The short answer is no. For instance, a guy I started listening to

00:29:20.740 talks about gunfighting tactics and he gives his quote unquote expert opinion because he has watched

00:29:25.220 over 20,000 gunfights on YouTube and shooting competitions. Some of his advice goes against

00:29:31.100 common tactics taught by people that have been in combat. He does seem skilled, but can his research

00:29:37.260 make up for actual experience? Well, this guy that you're talking about is probably an expert on

00:29:43.020 shooting competitions. That's it. A shooting competition is vastly different than an intruder

00:29:50.300 breaking into your house. It's vastly different than being assaulted in public. It's vastly different

00:29:57.160 than being in a convenience store when somebody pulls out a gun. Now, unfortunately outside of the

00:30:03.820 military, I have not been in one of those experiences, but being at a shooting competition is different

00:30:09.360 than those other things. So when you say he gives his quote unquote expert opinion, uh, I think,

00:30:15.980 and I hope that he's giving his expert opinion on how to become a competitive shooter, because if he's

00:30:22.100 talking about his quote unquote expert opinion, having watched over 20,000 gunfights, well, that's

00:30:28.440 bullshit. Unless you've been in a gunfight, you don't know the dynamics of it. I experienced this to a

00:30:36.280 very small degree in jujitsu. I've always prided myself on being strong and athletic and capable,

00:30:42.880 picking up on these things quickly and being somewhat athletic. And then you get to jujitsu

00:30:48.100 and you start sizing people up. Cause that's what we do as men. We size people up and I've sized

00:30:52.100 people up. And I thought, man, I could take this guy. I've got 40, 50 pounds on him. I'm stronger

00:30:55.660 than him. I'm bigger than him. I'm athletic. I can take this guy. And all of a sudden he runs circles

00:30:59.640 around you and your whole world is shattered because you thought you were an expert on something and

00:31:05.760 you were lying to yourself. Research doesn't equal experience. Knowledge doesn't equal wisdom. Knowledge

00:31:13.940 is the information. Wisdom is the application. So if you're listening to somebody who is a competitive

00:31:21.520 shooter, talk with you about real, real world circumstances, then you're selling yourself short

00:31:27.620 and you're buying into bullshit. If you want to get real advice on being in dangerous situations,

00:31:37.500 when actually somebody is shooting back with you at you, then you ought to learn from people who have

00:31:43.440 been in that experience before. Cause the dynamic changes, the nuance changes, the tempo changes

00:31:49.380 versus shooting targets. And I'm not saying shooting targets is bad. If you're a competitive shooter,

00:31:53.600 that's great. I mean, that's wonderful. It's a great hobby, but it's different than when somebody

00:31:58.440 else has a gun and they're shooting back at you and trying to kill you. So there it is.

00:32:04.600 Tyler Walker, which Disney animated film has the best father to emulate in your opinion? I did see

00:32:09.080 this one earlier. The answer is the lion King. Obviously I can't, honestly, I can't think about

00:32:17.020 anybody else or anything else right now. So which Disney animated film has the best father to emulate?

00:32:22.980 Lion King. The dad is, is the best Mufasa is the, or not, is it Mufasa? I can't even know. Yeah.

00:32:29.340 Mufasa Mufasa is the best father there is, right? He loves his son. He cares for his son. He sacrifices

00:32:34.620 for his son. Like it doesn't get any better than that. It's not even a question. I don't know. Maybe

00:32:40.340 you guys know of another one than I do, but yeah, it's definitely Mufasa. All right. Keith Day her

00:32:46.820 favorite spot you have visited in Maine so far. My wife and I and kids actually went to Bar Harbor

00:32:51.720 over the weekend. We celebrated our anniversary and just had three or four days of just spending

00:32:56.620 time with the kids and having fun and having no agenda. And it was awesome. So Bar Harbor has

00:33:02.400 been pretty good so far. We enjoy it. Chris Dalton tips for starting BJJ had my first class this week.

00:33:08.380 You guys have inspired me to start Brazilian jujitsu.

00:33:11.340 Uh, my only tips are just be open and receptive, drop the ego, listen to your coach, uh, and just be

00:33:21.280 consistent. That's it. I don't have any advice other than that. Just be consistent. It's going

00:33:27.520 to be up and down. It's going to be a roller coaster of, of excitement and despair and frustration

00:33:33.400 and joy, and it's going to be everything. So just be there for the ride, drop the ego. Uh,

00:33:40.180 just listen to what people are telling you. If they're giving good feedback, then implement that,

00:33:44.480 do exactly what they say and take it all to heart and don't feel like you have to win or prove

00:33:49.780 yourself. Cause if you feel like that, then you're going to drop out because what you're going to find

00:33:54.600 very, very quickly is that you suck at this because that's the nature of it. You suck at this.

00:34:01.940 And if you want to win and you're basing your performance and your desire to continue to go

00:34:09.560 based on you winning, you'll never go back. Cause you're not going to win. You're not,

00:34:14.320 you're just not, when you start, you're not going to win. So redefine what winning looks like. Maybe

00:34:20.100 it's not getting swept. Maybe it's not being submitted. Maybe it's keeping somebody in your

00:34:24.140 guard or passing guard. But the whole goal here is to drop your ego, be receptive, be open.

00:34:30.100 And like my children, for example, specifically my four-year-old, they don't have egos, right?

00:34:34.160 They're just there to learn. And when they trip or fall or trying to walk and they trip and they

00:34:39.880 have to get up, but they don't like look around and say, Oh, I'm embarrassed. They don't worry about

00:34:43.740 that. So be like a child in that way. Hey, it got submitted. You know, I'm not worried about how I

00:34:50.220 look. I just got submitted. So cool. Tap, go back to it. That's the whole point. So just be there

00:34:55.880 and present and joy. Be there in the moment. You'll be fine. Greg Rocky Walker. Do you see

00:35:01.240 major civil unrest this fall with the COVID BLM and 2020 election? What are your, what are you and

00:35:06.200 your family doing to prepare for it? Uh, you know, I actually see there being civil unrest this fall.

00:35:12.040 If Donald Trump wins the, wins the election, I should say when I honestly believe he's going to

00:35:17.300 win reelection. So I think there's going to be a lot of civil unrest. Uh, I don't think there will

00:35:22.860 it be as much civil unrest if Joe Biden wins. I don't in, and I think history kind of shows that.

00:35:30.100 I, I don't know if you go back to the two parties or the way people view things, but I think if Trump

00:35:34.820 wins, there's going to be a lot of civil unrest and it's going to get ugly very, very quickly.

00:35:38.280 It's going to get nasty. I think if Biden wins, I don't think that's going to happen. It shouldn't

00:35:42.500 happen. Um, forget about politics. The guy is definitely has some cognitive decline. I mean,

00:35:48.660 that's, that's unquestionable to me at this point. So forget about politics, but we're going to have

00:35:53.520 somebody with cognitive, uh, issues potentially running the country. That's not a good position

00:35:59.720 to be in. Uh, I don't think, I think if he wins, I don't think there'll be much, much unrest at all.

00:36:06.260 Honestly, I don't think, I think everybody will just, you know, be pissed off or bugged or whatever,

00:36:10.020 and they'll go on about their lives because that seems to be the way it works. But if Trump wins,

00:36:14.140 yeah, when he wins, there's going to be a lot of unrest and it's going to get ugly.

00:36:19.020 So what am I doing? Uh, I'm making myself financially independent. I continue to do that.

00:36:23.780 Uh, I'm making myself physically strong, uh, capable by developing skillsets to protect myself

00:36:28.580 and firearms. I've loaded up on firearms, munitions, and some extra things that I won't

00:36:34.900 completely disclose. Uh, food storage is important for us and just making sure we're sovereign in all

00:36:40.440 way. I look at what I'm relying upon, whether it's fuel or groceries or whatever law enforcement.

00:36:46.040 These are all things that I'm relying upon as a civilian. And I imagine myself being stripped away

00:36:51.580 of those, uh, those blessings, you know, frankly defund the police is a perfect example of that.

00:36:58.080 Like what would happen if the police weren't here? I've had to call the police three times this year

00:37:02.420 in the past 12 months, minor things, but all of them been open and receptive. And I've had a good

00:37:07.840 experience with them. And it's actually been pretty good thing. You know, everything's been

00:37:10.960 resolved. Uh, but what, what would happen if police weren't around? And if police weren't around,

00:37:15.840 I got to play out this scenario and wonder how I would defend myself and my family. In fact,

00:37:19.980 we tried, we hadn't, we had somebody who tried to break into our home, try to get into our house

00:37:23.580 several months ago. And you know, it stirred up some thoughts for me. Am I ready? Am I prepared for

00:37:29.620 this? And in some ways I wasn't in some ways I wasn't. So I need to make myself more prepared for

00:37:34.020 those things. But look, whether, whether Biden wins or Trump wins, I think we ought to prepare

00:37:39.360 ourselves for civil unrest, for not having the luxuries that we've enjoyed in the past, because

00:37:44.520 there's some misguided souls to put it nicely, who, uh, are, are undermining our, the, the, the,

00:37:52.580 the very fabric of society, a civil society. And we ought to be prepared for things, not being civil,

00:37:57.880 like no food available, no protection available, no fuel or other resources that we enjoy

00:38:03.640 available. And ask ourselves, do we have the provisions to take care of ourselves? And do we

00:38:08.820 have the ability to protect those provisions? Because those things will become valuable very,

00:38:14.280 very quickly. And you need to be able to defend them. And if you can't defend them, then you might

00:38:18.980 as well not have them because you won't for long and you'll die in the process. Joshua Shoebridge,

00:38:24.880 favorite book of Mormon personality. Why? Obviously for you, Ryan. Yeah. Moroni, you know,

00:38:29.660 he's a warrior, he's a fighter, he's righteous. Um, he's willing to go to work and, and, and put in,

00:38:35.720 put in the effort and he leads men and he fights for what he believes in. And he stands for what is

00:38:41.360 right. And he's not intimidated by other individuals. So Moroni is my, is the personality I enjoy the most.

00:38:48.340 All right. Bob Ross. He's thinking about doing a pool deck out on looking at a HELOC or a personal loan,

00:38:55.300 your thoughts. Uh, there's some other things here. Look, why, you know, if you're, I don't even know

00:39:02.640 how much a pool costs, let's say a pool costs, I don't know, 15,000, 20,000. I don't even know 20,000.

00:39:07.720 Let's just say it's 20,000 for the sake of math. A pool is going to cast, cost you 20 grand. So

00:39:12.120 you're looking at a HELOC or a personal loan. Why now that pool is going to cost you 30 grand because

00:39:17.280 you put it on a 15 year loan. No, I don't. I think if you can pay cash for it, then maybe you ought to

00:39:23.080 consider it. But if you can't pay cash for it, just buy a thousand dollar above ground pool.

00:39:28.060 We had one, it was a 15 foot pool, five feet high, I believe. And we had it last year. In fact,

00:39:32.580 I got to get a new one, but all of them are sold out. I can't find them mostly because people are

00:39:36.500 stuck at home via this COVID-19 thing, but man, we love that pool. You know, I've got four kids and my

00:39:42.460 wife, we jumped in that pool every night and we played around and we had fun and it was, it cost us a

00:39:46.780 grand. So look, if you've got to take out a loan to do a deck or an add-on or remodel, I, I question

00:39:55.260 whether or not you should do it. We have minimal debt. Our credit scores are both 800 plus. Okay.

00:40:01.320 So you do say there are other options to consider. Uh, if you can, uh, it looks like it's got a typo

00:40:08.040 here. If you can't finance the entire project in cash, I'd lean more towards that. I mean, you have

00:40:13.140 to look at the time that, uh, the, uh, lost opportunity cost, the time value of money and

00:40:19.300 ask yourself, you know, if I put 20 grand into this thing, what could I have done with that 20

00:40:22.960 grand? There's certainly considerations, but yeah, I'm not for paying interest. I mean, that's what

00:40:28.060 you're going to do. Eric says trade labor with a friend. That's actually a pretty good idea. I like

00:40:31.740 that idea. Caleb Titus, what is the best way to make a difference during this crisis? Current crisis

00:40:37.300 our country is facing is posting our thoughts and articles on social media enough. No talking is not

00:40:43.020 enough. Never enough. You got to do, you got to act. You got to get involved. You got to push

00:40:49.680 and push yourself into political positions. You got to put yourself in positions of, of leadership

00:40:53.980 and authority and responsibility. You've got to be able to make these changes. You've got to get

00:40:57.960 yourself sovereign as best as possible, financially independent, physically free and strong and

00:41:02.780 healthy. Uh, you've got to build up your provisions and storage. You've got to enlist other people.

00:41:06.880 You've got to teach them new skills so they can defend themselves. You've got to be in positions

00:41:11.100 that allow you to make decisions and dictate the course of your community or your state or

00:41:16.280 your country. No, it's not enough to post articles on social media. Get involved, go to town hall

00:41:23.040 meetings, run for office. Yes. Share stuff on social media, but also do the work. Talking

00:41:30.880 is never enough. You've got to do the work and you've got some great examples there. Gavin

00:41:34.680 Lynch. What do you say to yourself mentally on the days when your drive and emotions are

00:41:40.720 not following your goals? I tell myself to stop being a lazy piece of shit and get to

00:41:46.560 work. That's it. Cause look, there's days where I don't want to do stuff. There's days

00:41:53.340 where I don't feel like it, but the way I feel about something has no factor or relevancy

00:41:58.580 in something that I already committed to doing. So I tell myself, Hey, stop being a lazy piece

00:42:03.680 of shit and get to work. And that seems to work because I don't want to be a lazy piece

00:42:08.400 of shit. And Gavin, neither do you. So if you equate slacking off and engaging in activities

00:42:17.140 that are direct odds with your goals and you view those as being a lazy piece of shit and

00:42:21.260 you know, you don't want to be that individual, then I think you're going to reject it. I mean,

00:42:26.880 I don't really have a hard time kicking my ass into gear because I don't want to be that

00:42:32.460 guy. I've talked about it on the podcast at length. The natural man, he's lazy, he's weak,

00:42:38.300 he's cowardly, he's pathetic. He wants the results without the effort. He's a lazy piece

00:42:43.620 of shit and I don't want to be that guy. So when I'm tempted to be that natural man and

00:42:50.780 I am just as much as any other man, I tell myself, I don't want to be that guy. I want

00:42:57.860 to be this guy, the guy who's motivated, inspired, he's disciplined, he's focused, he has integrity,

00:43:05.060 he follows through on his commitments. And when I'm doing anything to the contrary, I

00:43:09.280 say, stop being that individual and start being the individual that you know you can be.

00:43:16.340 That's simply a choice. So that's what I say. All right. I've got another question here. It's

00:43:22.860 anonymous. He says, how do I communicate with my kids when they compare me to my ex's new

00:43:28.600 boyfriend? It's usually things that don't matter. Like he's stronger than me or he's at has tattoos,

00:43:35.220 but I don't, I don't want to come off as hateful since they're only five and three, but I want them

00:43:39.280 to know that the things I met, want them to know the things that matter, I guess.

00:43:46.620 Well, I mean, there are going to be differences and that's fine. So when they say he might be

00:43:52.120 stronger than you say, yeah, he might be. And that's good. This is hard because we've got to

00:43:56.860 drop the ego right here. Like, isn't it good that he has some characteristics that are going to serve

00:44:01.320 your children best? I mean, he's going to be in their lives, whether you like it or not. So isn't it

00:44:05.180 good when they point out good characteristics? Now, I don't know that stronger is obviously the

00:44:11.440 best character. I mean, it's good. You want to be strong. Tattoos certainly isn't a characteristic

00:44:16.260 for against some, whether somebody can be honorable or have integrity or be the kind of man that

00:44:21.540 can lead children. But yeah, I think you just explained differences. You got a five and three

00:44:26.380 year old when they say he has tattoos, but you don't say, well, you have blue or blonde hair and you

00:44:30.480 have brown hair. Does that really matter? No, it doesn't matter. It's just different.

00:44:35.180 That's it. So at a young age, I think you just kind of explained that. Yeah, everybody's different.

00:44:40.760 Some people have blonde hair. Some people have brown hair. Some people are white. Some people

00:44:44.840 are black. Some people are strong physically. Other people are strong mentally. Some people are

00:44:50.720 creative. Some people are more interested in following systems and they're maybe not as creative,

00:44:56.180 but they can follow through on a process. Like everybody's different. We all have strengths and

00:45:00.780 weaknesses. And I think you talk to him like that, but just be careful of letting your ego get in the

00:45:07.340 way. Like tattoos, that doesn't matter. So you need to explain, for example, that it doesn't matter

00:45:12.960 or that he's stronger than you. I mean, yeah, maybe he's a power lifter or whatever. Does that mean that

00:45:17.460 you can't provide and take care of your family? Well, no, of course not. So you need to explain that to

00:45:23.260 him. Okay. Jason King, he says, what dogs are best? German shepherds. The end. Eric Shepley says,

00:45:33.280 by the way, Jason, on that, I say that because our German shepherd is the best dog that I've ever had.

00:45:38.640 The absolute best dog I've ever had. So I'm biased. Eric Shepley, what would you tell someone that feels

00:45:45.200 they missed out on serving in the military? Well, you can serve in the military. You can always go back.

00:45:50.380 I mean, unless your, your age is there. Uh, otherwise you can support the military through

00:45:56.040 charitable organizations, through starting a charity and organization through other companies

00:46:00.220 who are supporting military members and veterans. Uh, you can donate to charities. There's ways that

00:46:06.300 you can maybe not serve in the military based on your age, but that you can contribute. And if you're

00:46:10.940 in the position where you can, then maybe if, if age isn't a factor that you can still do that.

00:46:16.320 So take advantage of it. Even if it's the national guard or the reserves, I was in the national guard.

00:46:21.900 Now my unit got activated, uh, in 2005 and I went to Ramadi in 2005 and 2006. Um, but yeah, I mean,

00:46:30.140 you can go to the reserves, go the national guard route, or you can support the military. That's what

00:46:34.920 I would say. Victor Stearns. How often do I train? Oh, I train every day. I train jujitsu four to

00:46:43.200 five days a week. And the other days I train in my gym, which happens to be the, uh, the garage.

00:46:48.640 So I train every day without fail. Um, Ryan Cannon, how do you silent kill the deer eating my garden

00:46:55.740 without alerting my neighbors and the authorities? I don't know. Maybe you can, maybe you can tell me

00:47:00.600 because I might have some of those issues as well. I don't know. Just put up a big fence or put it in

00:47:04.280 a greenhouse. There you go. How do you stay connected with God when you're deployed, when you're

00:47:08.480 deployed or on long business trips, you do it the same way you would do it when you're at home,

00:47:11.980 right? You read the Bible, you pray, you surround yourself with other godly men and you do the same

00:47:17.280 thing. I don't see why this would be any different to stay connected with God when you're deployed or

00:47:22.640 on long business trips as you would be with home. Unless your wife and your kids are the only thing

00:47:27.340 that are helping you stay on track. And if that's the case, you're selling yourself short.

00:47:31.600 So read the Bible, have a devotional. There's plenty of apps available. I don't do a devotional. I just

00:47:36.100 read, but if a devotional helps you use that, pray, find yourself with other godly men,

00:47:41.760 go to church, that sort of thing. Andres Maldonado says, what happened with the interview

00:47:47.840 with Brian Mitchler? Well, I was gone last week. I'm gone this week. So I'm thinking in the next

00:47:53.560 week or two, Brian Mitchler will be available. Eric Page. Let's see how we're doing on time here,

00:47:59.520 guys. About 50 minutes here. Eric Page. How do you date around, evaluate a person when making new

00:48:07.160 friends? I say date because when you hang out with someone for the first time, it feels like

00:48:11.880 it's feeling them out to see if they meet your expectations. Well, there's more here, but I would

00:48:17.020 say be careful that term hang out. I hate that term. Explain that in a minute. You're learning

00:48:22.160 whether you want them in your circle. I've had a rough life and trusting people is difficult,

00:48:26.780 but new friends. Okay. So he's not talking about relationships. I guess he's talking about

00:48:30.620 relationships and not, I mean, look, you're not hanging out with people. That's the thing I would,

00:48:36.900 I would make a distinction about. If you're just like hanging out, hanging around, like,

00:48:40.580 why are you doing that? Everything about your life should be intentional and deliberate. So if

00:48:45.100 you're trying to make new friends or get involved romantically with somebody, then that's your

00:48:49.420 intention. It's not to hang out. So reframe it from hanging out to, I'm trying to identify if this

00:48:58.680 is somebody I want either in my circle or want to be involved with romantically. And that'll change

00:49:04.620 from just making it so casual and flippant. Like, Oh, I'm just hanging out. That's passive.

00:49:10.540 I'm not hanging out, spending time with this individual, because I like what they have to say.

00:49:16.200 I like who they are. They might have something to add to my life. I might have something to add to

00:49:19.620 their life. Whether again, it's a friendship or even romantic relationship is not hanging out.

00:49:24.940 It's intentional. It's deliberate. This is why so many men are failing.

00:49:28.080 Because they think that they're just kind of like going along with whatever, like whatever

00:49:33.880 happens, like I'm just here along for the ride. No man, get in the, get in the cab and get on,

00:49:39.720 get behind that steering wheel. Be assertive, take charge, grab that wheel and crank it where you want

00:49:47.000 to go. So it's not hanging out. It's intentional. And if you spend time with some other guys and you're

00:49:52.120 like, Hey, these are guys I'm considering not hanging out with, but these are guys that I'm considering

00:49:57.000 bringing into my inner circle, then I think you're going to start looking at this a little bit

00:50:00.100 differently. It's not going to be an interview. You're not grilling them necessarily, but you're

00:50:04.600 thinking about it differently because hang, I can hang out with anybody. That doesn't mean I want

00:50:09.600 that person to be involved in my life in any capacity. So be more deliberate, be more intentional

00:50:14.840 about it. Jimmy Inman, how do you navigate an honorless society that is developing into secular

00:50:21.420 cultist hybrid survival of the fittest dystopia? Well, I think I might need a dictionary to translate

00:50:29.860 what you're asking there. It's funny. We use words. I'm like, I don't know. Maybe I'm not smart

00:50:34.260 enough to know what these words are. This is just an interesting question. How do you navigate an

00:50:38.800 honorless society that is developing into a secular cultist hybrid survival of the fittest dystopia?

00:50:43.740 I mean, look, I'll take the first part. How do you navigate an honorless society? Because we do,

00:50:49.780 we live in a degenerate society. There's no doubt about that. Religion is going by the wayside.

00:50:57.720 Culture is going by the wayside. Honor is going by the wayside. People are having sex outside of

00:51:03.120 marriage. People are having children outside of marriage. They're not getting married at all.

00:51:07.280 They don't believe in a higher power. This is an increasing trend and it's dangerous.

00:51:10.560 So how do you navigate in an honorless society? Well, there's still honorable people out there.

00:51:17.400 There's still people who believe in some of our traditional values and traditions of culture.

00:51:23.840 And those are the individuals you spend time with. And then you share with other people why it's

00:51:28.720 important. Like what? I mean, we're doing this here with order of man. Why is it so important that we

00:51:34.800 live lives of honor and character and strength? Cause to the person who's never heard this before,

00:51:41.080 maybe they grew up without a father figure. They grew up in a difficult situation where nobody ever

00:51:45.720 taught them why it's important to be honorable, to have integrity, to follow through on your

00:51:50.540 commitments, to leave, to sacrifice, to be disciplined. Believe it or not, there's people

00:51:56.080 who've never heard this stuff before. And what a powerful opportunity for you to teach them,

00:52:01.140 not from the position of responsibility. Like you're going to be responsible. Like who wants

00:52:05.720 to do that? But Hey, you're going to have a damn good life. Oh, and by the way, in order to have

00:52:09.900 that damn good life, you got to be responsible. This is, this is what we need to do. We need to

00:52:15.760 become, and I said this earlier when I was talking about rules for making money, we need to learn how

00:52:20.020 to become good marketers. We're not good marketers. The overwhelming majority of us, like we think

00:52:27.300 that, Oh, if it's logical or rational, that people will believe it. Well, we don't make decisions

00:52:31.360 based on rationale or reason or logic. We make them based on emotion. So when somebody is in a

00:52:39.580 shitty situation, maybe you ought to make the connection between living a life of honor and

00:52:45.820 then being in a better spot financially or romantically or physically or intellectually or

00:52:51.320 emotionally because you're living a life of honor. So how do you navigate? You have to be that

00:52:56.660 yourself and you have to teach the people in your direct sphere of influence, which is your wife

00:53:01.160 and your children, maybe your colleagues and coworkers and to a lesser degree, your neighbors

00:53:05.060 and yourself, by the way, too, you've got to be that individual. And then as you become that

00:53:10.680 individual, then it spreads outward and outward and outward and outward and outward. And as you prove

00:53:15.600 to yourself in the world or God, however you want to look at it, that you're capable of being a good

00:53:21.840 steward over yourself and other people, then you will be blessed with the opportunity to reach more

00:53:26.600 people. The only reason that I can reach more people through this podcast is because I've proven

00:53:31.780 that I have ability to reach a smaller amount of people. And when I prove that I have the ability

00:53:36.500 to reach and connect with a smaller amount of people, the world opens itself up and men make

00:53:41.280 themselves available to be taught and learn from a greater number of individuals because I'm capable

00:53:48.540 of handling this. So am I capable of handling this much more? Too many of us jump ahead and we think

00:53:54.660 that I got to, I got to save the world. I got to make a dent in the universe. No, bro, you got to

00:53:59.900 make a dent in yourself. You got to fix yourself and then you got to relay that to your children and

00:54:08.080 to your wife and your neighbor across the street. You got to mow his lawn because he's recovering from

00:54:13.680 surgery or just had a medical procedure. You got to serve in your community on your school board and

00:54:19.620 get elected to city council and mayor. And then you gradually grow and expand it from there.

00:54:25.600 It's a good question. I just had a hard time understanding the secular cultist hybrid survival

00:54:29.840 of the fittest dystopia. He also asked this as a secondary question. Can stoicism work with face-based

00:54:35.640 principles or, uh, will they go head to head at some point? Um, I don't, I don't see the conflict

00:54:43.940 there, Jimmy. I don't think there's a conflict. I mean, stoicism is just understanding your emotions,

00:54:50.480 focusing on what you can control and what is outside of your control.

00:54:55.660 I don't think they're at odds with any sort of faith bait, certainly Christian. I'm, I'm Christian. So

00:54:59.960 I don't, I've never felt any sort of stoicism ideas being at odds. In fact, I've heard people

00:55:06.000 say that, but I'm not sure why they think that they're at odds. Maybe you can enlighten me because

00:55:09.420 I don't feel like they're at odds. I feel like Christian principles and stoicism go hand in hand,

00:55:14.540 like have responsibility, focus on what you control, temper your emotions, live a life of honor and

00:55:21.080 virtue. Like, isn't that basically in alignment with Christian values? I've never, I've never found any

00:55:27.740 sort of conflict in the two and maybe you have, and you can enlighten me and tell me what they are,

00:55:32.060 but I've never felt that way. All right, let's take a couple more here. I think we have two more.

00:55:38.860 Craig Perkins, what's the single biggest obstacle you've had to overcome while building order of man?

00:55:44.320 You know, I don't think there's been a whole lot of like these big, oh, it's this big obstacle. I need

00:55:48.760 to overcome this. It's little day-to-day things like, you know, we need to get the price of our t-shirts

00:55:54.080 down or we need to reach more people on the podcast or, you know, there's the Facebook group

00:56:00.560 is getting away from its initial mission. It's things like that. Like, it's never like this one

00:56:04.940 thing that I have to like overcome. And as soon as I overcome this, I guess the only thing I could

00:56:09.900 answer that question with is just my mindset around building wealth. I used to believe, for example,

00:56:16.440 that there was a conflict between adding value and offering a valuable service to you and society

00:56:26.240 and making money. And what I've realized for me is that there is no distinction. There doesn't have

00:56:32.720 to be a distinction. They don't have to be at odds with each other. In fact, they can compliment each

00:56:36.580 other. And order of man is a for-profit business. I'm proud to say that. And I'm proud to say that we've

00:56:41.360 built a very lucrative business so that we can go on and serve other people and my needs and my

00:56:49.000 desires can be served as well. But the single biggest obstacle I would say is myself and my

00:56:54.280 mindset around making money. And as soon as I figured that out, as soon as I reconciled the

00:57:00.080 discrepancy in my own mind, it was never there. It was just in my mind between adding value and making

00:57:05.460 money. I began to make more money. I began to live a more fulfilled life. And I began to be able to

00:57:11.080 invest in things that would generate more value for you and everybody else who's tuned into what

00:57:16.120 we're doing here with the order of man. All right. Last question. Rick diamond. What would you do with

00:57:22.640 a 450 acre ranch? Well, uh, good question. I'm about a ninth of that. I've got, uh, just under 50 acres

00:57:32.480 here and I haven't really done anything with it. We've got somebody who haze the field. So they take, he's a

00:57:39.320 a cattle rancher and he haze the field so it can stay open. I've got a little food plot for the

00:57:43.220 deer. We've got a little track that we run on with the side-by-sides. My wife's got a little

00:57:47.600 space for a garden. We've got some space for the kids. Um, ranching isn't something that I'm even

00:57:52.980 remotely interested in. Uh, so I don't know what I would do with a 450 acre ranch. I'd probably just

00:57:59.500 live it up and enjoy it. Maybe get some cattle, maybe hire somebody to help head that up and manage

00:58:04.660 that and lead that. Uh, and then just continue to do what I'm doing here with order of man. I mean,

00:58:09.260 you're asking me what I would do. That's what I would do. If I was interested in ranching, then I

00:58:13.860 would get into ranching. It's all a matter of what, what, what you're after. Good questions today,

00:58:20.100 guys. Appreciate it. I think we're roughly an hour right now, so we'll wrap things up. But like I said,

00:58:24.800 good questions. Uh, if you guys are interested in following up or want to have more discussions,

00:58:29.000 join our Facebook group at facebook.com slash groups slash order of man, uh, join our battle

00:58:34.340 ready program at order of man.com slash battle ready and consider banding with us inside the

00:58:39.680 iron council, which is our exclusive brotherhood. We've got just under 600 members right now,

00:58:43.980 and you can do that at order of man.com slash iron council. All right, guys, we're going to be back

00:58:49.480 next week for a very powerful interview. And, uh, I hope that you're enjoying it. I hope you're

00:58:54.620 getting value. Keep asking the good questions and I'll keep giving you the best answers that I

00:58:57.860 possibly can some better than others. All right, guys, make it a great day. Go out there,

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Order of Man - July 08, 2020

The Current State of America, Homeschool Vs. Public School, and Lack of Leadership at the Top ｜ ASK ME ANYTHING

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