The Dangerous Path of America, Trusting the Science, Falling In⧸Out of Love | ASK ME ANYTHING
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On this episode of the podcast, the brother and sister duo of the sit down with special guest, Kip Sorensen. The boys discuss their favorite fights of the weekend, their favorite movies, and much more!
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart
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your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who
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you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Mr. Kip Sorensen, what's up man? Good to see you represent that
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curveball hat today. This is my favorite, for sure. But it's not flat built, so what's the problem?
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Yeah, but it's just the leather on the black, right? Do you remember how riled up people got
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about flat brim versus curve brim? How pissed off they would get? You say it as though it's past
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tense. I'm sure if we just start talking about it again, we will still get riled up. Well, that's
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actually the funny thing I was thinking about this weekend with social media because I was
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watching the UFC fights. Did you watch the fights, by the way? Holy crap. Crazy, crazy night. Holy
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crap. Yeah. And everybody was all riled up about Jake Paul and DC getting after it. DC getting in
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space. I love it. And I love it too. I think it's funny, but it's also kind of sad. It's sad that,
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and I don't think it's anything new. It's probably old as man himself, that we get so riled up about
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the dumbest shit. Oh, that that that's consuming us. You know, you have people you don't know
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consume a little bit. Well, and you have individuals who are trying to put like real
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value out into the world. And all you hear is crickets. And then you have dumb asses who are
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just making a bunch of noise, spouting off, running their mouths, jack and jaw. And that's where all of
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the attention goes. There's a lesson there to be learned, especially when it comes to marketing.
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Yeah. Then also it's against who we are as humans. It's so it's so pathetic. Yeah. Entertainment wins.
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Yeah. If it's entertaining, you know, it's and I think there's there's value to being entertained.
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I'm not saying there isn't. There's value, of course, to comedy and just just being able to
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unplug. But when it consumes us to the point where we won't read good books, we won't listen to good
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podcasts. We won't go to the gym. We won't eat right. We won't worry about our own physical
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and mental health. We just want to be entertained all the time. That's a problem, man. That's a
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problem. Yeah, that's a total problem. Favorite fight for the weekend. Oh, good. Favorite fight.
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I mean, watching Rose knock, uh, what's her name? Chang out. Holy cow. The first that grows,
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man. She is holy. She's and she is so unassuming. So unassuming. Yeah.
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I love her. And you see her. You're like this gal. Who's this? And she's a killer. Yeah. But of
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course, Usman, man, that overhand right was the most violent. I think probably it's safe to say
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the most violent, well executed punch that I have seen in UFC. Yeah. I don't, I don't think I've seen a
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guy get knocked out and his head bounce off. Like your guys, the guys, his shoulder on the way
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down. You know what I mean? Like he was, he went all the way through. Yeah. And I watched that
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because you know, the clips come up on Instagram. I saw the fights, but I, I watched it on Instagram
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over and over again. And I'm like, damn, that is violent. That is a dangerous, dangerous man right
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there. Holy cow. For sure. I figured it would go that way. I didn't fit. I didn't think it would
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play out like that though. Yeah. But Usman, like I knew Usman, I was pretty confident Usman would win
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that fight. Agreed. Me too. But holy cow. And then what about Whiteman with his leg? What are the odds
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that he, I know I, Silva did that to him and he did that to, uh, who was he fighting? I don't remember
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Paul. Yeah. And, and broke his leg the same way Silva broke his leg on him. I'm like, dude,
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Paul was a class act on that though. Did you see the post fight interview? Yeah. Yeah. The way that
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he approached that man, it was, it was awesome. It was really touching, but it was just, it was very
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cool. The way that he honored Chris, he acknowledged his family. He said, wherever I am in the rankings,
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if, and when you come back, cause that might be a career ending injury. Yeah. I'll give you a fight
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wherever I, it doesn't matter where I am. I'll give you another fight. It was, it was just, it was a very
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classy response to a horrible situation. Oh yeah. Oh, that was brutal. And then he stepped, he kicked and
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then he stepped back on it. Yeah. And it's funny. You see his face in slow-mo. He doesn't even act
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like anything got hurt. Well, just so happened so quick, right? Yeah. And he just steps back and then
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collapses. Yeah. That's why my, so Trish was like, well, why did he step back? And I'm like, he's been
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training that kick for, he's done thousands and thousands of repetitions and you kick and you get
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back into position. So he kicked and his body did what he was trained to do. And how would he know
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that in, in a fraction of a second, you know? Yeah. Well, and there could be like tons of nerve damage.
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So maybe it wasn't even painful at the moment, you know, who knows? Speaking of nerve damage, the fight
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before that. Yeah. Which one was before that? Uh, I can't remember the guy's name. It's escaping me
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right now, but he kicked him in the back of the leg and Oh, I missed this one. Oh dude. I, uh, is it,
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I can't even remember who it is. Anyways, the guy kicked him in the back of the leg and hit a nerve.
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It must've hit a nerve and his whole leg was just rendered useless. He was stepping on his feet and
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like tripping and they called the fight because he, it was a nerve. Like he couldn't, it was like his
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leg wasn't, it was just dangling. It wasn't even functioning. It was wild. Yeah. Yeah. That's,
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that's one of my favorite fights of all time was Jose Aldo against, um, alpha male guy, uh, California
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kid. And, uh, you're just fate. It was a Uriah favor. And yeah. And, and Aldo just thigh kick,
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thigh kick, thigh kick. And by the, by, by the time the fight was over, he's falling over. Right.
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He couldn't stand on it. He was just falling over constantly. And, and his leg was just,
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brutal. That's going to become more. And I mean, it is already, but it's going to become more and
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more common. And there's those inside and outside low leg kicks are just becoming more and more
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common. Look at McGregor. Yeah. You know, Holy cow. You got, well, it's just the evolution or less
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from a calf kick, constant calf kicks, you know, it's the evolution of the fight. And so people are
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going to learn how to defend it. And it's, it's interesting. It's something else. Yeah. All right,
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man. Well, enough about UFC. Should we get into some questions? Yeah. I did an AMA on Instagram
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the other day and I was answering them live and I probably got through 15 to 18% of the questions.
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I didn't realize to get bombarded. I like it. I mean, that's what I've, I'm getting what I asked
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questions, but I just can't get through them all. So I figured the ones that I couldn't get to,
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we try to scoop up some of them here on this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. We have a little extra,
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just a couple from Facebook and then, yeah, I spent, it was, thank you. I spent five hours
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scrolling through comments, trying to figure out which ones you didn't reply to yet.
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I was like, come on. Okay. So let me give you a little hint here, Kip. I should have told you
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this. I think you can scroll. At least I can on my own. I think you can select by newest comments
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first. Can you not do that? Oh my goodness. Maybe you can't do that when you're on somebody else's.
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I know that I can look at my own comments on mine by newest. I don't think you can by newest.
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The tech guy. The tech guy didn't know. Yeah. Sorry. I'll check. No, it was fine. It was,
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it was okay. All right. Let's go. I just rapid fire on Facebook and then we'll get to the Instagram
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questions. Okay. Sounds good. And we're filling these questions from the order man, Facebook group.
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That's facebook.com slash group slash order man. All right. Cody Brown. Are there times you feel less
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of a man because you don't know how to do something? No, I don't, I don't, I don't,
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I don't feel like not knowing how to do something is unmanly. I think what is unmanly is acknowledging
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you don't know how to do something and then not doing anything about it. Next question.
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Avoiding it. Yeah. Right. All right. Trevor Bodie. What are some tactics you guys use for being an
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asset to your wife when you've had newborns in the house? Thanks for everything that you guys are doing.
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Look for things that you could do. Don't ask her just acknowledge and recognize what they are and do
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them. You don't need to ask her. How can I help? If you really want to help and be an asset,
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look around the house, look at things that need to be clean. Look at repairs that need to be done.
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Take the other kids off your hand, her hands, if that's an issue. But acknowledge what needs to be
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done and do it. Don't ask her what needs to be done. Next question. John Tarpley. After becoming more
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self-aware and realizing how much opportunity I have to improve the things I have to change to be a,
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be a good, be good at being a man and a good man, what in your opinion is the best ways to help my
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son adjust to the changes in me as I work to effectively become a better man and help him
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overcome the bad example I have set for him to this point? I know changing it and living it is the
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long-term solution, but any ideas on how to use psychology of a six-year-old boy to instill the
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knowledge that I am at 44, just, just knowing and beginning to utilize. I feel like I have set my
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son up for failure and I want more than anything to spare him my stupidity. I do not want his
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failures to be due to my failure to prepare him for what is to come. Thank you.
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Cool. Worthy question. Worthy path that you're on. Simple answer right here. Open your mouth and
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communicate. I think he said he was six years old. Being an example is good. And you acknowledge that
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over the long haul, just being an example and doing it right is the best thing you can do.
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Sure. Also communicate, let him know where you've fallen short. Let him know this is how I used to be.
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This is what I used to do. And here's why I do it this way now. And here's why that's important
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in our evolution as men and why, how we can get better and how we can improve. So in addition to
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being an example, open, communicate, be vulnerable, as much as I don't like using that word, tell him
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where you fell short in the past and why it created problems of what kind of problems it created and
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why you're correcting your behavior. The more that you aligned your words with your actions, the better
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able he is a six-year-old will be able to formulate why all of a sudden dad has changed. You need to
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connect the dots. Next question. All right. Tell us when we're done with Facebook. I want to get
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to these Instagram ones. So I know these Facebook ones have been sitting around for a while. So
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Paul Clifton, I don't love my wife, three kids together. Why should I continue?
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I don't know why. I mean, I can't answer that question for you other than you made a commitment.
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I would say that's a very valid reason for you to continue to at least work towards it.
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Um, but I, can you fall out of love with someone? Yes, but you can also fall back in love with them
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too. So I hear this a lot. A lot of guys are falling out of love with their wife or vice versa.
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Wife is falling out of love with her husband. And then I've seen it not miraculously, but over time
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I've seen it change where couples begin to fall in love again. So you owe it to her, you owe it to
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yourself. And if you have kids in the mix, you owe it to them as well, uh, to follow through on your
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commitments. And we need to become new people in order for that to happen because she fell out of
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love or you fell out of love with her, the person she is right now, but you fell in love with somebody
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else, right? You fell in love with her when she was 10 years or 15 years younger. What's different
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between then and now probably a rut the way that you've matured thought processes. Uh, maybe you've
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fallen into ruts, both her and you, and there might be some ways that you can get out of those
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ruts by playing and being spontaneous and going on new adventures together, recommitting to each
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other, going on date nights, attempting to serve as best you can her. And all of those ways I think
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are valid for falling in love with someone. Yeah. I think it's possible. Uh, and you owe it to her
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flat out. Like you, you committed, are you a man of your word or not? And all the guys who are
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listening, who are divorced or going through separations, this is not necessarily an indictment
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against you because I realized there are extenuating circumstances. And I believe there are
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extenuating circumstances, but only you can answer whether or not you've done everything
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that you could possibly try and do. Only you can answer that. I can't answer that for you.
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I can't convince you. It's not even my position to tell you why you should stick around. That's for
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you to decide, but these are all strategies you can employ to, to hopefully move things in the right
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direction. Yeah. And the only thing I would add Ryan is be clear on quote unquote, her changing
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versus your perception of her. You know, I think it's really easy. It's like, Oh, I fell out of love
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because of X and not owning that. Like you might be pigeonholing her or passing judgment. And, and,
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and some of it might be your perception. Like, did you start, did you stop learning about who she was?
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Did you stop being curious about her? You know what I mean? And, and you've kind of, you know,
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become stagnant in how you see her, you know? So just make sure that you're owning your perception.
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Yeah. It's all perception. Everything that you believe about life is bullshit. Yeah. Think about
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that. Every single thing that you think about the way that the world works or how your boss behaves or
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how your wife is or your children are, it's all bullshit. It is not objective truth.
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You're making stories up positive and negative. You're making stories up. You're using
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your culture, your experiences, your background to make up stories about circumstances and other
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people. So when you talk about your perception of her, if you're just making up a story,
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she doesn't love me. She's not a good wife. She's not doing what she quote unquote should be doing.
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She doesn't contribute. She doesn't appreciate me. Those are all what I would consider negative
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perceptions, right? Yeah. If you're going to just create some negative perceptions,
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why not create positive perceptions? So just the other night, I was sitting down,
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I was watching a TV show and my wife was in the other room working on her seeds because she loves
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to grow her garden in the spring. And so she's got her seedlings and she's doing that in the house
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until we can move them outside until it warms up enough. And I walked through by the laundry room
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and the room that she does her seedlings in is just right off of the laundry room. So I walked by the
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laundry room and I just stopped and stared at her for a minute and just watched her.
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And I was so intrigued and fascinated. She was so happy. And she was so, she didn't even see me.
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She was so focused and intent and was giving each little plant so much attention. And she was measuring
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the water just right. And she was making sure the lights were adjusted up and down. And I was just
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fascinated and intrigued. And my perception is this is a woman who cares about this deeply,
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who finds value in this, who has joy in life. Those are all my perceptions. Those are positive
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perceptions. And who wouldn't appreciate that if that's how they viewed it. Yeah. Now, if I look,
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if I walked by and I said, well, how come she's doing that? How come she's hanging out with me?
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How come you know you can get vegetables from Walmart, right? Exactly. Exactly. And who,
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who alternatively, who would appreciate that if that's the perception that you had?
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Yeah. So you get to make it up. It's everything about your life. You're making up
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everything, everything about the way that you feel about yourself, the way you feel about others.
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It's all made up. It's, it's a fairy tale to make believe. So just make it the best story possible.
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One that's going to serve you and other people. Well, and you'll win. Yeah.
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All right. Jumping in Instagram. Uh, these are being filled with from Ryan's account at Ryan
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Michler. That's M I C H L E R. Mark Kwan. Our first question as a growing man, how do you show
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your significant other, what type of family you want and what values you'd like to instill in your
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hopeful household? I, I, well, showing is a little bit difficult if you don't have that family,
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but I think open lines of communication, talking about what you would like to do and how you'd like
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to discipline and where you'd like to live and what the culture of your home would, would like to be
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and what your own family was like and what you appreciated about that and what you didn't
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appreciate about that and asking her, what did she like about her family and what didn't she like
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about how her family was, was raised and what their culture was. And then looking to other people
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too. I looked to a lot of other people, yourself included, where I think, okay, well, here's something
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that Kip does really well. And here's what Mark does. And I see this guy interact with his wife and I
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see that man interact with his children. And I, I point those out. I talk, I see it and recognize
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it myself, but then I also acknowledge it with my wife. Like, Hey, did you see that one thing that
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they did? Or even if it's on Instagram, Hey, look at this post and I might share it with her. I might
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talk with her about it. We're always talking. We're always sharing. We're always looking for examples.
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And then we try to implement those things. So it's possible. It just takes a little bit more effort.
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Uh, it's very easy to slip in a, in, into a, a really comfortable situation where, you know,
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after work is over, you just sit down and you don't talk about anything meaningful or significant.
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That's the path of least resistance, but the path of more resistance, but also better is to open your
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mouth, to share, to talk about these real issues. And you'll figure it out. You guys will figure it
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out together because you're talking about it. You're illustrating it. You're, you're looking around,
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you're sharing and articulating what it looks like. And then as you start to have children,
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then, and even before you'll start to build a culture that mimics what it is you see.
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Yeah. I know this is not the question, but like increasing communication, it's interesting how
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you'll get that as a by-product of other things. You know, Asia, my wife, um, she wants to do a
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marathon. We signed up for a marathon later this year. And, um, so we started distant running on the
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weekends. Well, we're stuck running together now for, you know, two plus hours. It's like,
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we, we address everything that there needs to be addressed now. Right. Because we're going hard
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enough. If you can talk to each other. Yeah. Well, luckily we're not, we're running slow enough
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that we can chat all day, but, but do you, do you get what I'm saying? It's like, of course,
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I never even thought about it. And I'm like, actually, this is really great because we're talking
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through everything, working through schedules. What should we do with this kid? Oh, this makes me
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frustrated and we get a run in, you know? So it's, you know, there's ways to, to create that,
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right. Maybe not running for everybody, but it's worked out well. I think you're right. You know,
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my, my wife and I went, uh, to a neighboring town to pick, to go to home Depot, which is about an hour
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and a half away from us. Uh, we did that this weekend. Cause we had to pick up some stuff and
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we all got in the car at me and my, my two youngest kids. Cause the old boys are on vacation.
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So home Depot is an hour and a half away. Holy shit. I joke that no one goes to home Depot once,
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right? Like the minute I make a trip to home Depot, it ends up in like five trips. So I can't
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imagine being that far away. No, I have local hardware stores. We're all on a Saturday. If
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I'm doing projects around the house, I'm in three or four times a day for sure. Yeah. Okay. We're very
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much the same on that. So we go down to home Depot and we get in the car and we pack the two youngest
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kids up, the two oldest kids that are on vacation. They're traveling with their grandparents.
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Uh, and the first 20 minutes of the driver, just silent. Cause we know each other. We've been
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together for 17 years. We know each other. We fall under ruts. Like it is just, it is what it is.
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Okay. And so we're just, I'm driving quiet. She's sitting there quiet and it was fine. You know,
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it's fine, but it took us a little while to get into the swing of things, even though we've been
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together so long and we believe so much in communication, it took us 20 or 30 minutes
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before we started talking about goals and aspirations and what's coming up this week.
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And this funny thing we heard. And so if you create the environment for it, then it's going to happen.
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Sometimes you have to actually manufacture that environment to do it though, because we all just
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fall under ruts. Like, like you said, yeah, now you're not going to have a conversation like that,
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but you manufactured it maybe unintended, but it was manufactured through the run. Right. So.
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Yeah. Yeah, totally. Well, I think that's why Asia likes going on vacations. Right. Cause I,
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that's usually when I open up, you know, but I never want to go on them, you know?
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Well, and it probably takes you a day or two also. Yeah. Takes the plane ride over and then,
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you know, takes me a groove to let go of stuff. Yeah. All right. Cat perk 25, Mr. Mickler,
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My biggest fear, this is a little different than a lot of people would normally think of my,
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my biggest fear is dying before my kids are out of the house.
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Hmm. That's legitimately my biggest fear that, and, and also being insignificant is a big fear of
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mine. I want to be significant. I want to be influential. I want to be regret, wasted life kind
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of it. Yeah. Well, yeah, but I just, I want to be valuable to people. Like I want, I want their
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life to be better because I was in it. And, and that to me is significance that because I was around
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somebody's life was better, maybe this much better, maybe a whole lot better. Maybe it was
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incalculable, but just better because I was around or had some level of influence in their life.
00:22:05.620
That's important to me. And then to go back to the first thing is I don't want my children
00:22:10.180
to be without me at least until they're out of the house. Yeah. I still don't want to die after
00:22:17.400
that, but you know, like, like I, I really don't want it to happen while my kids are at home.
00:22:24.720
And do you, why, where do you think that stems from? Oh, it stems from not having a dad in my life.
00:22:30.040
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I know what it's like. I know what it's like to not have your dad around
00:22:35.140
and not be able to have meaningful conversations or to ask a significant and important question
00:22:41.280
or to rough house and to play. And I know what that's like. I'm intimately familiar with that.
00:22:47.260
And so I don't want my children to experience it. And the only way they would experience that
00:22:50.960
is if I was incapacitated or dead. Yeah. All right. Chad Wankinson. I have a deep burden for men in our
00:23:02.980
country and I want to follow your footsteps. What advice do you have? I mean, I've laid it out
00:23:08.620
pretty, pretty well. Uh, just mimic what we do. We've got a podcast. We've had 350 conversations with
00:23:16.700
some absolutely incredible human beings. We've done a really, really good job at creating a community
00:23:21.420
on social media. Uh, we've implemented events. We're talking about real issues. I'm learning to
00:23:28.580
articulate a message. I don't have anything special or unique. You already haven't heard,
00:23:35.200
but here's what I would say for anybody, whether you want to do what we're doing here,
00:23:38.380
or you want to get stronger, or you want to improve your jujitsu game, or you want to become
00:23:41.920
a hunter, or you want to be some sort of business tycoon, whatever it is, just look around at the
00:23:47.300
people who are doing what you want to do and do what they do. It's that simple. Yeah. Follow what
00:23:53.700
they do. Pay them too for coaching. If they offer coaching, hire them. I've hired countless people
00:24:00.640
to help me in different facets of my life. And there isn't one person that I've hired who I've
00:24:06.620
regretted or haven't, that hasn't been an investment where I make more money back than what I spent on
00:24:13.800
having them consult and advise me. So look at what successful people are doing, do what they do,
00:24:20.500
pay them to tell you how to do it, and to shortcut some of these corners that you would normally trip
00:24:26.840
all over if you didn't have somebody telling you where they were and get after it. It's there. It
00:24:31.840
is all there. You just have to do that. Well, and maybe you're just being humble here, but I read
00:24:40.040
this question. I'm like, band with us. You know what I mean? Share this message. If we're on the same
00:24:47.100
page, right, and what we're doing is in line with what you're doing, like what you want to make an
00:24:51.940
impact around, like join us, band with us, you know, share this message, share the podcast, you
00:24:58.080
know, like, I don't know. I don't know about you, but like, and it's always interesting because I think
00:25:02.800
we get quite a bit of guys that follow you, Ryan, because they're like, well, I want to be a
00:25:06.260
podcaster and I want to be an influencer in this space. I'm always kind of like, I love, I love what
00:25:12.220
order man is doing. I love what we're doing. The iron council. I have no plans to recreate it.
00:25:17.980
I'll support it. You know what I mean? Because it's, it's in line with what I'm,
00:25:22.640
but with what, what I think, you know? So I don't know. I think that's right. I think a lot of people
00:25:27.540
probably like that. I'm not going to, no, I don't think it's that. I just think it's maybe a lack of,
00:25:32.320
of wanting a desire to do that particular thing. Yeah. And that's fine. You know, I know there's,
00:25:38.140
there's hundreds of thousands of men who share what we're doing. They tune into the podcast.
00:25:42.300
They follow us on YouTube and all the social media channels. They get the emails, they buy our
00:25:46.340
merchandise, they come to our events and they have no ambition whatsoever to do what I'm doing.
00:25:51.840
They have ambition, but not to do this. Yeah. And that's fine. If it were me, let's say the roles
00:25:57.800
were reversed kit and I saw what you were doing. I would go out and start my own thing because that's
00:26:02.880
my personality. Yeah. And although, and, and there was guys that I was following when I started this,
00:26:07.920
that I really admired and appreciated and respected what they were doing, but it just wasn't quite
00:26:12.800
right. Art of manliness is a great example. Brett McKay over at art of manliness does a phenomenal
00:26:18.660
job. He's incredible. He was a very early influence in the way that we started order of man and,
00:26:23.660
and why I wanted to start what we were doing here. But there was some things that he was doing,
00:26:28.980
not that I disagreed with, but that I just didn't feel like were the right path for me. So I could have
00:26:34.920
done what could have done. I'm not even going to say better, but could have done. I'm not even
00:26:40.280
going to say could have done different. I'm just going to say that he was going down this path.
00:26:44.140
And for part of the path, we were walking together. And then we came to a fork in the road and he goes
00:26:48.100
this way. And I'm like, okay, well, yeah, I'm not, I'm not really interested in that path. I'm
00:26:51.820
going to actually go down this one. And so I started my own thing. And then I found other people who
00:26:57.360
were doing things that are similar. I'm like, well, I like that. I don't like this. I like this,
00:27:00.360
take this, add this, tweak this, adjust this. And it becomes your own thing. But for me and my
00:27:06.180
personality and my desires, starting my own organization was important to me and it's done
00:27:12.740
very, very well. So those guys who tune in and they want to do something similar, I say, yeah,
00:27:18.940
do that. Don't steal what we're doing, but take the things that are working well, mimic them,
00:27:25.600
make them your own, do it in your own voice, in your own unique way. And you'll have a lot more
00:27:29.040
success than doing it my way. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. All right. Next question.
00:27:37.240
Souls in war. Do you have plans to get Joe Rogan on the podcast or vice versa? I'm sure Joe Rogan's
00:27:45.240
not on the radar for Mr. Mickler. I don't even know who's that. I don't even know who that is.
00:27:51.060
Yeah. He, who, who, you know what? Stupid question. Next question.
00:27:55.500
Yeah, of course. I would love to have Joe Rogan on the podcast. Of course, I'd love to go on his
00:28:01.920
podcast and we're working different angles and different connections and making requests and
00:28:07.240
doing that with not just Joe Rogan, but Jordan Peterson and Mike Rowe and, and hundreds of other
00:28:12.880
men who we've got on our radar. And some of it's going to work and some of it isn't. And in the
00:28:19.280
meantime, we're just going to put our head down and go to work and become more influential. And by the
00:28:22.860
way, to your point earlier about sharing this message, guys, this is actually the reason this
00:28:27.920
is part of the reason. This is one of the reasons I need you to share because the more that you share,
00:28:32.580
not only is it going to be more visible for other people and you're going to be able to give other
00:28:37.400
men in your life who are important to you information that they need to thrive, but the more influencing
00:28:43.620
authority and credibility that we have with more of you, the more weight we have to throw around when
00:28:49.880
it comes to securing podcast guests like Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, some of these heavy hitters.
00:28:56.180
It's unfortunate it is that way, but I understand, you know, you take a guy like
00:28:59.860
Rogan or Peterson or Mike Rowe, they're busy. They've got their own things they've got. They've
00:29:05.180
got requests coming out of every, every place, you know, it's like, yeah, everyone wants them on
00:29:11.440
their podcast. Right. So how do we cut through that? We become like Cal Newport would, would say so
00:29:16.980
good. They can't ignore you. And so we're going to work our angles to get these great guests on the
00:29:22.860
podcast and connect with these guys. And also we're going to become so good at what we're doing that at
00:29:28.440
some point, whether it's in the next six months or the next six years, they can no longer ignore us
00:29:34.680
and are beating down the door to come on to our podcast and be part of what we're doing. But in
00:29:39.720
order for that to happen, we need hundreds of thousands of men who are already connected with
00:29:43.980
what we're doing, sharing with other individuals. So hundreds of thousands turn into millions, tens of
00:29:49.800
millions. And then how can society ignore us? I want to take this message of masculinity and I see it so
00:29:57.380
often. Men will use the term redefine masculinity. I'm not going to redefine it. I'm going to reestablish
00:30:02.660
it. It doesn't need, it's already been redefined by, by pop culture. I'm going to reestablish it.
00:30:09.080
It's not working out well. It's not working out well. So we're going to reestablish it.
00:30:12.780
And I'm going to take this message to the masses, to the mainstream, because right now this whole
00:30:17.960
concept of masculinity and traditional masculinity and the nuclear family, a lot of that is kind of
00:30:24.900
underground and it, and it's only with a certain amount of people. And I want to take that message
00:30:30.760
to the masses. I want it to be mainstream. I want order of man to be a mainstream name, just like the
00:30:37.060
Joe Rogan experience is a mainstream name. And it's going to take the work that Kip, you and I are
00:30:42.400
doing here. And of course, dozens and hundreds of other guys who are actually doing work here with
00:30:47.960
us. And it's going to take the hundreds of thousands of men to share it, to repost it, to talk
00:30:53.380
about it, to send somebody a link. That's what it's going to take. So that's your part. We're doing our
00:30:58.580
part. You do your part together. We'll make some of this stuff happen.
00:31:01.680
Stant 63. If you could only have one book to read and study other than the Bible, what would it be?
00:31:14.340
It's in, I mean, the Bible is so, there's so much depth to the Bible.
00:31:19.520
Yeah. I think that's why I threw it out for you.
00:31:21.140
It's a book of books. It's not just a book. It's a book of books. So there's so much depth there.
00:31:26.480
I mean, there's the classics like As a Man Thinketh is one. Wild at Heart is another one.
00:31:38.040
Iron John by Robert Bly is another one. I think it'd probably be between one of those three. I don't
00:31:46.500
know. If you have suggestions, I'd be really, if you could only have one book to study for the rest
00:31:50.340
of your life. That's an interesting question. So if you guys have suggestions, let me know.
00:31:54.320
I think about the book I've read the most over and over.
00:31:59.220
As a Man Thinketh is probably the book I've read the most.
00:32:02.760
Yeah. I think it's just hard to say that because that's all you're going to read for your life.
00:32:10.220
It's profound and it changes and you see and hear different things and you hear them in different
00:32:15.060
ways based on where you are in life. That one would definitely be the top of my list.
00:32:19.800
I would say it's probably, probably that or Wild at Heart.
00:32:44.620
Vak Noah, when you first read Man in the Arena, how did you interpret it and apply it into your life?
00:33:03.360
So I look at it and just say, okay, just go to work.
00:33:11.860
I guess I just thought, okay, well, the guy actually doing it is the guy that really counts.
00:33:20.140
I never really gave it much more thought than that.
00:33:23.000
So I'm not what I would consider an intellectual or deeply philosophical.
00:33:48.920
That stuff's going to happen from time to time, but it's more important that you get
00:33:56.420
No, I shouldn't say literally because we're not getting in the arena actually, but I took
00:34:00.720
it from more of a pragmatic approach, a practical application of it.
00:34:06.220
Ed Bott, how much time do you spend on social media platforms a day?
00:34:10.440
What percentage is pleasure and what is how much time for your business?
00:34:16.460
I mean, I actually don't enjoy being on social media because it goes back to what we were
00:34:20.220
saying earlier about the entertainment and the circuses.
00:34:22.780
And I get on this thing and I'm like, this is so silly.
00:34:28.980
So when I'm on here, it's all business related.
00:34:31.500
I'm probably on there three to four hours a day, three to four business purpose only.
00:34:36.480
With Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, whatever.
00:34:42.540
I don't know where it is, but it's probably three to four hours a day.
00:34:52.160
I'm looking for other people that we need to have on the podcast or following along with
00:34:55.860
what they're doing to see how it might influence what we're doing.
00:34:58.200
I'm, I'm on there quite a bit because this is, this is where it lies.
00:35:02.640
This is where the work lies and this is where the people are too.
00:35:20.600
Oh, you know, it's fake because they're underscores.
00:35:28.560
Hey, you know, I didn't copy the little badge thing.
00:35:32.700
I guess we can take his question, even if he isn't verified.
00:35:35.680
Social media hasn't told us he's important, but I guess we can still take his question.
00:35:43.340
What do you think the next three to five years looks like for America?
00:35:47.080
If we keep down this road, our nation is currently on.
00:35:53.140
You're going to be seeing more, more lockdowns.
00:35:55.380
You're going to be seeing more legislation passed.
00:35:59.700
You're going to see people being pitted against each other.
00:36:01.740
You're going to see crime go up, drug use go up, fatherless homes go down.
00:36:06.380
It's we, we know, we know exactly where it's going to go.
00:36:11.280
We're going to see those in power, uh, continue to enact laws and rules and regulations to
00:36:24.020
And so unless we learn to step up, to speak up, to reject these ideologies of the doctrine
00:36:32.160
of popular culture, this is exactly where we're going to go.
00:36:35.400
Uh, we're not going to be able to exercise freedoms the way that we are today.
00:36:40.180
Uh, we're going to be manipulated, uh, and strong armed and coerced.
00:36:44.540
We're going to lose first amendment rights, second amendment rights, and it's going to
00:36:52.200
And gradually, you know, a lot of people say, oh, you don't calm down.
00:36:54.960
Joe Biden or whoever's in office are not trying to take your firearms.
00:36:57.680
No, they're not trying to take our firearms necessarily, because if they just came out and
00:37:02.180
said, Hey, we're going to abolish the second amendment, everybody would be onto the game.
00:37:05.720
And we'd be able to reject that easily and decisively, but it's going to be little things
00:37:11.260
like legislation and, and ban these modifications and, and ban these upgrades.
00:37:20.140
And then we're going to create a national firearms registry.
00:37:22.680
And so it's little by little, so little that we don't even acknowledge it, or we actually
00:37:34.820
We're going to be so grateful that our, our rights have been stripped away from us because
00:37:39.420
it's in the name of safety and, you know, and it's utopian society and people will be happier.
00:37:51.780
The path that we go down is leads directly to authoritarianism, communism.
00:38:04.680
We need to be hyper, hyper vigilant and realize that the freedoms that we enjoy carry some inherent
00:38:18.060
We have to be okay with some level of risk and personal responsibility, by the way, if
00:38:33.160
Cause I, I think at the center of this is victimhood.
00:38:36.860
It is me not taking responsibility for things and, and seeking someone else to take care of
00:38:58.600
They play to the impoverished and they champion those people by telling them their victims.
00:39:10.700
We can take care of everything's wrong and we are your savior, but they don't play to.
00:39:24.760
They don't play to the sovereign because they know those people can't be influenced.
00:39:28.760
But if you get 50, 60, 70, 80, 90% of the people who believe themselves victims at the
00:39:35.500
hands of the other 20 to 30% of the individuals, like at some point that the scales are going
00:39:43.420
And then they demonize the strong, the intelligent, everyone else.
00:39:47.940
We're not, you know, Oh, well you must not care then.
00:39:51.560
If you're not in line with us, you know, we're, we're seeing that with police officers right
00:39:57.040
You know, there's a whole community that is being told that police officers hate them.
00:40:03.320
There's systematic procedures and policies in place that are designed to victimize these
00:40:15.100
When I say the government, I'm talking about the highest echelons of government, the president
00:40:20.120
and the vice president of the United States are perpetuating this narrative.
00:40:25.160
So you have the media, you have the government telling these individuals that police officers
00:40:31.760
are systematically targeting and discriminating against them.
00:40:35.420
Um, this story is being played out over and over and over again.
00:40:42.460
I said, just because somebody repeats something over and over and over again, doesn't make
00:40:47.920
But the media and the government know that and they prey on individuals who don't understand
00:40:56.460
You can hear it over and over and over and over again.
00:40:58.740
And eventually you're like, Oh, I guess, yeah, I guess masks are pretty important.
00:41:02.140
Does this light down for schools and for study comes out and says there's negative health
00:41:08.040
Well, let's not pause and reshape the narrative.
00:41:12.180
Bulldozing forward with whatever, you know, narrative we've already created.
00:41:15.760
I mean, even this last thing with the police officers, it was crazy how quick everyone was
00:41:21.340
another racist police officer, despite the fact that in my opinion, the guy's freaking
00:41:26.000
hero and say, in your opinion, it's stabbed objectively.
00:41:36.180
And then we hear things like, well, trust the science, trust the science.
00:41:44.180
Like show, you can't just say, trust the science and then not give me any science to
00:41:54.380
Every time the CDC, for example, makes a case against lockdowns and restrictions, they,
00:42:02.760
the, the, the presidency gets involved, Fauci gets involved, and then they reverse it like
00:42:17.720
There's like three people in my life that I trust who, if they said something, I'm like
00:42:22.500
99% sure they're telling me the truth and everybody else.
00:42:43.400
I think sometimes it's like, well, let me understand how you're interpreting that information
00:42:49.280
Like you're, you're too much credit, but yeah, you're too kind.
00:42:53.000
It's like, even with me, like you and I can interpret things differently.
00:42:56.940
And you should still say, show me the data kit, because I want to understand it.
00:43:05.720
But yeah, I think, I think you're being too kind.
00:43:07.980
I think you're, you're, you're, you're, you're coming from the position of like, oh, let me
00:43:14.060
No, I actually think they're not ignorant about it.
00:43:19.060
There's deceit have like deliberately and intentionally being deceitful.
00:43:23.680
And so, no, I don't, I don't trust you until you can prove to me that you should be trusted
00:43:29.820
And if you happen to be right about this, oh, good.
00:43:35.760
And then the next time I'm going to ask you again, because I don't trust you.
00:43:41.880
You know, I, I had a, I pulled up a post from on Instagram from Candace Owens.
00:43:49.180
And I, and I think when I read this the other day, I thought, man, this is so much at the
00:43:54.800
center of victimhood and, and not taking responsibility.
00:43:59.200
If you don't mind me sharing this, she says, I'm sick of people saying cops need more training.
00:44:07.100
It's wrong to loot, still set buildings on blaze, block traffic, laser people's eyes,
00:44:13.000
overtune cars and destroy buildings and attack citizens.
00:44:22.560
I agree, but I like the fact that like, Hey, are, are like, please do, please still need
00:44:40.640
I just, I, I deal with this on social media where I'll make a post about something.
00:44:44.920
Uh, I made one the other day about, you know, the world would be better if they had more
00:44:54.300
And if you don't have children, then I think you have a responsibility as a man to father
00:45:06.460
As in advise coach, counsel, instruct, teach, educate, father them, not a literal father.
00:45:15.960
And a guy's like, well, you know, I disagree because the family court system is this.
00:45:20.520
And some fathers are assholes and it would be horrible if kids had assholes in their home.
00:45:25.360
I'm like, do you really think that's what I'm talking about?
00:45:30.700
Do you really think what I'm saying by families need fathers in the home is, is that society
00:45:37.280
needs a bunch of shitty alcoholic, abusive fathers?
00:45:44.520
And even if it was what you're saying about the family court system or abusive fathers,
00:45:50.540
I think we ought to evaluate the family court system.
00:45:53.200
I think we ought to evaluate the kind of fathers we're going to be.
00:45:57.180
That's not even the point of what I'm saying right now.
00:46:02.520
So when I hear things like, well, let's stop talking about police training.
00:46:16.220
We've been doing that for six years here in this podcast.
00:46:18.360
And also let's talk about giving our law enforcement officials and officers the tools and the
00:46:30.240
So I was going to skip this question, but maybe because, but I'm ignorant to it.
00:46:34.360
So I'm not sure if this is a stupid question or not.
00:46:43.400
What I like is how you're like, yeah, I might be ignorant, but it's probably just a stupid
00:46:50.720
And you're like, it's gotta be that it's stupid.
00:47:05.460
Maybe it would be a great discussion point, but I didn't know who the guy was.
00:47:14.320
The thoughts on the Boston quote unquote, be a man guy.
00:47:18.540
So I'm assuming some guy saying, be a man in Boston.
00:47:23.640
I mean, he's well, I'll tell you just based on some assumptions, he's probably an asshole,
00:47:34.180
I could be way off, but I'm curious now to see if I'm close.
00:47:41.800
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How do you feel about the whole April 24th bullshit?
00:48:45.880
And this is where I'm like, Oh, maybe I should watch the news more often.
00:48:48.520
Cause I have no idea what occurred on the 24th.
00:48:58.060
So I'm assuming something happened on the 24th.
00:49:09.720
As you can tell, Kip and I are, are, are very, we, we are on the times on uncultured swine.
00:49:21.000
You know how often I watch TV, like almost zero.
00:49:26.520
I mean, I want, might watch a show, but I don't know that I use April 24th.
00:49:37.920
I put April 24th and then, and then, so I wrote April 24th and it came up with national
00:49:47.040
So I clicked April 24th national day and on April 24th, 4th, 4th, 4th, you're supposed
00:49:54.060
to observe national pigs in a blanket day, but I don't think that's bullshit.
00:50:01.360
Oh, you know what he, I know what he's talking about.
00:50:08.520
April 24th origin is that there, I even hesitate to say this because it's so disgusting and
00:50:18.440
Um, but there was a thing, I think it was on Reddit that they were referring to April
00:50:34.360
Well, of course, because you're a moral, decent human being.
00:50:40.000
So of course you don't understand that, but yes, I think it was either on Tik TOK or Reddit
00:50:46.020
or somewhere somebody had, had made that claim that April 24th was national rape day.
00:51:07.580
Like it's not, again, it comes, it's even if it was, I'm telling you intended to be funny.
00:51:17.120
Um, but again, this comes back to what I was saying earlier, entertainment and shock
00:51:27.460
If you're entertaining and you can shock people and say stupid shit that maybe you don't even
00:51:34.460
And so they're dealing in outrage and this is actually one thing I actually, I listened
00:51:41.360
to a lot of conservative podcasts and radio and things like that.
00:51:44.260
And this is one of the problems I have with it is they draw light to these stupid stories
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and these stupid people that don't need attention, but they talk about them and they're like,
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You know, those individuals just want attention.
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And then we give it to them by talking about it.
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Even if we're telling people how horrible it is, but that's exactly what they wanted.
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And then we just told them that you should do that again because you get what you want.
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This guy's a, would you ever consider carving a spoon?
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I never have, but I would certainly consider it.
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Well, I told you we went camping with the family and we didn't bring any utensils.
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So I was like, if you want to eat your food, you got to make a spoon.
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When you drop the bowl, I bring my spoon over to Maine and we'll both put it in the water at the same time.
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And then second question, what rank are you in the jits?
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He's the podcast we released yesterday as of this record or this release.
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And then winning by Tim Grover because I, as of the release of this podcast, I recorded
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As of the recording of this podcast, I'm recording with Tim this afternoon.
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So those are the two books that I'm reading right now.
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And then if you guys figure out what day we're actually doing this recording, you get extra,
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You get a golden star on your, your little, our little poster board with all your names
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As far as rank in jujitsu, I am a blue belt, but I don't feel worthy of that most days.
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Well, I don't think anybody that's, I shouldn't say it that way.
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I think most people never feel their, they deserve the rank in which they have, but.
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I think if you felt like you deserved it, then that might be a little bit of a warning
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or a red flag that maybe you need a dose of humility.
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Maybe the ego needs to be crushed by someone on the mats at your gym, which will happen.
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It is a good question, but so, but the, the line is so hard to define.
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Every kid, every situation is a little different, you know, depending on the child.
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So there's so many variables, but really it's just about results.
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Like if you yell and scream and hit, are you producing the right results in your children?
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No, you're just, you're, you're beating them down.
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The purpose is to raise confident, self-sufficient little human beings.
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And so the line is enough discipline, just the right amount, not too much, but the minimum
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required dose of discipline so that they will learn the lesson that needs to be learned.
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And it will move them towards becoming self-sufficient.
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Sometimes I get a little harsh or say something mean that I shouldn't say.
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And, and in those moments I feel bad and I feel guilty, but I really do try to make a
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conscious effort when I have to discipline my children for whatever reason to remember
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It's not because I can't be bothered right now.
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No, it's because I want them to win and I want them to thrive and I want them to succeed.
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You could break an adult through verbal and emotional abuse and manipulation and the words
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you're using and the things that you're saying, let alone a child, an impressionable child.
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That's why I say the minimum required dose to produce the effective outcome.
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And that's hard too, because the effective outcome may be something that will only show
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and reveal itself in 20 years, not something that's going to reveal itself today.
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So that also creates, that makes it harder because you want to correct the behavior now.
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And some of it you can, you know, if my children, for example, get mouthy with their mom, timeout,
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And usually even in, um, when I put my kids in timeout, I usually don't even set a timer
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Like, I don't say go to your room for 15 minutes because the point is not 15 minutes.
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The point is when you're ready to come back and address the issue correctly.
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Or when you're even, I've dismissed my children from dinner because they're being gross or
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And I say, leave your plate here, go sit on the stairs.
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And when you're ready to be a functioning member of the family, it's up to you when you're
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You're welcome to come back to the table and fix the situation and have dinner with us.
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I usually have to have this, this conversation with my youngest auto.
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And so he'll go sit on the table and you know, he'll be up there for two or three minutes
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Are you ready to be respectful at the dinner table with all of us?
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I, I always look forward to an opportunity to, to quote something that you've said.
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In fact, I'll send you a little, little extra gift in the mail for this one.
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Well, I'll send you a gift, but I didn't tell you what it would be.
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No, you, you've said this numerous times and I, and it really opened my mind, my mind
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Cause I, I realize that, um, sometimes I'll get immediate results and undermine the long
00:58:58.640
You've shared this idea of like, yeah, you can yell at your kids and maybe the room gets
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cleaned, but pause and say, what do I want them to learn?
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And, and so that has helped me a lot because it, it, I have to remind myself like, well,
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okay, actually it's not the room really that I want clean.
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What I want is for them to take care of their things, to be orderly or whatever.
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And that, when I, when I think about it from that perspective, you approach it differently.
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Like, of course, my communication is different.
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I guess you will have a nice gift coming in the long game.
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So I'm scaling my business and need to find a Kip Sorensen to help me figure out and help
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Well, my number is where, yeah, for hire, uh, how do you find the right guys to help
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I mean, there's a lot of different ways, you know, if you're going to hire somebody,
01:00:05.420
or if you just need somebody to mentor and coach and counsel with, I mean, look, the
01:00:10.000
way that, that we got connected was a mutual friend, Matt Jenkins introduced us.
01:00:16.500
You were going to leave the Facebook group because you thought it was lame or didn't like
01:00:24.100
So I think you started listening to the podcast.
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Then you joined the iron council and then you became a team leader.
01:00:30.280
We having conversations, I was going to say on walks.
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That sounds weird, but at events, we would go on hikes and things like that.
01:00:37.920
And I'd be able to have conversations with the team leaders.
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Uh, and I remember vividly talking to you with you about this stuff.
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And I acknowledged and recognized that, okay, Kip, that this is an asset.
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This is somebody who's got some things figured out, you know?
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Then I realized there's even more that, that you're capable of doing.
01:00:57.140
I invited you to do this podcast with me because we had a good rapport.
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You brought something to the table that I didn't.
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So we have disagreements always with a level of respect and moving in the right direction,
01:01:06.960
but we don't always see the thing, the exact same, which is good.
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Um, and, and so it just, I would say that was more of an organic approach to your involvement
01:01:18.320
here with, with order of man and the iron council, which is certainly one way to do it.
01:01:22.660
And so I'm constantly looking for things that people are good at.
01:01:37.320
And anecdotally, like, we'll figure it out if it's working or not.
01:01:45.300
Uh, every Monday I get a recon report and it's the data, it's the numbers.
01:01:50.300
Here's turnover, like everything, which is really valuable for me because I can see it
01:01:57.360
And then I look for trends, but he, he presented himself from my perception is knowing those things.
01:02:05.180
And so we gradually got him involved in one project, then two projects, then made him
01:02:14.840
We were at an event one time in Arizona lockdown in the, or meltdown in the desert lockdown.
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I'm so used to saying lockdown, meltdown in the desert.
01:02:24.620
And, uh, and the, the, it was in, it was in the middle of, uh, the summer, which is why I was
01:02:35.300
We were at this event that they were doing and Chris like sprung into action.
01:02:42.680
He was on the phone with other hotels and other venues.
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He was talking with like the power company and the hotel management.
01:02:49.980
Like, I knew Chris a little bit, but not like I do now.
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Now, fortunately, if I remember correctly, this was years and years ago.
01:03:00.340
It seems like the power came back on, but he had a, in a matter of 30 minutes, probably
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had another venue lined up, had it all taken care of.
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They were going to do a bunch of comp work for it.
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He's very good with planning and he's proven to be that way in the numerous events that
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I think that, that all those guys showed up in a particular way because they're fully
01:03:32.980
Like, I, I really do think that, that those guys are not like, there's no, oh, I'm here
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to, you know, to feel good about myself or I want to be a team lead because, you know,
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I don't think any of those guys are involved for that reason.
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I think they're, they're fully committed to what this movement is.
01:03:55.640
They're committed to bettering other men and they're committed to the outcome and the
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And they're willing to do whatever that is to, to progress it.
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And I also think I'm willing to give that to them, which isn't something I've always
01:04:11.980
been willing to do, but I'm willing to hand it over and say, here, run with this project
01:04:17.860
Like, we're not going to give you access to everything and tell you to fix all of it,
01:04:21.320
but take this little piece and we'll see how it goes.
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And it goes well, or it doesn't go well, maybe.
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Well, let's do something else and let's do another piece of the puzzle.
01:04:32.200
And, but that's something I've really had to work on because I didn't want to relinquish
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control of that against your nature a little bit.
01:04:46.320
So if I have somebody else do it, that's at direct odds with what I want of myself to
01:04:51.640
Cause if Kip does it, then Kip's significant and I'm not.
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And I'm realizing that if you're significant in this movement and Chris and Drew and Reese
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and everybody else is significant, then that is actually getting what we want.
01:05:07.480
That's moving the mission forward, which is more important to me.
01:05:14.520
Outside of that, you can hire somebody, you know, so that's.
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So, and I, it's, I'm, I'm kind of teeing this up.
01:05:25.100
So G Brandon 29, uh, next father and son event.
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Uh, that will be, uh, my wife and I were talking about it this past weekend when we
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were going to Home Depot and that will be mid September.
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We'll have the dates probably this week or early next week.
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Order of man.com slash legacy is where you can sign up.
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It isn't there right now, but it will be end of this week, beginning of next week.
01:05:52.180
But, uh, mid mid September and then early October, we're going to do a main event.
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That's a hundred men, the legacy events, a father and son, 20 fathers, 20 sons.
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Who's also a contractor coming over in the next couple of weeks to install some railing
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And you and your sons won't fall out of the second story of my barn, which would be
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Uh, and then, yeah, the, the, uh, main event will be early October, which is a beautiful
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So, uh, we've talked about the iron council to learn more about the iron council, our exclusive
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brotherhood, uh, go to order of man.com slash iron council.
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Uh, where we have a new month starting in may and our topic for that month is designing
01:06:51.140
So if you're interested in banding with us, uh, once again, that's order of man.com slash
01:06:57.300
And then for you guys that are getting ready or need to work on your goals, uh, the battle
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planner app is available, uh, within the apple store and play store, um, to learn more,
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uh, go to 12, the numbers one, two week battle planner.com, uh, to get that application for
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I couldn't get to them all when I did that a couple of days ago.
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Again, I didn't realize how many questions we would get, but I do appreciate the level
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So what I said earlier about sharing this work, not only so you can help the men in your
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life because they need help, your brother, your dad, your cousins, your friends, colleagues,
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Uh, but again, it allows us to throw some of our weight around, which is not a bad thing.
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We get to throw some of our weight around and secure some of these guests, which I hope
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I ask them hopefully somewhat intelligent questions, gather their responses, give that information
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By sharing this mission, uh, and putting it out there.
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So anyways, Kip, appreciate you as always, brother guys, we'll be back on Friday until
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then go out there, take action and become the man you are meant to be.
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Thank you for listening to the order of man podcast.
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