When Good Men Do Nothing | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
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Summary
In the wake of the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, we can t just sit back and pretend like things don't exist. We have to do something. We can't just be unengaged, we have to be in the fight.
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But we can't just sit back and pretend like things don't exist.
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And part of that is calling people out and telling them
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that what they're doing and the way that they're behaving
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I'm not willing to find middle ground on certain ideologies.
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I'm not willing to compromise when it comes to evil and good.
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We are just a day after the 24-year anniversary of 9-11.
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We have, not too long ago, the Annunciation Catholic school shooting.
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We have the stabbing of Irina Zarutska that broke not too long ago.
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And then, of course, over the past several days,
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we've heard of the assassination and death of Charlie Kirk.
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that we're going to see a lot more political violence.
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There's a lot more dangerous rhetoric seeming to float around.
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There are people who are celebrating the death of innocent people.
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the only thing necessary for evil, the triumph of evil,
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And I fear that there is a large percentage of men in this country
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But the thing that you may not be doing is being vocal,
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getting involved where you need to be involved,
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and to finally put an end to some of this violence
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unless good men like us are willing to do something.
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So today I want to share with you four ideas that I have
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And I believe that prayer in times of challenge and strife
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and adversity and horrific things like we've seen
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And also, it can help us with a sense of courage
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Unfortunately, I think those days are going away
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the lessons are going to be far more devastating
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I mean, you've seen people run into telephone poles
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you need to teach your children these things too.
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and I've been brainstorming on this for years now,
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that I'm going to have to move forward with this
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to be able to take care of them in that timeframe.
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And so probably in the first quarter of next year,
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I'm not going to share all of those ideas right now
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So that's one thing I'm going to be personally doing.
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when it comes to protecting yourself and your family
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is that if you're strapped and burdened with debt,
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that are relatively less riddled with crime and drug use
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But if you're not getting yourself out of financial debt,
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We're going to talk a little bit more about that.
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you're really leaving your family in a situation
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and don't know how to get around your financial problems.
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and everything else into the podcast we've done.
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to make sure you're taking care of your family financially.
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And the more we bring these dangerous ideologies,
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but they're somewhere in the middle on that spectrum,
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and they suffer the societal and financial impacts
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of permeating negative and destructive ideology.
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And I'm not saying that we need to be uncontrolled.
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I'm not saying we need to be unrighteously violent.
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initiate physical violence against other people.
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I can't tell you how many times I hear from guys,
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You're going to see it coming to a city near you.
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that happens to believe something different than him
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that he elevated himself within the city council.
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because business owners are the movers and shakers
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of your communities and your cities and your states.
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and truth and righteousness and goodness in this country.
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But we can't do that unless we're in positions of power.
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So the more we say, ah, I don't, I'm not interested in that.
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The more you're going to see other people getting involved.
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And a lot of them are just horrible, evil people.
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And they're dictating what goes on in your life.
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And again, you see this at the city, state, and federal level.
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Are you comfortable with evil people telling you
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how they're going to steal your money in the form of taxation?
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and not vet the people that are coming into this country
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Are you okay with letting career criminals walk the streets
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It's crucial that we get involved in positions of power.
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Get elected, build influence, join Rotary, join Chamber,
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build those business, build influence with powerful people,
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The more you do that, the better off we're going to be.
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And then the last thing that I'm going to share
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because there's not all the time something to unite behind.
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I want to have male friends, but I don't know how.
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It was a resource that I needed when I was younger.
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And I was having new kids, my ex-wife at the time,
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excuse me, my wife at the time, now ex, there you go.
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And I was having children and starting a new business
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and trying to figure out what it meant to be a father
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Get those guys together for a weekly workout session.
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Talk about the hopes and dreams and fears that each of you have.
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Coming in the first quarter of 2026, and it's been long enough,
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I'm going to start a local chapter of Order of Man.
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And so again, if it's going to be done, I have to do it.
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And if it's going to be done in your area, you have to do it.
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So I'm going to put together the end of this year
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as we roll into Q1 of 2026, a local Order of Man chapter.
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And I'm going to head that up personally, and I'm going to build the first chapter.
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And what we're going to do as men is we're going to get together
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We're going to ask men to do community service.
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We're going to help those individuals into positions of power in the community.
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We're going to elect the men who are part of these organizations.
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And we're going to take this, our cities, our states, and our countries back.
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And I'm going to have some qualification processes for you guys
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to be able to start your own Order of Man chapters.
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And we're going to bring in millions and millions of men in this country,
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all banded around the idea that we are protectors, providers, and presiders for ourselves,
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our families, our neighbors, our community members.
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In the meantime, you can check out the Iron Council.
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There's over a thousand of us inside the Iron Council,
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Many of these guys do meet locally and face-to-face.
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For the most part, maybe we see a few things differently,
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but we're all under the banner of Order of Man, in this case, the Iron Council.
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And we know our job is to protect, to provide, and preside.
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And we know exactly how we're trying to do that
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so we can hold each other accountable to call each other up to be better men.
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If you want to check that out, we're going to be opening up on Monday.
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And all of the tools and resources in there support what I just told you.
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Protecting your family and your loved ones and yourself.
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Having boldness and courage and conviction around righteous ideologies, not evil ones.
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Learning skill sets that get you paid and that get you promoted.
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And then, of course, the brotherhood that comes with being together, banding together around a common goal.
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But we're going to start taking some things back.
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And contrary to popular culture and the belief of popular culture, we don't have to tolerate everything.
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In fact, I would say it's quite righteous to be intolerant of the things that are intolerable.
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Go to orderofman.com, sign up for the newsletter.
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And that way, you'll get information in your inbox about what we're doing.
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You can subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already.
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Because we've got a lot of information coming and some great guests coming up.
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If you're on social media, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, X, all the places.
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Send a text to a friend who needs to hear this message about how we're going to start standing up and banding together.
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And then the last thing is you can join our brotherhood, the Iron Council, at orderofman.com slash ironcouncil.
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Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men like you, like me, like millions of others to do nothing.
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Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast.
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