Order of Man - May 01, 2026


Why Free Markets Are Masculine ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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free markets masculinity personal responsibility free market masculinity free markets masculinity
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Ryan Michler
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Creedmoor Benelli John Eldridge Forge
Showing Up When It Counts, Taking Ownership, and Doing the Work ｜ ASK ME ANYTHING Safe Doesn't Mean ＂Soft＂

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What if the economic system that you have been told by the government and the media to hate is actually one of the most masculine forms of economies ever invented? What if everything that the free market demands of you is the risk, the accountability, the grind, the failure, the rebuilding if necessary, is exactly what turns a boy into a man?

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00:00:00.000 You cannot win if you are not willing to lose.
00:00:06.520 Risk-taking is the masculine DNA, or it's in the DNA, I should say.
00:00:14.240 Because when you remove risk, you also remove growth.
00:00:19.680 You remove the factors that build your character.
00:00:22.780 And a man who has never risked anything, I don't think has really ever lived his life fully.
00:00:30.000 Here's a question that nobody is asking out loud.
00:00:34.340 What if the economic system that you have been told by the government and by the media to hate is actually one of the most masculine forms of economies ever invented?
00:00:46.960 and what if everything that the free market demands of you it's the risk the accountability
00:00:52.480 the competition the grind the failure the the rebuilding if necessary is exactly what turns
00:00:59.620 a boy into a man and what if the push towards socialism and communism isn't really compassion
00:01:09.500 as it's packaged it isn't progress it isn't some enlightened evolution but it's a slow
00:01:17.620 quiet surrender of everything that makes you and me a man i want you to think about that for a
00:01:24.700 second we are living through quite honestly it's a crisis of masculinity when i talked about this
00:01:30.540 10 years ago people scoffed at it and now people see it men are checking out they're disengaged
00:01:36.280 from work. They're separating from purpose. They're lost. And at the exact same time,
00:01:43.040 we're watching a generation of men get sold on the idea that the answer is less personal
00:01:50.500 responsibility. It's less competition. It's less risk. And that the government, big daddy
00:01:56.480 government should flatten or level the playing field and guarantee the outcome for millions of
00:02:07.520 Americans. That comfort in your life is automatically a right and that any sort of
00:02:14.740 struggle in your life is automatically the enemy. But guys, you know this as well as I do. Struggle
00:02:19.740 isn't the enemy struggles the point it always has been every man who ever built something
00:02:29.800 a business a family a legacy for himself did it by walking into that arena that theodore
00:02:38.040 roosevelt talks about taking hits getting back up and the free market is that arena it's brutal
00:02:46.080 but it's honest it doesn't care about your feelings and i'd argue that's exactly why men
00:02:54.060 and society at large need free markets because we live in a moment where
00:02:58.500 masculinity is is under fire where our young men our sons and and brothers and friends and
00:03:08.460 neighbors they're being told that the system is the enemy and dependency on the same system
00:03:15.440 is their salvation i don't buy it i don't think you do either or you wouldn't be here you wouldn't
00:03:20.660 be part of this movement so today we're going to pull on that thread a little bit and we're going
00:03:25.760 to unravel what i've seen so many men deal with regarding economic systems it's free markets it's
00:03:32.860 masculinity we're going to talk about threats the stakes that we're playing at and what we lose if
00:03:38.980 we walk away from the greatest economic system ever invented by man. So we're going to go there
00:03:46.060 today. So I want you to stay with me because I know this one's going to probably raise a lot of
00:03:50.960 eyebrows and there's going to be a lot of contention. But if we can't have the difficult
00:03:54.540 conversations, then what good is this? So if you're new to the show, guys, we talk about all
00:04:00.980 things manly and masculinity. We cut through the noise. We talk about things that actually matter,
00:04:05.820 how to live well how to think clearly and how to build something worth having worth following
00:04:11.400 so we're gonna go in a direction that again might raise some eyebrows but this is one of the most
00:04:17.500 important conversations that i think we can have right now because i see us falling into a dark
00:04:23.520 and dangerous deadly even path we're gonna be talking about free markets and why i believe at
00:04:28.000 their core they are deeply and fundamentally masculine not masculine in a way that you know
00:04:33.480 excludes anybody necessarily, but masculine in the sense of values and virtues and character
00:04:39.760 traits that we as men have traditionally and historically been called to embody.
00:04:45.520 And frankly, that a healthy, robust, thriving society depends on. So let's get into it.
00:04:53.120 Before we dive too much further into this, I really want to be honest about the moment that
00:04:57.980 we're in because there is a growing sentiment, especially among young men, towards socialism
00:05:03.960 and even outright communism. I mean, you can see this in the polls. You see it on social media.
00:05:10.200 You hear it on college campuses. The idea that the system is rigged, that the market is your enemy
00:05:15.760 and that the state, the very system that people are complaining against or about, should step in
00:05:23.420 and equalize the outcomes for us. And look, I get it. I understand the frustration
00:05:27.740 when housing is unaffordable. And quite frankly, it is for millions and millions of young men
00:05:34.760 when wages feel stagnant and they are when corporate giants seem untouchable and they can
00:05:41.180 the free market can actually feel like a, like a broken promise almost, but here's the thing.
00:05:49.880 what's being said and sold is an alternative, but it's not liberation. It's dependence.
00:05:59.480 It's dependence. And dependence, I think, is the enemy of masculinity. Socialism at its core
00:06:07.760 asks you to outsource your sovereignty to the collective, but not even the collective,
00:06:13.620 just the state, to the bureaucrat, to the committee. Socialism promises security in
00:06:21.140 exchange for your sovereignty. And a man who trades out his sovereignty for security, I think
00:06:27.820 you're going to find out that you've made a very bad deal. And if it isn't bad for you,
00:06:32.520 it'll be bad for your kids and grandkids. But the free market, on the other hand,
00:06:37.000 makes you an offer that is harder. It's a harder pill to swallow, but it's more honest, to compete.
00:06:43.620 to create something great, to take risk in your life, to earn your reward, to eat what you kill.
00:06:50.700 And to me, that's a more masculine proposition. So what I want to do is I want to walk you through
00:06:57.040 five core reasons why I believe that free markets align with what it means to be a man.
00:07:04.080 A man in the fullest and truest sense of the word. So number one, personal responsibility.
00:07:09.980 the free market does not care about your excuses i've been in businesses that have failed i've i've
00:07:16.820 had times where i've struggled financially and it does not tolerate for excuses it doesn't grade on
00:07:23.200 a curve right it rewards value and it rewards the value that's created and it also also punishes
00:07:32.000 the value that's destroyed and that's exactly the standard a man should hold himself to
00:07:40.820 because masculinity and manliness have always been tied to accountability it's the idea that
00:07:48.440 you are responsible for your outcomes i just heard that spirit airlines might be
00:07:54.440 might be saved you know by saved so to speak by the government too big to fail you guys
00:08:01.900 remember that that's nonsense we should not be rescuing companies that don't understand how to
00:08:09.260 add value that free markets don't uphold okay it it's it has nothing to do with your circumstances
00:08:17.760 it's not your upbringing it's not the economy it's all on you now that doesn't mean that life
00:08:23.680 is fair because it isn't you heard that growing up you probably said it to your kids life isn't
00:08:28.640 fair, but a man who internalizes responsibility, who refuses to sit in the victim seat, I think
00:08:35.800 is a man who ultimately will act and taking action and improving and getting better is
00:08:42.480 how you change your situation. We're on the back of a very successful event we did called
00:08:48.560 the men's forge. And if we didn't add value, then I would expect that we wouldn't be able
00:08:54.660 to do that event next year, but we did add value. And I'm going to be spending some time tomorrow
00:09:00.860 doing an after action review on the event itself with our organizers and our partners so that we
00:09:06.920 can make sure that we continue to add value so that you guys will come out and experience
00:09:10.880 lasting change and ideas and insights and systems that will work for you.
00:09:16.780 The free market should not be rescuing you. The free market should not be rescuing Spirit Airlines
00:09:22.460 or all the other organizations that we did, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago.
00:09:27.040 The free market challenges you, right?
00:09:30.380 And the challenge built into the free market is a feature.
00:09:33.880 It's not a bug of the market.
00:09:37.040 All right, number two, risk and reward.
00:09:39.200 Every entrepreneur, every investor, every small business owner understands.
00:09:44.720 If you guys own a business, you get this.
00:09:47.360 You cannot win if you are not willing to lose.
00:09:52.460 risk-taking is the masculine dna or it's in the dna i should say
00:10:00.140 it's that it's that hunter who ventured out into the wilderness alone to feed his family
00:10:07.020 it's the soldier who held the line when his own personal safety was was in danger 1.00
00:10:15.540 it's the founder who bet everything on a stupid idea that nobody thought he would do 0.99
00:10:22.020 These are the masculine archetypes for a reason. 1.00
00:10:26.740 Free markets are built on voluntary risk. 0.94
00:10:29.400 When I go out and I step into the world and I build a product or a service or an offering,
00:10:33.600 that's a voluntary risk.
00:10:34.960 Nobody told me to do that.
00:10:37.100 So I put out my capital, my resources, my time, my attention, my energy, my money, my reputation,
00:10:42.320 and then the market.
00:10:44.040 Other people tell me the truth.
00:10:46.820 See, I don't get to decide what's valuable.
00:10:48.520 Other people decide what's valuable, and that is a risk.
00:10:52.020 but socialism removes the risk well it removes that risk there's other risks associated with it
00:10:59.580 but it buffers right it insulates it redistributes so although you might not find yourself at least
00:11:07.560 in the short term unable to put a roof over your head and food on the table you're cutting out some
00:11:16.260 of your opportunity for growth and innovation, I should say. Because when you remove risk,
00:11:25.060 you also remove growth. You remove the factors that build your character. And a man who has
00:11:33.120 never risked anything, I don't think has really ever lived his life fully. Because an economy
00:11:39.680 that eliminates risk, it produces the same kind of man that we see more and more. It's that
00:11:48.760 comfortable guy. It's that passive guy. It's that guy who's lost. Again, speaking of this Forge
00:11:54.060 event that we did, I can't tell you how many guys I talked with who feel like they've lost their
00:11:59.120 purpose. And I can't help but think that's because we've been conditioned to believe that somebody
00:12:03.780 else is supposed to provide it for us well newsflash it's not how it works all right let's
00:12:10.600 talk about point number three independence and self-reliance okay one of the most the deepest
00:12:17.360 most masculine characteristics and drive that we have is the drive to provide i talked about this
00:12:24.320 at the event the seven forms of masculine provision to not need to be saved to actually
00:12:31.260 be the one that others can lean on and rely on and the free market rewards that it rewards
00:12:36.020 self-reliance it rewards the man who develops skills builds value brings something to the
00:12:44.200 market that wasn't previously available solves problems it doesn't punish success it actually
00:12:50.160 celebrates and rewards it but if you contrast that with the systems that create dependency
00:12:54.980 because when the government becomes the provider the protector the guarantor of outcomes
00:13:00.920 it fills a role that men like you and me individually are meant to fill
00:13:06.460 and men who are displaced or pushed aside from that role they don't just lose their income
00:13:15.360 they lose their purpose think about the guys that you know who have retired maybe they've been
00:13:22.860 forced out of military service on uh for medical reasons or or they've just aged out those are men
00:13:30.120 who lose purpose they lose identity we talk about that about how not to do that but they do
00:13:34.900 and then they get desperate and despaired and a lot of them unfortunately end up committing suicide
00:13:40.800 because we see this play out in real time men are checking out that the rate of male disengagement
00:13:48.220 from work to education from civic life they're at historic highs and you look at that juxtaposed
00:13:57.100 against our female counterparts and the women are absolutely destroying it relative to the way 1.00
00:14:04.800 that we're doing and i would argue that part of what's driving that is a culture that has 1.00
00:14:12.660 systematically undermined the structures including free markets
00:14:18.020 those structures that give men meaningful purpose an actual arena to compete in and to provide
00:14:29.140 all right number four earned respect versus entitlement
00:14:36.880 there's a reason that nobody respects a handout because deep down we all know
00:14:44.060 the difference between what was earned and what was given to us you know that right that's why
00:14:50.000 participation trophies don't work when i was coaching little kids teams and i'm not coaching
00:14:55.040 little kids teams anymore because my kids are getting older but i remember the city coming to
00:15:00.660 us and saying hey we don't keep score at this age but you know who's keeping score all the little
00:15:05.100 boys the six the seven the eight the nine-year-olds they're all keeping score so at the end of the
00:15:11.200 game, even though there was no score on the scoreboard, I would talk with the boys after
00:15:15.300 the game. And you know what they'd ask? Who won? Who won? I'd say, I don't know. We don't keep
00:15:18.900 score, but you know who was? They were. And so they'd say, well, we won by one or we lost by
00:15:22.380 two because they care. It matters. They care. And free markets operate on merit. Yes. I know
00:15:30.600 it's imperfect at times. We're going to talk about that, but they do operate on merit. If you build
00:15:36.940 something that people want you're rewarded for it and if you fail to build something that people
00:15:41.720 want you're punished for it that feedback loop as painful as it is sometimes and it has been for me
00:15:50.460 i've been in businesses where i feel broke all the time it actually builds character and it
00:15:56.780 builds self-respect because at least even though you may not have got ahead at least you did it by
00:16:01.180 yourself then you compare that to this entitlement culture the idea that you deserve some outcome
00:16:11.180 regardless of your effort it's corrosive it's destructive to men it hurts us mentally and
00:16:17.040 emotionally it builds up resentment it creates fragility and really just a deep lack of self
00:16:28.880 respect i mean i see a guy sitting on the corner holding up a sign and i can't help but wonder how
00:16:33.500 much respect does that man have for himself zero and i already know that you might say well we
00:16:41.200 shouldn't judge no of course we should judge we should be discerning if a guy's sitting on the
00:16:45.940 street corner but he's capable of holding a sign he's capable of doing something else
00:16:49.280 and i i i saw when i was in st louis i saw a sign from a guy that's like oh i'm a i'm a marine
00:16:57.720 core veteran now i don't know if that's true or not but if if that's really who you are then why
00:17:04.020 are you sitting on the road begging for money weren't you trained better than that i don't
00:17:10.480 care what your illness or your disability is weren't you trained better than that
00:17:13.880 somewhere beneath all of this ideology of rescuing people and and leveling the playing field
00:17:23.920 is a man who knows he hasn't earned what he has and and the path for men is to do work
00:17:31.060 it's to earn your place is to look in the mirror and know that whatever you have
00:17:35.460 regardless of how humble it is it's yours you earned it and free markets give you that arena
00:17:42.340 but the collectivist system takes it all away from you not only does it take your wealth if
00:17:48.240 you manage to get ahead but it also takes your pride i don't want the government to give me 0.63
00:17:55.320 shit i want to create it myself and i think you do too all right last point here competition 0.67
00:18:04.920 men are at their best when they're competing 0.98
00:18:08.200 uh my friend kip sorenson who hosts the ask me anything podcast on wednesdays often jokes around
00:18:15.800 he says, you know, if I gave you a bow and arrow without a target, how long would men sit around
00:18:21.080 and shoot the bow? We wouldn't. Not very long. We'd try to hit a rock or a tree or an animal or
00:18:27.220 something. We'd have something to aim at. And then we'd say, I can do it better than you can.
00:18:32.640 And that's at the core of what it means to be a man. It's not negative. It's actually encouraging
00:18:40.740 and positive it's not toxic it's it's it's generative it builds it grows it it emboldens
00:18:47.860 it drives us it produces innovation it produces excellence it produce produces pushing the limits
00:18:55.340 and this is how civilizations advance the civilizations that don't introduce competition
00:19:02.040 fall behind the civilization civilizations who do get ahead free markets guys are the greatest
00:19:11.060 engine of competition ever devised because they force businesses and by extension the men who run
00:19:19.040 them to get better or to just get out they create the conditions for excellence and then we are to
00:19:26.860 step up and men thrive in the arena of excellence. If you give a man a standard worth striving for
00:19:35.480 or a challenge worth meeting, I think more often than not, he'll surprise you with what he can
00:19:43.640 become. I had a really good experience with my youngest son a couple of weeks ago. I was sitting
00:19:48.920 in a blind with him and we were kind of talking and playing and trying to distract ourselves from
00:19:56.680 being bored and a pig came out we were pig hunting and he said dad there's a pig and I said all right
00:20:03.560 let's get ready so he lined up his gun he had a 6.5 Creedmoor Benelli 6.5 Creedmoor he was shooting
00:20:08.440 and it was everything was said and we went to the range and we dialed it all in we practiced and he
00:20:15.760 took shots and it was 120 yard shot on a 6.5 Creedmoor on a nice pig and in my head I thought
00:20:22.700 man I don't know if he's gonna hit this I really I really didn't know in fact if anything I was
00:20:28.520 erring on the side of him missing and the conversation that I would have with him 0.91
00:20:32.660 and long story short we waited for a while and the pig wasn't in position and then it finally 0.99
00:20:37.780 got in position and he took the shot and he made a perfect shot right in the ear hole of that pig 0.98
00:20:45.860 big drop rolled over on his back went stiff-legged and died within 15-20 seconds as as it should have 0.89
00:20:55.040 and i felt a little guilty because i thought well he can't make the shot i don't know if he'll make
00:21:02.300 it but he did and you know why he did i think is because he stepped up he was with me he was with
00:21:07.740 other men they were cheering him on they were excited for him and you should have seen the
00:21:12.580 celebration that happened from those other men because he did what he needed to do he did what
00:21:17.640 he came to do and it's the competition it's the elevated pressure that helped him achieve
00:21:24.600 when we flatten the competition when we say that there is no expectation
00:21:32.280 when we redistribute the outcome or protect inefficiency or penalize success
00:21:39.400 we don't produce fairness that's not fair what we produce is mediocrity i had a good conversation
00:21:48.280 with my oldest two boys lacrosse team and we talked about the concept of justice
00:21:52.120 we also talked about the concept of mercy and in today's culture we overemphasize mercy without
00:22:03.140 any emphasis on justice. And so mercy might be, hey, I'm going to scale back. I'm going to hold
00:22:11.480 up. I'm going to not push as hard as I need to do because maybe somebody is in an unjust situation
00:22:18.500 or maybe they need some compassion. There's a place for it. I'm not saying there isn't. There
00:22:22.840 is a place for it. But I told the boys, I said, what's more important, justice or mercy?
00:22:28.460 and the boys unanimously agreed that the most important thing was justice and justice is
00:22:34.960 getting what you deserve on the positive or negative getting exactly what you deserve
00:22:40.840 and so it's not fair to create environments that take from somebody else and give to somebody
00:22:48.520 who hasn't earned it that isn't justice justice is letting men and women sit with the discomfort
00:22:56.520 and the pain of failure that's fair that's what we would call justice and justice is also rewarding
00:23:06.180 and compensating those men who did it right they're not villainous they just did it right
00:23:13.320 and we can learn from them but also i really do want to be intellectually honest as i have this
00:23:19.820 conversation because if i'm going to make this case for free markets and i will to my dying breath
00:23:24.780 i also have to acknowledge the threats to free markets both to markets and from markets and
00:23:30.700 where they could go wrong we have to talk about this broadly so the first threat and this is
00:23:36.840 important and i hope you stuck around with me this long and if you're listening to this you have and
00:23:40.600 if you haven't then you missed this part of it when i talk about free markets i'm not talking
00:23:45.600 about crony capitalism okay this is a big one and this is what most people are actually upset about
00:23:51.560 when they say they hate capitalism.
00:23:53.240 So when you hear one of these blue-headed,
00:23:56.240 blue-haired liberals talk about why they hate capitalism,
00:23:58.920 they're not talking about free markets.
00:24:01.260 This is why words are so important
00:24:02.940 because everybody has a different definition
00:24:05.200 for all the words, including capitalism.
00:24:09.380 Okay, crony capitalism is not what I'm talking about.
00:24:13.260 Okay, people are not upset about free markets.
00:24:16.400 They're upset about rigged markets, and I am too,
00:24:18.800 where the politically connected get bailed out like i was saying spirit airlines i don't care
00:24:25.080 if spirit airlines goes under i don't care if i can get a ticket half the price if they can't
00:24:29.380 provide the value obviously the market has spoken so why should my tax dollars go towards
00:24:35.280 organizations that can't figure it the fuck out that isn't free markets that's crony capitalism
00:24:42.280 it's it's where regulations are written to protect incumbents uh where where the rules don't apply
00:24:49.660 equally to everybody that's not free market capitalism that's corporatism and that is worth
00:24:56.940 fighting against i do not believe in corporatism we need to fight against that rail against that
00:25:02.320 hard a masculine man i think calls that out he doesn't defend corporatism or crony capitalism
00:25:09.000 because his team benefits.
00:25:11.520 He demands accountability for just and fair rules.
00:25:18.500 Threat number two is consumerism without purpose.
00:25:22.400 Free markets are very, very good at producing things,
00:25:27.380 products and widgets and gizmos and gadgets,
00:25:30.460 but things without meaning make really empty hollow men.
00:25:35.900 when the market becomes the end rather than the means that's where consumption becomes
00:25:43.120 the identity men lose the plot i probably spent 30 40 dollars unnecessarily i'm not saying i'm
00:25:52.040 immune to this unnecessarily today because of consumerism but the masculine response is to use
00:25:58.020 the wealth and freedom that markets create in service for something larger than himself
00:26:04.700 his family his community his legacy his faith the market gives us resources but
00:26:11.260 i think it's manliness that gives us a reason to use them well
00:26:14.700 you see this all the time you see guys just buying nonsense
00:26:20.100 and falling into this idea of consumerism and then just being hollowed out and empty inside
00:26:25.480 number three this is the third threat is this rejection of meaning for comfort we live in such
00:26:34.600 an easy time, the easiest throughout all of human history. And that's not to diminish or downplay
00:26:40.140 any suffering you might be experiencing. I had a friend I talked with, he and his wife
00:26:44.660 recently had a miscarriage. I'm not trying to downplay or dismiss the suffering that would
00:26:50.240 go with that. I've talked with plenty of men who are going through divorces and bankruptcies and
00:26:55.060 job losses and losing kids and losing loved ones. It's horrible. But I also know that we live in the
00:27:01.880 best time we ever could the deepest threat isn't external i don't think it's actually internal it's
00:27:08.440 the temptation it's made easier by prosperity it's the hard men create good times good times
00:27:16.140 create weak men weak time create weak men create hard times you know the thing okay and what happens
00:27:22.300 is we settle we become soft i was talking with my boys at lacrosse just yesterday and they're
00:27:31.000 coming off the back of a couple of really big wins and they're outperforming their expectations
00:27:35.260 this year. And I said, this is the pivotal moment. This is the point where you either
00:27:39.140 become complacent and think you're better than you are, or you continue to double down
00:27:43.180 and improve. The free market I think can produce conditions where a man never has to fight
00:27:50.040 for anything. Look, look around. I mean, we don't have to fight for anything, but paradoxically
00:27:57.380 that ease is really dangerous we need adversity as men we need mountains to climb we need battles
00:28:04.940 to fight john eldridge says deep in his heart every man longs for a battle to fight an adventure
00:28:09.960 to live and a beauty to rescue and if you don't have those three things you're dead maybe not 0.99
00:28:15.480 physically but emotionally you're empty you're hollow you're pathetic the masculine man the 0.98
00:28:23.260 manly man uses the freedom that the free markets provide not to escape the struggles of of being 0.98
00:28:30.340 alive and being a man but to choose it deliberately to pursue mastery to take on harder things to
00:28:37.220 step into service so guys that's where i land i know free markets aren't perfect there's there's
00:28:45.140 no human institution that is but the markets are uniquely aligned with the values that make men
00:28:52.620 men responsibility risk independence respect from others and the drive towards being better
00:29:02.500 the alternative socialism communism that's being sold to our young men right now the promise of a
00:29:09.220 system that levels the outcomes that reduces all of the risk that guarantees security that that's
00:29:15.960 not a path to doing well. That's a path to hell, frankly. And we've seen it. The beautiful thing
00:29:24.020 is we only have to look at the thousands and thousands of years of human history and see that
00:29:30.420 socialism and communism do not work. They look really, really good. It looks really, really
00:29:38.920 tempting. It looks compassionate and empathetic and kind and caring, but they are the path to
00:29:44.980 managed decline managed decline managed by our social and government overlords
00:29:50.300 and a managed dependent life is no life for you or me so i want to challenge you this week to look
00:29:59.640 at the arena you're in whether that's your your business or your career or your finances or your
00:30:05.040 family and ask yourself am i showing up like a free man or am i showing up like someone just
00:30:10.740 waiting to be taken care of by big daddy government? Because that question, if you
00:30:15.020 answer it honestly, will tell you a lot. Guys, I really appreciate you spending some time with me
00:30:20.880 on this Friday. If it hit home, please share it. You know, if you're on YouTube, youtube.com slash
00:30:27.480 order of man, drop your comments below and let me know what you think. But I'm going to fight
00:30:33.760 against communism. I'm going to fight against socialism. I'm going to embrace capitalism,
00:30:37.700 not crony crony capitalism not corporatism like we talked about but actual free markets because
00:30:44.420 that is the only path to independence and freedom and i hope you understand that and i hope you're
00:30:49.060 willing to have these conversations and i hope that you're sharing this with your young men in
00:30:52.280 your life it is needed guys i did reference the men's forge quite a bit we do have our next event
00:31:00.160 already scheduled it's april 22nd through the 25th of 2027 if you go to themensforge.com you
00:31:07.000 can check it out, themensforge.com. All right, guys, I'll be back next week. Until then, go out
00:31:13.220 there, take action, embrace free markets and capitalism, and become a man you are meant to be.
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