PTR Ep 501 Endurance - Great Men Do Hard Things - Prepper Talk Radio

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome, Welcome to another episode of Prepper Talk Radio Radio
for the Ready Minded, the podcast for the prepared, with
your hosts Scott, Shane and Paris, the three of us,
the three amigos. We're in the house tonight, excited to
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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to really.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
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started on our endurance. I wanted to start with the quote,
if that okay?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Is that okay?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Guys for hard times create strong men. Strong men create
good times. Good times create weak men, and weak men
create hard times, and great men do hard things, not
necessarily because there were in hard times, but because they're
they're willing to step up and do whatever it takes

(02:33):
to get the job done. And that's what we're going
to talk about today on the show.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
So you know, I was gonna say Parish instead of
three amigos, we could say that three are monos.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, I like that one.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
So have you guys ever watched Lego Batman?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I got kids.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
My son now calls me Padre Padre because of Lego Batman.
He's like, are you my dad?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Can I call you Dad?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
No?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
What can I call you? I don't know. Can I
call you Padre?

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
That sounds like best friend? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Cool?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Okay, So now my little boy always hey Padre and
he wants me to call him Eho, you're my ego.
Yeah it's awesome. But let's move some mountains, right.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah. I don't call my son's son often enough. You know,
it's just Austin, you know, call him by his name.
I should call him son more often. I like that.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
As a non linguist, I struggle to say it correctly.
I hope I didn't. You guys, your.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Green goes showing through a little bit, but that's good.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
There's a lot of it to show through.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
So all right, hard things besides, of course, yeah, of course,
the first.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Thing that comes to mind endurance. Been trying to get
some hikes in this year. It's been oh tricky for
timing as such. But I've always love to hike and
love to you know, climb and that kind of stuff,
and so that's the usually the first thing that comes
to mind. So great men climb mountains. That's saying I
heard recently, and I'm sure it's been said by many

(04:11):
different people, So no one in particular in particular to
quote with that particular saying. But it means more than
just climbing mountains or hiking or you know, great men do,
like you said, hard things, And yes, climbing mountains is
is definitely a hard thing. And what I guess we're

(04:33):
the route to where I wanted to get eventually on
this topic is is why you know that's always the
driving force? Why how do you decide? Decide? That's a
big word for me, is when you start on that hike,
have you decided to finish to get to the summit, right,

(04:53):
and what's that going to take? And of course there's
a lot of other things we can compare that to
as well.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I was just going to say, the adventure of
a lifetime is doing something like Jordan Peterson talks about.
You know, men need to have an adventure, They need
to have some.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Kind of a goal like that.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And the hero story, the hero arcs in so many
movies and so many things we see where you know,
the hero slays the dragon and saves the damsel in distress,
you know, And while that's more of a fantasy kind
of a scenario, there's some absolute applications to real life

(05:35):
in doing that. Like I as one of the things
I talk a lot about in my financial coaching is
that men need to learn how to preside, which means
that they are they oversee and make sure that everything
that gets that's supposed to get done gets done. Then
they provide, and providing is a myriad of things. You're

(05:58):
basically providing food, shelter, but I think it goes beyond
that into emotional, spiritual. You're providing an environment where those
things can be cultivated, and then you're protecting. I think
that protection goes into not just you know, having a
bunch of muscles or a sword or a full plate
plate armor, you know, to go slay the dragon. Protecting

(06:19):
means that you've got your your food preps, you've got
your emergency fund, you've got your insurances, the different insurances
that you need, You've got your gold and silver, You've
got gear to get you out of there in case
something happens. You have some skills to learn. That's all
part of protecting. And so it's in our nature as men.
Of course, traditionally it's in our nature to want to

(06:42):
protect our spouse, our female, our damsel in distress. It's
in our nature to protect our youngins, our kids, and
so I think we're you know, I've I'm one of
those guys. It's like, if there's an evil out there
and I can put myself between it and my kids
and my wife, I'm going to put myself between it

(07:03):
and I might that's kind of that's like a suicide
mission some for in some cases.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
But what else do I do? What else?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean, that's I just I don't know, I don't
know why there's not more of that in the world
being shared the same way that, but I just feel
like there's a lot more of that that needs to
happen and us men, as Jordan Peterson said, we need
to be able to be monsters, but yet total control
because you can't fight evil. I was listening to Sarah

(07:33):
actually an interesting Austin Fitz. What's her first name again, Catherine,
Catherine Austin Fitz. She said that in order, she said,
she proposed that you need to be more evil than
evil so that you can take care of evil when
you need to, but then have a capacity for love.
And I thought that was a weird way of putting it,

(07:54):
because I don't want to be more evil than evil,
but I want to definitely have the strength to fight
evil and have the capacity for love. And so that's
that was just a perspective that I heard today.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Well that that parallels the I know Jordan Peterson talked
about this, but he the concept of it if you're
not dangerous, yeah right, you're not.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
He described it.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
This basically, if you're docile, if you're incapable of great danger, right,
if you're.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
If you're just soft, right, you can't be right.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
You can't really be a man because a man you're
required to be able to govern yourself. I'm forgetting the
words that he was used.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
There's here's the here's the quote I just looked at up.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
A harmless man is not a good man. A good
man is a very very dangerous man who has that
under voluntary control. Yes, because there's no moral authority if
you if you have if you don't have the capacity
to do something, then you aren't being peaceful. If you
don't have a capacity for violence, you're not actually a

(09:07):
peacekeeper or a peace maker.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
And like to go like further with that, It's like, Okay,
what is it that it requires us to do to
become a man. We don't have a right of passage anymore, right,
you think back one hundred years. There's rights of passage
in every culture worldwide. There's and many of them there
still are. But like that right of passage from boyhood
to manhood is gone.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Well, like Paris was saying, it's it's our duty to
take care of our family. But that not just that.
That is what makes a man, That's what a man
inherently wants to do. That should be part of his
of who he is is. Like you say, you stand
between you and danger, right, that's not suicidal by any means.

(09:57):
You know, if there's going to be war, let it
be in my day and not my children, stay right.
And I hope that my son in his day he'll
say the same thing about his kids. That's just about
And maybe that's the right of passage, you know, not
that each of us have to go through that. But
but in speaking about maybe you right like you say
a right a passage. Okay, we've got a I've got

(10:18):
a nice big mountain here in my backyard, literally in
my backyard. I mean, it's it's pretty big. It's about
you know, almost twelve thousand foot peak summit and the
vertical ascent on the hikes about five thousand vertical feet
over seven miles. It's it's a pretty tough hike.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
And uh that's kind of for me, kind of rite
a passage. That's one thing I'm trying to get my
my son up there this this year and uh at
least make some progress on it. And and work came
through that right of passage because one thing, you know,
we've done long hikes before, and that's I think where
you really start to learn what endurance really is. You've

(10:57):
got to practice that you've got to experience it. How
do you do that in the real world. We don't
want to go and put ourselves in dangerous positions. That's
not smart, right. Yes, we can go do things outdoors
like caving and climbing that can be inherently dangerous, but
we can do it with a level of safety. But
when you've done this hike, say for example, or another

(11:19):
big hike in you talk King's Peak, it's twenty plus miles.
It can be done in a day, but it is
it's brutal hike. It's twenty like I said, twenty three
plus miles and several thousand vertical feet. And you really
learn endurance when after you've come down off the summit,
you push yourself to the summit. You decide you're going
to make it there, You push it there, and then
you have to get yourself down because nobody else is

(11:40):
going to get your butt down off that mountain. Or
if you're in a cave and you're deep in a cave,
you're the only one who's going to get yourself out
of that cave. And that truly learning your physical endurance.
Because there are different types of endurance, and we can
talk about that. But physical endurance is slogging along until
you get your butt back to your vehicle and you

(12:01):
can drive then drive home. And I'm sure you know
many of you have experienced that. I'm preaching to the
choir at this point, but that, I think is how
you begin to learn true endurance on the physical side.
Of course, there's you know, spiritual and mental endurance as well.
And we kind of started this topic with the idea
of endurance as it has to do with the apocalypse. Right,

(12:27):
That's where my mind goes every single day, right, because
I think negatively. Right, We've already established that I'm a
negative thinker.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
Well, there's there's not just the apocalypse, just surviving the
times right now, right, surviving because honestly, like I have
not survived well the last five years.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well and survival air quotes more than thriving, right, right, But.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
It's let me let me clarify that my health is deteriorated. Wow,
I can't even say the word deteriorated. Right, My mindset
has deteriorated. My desire for improving those has maintained, but
my ability to maintain specifically the physicality has been dampered

(13:17):
due to injury, right, and I've let that harm my mind.
I've let that weaken my mindset, my emotional toughness, my
mental toughness. And I'm coming out of that finally, but
I'm realizing, like how damaging that has just not just
for me, for my wife, for my children. Right, But

(13:38):
I look around me, and I'm like, there are so
many people, young fathers, who have no toughness, yet they
haven't enough through there there where I've been the last
five years struggling, and there are many of them giving
up and disappearing. And that's the pandemic that we the
real pandemic is we're losing ourselves and instead of fighting

(14:01):
through it, we're quitting. And so if you're out there,
if you're listening and you're feeling like it's time to quit,
do not connect with us. Let's talk to you. Let's
let's help you get back in the seat and get
motivated and driven again, because there's no one's gonna come
save you, right, but we can throw you a rope

(14:22):
and you can self self assist claim out right, you
can you can get out of the hole that you've
gotten yourself into. My my gratitude is that you both
have been there when I've been in my lowest of
lows to help say, hey, dude, Scott, there's a rope.
Here's a rope. I can't pull you out, but here's

(14:43):
the rope, and here are the things you need to
do right. And it's more than just the physical physical toughness.
I mean, there's the mental toughness, the just the foundational
This is where I stay within my moral fiber, within
my character, within who I am. Right, those foundational things,
the grit, the discipline, the emotional regulation, all of those

(15:07):
things come into play. And if we're not founded, if
we're not if we're not creating a stronghold for ourselves
all the time and maintaining it, the chink in our
armor is what's going to be our downfall.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, you have to do it alone, right, You have
to do this alone, But you don't have to do
it by yourself. Like like this hiking example going back
is those last few miles getting out are just terrible,
and you you know you have to do it yourself.
Nobody's going to carry you. Yeah, and they can be brutal,
absolutely brutal miles and both mentally and physically as well.

(15:45):
And we have to practice those types of things and
get a taste of what that's going to be like
when it really gets real.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I think that it's as an example, my family several
years ago, we hiked one of the famous hikes in
Utah is Mount Timpanogus, and there's a cave up there
that supposedly gorgeous, and we were hoping that it was open,
and we climbed up there and it was closed, and
we're like, dang it, all that work and we.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Didn't really we weren't.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Really.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I was okay.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
My son was okay because we work out and we
do stuff, but it was my whole family was like
what did we just get ourselves into. I remember at
one point, like maybe one hundred yards from the top,
like it was I've been to I went to the top,
then I went back to go get my daughter and
she's like she's sitting on the rock and she's like,
I'm not doing this. I'm not going I'm not moving

(16:37):
another inch. And the physical hardship of this, the exhaustion actually,
you know, I think David Goggins or has is a
great example of this, that when your physical body gets
to the point where it's like I'm done what's going
to keep you going, And it's the mental toughness, it's

(16:59):
the it's the commitment that will get you to realize.
And I haven't done this in a long time, but
there's been periods of my life where I've recognized this
that my mental toughness pushed my body beyond what I
believe were the limits that it had, and I was
able to accomplish things that were greater. Like, as an example,

(17:21):
my buddies and I we were rock climbing and Joshua Tree.
And for anybody who's ever been to Joshua Tree and
rock climb, there's it can be sketchy. Sometimes we were
climbing up this thing. We saw a cave. We're like, oh,
let's go up to the cave. And we got up
to the cave and and my buddy was I don't know,
he's one hundred and eighty pounds and I was abuck
ten if that at the time.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
I'm not very big. I'm not much bigger now, but I.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Just like hop, skip, jump, leap, you know, I was
a little the gazelle just do to do. I was
up and over and he couldn't reach like there was
just there were some things that just didn't It didn't work,
and he started slipping and I was like, dude, I
have to save my buddy, Like there's no other way
around this. And I literally I had one hand on

(18:08):
a rock and my other hand arm was was pulling
him up. And I'm like, I'm not strong enough to
lift one hundred and eighty pounds man, But I had
the I had the adrenaline, I had the mental like
I knew it needed to get done, and that helped.
And that's something that happens with my kids. You know,
what are we willing to do for kids? Like I'm
willing to go to the ends of the earth and back,

(18:30):
Like I'm willing to do that for my wife, I'm
willing to do those So those are the kinds of things,
and I'm sure everybody who's listening here has had similar examples.
But those are the hard things, and I think that
we shouldn't shy away from those things. Of Course, it's
exhausting to have them happening all the time, but we
need to definitely not shy away from and realize that
those things, you know, it kind of were I think

(18:51):
we'll talk all about a little bit more in the
next episode. But you know, the idea of what doesn't
kill you makes you stronger is a real is a
real thing, and great men can do hard things. You
can do hard things. I do hard things, and sometimes
that's just getting out of bed and having a good attitude.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well, and like the other thing is too, Like doing
those hard things gives you a sense of self, gives
you a sense like, gives you self esteem, gives you something.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
To respect about yourself.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Right when you when you're letting people down all the time,
what's the response and yourself, I'm a loser, I can't
do anything right, blah blah, right yourself talk all those
different things, and it's like it makes you no longer
a leader, makes you a follower. It destroys everything you're
trying to build and becoming a good man. Like you've

(19:45):
got to do hard things because that's what we're designed
to do. Right, or builds character builds character gives you
a sense of purpose, Like when I've when I've taken
on huge challenges, like I know we talk about a
lot like preper Con. When I did that, I didn't
make much money. I spent a whole lot of time

(20:07):
losing money building that thing. But it was a huge
sense of purpose for me right doing this podcast, a
huge sense of purpose for me right raising my children,
and you guys can all relate to these things. It's
like these things that are not easy, that require time,
that requires sacrifice, especially our children, gives us a sense

(20:31):
of purpose, you know. And what's interesting is I went
to this the this conference years ago. It was the
World Congress on the Family. And one of the biggest
indicators for success in a man's life. The first indicator
for success getting married. When a man gets married, that
will actually increase his income more than a college degree,

(20:52):
more than higher education of any kind, more than any certification.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
That's crazy, that's cool.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
The next largest factor and increasing a man's income having kids.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, phenomenal.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
And this is global data.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
So it's like.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Because that is because it's the tempering of the man,
while building up the man and him saying I need
to do better.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
You know, I don't think we're designed to be selfish, honestly.
I mean, there's it's really easy to be selfish, don't
get me wrong. But I don't think we're designed to
be selfish. And that's why we have families, that's why
we have the units. That's how that's why we have
a family unit, because you know, a man has to sacrifice,
and a woman too, like sacrifices, and we sacrifice a
lot to be able to have a marriage that works.

(21:41):
And then we sacrifice and the woman and sacrifices a
lot more to raise those kiddos. But we all sacrifice
to really if we're going to raise those kiddos, that's
the right way. With with their their functioning adults, you know,
they actually have a capacity to add to society versus
taking away from society. If you're doing the job right.

(22:02):
It's a lot of work and it's not easy. And
so that's something that I think whether you're learning how
to fight off, whether you're learning to be a military
expert and a seal team whatever, or you're you're trying
to be of a good father, I think a lot
of the same mindsets go into that. And you've got

(22:22):
to be intentional and purposeful. And we're not built to
just be I don't think I think we can be selfish,
but that's such a low vibration that you're really not
going to be. You're probably going to be live a
life that's depressed and filled with anxiety. And once you
start giving, you're going to realize that you have way
more to give. And that's where you really you rise

(22:44):
up to a higher vibration and there's more fulfillment in
that for sure.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Well, the world definitely wants us to be selfish, right
a teaching that we shouldn't be fathers, that we should
do everything look out for number one all the time.
Always always focus on yourself. Don't worry about what right
or wrong is. Just worry about what you get out
of it.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Right.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, And both men and women like we have to
we have to struggle to grow, We have to be
tested to be strengthened. One of the My wife sent
me this this morning, and I was just like, holy crap.
So scientists did a study on what it's like for
a woman to make another human. The effects on the

(23:23):
human body is it is the toughest thing a body endors.
Your lungs lose up to twenty percent of your capacity
as your organ shift. Your heart grows larger and pumps
forty to fifty percent more blood. Your brain rewires itself
with structural changes that last for years. So that you
can bond and protect your baby by the third trimester

(23:46):
sleep study show pregnant women experience the same disruptions as
people with chronic insomnia. Your body even creates an entirely
new organ, the placenta, which uses more energy than your
own brain. Right, and it goes on and on and on. Right,
Men and women like when we fulfill our role, when
we're like headlong into who we're supposed to become. Women

(24:10):
are like no stranger to challenge to doing hard things.
But what's amazing is is when my wife does it,
she's in the process right now of making a human.
She is becoming even more of a a I'm not
gonna say, man, I want to say it. She's becoming

(24:31):
even we're gonna have to bleep me more of a
badass than ever before because she's doing something incredibly hard,
incredibly grueling, incredibly demanding. But it's making her softer in
ways that are so beautiful. Softer in more angelic, more
more follower of Christ, more a daughter of God. And

(24:54):
it is a beautiful thing to see the same thing
for men. As we do hard things, as we sacrifice
ourselves for our family, if we're doing it with the
right intent, we become sons of God. We become men
of God, men of valor, men of purpose.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
And you know, one thing that always that goes across
comes across my mind is, and I think probably for
everybody after they've climbed a mountain or after a woman
has had a baby, I'm never doing that again, right right,
But what happens that at discomfort that goes away in
the joy of the accomplishment of having the new child
and having made to the summer of that mountain and

(25:36):
gotten yourself back down and having been so beat up
and worn out from that experience experience and saying never
again too. Then time passes and then they say, I'm
going to do that again. That was tough, and I'm
going to do that again. You know. I was also

(25:57):
going to get back to your point there, Parish, were
talking about your little experience where you had to kind
of rescue your friend there. I think, you know, I've
been through a few similar examples. But I'm taking on
a new kind of new motto. Is it, if you're
not fit, you're going to die. If you're not fit,
you're going to die. Yeah, And that especially make works

(26:20):
when because if if you give up in the if
he were to give up in that situation, he would
have died. I mean potentially, you know, I don't know.
But when it gets hard, are you going to give up?
And then are you going to die? Or are you
going to with every last breath and every ounce of
muscle that you have to get yourself over that ledge

(26:41):
to save your life. You know, we were talking about
how how difficult that, you know, in the last several episodes,
how things have changed, and how crazy our world is
right now. We are in that apocalypse right now, and
it's going to take everything we have. We've got to
be fit mentally, bit spiritually, and physically in order to survive.

(27:03):
I mean that's my take, that's my opinion. And so
that's where I was going on this, on this little
adventure of ours, right because I love adventure. I grew
up in the mountains, just adventuring and getting myself in
pretty stupid situations, kind of like you know, climbing up
to that cave, like you're saying, parish where I'd look
back on the situations like that was stupid.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, I tell my wife the other day.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
I was telling my wife the other day, I said,
I'm surprised I made it to fifty like all the
stuff I've done, I should be dead or in jail,
Like how did I get here?

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, so I'm not wrong. Is if you're not fit.
If you're not fit, you're going to die. And I
think that's a good model to live by.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Well, especially once the grid goes down and crap hits
the fan and medicines aren't available. If you're not you know,
close to being able to replace some of those medicines
with herbs or other natural things or maybe even uh,
you know, change some of your things that you're eating
in your diet, because I mean, even if you don't
change your diet and the grid goes down, I promise

(28:05):
you McDonald's is not going to be pumping out burgers anymore.
Like you're going to have to eat something and so
your body is going to go into shock when it
gets something healthy because and you can't and you can't anyways,
we have to change our diet now so that our
bodies are more in tune with whatever that's going to
end up being, with our garden, with our food storage,

(28:29):
with our just if you're going to there's just not
fast food when the I've never watched in a mad
Max movie where fast food was still on available or
even tremors? Right, was there any is there any fast
food and tremors?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Like?

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, I think more than that. It's like you're going
to have so many things shocking you all the time.
You're going to be experiencing food fatigue for the first time.
Like we we think, we were like, oh, I've had
the same thing for three days. Worst, Right when you've
had the same thing for three months? Talk to me,
right when you when you have no heat source but

(29:08):
to go out and chop wood and saw wood and
prep wood every day all summer long to be able
to have enough just to survive the winter. Then you
know hard things, right.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
How do you react when you're fatigued and you're exhausted
and you're burnt out? And you know, simple example is
we talked, we've been talking about it is just prepper
burnout or prepper prepping fatigue.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
We hear all the things that are going to happen,
and we hear people like us, You hear us talking about,
Oh this is gonna happen. You got to get ready,
to get prepared, get to have and you do that
and nothing happens, and you keep and it can be tiring,
especially when you want to live a positive life, right
and not a negative negative like me all the time.
But it's uh, it's how you react under those linder,

(30:01):
that fatigue, under that burn. Do you know how how
you're going to react again, going back to the hiking
or any physical activity, right like your your daughter saying Paris,
I'm just gonna sit here. You guys can go on
when you come down, I'll you know, I'll go with you.
But I'm just I'm sitting here. Are we sitting that

(30:21):
sitting it out because it's getting tough? Or are we
getting getting tough? How does that saying is kind of
coming to mind when the tough gig, when the going
gets tough, the tough gate going, right. I mean there's
something you said for that, and that is is mental.
I mean that of course it's physical. You've got to
be able to perform, right, You've got to be fit physically,

(30:41):
be you got to be fit mentally as well.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I totally agree. I think another thing I was going
to share.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Just flew out of my mind and I have no
idea what I was going to say, so I will
remember in a minute, I hope.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
Yeah, you can tell we're all in our late forties
and early fifties, right.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
I haven't speaking of supplements.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Maybe I need to take some more ginkgo balowba, And
that's your We're.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
All in a different mindset before we even start this,
Parish is you're working your financial job. I'm working my
contracting job, and Scott's doing all his other stuff too
with kids and work and stuch. So to push that
switch and just be back and be in this mode
is not always an easy thing to do, right.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
It's not.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
That's I think that's one of the other challenges we've got,
is like we're going to be doing that more and
more in survival scenarios than we are now. You'll be
flipping switches all day long and like, no, gotta do this,
Oh this is priority now. Oh we just the horse
got up, the horse.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Is running away.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
Oh you know there's going to be so many help
gotta go processes chicken for dinner. Oh we need this
for tomorrow, right, and I remember it's really really, really
physically busy.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
So I was going to add on to what what
Shane said earlier and kind of piggy back a little
bit with what Scott just said, but I think that
when you what do they say, when you squeeze an orange,
you get orange juice. So when they when you get
squeezed by the pressure of life, what comes out? And
are you going to be angry and bitter or are

(32:22):
you going to be sweet and you're going to be kind?
And so that's a that and that takes practice. I
when I'm exhausted, when I'm tired, and I'm hungry and
I'm angry, it's not always I don't always present myself
in the best light if I'm given another challenge on

(32:42):
top of that, so I would say, I mean, don't sleep,
deprive yourself and starve yourself and go angry. But I
do think honestly, I've been looking at I've been looking
at the benefits of three to five day fasting, and
I've been thinking, I've done three day, I've done a
three day I've done two three day fasts in my life.

(33:03):
Dry fasts those are complete, like nothing, no consumption at
all for seventy two hours. But I hear that a
lot of the new fasting techniques that are coming out
are more they it's water and minerals that you can
you can have and certain things don't actually break the fast,
so I'm looking at that, But the reset on your

(33:24):
body is huge, like stem cell. After three days, your
stem cells start to rejuvenate and start to come out.
Like it was funny one guy was talking about. He's like,
we got people out here paying thousands of dollars for
stem cells. You could just get it for free if
you just don't eat for four days, you know what
I mean. So, but that's hard, Like who wants to
not eat for three or four days and or eat

(33:44):
one meal a day?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
But and your body can do it, but it's your mind.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah. Yeah, That's how our ancestors did it.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
They would hunt every day, and then they got to
the point where they were agricultural and they would grow
their food, so they had a.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Little bit more regular regularity.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
But imagine and back in the you know days of
the cave, you know, the early whatever, just the hunter
gatherer face. Those dudes they hunted, hunted, and gathered every day.
And so I'm just saying that when you when you
have when you're squeezed by the pressure of life, what
comes out of you?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Is it anger?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Is it frustration? Is it you beat the wife and kids,
or is it you know what I can control. I
can stay in control. I might be a little on edge.
And one of the things I do is I tell
my kids, Like for example, my my daughter was testing
me the other night and I told her, I said,
I told her, I said, I'm feeling triggered right now,

(34:40):
just so that you know. And I don't want to
go to mean dad. I want to stay kind dad,
And so can you help me not fully get triggered?
And when I give her the warning, she she calms down,
and then that helps me calm down. Usually so it's
but it's hard in the moment to recognize, wait a minute,

(35:01):
I'm getting triggered right now. I need I need to
be in control. And that's what I do. I just
I just call it out when I get triggered, when
I get angry, I'll just call it out. If I
even if I respond or you know, quickly and negatively,
or if I respond some that's you know, in a
way that's kind of hurt someone's feeling. I'll try to say,
I'm sorry, I'm triggered right now, or I got triggered

(35:23):
by what just happened.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Can you give me some grace?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
As I work through it, I'll be okay, we'll be okay.
Let's just work through it and get some grace going
here because I need it right now. And I think
that's a huge thing. It takes practice. So if you're
if you're a person who gets triggered, easily work on
that because you're gonna need it in the days to come.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I had some other thoughts again, going back to the
hiking analogy, because I think that's you know, where most
of us can can relate. Is Okay, So when you
go hiking, what do you take with you?

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Right?

Speaker 3 (35:53):
When we're prepping, what do we what do we get?
What kind of gear do we have to prepare? Right,
we've talked about that. There's plenty of things we could list.
But so when you're going hiking, you got your backpack,
you got a bottle of water, you got some snacks,
you got some food, right, your water filter, Hopefully you
have a jacket in case it rains. Hopefully you have
you know, a flashlight in case you get caught out.
Maybe you're carrying some hiking poles. But it's my goal,

(36:19):
it's my I take what I need with me, so
I don't having any excuses that I have to turn back.
Oh it looks like it's going to rain, Well I
got a jacket, No turning back right, Well, I'm notunning
out of water. Well I got a water filter with me,
and I know where the stream is, and so no
excuse to turn back. Right. Get rid of those excuses

(36:39):
by being prepared, both mentally and physically. Right, we talked
about again having our pantries and having our home water
filters and backup power, all those types of things. It's
easier to give up when you don't have those things.
You making excuses for yourself. But if you're prepared, then
what excuses do you have. I don't know how to

(37:00):
do this. We'll get off your button. Figure out how
to do it now before it's too.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
Late before, or figure it out in the moment, right,
because you've learned that had those skills, you've learned how
to figure things out, and then when it comes down,
when the rubber hits the road, you can figure it out.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
That's excellent, Shane. I like that.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
It's easy to turn around and quit when you don't
have the mindset to go forward and.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
The gear to go with you. Right.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Yeah, that's such a good analogy, and then there's so
many times we just quit. We're well, it's it's like
the diamond mind right, the stories of the guys digging
the gold mine or the diamond mind right, and they
just quit inches before, right success, and the guy that
gets success is the one who just didn't quit going forward.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
It that it reminds me that adage we'll do more,
we'll do more for other people than we will for ourselves.
And so to add to what you just said, is
that you know, when when you have the responsibility for
a wife or a husband, or for children and or
for children, you're going to do more. You're going to
have that you're going to say, Okay, I'm going to

(38:12):
do this. Years ago, it was kind of funny. Years ago,
I was hiking Yosemite and there's if anybody's ever done
the hike at Half.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Dome, it's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
It's amazing hike, especially if you take the fault, the
route right by the waterfall where you get sprayed the
whole time. It's a little sketchy, so be careful and
make sure you've got good shoes, but boy, is it
is it worth it. Anyways, we got to the top
of half dome and the view was gorgeous. But we
got there a little bit late. I was I was
in charge of a youth group that went there, young

(38:44):
single adults, actually young adults. We were, you know, eighteen,
we were college kids, and I was it was part
of our church, you know, getting together and doing fun
things together. And so we get to the top of
this thing and I'm like waiting for the last people
to get there, because I'm I'm the guy that put
this thing on. I got to be there to wait
for him. And it gets dark and I didn't plan

(39:08):
for that, and by the grace of God, though it
was a full moon, I'm like, I got the if
I can.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
The moon was bright enough I could see. I was good.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And so what was funny is that as we were
hiking back down, I got the last The last of
the people came and they got the chance to see beforeight,
before the sunset. But then as we were hiking down,
it got dark and we didn't have flashlights, but I
could see because I had some skill set. I have
really good eyes that way, thankfully, And we came across
another group that was lost and they had no idea

(39:43):
how to get down, and they had no idea they
were where they were going. They didn't remember where the
trail was, and they're like, hey, can you guys help us?
I'm like, and they had flashlights, and so I knew
the trail. I'd hiked it a couple of times. I
have a really I mean, I have a good memory too,
So I knew the trail and I knew where to go,
and I hiked us all out. And I feel like

(40:05):
I stepped up because I was the leader. I had
the responsibility to make sure that everybody got down. The
girl I was dating is currently my wife, and she
says that a lot of the reason why she said
yes was because of that trip, where she learned and
saw the kind of.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Leader that I was and what I was willing to do.
So that was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Anyways, So you know, guys, if you step up, sometimes
the girls are looking first.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
In last out, first in last out.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
So we made it.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
We made it all the way down and drove everybody home.
But it was it was one of those things where
I stepped up because I was required.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
I had the challenge.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
And yeah, yeah, well number one, we couldn't stay on
the mountain, you know, because we had to get get down.
But I could have, we could have, just I couldn't
quit because I had to be the leader. And that's
something that I think does goes a long way as well.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
I think it's funny. We've all had experiences hiking mountains.
I've I've been lost on mountains. I've I've navigated some tough,
tough terrain. But no matter what you're facing, it's going
to be hard, so you might as well finish it
no matter what. Finish the mission, Finish the hike, finish

(41:16):
living a thriving life. Don't just live to survive, live
to thrive. It's so easy, especially in today's society, to
back down or to quit, or to give up on yourself.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Now more than ever, we've got to persevere. We've got
to stick through.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
We've got to make it, make it work, and doing
hard things consistently will make it easier for you to
weather any storm.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, you've got to put yourself under stress right now
to figure out how you're going to react. And the
question is, okay, how do you what do you do
when you're alone, and how do you reac act when
it gets hard, whether you're alone or with others, with others,
Like you said, Paris, it's kind of easier to step

(42:06):
up and take charge because for some reason, yeah, we
will do more for others than we'll do for ourselves.
But when true survival kicks in, and this isn't really
about survival, I mean, I guess it could be, right,
because that's kind of the ultimate test of endurance is
what will you do to survive? And maybe it is

(42:27):
just for a split moment, like your friend potentially falling
off the cliff, what will you do in that few seconds,
because it may only be a few seconds, but then
it may be hours or even days that you have
to endure something in order to survive in the most
extreme case, or to reach a goal you're trying to

(42:49):
trying to get to, right, that endurance just to get
through to some goal. You know, it could could be
really anything that's a goal, trying to get to the
end of the year because you need to get something done.
But that that's endurance as well. And we haven't really
talked about spiritual endurance much either. I mean, that's that's
where faith comes in, and that's probably for at least

(43:13):
for some people, maybe one of the harder, harder things
I mean being mentally have mental endurance. That's very difficult too,
because that takes practice. But then so does spiritual endurance,
and it takes knowledge, and it takes experience and wisdom
as well.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
I think one of the things that I want to
share about spiritual endurance is that when you when you
access when you have access to righteousness, access to light,
access to angelic you know, God, the gods source.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
When you have access to that, he will share with you.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Because there's some things in life where I'm going full bore.
I'm like, I'm a man, I'm gonna do this, I'm
gonna endure through this, and God's like, That's not part
of what I want you to do. And so you
have to have the discern some some things we do
need to quit it, you know what I mean. It's
way less often to Scott's point, it's way less often

(44:06):
than but there are some times in life where you're like,
you know what, You're headed down the wrong road, bro,
and you need to turn around and you need to
go back down a different road. And I think spiritually,
if you have access to those discerning capacities, in those
into righteousness, God will reveal to you and say Hey, look,

(44:26):
these are things you should not quit. These are things
you should because there's some things we should all quit
and not to skip and or change lanes too quickly.
But I just love reading stories of survival, like Victor
frankel Man, search for meaning, like guys like that that
have gone through you know, pow war camps. I even

(44:49):
I even some of my greatest heroes are people that older.
They're older people in my church or older people that
I know that survived cancer, or that survived some may
maijure familial event like one of my my my my
aunt married a man who was driving. He was driving

(45:09):
to church and I got he got hit by a
car and his whole family died by him. And to
come away from that as with a positive with a
resilient I mean, just the guy when you when I
talk to him, he's just this kindest, sweetest man, and
he's gone through some of what life what I would

(45:29):
consider life's most challenging things. And so even people who've
gone through horrible abuse in whether it's physical or emotional abuse,
like people who come out of that with a purer
heart or kinder heart.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
It's like you're you're my hero.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Yeah, well, we're about.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Five minutes to the hour. Guys, any last minute thoughts.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
No, I think I said my piece actually got one Ghoscott.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
We are all boy Scouts back before Boy Scouts were destroyed.
But remember the oath on my honor. I will do
my bed to do my duty to God and my country,
to obey the Scout law, and to help help other
people at all times, and to keep myself physically strong,

(46:23):
mentally awake, and morally straight.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Yeah. I've always liked that.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
Those the final three parts to that is the status
of what we need to be working on the most.
Our physicality, our mental acuity, our strength, and then our
moral compass. Right to me, that aligns with faith.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Without that, what are we We're a two legged tripod
that's just going to keep falling over. You want strength,
you need to have three legs in the dirt. You
need you need to be solid, you need a foundation.
That's my final thought.

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