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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler tackles the crisis of male isolation, emphasizing the need for strong male connections. He introduces the "BBQ Test," a framework to evaluate potential brothers-in-arms based on five key questions: enjoyment, resilience, depth, principle, and capability.
Michler challenges men to reject cultural lies about lone masculinity, urging them to build networks of virtuous men. He shares personal insights and offers the Iron Council as a resource for forging these bonds. Join Ryan to discover how to cultivate meaningful, growth-oriented relationships.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - The Struggle of Male Connection
02:39 - Importance of Frameworks and Networks
05:06 - The BBQ Test Concept
07:32 - Question 1 & 2: Enjoyment and Resilience
10:01 - Question 3: Deep Thinker or Stooge
12:21 - Question 4: Principled Man
16:44 - Question 5: Capability
18:43 - Evaluating Your Circle
21:08 - The Iron Council Solution
23:30 - Call to Action
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0:00.0 | Are you addicted to pixelated versions of the female body? |
0:05.0 | Are you engaged in drug abuse or alcohol abuse or any sort of sedation method? |
0:12.0 | And if you are, then you're doing that in secret, you're not exhibiting character. |
0:17.0 | But I think acknowledging that we have deficiencies in our character, |
0:20.0 | and I think acknowledging that we want to find good men in our corner who have fewer character flaws. |
0:26.7 | And for the character flaws, they do, they're willing to acknowledge them and address them and overcome them. |
0:34.3 | Gentlemen, men are struggling. |
0:36.5 | And specifically, they're struggling in the ability to connect, |
0:40.3 | relate with, and band with other men. There's this pervasive ideology in modern culture that says |
0:49.6 | that men are meant to go at it alone, that you can figure it all out, that you should know what you |
0:54.8 | ought to be doing, that if you need help or need insight or need direction, or you need to learn, |
1:00.4 | quote unquote, what it means to be a man, then you're less of a man. Now look, I'll be the first |
1:05.8 | to tell you that there are inherent virtues or principles or codes of conduct or even behavior |
1:12.4 | biologically innate within us as males. |
1:18.1 | But if you have bought into the idea that you're supposed to know how to harness all of that, |
1:24.3 | how to create productive outcomes for yourself and other people, just |
1:29.0 | because you're biologically hardwired to do that. You're buying into a lie. The reality is, |
1:37.7 | is you have all of the tools necessary, but unless you learn how to wield those tools, |
1:42.7 | you really won't be able to wield them effectively |
1:46.2 | and correctly. If somebody has never been introduced to a hammer, and I give them a hammer, |
1:52.4 | and I tell them, this is a tool, use it correctly, but they've never been exposed to a hammer before, |
1:58.5 | not only are they not going to use it correctly, they're not even going to know what it is. And that's why I really reject and am repulsed by the |
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