 We're out here in the middle of the woods, literally. It's very primal. This is like where men should be, you know, exploring nature and bonding with one another and doing things that we can go back home and serve and protect and lead our families with. I think it's a pretty good idea for every man, particularly a patriarch, a father, to know how to protect his family. And so that's what we are here doing. It's done a lot. Like, I've done a little bit of training here and there over the years, different firearms instructors, basic stuff, but this has been next level. It's not the type of training that most guys, you know, civilian men would ever have. So keep that breath going the whole time, okay? All right, so you guys come up here, you can move for me. Not here, it's my second time here. I was here a few weeks ago as well. This is the, it's remembered by Richard Graham, ex-Navy Seal. The setting is a swamp land in the middle of fucking Florida and it's like ultra Florida. It's like extreme Florida out here. It's awesome. So I went into the SEAL teams in 2000. I served for about six years with SEAL Team 10 and I was a sniper in the teams. And since I've been out, now I work with law enforcement and we do private and private training and law enforcement training. We do it across the country and now we're trying to bring more of it here to our facility in Florida. So from here, I'm looking at that big circle. I'm stabbing in, seat the buttstock. I'm looking over the sights at the big circle. And if you think of like you're stabbing in, pulling the spear out, right, it'll go from these sloppier movements and go shh, bring it in tighter. It's interesting doing a movement drill where you're doing just gun and barrel control. And knowing that normally in my previous experience, it's always been military related and because we didn't work in teams, we weren't necessarily focused in on that. Now my team is going to be my family. How do I deal with small kids and having kind of that centric focus kind of utilized for some of that conversation as opposed to a military conversation was actually very insightful for me. Right now, we're learning about violence because family men need to understand violence and how to properly handle it. How to properly teach that and pass it along to their families. I think it's important for every man to be able to defend himself and it's very important, extremely important for every father to be able to defend himself, his wife, his kids, as anybody else in the house when there's a home invasion. Why are we here? We're one of us in sharing that and the common theme is that each of us is trying to get better at what it is we're doing. So, you know, Elliot Hulse, you know, he's the big fitness guy. The guy, he's huge. Everybody knows him. And he's here learning. You know, we're all here humbling ourselves, you know, checking the ego and understanding that we're not the best of our craft, you know, so let's go find the experts. Let's have them teach us at their craft how to get better. Nice. All right. Good. All right. Let's switch. And you know, it's not about being the smartest guy in the room, the smartest guy, you know, on the, on the field. It's about knowing who those smart guys are, going to them and listening. Yeah, I'm a student today. You know, all of us were students today, learning from the pros. Not so as important with this type of gun as it is doing long distance shooting or pistol shooting. Okay. I became a father at a pretty young age. I've got four children. My oldest is 14 and I'm going to be turning 40 soon. So we started when we were 23. I busted my ass, building my business and trying to provide for my family. And I've done a pretty good job so far. Now I'm at the stage where my daughters are getting a bit older and protection starts to creep into my mind. So you know, the, the providing and the provisions were cared for, taken care of. But at this point now I'm, you know, stacking that with the ability to protect. You're on your mountain, you're right for it. You know, I'm a married man. I've got a nine year old son and a six year old daughter, you know, and that's what I want to talk about. And that's, I'm not ashamed of that. I love my family. I love, you know, what it is I'm doing. I love leading them every day, you know, and I have different challenges. There are playboys out there. There are the MIG towers. There are guys doing their own thing. And I was nothing against those guys, but that's not my path. And there are a lot of other men who've chosen the family path. So let's talk about it. You know, it's not something to be like, oh, you know, you're, you're less of a man because you're, you're, you have children. Are you kidding me? Every single day you've got a responsibility. And that's how I take it. Every single day I need to improve. Every day I need to, you know, continue to set the standard because those little eyes are always watching me. I think there's something terribly masculine about a man taking on a man's mantle and responsibility of providing his family through safeguarding and protection and through dynamic aggressive action. And there's nothing more dynamic and aggressive than lethal force. And that's what we're practicing today. Men, that's what we do. We harness violence. And when you're sitting there and you're shooting a gun, you're like, this is raw power. Let's go ahead and lock and load. No, I just feel like my T levels went up just looking at the gun rack. I mean, you're just like, you know, this, this isn't Instagram. This, this shit's real and you're going to do it. And, you know, look at, look at this hardware. You've been shooting. I've been hanging out with military and I got attacked by a dog. Stand up. Fight the dog as much as you want. Knee him, punch him, use the trees, the logs, try and pin him in. Do anything you want to with him. Okay, there you go. He is totally going to rip you up. Oh, he's already won. This is his son, actually. This is Ratchet's son. So and, and actually fight. If you just stand there, you get way more chewed up than if you fight with him. The other thing is, watch your face. Working together. They completely rely on one another and they trust each other. That's what we're doing with the dog. So we put the dog in the handler through really high stress together. And through that, the bond develops. They learn to trust you, you learn to trust them, communication, all of that. And then they go. Yeah, it's been an awesome day. I'm really impressed. So the 21 convention Patriarch Edition, our first ever fatherhood focused event. Four fathers, grandfathers and aspiring fathers like myself. You know, I'm 30 here, not a father yet. But I know of that's coming up May 3rd to the 5th in Orlando, Florida. Target yellow. Target yellow. Well, the patriarchy event is an event for fathers by fathers. And it's like the cop out answer because you're basically saying, all right, cool. Dad's just talking to dads. No, it's family men are talking to other men who have families. We're going to be talking about woke fatherhood, you know, so red pill fatherhood, which I think is pretty cool because a lot of the red pill stuff is mostly directed to single men and guys that are trying to understand the sexual market. This is a 21 convention, which is normally very, very large breadth of material. You can expect the best content in the world, the best speakers in the world on those subjects, on fatherhood, on marriage, on masculinity, on not getting divorce, on parenting, and all the issues surrounding those things up to and including fitness, health and self-defense. The energy that's instilled, you know, the information that's instilled, these dads are going to bring that to their family. They're going to pass it on to their children. They're going to pass it on to their wives, you know, whatever it is, their situation, they're going to go home charged and motivated. Significantly, you're noticeably more confident by building an animal fire today. You guys, you didn't just dedicate hours of your lives to us, but you're not going to get back like you gave that to us, you know, you guys have a bunch of strangers rolling up saying we want to do a convention for fathers and patriarchy. Yeah, let's shoot some guns. Yeah, come on in.