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It seems like everyday I am hearing another gun myth being passed as truth.  It amazes me how someone does not fact check themselves before speaking, but on the other hand it does not surprise me.  In a society that is bent on making everything super safe, we should be arming ourselves with facts.  What drives me even more crazy is how people are creating myths to satisfy their own political gain.  So listen up to the show today and if you ever come across a gun fact that sounds a little strange, do the leg work to figure out if it is true or not.

The show today is going to dispel 11 different gun myths that you might have thought were true.  Hopefully you will reconsider after I give you a brief look at why you were wrong.  This isnt a show to persuade you one way of another about the legal position of guns in society.  This is a show to help you understand them better.

What gun myths should I forget?

* Guns kill people

* You have to have a big gun to stop someone

* You don’t have to aim a shotgun

* When you shoot someone they fly backwards

* Cover vs concealment

* Bullets cause things to explode

* Silencers make gunshots super quiet

* It’s dangerous to keep a bullet chambered

* Bullets will lethally fire in a house fire

* Dry firing a gun is horrible for your gun

* Gun owners don’t care about gun safety

There were a few references that I pulled from in the making of today’s podcast episode.  Listed below are where I pull from.

Bearing Arms

NRA Family

Pew Pew Tactical

Washington Post

Science ABC

Amazon review of the week

Every week I review another item that I use on a daily basis or have used in the past.  These reviews are not paid for but are my honest review and thought about them.

My item reviewed today was the: Stanley 1000A Jump Starter with Compressor

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We all have different reasons why we want to go to the gym.  We are either there to look better for bathing suit season, because the doctor told us we needed it, or because we want to be stronger.  There could be many more reasons but I can make a bold assumption here today.  Everyone that goes to the gym, does the bench press.  I know you do it because I used to do it every time I went.  We all get to this point in our bench press in which we hit a plateau.  

We cant seem to get any higher in our bench for some reason or another.  This is discouraging and eventually can lead to us not going back to the gym.  I mean everyone else seems like they are busting it out on bench, why cant I.  It might be that you are not taking advantage of some practices that can increase your bench press that I am going to give out to you today.

How do we increase our bench press?

Be your own hype man

Lift Explosively

Are you sleeping enough

Have you found your grip

Stay off the smith machine

Form is everything

Try chains

Decrease reps, increase weight

Wright down everything

Add warm ups

Increase time between sets

Bring down slower

Push ups

Dips

Resources used to help you increase your bench press:

Muscle For Life

Strong Lifts

Dont forget about the Amazon review of the week!

This week I am doing a review on Recycled Firefighter Decommissioned Fire Hose Front Wallet.

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I understand that a man has to do projects.  It is in our DNA to have projects to do around the house.  It provides a challenge for us and keeps us young.

How to Organize your Projects:

The motivation that I had to start the farm

Why you should consider the same

How to create a working schedule for accomplish by dates

What are my objectives that I am going to meet for the farm

In 2018

In 2019

Future

My way of keeping my thoughts in order

Where to find Inspiration to add more

Keeping motivation to push forward

The Amazon Review of the Week:

This week I am doing a review on Recycled Firefighter Decommissioned Fire Hose Front Wallet.

You can see my wallets and also see what I thought about them by checking out the Youtube video below!

Thank you for listening. Please find Skilled Gentlemen Podcaston Facebook, iTunes,  Twitter, and  Youtube, and follow or subscribe to keep up with us.  The wheels are always turning over here in the office.  Sign up for the newsletter to get all updates to the podcast with your email address.  All comments, complaints, concerns, or questions please either comment below or email me at [email protected].  Again, thank you for listening and as always, be the gentlemen that your family wants you to be.

Congratulations on getting your first date with this new person in your life.  First dates are the most important dates you will have because it sets yourself apart from everyone they have been out with thus far.  So no pressure, but this is important.  What do you do and where do you go?  What should you do and what should you avoid doing.  All are questions that plague the mind of the gentleman bachelor because we are always trying to get the next date with this special someone.

There are some things that we can do to increase our chances so the date can be a success and somethings that we can do that decrease the chances that the date will end on a good note.  Gentlemen should be a step above the rest because we are decisive and ready for most situations.  Keep in mind that I am not going to be talking about playing games.  Games should not be in a Gentleman’s play book.  Be yourself and make some good decisions for your first date.

How to Pull off the First Date

Mistakes men make on first dates

Why going to the movies are terrible first dates

Explanation of why being chivalrous is always a great idea

Why employing the ideas from Executive Protection for the Family is applicable

Different date activities you can do

Dont forget the Amazon Review of the Week!

This week I featured Tactikey and talked about what I thought of their self defense product.  Go back to Episode –  and skip to the end where I tell you what I thought or just watch the YouTube video that I put together.

The Tactikey – $11.99

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Dogs are mans best friend.  As soon as you bring them into your home, they start to enrich our lives.  They take care of us just as much as we take care of them.  The only big part of take care of them is figuring out the best way to make sure they are happy.  That is where today’s podcast episode steps in.  Dogs aren’t hard to care for.  Mainly just feed them, bathe them, walk them, and play with them and they will love you forever.  However, it is the details in the middle that no one gets you ready for.  The times where your dog gets sick or hurt and your family is standing there looking at you for answers.

As a Gentleman, you should be prepared to care for your dogs if something was to happen to them.  You have to be knowledgeable enough to be a force for good when they get hurt. This is just a taste of what could be discussed in dog care as a complete subject. I will eventually go into further details about how to train them and how they can be homestead dogs but for now we will stick with the basics.

Dogs- A Guide to Their Care

Common health emergencies that dogs have

Basic first aid kit

Basic first aid practices

Bleeding

Broken leg

After a fight

How to keep them in tip top shape

Alternative dog food that will keep their coats looking great

In the making of the podcast episode today, I used resources that were not my own.  Below are the links to my resources:

* AZ Vets

Borax Fleas EZ

* Fleas B Gone

* Pet Education

Review of the Week

The Tactikey – $11.99

Below is a link to the YouTube video that I made to help give visual to the tactikey.

To see more pictures of the Tactikey, just visit their Instagram page!

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Rock bottom is a hard place to be.  I do not see anything associated with it to be any kind of joke what so ever.  We all need a bit of encouragement at some points in time in our own lives and this is a good time for some.  Rather or not you are going through tough times right now, rock bottom could be right around the corner for you.  You are not immune from these hard times.  Today I am delivering a podcast episode that is meant to be an encouragement to you.  Rock bottom doesn’t have to be debilitating.  You can recover from something like this.  The fact is that your current position in life does not have to be your reality.  It only takes effort on your part to bring yourself out of a horrible position that you are in.

NOTE: This should not be the only source of help if you are truly having a hard time.  Please consult professional help if you are having a hard time with depression.

How do you survive rock bottom?

In the podcast episode today I am going to cover:

* The levels that i went through during my rock bottom

* Why rock bottom is not the end of the world

* Ways to put a positive spin on your brokenness

* How to end the tail spin

Resources used in the making of the podcast episode can be found below:

Daily Greatness

Entrepreneur

Pick the Brain

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We hear a lot in the media about “that crazy survivalist” or “those paranoid preppers” ruining things for everyone and how they are some of the worst people.  Well if you can imagine, we are not that way.  However there is a since of fear that people have in their heads that we are crazy, eccentric, hermits that live in a bunker living on nothing but MREs.  That is not true for the majority of us, however there is a fear involved when people start talking about prepping.  When I get into a conversation with others about survivalism they always to their favorite excuses on why they are not into survivalism which includes prepping.

This is what I am discussing today.  Why are people so afraid of survivalism and then at the end I speak about quick and easy ways to get started with prepping.  To me survivalism is a word that I associate with responsibility.  Responsibility for my family and responsibility for myself.  Stop being so afraid and MAN UP!

Why are people so afraid of Survivalism?

* My thoughts about survivalism

* Why I feel like there is a responsibility in prepping

* The excuses I hear all the time in opposition toward survivalism

* it takes too much money to prepare

* too much time involved in prepping

* it it is too much to think about in prepping

* Someone else will help me if something goes wrong

* Survivalists are paranoid

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The weekend is approaching really quick.  You need to start figuring out what you are going to do.  I would suggest getting more prepared as a weekend project.

 

Resources

Preparedness Mama

Willow Haven Outdoor

hub pages

Prep for SHTF

Links

* http://amzn.to/2C08Q7M  Rucksack

* http://amzn.to/2EMGIIg water bottle

* http://amzn.to/2BZJ17S purification tab

* http://amzn.to/2nOkzRN outward hound backpack

Rather you know it or not, you are a leader.  You are a leader in your home, workplace, and in your social circle.  There are people that are looking at you and trying to figure out what makes you such a great person.  People are looking at you and trying to analyze how they can be just like you.  The concern that has to be discussed is are you being a great leader or are you being a crappy leader?  Are you making decisions based on convenience or because they are the right thing to do.

Can you say that the people that you influence are going to be great themselves or are they going to be people that you loathe?  This is the topic of the day.  How to be an leader.  There are many schools of thought in which great leaders are picked apart and their decision scrutinized to make a list of attributes.  The best list that can be made is the list that you come up with.  Sit down one day and make your own list of attributes that make the best leaders.

WHAT CAN BE SAID ABOUT BEING A LEADER?

Great leaders of history and their bio

What makes great leaders

What makes terrible leaders

How can we teach or children to be leaders

How can we show our children to be leaders

Resources used in today’s show:

Listovative

Entrepreneur

Small Business Association

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You are your own man.  This is evident by how you live your life on a daily basis.  But have have you been asleep behind the wheel?  If you were to go back in time to when you were 18 years old, would he be disappointed in how his life turns out?  We do not know everything that we are going to be at that early age, however we do have a power to change into what we want to be now.  When I was 18 years old, I wanted to be an MP (military police officer) for the military.  That changed so much between then and now.  I know better because I am older and wiser.  18 year old me had no clue how awesome my life would be today.

I am going to help you analyze rather or not you peaked in high school.  This is a real issue that needs to be discussed.  If you do not like what you hear, chances are, at age 18 you peaked.  This doesn’t have to be the end of your story, it just has to be the day it changes for good.

Would 18 year old you be disappointed?

These topics will be discussed in today’s episode on Skilled Gentlemen Podcast

* Address your future 18 year old self

* What do you want for your future

* What is your passions right now

* Writing down what you want to accomplish after high school

* Making a plan to execute this

* Addressing your past 18 year old self

* Where did you want to be

* Was this important to you

* Should you really have been focused on this or was your path great instead

* Starting from right now being a better self

* What advantages you have over the younger gentleman

Some information that was used in the making of the show were not exclusively mine.  I like to give credit where it is deserved:

Thought Catalog

Thank you for listening. Please find Skilled Gentlemen Podcaston Facebook, iTunes,  Twitter, and  Youtube, and follow or subscribe to keep up with us.  The wheels are always turning over here in the office.  Sign up for the newsletter to get all updates to the podcast with your email address.  All comments, complaints, concerns, or questions please either comment below or email me at [email protected].  Again, thank you for listening and as always, be the gentlemen that your family wants you to be.