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We know first-hand the struggle of trying not to take the job home with us and let it affect our families. We know the toll the law enforcement career can have on marriages and relationships. And we also have been frustrated by the lack of authentic leadership in our agencies. This Law Enforcement Podcast was designed to help you overcome the mental toll of the law enforcement career and the negative effects it can have on your personal life.

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NEWS THAT MATTERS TO YOU:

-       STORY ONE: CNN Life. These 8 habits could add up to 24 years to your life, study says.  | Sandy LaMotte CNN.com. July 24, 2023. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/health/habits-live-longer-wellness/index.html

-       STORY TWO: Blaze Media. Horowitz: The blackout of the Fargo Terrorist attack obscures a broader concern in small-town America. July 25, 2023. By Daniel Horowitz. https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-blackout-of-the-fargo-terrorist-attack-obscures-a-broader-concern-in-small-town-america  

-       STORY Three: Try That in a Small Town by Jason Aldean. 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

-       Episode 076 of the OTBL Podcast/ Morning Roll Call. You, Not the Police, are the First Responder. https://www.ontheblueline.com/podcast-show-notes/2022/08/22/podcast-morning-roll-call-you-are-first-responder

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00:00:09:16 - 00:00:32:02

Wayne Mulder

Welcome, my friend, to the I'm the Blue Line podcast for Law enforcement with Wayne Mulder I am your host, Wayne Mulder. That's right. And this is the podcast where we help law enforcement overcome the mental health toll of the profession to become better leaders and protectors on and off the job. And this week's 100th episode of The Morning Roll Call, CNN actually provides some useful information.

00:00:32:09 - 00:00:43:18

Wayne Mulder

A terror attack on U.S. soil receives little to no publicity. And Jason Aldean is correct. Go ahead and try that in a small town. Morning Roll Call starts now.

00:00:43:20 - 00:01:00:03

Because, you know, it's only going to get scary. Seasons know when to change that. They want it to last for ever. Oh, you know, things have to stay the same.

00:01:00:05 - 00:01:22:15

Wayne Mulder

And that's right. Things are going to get better. So, first of all, let's start with the easy one. Follow us on Twitter or X or whatever you want to call the program. Make sure you follow us there. It's on the blue line in the number one app and the blue line in the number one and most active on there for all the social media and then the other ones, you're just really getting that regurgitated content.

00:01:22:15 - 00:01:40:28

Wayne Mulder

So if you want it straight from the source, I encourage you to go there and follow us. So last week on the interview room, if you missed it, I sat down with Jared Hardy. It's a pleasure to have gotten to know him. Hopefully we can do more things in the future. I love what he's doing and I just I just love how he goes about it.

00:01:40:28 - 00:02:03:12

Wayne Mulder

In the things he says. There is so much richness in that episode. So if you haven't watched last week's The Interview Room, it's available everywhere or wherever you're watching this one, whether it's on YouTube or rumble in video or you're listening to it on Spotify, iTunes, whatever, it would be the episode right before this. And then coming this Thursday, every Thursday at zero 500 is when the interview room comes out.

00:02:03:15 - 00:02:23:12

Wayne Mulder

I'm going to be sitting down with the national vice president of the FOP, Joe Malda, and you are not going to want to miss that episode. Lots of powerful things. And I tell you, he is such a great speaker where he had so succinct and he takes such important topics and important things for law enforcement and pushes that out to everybody.

00:02:23:12 - 00:02:42:05

Wayne Mulder

So I know you're going to enjoy that episode as well. Welcome back. I know it's my fault. I know. I know. I'm the one that's been gone. I get that part. But welcome back. Thank you for listening. If you're still been following all this time, in spite of me disappearing for months at a time, all I can say is thank you.

00:02:42:05 - 00:03:01:28

Wayne Mulder

Right. So if you are curious where I've been over the last six months, there has been some episodes that came out during that time period, but very few. And primarily it was because I was in command school. So thankfully that is wrapped up and now I am 100% back into this is my quote unquote second job, if you would.

00:03:02:01 - 00:03:23:08

Wayne Mulder

Anyone who has tried to do anything like this knows the amount of time, especially the two episodes a week, what this takes up. And as I'm trying to expand it, eventually I'm hoping to hire somebody so that these problems don't happen. But we're not there yet. So hopefully, hopefully we will get there soon. But it's all due to you continuing to listen and continuing to follow the program.

00:03:23:08 - 00:03:43:22

Wayne Mulder

So thank you so much. So let's get to our three stories for this week. The first one, as I teased at the beginning, is CNN actually had some useful information. Now, of course, it's about health and fitness and longevity. So before I lose you and before you flip this off and decide you want to listen to something else, I have a reason for bringing this story up.

00:03:43:23 - 00:04:02:28

Wayne Mulder

So the title of the article that CNN, it's on their Life dot com section, they talked about how these eight habits, the eight habits I'm going to go through with you here in a minute, which is nothing you haven't heard before. In fact, you've probably heard it everywhere before. But these eight habits could add up to 24 years to your life.

00:04:03:00 - 00:04:20:01

Wayne Mulder

So I saw this title and I was like, I need to talk about that and why. If you've been watching us online or following us on our Web site or anything like that, you've seen that our overarching goal. I spent the first part of this year sitting down with a marketing company, and we're really kind of going over like, what is the mission?

00:04:20:01 - 00:04:39:12

Wayne Mulder

You know, if I was going to boil it all down, what is on the blue lying all about? And we came up with, we want to create a world where the law enforcement life expectancies are equal with the general population. That may not mean much to you if you're not a cop or you don't really understand statistics. Or maybe you're new to the profession and you have been heard before.

00:04:39:15 - 00:05:01:04

Wayne Mulder

But in general, law enforcement, life expectancies are 10 to 15 years, depending on the study, some as many as 20 years less than the general population. So when I read an article that says these eight habits statistically could add up to 24 years to your life, then it's right on mission with what we talk about here. So I just want to quickly go over this.

00:05:01:06 - 00:05:19:01

Wayne Mulder

One of the things the study found is that they saw the positive implications, really, no matter what year or age that you started. So I know some of you guys, you've been in this profession ten years, 15 years. You're nearing the 20th year, 25th year where you're thinking about retirement and you're like, I'm too old to care about any of that.

00:05:19:01 - 00:05:41:15

Wayne Mulder

And if I started today, what difference does it really make? Well, starting at age 50 instead got them 21 years on average in the study, starting at age 68 years. So the point is, isn't like we hear over and over again where we're talking finances or health or fitness or all these different topics. The time to start was yesterday.

00:05:41:17 - 00:06:04:23

Wayne Mulder

The second best time is today. So they do this study. The other thing was, is that even people with chronic diseases, it still made a huge difference on outcomes. This study came out of nutrition 2023 and was part of the annual American Society for Nutrition. Yes, that's fair. I had no idea we had an American society for nutrition, but it doesn't surprise me.

00:06:04:25 - 00:06:26:10

Wayne Mulder

And they looked at the lifestyle behaviors of nearly 720,000 military veterans between the ages of 40 and 99. And they were all part of the Million Veteran program, a longitudinal study designed to investigate health and wellness of U.S. veterans. And as they went through it, these habits could prolong life. Now, obviously, the only one really in control. This is God.

00:06:26:12 - 00:06:51:15

Wayne Mulder

However, these are things that we can do that help out statistically. So what was really interesting is after adjusting for age, body, mass index, sex, race, ethnicity, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, they found an 87% relative reduction in all cause mortality for those who adopted all eight lifestyle factors. So in other words, there was a synergistic, synergistic, synergistic.

00:06:51:18 - 00:07:12:20

Wayne Mulder

We're going to say there was synergy between these eight things. And if you did one of them, if two, three, four or five and you did all eight of them, you actually saw more positive benefit. So what are they? And the again, it's you could probably if I just said write down the eight things that you think would per the studies extend your life, you would write down these eight things.

00:07:12:25 - 00:07:28:11

Wayne Mulder

Maybe they wouldn't be in the same order, maybe you wouldn't be able back it up with the study. But these would be the things we all intuitively know. However, I think it's good to hear it again. So the first on the list was exercise. However, it didn't have to be a lot of and it was number one for a reason.

00:07:28:11 - 00:07:56:03

Wayne Mulder

So there was a 46% decrease in the risk of death from those with zero exercise. And they did 7.5 metabolic equivalent hours of exercise a week. Just to give you a baseline, if you can walk up a flight of stairs without losing your breath, that's 4 minutes of the 7.5. So the ones that had 7.5 metabolic equivalent hours exercise a week were the ones who saw the positive impact on living longer.

00:07:56:05 - 00:08:22:04

Wayne Mulder

According to these studies, obviously doing more vigorous activities. Any exercise was beneficial, but more vigorous activities that could cause you to lose your breath are best. The number two, which isn't surprising if you work in law enforcement, is not becoming addicted to opioids. Because if you work in law enforcement, you see the crisis that's out there. You're going to these death investigation calls, you're going to these overdoses, you're going to these tragedies.

00:08:22:06 - 00:08:48:01

Wayne Mulder

Family member after family member after family member. And a lot of times you're going the same ones, right? Where So it's an overdose. Narcan overdose. Narcan overdose. A Narcan overdose. Didn't get the Narcan there. Quick enough death investigation. You've seen it play out time after time after time, especially if you're in a larger population area. So the number two one was not surprisingly, if you could stay away from addiction to opioids, you would live longer.

00:08:48:03 - 00:09:16:14

Wayne Mulder

Same was true with tobacco staying away from it, never using tobacco. Reduce the risk of death by 29%. Managing stress. I know, I know. You're like, Hey, I work in law enforcement. I can't do that. Interestingly enough, that's not necessarily true because I there are other studies it doesn't mention in this one, but other programs and others that I've talked to, it isn't so much eliminating stress.

00:09:16:15 - 00:09:34:01

Wayne Mulder

It isn't staying away from stress. Even the language here is managing stress. And that's something we'll get more into in a future episode. Or if you go back and listen to some of the experts that I brought into the interview room, you're going to hear some of these ways that we can manage stress, but it's not about eliminating it.

00:09:34:04 - 00:09:59:02

Wayne Mulder

There is a certain amount of stress that's part of our lives. The question is, the trick is, is can you decompress? Can you step away from that in the moment? Can you breathe? Can you? You know, all these things that we talk about when we talk about stress mitigation. Number five was eating a plant based diet. Before you throw anything at me, before you're like, I'm a steak guy because I want to be clear.

00:09:59:04 - 00:10:19:29

Wayne Mulder

I'm a steak guy. So we'd have a problem here. That's not what they're saying. They're not saying you have to be vegetarian or vegan, which is kind of amazing for CNN, actually. What they are saying is that something along the lines of the Mediterranean diet where you're offsetting it with the whole grains and leafy green vegetables statistically made a huge difference.

00:10:20:02 - 00:10:45:27

Wayne Mulder

Number six was avoiding binge drinking. Number seven was getting good night's sleep, which again, should not be surprising. And I know if you're like me and you're currently working nights, you don't get good morning sleep either. It's unfortunately, it just comes with it. So what can we do? Right. Well, one of the things that I've learned that has been very beneficial for me, especially if you're newer, I know some of the listeners are like right out of the academy.

00:10:45:27 - 00:11:04:14

Wayne Mulder

And listen, this podcast, which thank you so much, But if that's you, you know, what I would encourage you to do is try to find a way to be consistent. You know, we can't do everything maybe to the ultimate, to the best scenario that we want because we're in a career that doesn't allow for that yet perfectly well.

00:11:04:16 - 00:11:35:12

Wayne Mulder

But in the meantime, we can't do that right now. So what can we do? What we can control, what we can control? And one of those things we control is when we sleep. So I've worked nights the majority of my career when I'm not in an investigative unit. And the way that I've managed that is I've always been in the habit of trying to go to bed as soon as I get home and I try to add the way our night shifts are arranged, we have the possibility of picking one that could get you home before the sun comes up, which is always a goal for me, unless, Lord forbid, a large scene or something's

00:11:35:12 - 00:12:03:24

Wayne Mulder

taking place. And obviously that doesn't happen. But how that doesn't happen that often, thank God. But yeah, the goal is to get home before the sun comes up and then to get to bed consistently every day and then try to get that consistent seven, eight, 9 hours of sleep. I don't remember the last time nothing happened, but obviously when you read these studies that getting a good night's sleep was defined as at least 7 to 9 hours a night with no insomnia and this made an 18% difference.

00:12:03:24 - 00:12:29:21

Wayne Mulder

It reduced the early death by 8%. So I think it's very important and I think it's something we all struggle with. In fact, recently I heard we had a professional come and talk, and the entire thing that he described and discussed in when we talk about mental health and he was talking to a read off room was all about sleep because it the importance of it cannot be understated.

00:12:29:22 - 00:13:06:23

Wayne Mulder

So again, I encourage you to get what you can get. And we all have a tendency kind of laugh this off, but we need to do the best that we can do because obviously our goal is I want you to live as long as possible after you retire so that all this work and stress and what you've put up with and the backlash of the community and the, you know, the defund the police movement and all this insanity, you have put you've prioritized the other people that you decided that you wanted to have a life of service, a career of service to others.

00:13:06:26 - 00:13:33:17

Wayne Mulder

And what I want is to you to get the full benefit and what is due to you for that, which is a long and healthy retirement. And then the last one, which we have full control over, is being surrounded by positive social relationships. It helps with longevity by 5%. So it wasn't one of the largest percentages, but obviously loneliness, isolation and one of the problems that you see with law enforcement is when they retire.

00:13:33:17 - 00:13:55:04

Wayne Mulder

If the job has been your whole life, your whole career, and you go through, you know, sadly, statistically, you have divorces, you know, the kids are out of the house and maybe you weren't around because you were at work and those relationships were never forged. And then here you are, you're retired and you're alone. Well, that's not good either.

00:13:55:04 - 00:14:15:14

Wayne Mulder

And that isn't the positive social relationships that we need in our lives, whether that's marriage, whether that's friendships, whatever that is for you. But we've got to have these positive social relationships. So I thought that was a good article, especially for CNN. But I wanted to bring that to you because it's right in line with the mission of On the Blue Line.

00:14:15:19 - 00:14:42:03

Wayne Mulder

All right. So the second story that I want to bring you is the blackout. Reading you the title, the blackout of the Fargo terrorist attack obscures a broader concern in small town America. So I remember hearing about this officer getting shot. That's all I heard about it. And I didn't see anything in national news to hear anything. And then all of a sudden, a month later, Daniel Horowitz and he's one of the contributors over at The Blaze, and I highly, highly, highly recommend his stuff.

00:14:42:06 - 00:15:03:10

Wayne Mulder

Very intuitive, very knowledgeable, very, very much a deep thinker and a good writer. And he brings up the point that, hey, we had a Islamic terrorist attack in Fargo, North Dakota, and nobody said anything to anyone. And this was a couple of weeks ago here in July, and nobody brought this forward. So let me read you what he says here.

00:15:03:10 - 00:15:30:27

Wayne Mulder

So believe it or not, there was an Islamic terror attack in Fargo, North Dakota, earlier this month. One one that local law enforcement believes could have resulted in countless casualties instead of the one police officer killed. Like so many people from Syria last decade, Mohammed, back at Barakat, Barack, I am sure I'm mispronouncing his name, but Muhammad was brought to the U.S. as an asylee and became a citizen in 2019.

00:15:30:29 - 00:16:04:05

Wayne Mulder

He returned the favor. On July 14th. He allegedly randomly fired 60 rounds from his car near the site of a car crash on 25th Street, likely waiting for police and first responders to come to the scene. So that's why I want to talk about this. So not only do we have this apparent terror attack that really didn't get any kind of national coverage, it also involved the guy waiting for the first responders to show up, to attack them when they did in the unprovoked attack, he killed Officer Jake whelan and seriously injured officers tyler hawes and injured.

00:16:04:05 - 00:16:26:18

Wayne Mulder

Note that is that is a notice as well as a female civilian. He goes on. Daniel says there has been a near complete blackout of information about this attack, especially in the national media. Took over a week for any information about his immigration history to come to light as Americans. Why Americans watched the streets of France burned during those days.

00:16:26:21 - 00:16:47:16

Wayne Mulder

Also a result of suicidal generosity and immigration policy, which is kind of the point of the article that he's writing. And he goes on, This was not your run of the Mill Street thug or mentally ill mass shooter, because that's what you would think, especially based on the lack of information that came out about it, given the lack of a criminal record or manifesto left behind.

00:16:47:16 - 00:17:15:23

Wayne Mulder

This has the hallmarks of a targeted jihad. Police found 1800 live rounds, three rifles, four handguns, all of which were loaded. He also had a grenade, gas canisters and explosives in his car. And the car was filled with large amounts of TANNER. Right. A highly dangerous explosive compound made from ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. As many of you guys are aware, they further speculated that he was looking for significant crowd events in the area.

00:17:15:23 - 00:17:44:21

Wayne Mulder

And this was confirmed when the FBI found a computer in his apartment that contained a search history where he was looking up mass casualty events and he was searching. I'm I'm honestly he located an article that appeared about thousands enjoyed the first day at downtown Fargo Street fair. He states this is Daniel Horowitz writing, Unfortunately, the FBI still believes there is no motive and of course, is totally perplexed by this attack.

00:17:44:23 - 00:18:19:12

Wayne Mulder

Don't expect the bureau to ever find a motive and don't expect this attack ever to find its way into public policy debates. So he goes on where he's talking about the immigration issues. We have unvetted immigrants coming over. Quite frankly, no matter where you stand on the issue, we have to be a melting pot. And we're not we aren't forcing we aren't requiring that people who want to be citizens of the U.S. to be part of the culture, part of the broader conversation of what it means to be an American, it's just not happening.

00:18:19:12 - 00:18:53:10

Wayne Mulder

And here these kind of tragic events take place. However, and here's how he concludes the article. So, yes, there's a reason the FBI and the media don't want us focusing on the case of Mohammed Bearcat in North Dakota. As we look ominously towards the Europe and it struggles with mass, middle, Middle East, immigration or migration, officials don't want us to know we have a sleeper problem here in the U.S. And in case you thought you could move from the coast to the hinterlands to escape it, you would be wrong.

00:18:53:12 - 00:19:19:18

Wayne Mulder

So I think he brings up a few valid points. The reason I wanted to discuss this article is because I think it's important for law enforcement to keep in mind the dangers when responding to these kind of events. Right. It seems like this guy was intentionally trying to draw in law enforcement and then attack law enforcement. So in this case, it was obviously a terror attack that should have gotten some sort of national publicity.

00:19:19:18 - 00:19:36:20

Wayne Mulder

Right. This is a conversation you shouldn't be hearing on my small podcast, even though I like to be cutting edge or on the Blaze, It should be getting national coverage on large networks. But we all know that that's not the world we live in. They are more concerned with some of the foolishness they espouse and being a propaganda arm of certain political parties.

00:19:36:20 - 00:19:59:04

Wayne Mulder

So I say this to say, if you're in law enforcement, be careful out there and be aware of these type of things happening here in the U.S. We really are entering dangerous times. And to that point, my third and final story for today's Morning Roll Call is the infamous song by Jason Aldean. Try that in a small town.

00:19:59:06 - 00:20:24:21

Wayne Mulder

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last two weeks, you are probably very familiar that the song came out. If you're a listener of the show, you are probably the kind of person that has downloaded and supported that song, forcing it to number one in the charts anyway, which is great news. I'm bringing this up because the principle of this song in the lyrics of the song are right in line with episode 76 of the On the Blue Line podcast.

00:20:24:21 - 00:20:44:04

Wayne Mulder

So there's a link in the show notes below. I encourage you to go back and listen to it, but in the name of that one was you, not the police are the first responder, and I make the argument that given the call times it takes for law enforcement to get out to you in times of tragedy, you're the first responder law enforcement.

00:20:44:04 - 00:21:05:12

Wayne Mulder

Second responder fire rescue is a distant third plus or minus. So I had two guys that it's just comes with the territory. But the reality is, is that you are the first responder if you are involved in something. So let me if you haven't heard the song, both of you who haven't heard the song, my mom listens to the show.

00:21:05:12 - 00:21:28:00

Wayne Mulder

So it is possible that she hasn't heard the song. Let me just read you the first verse and chorus lyric So sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk carjack an old lady at a red light, pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store. You all think it's cool? Well, act like a fool if you like. Cuss out a cop, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up.

00:21:28:02 - 00:21:46:04

Wayne Mulder

Yeah. You think you're tough? Well, try that in the small town. See how far you make it down the road Round here we take care of our own. You cross that line, it won't take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't try that in a small town. And he goes on with talking about getting the gun.

00:21:46:04 - 00:22:02:15

Wayne Mulder

This granddaddy gave him. You might get away with these shenanigans in the city, but good luck in a small town and then talks about good old boys being raised up right and so forth. And I think so there was a huge backlash to the song, just in case you happen to be the one listener who isn't aware of what happened with it.

00:22:02:17 - 00:22:25:15

Wayne Mulder

There's a huge backlash to the song, right in primarily because of the video. So CMT had put out this country music video, and if you haven't seen the video, it really is a pretty good one, even though they've made some changes to it, which pisses me off. That's a different conversation. And essentially it's all actual footage of the mostly peaceful riots from 20 from the summer of 2020.

00:22:25:15 - 00:22:50:21

Wayne Mulder

So, you know, when they were burning cities and, you know, the people really weren't ever held responsible for their actions. I digress. So in the mostly peaceful protest riots of 2020, there's all this footage. While this footage is part of the backdrop of the song where he's talking about spitting on cops, you know, punching, breaking things, breaking buildings, etc., and then it breaks to him in front of a courthouse.

00:22:50:21 - 00:23:15:00

Wayne Mulder

Well, part of the outcry, if you would, from uninformed people was the fact that I guess this courthouse allegedly there had been a lynching there back in the 1800s or something. Well, he had no nothing to do with what courthouse they recorded this video in front of. In fact, it came out later that it's one that has been in multiple songs because it's right outside of Nashville and it just makes sense for where they record these.

00:23:15:06 - 00:23:45:28

Wayne Mulder

And the artists rarely knows any of this on location stuff. I'm sure he was probably involved in the, Hey, this is the premise of what we're going to do here, but he didn't have anything to do. If it's my understanding from actually the location where they decided to shoot this. But of course it comes out that, you know, this is anti Black Lives Matter that says I did pro lynching, which is the one of the more bizarre things calling Jason not being a racist, which is completely unfounded and ridiculous just simply because they don't agree with him.

00:23:46:00 - 00:24:10:24

Wayne Mulder

The bad thing is, is there's nothing in this song that's wrong. He makes the distinction to try it in a small town, but sadly, it really should be. Try that in America. But that isn't the country we have anymore. And it's not the country we've had for a long time. But you you are the first responder. And so there has to be a holding people accountable.

00:24:10:29 - 00:24:32:01

Wayne Mulder

No, you can't come here and burn down my city. You can't come here and create your autonomous zone or whatever, anarchy or just complete chaos. You want to create. You can't do that. And just because you're a marxist organization like Black Lives Matter, which again, is fully supported by their language. I'm not saying that I'm accusing them of anything.

00:24:32:01 - 00:25:14:17

Wayne Mulder

I'm going back to their website. They are a marxist organization. So you have a bunch of Marxist, which quite frankly cannot coexist with Americanism. So you have a bunch of Marxist that don't like something that's being said because what your message is, is we're going to hold you accountable. You may not do that here, which quite frankly broadens the conversation to a whole bunch of other things because we've got to we when we have these conversations about law enforcement, about justice, about what these things mean, we have to get to the point where we're holding people accountable, where we're willing to say, listen, this is America and we don't do that here.

00:25:14:20 - 00:25:38:21

Wayne Mulder

This is not acceptable. And if you break the law, if you decide to do this, we're going to hold you responsible and we're going to use the full force of law against you. And if you're like spitting in cops faces, you're going to jail. If you're burning down buildings, you're going to jail. If you're shooting at people, you hopefully will go to jail.

00:25:38:21 - 00:26:09:23

Wayne Mulder

But it might not be the way that ends because at the end of the day, we're going to hold you accountable and we're going to defend ourselves, which people have a constitutional right to do so really a good song, a powerful song and a song that's being used by nefarious actors in this country to push an agenda, to push a push statements and feelings on something that are completely ridiculous and completely unfounded and quite frankly, it's tragic.

00:26:09:23 - 00:26:32:01

Wayne Mulder

So I encourage you to go back if you want to listen to episode 79 of the podcast, 76 of the podcast where I talked about you being the first responder and Jason, all the things. Right, Try that in the small town. All right, for the final Thoughts section, I just want to quickly talk to you. I know this has been a little bit longer podcast, but hey, it has been a while since I've gotten to talk to you.

00:26:32:03 - 00:26:49:08

Wayne Mulder

But I think the final thought I want to give you this week is just that the power is in your hands right? We all face challenges. I have something coming up. Nothing, you know that I don't want to get into it. I'll get into it on a future podcast, but I'm going to have some challenges ahead of me.

00:26:49:10 - 00:27:19:17

Wayne Mulder

Something I thought I knew may happen. And I've got to face those challenges. And when we come to. So I mentioned I was in command school and there was a conversation where a teacher, somebody was talking about this idea of mindset. And I think sometimes we fail to understand what mindset really means and what part it should have and us facing challenges that we have to undertake this.

00:27:19:17 - 00:27:51:12

Wayne Mulder

There's this idea that mindset defeats or eliminates any adversity, right? It really when mindset argues that way, it comes out of this whole positive thinking push. It was huge years ago. You know it kind of it kind of re re shows up in the public conversation every so many years. And it's just this whole positive and positive thinking mantra that I can pretty much just make anything appear change better itself if I just think positively about it.

00:27:51:14 - 00:28:30:15

Wayne Mulder

And though there is some truth to some of the internal facets of that, you know, from like a physiological standpoint as far as how you feel, mindset does not defeat or eliminate adversity, but what mindset does do is it gives you strength to face it, right? It allows you. That's why if you've been a long time listener of the show, you knows we've changed our intro music and I've added a different song on there where that says things are going to be better because even though sometimes I talk about negative things and even today, some of these news stories can be can make you despondent, you know, you're kind of like, what in the world

00:28:30:15 - 00:28:55:18

Wayne Mulder

is going on with this world? But the fact is, is that things can get better, but they can only get better if you decide to take action to make them better. In the first part of that step, the first part of that path is mindset, that that's where it all begins, because mindset is what gives you the strength to face what you have to face to help you push through to get to that next level.

00:28:55:20 - 00:29:14:25

Wayne Mulder

So that's what I want to leave you with this week is this idea the power is in your hands and that your mindset is very important, but the mindset isn't going to fix all the problems, all the issues, anything you may face. But what it will do is give you the power, give you the strength, give you the courage to face them.

00:29:14:28 - 00:29:23:08

Wayne Mulder

That does it for this week's Morning Roll Call. I'm going to see you Thursday in the interview room, then the next Monday and morning roll call. But in the meantime, I'm going to see you out there on.

00:29:23:11 - 00:29:24:00

The blue line.