Redefining What it Means to be a Man

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What is a man?

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Not that long ago, a media
company produced a documentary

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called What is a Woman?

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The simple concept was to investigate
how one defines something in a time when

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we keep changing all the definitions of
things that have been around for basically

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ever, or a long time at least, right?

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We're not redefining what a man is here.

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Not in this episode.

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I've been very clear on
where I stand on this point.

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We define a man as a
biological from birth, male.

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If you disagree, you're probably
not going to like my show, but what

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I do want to talk about today is
redefining what it means to be a man.

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Today we're talking about what it means
to be a man in 2024 specifically, because

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historically, the things that help us
define us as men do actually change.

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I am old enough that I have now seen the
changes from my grandfather's generation.

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Which would have been known
as the greatest generation.

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That's that World War II generation to
my father's generation in the boomer age.

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And now I'm watching Xennials come
into their own and the beginning

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of what they're calling Gen Alpha.

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I'm not sure who comes up with
these names, but most of them suck.

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They're kind of lame.

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But what I can see with clarity is what it
means to be a man has changed drastically.

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In that time period.

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And it's time to talk about what
it means to be a man or redefine

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what it means to be a man in 2024.

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So let's get into it.

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Here's the million dollar question.

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How do men like us reach our full
potential growing to the men we

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dream of being while taking care
of our responsibilities, working,

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being good husbands, fathers,
and still take care of ourselves?

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Well, that's the big
question in this podcast.

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We'll help you answer
those questions and more.

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My name is Brent and welcome
to the Fabled Man Podcast.

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So let's start with what has not
changed because sometimes that's

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just an easier place to start.

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In 2018, Chris Rock stated,
only women, children, and dogs

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are loved unconditionally.

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Whereas a man is only loved under the
condition that he provides something.

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Now this hit the world kind
of like a ton of bricks.

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A lot of people were really frustrated and
flustered and found it very controversial.

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And then even some men
were uncomfortable with it.

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And then they started thinking about it.

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More recently, an artist named
Dax introduced a song to the

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world called to be a man,

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this song became an overnight
sensation, reaching people who had

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never heard of him, including me.

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I never heard of this artist before
my father in law who falls into the

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boomer generation actually is the one
who shared the song with me, proving.

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Not only had I not heard of him, but this
song was reaching a much broader span

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of men than anyone had thought possible.

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It's crazy that my father who fought
father in law who falls in that

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boomer generation heard the song
not only before me, but was on it.

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It proved that the song bridged a
generational gap that most things can't.

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It proved that it, this generational
gap in men didn't change the fact that

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most men identify With the feelings and
the statements in this song, which he

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also quotes Chris rocks quote in the
song, it spans four to five generations

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of men that are being, that are hearing
this song, which is just insane.

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The fact that any song has spanned
that many generations, that many age

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groups, however you want to say it.

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Is mind boggling.

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Usually that's only like some of
the greatest songs in history.

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Some of the quote unquote classics
from the Beatles and Zeppelin, right?

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Classic rock and older songs span those
generations and is a learned thing.

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But this song was reaching everything
from down in the gen alphas who

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don't really understand what the
song is saying all the way through.

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At least the boomer
generation, maybe farther.

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I can't confirm that just because
I don't know anyone older than that

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who listened to the song, but it
doesn't mean there weren't those.

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Now to date, being a man continues
to have some common ground

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across multiple generations.

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And unfortunately that's a legacy that is.

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Well, let's just say that's the legacy
that we wish wasn't sticking with us.

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Right?

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Those parts of it, by the way, my name
is Brent and welcome to the fallible

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I won't waste your time.

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Just jabbering on like this going forward.

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We need to start redefining what it
means to be a man in a more positive

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direction, because right now the common
ground across multiple generations.

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It's not a very positive thing
as we define being a man.

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It has a lot of negativity to it.

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Now, at some point in history.

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The norm became this idea that we were
only what we provided for the people

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around us, women, children, whatever
safety, the community, I can trace

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this back as far as biblical times.

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It may go back way before that, but that's
as far as I bothered to try and trace it.

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A young man in biblical times
could not marry until he provide.

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He spent years working and
building to become a man of worth.

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That's air quotes for all of
you listening, which translates

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to a man of means, right?

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That's what a man of worth air
quotes again was, was a man of means.

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The thought is not entirely
far, entirely flawed.

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Sorry, as far as working to become capable
before getting tied up in relationships.

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However, the flaw comes in a place.

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Just of it stopping at
being a man of means, right?

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I am a fan of young men spending the
early years of their life, building

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themselves up into the men they
want to become, uh, chasing some

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goals and some dreams and elevating
yourself up, building yourself up.

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Because there's a lot of work
that comes as you bring more and

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more people into that conversation
or into that process with you.

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But being a man of means is not
the only value that you have.

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As far as I'm concerned, that's the
conversation that I'm trying to change.

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Now you have to remember the
idea that being a man of means

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is your value proposition comes
from a different era of history.

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Life was simpler in the form of
what there was harder to survive.

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It was a full day's work just to live for
a lot of people to make the food, to do

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the work, to make enough money, right?

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It was a full day's work just to live,
which necessitated a simpler life.

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It was simpler in the fact that there
was less to be concerned with because

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it was harder to be harder to survive.

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So that was your existence.

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It's just trying to do that.

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Right.

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And being able to do that made you
a man of means now let's get forward

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2000 years or so and get a little
more modern showing into 2024.

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Like I said, or so I didn't math that
out for all of you who are, you know,

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fact checking me right now, as far
as my numbers, we're still holding

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on to the, that, that value in a
completely different time of life.

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So over the last 2000 some odd years,
we've held onto this ancient concept of

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becoming a man of means was our value.

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It's from a time when being able to
be a man of means, which means you

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could actually take care of that
life and survive was the big picture.

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Don't get me wrong.

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There are still places where just
daily life is hard days work still.

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That's not the case in most
first or second world nations.

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Even in many third world countries,
we're seeing a lot of technology.

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We're seeing a lot of extras.

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Uh, we see, you know, tribal people in
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thanks to Elon Musk or whatever.

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Okay.

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There are still places where just
surviving the day is a full day's

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work, but those are becoming fewer
and fewer in the world and more people

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are starting to have other options.

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So what did change?

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We have more options.

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That's it.

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We have more options, opportunities,
and possibilities than ever before.

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A full day's work is not necessarily
like what it was as a, now I

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live in a farming community.

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So trust me, there are a lot of gentlemen
I know who still define a full day's

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work as sunup to sundown, because
that's still the reality for farmers.

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They have equipment that helps them
do it on a much larger scale than

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ancient farmers, but it's still
a morning to night kind of thing.

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You have more time and more means
to do non survival based things.

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In a lot of society anymore.

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There are a lot of people who go to
work for 20, 30, most people's more

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like 40 or 50 hours a week, but you
still have a lot of the week left to

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do non survival based things because
of modern technology and the changes

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in the world, the majority of men tend
to lean into time for entertainment.

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And that's where we get sidetracked.

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There have always been men who.

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Have had a desire to make their
mark on the world to leave a legacy

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far bigger than their children and
their grandchildren, men who summon

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a mountains, discover new lands.

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At least new to the people that were
discovering them, not probably new

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to the people who were there already.

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Sailed the oceans in search of new
treasures, places, men who refuse to live

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small, more and more men are choosing
to live small comfort entertainment has

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lessened our aspirations, but you're cut
from the same cloth and the same blood

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runs through your veins as the men.

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Like Ponce de Leon and Genghis
Khan, men who conquered the world,

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Napoleon, Alexander, you're still
cut from the same cloth to redefine

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what it means to be a man in 2024.

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The first thing we have to do is to choose
to live bigger than the life we've been

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shackled with, with 2000 plus years, where
provider was our main source of value.

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You can't just be stuck in the provider
role, especially as protector is becoming

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less and less necessary in some places.

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Not at all.

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If you watch the news, being a protector
is still a very valuable thing.

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And presider becomes
an argument these days.

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We're not going to go down
that route at all today.

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But you're going to have to live bigger
than just the shackles of provider to

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change the combination conversation
redefine what man looks like in 2024.

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Now, there are three
P's commonly associated.

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With our role as men, those are
provider protector, presider, not any

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particular, but those are the three
P's that are most commonly associated

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with our roles as men, we understand
the provider and the protector.

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Some of you guys will
understand the word presider.

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That means you, the
person who kinda leads.

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That's what a presider is.

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Now, I'd like to suggest a
few additions to that list.

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If we're going to redefine what it
is to be a man in the modern era.

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May I submit for your decisions
or your concepts on, I'm not

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even using the right words.

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May I submit for your contemplation?

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There we go.

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There's a better word that
we add these three words.

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Pioneers, pursuers, and purposeful.

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I tried really hard to stick with
the all P's guys, just to keep it up.

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I'm really, if you've listened
to the show for any length of

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time, like I'm, I'm not that guy.

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I have a couple of friends who are
awesome at doing those, you know, three.

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Blah, blah, blah.

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I, I am so bad at those.

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You guys would not, you would mock
me if you understood how long it

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took me to come up with those three
P's, but I really do think they fit.

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And here's why men used to be pioneers.

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We chase new thoughts, ideas, new
places, new people, new ways to advance,

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new ways to improve new ways to.

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move forward.

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That same pioneering spirit that
took Ponce de Leon around the

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world still exists in you today.

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And it's about time men
start being pioneers again.

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This is a return to
something we used to be.

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It's about time men start to
be pioneers again, pursuing new

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ideas, places, thoughts, ideas.

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New advancements, new improvements,
new ways to make the world better,

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new way to make life more amazing.

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It's time to pursue our, to
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Men used to be pursuers.

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We saw something we wanted or wanted
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With just ruthless devotion.

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Sometimes the Wright
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We know it took three years for them to
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people's work before them to flight
three years, they pursued ruthlessly.

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That was what they did.

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Wanting to get man off the
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And 66 years later, our obsession
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We need to return to being men who pursue
our dreams that are bigger than us.

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Men who pursue bigger dreams and ideas.

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who are pioneering.

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We need to pursue that ruthlessly.

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We also need to be men purposeful.

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The samurai trained at the art of
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all the way until death, devoted to the
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horsemanship, and many other things.

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They were purpose driven in every aspect
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Their devotion to mastery of everything
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Artists and craftsmen were lifelong
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son, or if you're lucky, apprenticed
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We can't even imagine doing that
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days, the way they used to do their
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pursue the mastery of their craft to.

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Beyond elite status.

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Now, this isn't to be
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I talk about being intentional in
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you have to have a purpose.

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That's definition number one of
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and you need to be purposeful.

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Definition two, which is full of
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Sorry if that was me talking circles.

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But it made sense in my head.

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I hope it makes sense to you.

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You need to be purposeful, pursue that
purpose, that bigger purpose, that bigger

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dream, that bigger intention in your life
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Adding these three piece.

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We'll put us back on a path to
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And once we start down that path,
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the next generation will thank us
if we add being a pioneer, being

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a pursuer and being purposeful, it
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Not just for what we offer, but
it expands who we are, right?

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We look at men by their accomplishments,
men built cities, men built

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civilizations, men conquered the world.

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That same blood still flows in you.

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Does it absolutely change the
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I think so.

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But like I said, only time will tell.

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I'd love to hear what you think about it.

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It is Friday.

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I tend to get a little wild on these
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I don't do them as often as I used to.

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Cause I ended up giving away a whole
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my books a little thin on that.

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Guys, when generation alpha is old enough
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I am now, or I should say to look across.

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And span five generations.

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Like I am now, cause I'm
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I would love for them to see that 2024
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what it means to be a man because
we raised the bar for ourselves and

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therefore for future generations.

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And they have an entirely
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So they're not echoing the sentiment of
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about the way it is to be a man now.

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I don't want them to have
that same experience.

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And you are the key, my friends.

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Gentlemen, as always,
thanks for joining us.

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Thanks for listening.

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Be better tomorrow because of what you do
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