The Action Principle: Why Doing Matters Most

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Can we start really deep today?

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I mean, really deep, how many amazing
ideas, innovations, services, inventions,

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and developments we'll never see
the light of day now stop and think

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about it for a moment inaction on
the part of people has robbed us of

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possibly some of the most important
discoveries in the history of mankind.

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Now, some of you hyperbolic here.

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But before you say that, analyze
your own life truthfully and count

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all of the things you thought of and
thought about doing, but never did.

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The only thing that actually
matters is what you actually do.

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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
potentials growing to the men we

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

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good husbands, fathers, and still
take care of ourselves Well, that's

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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 fallible man podcast.

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We've all done it.

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And we all certainly have friends
who talks about doing great things,

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but never actually does anything.

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Zig Ziglar said, you don't
have to be great to start, but

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you have to start to be great.

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So today let's make an argument
for why you need to take action and

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how it will make your life better.

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By the way, my name is Brent and
welcome to the fallible man podcast.

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That's our long time listeners.

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Hey guys, thanks for jumping
in for another episode.

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Now, there are a lot of
arguments about getting ready.

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I am certainly the guy who thinks
about it and plans, but there comes a

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point in your life where, you know, you
got to shit or get off the pot, man.

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It's just that simple.

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I'd love to say elegant, but
that just wouldn't be me.

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So let's look at three things
that come into play here.

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A is paralysis by analysis.

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It's killing your future.

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We live in a golden age of information.

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The downside is the sheer amount of
information available to us is crippling.

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We assume because there's so
much information that we need all

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of it before we take an action.

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We believe we don't know enough.

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We might miss something or that
there's way too much for us to

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possibly get a handle on this.

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I mean, Oh my goodness.

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Look at that mountain of information.

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There's no way I can do this.

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I've done it.

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You've done it.

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Let me share a thought with you.

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Your first will be messy.

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No, we're not talking about that.

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It might be a first attempt at anything.

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First attempt at going to the gym.

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First video on YouTube.

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If that's something you want to do.

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First attempt to launch a business.

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First thing you write.

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Maybe you want to write blogs or books.

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First position in a new job.

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First time being a parent.

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It's all going to be messy.

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I'm, I'm down for careful preparation, but
at a point you got to stop overthinking.

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Stop planning and start doing the work.

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R's off or not B is or two.

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I don't know.

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I'm I'm bad today.

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Talk is cheap.

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Action is what you judge by.

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No one cares.

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This is one of my favorite facts in life.

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I love how obsessed we
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With ourselves, right?

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Social media builds empires to ourselves.

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I'm so great.

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I have so many faults.

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No one actually cares.

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Really.

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If you go away tomorrow,
they'll find somebody else.

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My podcast goes away.

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You'll find another one.

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I hope you enjoyed the show,
but the truth is you'll find

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something else to replace that.

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I frequently love the saying, no
one cares, work harder because.

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There's a lot of truth to it.

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I can't even begin to guess how
many things early on in my life

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that I have personally talked
about doing and never done.

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Okay guys, the laundry list of Brent's
missed opportunities and far gone choices.

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I can't, I really can't even begin to
tell you all, all the amazing things.

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That I did not do, but you don't care.

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No one does.

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We all like to wax poetic about dreams and
goals, ideas, things we're going to do.

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We all talk about when I win the
lotto or I'd love to go do this.

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So I'd love to go do that.

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I mean, how many times have
you been drinking with a buddy

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and solve the world hunger?

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But the minute you
sober up, it's all gone.

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It's like, Oh, what were we?

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Oh, who cares?

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You know, it doesn't really matter.

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Right.

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The inhibitions came down.

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The dreams came out in that
conversation and then it all went away.

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One of the guys who came to our
conference last year told me

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that the event saved his life.

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As an event coordinator, that's
something I really want to hear

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as a guy who works with men.

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I love to hear that kind of thing, but
the truth is he was on an emotional high.

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I've seen this in my years,
working with teenagers.

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You go to a big weekend event, right?

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You go to a conference, you
go to some kind of retreat and

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you're like, whoo, super pumped.

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Now, let me tell you
what actually happened.

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He saved his life because when
he left the next day, instead

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of going, wow, that was a great
conference and I'm really inspired.

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He took action.

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All we did was offer some ideas.

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I can pick up a thousand
books and find ideas.

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All we did was offer some ideas.

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He took action, said, and done.

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I didn't save anything.

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He saved his own life
because he took action.

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Stop talking about it.

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Find your purpose, seek
your passion and get moving.

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We all heard the old adage close only
counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

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Maybe that's just me.

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That's one of my favorites.

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Talk is cheap guys.

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No one cares.

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Do it.

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Just get moving.

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Take some action.

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C or three, whatever we're on.

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You don't have time for inaction.

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Life expectancy is really not that long.

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Especially when you start to
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It takes a lot of years of your life.

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Sleeping ridiculously amount of long
time, time on the toilet for some

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people that's longer than others,
but you actually lose a lot of your

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life there being stuck at work.

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Oh my goodness.

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Consumes a lot of your life, right?

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We really have a short time on earth.

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And at 44, I'm closer to the
grave than I am my birth.

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We are marching towards death
from the day we're born.

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The good news is that should empower us.

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That should enable us because that
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How much time do you want to waste?

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Being in ministry over the
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I attended a lot of funerals.

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How many regrets do you
want to carry to your grave?

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Because it's inaction that
haunts you later in life.

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What all is possible if you take action?

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And what are you missing
by default if you don't?

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Because you have to count that, the things
you miss because you didn't take action.

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The old saying is the
best time was yesterday.

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Now is the next best time
because tomorrow never comes.

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When you say tomorrow,
you're probably saying never.

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And it's true guys.

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You don't have time to not take the
action that's going to move your life

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to where you want to take worst thing.

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You lose some time on it, but you
learn a lot of lessons along the way.

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Guys, think about this.

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There are so many great ideas out
there, but many of them never happened

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because people don't take action.

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Your life is waiting
for you to step into it.

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You are singly gifted with who you
are, the talent you have, and the

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experiences that have shaped you.

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You have great ideas, big goals, and
aspirations that only you can achieve.

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But you have to take action because what
we do is more important than what we say.

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Time is short and you shouldn't waste
it waiting for the perfect moment.

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It's better to start now than to wait
for tomorrow, which might never come.

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So let's not wait any longer.

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Let's take action and make things
happen today because today is the

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day that you start taking action.

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Now it is Friday, the Friday video.

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And I am.

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I'd love to spotlight you guys.

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So it's listening to reviews.

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Hey, this review comes from Ross, the
motivator, uh, Ross's episode actually

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just came out earlier this week.

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So you guys can check this out
the podcast for dads and men

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who are planning to become dads.

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Brenna's pro makes interview and
experience enjoyable and relaxed.

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As a host, he was prepared to ask great
questions and contributed to every

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question with positive feedback and flow.

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The show simply checks all the
boxes tune in, boom, big hashtag.

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Thanks Roz.

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I appreciate it.

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Uh, if you didn't catch our episode with
Roz, I'll link that behind this one.

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We had a great show where
we talked to teens and dads.

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In one episode, it was a,
it was a family episode.

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So you guys be sure and go
back, check that one out.

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Like I said, I'll link that here.

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If you're on YouTube or wherever
the hell I put that on YouTube.

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Uh, and I'll put it in
the show notes below guys.

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Thanks for hanging out with me today.

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As always be better tomorrow
because of what you do today.

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And we'll see on the next one.

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