Why do men fight and why do we like to watch?

These are a couple of questions I've asked myself before and one that we attempt to answer

with my guest today Jonathan Gautchell, an English professor with some real world experience in MMA.

Today we talk about the nature of fighting, how fighting has evolved, the role honor,

placing combat, where the desire to make men more civilized comes from, and of course, a ton more.

You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears,

and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time.

Every time you are not easily deterred and defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.

This is your life, this is who you are, this is who you will become.

At the end of the day and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

Man what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler and I am the host and the founder of Order of Man.

I want to welcome you to the Manly's podcast on the planet. That's right on the planet.

Guys in fact I was looking at the iTunes rankings and we have officially moved up to the number 29

position in all of the business category, which is a huge beat and I want to thank you for that.

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And also if you're new to the show today, guys we are having some great conversations,

some serious conversations on what it means to be a man. I'm talking with the world's most

successful men, authors, athletes, warriors, entrepreneurs, and we're going to extract all of their

lessons, their habits, their tools, their tactics, everything that they're doing and implementing

on a daily basis and then we're delivering them right to you. So I've got a great one lined up

for today as I always do with an English professor of all things who decided guys to step up to

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