Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories,

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negotiation, psychology, geopolitics, disinformation, China, North Korea, crime and cults, and more. That'll help new listeners get a taste of everything we do here on the show. Just visit jordanharbinger.com slash start or search for us in your Spotify app to get started. Today on the show, a long overdue episode with my friend Connor Baton. He's the

founder of Man Talks, a men's mental health company. He's smart dude, we've been friends for years,

had a lot of offline conversations that have been particularly insightful, and I wanted to

share some of that with you all here as well. Today, we explore the loneliness epidemic in men,

fatherless boys, the decline in dating and relationships,

of course, with both genders, AI girlfriends, in cells, porn brain, and of course, my favorite

subject recently, I guess, dicks. Yes, a girthy tangent into the obsession over penis size,

and a whole lot more. Here we go with Connor Baton.

Thanks for doing this on short notice, man. I know we've been planning to do this for about eight years. A hot minute, man. A hot minute. I'm just glad to be here. Yeah. Let's talk about arson, in cells, and dicks. That's what we got today. That was great. Yeah. It's funny because I'm not actually joking. That's all in the notes. It was in the notes. Lots of stats. My wife was like,

why do you have a stat about repeat arsonists? And I was like, well, because it fits in on the

whole macro picture of, you know, kids without fathers.

I thought that was really interesting because I grew up in Detroit or the Detroit area.

And every, there's something called Devil's Night, which I don't even know if it exists outside

of Detroit, but it's the night before Halloween, I think.

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