This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

All right guys today on the podcast we've got a very special guest for you. His name is Daniel Cox.

So Daniel is a director at the Survey Center on American Life. He's also a research fellow in

polling and public opinion and he also specializes in survey research, politics, youth culture and

identity and also religion. He got his PhD in American government from Georgetown. This guy is kind

of right in my age range. He's done a lot of great things, but he studies some stuff that I think

is very, very important for you guys. So you've heard me say a lot before that men don't have any

friends. I mean, I just released a seven part devotional series basically imploring you guys

begging you to build your fox hole to build up a group of men around you that are cultivating

spiritual mental and physical resilience on a daily basis and trying to get you to do the same

thing, right? Where you're all sharpening iron all the time like that's kind of what I want you

to do. But this guy did some very, very interesting research this year that kind of looked at

friendships in general in the United States of America in a post COVID world because yes, we are

pretty much post COVID, but post lock down all these different things. A lot of the researchers

looking at friendships were shocked by some of the things that came back shocked by some of the

the trends that they've seen and guys, the trends over the last 20 to 30 years should really,

really scare you. Okay. So at the beginning, we start with kind of just generic stuff about

friendships in America, but then we really dig into men and why men don't have friends and some

of the reasons behind that. Now, we did not have a lot of time with Daniel because he had several more

of these talks to do today. He's constantly going on the news, talking about this with different

pundits and things like that. So we didn't ask all the questions we wanted to and then we added

some more that we weren't planning on, but I really wanted to kind of get to bedrock as to

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