Welcome to Citizen.

I'm doing another solo show today.

I'm going to talk about a few things that I think are very interesting things that are, I guess,

ancillary patterns that cloverly around what we're always talking about,

about masculinity and constitutionality and history and what your duty and role is.

And I know that a lot of you are members of the military

or veterans or people who are first responders or other blue collar jobs. Certainly people

who are engaged in some form of stuicism or another, some sort of career that requires a of you or lifestyle that requires a w.

And I think you probably all dipped a toe into stoicism a little bit.

So I want to talk about the stoic warrior tradition, because there are two things,

stoicism and being a warrior that are sometimes confused

sometimes we discuss them in a way that doesn't really reflect what they are sometimes we discuss

masculinity even in a way that doesn't reflect what it's designed to be and we express it in a way

that often isn't the way it's designed to be expressed through

the immature male, the rage, the emotional state, all this stuff.

And then sometimes we think that being a warrior always means acting and sometimes it means

restraint. We think that being stoic always means restraint. Sometimes it means acting, and sometimes it means restraint.

We think that being stoic always means restraint, and sometimes it means acting.

So I think these things together tell a story of what it means to be, you know, the warrior poet, I guess, the Stoic warrior.

And I want to talk about these things

today and give you some examples of people throughout history who have exemplified

these ideas and people that I find to be extremely motivating, I guess you could say, in that way, because their stories are disparate.

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