Welcome to Socrates in the studio.

I am particularly excited, as I think you will see.

I honestly get so excited about this subject.

I was thrilled you wrote about it.

So before I tell the audience what it's about,

why don't you do that and how you came to write the book. It's great question.

Again, thanks for having me on the show. You know, we have about 350,000 men currently in fraternities in

this country. Wait, now. Today. 350,000 men in fraternities today.

Right.

Okay.

Wow.

In about 4,000 chapters, and I see this as an opportunity to do two things.

One is to make university life better, but also to produce the next iteration of America's

leaders.

Because if you look statistically and historically

at the history of fraternities and the types of men they produce, there's something like in the

70 to 80 percentile of all CEOs, all members of Congress, all presidents and vice presidents,

if you look at the Supreme Court, et cetera, where do those men come from?

They come from fraternities.

And so when we sort of talk about the crisis of men and masculinity in America, I'm thinking, well,

one of the best places, I think, to resurrect the sense of producing America's leaders is fraternities.

Now, I came to write the book because I was concerned

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