Bromance 101: Navigating Friendship in the Internet Age With Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

Education, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Comedians and “friendship experts'' Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo bring an insightful and hilarious conversation, tackling the modern crisis of male friendship. Learn the secret to their 30-year bond and discover tips to forge strong connections (19:52), embrace vulnerability (26:00), handle friend breakups (56:05), and diversify your circle (43:36). With less than 12% of men reporting having a close friend, there’s a huge need to get better at building and sustaining meaningful connections Join us for this candid and humorous conversation on the importance of male friendship and the power of positive relationships. Sign up for the Man Enough newsletter to get full video episodes and positive masculinity news every Monday: http://manenough.com/newsletter The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. Timecodes: 00:00 - If men aren't comfortable saying "I Love You", just say "Thank You." 07:30 - When was the last time Matt & Aaron didn't feel enough? 11:15 - How to challenge your friends without trying to change them 19:52 - Making new friends as a man 26:00 - Check in on your friends 36:25 - Is it ever okay to flirt in the gym? 43:36 - The significance of a diverse friend group 53:18 - Finding common interests with new friends 56:05 - Friendship breakups and ghosting friends 01:05:34 - Why Matt & Aaron love each other 01:11:55 - What does it mean to be man enough? About Aaron Karo & Matt Ritter After three decades of friendship comedians Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo are friendship experts. Each year they award a gigantic Man of the Year trophy to one of their childhood friends – a tradition that has kept their crew going strong for 35 years. Matt and Aaron have an everyman approach to friendship and holding your male friends close and strengthening those relationships while encouraging them to be better humans. Support Man of the Year Podcast On their podcast, Man of the Year, comedians and friendship experts Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo will help you make new friends, reconnect with old ones, and build lifelong social fitness. The country is currently facing a friendship recession – 15% of men report having zero close friends – and they’re on a mission to change that with tips, hacks, and decades of hilarious stories. Guest Social Links: Matt Ritter IG: @mattritter1 Twitter:@mattritter1 Aaron Karo IG: @aaronkaro Twitter: @Aaronkaro Special Thanks Thank you LMNT for supporting our show! Head to https://drinklmnt.com/manenough to get a free LMNT sample pack with any purchase. Support Man Enough Man Enough Newsletter: https://manenough.com/newsletter Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books Boys Will Be Human book: https://boyswillbehuman.com Follow The Hosts Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ Christopher Rivas: https://www.instagram.com/christopher__rivas https://twitter.com/chris__rivas https://podcasts.apple.com › podcast › brown-enough #boys #men #masculinity #friends #bromance #relationships #manoftheyear #bff #genz #internet #irl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up on Man Enough.
0:02.0	You know, we're trying to get guys to say, I love you.
0:05.0	And many guys, they have trouble saying that, they're not ready for that.
0:09.0	So we say, well, why don't you start with thank you?
0:12.0	Because guys are going to say thank you
0:13.5	thanks for picking me up thanks for taking me the game say thanks as a gateway
0:16.9	emotion you know we have a younger producer and we were talking about saying I love you
0:20.4	and it's something that it took me a very long time to be able to do to my friends.
0:25.2	And we asked him about it and he's like, I don't know, I just feel like I see women saying it to each other and it just feels
0:30.1	meaningless, you know?
0:31.8	If we ever get to the point where men are saying I love
0:33.9	you so much to each other that it's meaningless we're in a very very very good place.
0:42.3	Being man of what does that mean?
0:45.0	It's really manly to mess up, admit you're wrong, and then grow.
0:49.0	I couldn't accept that I was evil, so maybe I'm broken.
0:52.0	But those broken things could be corrected.
0:54.0	Intimacy between a father and a son is me just wanting to like, put my head of your lap.
0:59.0	I love your son.
1:00.0	You haven't called me a benevolent sexist, but my experience is women are better.
1:05.0	Even if it's a positive, it's still not equality.
1:07.5	I don't blame men for that. I just blame the system.
1:11.0	This is Man enough.
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