I learned so much from my dad. Work ethic. Yeah. Discipline. But at the same time, I also know what it's like not to be hugged. Now I turn to my daughters and it's, oh, you want to paint my face? Get the paint. How many colors do you want to put on? You want this? You want to do that? You want to hit me in the balls? Okay, great.

I'm going to close my eyes.

I know it's coming.

He grabbed a shovel, a big shovel.

My dad did and drew a line in the dirt and said, if you cross that line, I'm going to kill you.

The drunk asshole crossed the line.

He knocked them out.

Cold as a block of ice. Wow. 43 or 46% of the country would love the idea of Dwayne Johnson running for presidents.

I mean, it either means you are the paragon of what people would hope a leader would be,

or it means things have gotten so bad that they like, we need somebody who's going to come in here and lay the smackdown on everybody.

Do you know what I mean?

I do.

If there's one thing I've always loved, it's having a spirited conversation.

I've always loved how the words coming out of another person's mouth can change how the mush in your brain processes or sees the world that it's seen a certain way for such a long time.

It feels like these days, though, we might be losing that ability or it's become a little bit harder.

You know, a few days ago I was at an event and people were having really interesting and dynamic conversations.

Conversations about really difficult topics, men, women, young and old alike.

And every few minutes, somebody would start their opinion with the phrase,

now, I would never say this in public, but, or I would never say this if I was being recorded, but.

And I found that fascinating. So many of us have opinions

and ideas about the world that we live in, that we are either unable, unwilling, or too scared

to share. And I thought to myself, if we cannot have conversations about difficult things, if the conversations

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