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Hard Men Podcast

Lonesome Dove, July Johnson, and the Failure of Weak Men

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Larry McMurtry's book, Lonesome Dove, earned him a Pulitzer prize. The author was a master at unpacking relational dynamics in engaging prose. In this episode, we talk about how July Johnson embodies the failures of the soft Mr. Nice Guy. We also talk about practical steps for me to stand up to their wives, which is the only recipe for a happy home. We'll dissect the compelling interplay between characters like Gus McCray and Woodrow F. Call, offering profound reflections on life through thei...

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0:00.0

This episode of the Hard Man Podcast is brought to you by our friends at Alpine Gold,

0:04.4

by Joe Garrison with Backward Planning Financial, by Premier Body Armor,

0:08.4

Private Family Banking, and finally by MaxD Trailers. Well, welcome to this episode of the Hard Men Podcast.

0:18.0

I'm your host, Eric Khan, and excited that you could join us for this episode of the

0:26.1

podcast we're going to be talking today about Lonesome Dove and what we can learn

0:30.4

about Mr Nice Guy as one of the characters in Lonesome Dove. Of course the book by

0:36.0

Larry McMurtry. Recently been rereading that and finding some really interesting stuff there

0:41.1

for our discussion on masculinity and womanhood too.

0:46.8

Before we jump into the episode I do want to make you aware of a few things.

0:51.2

Number one if you're not yet a support on Patreon, we've had some exclusive content dropping there most recently and you're going to want to check that out.

1:00.0

So if you're not yet a member, you can join today for as little as $5.

1:03.7

A month recently we talked about why do middle-age career women remain single?

1:09.3

We were talking about a daily male article that ran in 2017 was updated more recently, but you've got a lot of middle-aged women

1:17.4

complaining that, you know, younger men don't want to date them and they're having a hard time figuring out why that is they want younger women who can bear children

1:27.0

Go figure so we were talking about this most recently and again that's a Patreon exclusive so encourage you to check that

1:34.7

out if you have not already. Also want to make you aware of two more things. Number

1:41.4

one Kings Hall Podcast podcast dropping this week, season 3,

1:45.8

episode one. We're delving into Christendom 1.0 and in this episode we're

1:50.6

talking about the politically incorrect Guide to Christendom.

1:54.9

That show is already up for Patreon supporters, as well as a Patreon exclusive on the Kings

2:01.9

Hall podcast, an interview with Dr. Glenn Sunshine, what was Christendom,

2:06.1

what are all the things that it stood for, what do we mean when we say that and is it worth rebuilding

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