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Welcome to a special series of the PropG pod. If you've been following us for the past few years, then you hopefully register that we care deeply about changing the conversation around masculinity and facial hair.

That's a great opportunity and failing young men. In fact, we believe this is a crisis. And that in some, we are producing too many of what are the most dangerous and unproductive citizens in the world. And that is lonely, broke young men.

Why are we passionate about this? One, I relate to these young men. I was an unremarkable kid growing up in a single parent household. My mother lived and died a secretary.

She easily come off the tracks. And as a matter of fact, it came off the tracks a couple of times. And it was the generosity and vision of the University of California taxpayers.

And what saved me was the big, warm hand of America and government had it not been for the vision and generosity of the regions to the University of California and California taxpayers.

I just wouldn't be here right now speaking to you and have the opportunity to advocate for a group that I believe has fallen further faster than any group in recent history, specifically young men who are four times more likely to be addicted three times more likely to kill themselves 12 times more likely to be incarcerated you've heard the stats before.

I think this is an opportunity also to demonstrate that compassion is not a zero-sum game. Civil rights didn't hurt wide people, gay marriage didn't hurt heteronormative marriage and a conversation around men is something that I think a lot of groups are engaged in and who wants more economically and emotionally viable men, women.

And by far with respect to this conversation, which I'll say has become a lot more positive over the last 24 or 36 months.

As this conversation or this void was filled by some very unfortunate voices and I think understandably a lot of people have a gag reflex when you start talking or advocating for young men.

But by far the cohort that has been most supportive of this conversation and us bringing up these issues simply put mothers and it goes something like this.

I have three kids, two daughters, one son, one daughter is at Penn, the other is in PR in Chicago and my son is in the basement playing video games and vaping.

There really is a crisis here. What is the single point of failure when a boy starts to come off the track simple when he loses a male role model and what it ends up the research shows is that when the parents split up and you lose a male role model in a house of girls, the girls have similar outcomes.

But it's much different when the boy loses a male role model usually through divorce. As it ends up, the majority of research points to one thing and that is boys are physically stronger, the girls are emotionally and mentally stronger.

Over the past year we've been asking our male guests how they think about masculinity and what it means to be a better father, husband and partner.

Being a man is to be a person that isn't service to others and just ask yourself like how can you be in service and just ask yourself like how you can be a value to others.

There's a movement of more awakened manhood that's emerging and it doesn't mean you can't be strong.

It doesn't mean that there's no role for men and for women and people in between. It just means we've got to do a bit of a reset.

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