And then there's self-accountability, which is, I don't even care if what he goes to the gym or not, I'm going to be there.

And if he's there, great. And if he's not, I don't care. I'm going to do my workout all the same, just as hard, just as much if he was or was not looking. And that to me is character. It's accountability for sure, but it's character. What do you do when no one is watching? Would you make the same decisions today in every instance if nobody ever knew what you did?

If it's yes, then I think you're in alignment with your character.

You have integrity. And if it's no, then you have some issues to work out there.

You're a man of action.

You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly

chart your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is

who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after

all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. Kip, what's up, man? Great to see this Monday.

A little bit of a little bit of confusion on my end as to whether or not I was going to be here.

But then I started thinking, I'm like, I can't, Kip's just going to mess this whole thing up if I let him do alone. So, yeah, I better, uh, I better get on the show

and make it happen. No, I actually just enjoy our conversations. That's really what it comes down to.

Yeah. Well, and, and there's a level of pressure that goes down when we get to have a conversation versus solo right there there's a little bit of like

okay solo like you know don't sound like a moron but now i i don't mind saying like a moron because

you're here to to make us sound half intelligent at least so yeah or at least just calling you a moron and

for whatever reason when a friend says it it's way better than you know somebody else calls it to you

or you call yourself

a moron. So we preemptively give ourselves labels so that way it's a, it's a little bit easy to take.

Yeah. Exactly. Actually, that leads into a good point. I did a podcast on Friday. I'm not sure

if you listen to it, but I think I titled it. The stories we tell ourselves define us as men. Yeah. And I took a lot

from your playbook on that one because you've talked a lot about the stories and the narratives

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