Restoring the Culture of Men with Sonny Puzikas – Epi-3698

The Survival Podcast

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Today Sonny Puzikas joins us to discuss what he calls, “bringing back the culture of a man”. I have known Sonny a long time and I am excited to bring him on today to discuss the principles, discipline, and internal strength that define true masculinity, especially in contrast to what modern culture often promotes. Born in Soviet-era Lithuania in 1969, Sonny began his martial journey at the age of six, training in styles like Kyokushinkai, Judo, and boxing. He later served in a Soviet special forces unit, an experience that shaped his understanding of violence, leadership, and personal responsibility. After … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	there's a better way to do this, to episode 3,698 of the survival podcast.
0:26.2	I'll also tell you right out of the game.
0:27.2	It'll be the last episode of the week this week.
0:30.5	I usually have an expert counsel show on Thursday, and it's not a Piker problem.
0:34.5	I have enough content, barely, but I have enough.
0:37.0	Nicole Soss pointed out to me that a lot of people are going to check out early this week
0:40.7	because the Fourth Lands on a Friday.
0:43.2	Hey, I get it.
0:44.2	Maybe I'll run a rewind or something, but this will be the last new show of this week,
0:48.2	and then we'll be back next week and do it all over again.
0:50.8	So what are we going to talk about today? We're going to talk about restoring the culture of men with Sonny Pasekis, or restoring
0:59.2	the culture of a man is the way that he puts it.
1:02.2	And I'll let him explain that.
1:03.5	But I think I get why he phrased it a little differently that I did, me being a marketer,
1:07.9	I did it for the title to flow better.
1:11.6	But Sunny is a cool dude, man.
1:13.2	I've known him for quite a while, but he actually first came into my orbit years before I ever met him or ever spoke to him.
1:19.1	Way, way back at the beginning, I'm talking like right when TSP was founded.
1:22.9	You were like 08.
1:23.9	I was working with a gentleman named Val Razzanov, who has a very similar background
1:28.3	to Sunnis.
1:29.3	And we were doing videos on Russian martial arts and Russian self-defense techniques and things
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