Gentlemen, get ready for this year's New Christenum Press Conference coming up in June titled The War for Normal.

Our second annual installment of the New Christenum Games will be serving as the opening ceremony to this year's conference, so we hope you've been training.

We will have more details on how you can enter the game soon, but until then, stay frosty, fight the good fight, and act like men.

This episode is brought to you by keep wise partners your partner for small business finance and accounting the question of how to turn boys

into men is a perpetual struggle of any community seeking to survive beyond a few

generations this general question is one we've seen come across our feed numerous times

here on this show, and one particular concern is how soon young men should start engaging with hard

physical labor, lifting weights, and feats of endurance. The question itself reveals much about the

current softness of the society we live in, but before we start hurling insults at anyone directly,

some explanation is in order. You see, many parents today have been taught to believe that their boys all the way

up into their teenage years are more akin to fragile eye sculptures than they are to men,

whose duty it is to stand in the breach defending and providing for their people. For decades,

parents were told that strength

training at a young age could damage their boys' growth plates and stunt their growth, keeping them

from reaching their full potential as adults. Combine this with the modern belief that enforcing

strict discipline and behavioral standards with your children will somehow emotionally damage them

for life, and you find yourself an hour cultural

moment. In America today, over 20% of boys between ages of 6 and 18 classifies obese. This percentage

has risen by 300% since 1975. What has changed in the last 50 years? Well, the invention of computers,

cell phones, and video

games just to name a few. These technological advancements have dramatically shifted the

standard way an American boy lives during his most formative years. Gone are the summer

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