And if anything, getting help that you need, brotherhood, therapy, getting engaged in hobbies

and activities, ditching the stuff that's not serving you like that past question, that's not

strength.

That's actually the thing that's going to make you strong.

It's courageous.

It's not strength in it of itself.

It's courage, which leads to strength.

Sean, what's up, man? You're filling in for Kip today. It's been, gosh, months, I think, since you've been on the show. But I'm glad to have you here. Yep, but been listening, and it's always good. Good to be here. Good. I see you represent the Order of Man Rashgard putting out to work this morning at the jits it sounds like

i can't literally walk straight in here so sorry i'm still a little he's still a little worked up

little riled up still a little bit little flush probably yeah oh my gosh it's actually been

a while since i've trained i need to i'm actually gonna just i'm gonna start something here in my local community because if I want to go train jihitsu, it's about a 30 to 35 minute drive, which doesn't, it's not, that's not a long drive, but it's with as busy as I am, it just continues to be an excuse not to go. And so I'm actually going to head down to the community center this week. I know they've got mats and things like that. And they're doing like karate classes for kids and yoga lessons for moms on them, which is cool. Nothing against that. But I'm like, let's put those maps to use for men specifically. And I figured I'd do, you know, Tuesday and Thursday morning at 5 a.m.

and just go roll and get after it. So should be fun. Let's see how it goes. Yeah. Yeah, man.

Well, I'd like to jump into some questions today. We got some good ones and I was kind of filtering through

these. I'm actually taking Kipp's spot with a question asking, but I figure you and I can riff on these.

Let's start with this is one I actually

hear quite a bit, some variation of this, but it's from Michael Donovan. And he says, my teenage son

barely even talks to me anymore, unless he needs something from me. How do I reconnect before it's too late? What would you say to that? Because

you've got you've got two boys. You know, they're teenagers. I've got three boys and a girl.

I have two teenage sons. So both of us can talk on this with with some clarity, I think.

Yeah, I wish I knew which realm of teenager, right? Because there's a big

difference between your 13 year old not talking to you and your 19 year old not talking to you.

Yeah. You know, so there's a big range. But yeah, and then also the the what realm of not talking to you?

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