When my son leaves our house, which he's going to do in five or six years, who do I want him to be?

Like how do I develop his character? What do I want him to know?

How do I make him a wise man?

And then what do I want him to be able to do? Like what real world skills do I want this kid to have?

If I don't do this for him, who's going to do this for him?

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So when our boys all turned 13, you took each of them out individually with a group of your guy friends.

And you had your guy friends speak into their lives. What was that like?

Well, I mean, each trip was me along with my son. And then the guy part was usually a surprise.

You know, it was really funny. I don't know if we shared this before, but our third son, Cody, when I was getting ready to do the trip with Cody, he says, you remember this?

He goes, hey, Dad, whatever you do with CJ and Austin, they told me it really wasn't any good.

It was a little different.

I'm like, what? What are you talking about? I was most epic journey of their lives.

And he said, no, they said the trip was incredible. The actual material that you use was dated.

And I won't tell you what I was using at the time, but when I heard that, I'm like,

oh, so you know what I did with my last one is I, we're going to the AFC championship, getting the Steelers against the Patriots and Pittsburgh.

Which was perfect for him because he's a sports guy.

Yeah, you did a different trip for each one.

Yeah. And, you know, one of my former short lines played for the Steelers now. I got us tickets.

Anyway, I put together a list of topics we're going to talk about.

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