WEBVTT - The 100,000-Man Movement That Will Change Your Life 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.119 Have you thought about the cost of men that opt 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.480 out of leadership opportunities to society. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.240 I think we're seeing it. I think we see it 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.960 in the degradation of family values. I think we see 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.600 it in the degradation of our institutions when there is 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.480 no leadership. This is what happens. America has a shortage 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.720 of male leaders. Men are quietly checking out of leading 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.800 in their communities, their own homes, and even their own lives. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.560 Is this the great destiny of my life? Is to 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.960 just bring home paychecks and be sad? Is it in 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.080 a cubicle all day and make money for somebody else? 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.920 Is this my purpose? This is what God called me too? 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.360 Is to look another man in the face and say, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.080 don't worry, man, there's more. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.760 This is Frank Schwartz. He's the CEO of F three, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:48.520 which stands for Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. Men at over 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.680 five thousand locations across the world join free, pure led 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.600 workouts at five point thirty am that are outdoors, no 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:02.600 matter if it's freezing, blistering, raining, or snowing. You're the 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.920 CEO of one hundred thousand man movement. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.800 Currently we ain't done the mission of F three is 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.240 to plant, grow, and serve these small workout groups for 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.160 men in order to invigorate male community leadership. One of 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.120 the core principles of F three is that it's pure 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.440 let right. It's all volunteers, and if you come out 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.800 long enough, we'll say it's your turn. You got to lead. 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.000 We want to teach men leadership because if they learn 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.800 how to lead, then they can take that home to 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:29.399 their families. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.720 By the end of this episode, you're going to walk 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.800 away with a blueprint for real leadership. You'll have a 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.920 deeper appreciation for where your leadership matters most. You'll also 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.520 discover the F three movement and that just might change 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.600 your life or the lives of men you care about 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.840 who really need to hear this episode. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.120 F three ain't gonna change the world. 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Yeah, basically Charlotte got it, CEO of F 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.280 three Nation, which I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't know 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.840 anything about until I learned about you, and just want 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.160 to thank you for coming to Memphis. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.640 Oh, thank you, and don't feel bad. Some of the 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:14.960 best people I know have never heard of us. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.960 Well, hopefully, hopefully there's thousands more that we'll know of us. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:24.000 In about an hour from absolutely pretty cool place. We're 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.039 in the mephis listening lab at the old Search Tower, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:34.479 Crosstown Concourse and Cool Venue, and we are recording with 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.680 a live audience for you. Frank so Well knows a 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:43.080 special thing. I'm famous, Bill, That's it. And so I 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.960 want to thank everybody for joining us for what do 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:50.120 we call this listen at lunch or something? Lunch and listen? Yeah, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.360 for lunch and listen. Sorry, Alex has all kinds of catchphrases. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.880 I'm not he's the marketing all of them. Yeah, so 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.880 let's jump into it. You joined F three for one 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.320 blunt reason. What was it? 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:08.440 Huh to not be fat anymore? That was really the cruxut? 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:09.040 How long ago? 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:09.560 Uh? 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.880 So that was twenty fourteen, So I guess I'm I'm 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.080 finishing up your twelve of this deal. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.000 So what I mean, what did you look in the mirror? 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.360 And I mean they have these things called planet fit 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.760 they do. I mean, why very true? What was very true? 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.680 So well, I went to the doctor, my doctor, it's 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.719 been my doctor since we moved to Charlotte twenty something 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.400 years ago. And she was like, look, you got high 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:37.120 blood pressure, you got high cholesterol, you're overweight, you got 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.039 sleep apnea. She's like, you're basically just a stroke waiting 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.000 to happen. And I was like, well, that's thanks for that. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.760 I appreciate that. And uh and so it was like 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.120 she said, basically like either you start actually exercising like 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.240 I've been asking to you too for years, or you 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.080 can beyond some medicines. That's so I don't want to 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.039 do all that. So she says, well, then better start 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.039 working now. So I started going to the gym like 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.240 I did a YMC A thing right, And but I 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.800 kept hearing about this F three thing, F three F three. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.159 And I knew a couple of guys who had been 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.960 in And there's a guy that I that I worked 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.960 with who had lost some weight and stuff and was 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.000 looking pretty good and looked like he was feeling good 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.359 about life. And so I said, uh, hey, man, what 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.080 have you been doing and he's like, I've been doing 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.680 this F three And I was like, what, why does 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.719 everybody keep talking about F three? Like what is that? 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.200 And so he explains it and told me kind of 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.240 what they do for workouts and stuff. And I was like, well, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.960 I'm not doing that. Like it was terrible. I was 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.080 that was the world is very hard, Like it is 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.640 what it sounded like to me, you know. I was like, 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.080 I'm more of like a jog on a treadmill for 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.040 a mile and go and pretend I know what some 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.680 of these machines do. And that's you know, that was it. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.720 So I uh so I decided just one Saturday, I 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.120 was like, you know what, I'll just show up, like 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.520 let just see, right, how bad can it be? It's November. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.039 Bad choice. It was probably one of the colder days 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.599 of that year. And I went out there and and Bill, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.320 I had never really exercised in earnest, you know, since 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.680 like high school, you know, and and so I mean 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.160 it it was horrible. It's an hour long. And one 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.640 of the core principles of F three is that it's 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.480 pure lead, right, it's all volunteers, and if you come 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.520 out long enough, we'll say hey, it's your turn. You 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.720 got to lead, right. You don't get away with just 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.360 showing up. Everybody has to participate, and not just in 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.680 the workout, but also in the leadership of the workouts. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.960 So the way they did it on Saturdays then used 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.920 to be they would do two halves. It's an hour long, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.800 and they would do you know, one guy would lead thirty, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.120 another guy would lead thirty. But I didn't know that. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:29.800 I mean, I just had shut up out of nowhere, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.120 and we they start running us around. It's all this 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.040 horrible stuff. And then it's about thirty minutes in and 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.800 this guy goes all right, man, bring it in. Everybody 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.800 kind of comes to, you know, gathers around him, and 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.200 I was like, oh, thank goodness, that is over. That 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.000 was horrible. I think that's the worst thing I've ever 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.000 done in my life. And he was like, all right 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.280 for the second half, I'm gonna head it off to 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.200 this guy. And I was like, how is there a 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.440 second half? Like we're all gonna die, there's no way, right, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.000 And and then we did the second half and it 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.920 was horrible, but you know, you survive. But the thing 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.200 was so that you know, you can get a workout 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.600 a lot of places, right, And it's a little bit 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.240 of a misnomer to call us a fitness group. We 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.920 use fitness, right, that is, that is kind of the 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.240 trojan horse, if you will, to get a man to 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:18.120 come out, right. But really it's about and not ironically 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.800 an army of normal folks, right, But it's about community. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:28.040 It's about bringing men together. So F three stands for fitness, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.600 fellowship and faith. All right. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.520 So I went down a rabbit hole. I had on 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.080 my underwear in one sock, and it was late last night, 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.840 and got on my individual leases out of town. So 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:48.360 I disturbed, absolutely, nobody noted. And I watched a couple 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.240 of videos and what I saw is a bunch of 0:08:51.280 --> 0:09:02.920 people about my age, jumping curbs, lifting cinder blocks, uh, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.400 doing some other stuff that looked like Jane Fondo workout 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.280 from the eighties. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.880 That must have been Memphis. No, it was not. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.320 I'm just saying that because they're all here and and 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.440 like getting a serious workout in, but just like using 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:20.920 what was in the parking lot. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.920 Yeah, and I just started giggling, you know. It was 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.440 not what I expected to see. No, So when you 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.600 showed up and you joined F three for that one 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.000 blunt reason, Yeah, was that what you found in the 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.400 workout was that kind of atmosphere? 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.120 Yeah, very much. Yeah, a lot of joking lots, ben 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.000 are you kidding? Oh yeah, that's why I was like, how, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.720 what's even happening to me? Right now? Right? It was 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.480 a lot of it. Now, at that one, we didn't 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.720 have a lot of cinder blocks and that kind of foolishness. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.640 But it's not uncommon to you know, you'll be running 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.680 and they'll be like, oh, a rock pile and everybody stops, 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.680 and then you work out with the rocks or you 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.600 know whatever whatever fallen trees. All right, pick up a 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.520 log and carry that around. Right. It's it's this peer 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:05.079 lead thing. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.800 Sounds like it's like, Okay, if I'm leading this week, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.200 what kind of stupid can I come up with? 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.400 And I'm gonna make my group day? Uh? Fellas, would 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.480 you agree? Yeah, that's that's about That's about it. Yeah, 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.120 that's that's about it. That actually makes it fun. Yeah, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:19.880 it's fantastic. It's all right. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.880 So I kind of get that. But you have said 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.719 that F three is a men's fitness group, but it's 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:34.080 really a clever disguise, it is. It is Frank, Yeah, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.160 what are you hiding? 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:41.880 We're cult No, I'm just no, it's uh. The mission 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.960 of F three is to is to plant, grow, and 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.559 serve these small workout groups for men in order to 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:55.040 invigorate male community leadership. We want to wake men back up. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.160 There's a lot and this is it was very true 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.880 in Charlotte. It may be true in Memphis, and I 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.880 know it's true in a lot of cities and towns 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:08.920 throughout America. But men of our age, right, poor similar 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.559 as you mentioned right, that kind of late thirties ish 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.120 to mid early fifties ish, right. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.960 You mean the dad bought the exactly well, not me, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.120 but some of that I don't know your s felt. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.200 I'll show you a picture later. You know, I'm a 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.480 fat kid waiting to happen. But it's but no. But 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.679 you know, they they maybe they got a couple of 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.160 kids now right, this early stage of career in life, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.959 and uh probably they probably just had their second kid 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.280 or something. They had something, just had to buy a 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.480 bigger car, right again, maybe a bigger house. Get out 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.320 of the three bedroom into a four or five, right, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.679 God forbid, drive a minivan. There it is, we say, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.320 all the time. We're an army of minivan centurions. Oh boy, 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:57.880 that's that's what we are. Right, So you got it. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.720 You get in this lifestyle and pretty So what you 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.560 find is after a few years of that, these guys 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.960 who thought they were achieving, much like you, sitting in 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.120 their underwear, one sock in their hand, on the end 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.800 of their bed, and they go, was this It is 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.480 this all I'm for? Is this? The great destiny of 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.520 my life is to just bring home paychecks and be 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.360 sad and shuffle mindlessly and listlessly in and out of 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.920 these giant high rises in Charlotte, sit in a cubicle 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.160 all day and make money for somebody else or whateverybody else? 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.439 You know, like, is this my purpose? And you look 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.760 in their eyes and you can see it the hurt 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.280 I was telling guys just this morning, like I can't 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.800 not do this. This is what God called me too. Right, 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.400 is to look another man in the face and say, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.480 don't worry, man, there's more, there's more, And we get that. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.040 That's really what we are. It's a leadership group, and 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.840 we want to teach men leadership because if they learn 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.319 how to lead, then they can take that home to 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.920 their families. Right, they can take that out in their communities. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.960 They can go places and teach others to know what 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.599 they know, right, to teach them how to be functional. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.960 I mean, that's why the fitness is all functional. Everything 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.040 about what we do is functional, you know. So it's 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.040 speaking to those men in those situations. Certainly at first, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.439 that's what it was designed for, right, was those men 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.559 in that kind of middlelife crisis issue. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:27.800 You said that you believe that F three often finds 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.200 men in the early stages of their midlife crisis. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:31.120 We hope. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.200 So do you think a dad bod is one of 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.000 the first steps to a mid life crisis? 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.560 You know that? And I'm being metaphorical of course. Yeah, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.040 But an emotional dadbod, if you will, an emotional dadbod, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.560 Now that's interesting. Yeah, I would say all the men, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:52.720 we call them sad clowns. There's a room full of 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.960 sad clowns. Yeah, right, So that's a Sopranos if you 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.360 watch that, but he says, you know, Tony says, Hey, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.880 I'm like a like a sad clown. I'm happy on 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.640 the outside, but I'm sad on the inside. And that's 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.200 essentially what it is. Yeah, it's that emotional dabt bog. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.439 Why do you think so many men, especially middle aged men, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.240 have never with purpose? And when I say lad, I 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.360 don't be mean. Managing a business gave. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.880 True community and that's part of what I love about 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.800 F three and really about what you guys are doing too, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:31.160 is that it's volunteers. Right. If you got hired, as 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.200 it were, to be in the position you're in, and 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.760 that's your leadership, then you really are a manager. Right. 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.240 Somebody's paying you. You're paying the people beneath you, and 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.320 that means you have the leverage and the power of 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.920 them to say, like, well, if you don't do what 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.520 I say, I'm gonna pay you anymore. Right. So that's managing, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.200 which isn't bad. It's a form of leadership, right. But 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.880 leadership in its most pure fashion, I think, is a 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.000 man or a woman with vision who can articulate that 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.760 vision and then persuade others to come with them. Right. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.760 Have you thought about the cost of men that opt 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.160 out of leadership opportunities to society. I think we're seeing it. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.320 I mean in terms of dollars and cents, incalculable. I 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.840 think incalculable. But I think we're seeing it. I think 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.760 we see it in the degradation of family values. I 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.960 think we see it in the degradation of our institutions. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.960 I mean, it's as obvious. I mean we're seeing the cost. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.840 We're seeing the cost. This is what is the problem 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.280 is when there is no leadership. This is what happens. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.440 Alex, being a producer has done his due diligence for 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.080 me over the last three years, prepping me good. And 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.680 he's also a data minor, and I can't go we 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.520 don't have time to go into the depth of it. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.240 But basically. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.040 He found that Pew Research did a cool study that 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.440 said that about a forty percent approval rating of the 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.120 White House and historically over the last eight presidential elections 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.440 after two years, regardless of its Democrat or Republican, that's 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.080 about the number, So it's really not about the politics. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.000 Same number for Congress, a little bit lower number for Senate. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.840 For the first time in our history, there's less than 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.080 a fifty percent approval rating of the Supreme Court, it's 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.520 supposed to be a non partisan body. Even more surprisingly, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.160 for the first time in our history, there's less than 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.880 a fifty percent approval rating of CEOs of our fortune 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.320 five hundred companies. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.080 Interesting, so we don't approve. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.120 And at the same time, the same Pew research found 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:43.160 that everybody knows that if they're watching Fox or CNN, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.640 ninety four percent of respondents said they realized, depending on 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.400 whose news they're watching, that it's going to be slanted 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.280 toward one viewpoint or another, and when reading social media 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.160 that at the very least it's slanted all the way 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.680 to pot patently false when getting your news from that. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.920 So we don't approve. We know we're being fed. Yet 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.560 the exact same respondents said they spend and average are 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.399 two point two hours a day either listening to Fox 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.880 and then or on social media. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.680 I know that this poison is terrible for me. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.760 But let me have more of it, like a bunch 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:22.479 of sheep. Look, man, we continue to follow narratives that 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.399 we know are and then we wonder why we feel 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.639 bad about ourselves and we opt out of service and 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.040 leadership because we think the world's broken because we're feeding 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.120 ourselves with. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.080 Yeah one hundred percent, troo yeah f three. It seems 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.760 to me breaks that down. We like to think, so, yeah, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.959 we like to think because here's the thing and to 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.720 your point, I think it's really encapsulated well in our 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.040 second core principle, which is that it is open to 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:59.480 all men. All We make no qualification, no kind of 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.320 I mean there's no fee. There's no I mean Number 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.080 number one corporates both it's free, right, it's always free, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.480 no matter what period. And the second is open all 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.439 man and so there is no barrier to entry. We 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.239 don't care who you are, what you look like, who 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.400 you worship, no, who you love, don't care how you vote, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:22.240 don't care. 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We are now really. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.679 Because of the success of these first six, looking at 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:12.040 launching more local service clubs, and if you'd be interested 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.119 in either leading or serving on the leadership team of 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.880 a new one in your community, email Alex at Alex 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.919 at Normalfolks dot org and he'd love to connect with 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.120 you about this cool opportunity. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:38.920 We'll be right back. I was telling guys this morning, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.600 there's a it needs to start to crop up all 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.280 over the place. But one of the original workout spots 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:51.879 early on in Charlotte is at a local treatment facility, right, libbing, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.399 you know, I think it's you know at the one 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.240 hundred and eighty days now that they give for free. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.480 It's a Charlotte Rescue mission. And a guy named John Lambert, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.560 who is my predecessor, was started that and he says, 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.320 you know these guys and he was an addict, right, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.160 so he knew. He also runs a multipajillion dollar construction 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.879 company now, right, and so he was like, these are 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.200 men that he had a heart for. So he goes 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.560 and he starts to work out there, and originally didn't 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.440 even want us there. They're like, everybody fails these guys. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.080 Everybody fails these guys. We don't need one more, you know, 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.959 great hope to come and pretend like they care and 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.200 then wash out after a few weeks. And then these 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:30.800 guys once again look at their lives and go, well, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.160 I got nothing right. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.760 Many of our longtime listeners will understand the phrase turkey person. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:36.880 I'll explain it to you later. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:41.200 When I got it perfect, I have a feeling, maybe 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.840 a check writers like kind of the same. Yeah, show 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.800 up on Thanksgiving Giving and never shows and I never 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:48.600 show up again. And so they said, we were not 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.960 really thrilled with this idea, but we'll give you a shot. Well, 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.680 it's been now out. Remember ten twelve years or something. 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.880 We've been doing this every single Saturday. And at that location, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.120 you have men who are in the day depth of 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.200 chronic addiction and homelessness. Right. Sometimes they've been in and 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.359 out of this facility a couple of times, working out 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:15.040 next to men literally who are billionaires and really outside 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.280 of I mean, if you know, if you're a stute, right, 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.480 you can pick it up. But really they're all wearing 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:24.359 the same T shirt. Nobody asks, nobody cares, right. I 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.679 only know because I know the guys, right, if you 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.640 know him, you know him maybe, But but they don't 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.600 look at it and go, this guy's less or oh 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:36.240 he's a project or whatever. We really have a true 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.919 deep ethos of every man is every man. God created 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.440 every man to be a leader. He created every man 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.080 to be successful. He created every man to have purpose 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.119 in his life, whatever that purpose is. Some purposes are 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.679 bigger than others. Right, You reach thousands and thousands of people, right, 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.040 other guys that may not be their deal, that might 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.600 not be where they're called to impact. We believe that 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.879 every single man on this planet has been called to 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.240 impact and sour. Our intent is to go and to 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.960