WEBVTT - HIGHLIGHTS: The 100,000-Man Movement That Will Change Your Life 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.080 Have you thought about the cost of men that opt 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.519 out of leadership opportunities to society. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.280 I think we're seeing it. I think we see it 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.000 in the degradation of family values. I think we see 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.639 it in the degradation of our institutions when there is 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.520 no leadership. This is what happens. America has a shortage 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.759 of male leaders. Men are quietly checking out of leading 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.840 in their communities, their own homes, and even their own lives. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.600 Is this the great destiny of my life is to 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.960 just bring home paychecks and be sad? Is it in 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.120 a cubicle all day and make money for somebody else? 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.960 Is this my purpose? This is what God called me too? 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.440 Is to look another man in the face and say, 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.120 don't worry, man, there's more. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.800 This is Frank Schwartz. He's the CEO of F three, 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.560 which stands for Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. Men at over 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:53.720 five thousand locations across the world join free, pure led 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.640 workouts at five point thirty am that are outdoors, no 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.760 matter if it's freezing, blistering, raining, or snowing. You're the 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:08.200 CEO of one hundred thousand man movement. Current we ain't done. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.280 The mission of F three is to plant, grow, and 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.520 serve these small workout groups for men in order to 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.160 invigorate male community leadership. One of the poor principles of 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.640 F three is that it's pure let right. It's all volunteers, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.919 and if you come out long enough, we'll say it's 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.960 your turn. You got to lead. We want to teach 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.920 men leadership because if they learn how to lead, then 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:29.440 they can take that home to their families. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.759 By the end of this episode, you're going to walk 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.880 away with a blueprint for real leadership. You'll have a 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.960 deeper appreciation for where your leadership matters most. You'll also 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.560 discover the F three movement and that just might change 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.639 your life or the lives of men you care about 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.480 who really need to hear this episode. F three ain't 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.280 gonna change the world. That's not what we're for. 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That was 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:04.360 really the Cruxoup? 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:04.880 How long ago? 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:05.480 Uh? 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.800 So? That was twenty fourteen? So I guess I'm I'm 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.000 finishing up your twelve of this deal. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.520 And so what I mean, what did you look in 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.160 the mirror? And I mean so true? They have these 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.800 things called planet fit they do. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.640 I mean, why very true? What was very true? 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.040 So? 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.760 Well, I went to the doctor, my doctor, it's been 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.039 my doctor since we moved to Charlotte twenty something years ago. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.080 And she was like, look, you got high blood pressure, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.839 you got high cholesterol, you're overweight, you got sleep apnea. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.359 She's like, you're basically just a stroke waiting to happen. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.039 And I was like, well that, thanks for that. I 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.080 appreciate that. And uh. And so it was like she said, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.320 basically like either you start actually exercising like I've been 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:50.200 asking to you too for years, or you can beyond 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.360 some medicines. That's so I don't want to do all that. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.320 So she says, well, then better start work now. So 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.320 I started going to the gym like I did, like 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.200 YMCA thing right, And but I kept hearing about this 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.280 F three thing, F three F three And I knew 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.520 a couple of guys who had been in and there's 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.720 a guy that I that I worked with who had 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.560 lost some weight and stuff and was looking pretty good 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.360 and looked like he was feeling good about life. And 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.960 so I said, uh, hey, man, what have you been doing? 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:15.440 And it's like I've been doing this F three And 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.000 I was like what, why does everybody keep talking about 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.239 F three? Like what is that? And so he explains 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.760 it and told me kind of what they do for 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:23.679 workouts and stuff. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:24.880 And I was like, well, I'm not doing that. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.599 Like it was terrible, Like I was, that was the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.599 world is very hard, Like this is what it sounded 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:29.960 like to me, you know. I was like, I'm more 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.440 of like a jog on a treadmill for a mile 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.240 and go and pretend I know what some of these 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.760 machines do. And that's you know, that was it. So 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.800 I uh so I decided just one Saturday, I was like, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:40.640 you know, I'll just show. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:41.800 Up, like what to see? 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.039 Right, how bad can it be? 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.440 It's November. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.960 Bad choice. It was probably one of the colder days 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.520 of that year. And I went out there and and Bill, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.200 I had never really exercised in earnest, you know, since 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.440 like high school, you know, and uh and so I 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.080 mean it was it was horrible. It's an hour long 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.240 and one of the core principles of F three is 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.120 that it's pure lead. Right, It's all volunteers, and if 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.360 you come out long enough, we'll say, hey, it's your turn. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.359 You got to lead, right. You don't get away with 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.159 just showing up. Everybody has to participate, and not just 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.760 in the workout, but also in the leadership of the workouts. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.880 So the way they did it on Saturdays then used 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.840 to be they would do two halves. It's an hour long, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.719 and they would do you know, one guy would lead thirty, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.000 another guy would lead thirty. But I didn't know that. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.719 I mean, I just had shut up out of nowhere, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.000 and we they start running us around. It's all this 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.039 horrible stuff. And it's about thirty minutes in and this 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.760 guy goes all right, man, bring it in, and everybody 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.720 kind of comes to, you know, gathers around him, and 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.080 I was like, oh, thank goodness, that is over. That 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.599 was a horrible I think that was the worst thing 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.640 I'd ever done in my life. And he was like, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.000 all right for the second half, I'm gonna head it 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:43.440 up to this guy. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.680 And I was like, how is there a second half? 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.720 Like we're all gonna die, there's no way, right, And 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.400 and then we did the second half and it was horrible, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.200 but you know, you survive. But the thing was is 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.160 so that you know you can get a workout a 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.560 lot of places, right, And it's a little bit of 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:02.640 a misnomer to call us a. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.719 Fitness We use fitness, right, that is, that is kind 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.839 of the trojan horse, if you will, to get a 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:13.200 man to come out right. But really it's about and 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.720 not ironically an army of normal folks, right, but it's 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:22.000 about community. It's about bringing men together. So F three 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.040 stands for fitness, fellowship and faith. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:30.160 All right. So I went down a rabbit hole. I 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.080 had on my underwear in one sock, and it was 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:38.000 late last night and got on my leasas out of town. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:44.040 So I disturbed, absolutely nobody noted. And I watched a 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.040 couple of videos and what I saw is a bunch 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:56.400 of people about my age jumping curbs, lifting cinder blocks, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.320 doing some other stuff that looked like Jane Fondo workout 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:04.200 from the eighties. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.400 That must have been Memphis. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.720 No it was not. I just get I'm just saying 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.960 that because they're all here and and like getting a 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.920 serious workout in, but just like using what was in 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.000 the parking lot. Yeah, and I just started giggling. You know, 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.559 it was not what I expected to see. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:23.560 No, so. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.080 When you showed up and you joined F three for 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.560 that one blunt reason, yeah, was that what you found 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.320 in the workout? Was that kind of atmosphere? 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:34.600 Yeah? 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.000 Yeah, very much. Yeah, a lot of joking locks, Ben, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.760 are you kidding? Oh yeah, that's why I was like, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.240 how what's even happening to me? 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:41.640 Right now? 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:41.920 Right? 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.959 It was a lot of it. Now, at that one, 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.760 we didn't have a lot of cinder blocks in that 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.920 kind of foolishness, But it's not uncommon to you know, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.800 you'll be running and they'll be like, oh, a rock pile 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.600 and everybody stops, and then you work out with the 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.760 rocks or you know whatever whatever. Right, all in trees? 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.440 All right, pick up a log and carry that around. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:08:58.720 Right. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.000 It's it's this peer lead thing. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.720 Sounds like it's like, Okay, if I'm leading this week, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.160 what kind of stupid can I come up with it? 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.560 I'm going to make my group d. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.760 Uh fellas would you agree? Yeah, that's that's about That's 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.360 about it. Yeah, that's that's about it. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.840 That actually makes it fun. Yeah, it's fantastic. All right, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.800 So I kind of get that. But you have said 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.640 that F three is a men's fitness group, but it's 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:30.040 really a clever disguise, it is it is, Frank, Yeah, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.080 what are you hiding? 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:37.880 We're cult No, I'm no, it's uh. The mission of 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:42.280 F three is to is to plant, grow, and serve 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.319 these small workout groups for men in order to invigorate 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.920 male community leadership. We want to wake men back up. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.080 There's a lot and this is It was very true 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.880 in Charlotte. It may be true in Memphis, and I 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.800 know it's true in a lot of cities and towns 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:04.840 throughout America. But men of our age, right, poor similar 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.880 as you mentioned, right, and that kind of late thirties 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.480 ish to mid early fifties ish. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:17.880 Right, you mean the dad bought exactly well, not me, 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:22.480 but some of that don't know your s felt. I'll 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.320 show you a picture later. You know, I'm a fat 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.280 kid waiting to happen. But but no. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.560 But you know, they they maybe they got a couple 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.040 of kids now right this early stage of career in life, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.880 and uh, probably they probably just had their second kid 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.199 or something. They had something, just had to buy a 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.360 bigger car, right, get maybe a bigger house, Get out 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.800 of three bedroom into a four or five. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.360 Right, God forbid, drive a minivan. There it is, we 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.680 say all the time. We're an army of minivan centurions. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.480 Oh boy, that's that's what we are. Right, So you 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:53.800 got it. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.600 You get in this lifestyle, and pretty soon what you 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.440 find is, after a few years of that, these guys 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.839 who thought they were achieving, much like you, sitting in 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.040 their underwear, one sock in their hand on the end 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.679 of their bed, and they go, was this It is 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.240 this all I'm for? This is this? The great destiny 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.280 of my life is to just bring home paychecks and 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.199 be sad and shuffle mindlessly and listlessly in and out 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.400 of these giant high rises in Charlotte, sit in a 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.480 cubicle all day and make money for somebody else or 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.040 whateverybody else, you know, like, is this my purpose? And 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.079 you look in their eyes and you can see it 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.840 the hurt I was telling guys just this morning, like 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.640 I can't not do this. This is what God called 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.480 me too. Right, is to look another man in the 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.520 face and say, don't worry, man, there's more, there's more, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.040 and we get that's that's really what we are. It's 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.880 a leadership group, and we want to teach men leadership 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.600 because if they learn how to lead, then they can 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.760 take that home to their families, right, they can take 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.040 that out in their communities. They can go places and 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.400 teach others to know what they know, right, to teach 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.360 them how to be functional. I mean, that's why the 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.120 fitness is all functional. Everything about what we do is functional, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.560 you know. So it's it's speaking to those men in 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.120 those situations. Certainly at first, that's what it was designed for. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.320 Why do you think so many men, especially middle aged men, 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:25.120 have never with purpose? And when I say lad, I 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.240 don't be mean. Managing a business gave. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.760 True community and that's part of what I love about 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.719 F three and really about what you guys are doing too, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.360 is that it's volunteers. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:36.080 Right. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.240 If you got hired, as it were, to be in 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.840 the position you're in and that's your leadership, then you 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.320 really are a manager. Right, somebody's paying you. You're paying 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.760 the people beneath you, and that means you have the 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.120 leverage and the power of them to say, like, well, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.200 if you don't do what I say, I'm gonna pay 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.199 you anymore. Right, So that's managing, which isn't bad. It's 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.600 a form of leadership, right. But leadership in its most 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.559 pure fashion, I think, is a man or a woman 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.840 with vision who can articulate that vision and then persuade 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:07.800 others to come with them. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.200 Right. Have you thought about the cost of men that 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.000 opt out of leadership opportunities to society. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.640 I think we're seeing it. I mean in terms of 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:23.360 dollars and cents, incalculable, incalculable, But I think we're seeing it. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.520 I think we see it in the degradation of family values. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.840 I think we see it in the degradation of our institutions. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.040 I mean it's as obvious. I mean, we're seeing the cost. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.720 We're seeing the cost. This is what is the problem 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.160 is when there is no leadership. 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We'll 0:14:49.040 --> 0:15:03.280 be right back. Being a producer, has done his due 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.840 diligence for me over the last three years prepping me, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.960 and he's also a data minor and I can't go 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.080 we don't have time to go into the depth of it. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.720 But basically he found that Pew Research did a cool 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.760 study that said that about a forty percent approval rating 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.440 of the White House, and historically over the last eight 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.040 presidential elections after two years, regardless of it's a Democrat 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.280 or Republican, that's about the number, so it's really not 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:37.440 about the politics. Same number for Congress, a little bit 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.200 lower number for Senate. For the first time in our history, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.840 there's less than a fifty percent approval rating of the 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.200 Supreme Court. It's supposed to be a non partisan body. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.800 Even more surprisingly, for the first time in our history, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.440 there's less than a fifty percent approval rating of CEOs 0:15:53.680 --> 0:16:02.560 of our fortune five hundred companies. Interesting don't approve, And 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.920 at the same time, the same Pew research found that 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.440 everybody knows that if they're watching Fox or CNN, ninety 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.840 four percent respondents said they realize, depending on whose news 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.320 they're watching, that it's going to be slanted toward one 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.480 viewpoint or another. Yeah, and when reading social media that 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.800 at the very least it's slanted all the way to 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.560 pot patently false when getting introduced from that. So we 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.960 don't approve. We know we're being fed. Yet the exact 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.720 same respondent said they spend and average are two point 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.520 two hours a day either listening to Fox, inn or 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.880 on social media. I know that this poison is terrible 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.840 for me, but let me have more of it like 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:50.040 a bunch of sheep. Look, man, we continue to follow 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.400 narratives that we know are and then we wonder why 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.560 we feel bad about ourselves and we opt out of 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.960 service and leadership because we think the world's broken because 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.800 feeding ourselves. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.960 With yeah, one hundred percent true, yeah. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.600 F three, it seems to me breaks that down. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.879 We like to think, so, yeah, we like to think 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.680 because here's the thing, and to your point, I think 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:19.160 it's really encapsulated well in our second core principle, which 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:24.399 is that it is open to all men. All we 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:29.600 make no qualification, no kind of I mean, there's no fee, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.080 there's no I mean number one, number one core principles. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.800 That's free, right, It's always free, no matter what period. 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.200 And the second is opened all men, and so there 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.160 is no barrier to entry. We don't care who you are, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.400 what you look like, who you worship, no, who you love, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.480 don't care how you vote, don't care. I was telling 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.320 guys this morning, there's a and these are started to 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.159 crop up all over the place. But one of the 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.320 original workout spots early on in Charlotte is at a 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:01.800 local treatment facility, right, and you know, I think it's 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.120 the one hundred and eighty days now that they give 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.800 for free. It's a Charlotte rescue mission. And a guy 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.199 named John Lambert, who is my predecessor, was started that 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.639 and he says, you know, these guys and he was 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.479 an addict, right, so he knew he also runs a 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.600 multi pajillion dollar construction company now, right, and so he 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:21.919 was like, these are men that he had a heart for. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.119 So he goes and he starts to work out there, 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.800 and originally didn't even want us there. They're like, everybody 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.840 fails these guys. Everybody fails these guys. We don't need 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.840 one more, you know, great hope to come and pretend 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.040 like they care and then wash out after a few weeks. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.680 And then these guys once again look at their lives 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.400 and go, well, I got nothing right. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.000 Many of our longtime listeners will understand the phrase turkey person. 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.080 I'll explain it to you later. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.440 When I got it perfect, I have a feeling, maybe 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:50.920 a check writers like kind of the same. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.760 Yeah, show up on Thanksgiving giving out there, then never show. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.360 Up and they never show up again. And so they said, 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.440 we were not really thrilled with this idea, but we'll 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.320 give you a shot. Well it's been now, I don't 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.480 remember ten twelve years or something. We've been doing this 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.560 every single Saturday. And at that location you have men 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:12.640 who are in the depth of chronic addiction and homelessness. 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:13.359 Right. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.399 Sometimes they've been in and out of this facility a 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.680 couple of times working out next to men literally who 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:24.439 are billionaires and really outside of I mean, you know, 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.280 if you're a stute, right, you can pick it up. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.639 But really they're all wearing the same T shirt. Nobody asks, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.640 nobody cares, right, I only know because I know the guys. Right, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.240 if you know him, you know him maybe, But but 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.480 they don't look at it and go, this guy's less 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.879 or oh he's a project or whatever. We really have 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.480 a true deep ethos of every man is every man. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.280 God created every man to be a leader. He created 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.240 every man to be successful. He created every man to 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.800 have purpose in his life, whatever that purpose is. Some 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.560 purposes are bigger than others. Right, you reach thousands and 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.439 thousands of people, right, other guys that may not be 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:08.000 their deal, that might not be where they're called to impact. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.199 But we believe that every single man on this planet 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.960 has been called to impact. And so our intent is 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.720 to go and to find them and to unlock them, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.240 to give them leadership, skills and purpose, and to set 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:21.920 them free. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:27.360 All while lifting cinder blocks. It's the weird jumping in herbs. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.960 Bill if knitting was the thing that brought men together 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.560 into community and unlock their hearts and minds. We would 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:39.000 knit with a fervor unknown to man. That's what we 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.800 would do. It just so happens at the workouts. A 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:41.920 pretty good way to get guys in. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.760 You know, my generation, or at least how I grew up, 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:51.000 was we didn't have a lot of catchphrases for stuff. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.800 We just said what we thought, rolled with it, and 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.000 there's good ambat to that. Sure, in today's world, there 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.800 seems to be a catchphrase or a type for everything. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.320 So when I think about masculinity as I'm thinking about 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.800 F three, the two are basically synonymous. Bill, So it 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.879 makes sense, I understand. But see, here's the point. Because 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.080 of that tongue in cheek comment, I think about the 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:29.520 terms mat toxic masculinity, row culture, masculinity, soft masculinity. What 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:36.200 is an F three masculinity? Uh, real masculinity, true masculine. 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:36.800 Tell me what that? 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.639 We would say virtuous masculinity. That's that's the way theyphrase 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.960 it masculinity to us. Uh, most of the things you 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.680 described there, like the bro culture, you know, these red 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.080