Speaker 1: This is and and I hear radio podcast. Here we
Speaker 1: go so excited to finally get this podcast going. My
Speaker 1: name is Brooks, like I am one of your co
Speaker 1: hosts along with my man to my left. It there
Speaker 1: he is my dude. Good to see you two. And
Speaker 1: we have a couple other gentlemen here at the table
Speaker 1: as well that I quickly want to introduce. We have Dmitri,
Speaker 1: we have Rick, and we have Ryan. And we'll get
Speaker 1: to these good sirs in a second. I want to
Speaker 1: start with you, my friend. You just got off the
Speaker 1: plane for the for the people in our community, Mr
Speaker 1: Gavin Degrock. Can you that do not know who you are? Um?
Speaker 1: Can you please give us a little bit about yourself
Speaker 1: and what you're excited for for this podcast? Man? Boy,
Speaker 1: um my favorite topic. Thank you so much? Me? Or
Speaker 1: do you want to uh? Well, uh, I sang and
Speaker 1: write songs and stuff. And you probably know me since
Speaker 1: your hockey man for falling on the ice during the
Speaker 1: national anthem recently. Soody it's slick. Yes, I wore the
Speaker 1: wrong shoes. Yeah, let me just blaming at that. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's it man, It's it's good to be here.
Speaker 1: I I hopped on a one of those great flights
Speaker 1: today where feels like you're riding a public bus. You know.
Speaker 1: There was somebody heavy breathing on my neck because they
Speaker 1: were as they were reading the directions of if the
Speaker 1: plane were to go down, like I can save somebody.
Speaker 1: She was looking across me and like heavy breathing in
Speaker 1: my ear, and I was like, I can get out
Speaker 1: of your way right now. It's like, really, I can
Speaker 1: get at anyway. So you're coming in happier, You're coming
Speaker 1: in house. It's great, it's great to be here. That's exciting.
Speaker 1: Man's been looking forward to it. By the way, thanks
Speaker 1: for following me on Instagram, man, because we've just been
Speaker 1: liking your pictures for quite some time now, have you. Yeah, Man,
Speaker 1: I said, like, I probably like to three of your
Speaker 1: pictures because you exercise a lot. I was like, those techniques, right,
Speaker 1: his vacation pictures are his exercise workout. Yeah. But what
Speaker 1: I will say that, so you've been on Dance with
Speaker 1: the Stars. My wife, My wife raved about you. She
Speaker 1: was so excited and she says to say hi, and everybody, um,
Speaker 1: everybody in my community that I know that knows you.
Speaker 1: And Dmitri echoed this too. He said, everybody that he
Speaker 1: knows that knows you, raves about you to a disgusting degree, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Gavin Degraan, Like, oh my god, he's the nicest guys.
Speaker 1: Like all right, well, there's other nice people. So I've
Speaker 1: not met anyone who likes you so at all. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's leave to that. We'll go to Ryan here next.
Speaker 1: So we'll go to Ryan. I'm gonna run down a
Speaker 1: little a little uh bio of Ryan. Born in Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: raised in Philly, is a long time suffering Philly sports fan. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that. TV executive writer, political consultant. He's
Speaker 1: got an eighteen month old boy, he's got another one
Speaker 1: on the way, so he's in it. His mom and
Speaker 1: dad were both FBI agents. He played soccer in college,
Speaker 1: and he is self described as handsome, humble, and ironic
Speaker 1: self describe I don't see where the humble comes in.
Speaker 1: That's the irony. That's then, by the way, we have
Speaker 1: a bone because on the way here, Brooks told me
Speaker 1: that the worst fan base he ever faced while in
Speaker 1: the NHL was the Philly fans. You asked me which
Speaker 1: were the rudest ones? And I wear that as a
Speaker 1: batch of honor. I mean, I mean, I can't call
Speaker 1: somebody polite. When I'm walking into the Green I get
Speaker 1: spit on by thirty people from up above in the walkway.
Speaker 1: So that could have been Ryan, it could have been Um.
Speaker 1: But can you give us? Can you give everybody listening
Speaker 1: like something? You're super excited about to be on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm super excited because I think what's really interesting to
Speaker 1: me is that we all have our unique perspectives. We
Speaker 1: all are at a different stage in our lives. You know,
Speaker 1: you're married, kids, probably soon. I have one kid, a
Speaker 1: second along on the way. Dmitri has twelve kids. I
Speaker 1: think Gavin is perpetually scared of commitment whatsoever. So it's
Speaker 1: a good thanks, Um, But that's exciting. We're happy to
Speaker 1: have you. Kay. We'll lead to going teeing up Dmitri here.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have twelve, but he has four kids. He's
Speaker 1: a writer and a comedy consultant. Avid sports fan comes
Speaker 1: from a big Greek family, owns a mandarin orange farm,
Speaker 1: the most random stat in the world and it doesn't
Speaker 1: love a good halo, and also is described as extremely handsome.
Speaker 1: We have a very handsome panel. Well, yeah, well my
Speaker 1: mom said that when I was young, so I figured
Speaker 1: it's good for life. So I'm um, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: have four kids, ten, eight, six and almost three. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think you know it's it's funny. As Ryan
Speaker 1: was saying, I think we all bring something different to
Speaker 1: the table, which I'm excited about. I will mention that
Speaker 1: obviously Brooks, you're married. Ryan's married, uh to almost two kids.
Speaker 1: Rick's married two kids. I have four kids. I'm married,
Speaker 1: and Gavin walks in the room, he goes, so, wait,
Speaker 1: everybody here's married, so I think we know his stance
Speaker 1: on marriage, so that's not really I just was like, wow,
Speaker 1: so I'm the only not married person in the room.
Speaker 1: You look at you that have a you know, a teammate,
Speaker 1: somebody who you know it was in the same boat
Speaker 1: as me. Hey, you guys looked at each other like
Speaker 1: what were we thinking? This guy's get the smile on
Speaker 1: his face. Well, and I think the good news is
Speaker 1: that we're here to help you out. Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: to you and you're kind of guiding. This is not
Speaker 1: a podcast, it's an intervention down what if he's the
Speaker 1: other way and all of a sudden He's like what
Speaker 1: We're like, Yeah, wait are we married? We're all five
Speaker 1: single guys. Um, well let's go to the guiding light.
Speaker 1: Rick uh Rick two kids. He's a thirteen year old,
Speaker 1: a ten year old. He's a coach uh Technology Life
Speaker 1: Life Cycle Solutions. I T Management SoCal living in North
Speaker 1: North cal um just joined Netflix and I agree with this.
Speaker 1: One man plays the toughest sport in the world water polo.
Speaker 1: I agree without a hunt. Well, thank you very much
Speaker 1: that that's very polite coming from a hockey player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but dude, I swam this morning. I swim on Thursday
Speaker 1: as part of my workout. Swimming is the hardest thing
Speaker 1: in the world to me. Yeah, no, it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's fun and it's good to get out there, and
Speaker 1: it's it's I think overall, you know. And part of
Speaker 1: this whole you know, how men think is talking about
Speaker 1: exercise and health and wellness and and you know, using
Speaker 1: swimming as as part of an exercise to get an
Speaker 1: over like an all body you know, movement. So I
Speaker 1: get I get crutinely crushed in the pool by like
Speaker 1: middle aged women. They just go down and back story,
Speaker 1: true story, they go down and back down and back.
Speaker 1: I'll go down and back down and back and I'm
Speaker 1: like just huffing and puffing. They just keep going swimming
Speaker 1: as an art man, so do I do? I tip
Speaker 1: my cap to you. Anybody that plays water polo is
Speaker 1: an intense athlete, So I tip my cap to appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Um, what's one thing you're super excited for
Speaker 1: to be on the podcast? Uh? You know, honestly, it's
Speaker 1: just to talk about all of all the the aspects
Speaker 1: that we're going to go over today and and kind
Speaker 1: of help you know, Gavin out and when I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be a grandpa when it's over, don't worry. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just to kind of you know, talk about certain things.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's what I'm looking forward to, you know,
Speaker 1: sharing our experiences. Awesome. I love it. Can I see
Speaker 1: a quick question? When you said you just joined Netflix,
Speaker 1: do you mean like working or like you just signed
Speaker 1: up for Netflix like twenty years after everybody else. No,
Speaker 1: although you know, I I just signed up about three
Speaker 1: weeks ago. I have a log in and a password,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm actually watching a show every once
Speaker 1: in a while, and it's pretty interesting. First show you
Speaker 1: watched what is it, Uh, Murder Mountain was on a
Speaker 1: recommendation or you just like No, I had heard it
Speaker 1: from only from a friend. Only from a friend? Is
Speaker 1: a picture? Well, we're gonna have some fun on this show, guys. UM,
Speaker 1: and my name is Brooks like and I was a
Speaker 1: professional hockey player playing in the NHL for fourteen years.
Speaker 1: Live in Los Angeles, UM, and I'm I'm married, have
Speaker 1: three dogs. Hopefully I have kids here someday soon. UM.
Speaker 1: Don't have any on the way, but definitely want kids
Speaker 1: and look up to you gentlemen for being fathers. UM.
Speaker 1: But I'm super excited about this podcast. UM. Since I've
Speaker 1: been out of the sport, I feel like I have
Speaker 1: a lot to say. I really want to make an
Speaker 1: impact in the world. UM. I think I've learned a
Speaker 1: lot of lessons through sport, through high pressure environments. UM,
Speaker 1: through team which is why I love doing this podcast
Speaker 1: with other people as well. UM. And really be of
Speaker 1: service to our listeners, to you guys that are listening,
Speaker 1: whether it's in your car, at home, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: We are really a vessel to serve you guys. So
Speaker 1: I want you to engage with us, interact with us.
Speaker 1: We have an email men at I Heart Radio. If
Speaker 1: you want to comment or send questions or feedback insight
Speaker 1: on the show, please do that. Um. But with that said,
Speaker 1: we will now get into what this show is going
Speaker 1: to be, what it's about, how men think, gentlemen take
Speaker 1: it away? Okay, Oh, he couldn't have done that any better.
Speaker 1: So not a lot going upstairs? Is that the first
Speaker 1: thing did you say? When men think, well, here's here's
Speaker 1: our here's our promise to our listeners is we're going
Speaker 1: to dive into many issues to that that men deal with, UM, lifestyle, health, fitness, relationship, career, opportunity, fears,
Speaker 1: a little bit of vulnerability. We're not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and cry, but we're gonna dig into some emotions. We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna try and promise is not gonna be tears.
Speaker 1: Who do you think christ first? Oh yeah, I'm about
Speaker 1: rid of now on rock stars they're all the same.
Speaker 1: So in a room full of dude But for everybody listening,
Speaker 1: it's going to for guys that are listening, we want
Speaker 1: to provide value to you. Are also gonna have some
Speaker 1: funny stories share, so there's gonna be a lot of laughter.
Speaker 1: That's for certain, Um, but we want to provide value
Speaker 1: to you and be a value add to your life
Speaker 1: and hopefully give you some insight to some things maybe
Speaker 1: you're dealing with or some things you might be dealing
Speaker 1: with upcoming in your life. That's maybe some of these
Speaker 1: guys have have been through. UM. And then on the
Speaker 1: flip side for our female listeners, fire away, what do
Speaker 1: you want to know? That? We will be an open
Speaker 1: book and open source for you guys? What do you
Speaker 1: want to know? How men think? What we think about
Speaker 1: our thought process behind things, how we approach relationship, life, career,
Speaker 1: anything like that. Um, We've already had some fascinating discussions.
Speaker 1: I also want to send a thank you before we
Speaker 1: really get into it, Miss Amy Sugarman right here for
Speaker 1: putting this whole thing together. Fell around of applause. This
Speaker 1: is Amy's concept, this is her baby that we're only
Speaker 1: here because of you, So sincere, thank you for She
Speaker 1: really wants to know what men thanks. So she's like,
Speaker 1: this is the easiest way to find out that that
Speaker 1: is true? I think so far getting to know where
Speaker 1: I think that is the truth. Want to think Danielle
Speaker 1: right here for her help. Our producer and Eastern our
Speaker 1: engineer and Eastern there's a good flax. You guys can't
Speaker 1: see it, biceps Eastern does. Um, but let's dig into it.
Speaker 1: How men think. Um, we're gonna dig into many different
Speaker 1: issues in how men think on this podcast. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a variety of them. Uh, Rick, why don't you
Speaker 1: give us one? My friend, what is going on in
Speaker 1: your life? Yeah? Well, you know, my son just turned
Speaker 1: thirteen last week, So that was that was a blessing, interesting, exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, as part of that obviously is
Speaker 1: kind of when they start hitting puberty, and you know,
Speaker 1: he is definitely starting to cross that line a little bit,
Speaker 1: and you know, as as being a parent, and I
Speaker 1: sort of backed off of it for a while. He
Speaker 1: had his own cell phone. Um, you know, I used
Speaker 1: to check his cell phone occasionally and I was like,
Speaker 1: he was wasn't being very nice, you know to me.
Speaker 1: So I was like, Okay, he's gonna go to bed
Speaker 1: and I'll check a cell phone. So check a cell phone.
Speaker 1: Start going through it, just making sure. The reason I'm
Speaker 1: checking a cell phone making sure his communication to his
Speaker 1: friends or girls and guys is proper and nice and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And so in doing. So I go through and I
Speaker 1: check out his web browser. So I pull up his
Speaker 1: web browser and like, you know what, I'm gonna actually
Speaker 1: search this, I'm gonna look what he's watching looking at
Speaker 1: and I pull it up and the videos sorry, dirt bikes. Well,
Speaker 1: it used to be like, you know, basketball videos, all
Speaker 1: of basketball videos, baseball videos, comebacks, game of the year,
Speaker 1: those are those are the headlines back and when he
Speaker 1: was ten, eleven, twelve. Well, now I pull it up
Speaker 1: and it's where he needs to go to his baseball practice.
Speaker 1: And then it's things that I don't necessarily well I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say I can't agree with it, but I'm not
Speaker 1: really appropriate for a thirteen year old? Give us the
Speaker 1: heavy what is it? Video? So it was like, not
Speaker 1: quite the sports you were looking at. It was not
Speaker 1: basketball videos, yeah, top ten, you know, highlights them. So
Speaker 1: you were sad that it was on his phone, but
Speaker 1: thrilled that you found it. I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I have not seen these. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is an amazing collection. He subscribes to the same
Speaker 1: and I was like, what is that My logging is
Speaker 1: that we could get a discount, Hey, you're on the
Speaker 1: same iCloud account that breaks up. So the first two had,
Speaker 1: you know, our Google searches for wearing easy to go
Speaker 1: to baseball practice, which we clearly take him because he
Speaker 1: can't drive, and that's real, that's not The next one
Speaker 1: is hot blonde mill for me to suck cute. He
Speaker 1: gets her tiny hole hammered. I don't know, so, you know,
Speaker 1: as his father, I'm sort of given a couple of
Speaker 1: fist pumps, you know. I'm like, yeah, this is killer,
Speaker 1: kind of like your flow here, bro, you know. So
Speaker 1: it sounds to me like you would have preferred he
Speaker 1: dipped his toe in the water instead of just cannonballing
Speaker 1: into porn very much. Don't sound very like starter level
Speaker 1: or this is not the five playboy that I used
Speaker 1: from at my friend's house. So so how do you
Speaker 1: handle that? Do you have you talked to your boy
Speaker 1: about that? We've talked already, yes, So what was the conversation.
Speaker 1: The conversation delayed a couple of weeks, so it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was trying to figure out what is that,
Speaker 1: you know, because you had to watch everything because my
Speaker 1: thought was you're not in trouble, like you're all gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna find it no matter what, whether it's on
Speaker 1: your phone, your friends, wherever, the home computer, my log
Speaker 1: in was. When I approached him, we were My wife
Speaker 1: and I both sat him down and he was kind
Speaker 1: of being at the time, and we were like, look,
Speaker 1: we need to talk, like you're using your phone for
Speaker 1: certain things and here's what they are, you know, And
Speaker 1: we didn't go back and tell them that. And we
Speaker 1: don't have that much data on your plan. That's a
Speaker 1: huge download right now on I would go instead of
Speaker 1: eight videos, I would married down to five. Yet, can
Speaker 1: I What was your wife's reaction to this? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you know, she was surprised. She was wondering what was
Speaker 1: going Was she like, oh my gosh, I failed as
Speaker 1: a mom, or this is your fault or he's no,
Speaker 1: I don't. We didn't really look at each other that way.
Speaker 1: Dmitri was more along the lines of like, how are
Speaker 1: we going to have this conversation? You know, on you
Speaker 1: as the father, because it's it's your son that you're
Speaker 1: to be the one to have that conversation like birds
Speaker 1: and the be style. Yeah, I sort of felt that way,
Speaker 1: and we haven't had that conversation yet. Either and so
Speaker 1: obviously that's next. But I'm trying to plant a fishing
Speaker 1: trip around that, although from the necessary the titles of
Speaker 1: these are way beyond Okay, here's a quick question. Have
Speaker 1: any of you guys had that conversation with your dad
Speaker 1: or parents at all? I never had that conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the conversation I had with my son will basically
Speaker 1: set him down. And you know, it's not how did
Speaker 1: you find this? You're being punished. It's more along the
Speaker 1: lines of, like, what you're watching isn't necessarily age appropriate
Speaker 1: for what what your age right now? You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a reason movies or rated are there NC seventeen
Speaker 1: or or G or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: But you know, it was more along the lines of, look,
Speaker 1: you're not mentally ready there from what you found, Like
Speaker 1: maybe he should have subscribed to Playboy, but he did
Speaker 1: mention the word hammered. Do you think maybe he was
Speaker 1: just trying to look up a construction site of some
Speaker 1: kind of like that goes to home depot a lot.
Speaker 1: Let me see what this is about. The interesting part
Speaker 1: about that the name of his baseball team is called
Speaker 1: head First Baseball, So maybe he was searching head first
Speaker 1: and then everything else. He's thirteen, he's a boy. As
Speaker 1: his lawyer, nice cover up, but that's not gonna want Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was. It was more about the long
Speaker 1: along the lines of like, look, be careful what you're watching.
Speaker 1: You know what you are watching. Obviously it's great for us,
Speaker 1: but maybe not appropriate for that. There is there is
Speaker 1: something that I that I read recently. It said boys
Speaker 1: that age, kids that boys especially at that age, are
Speaker 1: getting they target them with porn and they try and
Speaker 1: get them hooked because it's the way to to really influence,
Speaker 1: like to to bring in the money of the industry,
Speaker 1: and hence the industry and what it's doing, yes exactly,
Speaker 1: and what it's doing is it's ruining that because then
Speaker 1: they are to some extent they're they're losing their never
Speaker 1: learning the site of like romance or this is not
Speaker 1: so when they start hooking up, they just think, oh my,
Speaker 1: it's got to jump to this point and it's and
Speaker 1: it's not obviously, I mean I have three daughters. It's
Speaker 1: it's not the way to go about romance is not
Speaker 1: the way to go about dating. And the set to
Speaker 1: think that, oh my god, it's supposed to jump to
Speaker 1: this otherwise it's a failure otherwise. So they they say
Speaker 1: that it's it's causing a big problem with with kids.
Speaker 1: Well that that makes total sense, complete sense. I mean
Speaker 1: just really listen those titles kids, even American Pie. And
Speaker 1: it hasn't seen American pie. Um does anybody else have
Speaker 1: anything like that going on? Your kids are too young?
Speaker 1: Your kids obviously too young? But what what about? No?
Speaker 1: But that's horrifying. I mean it's a fear of mind.
Speaker 1: You know. I have a two year old son and
Speaker 1: another on the way, a boy, and so the thought
Speaker 1: of how far will technology advance between now and when
Speaker 1: he is of the age that he's going to be
Speaker 1: looking at porn or I have a question, I mean
Speaker 1: they have. I don't understand why the technology, the technology
Speaker 1: certainly seems to be there for uh, fingerprint identity for
Speaker 1: accessing the phone. You think that it would be a
Speaker 1: necessary technology for kids having their own personal phones that
Speaker 1: could access the Internet, that it would require a fingerprint,
Speaker 1: and therefore it would automatically limit some of the I
Speaker 1: think there is that technology. I mean, it would be identified.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It was my phone. He's saying.
Speaker 1: He's saying, there is that there is that feature on
Speaker 1: phones where if it's a family plan, the parent can
Speaker 1: can put in locks of what the kids can see that.
Speaker 1: But he's saying Ryan saying that Rick has just failed
Speaker 1: to do that. I'm just saying, we all have our
Speaker 1: identities in our in our our fingerprint, and therefore he's
Speaker 1: probably already documented his fingerprint at some point. Why doesn't
Speaker 1: it automatically limit his access to the Internet. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't go in and you can you can limit all
Speaker 1: the access automatically limiting his access because at the beginning
Speaker 1: of it, I decided not to do it because I
Speaker 1: want him to go watch Steph Curry's highlights, you know,
Speaker 1: over the last three seasons or like he he was
Speaker 1: watching things that weren't necessarily at that point yet. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's like obviously glad we caught it, right or
Speaker 1: whatever I mean again, like to be honest, also to me,
Speaker 1: it's actually opened up a conversation with him about that, right,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's not a force subject. It's not
Speaker 1: a bird's in the bees sit down, It's not that
Speaker 1: it's I will say this in fairness to what you said,
Speaker 1: This opened up the opportunity to um to speak to
Speaker 1: your son about this, and I think not to sound appreachy,
Speaker 1: but I think that's kind of what we're doing here,
Speaker 1: is we're talking about this because this is a even
Speaker 1: though we're having fun with it, I think this is
Speaker 1: obviously an issue that's happening. And I think just like
Speaker 1: you spoke to your son about it and when you
Speaker 1: found out about I think this is something that we
Speaker 1: needed to talk about because I think people can realize
Speaker 1: that you don't realize that it's happening. It's not like
Speaker 1: they're gonna come home and be like, hey, I'm looking
Speaker 1: up stuff I shouldn't be looking up. So I think
Speaker 1: it's nice that we're talking about that because these are things. Listen,
Speaker 1: like I said, four kids, it's like but first kid,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know, Like you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: doing when you become a parent. So I think it's
Speaker 1: like you have to lean on others and you have
Speaker 1: to talk to friends and realize these things happen. Because nowadays,
Speaker 1: they got phones in their pockets and they're taking around
Speaker 1: they can look up anything. So I think we need
Speaker 1: to have these discussions so that you know it can
Speaker 1: be addressed like that because we're just as blind to
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And good on you for not shaming
Speaker 1: him either like that. What he wasn't in trouble. I
Speaker 1: mean it might have been. He might have been duped
Speaker 1: into it by buddies, but I mean, you don't know
Speaker 1: the situation. Maybe you do, but like, good on you
Speaker 1: for handling it in a calm, composed way. But let's
Speaker 1: discuss this, this natural evolution in you as a human
Speaker 1: as a young boy, um, and not coming down on
Speaker 1: him with a hammer and um punishing him for doing
Speaker 1: something like that. Um, I think it shows an your part.
Speaker 1: Thanks Brooks. And you know the one thing I think
Speaker 1: you you touched on before about having actually the conversation
Speaker 1: with your parents about the birds and the bees. It's like,
Speaker 1: so one short a story I want to share was
Speaker 1: my dad in fifth grade taught the sex said class.
Speaker 1: He was a local doctor where we grew up. So
Speaker 1: what was I doing? I was sitting in the back
Speaker 1: very black row with a baseball globe over my face,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was for me. It was
Speaker 1: a very embarrassing moment, you know, especially when the people
Speaker 1: started asking questions it and so to me, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't recall ever really having that conversation with my dad,
Speaker 1: but and that's why something I actually want, you know,
Speaker 1: having seen that, you know, and then having a more
Speaker 1: open dialogue with my son and or probably daughter at
Speaker 1: some point, it's like, hey, this is what's going on,
Speaker 1: and hopefully she's not watching that stuff. Good for you, man,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Okay, we gotta go to break. I'm Brooks like,
Speaker 1: and I got my man. But we'll get good at
Speaker 1: that and get real good at that, the handoff. And
Speaker 1: this is how men think. So we're diving into a
Speaker 1: bunch of topics for men for women is all about
Speaker 1: how men think. And Ryan has something he wants to
Speaker 1: talk about here. I do have something that happened to
Speaker 1: me very recently which is relatively sensitive. But my wife
Speaker 1: and I had to go through ivf UH, which is
Speaker 1: in vitro fertilization. Listening that doesn't know what that is.
Speaker 1: Can you explain what that is? Yeah, It's essentially that
Speaker 1: we were unable to get pregnant naturally, so they take
Speaker 1: my sperm, fertilize her egg, and then the eggs grow
Speaker 1: and you see how many embryos you ultimately have after
Speaker 1: five days and hopefully you have a lot and then
Speaker 1: one gets implanted or two or however many, uh, and
Speaker 1: hopefully you have a pregnancy. But um, we've gone through
Speaker 1: two rounds of IVF. We have a son now through
Speaker 1: the first round of IVF, and we just went through
Speaker 1: a second round. But one of the parts of the
Speaker 1: process of IVF is that they need to analyze my sperms.
Speaker 1: So you go into a fertility clinic and they bring
Speaker 1: you into a room that they ask you to produce
Speaker 1: your sample. So the biggest stress for me is I'm
Speaker 1: brought into a small room that just so happens conveniently
Speaker 1: for them to be five ft from the nurses station
Speaker 1: and the reception area. Uh. So I am escorted by
Speaker 1: the nurse into this room and again there's a lobby
Speaker 1: of ten people sitting there, and they tell you, we
Speaker 1: have material for you on this television. You just hit
Speaker 1: the power by and it'll be preloaded. It's going to
Speaker 1: be rolling for you. Uh, here's the cup. Do your
Speaker 1: thing into the cup and then come out when you're
Speaker 1: ready and will you'll be good to go. So they
Speaker 1: turn on the TV for me and she walks out
Speaker 1: of the room and in the first case, it was
Speaker 1: a black and white porn that was from the seventies
Speaker 1: with the guy endowed with a guy endowed such in
Speaker 1: a way that I could not really imagine that that
Speaker 1: was me in his position, So it was so small
Speaker 1: exactly the TV was that the nurses of let exactly. So,
Speaker 1: so you're in this environment and in my head, I'm saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is the respectable amount of time right now that
Speaker 1: I have to produce. If I come out in forty
Speaker 1: five seconds and I say, here you go, They're gonna
Speaker 1: look at me like this guy is freaky, like he
Speaker 1: just did it in four or five seconds. But if
Speaker 1: I come out twenty minutes later, glistening with sweat and
Speaker 1: like fatigued, it's like relaxing, Like I'm gonna be back
Speaker 1: in about one o'clock too. If that's okay, exactly exactly
Speaker 1: what did you do? So so I'll fast forward to
Speaker 1: the next time I was in and this is now
Speaker 1: the most pressure packed moment of my life, genuinely, which
Speaker 1: is my wife is under full general anesthesia. We're going
Speaker 1: in for the for the procedure, and I'm escorted into
Speaker 1: the room and now my in laws because she's going
Speaker 1: she's been put under or in the lobby with me,
Speaker 1: and again it's seven feet away and they say, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you're up, and they escort me to the room and
Speaker 1: my in laws walk watched me walk into. Should we
Speaker 1: come in or you good on your own? You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm exactly so, so I again, I'm like, okay, how
Speaker 1: long am I going to take here? But my wife
Speaker 1: is fully under and if I don't produce, yeah, if
Speaker 1: I don't produce, then like this is gonna be an
Speaker 1: absolute nightmare. And said go get them, go, go bring
Speaker 1: us a grandkids. So this was a separate fertility clinic,
Speaker 1: and this one was a little bit more high tech,
Speaker 1: and they had they popped on the screen and the
Speaker 1: screen had sixteen categories on it that I could choose from,
Speaker 1: and it was nineties, uh, babysitters and I'm big butt
Speaker 1: Asian anime, so oh, I know, adult humor. And then
Speaker 1: the one I ended up choosing was adult humor. I
Speaker 1: chose award winning. I was curious, what's winning awards in
Speaker 1: this space? You gotta know now. But but again, it
Speaker 1: was like the most pressure packed situation I've probably ever
Speaker 1: been into in my life, was going to that room
Speaker 1: with my in laws seven feet away, and how much
Speaker 1: noise can I make? They put you on a chair
Speaker 1: with this parts and papers, and it's like the most
Speaker 1: sterile overhead lighting. So I turned the light off and
Speaker 1: I turned my iPhone flashlight on to give some mood
Speaker 1: lighting for myself. And I'm moving around. The parchment paper
Speaker 1: is crankling. My in laws are listening, the nurse watching
Speaker 1: the clock, and it's it's a nightmare. All you hear
Speaker 1: from the lobbies are in laws going, that's our son
Speaker 1: in law. And there. I came out with the cup,
Speaker 1: gave it to the nurse and shook my father in
Speaker 1: law's hands and that was that your hand first. By
Speaker 1: the way, what when he just told you? What Ryan
Speaker 1: just told you is exactly true. Because my wife and
Speaker 1: I have also done IVF. So my wife has endometriosis,
Speaker 1: which she's openly talked about. She's a big advocate for that.
Speaker 1: I believe. Actually I think one and ten females have endometriosis. UM,
Speaker 1: and so we before her birthday last year, we did
Speaker 1: IVF as well. And I've been in that room. Um,
Speaker 1: we haven't done the same room as maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't remember the black and white important but U
Speaker 1: but um it is exactly how he describes and it
Speaker 1: isn't awkward. But his his father in law is waiting
Speaker 1: outside your room too. Yeah, okay, giving people, did you
Speaker 1: have the same thing in your head where you're saying,
Speaker 1: what is the respectable amount of tough minutes that I
Speaker 1: can spend in this room that the nurses don't think
Speaker 1: like I'm a freak, but that I honestly just think
Speaker 1: I went and knocked it out, like I just I
Speaker 1: don't think I thought too much about it. Um, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. Grab the cup and put it
Speaker 1: on the counter. But um, it is incredible though what
Speaker 1: they can do. Like you, you have now two children
Speaker 1: a second on the way from that procedure. So um,
Speaker 1: for anybody out there that is considering it, it's a lot.
Speaker 1: I will say that it's as you know, as husband,
Speaker 1: you're just in full support mode of your wife. And
Speaker 1: my wife went through a ton and you know he
Speaker 1: was doing injections for months into her stomach every night
Speaker 1: with a syringe and it was brutal. Credit for it.
Speaker 1: But I will say I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: have done that and and from everything I've heard, it's
Speaker 1: very difficult, very taxing. I am. I have been very
Speaker 1: fortunate and less than that all you know, my my
Speaker 1: kids were just we just conceived. I mean if you
Speaker 1: saw like Vegas vacation, you know, and they said, Rusty,
Speaker 1: had you get all these cars? Because I don't know,
Speaker 1: I put a dollar and I got a car. I
Speaker 1: put a dollar and I gotta go. That's what I was,
Speaker 1: like I was with kids, except not with dollar and
Speaker 1: you know, and instead of the car and we got kids.
Speaker 1: But so we're very lucky. But I know that it's
Speaker 1: that it's um that it's a it's a very taxing
Speaker 1: I think it's I think that's probably the pressure that
Speaker 1: that was weighing on you, besides just being next to
Speaker 1: the nurses station and what to choose and this it's like.
Speaker 1: And by the way, hearing the fact that you have
Speaker 1: and Julianne have gone through it too is interesting and
Speaker 1: helpful because I think so many of my friends have
Speaker 1: gone through this exact thing, and it's become people are
Speaker 1: scared to admit that they don't really talk about it.
Speaker 1: So the more that people are aware that it's a
Speaker 1: very common thing now with I U I or I
Speaker 1: V f I think like it makes us all feel yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not abnormal for having gone through Why why do
Speaker 1: you think that is like why why do you think
Speaker 1: it's that that is sort of suppressed person. I think
Speaker 1: it's like it's a it's a it's such a it's
Speaker 1: such a private sort of it's such a it's between
Speaker 1: you and your wife, it's or your your partner. Um,
Speaker 1: it's very emotional. I mean, you're you're trying to bring
Speaker 1: a life into this world. I mean for us, for
Speaker 1: us it I mean you're as a husband, you're just
Speaker 1: in full support. Motive was very difficult on my wife
Speaker 1: as well. But looking at the reality of our lives.
Speaker 1: My wife is a very driven businesswoman, has her career. Um.
Speaker 1: She just turned thirty last year, and so we wanted
Speaker 1: to She has endometriosis, which which could complicate pregnancy. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it will, but it could, and so the smarter
Speaker 1: thing for us to do is to let's freeze some
Speaker 1: of her eggs and if we need this as a
Speaker 1: backup plan in two years or a year from now,
Speaker 1: whenever we want to start having kids, and maybe we can't,
Speaker 1: we have a backup plan. But I agree with you
Speaker 1: I mean it has been hush hush, but it shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's almost kind of the stigma of,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like that's not successful or you couldn't
Speaker 1: get the job done, or that kind of a you know,
Speaker 1: a bologny way of looking at it. And I feel
Speaker 1: like that's kind of the society is putting us to
Speaker 1: that pressure like, oh, you guys, could you gotta do it?
Speaker 1: You have to do take an alternative way, which whether
Speaker 1: there's something a complication or whatnot, Like I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1: I think the inherent in being a man, it's the
Speaker 1: ability to procreate. That's like that's kind of in our
Speaker 1: d n A and and in every fiber of our being.
Speaker 1: And so if you're told that your sperm are not
Speaker 1: able to you don't need help in procreating, then it's
Speaker 1: almost emasculating in a way. So it's tough. I think
Speaker 1: it times for a guy to admit that that's something
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with him. And I'll end with this,
Speaker 1: which is we've we've dealt with And there was someone
Speaker 1: that came up to us recently and asked, my wife,
Speaker 1: have you gone through or can I ask you, like,
Speaker 1: did you go through I v F? And she said, well,
Speaker 1: it's a relatively in trusive question to ask without you
Speaker 1: offering it up yourself. But she said, well if you
Speaker 1: must know, like, yeah, actually I did. And the woman said, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: because you know, we already have two kids, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and we got pregnant naturally, we can get pregnant naturally,
Speaker 1: super easily, but we have two boys and we really
Speaker 1: want to have a girl, so we may go through
Speaker 1: IVF to have a girl. And it was like, really,
Speaker 1: that's that was It was a demoralizing and I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that she said that. And then my wife said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if you need a good fertility doctor, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll give you our our fertility doctor's name. And she said,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, thanks Hunt, but um, we're
Speaker 1: already working with Dr James Andrews. He's the leading fertility
Speaker 1: doctor in all of North America. So we were okay
Speaker 1: with with ours, Like thanks though, and it was like,
Speaker 1: it's nice to know that l a attitude also carries
Speaker 1: over to fertility docs instead of yeah interesting, um, but
Speaker 1: for anybody out there that is considering it, I think
Speaker 1: it's a great option if you want to have a
Speaker 1: plan down the road. Um, when I was in the office,
Speaker 1: there was even there was even young ladies who didn't
Speaker 1: have partners or whatever. But we're at a very healthy,
Speaker 1: uh segment area of their life that wanted to save
Speaker 1: eggs or later on. And even our doctor Um, who
Speaker 1: was amazing for us, she said she wished she would
Speaker 1: have done it when she was younger as well, So
Speaker 1: it's an amazing procedure. So on how men think, We're
Speaker 1: also going to dive into some products on the show.
Speaker 1: We're going to test some stuff for you guys. And
Speaker 1: Amy and Danielle sent us all an email asking us
Speaker 1: what we used for hygiene and specifically what we used
Speaker 1: to shampoo, and I think they were stunned with the results.
Speaker 1: And also how often you wash your hair and how
Speaker 1: often we wash our hair And I really had to
Speaker 1: think about this one. That's pretty deep. The last the
Speaker 1: last time I washed my hair was two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: Because I was right about when I fell out. Did
Speaker 1: that happen fast? Like did it just start cuting? Was it?
Speaker 1: Did you have like the like ring around And I
Speaker 1: didn't have a actually started with like a little spot
Speaker 1: up here and then it kind of thinned out, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I was gonna be fine, and I
Speaker 1: was wearing hats and stuff. And then one day just
Speaker 1: kind of rapidly went and I fought the shave, the
Speaker 1: shave of the head for a while, and finally I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is just this isn't helping anybody.
Speaker 1: But at least you got like the nice full beard,
Speaker 1: you know why I didn't. For a little while, I
Speaker 1: didn't have a beard. And then I really looked in
Speaker 1: the mirror one then I was like, I look like
Speaker 1: a cute tip. And I was like, but a cute
Speaker 1: tip with like a fatter body, you know. And so
Speaker 1: so I started growing up here and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh this helps balance out. Yeah, grewing? Did it growing nice?
Speaker 1: And even did you have like bolt spots like I
Speaker 1: got on my face spot right here that just won't
Speaker 1: grow in? You See, I have the same thing that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: See this, Yeah, it's like in breeding or it's very
Speaker 1: I don't know. So in front of in front, in
Speaker 1: front of each of one of us right now, we're
Speaker 1: holding a new bar created by hay Bow dot com.
Speaker 1: It's hey body, Body Body dot com. So Amy, what
Speaker 1: is this? It's a bar that's body wash? So what
Speaker 1: shocked me? When I asked for your information about how
Speaker 1: often you shampooed. The answer was once a week, once
Speaker 1: every other week. Ryan said once a week until his
Speaker 1: wife made him do it twice because she thought it
Speaker 1: was disgusting that he only did it once. So we
Speaker 1: have a bar for you guys to try. This is
Speaker 1: all in one shampoo. Yeah, hold that up, rick shampoo,
Speaker 1: face wash, body wash, all in one in a bar
Speaker 1: because I thought, all y'all travel a lot, so you
Speaker 1: can't you get this through airport securities easier to I
Speaker 1: don't think they should rename it a body just because
Speaker 1: I might be messing it up. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a clever name, and then I realized,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but maybe it is. Maybe it's b
Speaker 1: O D E. Hey, it's hey. I've never used the bar.
Speaker 1: How I do it? I just whatever my wife has
Speaker 1: in the shower, and whenever I think to shampoo my hair,
Speaker 1: I would say, it's probably I think. I responded, once
Speaker 1: a week, I'd probably shampoo my hair. And off of
Speaker 1: what you just said, it's crazy as this is, like
Speaker 1: I said, I lost my hair for some reason, whether
Speaker 1: it's habit, I still use shampoo on my head, a
Speaker 1: face soap, and then regular like body soap on my
Speaker 1: It makes zero sen on your head probably, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe about I'm gonna try this though, because I use
Speaker 1: one bar for the whole thing. I mean, yeah, we
Speaker 1: can take the mic on the show a little's just
Speaker 1: sparkling a little bit. This is taking a turn. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying no, I'm just saying it's taking a turn.
Speaker 1: Do you condition? No? I don't the line there? Do you?
Speaker 1: How about your your beard? Do you wash your your
Speaker 1: beard with shampoo? No? I use my face soap. I
Speaker 1: uh so, you guys count your intuitive products that you
Speaker 1: use like our routine. I have one thing, the only
Speaker 1: one thing that I have, like that's my own product
Speaker 1: in our is Keel's Men's body wash. Has it smell
Speaker 1: fantastic and it's like powerful, it's strong, Like when you
Speaker 1: honestly you put this on, you feel like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this a man's product. You feel smell smell? Do
Speaker 1: do you do? You do? Are you like a natural
Speaker 1: like a dealdorant or an anti perseporant person? I don't
Speaker 1: do either. You do no deator whatsoever. I'll put the
Speaker 1: odor on paving like once every three months, no way,
Speaker 1: because like night, what night is that special? Occajun? I
Speaker 1: have no idea. That's a great question. Like randomly, hasn't
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna be riding a subway in New
Speaker 1: York You're like, oh, where did the It's just random, dude,
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I see it. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got the odor and I'll throw that on. How
Speaker 1: does the professional athlete sweat that much and not use
Speaker 1: the odor? And I don't because honestly, it keeps serious.
Speaker 1: So I think that's that sweating flushes your system. So
Speaker 1: people that sweat all the time like you are always.
Speaker 1: I eat healthy, I exercise all day long. My system
Speaker 1: flushes itself daily, and I think that way you have
Speaker 1: less body order. I think people that have bad body
Speaker 1: order are very inactive and eat unhealthy. That's what That's
Speaker 1: what they say about any persons and sunscreen and whatnot,
Speaker 1: but they say it clogs your pores. So to your thing, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I don't use any purse burnt anymore because I feel
Speaker 1: like it's just rubbing on like cake batter, but deodorant.
Speaker 1: But not on, I see, And that's why I don't
Speaker 1: wear it because but I actually won't think it's it's
Speaker 1: keeping it in. It's just I do. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's just kicked on. You see what it does the
Speaker 1: T shirts. A month ago I tried. I had read
Speaker 1: everything about how there's aluminum and mainstream deodorant, so I
Speaker 1: went the Whole Food's got one of those non aluminum deodorants,
Speaker 1: tried it, and it doesn't work. I mean, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. How I still sweat when I wear that
Speaker 1: as compared to using a mainstream deodorant that actually is active.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's why I don't wear theodor because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sweat regardless. But I run hot so like and
Speaker 1: also during the course of the day, I'm training multiple
Speaker 1: four or five hours in the course of a day,
Speaker 1: what's the point of having deodor it on. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna take that shirt off, put a dry one on.
Speaker 1: Take that one. And maybe you're just not wearing a
Speaker 1: shirt long enough for it to get stinky. Perhaps you
Speaker 1: smell like a bear. You don't wear a shirt long
Speaker 1: enough for it to take effect. It explores why the
Speaker 1: studio smells like onions, right now, or maybe maybe you
Speaker 1: shower twice today. You know, you shower in the morning,
Speaker 1: you go work out for four hours, and you shower
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. You don't need to be you just
Speaker 1: have to win laundry match so you can wash all
Speaker 1: those shirts off. Well, what about you on stage? Oh there?
Speaker 1: Do you put anything on? You just say whatever, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sweat anyway. If it depends, depends if I showered
Speaker 1: right before the show or not. If I shower right
Speaker 1: before the show, throw my stuff on, then I won't
Speaker 1: bother because I won't be wearing the shirt longer than
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of hours. So I'm gonna smell,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it really depends if
Speaker 1: I just hopped off the plane, I'm on my way
Speaker 1: to the show, and I'm not I'm not gonna make
Speaker 1: it in time, you know what I mean. I've it's
Speaker 1: you know times, you know, Yeah, sound like I smell
Speaker 1: so well. The other thing I think, I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of the products that have come out for
Speaker 1: men are are more tailored towards with a cent on it,
Speaker 1: you know, like now it's after shaved or beard grooming
Speaker 1: oils and all this type of stuff where and that's
Speaker 1: kind of come more mainstream instead of instead of deodor
Speaker 1: Back in the day, it was it was deodorant, and
Speaker 1: that's it. Maybe after shave you slap on your face,
Speaker 1: but now it's okay, it's it's beard oil or it's
Speaker 1: after shave lotion. That's a lot of products. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things out there that are hair goop or
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. And so you don't
Speaker 1: need it because you already smell good. So technically, here's
Speaker 1: a question for you guys, and also for our listeners,
Speaker 1: for our guys listening, um, over under, would you have
Speaker 1: like four or five products like hair or shampoo or
Speaker 1: body lotion or like I have something to put in
Speaker 1: my hair, I have key those body lotion, I have
Speaker 1: cologne and toothpaste. That's about the extent of what I'm running.
Speaker 1: A second, if anybody's count because everybody has toothpaste, so
Speaker 1: let's count that out. So let's say, over under, do
Speaker 1: you have five products for personal hygiene? And it's not
Speaker 1: it's not right or wrong. There's no right or wrong way.
Speaker 1: And and for our listeners, email us at man at
Speaker 1: i heart radio dot com. Let us know if you
Speaker 1: have lots. If you have fifteen I have, there's somebody
Speaker 1: in my life that I don't want to name. It's
Speaker 1: probably got seven and you can't live without all of them. Well,
Speaker 1: I have another question, Yeah, hit me? Is this is
Speaker 1: this the products you have at home or the products
Speaker 1: you travel with they're the same? Are they the same
Speaker 1: products but smaller bottles? Yeah? So I have a cologne,
Speaker 1: have a cologne a big bottle at home, in a
Speaker 1: small travel bottle, same same scent. That's your same same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife buys it for me, exactly. I'm a firm
Speaker 1: believer that your body gets used to things, So like deodorant, cologne, toothpaste.
Speaker 1: I'll have a couple of options because I think after
Speaker 1: you use something for a long time, your body adapts
Speaker 1: to it and you gotta switch it up. He's a
Speaker 1: theory for everything. Yeah. Yeah, him a microphone, He's changed
Speaker 1: his T shirt three times, put on two different watches,
Speaker 1: he's got this is a different drink. Theirst half of
Speaker 1: the show, guys like, do you use four rounds bottles?
Speaker 1: Because that's what T s a except like what you so, okay,
Speaker 1: what do you got over under five personal hygiene products
Speaker 1: at this table under under we'll tell Kevin what is
Speaker 1: your what products? Do you have a regimen? Yeah? Changes,
Speaker 1: So you get out of the shower whatever, it's not nothing.
Speaker 1: You know, don't call me crazy theorists over here, but
Speaker 1: you know, you get out of the shower, what happens. Uh,
Speaker 1: don't tell us what happened? Air dry? Okay, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I Uh what do I do? I mean, I have
Speaker 1: a few products. I use a I like a what
Speaker 1: do you call that powder? That's really baby powder, gold bond, No, no,
Speaker 1: not that stuff. They say that's really bad for you.
Speaker 1: By the way, like even if it's a hot day,
Speaker 1: don't don't sprinkle, So you know they have I wish
Speaker 1: you guys could have seen the motion he said. He
Speaker 1: said don't sprinkle, He actually sprinkled. He never mind sprinkling.
Speaker 1: I did a little bit. So you know what what's
Speaker 1: that stuff called? It's got the like the little exfoliating
Speaker 1: stuff in my face like a couple of times a
Speaker 1: week after the showers, in the show, in the shower,
Speaker 1: in the serat my face last. Maybe that's would be
Speaker 1: most open. Is that why? I agree? You watched the
Speaker 1: face last. I gotta wash your face last, because you
Speaker 1: don't want the shampoo. If the shampoo gets on the face,
Speaker 1: then it's contamidating. You always watched that's right. I feel
Speaker 1: that you feel like Ryan would be the most educated
Speaker 1: one in this time. He probably would be that you
Speaker 1: looked like you'd have your doctorate in particular subject it
Speaker 1: for beauty problem. I don't know, Brian, why don't you
Speaker 1: explain to the guys that when I asked you about
Speaker 1: your hair that you said after you wash it. I
Speaker 1: sent you the lines from American Psychopatrick Bateman flat and
Speaker 1: fluffy sho I said to Ryan, how often do you
Speaker 1: wash your hair? And he said I only liked to
Speaker 1: once a week because it gets flat and fluffy, and
Speaker 1: no woman listening understands what. I started washing my hair
Speaker 1: more because my wife said that my pillowcase stunk and
Speaker 1: I had to wash my hair more. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: But like so, I've now up to it to like
Speaker 1: every other day recently, and it's we're working it out.
Speaker 1: I know that to have your hair like you like,
Speaker 1: beach hair, that's what I want. Beach hair. You come
Speaker 1: out of the right now. I tried a my time
Speaker 1: the ocean salt spray that dry bar. Maikes tried that.
Speaker 1: That gives a little bit of a texture to it.
Speaker 1: It looks good right now. What you need to do
Speaker 1: is you need to put one of these hay body
Speaker 1: dot com bars behind your pill and you don't have
Speaker 1: to wash. So are you gonna try this bar in
Speaker 1: your hair or you got your thing dialed in where
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm liking my hair, I'm willing to give
Speaker 1: it a shot. I have. I have a routine when
Speaker 1: I get out of the shower, though, that is a
Speaker 1: very standard routine, and let's involved. It involves the face lotion,
Speaker 1: and involves the hair product which is a paste, and
Speaker 1: involves some under eye cream because I have dark circles
Speaker 1: under my eyes like a raccoon. I gotta get that going.
Speaker 1: Then we do a cocoa butter on the body. Cocoa
Speaker 1: butter is where it's at. If you have not tried it,
Speaker 1: you're not so let me ask you a question. This
Speaker 1: is a weird question. Ears. What do you wash your
Speaker 1: ears with a body soap, face soap or the shampoo?
Speaker 1: I don't think I washed my ears at all. Are
Speaker 1: they all not the same? I don't know? I mean,
Speaker 1: is this just because I was in locker rooms the
Speaker 1: whole my whole life, where they just put something in
Speaker 1: the middle of the shower and you just check into
Speaker 1: your hand and you use it for anything. Well, let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. Playing a professional sports so in
Speaker 1: college we if a room in my teammate dropped the
Speaker 1: soap in the shower, you got behind him rally. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: I mean we we had this. This ultimate philosophical debate
Speaker 1: was if he dropped the soap in the shower. He said,
Speaker 1: the soap is filthy, and he would throw it out,
Speaker 1: And I said, soap is the epitome of clean. You
Speaker 1: washed the top layer off and you can use it again.
Speaker 1: What do you think that that you lost me? That
Speaker 1: is more than I would just pick it up and
Speaker 1: use it. Can you tell me what epitome means? We
Speaker 1: got our producer Danielle here, who's going to ask a
Speaker 1: question and the gentlemen are going to do their finest
Speaker 1: to answer it. So it's not really a question, but
Speaker 1: more of a struggle I have with you guys. Um.
Speaker 1: So I'm married. I've been married for all of six months. Um. However,
Speaker 1: one thing I have found to be a common thread
Speaker 1: in all relationships I've ever had is that guys automatically
Speaker 1: resort to girls being crazy. That's what they say, and
Speaker 1: the word crazy makes girls crazy crazy Already that we've
Speaker 1: tapped into the point, and it's like, why can't guys
Speaker 1: just stop saying the word crazy? Wow? I think who?
Speaker 1: I think? I think it's because you, as we know,
Speaker 1: women act differently than men, so to us, that's not
Speaker 1: the natural instinct to act like that, So to us,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. So I think when we say stop acting crazy,
Speaker 1: it's like we don't understand it. And I think when
Speaker 1: when you don't understand something, you that the easiest thing
Speaker 1: to do is to to you know, kind of push
Speaker 1: it away or make it seem like something that's not normal.
Speaker 1: Because if we say that seems like a normal thing
Speaker 1: that you're doing, Danielle's keep you know, I understand that
Speaker 1: you're acting very normal, then that's calling myself crazy and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. So I think, can
Speaker 1: I expound on that little place? I think also there's
Speaker 1: this other element where we say crazy, because I think
Speaker 1: guys approach saying from what we we view as a
Speaker 1: logical standpoint, and you're trying, we're trying to bring logic
Speaker 1: to sometimes an illogical perspective in our opinion, and so
Speaker 1: sort of like sometimes we feel like you're just looking
Speaker 1: to have an altercation because there's some things that we
Speaker 1: can't even we can't even fix you, or that we
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with. There just be something random
Speaker 1: and we try to address it, and then you sort
Speaker 1: of turned it into it's our fault that something else
Speaker 1: is happening, and then we're just sort of like, all right,
Speaker 1: you're just crazy. I got to go for a walk.
Speaker 1: You know. Here, here's the question for you, Daniel, is
Speaker 1: it the is the word crazy a bit like a trigger?
Speaker 1: Just because one million? What if it was just like wild?
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. If you were if a guy
Speaker 1: were to come to you and say, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily agree like I. I see it a little
Speaker 1: bit differently. Great, I'm so open to having that conversation.
Speaker 1: But when he's you're being crazy, then actually, because it's
Speaker 1: just crazy, I don't like that either. At calculator and
Speaker 1: I said, this is what you said, this is what
Speaker 1: I said, this is the equation, and your way off base.
Speaker 1: It should turn into this, you'd be totally no, not necessarily,
Speaker 1: it's just the certain words that I guess, like you said, Dmitri,
Speaker 1: if you're being dismissive, I just wish guys like understood
Speaker 1: that woman don't like do you ever feel first of all,
Speaker 1: the question in and of itself, I would say, is crazy. Uh,
Speaker 1: but do you ever feel as if you are trying
Speaker 1: to pick a fight on purpose? Or No? I think
Speaker 1: the guys trying to pick a fight by calling me crazy.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Well, I don't think it starts off
Speaker 1: with him just going you're crazy. There was something that
Speaker 1: came that you know, preceded that, and that's it. Maybe
Speaker 1: where the crazy life let's go to let go? And
Speaker 1: I was sorry, sorry, yeah, I was curious, Like what
Speaker 1: do you want to hear? I just want to have
Speaker 1: a conversation instead of being dismissed. I think you hit
Speaker 1: the nail on the head with that. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're being crazy. It's just this behavior of this act
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe you are. Doesn't mean you are a crazy,
Speaker 1: but it's also not a negative um like, it's just
Speaker 1: a here's what it is. We're emotional, we have feelings.
Speaker 1: We show them most of the time. You all don't.
Speaker 1: You're just more pragmatic and when you say what you
Speaker 1: mean and we're like filled with emotion. So I'm not
Speaker 1: the only guy who isn't it doesn't show emotion, but
Speaker 1: there are I think it's back to your question, Daniel.
Speaker 1: I think there's trigger words for men too. There's words
Speaker 1: that like I think of. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can say these on air or not, but um, prick
Speaker 1: is probably not a word I would like to be
Speaker 1: called or well, like if I heard that from my
Speaker 1: significant other, I think that would would upset me a
Speaker 1: little bit. So I think there are just words that
Speaker 1: for men and women that are trigger. Gavin just wrote
Speaker 1: those words down. I think he's planning on using them later.
Speaker 1: I'm just kinda like I wrote him on the paper,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna slide him over on the table. No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you're a thousand percent right, because um,
Speaker 1: just with you know, my husband, he's exactly like you.
Speaker 1: He does not like any of those words, and if
Speaker 1: I were to ever say anything like that to him,
Speaker 1: he would have an issue with it, and he would
Speaker 1: have a big problem with it. And I guess you know,
Speaker 1: guys have their own words, their own trigger words, and
Speaker 1: girls have their own as well. And I think I
Speaker 1: could speak on behalf a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: women that crazy is one of those words. I will
Speaker 1: say this if I go home and get start talking
Speaker 1: to my wife and I say, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I think you're being illogical. I think this is I
Speaker 1: think you're just not understanding that, she will look at
Speaker 1: me and say you're crazy. Because if I if I
Speaker 1: try to talk to her, if I trying to talk
Speaker 1: to her like a therapist, She's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: get out of here. You're the nuts one. So m
Speaker 1: way too much emotion. Uh So I think, um, I think, man,
Speaker 1: we should probably take a break on that one before
Speaker 1: it's because even more heated. Danielle looks Danielle looking at
Speaker 1: us like she's as mad at us as she is
Speaker 1: at her husband. So it Haaven's crying already. It's I
Speaker 1: am such tears. Let's take a break. This is how
Speaker 1: men think. And we've covered a bunch of like different
Speaker 1: topics today, some funny, some I'm serious, and we're going
Speaker 1: to dive into something um really serious. Ready if there's
Speaker 1: a little cliffhanger for you guys. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: knows this question, but I want to ask you. And
Speaker 1: the reason I haven't told you anyone or told anyone
Speaker 1: this question is because I want an authentic answer from you.
Speaker 1: Gavin will start with you. Here we go, putting you
Speaker 1: on the hot seat. Buddy, you can handle it. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. What is one thing you are immensely
Speaker 1: excited about in your life? And what is one thing
Speaker 1: you are desperate to change? Good? The real we're going,
Speaker 1: We're getting in. Hey, we're getting in heavy now. Something
Speaker 1: here more capable adventuring that than me. Okay, what am
Speaker 1: I excited about? I'm writing a record, So I'm excited
Speaker 1: about putting out a new record. And uh so that's
Speaker 1: exciting to me. Going on tour this summer, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go on tour, and you know, do what I do.
Speaker 1: You know, I get an opportunity to basically, you know,
Speaker 1: do a hobby for a living. So I'm lucky in
Speaker 1: that regard. And uh your other question was what I
Speaker 1: want to change? What's something you're desperate to change in
Speaker 1: your life? To change? Man, I don't know, Man, there's
Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot of little things, you know.
Speaker 1: That's the first one that comes to mind. I need
Speaker 1: to find a dog sitter. Oh for peeling back. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm really getting another What do I want
Speaker 1: to change? You don't even have a talk. I don't
Speaker 1: need to know that it sounded profound. I want to Well,
Speaker 1: I want to continue seeing more and not just driving
Speaker 1: driving past things, you know. So, being that I I
Speaker 1: do so much touring, um, I I feel like I
Speaker 1: miss a lot along the way. Um and so, I
Speaker 1: mean I was telling some people I knew what I said.
Speaker 1: You know, I had gone by the I had driven
Speaker 1: by the the Grand Canyon at least a hundred times,
Speaker 1: never seen it, you know. And uh. And so this
Speaker 1: past year, I bought an RV and I and I
Speaker 1: drove out here with my you know, my best buddy,
Speaker 1: and we, uh We're like, yeah, man, we gotta camp
Speaker 1: out here. He's like, he's like, never been in the
Speaker 1: Grand Cannon. Said now he said, let's go, you know.
Speaker 1: And then I I did a little bit of road
Speaker 1: trip and you know, in the r V, and I've
Speaker 1: done two trips so far, but I want to do
Speaker 1: a lot more of that, just because I feel like
Speaker 1: we really get one go around here. And uh, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the old man thinking I
Speaker 1: wish I would have done more, seen more, taken more risks.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people they say, oh, you
Speaker 1: want to have a long life, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden that I want to have a long life. I
Speaker 1: want to have a fulfilling life more than I want
Speaker 1: to have a long life. You know. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be the last man standing all my friends. I
Speaker 1: want to have a great time. So it's just how
Speaker 1: I how I enjoy. Good for you, man, that is powerful.
Speaker 1: I thank Phillis if you're around a bus. But that's awesome, Dude.
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about because having traveled around
Speaker 1: for hockey, you get there, you punch, and you play
Speaker 1: the game and you're out. And I've been in New
Speaker 1: York thirty times. I haven't done anything in this Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I get what you're saying. Have been good for
Speaker 1: you for recognizing that and then putting an emotion in
Speaker 1: your life to change it. Um, Dmitri brother, was one
Speaker 1: thing you're immensely excited about in your life? And what's
Speaker 1: one thing you are desperate to change? Hands down, I
Speaker 1: think the one thing I'm excited about is my kids. Um,
Speaker 1: I come home it doesn't matter what kind of day
Speaker 1: I had. I walk in the door and the four
Speaker 1: of them come run and scream and daddy and they
Speaker 1: give me a big hug, and I try and record
Speaker 1: it on my phone sometimes just because it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: it's a pretty amazing thing. Um, But I end up
Speaker 1: tossing my phone aside because then I can really you know,
Speaker 1: it sounds maybe silly, but then I can get my
Speaker 1: arms around all four of them. Um, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Like sometimes they look up to me for things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes my son, who's six, he'll look at me and
Speaker 1: he'll just kind of wink and give me a thumbs
Speaker 1: up out of nowhere. And it's like it makes me
Speaker 1: feel like I'm doing something right because they're looking to
Speaker 1: me for for you know, whatever whatever it is. They
Speaker 1: don't they know that I'm there. And the other the
Speaker 1: other night, I was sleeping and one of them came in,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't get a lot of sleep,
Speaker 1: but it was like one of them came in and
Speaker 1: woke me up. So the first instant you think is
Speaker 1: to be like, why are you waking in? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? We just do it. One of them
Speaker 1: came in and kind of whispers dad dad. I was
Speaker 1: like yeah, and they said I love you and I
Speaker 1: was like, so, I was like, get back to bed.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sleep. Tell me in the morning for
Speaker 1: crying how loud. Um. So that's definitely something that that
Speaker 1: that keeps me going every day. UM. Good for you, man,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. So what was the other thing? What? What
Speaker 1: am I? What's something you're desperate to change, not just
Speaker 1: like something snagg and something you're like, I I need
Speaker 1: to take action on. Something I need to take action on.
Speaker 1: Is I've I've been living in Los Angeles for a
Speaker 1: long time and I've been working and I feel there
Speaker 1: there it's it comes to a point sometimes and I
Speaker 1: think I feel like maybe a lot of people have
Speaker 1: this this thought, but is this what I like? You know,
Speaker 1: you you make money, but it costs a lot of
Speaker 1: money in the sense like sometimes I get that feeling
Speaker 1: where it's like I kind of like to be in
Speaker 1: a small town. I like to maybe not worry so
Speaker 1: much about making money to to to keep up and
Speaker 1: and it's not like I'm keeping up like I want
Speaker 1: to have these fancy parties and stuff. I don't do
Speaker 1: any of that. But you gotta especially having that many kids,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta make a lot of money to
Speaker 1: survive in that town. And and part of me thinks
Speaker 1: like maybe I should just find a slower paced life.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of what Gavin said. It's like, I
Speaker 1: want to I want to make sure I'm not just
Speaker 1: running through life. I want to make sure i'm I'm
Speaker 1: seeing things and i'm and I'm enjoying things. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of the times you you get caught
Speaker 1: up like I gotta make this, Moe, I gotta pay this,
Speaker 1: and we gotta do this. And it's like sometimes I
Speaker 1: think about whether I should just kind of slow it
Speaker 1: down a little bit, gotcha or dudes, we knock it
Speaker 1: out of this part, this podcast becomes the best one
Speaker 1: on I Heart Radio. We make a ton of money,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, and you get deodoran. Yeah, and I'll
Speaker 1: guess out of that. Hey, hey, body is fantastic. By
Speaker 1: the way, good currently doesn't have any representation in the
Speaker 1: personal hygiene. He's available there. He is available. Hey, Dmitri,
Speaker 1: I think we could, you know, find a but I
Speaker 1: appreciate you sharing, buddy, Thank you for that. Uh Rick,
Speaker 1: my man, what is one thing that you aremensely excited
Speaker 1: about in your life and what's one thing you are
Speaker 1: desperate to change? You know, I probably have to echo
Speaker 1: the same sentiments as Dmitri, you know, and and go
Speaker 1: into the kid realm of things, you know, are My
Speaker 1: kids are both getting a little bit older, as we
Speaker 1: discussed on the show about you know, getting into their
Speaker 1: teenage years and and for me right now, the most
Speaker 1: important part is guiding them through those important parts of
Speaker 1: these ages of life, you know, and making sure they're
Speaker 1: going to make the right decisions when they get older.
Speaker 1: Uh do we can we control that? No, Um, But
Speaker 1: to me, it's it's kind of coaching them and being
Speaker 1: you know, before when they're little and the Ryan's age kids,
Speaker 1: you know, it's more kind of you know, hands on
Speaker 1: and you're changing diapers and you're doing whatever. And now
Speaker 1: it's it's become serious things, right, you know, making the
Speaker 1: right decision whether you're going to go do something in
Speaker 1: a city or decided to take drugs or drink alcohol
Speaker 1: or what I mean. These are real life things that
Speaker 1: are coming in play with my son, um or all
Speaker 1: of our kids as they get a little bit older.
Speaker 1: And so I want to make sure that that I'm
Speaker 1: guiding them down the right path. Um, And that's what's
Speaker 1: important to me. What would I change? Um? Or what
Speaker 1: was the second question? I'm sorry, what's one thing you
Speaker 1: are desperate to change? Probably want to change my record
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm starting with Gavin there my song all
Speaker 1: the ones that I wrote had a line right through it,
Speaker 1: and I was asking you what was going on with that?
Speaker 1: But you didn't have a good answer. Um, what would
Speaker 1: I change? You know again kind of echoing the same sentiments.
Speaker 1: And I feel like it's kind of maybe our age,
Speaker 1: you know, Dmitri and I when we started talking about
Speaker 1: this podcast and you know, started you know, collaborating about everything,
Speaker 1: we really had kind of a bond and we were
Speaker 1: talking about our kids and our age and what we
Speaker 1: want to do and whatnot. And I think kind of
Speaker 1: trying to figure out a way to slow things down.
Speaker 1: You know. It is the grind every day, whether it's
Speaker 1: at work or travel or whatever. And I love traveling
Speaker 1: and I do a lot for work and um and
Speaker 1: I do get times where I cancel it down on it,
Speaker 1: but a bit. But it's taking your kids fishing, going
Speaker 1: on a trip, you know, enjoying a baseball tournament in
Speaker 1: New York City or whatever that is. And that's what
Speaker 1: I want to try to you know, you know, appreciate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for you, Ryan. What's one thing you're imensely excited
Speaker 1: about and what is one thing you are desperate to change?
Speaker 1: I am really excited about my upcoming record and my
Speaker 1: tour as well. Just SA start a band and not
Speaker 1: tell me where do I buy a T shirts from
Speaker 1: your merchant? No, you know, I would say, yeah, I
Speaker 1: have a second kid on the way. And truthfully, you know,
Speaker 1: my dad was killed when I was younger. I grew
Speaker 1: up without a father. So having a boy right now
Speaker 1: and having a second boy along the way is something
Speaker 1: that I you know, my I was five and a
Speaker 1: half of my dad was killed, and so it was
Speaker 1: it was kind of avoid in my life for a
Speaker 1: lot of my childhood. And so now to be able
Speaker 1: to be a father to him and to do all
Speaker 1: the things. And even when you pose the question earlier
Speaker 1: about you know, the birds and the bees talking you
Speaker 1: went around asking it was awkward for me because I
Speaker 1: was hoping you didn't come to me, because I never
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to even have that conversation. So it's
Speaker 1: just every moment that I went through my own childhood,
Speaker 1: I now genuinely cherish those moments that I can have
Speaker 1: with my son and really look forward to doing the
Speaker 1: things that I never got to do with my father.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something that's really genuinely exciting for me.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's powerful. So in terms of something I
Speaker 1: would change, I think, you know, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: people echoed it already, but it's it's really probably being
Speaker 1: more present. And when I do come home from work,
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm with my wife and I'm with my son.
Speaker 1: I'm not on my phone, and trying to be more
Speaker 1: present generally generally in life too. It's like with social media,
Speaker 1: is not doing things for the photo to put on Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's like living life, being more present and just enjoying
Speaker 1: the moments as opposed to feeling like you have to
Speaker 1: keep up with the jones. Is to Dmitri's point, and
Speaker 1: this rat race that we all feel like we're living
Speaker 1: in Instagram life and everyone has to have one up
Speaker 1: the next person and be more present. Yeah, wow, amazing,
Speaker 1: very heavy. Gavin's crying again, all right now, it's my
Speaker 1: turn to ask Mr Brooks here. Uh, what's the one
Speaker 1: thing that you're excited about? I mean, you've you've done
Speaker 1: all this. Yeah, UM, I am immensely excited about opportunity
Speaker 1: in my life right now. So coming out of professional sports,
Speaker 1: played fifteen years professional hockey and now and it's it's
Speaker 1: what I realize when I got out of it was
Speaker 1: how suppressive it is on other areas of your life.
Speaker 1: You are so micro focused on winning a Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: Your whole life revolves around that. How you eat, sleep, train,
Speaker 1: your relationship, everything revolves around you winning, and that suppresses
Speaker 1: a lot of other things in your life. UM, other
Speaker 1: things you want to do, other projects of service, being
Speaker 1: able to travel the world, these kinds of things, times
Speaker 1: with family, and I'm excited about the opportunity that I
Speaker 1: now have to dedicate time, energy resources to those things. UM,
Speaker 1: one of them being this podcast. I'm excited for how
Speaker 1: we're going to serve and help and IMPACTUM men and
Speaker 1: women across the world. I'm super excited about this. Have
Speaker 1: high level conversations, get to know you guys some more,
Speaker 1: have some laughter for sure. UM. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing I'm really excited about is. I have a fitness app,
Speaker 1: a workout app called open Gym, where I'm sharing all
Speaker 1: of my knowledge that I've accumulated through professional hockey and
Speaker 1: athletics UM and have a training program that I'm sharing
Speaker 1: with everybody UM that is into athletics, into fitness. My
Speaker 1: mom does it. It's for professional athletes or for general fitness.
Speaker 1: My mom does some of it. And I have some
Speaker 1: other friends that are professional cross fitters or professional athletes
Speaker 1: that do it as well. So becoming an entrepreneur building
Speaker 1: that being in this dog fetching element of the U
Speaker 1: from the dead left, that's a little add on UM
Speaker 1: if anybody. He had it on his his Instagram he
Speaker 1: was doing uh he said, I'm playing. Uh, we say,
Speaker 1: I'm working out with the dog today And he was
Speaker 1: playing fetch with the dog while he was doing like
Speaker 1: what do you call his dead lips? Yeah? You know
Speaker 1: what those are? I love those those are from my
Speaker 1: whole body and strength in my lifestyle and from my
Speaker 1: herculate Yeah there you go. H. But that's what I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about opportunity and freedom of opportunity. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then I'm also very blessed to be married to the
Speaker 1: most amazing woman in the world. So, UM, living in
Speaker 1: l a Is fantastic. I love that. UM many things
Speaker 1: in my life to be excited about. Um. The one
Speaker 1: thing that I'd be desperate to change, I would say,
Speaker 1: would be some bitterness and resentment towards my sport for
Speaker 1: being done sooner than I figured I would be. UM,
Speaker 1: some relationships in the sport of some things that happened
Speaker 1: to me with me, UM, with some people that had
Speaker 1: some decisions revolving or involving my career. And I'll stick
Speaker 1: you on him, buddy, I might have to do a
Speaker 1: few dead before you take anybody down. I'll stick you
Speaker 1: on him. But also along with that, thirty five years
Speaker 1: of my life was dedicated to professional hockey, to winning
Speaker 1: a Stanley cupp And so when I got the phone
Speaker 1: call that said you've been released in your career is over,
Speaker 1: there's a tremendous a tremendous loss of purpose and you
Speaker 1: don't just go from doing the thing you love most
Speaker 1: in the world to now doing something that's okay. So
Speaker 1: for the last year it's been trying to find something
Speaker 1: that lights me on fire that I'm like, let's go.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to do this. Let's go, and I'm
Speaker 1: finally starting to find that purpose um with open gim
Speaker 1: um and then also with this podcast. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a large part of that because I
Speaker 1: really want to do something to serve and impact UM
Speaker 1: and so changing finding that new purpose in life. UM.
Speaker 1: So I'm not the rest of my life. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be. I was a hockey player, you want
Speaker 1: to say, I am a yeah, and you're not a
Speaker 1: can kicker. Not a can kicker, you know. So um yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's it. Great, Well, maybe we can get you
Speaker 1: People's Choice Award. It's no Stanley Cup, but we'll go
Speaker 1: for that. It just means people like you, okay for
Speaker 1: a podcast for Podcast Choice Award, But I have no idea. Aby,
Speaker 1: You'll have to educate me on what this kind of
Speaker 1: stuff is. But I appreciate you guys. That was our
Speaker 1: first podcast, How men Think. Um. We appreciate appreciate everyone listening.
Speaker 1: And if you have any insight, feedback, comments, questions for us,
Speaker 1: any of us, send them to men at I heart
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Speaker 1: We're here as a vessel to serve you guys. So
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Speaker 1: We made it for the first one. Awesome. Hey guys,
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