Aug. 12, 2022

Moonshot Mission for Mankind & Humanity

Real Men Feel #266 Moonshot Mission for Mankind & Humanity

Research shows that men live sicker and die sooner than women. Dr. Jed Diamond is on a mission to change that. His moonshot mission focusing on men's mental health could save 375,000 lives each year in the United States alone.

My Guest, Jed Diamond, is one of the world's leading experts in Gender Medicine and Men's Health. He has written sixteen books, including international best-sellers Surviving Male Menopause and The Irritable Male Syndrome. Most importantly, Jed is a teacher, mentor, and friend, and I am thrilled to connect with him again.

When looking at risk factors for disease and early death, the number one risk factor is being male. Saving males is a worthy goal.

Topics and Questions

1:50 Is challenge constant?
3:20: What is the purpose of your Moonshot Mission?
4:56 If we could help men live as healthy and long as women, we would save 375K men's lives per year in the United States.
9:20 You've said that healing men will do more good than curing cancer. Can you explain that?
11:30 Is this about only extending men's lives or also improving them?
13:24 What makes being male so deadly?
15:50 Men die sooner and live sicker due to our behaviors.
17:40 Many of these improved behaviors are well known. What keeps us from making these positive changes?
22:42 What does this African proverb mean to you?
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
25:00 The rise of authoritarianism.
25:53 The ease of going into blame mode.
29:26 Tell me about the book you are working on.
31:35 Jed, what's the best way to learn more about you and this moonshot mission?
32:37: Is there one habit, practice, or program you want to share?

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Today is the first show of 2022
with a guest, and there really

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is only one, man.
I could invite to live up to

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that lofty expectation after
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So long without any guests at
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Jeff Simon.
Dr. Diamond is one of the

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world's leading experts in
gender medicine and Men's

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Health, he has written 16 books,
including International

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bestsellers, surviving male
menopause, and the irritable

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male syndrome.
He's a licensed psychotherapist

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with a PhD in international
health and a master's degree in

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social work.
His passion is helping men and

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women do four things live, a
fully authentic life, love

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deeply and well, make a positive
difference in the world and

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offer hope and Guidance in these
times of Challenge and

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transformation for more than 50
years jet has been a Pioneer in

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gender specific medicine,
healing trauma.

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And Men's Health to me, most
importantly, than all of those

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wonderful things.
Jed is a teacher mentor and a

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friend of mine and I am thrilled
to be connecting with you.

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Once again, Jed, welcome back to
real men.

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Feel thank you Andy.
It's a pleasure to be with, you,

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always and knees.
Always challenging times.

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It's good to have a brotherly
connection and to be able to be

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exploring these important issues
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You start right there, you said
always challenging times, so

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I've certainly seen more and
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myself, especially challenging
times but is, is challenge

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constant.
Well the way I'm thinking of it

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when I said that is change is
constant, certainly things

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always change.
That's the nature of life.

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But what I'm referring to is
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which is the reality that the
challenges we face as a human

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group of people's on the planet
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Is getting more and more
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Humanity.
The problems we face with

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climate change or one indicator
of the imbalance that we have

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the fires that are going on,
where I am in California, the

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constant every summer, we have
more danger and so on.

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So what I'm really talking about
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you will of All of us are
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time, but I think we all feel
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Things are increasingly
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different ways, but I think we
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difficult these days.
I agree.

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So, I know you have kind of a
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moonshot Mission you working on.
So can you tell me what the

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purpose of that is?
Well, it specifically, it's to

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look at a reality that a couple
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addressed and it's so something,
I think we all feel, but they

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addressed it specifically.
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Randall, Nessie is an MD and his
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Krueger and they looked at the
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people in 20 different countries
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they found in every country as a
group Men, live sicker, they got

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diseases at higher rates than
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Their life span was shorter.
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we all kind of intuitively knew,
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indicated that and they came out
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Responses and implications of
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The first one was that when you
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and early death, all the things
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They said the number one risk
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If you just knew nothing else
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you know, would die early just
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one risk factor.
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There are other conclusion that
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they said that if we could
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and long as women as a group, we
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year in the United States alone.
Just think about 375,000,

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fathers husbands Brothers, all
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three hundred and seventy-five
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States alone and they're finding
that men live sicker and die

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sooner and every other country
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Yes, I knew the mortality rate
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didn't and I guess I tribute to
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live and stress out.
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looked at the same thing is
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Exactly.
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as a group were not as healthy
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States is not as Healthy and
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countries, but in every country,
whatever it whether they're

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longer lived, or not as long
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discrepancy between the males in
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And the females of that country
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a group Live, get sicker, more
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the women.
So that seems to be Universal.

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And, as you know, it meant
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I've been trying in my own way
to help the men that come to me

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to write books and all the
things you mentioned.

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But last November, I decided
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If we were really going to make
a difference and when I started

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doing Men's Work back, you know,
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There weren't very many programs
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really focused on men's health.
Now there are a lot of them.

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So the moonshot ideas if We
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Hundreds thousands of
individuals and millions of

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individual men and women along
with all the good work,

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organizationally that people
like you, and your organization

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are doing it many others.
We could really collectively

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maybe not each one of us working
separately, but if we could join

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forces, if we could become a
support system, a community, a

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movement.
That we could really make a

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difference not only improve the
health of man.

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Decrease the suicide rates which
we know is higher for men than

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for women, violence rates are
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We suffer all kinds of, you
know, heart disease and cancer

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every the top 10 leading cause
of disease higher for males than

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for females.
We could really make a

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difference.
So the moonshot really is a

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group of us now that Come
together to, to initiate a whole

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series of engagements, probably
starting this year, in November

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to bring together the group that
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the next group of people that
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who want to join it, who want to
help and then to have that

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spread hopefully throughout the
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To the idea of a moonshot came
from the Google X, which it was

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in the Google World.
The they called it, their

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moonshot Factory and that was
where they looked at major

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problems in the world.
And they said, how can we not

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only make a small difference?
A 10% Improvement in some major

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problem, but how could we make
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How could we get attend times
effect of improvement rather

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than just a 10% Improvement?
Now, Was there they called it,

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their moonshot Factory.
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that kind of endeavor a moonshot
Endeavor, whether it's taken

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somebody to the moon or a 10
times Improvement in men's

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mental health and then maybe a
hundred times until we can

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gather enough momentum to have
men and women together living

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long healthy lives.
You think it was last year that

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you had a really provocatively
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healing men would do more good
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So is that related to that that
debt in staggering number of, if

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male and female mortality was
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If men, if the man was highly
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opposed to vice versa that over
325,000 lives would be saved in

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the us alone.
Is that with that that cancer

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metaphors from.
Well, it actually came from that

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study that that quote, was from
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They said among other things.
In addition to the The lives,

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that would be saved.
They said, if if we could do

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that, you would do more good in
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So it was, you know, that same
idea that this is the kind of

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change that could make a huge
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And I think what's more
important for those of us that

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have been working in the field
of men's health and men's mental

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health, for these years, this is
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I mean, we know now what we we
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healthily and have our minds in
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healthy.
We know there's a lot of

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programs that are doing this so
it's not like, you know, 30 40,

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50 years ago where we were kind
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We wanted to help but we didn't
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Now we know what to do.
We just need the, I think,

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concerted effort, the
commitment, the belief, because

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so many People have become
disillusioned, they feel

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hopeless, they feel helpless.
They feel like the world's just

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going to hell in a handbasket
and there's not much we can do

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and people even feel well maybe
not only maybe I'm not worth

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anything.
Maybe I ought to just check out

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I'm not of value to my family or
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just on a step aside and let it
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Gave it her best shot.
Throw in the towel, kind of

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things.
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ready to give in.
I think there's a lot that

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Humanity can yet do for good,
not only for ourselves, but for,

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you know, the rest of the
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Earth.
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not talking about, just
extending the lives of men, so

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they can be miserable and
lonely, and depressed for

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another decade of on Earth.
It's really that men can improve

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their mental emotional,
spiritual health, and enjoy

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living and want to live.
Longer exactly.

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Right.
You know, nobody wants to live

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long miserably, you know, extend
my miserable life.

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Although I think that's part of
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That's not just individual, but
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that you know, what's the use
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I mean, there's a reason why the
suicide rate for males who are

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65 and older skyrockets compared
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I mean females get old too and
they have all the, you know,

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disabilities that males have.
But as a group males 65 and

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older commit suicide at rates
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the same age.
So there's something about us

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guys that feel a sense of
hopelessness at a certain stage

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so that's the thing, not only to
live longer but to feel in

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Decorated by like I turned 70 80
earlier this year and and I feel

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this is kind of the most
exciting time to be alive and

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these are challenging times, but
we're up for challenge.

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I mean challenge is good and
working together, this can be

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fun, it can be engaging, it can
be, you know, something we can

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pass on to our children,
grandchildren and future

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generations, and you know what,
could be more fun than making

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the world better place for all
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To live in.
Yeah, I Love Your vitality and

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optimism and energy about this
whole thing, but what makes

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being mailed so deadly?
Well, there's a number of

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things.
There's a small percentage they,

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the researchers say maybe 10%
has to do with genetics has to

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do with the fact that we males.
We know genetically, we have

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every cell 10 trillion cells in
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They tell us I've encountered
them all but I'll Trust the

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researchers tell me that.
And every cell has, you know,

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chromosomes and one of those
chromosomes one, Of the pair's

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is the sex chromosomes column X
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If you have an X and A Y, your
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and A Y.
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to a female has in every 10
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genetics indicates that having
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Pairs gives some and genetic
Outage that females live longer

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because their genes on the X,
that if you've got two pairs, if

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one of them isn't working, the
other can fill in, but if you

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only have one and you have the
small other Y, chromosome, that

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doesn't have, as many, you know,
jeans on it that women then have

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more protection.
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biologically, perhaps more
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Two things.
One is that we know, even our

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genes are not our destiny that
we used to think that whatever

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genetic benefit or disadvantage
you had it was, you're stuck

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with it.
He is a built-in.

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But now we know in this emerging
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epigenetics that our gene
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our attitudes, our beliefs are
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So that, even the That a thing,
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A lot of the reason men, die
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behaviors.
How we eat, you know how, we how

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we relate to people, why?
So many men feel lonely and

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don't have the social
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Do you know why we feel that if
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a job and we're not, you know,
successful in the business world

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that somehow we're not useful or
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There's a whole set of things
that we've, you know, we know

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very well that if we change
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obviously isn't all men that are
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Some men live, like, my father
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80.
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things he changes.
He stopped smoking sooner than

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she did.
He changed his eating patterns,

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he was less stress.
T spent more social time than My

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mother did.
So these changes are there to be

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had, and we just need to know
about them and then to have the

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support, which I think is the
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You know, if a whole group of
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community of manner relating and
spending more time and social

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connection that positivity
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we're just doing our own thing,
the The negativity, the downward

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spiral happened.
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we have to change the patterns
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years and we may not be able to
get men and women to live

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exactly the same number of years
together, but we can certainly

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improve things a great deal and
maybe even help women live

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longer healthier lives as well.
We've certainly improved our

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General Health over the last No
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even better for all of us,
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So, most of the behaviors that
the eating and healthy the

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exercise.
So much of that, I don't think

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there are many men that can say,
oh, I didn't, I didn't realize

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eating better would help me, you
know, so what do you think keeps

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what keeps us from doing the
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What keeps us from wanting to
make the changes that would

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actually make us feel better?
But I think there's a number of

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things.
I think, you know, one is the,

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the social context in which many
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being mailed.
So, for instance, I grew up in

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Southern California, the 1950s.
And one of the, the beliefs was

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that in order to really be
manly, you had to eat meat in a

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beef, particularly.
And so, most of the neighbors,

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Purrs, you know, bought if you
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hamburgers, chop, steaks, and my
mother after my father left, you

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know, he had a, what was called
at the time, a nervous breakdown

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and ended up in a mental
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So I was raised by single mom
and one of the beliefs that she

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had was well, my boy needs meet,
you know, to and so with the

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Fertilizing of the time, which
was you get a freezer?

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I still remember you getting,
they you buy a freezer and then

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you'd sign up for these regular
meat deliveries and you'd get

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packaged Steaks and Chops and
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And you know, all kinds of me,
well, she thought that would

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make me more manly.
And so I literally ate meat

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three times a day.
I had a parent, still remember

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hamburger and rice and
applesauce usually for

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breakfast.
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It was quick.
Also, since she was had to go to

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work after my dad left, she had
to do stuff fast and quick fast

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food, defrost, you know,
Hamburger.

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Put it in the, you know, the
oven and boom, you got, you got

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breakfast, a chopped for lunch
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So that's an example of that.
Regimen of eating that's

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associated with maleness, or
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There's a lot of other practices
like working hard, and not

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getting enough sleeping, and we
don't need it because we're men,

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we could, we could tough it out,
I don't need, you know, it's not

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good for us.
So a lot of the beliefs we have

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about what it means to be manly.
What it means to be a man are

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toxic, you know, the beliefs are
toxic and not the masculinity is

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not toxic, but the beliefs,
about some aspects of manhood

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are sick and those can change.
So we change those beliefs, we

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change those practices and we
start living longer healthier

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lives.
Yeah, because the most, some of

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the most limiting distorted
views of being a man, almost

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denies that.
You're human, I don't need sleep

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or food or people or anything.
I'm a man and like bull know

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before, where men or women,
where we're humans.

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And we all need that that
connection, that that meeting

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that purpose.
The the love and joy of Life and

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all of those things that again
that stereotypical man, out on

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the plains, doesn't care about
and yeah, good Marlboro Man.

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He smoked a cigarette rides, his
horse and is a loner or you

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know, what you do and what your
logo says, real men.

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Feel you know, and part of what
many of us grew up was real men.

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Keep their feelings inside if
they may feel but you don't show

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them.
You may feel but you should only

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have a limited range of what you
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Feel so it's okay to feel angry,
maybe if you're a certain kind

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of family in my family, even
anger was suppressed, but you

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certainly don't feel sad, you
don't feel scared, you don't

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feel anxious, you don't feel,
you know, hurt, you don't feel,

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you know, even love and
affection and nurture, you know?

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Those are female qualities.
Men are this way and women are

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that way, little boys are made
of sugar or little girls made of

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sugar and spice and everything.
Nice, we're a little boys are

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Eight of snips and snails and
puppy dogs, tails.

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Yeah, that's what little boys
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So, there's these dichotomy that
tells us, there's only so much

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we can be and it's, it's only
part of humanity.

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So, we end up all of us, females
and males being restricted.

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I called the man box of what
were restricted and well there's

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a separate but unequal female
The restrictions that women have

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tried to break out of.
And that's part of the the work

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we all have to do together.
Right.

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On your site earlier today,
noticed an African proverb that

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I liked.
It's the child who is not

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embraced by The Village, will
burn it down to feel its warmth.

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So what does that mean to you?
What does that bring to mind?

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Well, it's a number of things.
It's the, the feeling that So

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many of us don't feel embraced
by the village that we feel as

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men, either that our families,
we have to leave them to go off

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to work.
And we don't feel that we have

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time to spend with our children
with our grandchildren.

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So there's that feeling, but I
think in The Wider Society,

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there's a feeling that somehow
we are not getting the support

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from.
Our communities that men are

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being shortchanged.
I think women feel the same way.

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I really don't think it's just
men that are feeling that way

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because I think there's
significant ways in which we're

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all being shortchanged by a
society that's driven by by

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money and profits and away.
Rather than people Health Care

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is you know, is an example of a,
part of the system that's really

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driven by profits more than
Making money on, you know, on

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drugs and other things that may
be less about health and about

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how to make money for large
corporations.

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But I think the feeling of that
that loss turns in particularly

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for males who have testosterone
you know the pretty young males

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and older males, have it too.
But that anger, that rage, that

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comes out where we feel Somebody
must to be to blame for this

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that that it isn't me.
I deserve to be cared for it.

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If I don't then goddamn it.
I'm going to burn the house

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down.
I'm going to burn the village

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down.
I'm going to storm the capital

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and take it over and pull down.
The walls around me.

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There's a lot of that energy
that I think of Hawaii that

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quote I think is apropos of a
lot of what's going on,

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certainly in our country and
other countries throughout the

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world, where there's this
authoritarian.

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In leadership cult that's going
on in many parts of the world

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of.
If we can't solve our problems

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democratically, maybe we need a,
you know, a heavy hand and a an

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authoritarian personality that
will come and just kick some

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butt and take no prisoners and
bomb the the enemies and you

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know and I think there's that
mentality that when you strip it

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of it you know Macho.
Authoritarian strongman ideology

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is really the little wounded
child in there.

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That's so frustrated that you
know I'm going to just burn down

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the village rather than feel
humiliated or shamed for not

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getting what I know I deserve.
Yeah because there's There's an

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ease of going into blame mode
and it's everybody else's fault,

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then taking responsibility.
But but the only way things

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change for the better is by
every individual taking

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responsibility for their own
lives, or their own outlook for

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their own energy and beliefs,
and everything, really, exactly

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and it's it's difficult to do
when it feels like there are

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enemies out there that Our have
to be pushed away and we see it,

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you know, and all sides of the
political Spectrum.

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You know we we feel Under Siege
and I think it's a an

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understandable response to a
complex society.

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I mean things are complicated
and when things Rebecca cost, my

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colleague Rebecca costume, you
know, a book called the

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watchman's rattle that that
looked At at the the way in

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which societies reach a point of
complexity and she looked it

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societies through history and
all over the world.

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We're from the Roman Empire to
the Kaymer Empire.

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Two empires generally that part
of what presaged collapse is the

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things get so complex.
You can't you can't solve the

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problems and so there's some,
some things that you do when you

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can't solve problems.
To you either.

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Start blaming others.
You look for a, scapegoat you,

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you develop, Silo thinking where
you're all in your own little

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world in your own, you watch
your own sports channels, your

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own television here, commentary.
And then you get into this,

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we're the, we're the good guys
and they're the bad guys and all

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I need to know about you is
you're not this party, then you

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must be bad, you know I have to
to oppose you no matter what

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you, what your Your policies are
because you're bad and we're

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good and we got to stop you and
that mentality is destructive

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clearly and is deadly clearly
and one where we can't come

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together as long as we assume
that there's no Bridging the Gap

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and I think it's something that
is not solely but it's

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particularly male that I think
goes back.

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Back to probably our ancient,
you know, roots in, in male

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animal behavior that we sniff
out other males, that may be a

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danger, that may be a threat.
May be a competitor and we

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either get him before he gets us
or we have to check him out or

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you a friend or a foe and once
you're labeled as a faux, then

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either I got to keep you under
wraps.

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Or I've got a I've got To get
you before you get me, that's

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the mentality that I think needs
to change.

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And the moonshot mission that we
have is not only help men live

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longer better, but to also
Bridge.

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The divisions that are so
present between groups of men

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and between men and women and
between different parts of our

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culture.
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They're sort of try to eliminate
everyone being in other and

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create more of an us, exactly?
Right.

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Now, I know that you thought you
had written your last book but I

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understand, you are, you're
currently writing something.

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You want to tell me about that.
Well, this is part of the what's

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come out of the moonshot idea
because I wanted to recognize

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that this this quote that came
out of the, the Nessie and

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Krueger research that the we
could save.

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The lives of three hundred
seventy five thousand men a

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year.
And so this idea of saving males

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which is least the working title
of the new book.

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Saving males is a worthy goal
and that we need some tools.

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And so in the book at least as
its as its developing, there's

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three chapters on the problem
which we've talked some about

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of, you know why men.
Live sicker and die sooner, you

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know, the kind of violence
against going on and then this

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kind of existential threat
throughout the world where we're

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feeling, we're on the edge of
collapse, that's the problem and

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you have a clear sense of the
problem.

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So there's three chapters that
clarify that and then they're

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there are seven chapters on the
solution and ways in which we

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can get more deeply in touch
with our deep.

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Up healthy mail routes where we
can learn to improve our

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relationships with ourselves in
each other.

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So, it's, it's in a sense going
to be the offering to this

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community.
This movement that I'm starting

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will be one of many other
resources that the I and others

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will make available from podcast
like yours to other.

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Groups and organizations that
are working to join this, this

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movement, help, man.
So my book, hopefully will be a

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a small but important part of
that awesome.

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So Jed, what's the best way for
people listening that are

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interested to learn more about
you and learn more about the

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mission?
What's the best way for people

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to do that?
Well my website is is men a

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live.com just one word Emmy Nal.
I ve.com and you scroll down at

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men alive you can read more
about the moonshot mission and

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if you're interested in finding
out more there's a place you can

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leave us here your name and
email address and then we will

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be in touch with you.
People can join the mailing

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list.
I send out a newsletter every

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week where I write an article
that I post on my site.

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So there's a lot of resources
that are there and it's a good

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way to connect with me and can
write me email me at Janet

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mental live.com Read all my
email and I respond to as many

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as I can.
And so I'm accessible and

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available to the degree that you
want to reach out.

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I'm here awesome.
And with 50 years of experience

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and men's health, and mental
health and healing.

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I've got to ask, is there one
habit practice program that that

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stands out that you would like
to pass on to everybody?

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Well, I think there's there's a
couple that I do every day I

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want is I walk my neighborhood.
Some of that was originally for

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health when covid-19 appening I
upped my my walking and just

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physical things to walk Hills to
improve my lung capacity.

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But what I found is, you walk
the community, you talk to

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people every day, not just
people, but birds and animals.

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The deer are out in the In my
neighborhood.

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So I talked to the deer.
Hear the birds.

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So connecting to Nature
connecting, two people

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connecting to community, walking
is kind of an easy relatively

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easy, no matter where you are,
there's places you can walk

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Durbin, rural, wherever.
So, if there was one thing that

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I would tell you, I do every day
and I do other things, but

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walking every day and then Then
taking time when there's a

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neighbor in the yard to stop and
chat a little bit to actually

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ask how you doing and really
want to know.

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And there's a give you just a
little tip.

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If there's a man that I met in
the neighborhood, who's 90 years

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old, he's living with his
daughter and her family.

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His name is Victor and he's from
Mexico.

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He's 90 years old and he's
always out working doing

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something, he's splitting wood.
Got it would Letter.

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So I come up and, you know, and
he can't see very well, he's

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unless you're real close.
So I'll call from a day, if you

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thought of como estas and then,
you know, he's like, and he

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turns and smiles.
I walk up and hit.

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Always spend a little, just a
little time.

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Chad, and how you doing you,
Steve stay in hell.

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Yeah, man.
Well, you know, just and it

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makes my day.
I come home feel the greater

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than that every day.
There's probably two or three

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people that I'll happen to run
into him.

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Not always out.
But when he is we have we have

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an exchange.
So that that's at least one

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little practice that I'd
recommend to anybody that, that

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resonates with that might want
to do something like that.

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Awesome, awesome.
That was such a surprising

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answer and so simple.
And yeah, if there's anyone can

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do it.
So, that's fantastic.

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Jed, I really want to thank you
for making the time to talk to

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us and share more about your
moonshot mission and No, I'm

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eager to be part of it and I
hope everyone listening has, at

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least some level of eagerness
and wants to know more and visit

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your site to learn more.
So I thank you again Jed.

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And thank you, everyone for
listening, wherever you were

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discovering real men, feel,
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share, whatever the magic of
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You can always reach out to me

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at real men.
Feel at gmail.com, always love

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to hear from you.
And if you want to explore what

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life might be like for you with
more authenticity book, a free

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clarity All with me visit V and
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And until next time, be good to
yourself.

Jed Diamond Profile Photo

Author / Coach / CEO, MenAlive

For more than fifty years, I have helped more than 40,000 men, and the women who love them, to life fully, love deeply, and make a positive difference in the world. There is a lot I’d like to offer you from my professional experience, but I also want to be vulnerable and share some of my own personal challenges. I’ll tell you about my joy of love and the pain of divorce, how I dealt with depression, why my third marriage nearly went under at mid-life, and how recognizing and healing forgotten childhood trauma enabled me to find true love and a successful 42-year marriage, and more.

I am a member of the Medical Advisory Board of Ro, The Patient Company. I am also associated with Riane Eisler’s Center for Partnership Systems and Good Therapy. I blog regularly for The Good Men Project and Medium.

I’m the author of 17 books, including the international best-selling Male Menopause and Surviving Male Menopause, that have thus far been translated into 22 foreign languages. The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression, Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome, The Enlightened Marriage, and 12 Rules for Good Men are also developing a worldwide readership.

My work has been featured in major newspapers throughout the United States, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. I’ve been featured on more than 1,000 radio and TV programs, including The View with Barbara Walters, Good Morning America, Today Show, CNN-360 … Read More