#41 The Transformative Power & Obligation of Gratitude & a Good Life

Gentlemen, welcome to the be the man podcast.

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Greg Denning.

I am the Creator and Coach inside the bead man master class and tribe.

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For striving to be men.

It's actually really early in the morning in Norway leading a trip here.

I'm with my family, we've actually had this amazing plan for the next several months were going to be Be wandering around the earth.

It's math.

It's so cool side note here.

So so cool to watch your wife and your children.

Just come alive with learning and adventure and Novelty, and experience, and exposure from the little ones, and their fascination with escalators and playgrounds and wherever, right to your older kids and your wife, just lighting up with new and exciting places and things and it's just so important.

Cannot let go of this idea of the importance.

Of of exposure, exposing ourselves and our children to life and the world and what's out there, and what's possible.

So many people will not rise in life simply because the lack of exposure and we'll Circle back to that later today.

And so I'm leading a trip here.

We're actually up above the Arctic Circle.

Which is unreal.

I took my son a few years ago, we went to Iceland and then we took a ferry to an island above Iceland and got to the marker right on the Arctic Circle.

But now we're far above that in Norway and it's winter and it's amazing.

It's just a totally dark Winter Wonderland.

Just, it's unreal just having the coolest experiences.

Today, we're going to go out and meet with the native people.

The Sami people in Ride.

The reindeer slays in the wilderness in the woods Emeritus.

So so stoked, but I was up late.

You know, sauna was some some men have a great discussions.

And I just woke up really early.

Didn't get all the sleep.

I had hoped to because I just have this thing on my mind, that I have to work on, and I have to share, and I'm sure part of that today, and it's on my mind, and it has been actually for, I would say, at least 10 years. and you know, I'm if you lifted me at all, you know, I just feel this moral obligation to give back And the importance of striving to make it a positive difference in and this responsibility that you and I have not only to make the most of ourselves but to become so developed and to achieve and acquire so much that we have way more than enough for ourselves and our family, but we have plenty to give back and that's, you know, includes resources.

In and money and time and talent skills and knowledge.

But like you have more of you to give.

And so, you know, a big part of my message today is like that.

You and I have a responsibility in a moral obligation to make the most of ourselves simply because we can and if we can, then we should and perhaps we can go so far as to say, if we can, we must So if you have the opportunity to rise, if you have the even the possibility to make more of yourself then at least from my perspective, you and I have a moral obligation to do.

So If we can, we must, because not everybody does and those are some stories I want to.

I want to share today, shortly before Thanksgiving.

I had the privilege to go to Honduras and do some humanitarian work and it was, it was amazing.

It was, it was very sad.

Of course, it always is sad.

When you go and you're going in to try to rescue and help and get people out of tough situations and so there's tragedy there.

But there's also Triumph an inspiration and to see just the grid It and toughness of humanity.

The things that people are capable of dealing with in overcoming and putting up with.

And so once it's wiring, but it's also to see what suffering is just a so tough.

And so I landed landed on the ground in Honduras is in a tough situation.

Has been for several years.

We were there quite a few years ago and just loved it.

Just beautiful country.

We drove from border to border spent some time in there and just the mountains oceans and seas.

He's an man, just beautiful people, and great food, just an awesome culture.

And this time of even fell more in love with Honduras and and her people and the beauty of of everything.

It was this awesome, but I met a while.

I was there, I met this great, man, we really connected and we're building a friendship now.

Just so excited.

He had been in the Marines and down there.

He's a hunter and he didn't reach down there and he been a police officer.

Sir and he he got into crime and it would became an investigator for eight years and worked kind of the counted counter gang, which is one of the biggest problems right now in Honduras, the games are just out of control and when I say out of control, like it's their regular like, massive shootout with police officers.

I mean these guys have AK-47s and whatever.

I mean, the pictures he showed, Neil of his patrol truck, just just being absolutely riddled with gun, bullet holes and gunshot.

I mean, just unbelievable.

The stories he told, and I was asking, like, what's me, tell me your story and tell me what's, what's the problem here?

Why is this wire gang?

So out of control, it was really fascinating from his perspective to learn.

He says, well this the youth in our country have no real help.

No support.

And so many of the families are struggling and broke because the economy is hurting which again, bigger macro thinking here you guys, if you're you're wrong with me here, you love big thinking like I do when an economy struggles again, another absolute moral responsibility here to make your economy succeed.

And do help and bye-bye, that help the economy succeed.

And another, you know, we have to help governments, do what they're supposed to do because they don't and then, you know, succeed in spite of what governments do in their corruption, their inefficiency, and all that crap.

They do in fail to do.

That's another, that's another topic.

But because their economy sucks, then that families are struggling and youth are struggling.

And so the school systems, not They are out the extracurricular, activities are good.

And in the United States were starting to see that collapse and fail where and it's been coming for the last several years but you know, the the engagement and the quality of extracurricular activities for youth is dropping like crazy and when you take that away youth are just they want to be active.

They want to be involved in something.

They need all of us children youth and adults need to be involved in a good.

Some kind of occupation, we need to be doing something that's good, and if we don't, then we're going to get often just get into trouble.

I mean, you look around and the people who Rising succeed and do well, are are the ones who have something to work on something that's meaningful purposeful.

And that's, that's kind of, an underlying message today, is having something really good.

Really, really good to be working on, and not, not just in talk, not the stories, we tell ourselves.

So like, yeah, I'm working on this or I'm doing that and really, you're spending, massive amount of times just scrolling on your phone or watching entertainment from movies to sports, to whatever is entertaining yourself to death.

But really, really truly engaged.

And so these youth, they don't they don't have that and they're broke.

And so the gangs the gangs are prevalent there.

And there's a huge section of like just jungle it's sparsely inhabited and man, they're bringing in all kinds of weapons and drugs through there, and there's massive amounts of crime and money.

And so, the game's code recruiting in these towns were the economy, struggling in the user struggling, and it's an easy recruit because they promise of food, and money, and power, and cars, and guns.

And, and a lot of these youth, like wanting, you know, there's they go home.

Oh man.

There their families have nothing.

Their parents don't have work, they don't have enough food.

And these Gamers like look, just join our gang man.

You'll be able to take care of your family.

You'll have food, you'll have money, you have power.

Like you'll have all the things that you want for yourself and for your family, you can actually create a future and so they're extremely successful in recruiting youth.

And then when you stop and think about that, you put yourself in in that spot shoot you and I might make the same choice.

If we were put in that same situation as they're very successful.

But my friend was asked about his story and he had grown up with a single mom.

When she was gone working and they were broke and it was him and I think it's little brother home.

And I'm like, man, awoke and he grew up in one of those talents where the gangs were prevalent, they were recruiting him.

I'm like, why, okay, not only did you not join the gang?

You actually ended up on the other side of the law, fighting against game.

What, what?

What happened?

And he's like, man, they recruited me.

And I was tempted because we were broke.

He says, but I just could not let go of what my mother had taught me.

That she taught me the difference between right and wrong.

And she taught me, well, I just knew I just knew it was wrong.

Oh man, and let that sink in gentlemen. when you effectively teach your children, this isn't Dad lecturers that doesn't work and it's not you know, going through the motions and giving the speech and saying it, it's truly deeply effectively teaching it And modeling it.

And I get like some, you know, I taught my kids right and wrong and they still did wrong.

Like, well, you guys, you gotta teach him.

Well, fellas, you got to teach him really really well.

We, There we go.

I'm just on this kick a moral obligations today, man, because I feel that we are not just here as like volunteers, man, we're not just here as, as participants in this, the life players.

You're not in, you're not a spectator and some, right?

If I can just be frank with you, some of your trying to be the spectators.

So you're trying to be passive, participants.

We can't.

We can't we simply cannot afford to just Roll Along through life.

As a spectator.

You have to participate and do more.

And in some of you have far more capacity to do more than you're taking advantage of.

And in in that I'm saying, some of you might myself included, we have to cultivate and develop our capacity to grow to handle more so that we can do more.

And again, I'm circling back that.

If you can, you must And so we have to rise and we have to become better teachers far, far far more effective teachers and examples for our kids.

Man, if you have kids, you have to become a great teacher.

I've recommended before the book the courage to teach by Parker Palmer.

It's phenomenal, he's actually talking about specifically, specifically talking about teaching, but it applies perfectly to fatherhood.

And so, I want to encourage any, any really you can't.

None of us can get away from teaching.

What we are.

The matter, what the topic is it subject or anything?

What we're teaching, you cannot get away from teaching what you are?

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And so, you know, when I heard, when I heard his story, my friend story in Honduras and I was just blown away by by his dedication to that.

And still, now, even today's he's helping his country, protecting good people and helping in philanthropy and good work and just making a difference and leaning in, I was just so inspired, so inspired and now he's raising his own young family, great striving to be a great husband, and a great father, and Make a difference.

Just just absolutely awesome man.

Super cool.

So then we met with an organization and one of the one of the most inspiring organizations.

I've worked with a lot of organizations around the world and this is one of the most exciting ones.

I've seen.

The organization is called sepuluh, see, EP Udo and we met the woman there.

Who's kind of running the operations, from his little shift.

Just amazing inspiring them, man to see somebody get so much done in so little time.

And she just rolls like that non-stop basis.

Just all over that country moving millions of dollars of donations products coming in.

Good places and just blessing people's lives all over the in the programs are doing in the self-reliance programs and the These programs they've set up where they're like, man, we need these supplies to help people.

Let's, let's get a community.

Who doesn't have work to make the supplies?

So we buy the supplies to give out to the people who are affected it.

Manages unbelievable.

So that's, that's an organization.

I'm going to be working with in the future and when you can definitely participate in and get involved in and and donate to just absolutely incredible.

And we get there and we got to see their whole operation, how they're doing things, what they're doing.

And I love this kind of work and so I was just so curious and asking questions.

And kind of just interviewing and asking discovering find out, like, what are they doing?

And how are they doing?

And how is it set up?

And why are they doing the way they do it?

Because so many organizations are so inefficient and ineffective.

And there's so much waste And so many problems and they're doing, help me to help you heard about helping that hurts, right of doing it the wrong way and like that demoralizes people.

But these this organization, these people lifting it's incredible and then we were preparing some food because we were going out to help people that have been displaced by floods.

I'll tell you their story a minute but we went in to prepare these these food bags for 150 families and it was food and hygiene things supplies and materials.

As a general rule, I don't like to do any handouts.

When you just give something to someone for nothing, that's kind of demoralizing.

It takes away their own power, and it makes him feel like victims or there's think my, why should, what should I put in my own effort when I could just take a handout.

But in this case with there's there's a cute problems that has chronic problems.

And in this case it was a flood and these floods come in and just just wipe out everything these people have.

And so they need, they need some help.

It's we were preparing these bags and met this amazing lady, she's been working there as Saputo, from the very beginning of she'd been there like 16 years and just hearing her own story of her husband's, chronic illnesses will struggling and she wanted to have a big family but because of his illness is they just had one daughter and she raised her daughter and, and that she's just been there working.

And, and she's just volunteered to stay really lay with us.

And we were working hard and fast.

You sitting there sweating In the heat and humidity in this Warehouse, putting this stuff together and she was right there with us, just running working hard.

And so I was talking to her and hearing her story and her life.

And she says, yeah, it's this is normal.

Whenever there's some kind of struggle, some kind of disaster.

It's let my husband know.

I'll and my daughter knows like a another late night.

We're working late.

And she just puts, you know, day in and day out, puts in the hours.

And she says, I have to go, I have to have to help.

My people have to help people who are struggling.

Was, it was amazing is even in her struggles in her story, which she has a sad story that they've had a tough go.

And yet she feels like, oh, my life is so blessed.

I have to give back.

I have to serve, I have to keep going.

I have to do more.

Oh man, I was so so inspiring.

And so, let me go out to this Village and we get out there.

We learn that.

There's so I don't know if you got, if you guys have been out traveling and I've seen these all over the place, all their, these kind of low-lying lands that are really hot, really, humid, really wet.

And those are like, the best environments for, for bananas to grow.

But man, they are they seem uninhabitable for humans because their conditions are terrible and now unfortunately they're growing Palm Palm oil trees.

So these ones they called the African poems and they just they get the palm oil from them which again any vegetable oils and Seed oils or just wretchedly horrible for the human body and they have those.

So we go into this area and we drive down these rough.

Dirt muddy roads for 90 minutes and you get way back in there.

And so, I mean, and in any direction, it's just these either banana Or poems and their just harvesting these things.

Again, it's hot, it's humid, it's wet.

Everything's just muddy and wet and sticky and saturated.

And so of course, there's a lot of water-borne illnesses, a lot of mosquitoes and so they Dengue fever and and other stuff in there just tough.

And this particular location is in between two huge rivers and whenever it floods range really hard, which is happening now every hurricane season Fall.

One, or both of these Rivers will overflow their Banks and then all the workers who work way out there.

They're so remote or so far away from the cities or any elevated areas just flat for.

Hundreds of miles, there's just no High Ground.

And when it floods man in flood so two years ago with Iota at I think it was Ed and Iota it came in there and there was you know it was over 20 feet of water and mud and there was water over the tops of their houses, like they couldn't even see their houses, they were on boats and it just became this watery.

They're just doing anything to survive this year.

There was no, six to eight feet of water.

But again, you know, I don't want to minimize that because Your wherever you're at right now, if you're in the car or your house or your office, wherever you're listening, just imagine six to eight feet of water and mud where right where you are and even this hotel where I'm sitting here, you know, six to eight feet of water mud, just puts this whole, the whole Lobby, the conference rooms, this whole bottom level and mud and water and it just destroys everything.

So, it destroys all their belongings because they just have one they live in these de simple, simple rectangular homes and all their belongings are right.

They're on the bottom and they just get destroyed.

And and and so, when we went out there, we went to find out what was going on, was happening.

We found all these people, they've been in, they've been, they got this.

What's called the Red Alert, they got, the Red Alert in September.

And so, they've been out there for eight weeks with their beautiful little families, eight weeks.

And there's this little man-made dike or Bank along the river, that's elevated.

And and and they were up on top of that.

And so their Village, their houses that all their belongings, all our stuff had just been wiped out and we heard their stories and it was just horrendous and just it and it just hurt.

I shed a lot of tears.

I got, I got quite emotional because of hearing these stories of these children leaving to their parents that don't let them drown as the floods came in and they're just hanging on to the The fence line and dragging themselves towards that dyke to get up there and and how they're just parents describing their kids or grabbing any of their belongings they can and heading up there and then building these temporary shelters, which is just like, I mean, they grab some poles and, you know, kind of like tarp star positioning, maybe if you have them, if they're lucky, have some sheets of corrugated metal, they throw up there.

And and then they just live on the dirt.

In a kind of a fort, they've built for eight weeks and the water comes in at floods and then it just sits and just go stagnant.

And I was there.

I saw it, I'll just be stagnant.

Susp again, waterborne diseases and mosquitoes and we found these adorable adorable little kids.

They were so cute.

Just absolutely covered in mosquito bites.

And all the kids have this nasty little coffin.

Having trouble sleeping and I mean, just just brutal conditions and as soon as those roads get nasty, right?

There's no more water supply.

There's no more food supply and so they've been struggling.

And so man, you should have seen the Gratitude in the urgency, the desperation to get food and cleaning supplies and medications and so we were able to bring in some over-the-counter medications and and we had some trained.

Medical personnel were able to help out.

Out with a bunch of things, they're struggling with all of them had like foot fungus.

Because there's walking in nasty, mud and water for so long.

And like, they couldn't even sleep at night, because their feet.

And their toes are cracked and bleeding itch, so badly, I mean, and so even small things like that become a massive problem in irritation.

And I want you to know, I'm not inviting you to put yourself in their shoes in their place.

Like what would it be?

Like if it was your family?

I kept I kept picturing that we went up on the up on the bank and the dike there and walked through the they let us in just graciously, let us into their their huts and area where they're living and how they're just surviving.

It's unbelievable.

And then then of course, just like you're doing right now and like I was doing it, still am doing like how can we help?

What's the, what's the long-term solution?

How can we help get these people and, and what's so frustrating?

Is it so many people are stuck?

And I'm an optimist and I'm a Believer in change and rising and Transforming Our Lives, but around the world.

So many people are stuck.

They don't have anywhere else to go.

They don't have anybody to turn to, and even in this case, like the only bit of high ground is this, there's these man-made borders and even those break through, and get washed out in the big floods.

And when they go up there, then they're just stuck there.

Stuck on this little island of dirt.

There's they're legit.

They're stuck up there and the only like food or water they get is brought in by like these amazing humanitarian organizations and churches that bring them out food every hurricane season.

And a man they didn't have the damn any running water.

So luckily we were able to bring in some Engineers with us in and get there.

Get There community pump fixed so they can have running water again and now they can go back and clean out their houses.

Imagine trying to clean out your house has been flooded with mud and filth and garbage and I have any running water to do that.

It's unbelievable.

And then we were able to teach him some filtration things and some water purification.

So you get some so drinking water, man.

They were also thirsty.

We took out a bunch of purified, water, you guys, it was tough.

And it was, it was gratifying to be out.

There were grateful.

We were able to help so much, and they were so grateful and heard some incredible stories and was able to help, but, man, they were in so many instances stocked as only work.

They have it and some of them didn't have any work.

Now, because the banana field, they were got flooded and so there's no Harvest now.

So they can't work.

He think we'll okay.

Why don't we move somewhere else?

Well it's so far away to any elevated ground.

And this is where their work their life is as if they own.

Something is the little plot of land there on this. when I would say is uninhabitable, That's it.

And you think well, they need to move somewhere.

Like that's not a possible.

Or so difficult to start over with with so little and even the expensive know, there's there's so much to this and I hope you know, I love big thinkers and influencers.

Some people are coming up with bigger ideas and exploring like, how could you make a difference here?

Because there's needs like this all over the world and I hope, I guess my call to you.

My invitation is get involved in this stuff.

Get involved in, figuring out ways to make life better for people and help, you know, help them help themselves, of course.

But rise, with some people in spite of all their best efforts, they just need help and especially when there's been disasters, our problems.

And man, I want to invite you and I again I'm going to show these messages.

I'm going to keep doing this.

This is part of my life mission, my life work.

And I'm going to, I'm going to keep sharing these stories as I go out and have these experiences.

And I'm going to have them a lot because I love just get right on the ground when there's a disaster when there's a problem and people really desperately need help.

I've created this life and I've intentionally deliberately gotten myself into a place where I have The knowledge and the skills in the experiences, whether it's languages or travel, or medical training, personal protection training or whatever it is, I teach us to be able to help people and understanding philanthropy in and all those efforts.

Like, I'm getting myself into a position and my family, my life, and draining my kids, to be humanitarian, philanthropist to like all of this, like getting your life into a place where you can make a difference.

And I to keep sharing this because I want to make the same invitation to you.

Now, you may not end up going out and going on these missions if you want to Fantastic, would be incredible.

And I hope you do find something that you're passionate about and you can get involved in.

But some of you, you might be like, just spreading the word letting people know, right?

Because it's amazing how how much is going on that?

We just don't know about.

We get in our lives are very comfortable, your life.

My life with Extremely comfortable and it's easy in our super nice neighborhoods in our little areas, in our city and our state.

Whenever like man we don't we don't even hear about this other stuff.

We it's easy to forget the other reality.

Or to talk about it like distantly like, oh there's people in the world that are starving.

It is so easy to forget that and even ironically to get caught up in our little troubles or trials or challenges and think, you know, this is so hard in, this is so bad, and I'm so frustrated about this.

And then you and then you, you have a reality check like this, like like I'm sharing and it's always a reality check for me, even though I'm constantly reminded of this stuff and hit to go, see it again and talk to the people and look in their eyes and hear their story from their own mouth.

It's just constant reality, check.

And that's why this one struck me so much because it was shortly before Thanksgiving.

And I knew that in a few days I would be well, let me tell you a story.

So when I left, right?

And here are these people and we talking like they have nowhere to go and they were just stuck on this this dike for eight weeks until the water receded.

And then now with because we got the pub but going, they were able to go back and start cleaning up and kind of start over but that's that's it.

That's the extent of their whole world is just right there.

Not in this remote area and then I got on a flight.

Which state and we talked about this out there because there was these airplanes are flying over and like, these guys have never been to the airport.

Let alone in an airplane and it's not likely that they're ever going to be on an airplane.

He's just so far out of their reach financially, but it to go anywhere.

Like where would they go on?

And so, they're seeing these planes fly over and it was just fascinating sit there.

I think men, they see these planes but they have no concept of what it's even like inside an airplane or to fly, or to go somewhere.

And so, I went back out of the city and in the contrast was palpable because there's a massive amount of wealth in these cities.

She's huge beautiful.

Awful mansions.

And an access to everything and yet you know a couple hours away just absolutely destitute and am I got to experience that one day.

We drove from this very nice area where we're picking up supplies to a very destitute area and and have that contrast right there.

Well I was able to go back City, get on an airplane and within an hour, I was in a different country, go back to, we have a house down there.

And and so I'm going to a different climate, a different country.

Different environment.

We have our houses, comfortable in, nice up in the mountains and get back to my boys who were down there and, you know, just just like that and it stop and pick up a custom suit that I had made for me.

And the eat at nice restaurants there in the city and it's just immediate contrast was unbelievable.

And then with my boys, who hopped on a flight and went back and we were going to have Thanksgiving Back in the States and I knew, like, I thought about this while I was there, like here, these people are were handing.

This this bit large bag of rice and beans and, and powder milk.

I mean it's just a few simple things and they were so grateful for that.

So, great was that was that was their feasts.

That was supplies.

It was going to feed their families.

And I knew that I would be heading back and in just a few days to go to a Thanksgiving, feast where we would have massive Amounts of food.

And those of you celebrate Thanksgiving, you know, I'm talking about, right?

Or you just you have this spread way, more food than you could possibly eat of all these delicious things from turkey, and ham and mashed potatoes, and squash and green beans, and, and pies all the pies.

And I'm in all all the stuff and in these beautiful comfortable homes.

We have in these lights, we live.

And it just our ability to move in and change and even if you wanted to, if you said, you know, I'm done with this area.

I'm going to create a new circumstances like we can leave, we can go, we can create me circumstances.

That's, that's actually rare.

And the ability to change locations, and conditions is priceless and rare in most of the world.

And circling back, like we we can.

And so we should and even that stronger approach of because you can, you must we have to rise.

We have to make the most of ourselves if you need to make changes in circumstances, if you need to get you know, if you've been feeling this call to get into a new career to move to a new family or to make them to get new skills or new knowledge ordered to help yourself Riser, your family Riser or just get the capability and the capacity, some of you need to commit just making donations because that's how they know you if your if your current conditions in life or your skill set is to make And you can make you, you have the possibility to make more without, you know, without sacrificing your health or your marriage, your kids.

Then you need to do that and figure out how to do it efficiently and effectively, right?

That's the other thing.

If you can and you can because it's possible and if I can do it, anyone can do it.

And so if if you can figure out how to make more money with less time, Then you have to so that you can use that money to do good.

And if you can gain, if you have access to knowledge of skills, which you do and way more than most people in the world do then we have a moral obligation to do so.

And the one thing that keeps waking me up now, circling back to what I was telling you that it keeps me up at night and it wakes me up morning and it has, for about 10 years, is the problem with human trafficking.

And the more I keep learning about, especially particularly sex trafficking, the more I keep learning about the more.

I'm just so deeply Disturbed, and I have to, and I have again for 10 years, I've been learning about organizations, like, it was going on and just felt, like, I have to be a part of this to fight and so we made donations and I hope you'll make donations.

I hope you'll find organizations that you can support like operation Underground.

Railroad was one that I had learned about years ago.

And I didn't, I didn't know anybody in the organization or and and I heard, you know, whatever there's always rumors about or whatever what's going on.

And luckily this year, it way earlier this year, I was able to meet some of the active operators and hear their stories and hear what they're doing and how they're doing what they're doing as, okay, done.

Like, I'm in and I say, look these guys in the eyes and get to know him and hear the stories and then trust them.

And so that's that's our organization.

You can support hands, down.

There's another one called free a girl it's based out of I think it's based out of the Netherlands, had a Holland doing some amazing things just as a mission to end this stuff and I this is one specifically I want to Call you an invite you to get engaged in to get participate in whether it's donations, or just spreading the word, letting people know because.

Well, here's why, here's one of the reasons why this this is a podcast for men.

This is this is work for men.

Here and men are the biggest problem in obviously trafficking and sex trafficking.

It's an in American men.

In particular are the biggest consumers.

Which is just sickening and wrong, it's so many levels.

And so perverted.

Disgusting American men who've been addicted to porn and stopping porn as a part of this problem.

And so that just has to stop Gentleman and a better stop with you.

And then I want, I'm inviting you calling you even, even I'll use the word challenge them.

Put out a challenge here, I'll be like, get involved in putting a stop to this crap.

But it's American men and it's happening.

Now, on cruise ships, I'd always cruise ship Sports.

There's men, they're just traveling around all these cruise ships and they stop these ports.

And every port there's a there's a little disgusting little quote Hotel of children that are available that are sex slaves and they're taking advantage of any time.

There's a flooding time, there's natural has a strange a war.

They were scooping up, kids, women and children out of Ukraine and transporting them into Mexico or in the Central America and then Even even well, all over the world into these places, his kidnapping and then just keep them in there and then they've even sneak him into the u.s.

That's one of the biggest problems with the US Mexican border.

Is there they're sneaking in its human trafficking and sex slavery.

And gentleman, this has to stop.

And the only way to stop is if you and I get involved and do something else stopping it.

And again this we have a moral obligation to do.

So we have to do what we can.

We have to, we must, and we have to eliminate our own barriers, our own obstacles.

Our own weaknesses, our own incompetencies lack of capabilities and because we can, we must It's we have to free ourselves from addictions and weaknesses and wasting time and wasting life and playing small.

We have to rise because we can and we have we have a responsibility.

So, I'm passing this along, fellas.

Gentlemen, you and I have a responsibility.

This is happening on our watch.

And yes, it is.

Your watch.

It's your time.

You're here.

You're responsible for this.

You can't just sit back and let this happen and as that super famous quote goes like the only thing necessary for the Triumph of evil is that good men?

Do nothing and so we cannot simply do nothing.

We must do something and a whole lot of something.

And while I was in under a site, I found out about this, some trafficking is happening there in a bus that was made.

And we just was so, so proud of the guys who took the risk and within some great guys, they're in Honduras.

Local local guys that went in and did a Boston rescued rescued, some some women, and children, and busted some bad people.

And in those buste, fortunately are happening all over.

I learned about one that happened recently in Mexico.

I learned about some that were happening in Europe in that.

It's so, so difficult, so hard.

So it's so tragic to hear the stories of these little children as little as three years old or even younger, I've heard stories of that and how they're just being abused many times each night.

And when you think about your own kids were little kids, you know, about We have to do something.

We have to, we have to stop the problem and be a part of the solution.

So that's, that's my invitation Phyllis.

I don't know what your role is in it, but I'm I'm inviting you to shoulder that responsibility to embrace the moral obligation.

And I wouldn't ask you to do if I wasn't doing it, right?

I'm I'm going to do whatever I can to be involved in well in all kinds of humanitarian from disaster relief to long-term.

Elevational call it, like, lifting people up of empowering people to help themselves and bring themselves out of poverty.

I'm going to be involved in that whole process for the rest of my life with my family.

And I'm going to get involved in, but I already am involved in it just even by doing this right?

Just spreading the word and making people aware and hearing stories at find out what's going on and you know, donate Financial donate financially or Or somehow get involved.

So so you can be a part of the solution.

And let's do this.

If we have this Brotherhood.

Of good men who are becoming knowledgeable and skilled men.

And who are calling it out for what it is and stopping the perversion in the filth and the garbage.

And putting it into that, it is rising up because we can keep its good.

Men who are willing to be Warriors willing to be dangerous.

That will keep evil men in their holes.

And hopefully draw those who are tempted into that, draw them back into a healthy place and bring back that, that the restoration of a, of a good hole man, man, that's why you have to do this stuff.

We have to be involved in this, so figure out what you're going to do and how you're going to be involved in and do what you can.

Because you must Our, let's get after this fellow's.

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You feel called to do what it is.

You can offer because we all have something to offer.

And all of us together, man can be such a great force for good in the world.

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