Order of Man - December 10, 2019


Fight, F*ck, Feed, Feel | TRAVER BOEHM


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 12 minutes

Words per Minute

195.8208

Word Count

14,288

Sentence Count

1,051

Misogynist Sentences

21

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Trevor Boehm joins me to talk about his new book, Man Uncivilized. We cover what it means to be a man, how and why we should become more uncivilized, overcoming, playing the perpetual nice guy, and showing up fully in our lives and the lives of others.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 In my work over the past five years, I've seen a really disturbing trend in men of sedation and
00:00:05.360 mediocrity and lifelessness. It seems to me that too many men have lost their appetite for
00:00:10.700 adventure and excitement, and frankly, just a life full of meaning and purpose. If you feel
00:00:15.880 like that maybe describes you, even if it's just to some degree, or, you know, someone who does,
00:00:20.680 this is going to be a very powerful podcast. My guest today is Trevor Boehm, and he joins me to
00:00:26.300 talk about his new book, Man Uncivilized. We cover what it means to be a man, how and why we should
00:00:32.140 become more quote unquote uncivilized, overcoming, playing the perpetual nice guy, and showing up
00:00:39.260 fully in our lives and the lives of others. You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest,
00:00:44.740 embrace your fears, and boldly chart your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up
00:00:49.940 one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.
00:00:57.240 This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day,
00:01:02.620 and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.
00:01:06.780 Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler, and I am the host and the founder of
00:01:11.380 this movement and the podcast that is Order of Man. As I do every week, I want to welcome you here.
00:01:16.940 I also want to welcome you back. If you've been banded with us for any amount of time,
00:01:21.400 you know, as well as I do, that we need more men in this fight, in the battle to reclaim and restore
00:01:26.160 masculinity. And gentlemen, it is a battle. It seems to me that more and more people are dismissing
00:01:32.720 and undermining masculinity. And in fact, later this week, I'm going to do a podcast on Friday about
00:01:38.220 why that is, because I don't know that I've ever fully articulated why there seems to be at best
00:01:45.840 a dismissal of masculinity and at worst, an attack potentially, or an undermining of masculinity and
00:01:53.060 why it seems that so many people are so vocal about masculinity being something inherently bad
00:01:58.300 or evil or destructive or toxic. So I'm going to address that later this week on the Friday field
00:02:02.180 notes. So if you're not subscribed, make sure you subscribe. So you never miss a podcast, including
00:02:07.540 that one that I'm going to do on Friday. Also guys on that note, if you would, I need you to do
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00:02:25.920 me understand or even think why this isn't a top 10 podcast. It should be a top 10 podcast. Now,
00:02:31.640 obviously I'm a bit biased, but if I didn't think we were the best in the world, or at least moving
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00:04:42.680 Origin, Maine.com. All right, guys, let me introduce you to my guest today. Traver Bowen. I'm really,
00:04:48.400 really excited to introduce you to him. This guy's a strength and conditioning coach. He's a CrossFit
00:04:52.340 gym owner. He's an MMA fighter. He's done some bodyguard work. He's serves. He's an actual
00:04:57.020 acupuncturist. I mean, the guy's just does so much. Uh, and he's got an incredible resume of
00:05:02.740 interesting life experiences, including this one was really fascinating sitting in complete
00:05:08.420 isolation and pitch dark blackness, if you will, for a month in Guatemala. Uh, it's those type of
00:05:16.340 experiences that give Traver, uh, perspectives that, you know, many of us just really haven't
00:05:21.140 considered before. And, uh, much of what is documented from this is in his new book, man
00:05:26.500 on civilized, which is what we cover in our conversation today. Uh, I haven't known Traver
00:05:30.840 for long, but I definitely admire his passion and excitement for life and what it means to be a man.
00:05:36.400 And of course, a willingness to help others on their own path of masculinity. One other thing,
00:05:41.820 before we get into the conversation, there are some, some swear words. Uh, most of our podcasts
00:05:46.480 do. I just want to make you aware of that. That way, if you're listening with your kids,
00:05:49.900 cause I know a lot of you guys do, uh, this may not be the best one for them, uh, but you, uh,
00:05:55.300 can certainly tune into other podcasts. Uh, but listen to this one, maybe on your own. All right.
00:06:00.620 That's my, uh, that's my disclaimer there. Just want to make sure I'm respectful of that.
00:06:04.120 All right, guys. Enjoy the conversation. Traver. What's up, man. I've been looking forward
00:06:08.640 with this conversation. I have as well, my man. It's been a long time coming.
00:06:14.040 We had to do that, uh, intro twice because, uh, we've got, it seems like we have some internet,
00:06:18.920 maybe connectivity issues. We've got a storm out front as we just moved here to Maine. I'm,
00:06:23.140 I'm learning what a snowstorm really is. Where are you from, man? Where do you live?
00:06:29.200 Uh, I'm in Vancouver at the moment. Oh, yeah. So it's a long, long question. I've spent about 20
00:06:34.520 years in California. And then recently after about three years on the road, moved to just
00:06:39.640 outside Denver, Colorado. And fortunately coming here, man, I, I drove here and then Denver got
00:06:46.340 like 36 inches of snow and, you know, in one night and I was like, ah, yeah, I'm just hanging
00:06:52.080 out in Vancouver for a month and then heading down to Costa Rica to teach for a bit and get
00:06:56.280 some surfing. And get some surfing in. Is that what you said? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The one thing,
00:07:00.980 you know, Denver's great. It's just, there's a little bit of a lack of an ocean.
00:07:04.760 Yes, there is. I'm not much of an ocean guy. I, uh, I grew up actually in Southern California
00:07:09.940 and one of my buddy buddies took me, uh, surfing once and I almost died and I'm like, okay,
00:07:16.140 that sport's not for me. And, uh, started doing other things instead.
00:07:20.700 It's got a heavy learning curve. It's like jujitsu, right? But you got to just keep going back and
00:07:24.980 going back and going back. Yeah. I mean, I got, I, I, I stood up for maybe like a half a second
00:07:30.960 if that, and just fell. And then I, I kind of got tossed around on the wave a little bit
00:07:36.320 and I, and I came up to the surface just in time to get crushed with another wave.
00:07:42.300 And, uh, I was like this and I was just like tumbling in the bottom of the ocean. I could feel
00:07:47.180 the ground underneath me. I mean, it was, it was kind of scary, actually. It is scary. And then you
00:07:51.780 realize too, that you're in like waist high waves and people are riding things that are 60, 70 feet.
00:07:57.440 I know, man. Some of what those guys do, like I see these, like these, these big wave surfers.
00:08:03.640 And I just think the ones that have, they have to get towed in. I'm like, that is insane to me.
00:08:09.000 Insane. But I actually think it's, I think it's pretty cool. You know, I actually think it speaks
00:08:13.040 to our, our nature as men to, to look for adventure, to embrace some level of risk. And unfortunately it
00:08:22.220 just doesn't seem like that many men are, are living to that, which is kind of the thread of,
00:08:26.880 of your book and the conversations that, that you seem to be having lately.
00:08:30.260 Yeah. I see a lot of guys, Ryan, I don't know if it's just the proliferation of social media,
00:08:35.860 but it's like, they can almost get that itch scratched by looking at pictures and video and
00:08:42.180 image of other guys living the life they want to live. And that's like the, Oh, it's the 2%. I feel
00:08:47.980 okay about my own life. And maybe someday I'm going to be in that same adventure. And then the
00:08:52.820 lack of, okay, that actually takes three years of training. That takes five years of training.
00:08:57.820 That takes a lot of suffering and misery, a lot of courage, a lot of just being completely
00:09:02.940 outside of your comfort zone. And so I agree with you. I think, um, you know, God bless Instagram.
00:09:08.400 It's how, it's how a lot of people find both of us, but it's, it's also, uh, it's dumbing down the
00:09:14.260 mail. Yeah. I mean, I think it's that, I also think it's, it, we see the highlight reel to your
00:09:21.760 point earlier about, you know, we don't see the 99% of the work and the effort jujitsu. You brought
00:09:26.000 up jujitsu and I know you've been a long time practitioner of MMA. Uh, it's like, you see
00:09:30.520 somebody like, Oh, I could, I could do that. I could kick that guy's ass. And then you, you get,
00:09:36.300 you get on the mats or you get in the ring and you're like, Oh, this is real. You know, you can do it
00:09:42.400 when you're wrestling around with your eight year old kid and then you get in the mat with another
00:09:45.100 200 pound man. And you're like, Oh, this is different. You know, I showed up to my very
00:09:50.700 first jujitsu class. This was at, uh, at Eric Paulson's place. And this was, you know, a decade
00:09:55.220 or so ago. And I had a black belt and of course in Taekwondo and it was like, yeah, I'm going to
00:10:00.720 pick this up in like three weeks. I remember a couple hours later, literally lying in bed and just
00:10:08.380 shaking, like having almost like small seizures and trying to figure out what just happened to
00:10:15.420 me. And it was from guys that were 30 pounds lighter than me, you know, guys who I would
00:10:20.940 look at in the street and be like, Oh, you're adorable. Right. It just ate me alive. And I
00:10:26.660 realized that one I'm exhausted halfway through the warmup. So first of all, we haven't even gotten
00:10:31.640 to the juice yet and I don't know shit about shit. So you're right. It's, it's like so much of what
00:10:37.860 we see men doing or that you want to see men doing is like learning a language. You see them
00:10:43.820 writing the poetry, but you never see them sitting down and be like, that's a verb study those for a
00:10:48.920 year. That's a noun, right? Like that's a basic guard pass study that for a year. That's going to
00:10:55.220 be, but it's boring. I don't care. Get it down until you get this. You don't get to graduate on. And so
00:11:00.980 many guys, as you know, from jujitsu, like, uh, in the first six months they're out, right? That's like
00:11:07.040 the highest, the highest, uh, dropout rate is just in those first six months. You go, Oh, wow,
00:11:12.000 this will not be fun. It'll be, you know, awkwardly masochistically fun. Yeah. It's not
00:11:18.760 sick. It'll be fun. I think you're right. I mean, but not only is it boring, it's painful. And I'm not
00:11:27.720 just talking about jujitsu or physical exercise or activities. I'm just talking about putting yourself
00:11:32.980 in uncomfortable situations, which is something that I think you and I would agree is, is critical.
00:11:38.440 Critical is it's just uncomfortable and it's painful. Like you're going to look stupid. You're
00:11:43.380 going to feel stupid and, and you're going to, you're going to be silly and you're going to mess
00:11:47.840 up and it's going to cost you time and energy and resources. People are probably going to mock you
00:11:52.860 and, and, and poke at you. It's just not comfortable. And it's, I think that's what keeps a lot of guys
00:11:57.800 from doing it because we live in a society that's like instant gratification, like feel good. Like
00:12:02.900 give me my likes without any risk. Like, I don't, I don't want to be in pain at all.
00:12:07.740 And there's no risk to the ego hiding behind a screen where you go, go to a jujitsu class and
00:12:13.140 see what your ego does, where it's just, you just, you're losing and losing and losing and losing and
00:12:18.520 losing. Go try to surf. You're going to look like a kook for months. Like literally you are the
00:12:24.660 highlight reel on YouTube of like, look at this guy, absolute fool of himself. But yet that's the
00:12:31.640 price of entry. There is, you don't get to be where those guys are in the highlight reel until
00:12:36.500 you're willing to do that. And I agree that a lot of guys just aren't willing to, uh, to suck at
00:12:41.240 something, right? Especially once you're proficient at something else, then to go back into the, okay,
00:12:48.620 I'm a white belt. Now, whatever it is, whatever, whatever, whatever it is, it's really hard for guys to
00:12:53.980 make that leap back to like, okay, I can leave my ego in the car.
00:12:58.240 What is that what it is? Ego? I mean, do you think it's more than just ego or is it just,
00:13:01.540 Hey, I just want to, I just want to fool myself into thinking that I'm great and have everything
00:13:05.820 figured out? I think it's, you know, if this was 10 years ago, I'd say it's just ego.
00:13:11.480 Cause there was nothing, there wasn't like an overarching, not movement, but an overarching
00:13:18.320 sentiment for guys to say like, it's okay. We can just keep ourselves small. We can keep
00:13:22.900 ourselves down. We don't have to pursue that life or it's even going to be encouraged not to
00:13:28.240 societally. Like 10 years ago, it was like, I want to be that. And society was like, go do that.
00:13:34.240 Now I think there's a bit more of a undercurrent of it's okay. We'll just coddle you. You can feel
00:13:39.240 good at home. Just watch TV and look at your Instagram and be quiet. Don't make a lot of noise.
00:13:44.620 And you're great. You're a good man. We love you. You're a nice guy. Welcome to being a nice guy.
00:13:49.260 Okay. What do you think is the root of that? I mean, I have my own thoughts as to why,
00:13:53.100 cause I believe what you're saying and I agree, but what's the root of it? Why, why is that the case?
00:14:00.920 I'd say it's a multi-issued or multi-factored issue, right? Like again, social media playing
00:14:06.600 a big part into it. Uh, I think just generationally we have, uh, we, we've seen the, the over pendulum
00:14:13.940 swing of feminism. We've seen the pendulum swing, even after me too, of, Hey guys, we want you to
00:14:20.480 shut up, be quiet and stop leading the, the, the leading that we've seen in the past or the leading
00:14:26.580 that we're going to identify is toxic. So I think as an overarching issue that comes into play.
00:14:33.400 And then you do have the, like these things, and I'm holding up my cell phone are the single
00:14:38.640 greatest invention on earth and they're the devil, right? We can blow an entire weekend sitting there
00:14:45.200 texting with our friends, looking at social media, looking at women, getting dirty texts from women
00:14:50.900 and not leave the house and go, wow, I had all of these experiences that in the nineties, I would
00:14:58.120 have actually had to get up, put some clothes on, take a shower, go out and do some shit and maybe
00:15:03.140 get dirty, get hurt, fall down, look stupid, uh, take a risk. And we don't have that. That's not
00:15:09.940 the necessity anymore. Right. I think that's a big part of it. What do you think it is?
00:15:15.540 Yeah. I mean, I think, I think what you said is right. I think it's not a necessity. I think
00:15:19.500 generally humans are looking for the path of least resistance. Uh, and if it's presented to us that way,
00:15:24.780 then we're going to travel that path. Yeah, I was, it was funny. I was out here speaking of the
00:15:28.620 storm we have right now. I was out here last week cause we had some snow and
00:15:32.860 I was pushing my kids down a little hill that we have in the backyard. And the first time I pushed
00:15:38.280 them down, they went 40 yards. Right. And then the second kid went on that same path and he went
00:15:44.200 like 70 yards and then 80 yards. Right. Cause you smooth it down. Right. And so it's that path of
00:15:48.880 least resistance. And I think what we do as men is we entrench these behaviors, uh, about the way that
00:15:56.020 we live our life. And it just becomes hardwired into the way that we do it. And it's so easy,
00:16:01.140 right? Like you talk about in your book, it's so easy to sit on a computer and jack off to porn as
00:16:07.240 opposed to go out and court a woman and put yourself out there and expose yourself to risk.
00:16:11.920 It's so easy to look at other dudes on Instagram and see all the lifts they're doing than it is to
00:16:16.160 get up early. And in my case, go outside where it's cold and actually physically exert yourself.
00:16:22.820 So I think the fact that it's harder, but I also think that there's two other major factors. One
00:16:29.820 being that there's institutions and I think it's the media. I think it's the medical community to a
00:16:35.980 degree. And I think it's the government that has deliberately and intentionally undermining
00:16:40.540 masculinity. We can get into that. Sure. Um, and then I think there's a whole other subset,
00:16:45.460 a sub group of people who have bought into that lie that are now just following it blindly
00:16:50.680 without even really giving it thought. So they're not being devious or even intentional about the
00:16:56.240 undermining of masculinity. They're just going along with the narrative. Yeah. They're complicit.
00:17:00.680 Right. Yeah. That's the, when I, when I, when you brought up the original question, I thought
00:17:04.720 so many people, men and women are complicit in complacency. And that, that shows so accurately on us
00:17:12.660 that we are that primarily the doers, that's the leaders, the push forward,
00:17:17.440 the forge new ground to get out there and risk getting knocked in the dirt. And if men especially
00:17:23.160 aren't holding other men to it, it's like, Hey, what is a great gathering of men? Well, all winter,
00:17:28.680 what we do is we go sit inside all weekend. We watch football, we Instagram, we drink beer
00:17:32.760 and we don't do anything. And I have nothing against any of those pieces or even any of them in a group.
00:17:39.120 I have an issue when that's your life. Right. And that's at the end of the, at the end of the winter,
00:17:44.860 the end of the football season, the end of the summer, whatever, end of time, you're looking
00:17:48.780 back and going, man, I really wish I got out there and did some shit. And my, I really wish the guy
00:17:54.840 next to me was like, this isn't that much fun. This isn't that awesome. Look, there's a fucking
00:18:00.580 mountain right there. Let's go climb that mountain. Oh, let's go shoot that animal. Let's go, let's go
00:18:06.480 get into some adventure. Remember what 40, 50 years, remember what our grandfathers were doing? They
00:18:11.420 were walking across the damn country. They were like scaling mountains with like shitty rope and,
00:18:17.060 you know, crampons they made themselves and, and we're not. So yeah, I'd say complicit and
00:18:22.280 complacency, but I'd love to hear your thought on that trifecta of, was it media government and
00:18:27.520 especially medicine? Yeah. I mean, one, one indicator of that alone is the American Psychologicals
00:18:34.180 Association's, uh, quasi researched study on, uh, masculinity. And you actually, I don't think you
00:18:42.060 alluded to it in your book, but you, you tiptoed around it without, I think knowing. Um, but they
00:18:47.800 talked about, uh, traits that we would generally consider as masculine. So, um, competitiveness,
00:18:54.500 aggression, and stoicism as being somehow inherently dangerous, destructive, and, or toxic to our young
00:19:01.860 boys. It's like, dude, those competitiveness, aggressions, the stoicism, the control of your
00:19:08.800 emotions, the understanding and control of your emotions are, are dangerous. Like this is ridiculous.
00:19:13.920 And this is the body that's the governing body. That's dictating a lot of the way that, um,
00:19:19.340 psychological, uh, evaluations and treatment are administered in the United States. So if,
00:19:24.760 if they're undermining it, then what are treatment plans and, and, and young men who are coming into
00:19:30.920 psychologists getting this type of treatment, how are they going to be treated? Uh, and, and how are
00:19:36.400 they going to be diagnosed because they happen to be male and masculine? Right, right, right, right,
00:19:42.660 right. Yeah, I did talk about it. I didn't name the actual study, but I remember reading that and
00:19:47.920 thinking, you gotta be fucking kidding me. These are, those are three of my most highly, uh, generated
00:19:55.020 traits and the traits I celebrate the most and the traits I celebrate most in other men. Yes,
00:20:00.900 that's not saying that there doesn't have to be another side, that there doesn't have to be
00:20:04.900 emotional intelligence. There doesn't have to be sensitivity in men, but we don't, we don't just
00:20:10.780 push the, the softer side by killing and wiping out and, and shaming and, uh, eliminating the,
00:20:19.160 the side. You know, I remember Ryan, when I read that, I was like, there were just fires in California.
00:20:24.380 And I was like, really? There were huge fires all over Southern California and Santa Barbara,
00:20:30.000 especially. I was like, so you're going to tell the fire department what we, what the toxic traits
00:20:34.980 are leadership, aggression, and stoicism. You've got guys who were literally walking into, you know,
00:20:42.160 fields of fire with those three traits front and center. Like, are we going to stop? Like,
00:20:48.220 hey guys, you know what? Actually don't go fight that fire. The American Psychiatry Association
00:20:53.620 has just said that what, if you do this, you're toxic, right? We'd love for you to go home and
00:20:58.540 actually go to therapy and work on this. And we'll just let these fires rage. Like that's not happening.
00:21:04.160 And it's, it's the convenience of relative safety. You know, we can mock and bitch and moan and gripe
00:21:10.900 about toxic masculinity when we're in a safe environment. But when it all hits the fan,
00:21:15.560 like the fires you're talking about or natural disasters or an active shooter situation,
00:21:19.520 there was this, uh, this situation, this terrorist situation in London, just what a couple of days
00:21:24.620 ago. And I think there was three civilians who ended up subduing this guy, right? Right. You know,
00:21:29.820 nobody complains about toxic masculinity when, when men are doing what they do best. And people will
00:21:36.580 say the argument to that is, well, yeah, because they're not at that point, they're not exhibiting
00:21:40.680 toxic masculinity. They're, they're using it in a positive way. It's like, no, they're using the same
00:21:45.200 characteristics. They're just using it and harnessing it the same way. So it's like people
00:21:49.840 are conflating bad behavior with masculinity in and of itself, somehow being toxic.
00:21:57.320 Yeah. One of my more questioned and offensive lines to people is, uh, we're not going to get,
00:22:04.580 uh, um, if we got rid of toxic masculinity, who would do our killing for us? Right. As long as we're
00:22:10.760 asking men to be the ones out there with guns, if we're asking men to be the ones on the front
00:22:15.360 lines, police departments, fire departments, military, then there's always going to be an
00:22:21.000 element of quote unquote toxic masculinity. Cause you don't get to take a population and say, Hey,
00:22:27.120 if shit goes wrong, you guys here, we're going to be the ones to ask you to kill and die. Just,
00:22:32.640 just knowing that by the way, none of you are allowed to exhibit the exact same traits that we're
00:22:37.380 going to ask from, ask you for if that happens. Right. That to me, that like, Oh, that oftentimes
00:22:46.100 makes some heads turn sideways. Right. Hmm. Answer this for me. If, if we're in, and you know what,
00:22:52.500 maybe this is incorrect, but I asked a workshop this a couple of months ago, there were nine men,
00:22:58.100 nine women. And the issue of masculinity had come up. I was like, right now, let's all be honest.
00:23:03.620 If someone just came and banged on the door and you heard like, we're going to come in and can kill
00:23:09.540 you. How many of you men would want to, would ask yourselves like, where are the babies? Let's go
00:23:14.560 downstairs and hide with them. And how many of you women would go, okay, let's, let's crack our necks
00:23:19.680 armor up and go, go see at the door. Right. And maybe, you know, just call me crazy. Maybe it's
00:23:26.500 completely nurture and it's not nature, but it was split nine and nine. Then maybe my co-teacher who
00:23:33.680 was a pretty wild chick was like, I'll go fuck shit up at the door. I was like, okay. Other than
00:23:39.000 you, everybody else naturally picked their sides and we can say, is that nature? Is that nurture?
00:23:45.840 You know, you have boys, I've been around enough little boys and enough little girls say that ain't
00:23:50.820 nurture. No, a little boys around the house, just destroying whatever they can. Right. And each
00:23:57.580 other. And oftentimes the little girls are not. Right. Yeah. I think it's, I think it is biological
00:24:04.560 for the most part. Um, obviously your, your upbringing and the way you're raised and things
00:24:08.600 like that play a part, but overwhelmingly biological. And then it's supported societally, right? Because
00:24:13.500 it works. It hasn't been until relatively recently, this, this modern times of ease and comfort that we live
00:24:19.500 where that's even been called into question, right? Like it's, it's, it's always been expected.
00:24:26.100 There's a great book called manhood in the making by David Gilmore, I believe. And what he does in
00:24:31.740 the book is he goes, have you read the book? No, I haven't. It's really good. He it's, you know,
00:24:35.700 it's hard to get through, but, but it's a good book because it's more, more scientific, I guess,
00:24:40.380 and research in nature than like a self-help book or a novel. Yeah. But he studies different
00:24:46.500 cultures throughout the world and throughout history as well. And it's pretty interesting
00:24:51.760 that there are striking similarities in the way most cultures throughout all of time in history
00:24:58.020 view masculinity. And these are cultures that haven't even been exposed to each other.
00:25:02.460 Right. So that leads you to believe that it's got to be more biological than it does societal.
00:25:07.700 Yeah, man. I remember a conversation, this was a year or so ago with a very vehement feminist who was
00:25:14.080 probably five foot 102 pounds. And she literally looked me in the eye and said, you and I would be
00:25:21.440 the same strength, or I would be stronger than you. If I hadn't been from birth raised and conditioned
00:25:28.000 to believe that I wouldn't. And I went, she thought it was all just like social conditioning,
00:25:34.500 literally all social conditioning. Crazy. And I said, do you think that the only reason I don't have
00:25:39.860 ovaries is be, and I can't give birth to a child is because from birth, I've been socially conditioned
00:25:46.720 not to believe that. And that of course got kind of the head turned sideways and like, well, I don't
00:25:52.340 really want to continue this conversation. Right. It's like, come on, just so strange. I did not turn into
00:25:59.680 190 pounds because from birth, people were like, you're going to be really strong when you're older.
00:26:05.000 Right. If that's the way it worked, man, I'm going to raise some freaking horses out of my boys.
00:26:13.920 It's crazy. Oh yeah. That, yeah, man. When they're, when they're sleeping, it's just like,
00:26:19.960 you're going to be big. You're going to be strong. You're going to play in the NFL. Like
00:26:23.440 you're going to make so much money that daddy can retire early.
00:26:27.580 That's right. That's right. It's crazy, man. I don't know. Again, I mean, we know,
00:26:32.260 we know where it comes from. It's easy. It's been conditioned for us to believe this way or, or,
00:26:36.780 or the, the narrative anyway is being pushed, but you know, let me shift gears for a minute.
00:26:41.280 Talk to me. Cause I, I, I read your book, great book, by the way, actually it's like really
00:26:45.520 interesting. Cause I wasn't sure you sent it to me and I wasn't sure what I was going to get from it
00:26:49.580 as far as like how it was laid out. But I really like that. It's just like short and punchy and
00:26:56.180 in your face. Thank you. I really liked that from the perspective of, I don't have a long attention
00:27:02.620 span, but I also like, I also like getting right to the point of things like, like stripping all the
00:27:09.340 BS out of it and just getting right to the point. So talk to me about the uncivilized methodology or
00:27:16.480 ethos, if you will. Sure, sure, sure. You know, I wrote it specifically for that reason and for men
00:27:22.280 where, when I sat down with the woman who designed it, she's like, you can't have this be a novel.
00:27:27.920 You can't have this be 40 page chapters. You just got to hit guys to where they can almost open it at
00:27:33.880 any point and look right at it. And, and I came up with this idea, Ryan, because, you know, I did this
00:27:39.940 wild year of, of journey after my life fell apart a couple of years ago. And this was 2016. And I was
00:27:50.020 in search of answering the question of who am I now? I, my, my ex-wife and I had lost a pregnancy and
00:27:57.220 then she had walked out and then my business partnership had fallen apart, uh, all in a very
00:28:01.760 relative short time. So here I am kind of left without the pillars of identity that we hang our hats
00:28:08.820 on. I was like, God, who am I? And this was a brand new question, which I imagine you asked in a
00:28:14.360 similar situation, which is who am I as a man? And I went, Oh shit, I've never, I've never even thought
00:28:20.400 of that. And so all along this journey, I was looking towards men and I had very clear examples
00:28:27.580 or very delineated examples of some projects that I did. One being living in an ashram for a couple of,
00:28:34.320 for a couple of months in a spiritual center in Guatemala. And I met these beautiful men. I met
00:28:40.620 these heart open, yogi, vegan heart, you know, everything was about connecting with the divine
00:28:46.100 and living an artistic purpose. And I was like, you guys are amazing. Uh, I don't know how well you do
00:28:51.740 in New York city or, you know, like, uh, or in a fight, right? Sure. And can you pick, can you,
00:28:58.280 God bless you, but can you pick your body weight off the floor on a barbell? And I came from a MMA
00:29:03.620 background, a CrossFit background, an athletic background. So there was just something about
00:29:07.460 that style of masculinity that I thought I can take from this, but it's not complete.
00:29:12.840 And then I went and did a month long course with Boulder outdoor survival school, which was gnarly.
00:29:18.660 It's like just living in the woods with a knife, a water bottle, a blanket, and a bunch of dudes
00:29:24.520 who were far more mountain men than they were societal. Right. These are guys that were like,
00:29:30.600 I can just walk in the woods and not come back. Like, Oh, okay, cool. You're going to teach me
00:29:36.340 how to do a bunch of stuff too. How will you guys be with a family? How will you be interacting
00:29:42.300 with a woman? Because I actually do want to interact with women again. I do want to have a
00:29:47.060 family. I don't want to just be a hermit with my dog and my little tent, you know, a hundred miles
00:29:52.460 in the woods. So when I was coming off of that quest at the end of that year, I thought, huh,
00:29:59.100 I feel like I'm being asked to either go left or go right, either go ashram or go woods.
00:30:05.420 And what I really wanted was something in the middle. And so even though I joke with guys,
00:30:11.200 it's like, at the time I felt like my options were like, go be a Navy SEAL or be like a vegan
00:30:16.240 feminist poet. I don't know about those. Uh, where's the combination of the middle? Where is
00:30:24.860 the primal celebrating? What's amazing about traditional masculinity, which there is so much
00:30:30.440 and also the divine or the conscious, which is the emotional piece, the space holding the healing of
00:30:36.320 trauma, the healing of past wounds. And so, you know, the story is I was in New York city living with
00:30:42.560 a guy named Adam Cobb, another, uh, another Ted speaker. And we had gotten up at like five o'clock
00:30:48.200 in the morning to go to the gym. And the night before I led a men's group there and had a guy
00:30:54.020 asked me about losing weight and how he, uh, how he can navigate not going to McDonald's.
00:31:00.820 That was his challenge. And, and on the way to the gym in the morning, my, my, my buddy was like,
00:31:06.120 Hey, when was the last time you ate McDonald's? I was like, I don't know, man. Like, I actually don't
00:31:11.120 know. I think it maybe 20 years. Like I don't eat that shit. It's civilian food. And he stopped
00:31:17.320 Ryan and he took his phone out and he started filming me. And he's like, tell me about like,
00:31:22.020 what do you mean? Civilian food. And I was like, look at how we live, man. Like we're two single
00:31:27.200 guys in New York city. We don't have a TV. We don't have alcohol in the house. We don't have
00:31:31.440 drugs in the house. We're not just here banging a bunch of checks. Last night we, we stayed up and
00:31:36.220 talked about how our relationship with our fathers is, has shaped us. Like this isn't how civilized
00:31:43.220 men live. And we went downstairs, we went to the gym, we worked out real hard. And the whole time
00:31:48.620 I was thinking like, huh, what is the, what is the outcome of living in civil quote civilization,
00:31:56.120 right? The standard path for men who aren't diving into work like yours and mine, who aren't following
00:32:01.100 podcasts, who aren't going to workshops, who aren't connecting with other intentional men.
00:32:05.920 What is the outcome for them? And I thought, okay, every negative statistic I see from heart disease,
00:32:13.340 from assault, domestic violence, divorce, addiction, porn, alcohol, that's the, that's what happens when
00:32:21.600 you plug into the machine. That's what happens when that's what civilizing will do to you. So what if I
00:32:28.340 can put something together to give guys another option and uncivilize them? So that's how it all
00:32:33.620 came about. Man, let me hit the pause button real quick. Uh, as I'm sure, you know, habits,
00:32:39.660 habits make the man. Uh, we've all heard the quote. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not
00:32:45.200 an act, but a habit. And that's exactly what we're going to be covering inside of our exclusive
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00:32:55.600 don't serve us, uh, discovering ones that do and implementing systems and processes to ensure that
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00:33:40.680 about the brotherhood and claim your seat at the table. You can do that after the podcast for now,
00:33:46.280 let's get back to the conversation with Traver. I love it, man. I love it. Cause I, you know,
00:33:51.260 when you're saying that, I think the word that comes to mind for me is domestication. Right. And
00:33:56.020 I think we're talking about something that's very, very similar is, you know, tapping into that primal
00:34:00.760 primal side of us without being, without being a savage either. Right. Like that's not, that's not
00:34:07.560 the objective either. Right. Do you get that a lot? Do people conflate what, what you're trying to do
00:34:13.320 with, Hey, we're just trying to be uncivilized, I guess, you know what I mean? Or the opposite of that.
00:34:18.220 I use the play on words, obviously, but I've got people who are extremely triggered by that word
00:34:25.760 extremely. And you know, I was, uh, taking a cab, I was in Hawaii and split a cab with this woman who
00:34:32.260 just, I randomly met. I was like, Oh, you're waiting for a cab. I'm waiting for a cab and no
00:34:36.320 cabs had come. Thus, we decided to take one together. And she asked what I do. And I said,
00:34:40.000 I'm, you know, my goal is to uncivilize men and her head whipped to the side. Like I'd slapped her.
00:34:46.340 And she's like, uncivilized is what happens in Vegas. Uncivilized is what happens at my work
00:34:51.800 every day. And I was like, Holy shit. Like, first of all, take a breath. First of all,
00:34:56.520 I'm sorry. That's your life experience and take a breath. Let me explain that that's actually what
00:35:02.320 civilized men do. That's men who go back to work on Monday or go back to their wives on Sunday night
00:35:08.660 or, or have bought into the way of the unexamined unintentional way of men. So yeah, I do get some
00:35:16.620 kickback to it and that's fine. I did this to create conversation, not just to add more vanilla
00:35:22.920 into the world of, you know, like just be a guy, just more noise, right? More white noise, more just
00:35:29.740 blah. How did you come up with the, the four topics or points that you had made in the book as well?
00:35:36.980 Like, how did you distill it down into that? The fight, fuck, feed, feel. Yeah. That was what I
00:35:42.960 thought men need to know right now. Like two of them are the primal fight and fuck that's primal,
00:35:49.160 right? If a man doesn't know his own body, doesn't know, isn't cultivating strength, whether that fight
00:35:55.740 is, you know, I know how to wrestle with a guy on a mat or I know how to set a goal and go fight for
00:36:02.400 it. I know how to fight for my family. I know how to fight for my vision to bring my vision to life.
00:36:07.660 If you're not doing that, life's hard and life's not, it's, it's hard's not the right term.
00:36:15.000 Life's numb, right? Life is uninspired. So fight for something and then fuck, right? I teach a lot
00:36:23.160 about sexuality. I teach, I talk to women all day long and men who are like, I don't have a good sex
00:36:29.400 life. I'm not, I have so much shame around sex. And you know, is it just fucking? No, I have a big
00:36:35.820 plaque in my office that says, fuck them with words. And that's my writing mantra. It's like,
00:36:41.580 let's, let's get back to admitting that guys like to tussle and we like to fuck things. And guess what?
00:36:47.800 Yeah. So do women. So let's just forget about not talking about that. So that was the primal side.
00:36:53.520 And then the divine side, we got to feed our souls, right? We have to feed ourselves information,
00:37:01.060 knowledge, education, and feed our lives, feed our families with that same thing. As opposed to just,
00:37:07.660 I can spend two hours on Instagram and I can come away with having looked at a lot of little pictures
00:37:13.580 and some, you know, some dopamine, but I'm not taking a class. I'm not interested. I'm not listening
00:37:19.320 to a podcast. I'm not reading a book. Like you, you probably know as well as like the average,
00:37:24.000 I think after high school, the average American reads zero books.
00:37:28.480 Yeah. It's insane. I mean, we have so much great information out there. It's like,
00:37:32.940 why wouldn't you consume this? It's crazy. And, and I, I'm curious of like, if it's actually zero,
00:37:38.060 are people reading less than zero? Because I read like a book a week, but let's just say the number is
00:37:43.220 not good. So feed yourself, feed and feed your soul, feed yourself with art, feed yourself with,
00:37:49.580 with, with inspiration. And then lastly, guys got to feel, we absolutely need to feel before we get
00:37:58.740 to bypass feelings. We have to feel them. It doesn't mean we have to let them take us on this
00:38:04.680 journey and live entirely from feeling, right? I am an advocate of stoicism, but I'm an advocate of
00:38:11.680 saying, I know what I feel first. Now I'm going to make the decision to not let that completely
00:38:18.300 derail and guide me. Right? We don't, we just have to look at male mental health rates or even
00:38:22.980 male suicide rates and say, okay, I don't want guys crying all day long. Right? I don't think
00:38:29.680 that's the purpose, but yet if you have an authentic emotion, express it so you can get back to doing
00:38:36.760 what you're supposed to be effing doing. And not only express it, but express it in a constructive
00:38:43.620 way. I think that's where it becomes a problem. Like if you're expressing emotions because,
00:38:48.520 and I've said to my boys, Hey, now's not the time to cry. And, and people will look at that
00:38:55.160 and judge that negatively. Although that's reality. Like there's a time and a place to cry
00:39:00.920 and there's a time and a place not to cry. And, and I think if we can understand what those two are,
00:39:07.760 not that it's never cry and not that it's always cry, right? It's a much more healthy approach to
00:39:13.000 life. Completely agree. And that's very different though, than boys don't cry. Sure. Boys never
00:39:19.740 cry. There has to be context and depth and meaning behind it. Absolutely. Men never cry. That is a
00:39:25.220 terrible. It's a destructive sentence, but I agree with you. And you know, I've, I've wrote about,
00:39:31.180 I've asked, we, we hear all of this. We want more sensitive men. I want more sensitive men. And even
00:39:35.800 guys that guys need to be more vulnerable. We need to be more sensitive. Like, okay. Who said,
00:39:40.720 who says that? I hear this from women. All women. Yeah. Mostly. Do you think that's what women really
00:39:47.160 want? Ryan, I've done this. Like actually ask them, okay, you want a more vulnerable? I was like,
00:39:56.560 I did this in a workshop. Imagine if you have a guy that twice a year breaks down because something
00:40:02.520 happens. There's, there's a reason for it. And he expresses emotion. He cries in front of you and
00:40:08.020 says like, Oh, my dad died. My dog died. This thing I'm blah, blah, blah. Once or twice a year.
00:40:12.340 I'm like, Oh my God, that would be beautiful. Like, okay. How about once a month? They're like,
00:40:19.100 well, yeah, you know, maybe that would like, okay. How about once a week? Like,
00:40:24.640 like, how about once a day or more often than you are? Right. And it's like the look of disgust.
00:40:33.140 I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute. If we go back nine minutes in this conversation,
00:40:36.740 when all seven of you just said, I want more vulnerable, sensitive men. Is there a specific
00:40:42.280 line? Is it like once every three months, a guy gets a quota? Or is it actually that you don't want
00:40:48.160 someone that's more sensitive and vulnerable? You want someone who has access to that sensitivity
00:40:54.580 and vulnerability and can decide and make a choice. Am I going to express this? Am I not? As opposed to a
00:41:02.180 guy that's just overrun and falling down with emotion all the time. So no, I also think it's a
00:41:08.500 societal dogma that it's like, you want to get a bunch of women to clap and tell you you're doing
00:41:13.940 great. Just stand up and yell. We need more vulnerable men. No, that's a great distinction
00:41:19.980 because it's easy to say you want something. And then when you get it, it's like, Oh, maybe I didn't
00:41:27.400 really want that. And I, and I think the point that you made where you said, you said, um, I think
00:41:34.420 you said a man makes his choice on whether or not he expresses it. I might take that a step further
00:41:38.780 and say is very conscious and intentional about how he expresses it. Right. So I love that you're
00:41:45.000 talking about being tapped into it and having this understanding and feeling and knowing where you come
00:41:49.880 from. But if you're boobing around all day, like an idiot, and you're doing that in front of your
00:41:54.920 woman, you're undermining your own authority and credibility and leadership efforts in front of
00:41:59.560 her. Now, if you approach it with the attitude of, Hey, you know, hon, I've, I've been dealing with
00:42:05.360 it and I've had conversations with my wife about this. I've been dealing with this stuff at work
00:42:09.220 and I'm a little frustrated at now because X, Y, and Z. And, um, you know, it's got me down,
00:42:13.980 but here's what I'm going to do about it. Like that's an expression of emotion, potentially even a
00:42:20.220 display of vulnerability. If you want to use that term, I'm cautious to use that term and tell
00:42:24.760 you why. Um, but it's also a masculine approach because it's done from the position of action
00:42:32.560 and results oriented. I'm doing this because I'm trying to fix it, not just for the sake of doing
00:42:39.580 it. Yeah. Guys, you know, what's popping my head is we just need to have access to our hearts
00:42:44.900 and admit that they exist and understand that we can run feelings and energy through them.
00:42:51.640 If we don't like the difference between clean anger and rage is one comes through your heart.
00:42:57.580 I'm allowed to be angry. I'm telling you that I'm angry. That's very different than punching a hole
00:43:02.700 in the wall. Right. And, and throwing something, one of which bypasses our hearts. So I completely
00:43:08.720 agree with you that there is a way to say it. And it's, it's, I'm not a fan of the word vulnerability
00:43:14.320 either. I go back to jujitsu. Like, what do you want me to be up? Like a vulnerable. Why would I
00:43:19.360 want to show you my weaknesses? Yeah. Do you want me to have like vulnerable finances? So like, Oh yeah,
00:43:24.040 I just like, do you leave your front door unlocked? No, you have to have good boundaries. And yet let's
00:43:29.760 also be honest. So if your partner comes to you and says, I can tell something's on your mind or
00:43:34.880 bothering you, what is it? It's very different to say, you know what I am. I'm frustrated at work.
00:43:39.400 I have this situation. I'm not sure what to do with it. I think I'm going to do X, Y, or Z,
00:43:43.680 or I am going to do X, Y, or Z. That's a very different conversation than nothing. I'm fine.
00:43:49.180 Right. In which case you shut her out and you've actually just denied the reality of the situation.
00:43:54.720 That's very different again, of then putting your head in her lap and crying for the next four hours
00:44:00.120 because work is tough. Right. Right. Jiu-jitsu choke me.
00:44:04.280 This is the root. This is, yeah, that's the point. You're supposed to get choked and choke other
00:44:12.120 people. Um, this is why women leave men though. Yeah. And they usually leave for,
00:44:18.920 maybe this is not fair to say, but it seems to me they leave for men who aren't good for them
00:44:23.900 because they're so sick of the nice guy and the cry baby that they need to reprieve from that.
00:44:29.660 So they're like, let me go to this bad boy, this guy who's not good, who's not healthy for me.
00:44:36.000 Right. Uh, and they ended up making these mistakes because of it. But, and I'm not going to say it's
00:44:40.480 a man's fault, but look, if, if that's how you're behaving, if you're the perpetual nice guy and,
00:44:47.020 and you're crying like incessantly and you're not coming up with, with answers to your own problems,
00:44:52.640 like how, how, how long is she going to be attracted to that? I mean, she's going to be repulsed by it.
00:44:57.380 Repulsed is the word, right? Like the actual word when I've asked women, it's repulsive. One of the
00:45:03.080 tenants of the ethos is be dangerous, but not a danger. And that is extremely attractive to women
00:45:10.800 and to other men. It's, I have the capacity to create great violence and I don't, therefore I
00:45:18.520 don't like, as you know, in the communities that we're in, there aren't a lot of jujitsu guys going
00:45:23.260 out and getting in street fights. No, I know a lot of guys and I've been in the situation where
00:45:28.680 I've just kind of laughed and be like, trust me one, you don't want to do this too. I'm not going
00:45:33.200 to get sued in a part over a parking space, right? So fucking down and choke your ass out. So here,
00:45:38.880 have the parking space, go for it, right? Be dangerous, but not a danger. I think when you're
00:45:44.160 intuitively, when a woman knows that you are not dangerous, then she intuitively knows you cannot
00:45:50.840 protect her, her offspring, or even yourself. And maybe some women are attracted to that,
00:45:58.000 that are hyper dominant, but the vast majority are not. And that statement can be taken across,
00:46:03.460 not just the physical, but are you dangerous at work, right? Are you good? You have your game down.
00:46:08.980 Are you skilled? Are you dangerous in your finances? Like, yep, I understand the market. I know how to do
00:46:14.080 things. Are you, you're, you're dangerous. Your marketing is dangerous. It's real damn good,
00:46:18.300 right? It's not a danger. You're not using the toxic shadow side of, you know, it's not a picture
00:46:24.360 of you in like doing a yoga pose in your skivvies. I was thinking about doing that. And then I figured
00:46:29.520 everybody would be repulsed to use that word again. And, and I'd lose a lot of people.
00:46:36.960 Yeah, that would be, that would be really strange. Not only because it would be inappropriate. It's just
00:46:41.840 going to be strange. Cause I really just don't engage in that behavior at all. So yeah, no, I like
00:46:50.160 that. I think it is important. I, and I also think that's the, um, well, the term that you'd use is,
00:46:55.840 is the X factor, right? When, whether, whether it's a man or a woman who observes another man
00:47:02.540 who is a dangerous, but not a danger. What I hear is they're competent. And because they're competent,
00:47:10.720 they've developed a sense of confidence that they don't need to go tell everybody. Like it's,
00:47:14.620 it's the old adage of, you'd never take your car to like honest auto care, right? Because if they
00:47:20.220 have to tell you they are, they aren't. Right, right, right, right, right. So if you have a,
00:47:24.740 if you've got a guy who's like, I'm amazing and I'm rich and I can kick your ass and I can do all
00:47:30.500 these things. Like, I don't know if you can, because quite honestly, somebody who can do that
00:47:35.400 won't need to share it and other people will just sense it.
00:47:39.600 Right. The, you, you are in the military. It's like the quietest guys in the room are the ones
00:47:43.600 everyone's like, I don't know. I don't want to, I don't want to mess with them. Don't mess with
00:47:46.560 that guy. Right. And the Jersey shore guy was just like, hold me back. I'm going to eat everybody's
00:47:52.320 out. Okay. Calm down cupcake. Yeah. Yeah. No. And the other thing you talk about is as well as you
00:48:00.180 talk about, and you, we alluded to this a little bit from the feeling perspective, but you talked
00:48:04.340 about earlier, um, a lot of guys have problems with intimacy, intimacy and sex. And I think the
00:48:11.020 root of that is you said shame. I'm really curious where, where you go with that. Sure. The most women
00:48:18.840 I've met, and this is a shitty thing to say, but it's true, have been traumatized in some way by a man
00:48:27.580 sexually. I've taught self-defense for long enough to say who in the room has been, has fought off a
00:48:34.180 rapist, a sexual assault, something. And every hand in the room goes up. And I thought, okay,
00:48:39.180 well maybe that's just people coming to a self-defense workshop. Then I got asked to teach
00:48:43.360 where they didn't know I was going to come in. And I, and the same thing, you know, eight out of
00:48:47.800 10 hands go up. I was like, holy shit, that's a lot of women. And yet I think if we ask men,
00:48:52.980 how often have you felt ashamed or been shamed, like literally been laughed at, been pointed,
00:49:00.460 something that made you feel small and, um, and bad, you know, quote unquote bad, you're a bad person.
00:49:07.780 You're a bad boy for their sexuality. That leads to their sexuality being expressed through shadow
00:49:15.120 means, through pornography, through violence, through violating consent, through not having
00:49:22.480 authentic expression. Like I asked a lot of guys, do you know what turns your woman on?
00:49:29.480 And I'll get the, like, yeah, she likes it when I finger her. Like, no, no, no. That's,
00:49:34.120 that wasn't what I was asking. Do you know what turns her on beyond friction? And beautiful. Some
00:49:40.560 may, many, many don't. And then I'll ask them, does your woman know what turns you on?
00:49:46.440 And they'll be like, yeah, she, she, I, she, I like it when she blows me. Like, no, no, no. Of
00:49:51.920 course you do. Uh, I get it. But what turns you on beyond, beyond friction as well? And have you,
00:50:00.540 and are you willing to say that? Are you, are you okay looking your woman in the eye and saying,
00:50:05.780 Hey, this is what I like. This is what I love about sex. This is what I want to do with you.
00:50:10.640 This is why I want to do that. Or is that like a nail biting? Oh my God. I can't talk to my wife
00:50:16.440 about that. Right. I had a couple in a workshop. This is amazing. A month ago. And half of the
00:50:23.360 workshop is I blindfold the women and have the men lead them around only using voice commands and
00:50:29.940 then have them blindfold the men and same thing. And at the end of this section, I asked this couple
00:50:35.140 who've been together for seven years. I was like, how was that for you? And the woman was like,
00:50:40.040 I loved blindfolding him and leading him around. Like that was amazing. And I was like, how was that
00:50:48.000 for you, sir? And he kind of got a little blushy and was like, I loved when she blindfolded me and
00:50:55.520 led me around. I was like, first of all, you guys owe me a Christmas card. Yeah, for sure.
00:51:00.420 Have fun tonight. And why did it take seven years for you guys to not have this conversation of,
00:51:07.720 hey. And oftentimes, Ryan, it is because at some point someone got shamed and therefore
00:51:15.680 that feeling in their body of like, I can't talk about this. I can't talk about sex, right? Sex and
00:51:22.360 money. It's crazy how much shame and hiddenness we have around them. So that's what I do with it is
00:51:29.840 first like have guys, you know, and I've done this in workshops. It's like, okay, tell the guy sitting
00:51:36.040 across from you. What's the one thing you wish you had more from your, in your sex life with your
00:51:40.400 wife. And if you can't tell a dude who's like, Hey, I got no judgment. And by the way, I got to
00:51:46.240 answer this question too. So we're both kind of in this together. Right. If you can't say it to him,
00:51:51.700 how are you going to say it to your, the person who has the ability to reject you to person has
00:51:57.300 the ability to hurt you as the ability to go, Oh my God, I can't believe you want to do that.
00:52:01.400 You effing weirdo. Right. So it seems to me it's, it's judgment and fear of rejection.
00:52:09.540 So, I mean, look, let's, let's be real about this. Those are two threats that those are real.
00:52:15.560 Like those are legitimate threats. So how do you overcome that when it comes to being intimate with
00:52:21.840 your spouse? First, you have to own it in yourself. So can you actually say it out loud? Can you say it
00:52:28.740 to the person in the mirror? You're like, I really want my woman to suck on my toes.
00:52:34.320 That turns me on. I really like power dynamics. It's a lot of what I teach is power dynamics of
00:52:39.620 dominance and submission. Right. Are you willing to say that? Are you willing? I am, I am a dominant
00:52:45.600 person sexually. I am a in quotes dominant in that world. So in order for me to one, before I can say
00:52:52.600 that on a date, I have to be able to say it to you on a podcast. And I get it. Not everybody's being
00:52:56.900 interviewed and all the things, but is it, would you be okay with your friends? No, would you be
00:53:01.240 okay with your, your guy friends knowing? Would you be okay? Just again, first and foremost, just
00:53:07.160 being able to say it out loud. You know, I'm, I know you've done goal setting with people where I've
00:53:12.120 said like, tell me this thing you want to be. And they're like, I want to be a writer. Like, I'm sorry.
00:53:17.500 What was that? Yeah. Say it a little louder, please. Like what? And then tell they can actually,
00:53:25.460 it's okay. But it's the same thing. It's rejection. It's fear. It's, it's, um, fear of
00:53:31.960 abandonment. So really it's owning it in yourself. And then I say to creating a life that affirms to you,
00:53:39.700 I am, I am powerful. I'm strong. I'm confident. I'm going to be okay. If this person says like,
00:53:44.800 oh my God, dominance, what an awful person you are. I just shake her hand and go, Hey,
00:53:49.000 you're not the right person for me. Go have a great life. Right. As opposed to, oh my God,
00:53:53.060 she's right. I'm such a horrible person. I never should have said that. I can't believe it. My mom
00:53:57.500 was right. My sisters were right. Society's right. Oh my God. It's so awful. So it's, it's really first
00:54:03.260 owning it with yourself. And then it becomes Ryan a practice, right? You don't jump in with your wife
00:54:09.340 is like seven years in and be like, Hey, can I, can we talk tonight? I've always wanted to tie you up and beat you
00:54:14.340 with whips and pour hot wax on you and do this in the middle of Madison square garden. Yeah. She
00:54:20.120 might be, she might be slightly creeped out by that. So start by just naming a simple desire and,
00:54:28.980 and deal with what comes up in your body of like, Oh my God, uh, I had to do this exercise brother at a,
00:54:35.160 uh, a workshop at Esalen where the woman said for a week, you have to be inconvenient to people.
00:54:42.840 And I was like, Oh, I just, I look my, you know, and I fought in a fucking cage, man, multiple times.
00:54:50.720 And yet I sit there with my hands shaking and be like, Hey, would you guys mind clearing my dinner
00:54:56.620 plate tonight? And, and just sit there like, and that's a really good activity, man. I like that.
00:55:04.000 Especially for a guy who prides himself on being, I'm not inconvenient. I'm hyper competent.
00:55:09.140 Right. As in the family I grew up in, I was worried about getting booted all the time or being
00:55:13.680 abandoned. So I had to make myself like, no, no, no. I got everything. I can handle everything.
00:55:18.760 So you start with little stuff like that, as opposed to the high voltage, you know, perhaps
00:55:23.800 sexual ask and get used to owning one. I'm worth having someone clear my dinner plate for.
00:55:30.300 And then what do you know? They just said, sure. And I did it. And I didn't, it was no big deal.
00:55:37.480 It was truly like 0.01% of a big deal to them. Even though my heart rate was beating out of my
00:55:44.480 chest and I was pouring sweat. So you start down because those like societal challenges
00:55:49.940 are, are really good. I did one where I think it was for a week or so. I had to ask for a discount
00:55:58.060 every time I spent money. So if I was at like the retail store, I'm like, Hey, what's your
00:56:03.320 discounts? If I was at, you know, McDonald's, cause we were talking about McDonald's earlier.
00:56:06.940 Hey, can you give me a free meal? Like I had to ask for a discount or something else every single
00:56:12.380 time I went. And it was so uncomfortable at first. And at the end I was like, even, even when they said
00:56:17.700 they're like, no, we don't have deals. I'm like, Oh, okay, cool. Just thought I'd ask.
00:56:20.320 Yeah. And it was like, no big deal.
00:56:22.480 But how was it the first time? Right. Or the second time it was so miserable. Cause I told
00:56:27.020 myself all kinds of stories. And the story that I told myself is I don't want people to think one
00:56:33.720 of two things. I don't want people to think I'm cheap. Yeah. And I don't want people to think I'm
00:56:38.880 broke. And those were the two stories that I had wrapped that I had made, you know, created.
00:56:45.320 Yeah. Nobody thought that. I mean, maybe a few people thought that, but very few people actually
00:56:50.380 thought that I was cheap or that I was broke. Right. And when I kind of broke those stories,
00:56:55.740 it freed myself to not have to be concerned with the fact that people may or may not think I have
00:57:01.940 money or don't. It's irrelevant to me. It doesn't matter what they think about my financial status.
00:57:06.640 Absolutely. You are an, you are independent of the good opinion of other people, which is a massive,
00:57:12.880 massive bridge to walk over. And do we, are we able to do it a hundred percent fully
00:57:18.820 without being a sociopath? I'm not sure, but can you get much, much better at it?
00:57:24.020 Cause what did that lesson, you know, it taught me that I can ask for stuff and I've done the same
00:57:28.880 thing, asking for discounts and, and even practice, you know, like, Hey, would you guys,
00:57:33.280 would you like to us to bag this for you? I'm like, yep, please bag it, you know, at the grocery
00:57:37.500 store and then sit there and be like, I can bag it myself. You can bag it yourself. You don't lift all
00:57:40.680 these weights. So you can't bag stuff, all the story. But then again, in relationship,
00:57:46.900 if we go back to that dynamic, how healthy is it to be able to ask for a need to be met
00:57:53.040 or to feel like you have the right, that you have the worth. So to go back to your original question,
00:58:00.400 you build a self-esteem and a self-worth that allows for the rejection and the fear to come
00:58:06.960 and you not to take it in and take it on and let it dictate how you think about and feel about
00:58:12.420 yourself and therefore dictate your actions. Yeah. Those stories are hard to break, man.
00:58:18.840 Cause they've been conditioned since the time we're little. I mean, especially when it comes to,
00:58:23.020 uh, rejection, I even think about this on the path to masculinity. You know, there's things that I've
00:58:27.780 said or asked other people that, that were mentors or I thought they were, and they made me feel stupid
00:58:35.060 for asking it. And I thought to myself, I'm like, man, like how else would I've ever learned this?
00:58:40.200 I don't know how to do that. Like I have to ask at some point, I didn't know how to do it. So like,
00:58:44.460 why would you make people feel stupid? It's something I'm actually very aware with my kids
00:58:48.340 is when they ask me things, even in my head, I'm like, Oh, why are they asking me this dumb
00:58:51.700 question? I'm like, it's actually not a dumb question. Like they don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Like
00:58:56.900 how else are they going to know unless they ask? And so I make a very conscious effort not to mock or
00:59:01.840 belittle, uh, my kids for asking questions. Uh, one thing for, for, uh, being attracted,
00:59:08.340 like my, my oldest is getting more attracted to, to girls now. And yeah, I'm, I don't tease them
00:59:14.620 about girlfriends because being attracted to girls is healthy. So I'm not going to tease them about it.
00:59:20.280 And I do the same thing with my daughter. I don't tease her for thinking a boy's cute. Cause that's
00:59:25.580 good behavior. That should be encouraged. Yeah. Think of how much in the, I get a lot of guys that come
00:59:30.480 to me fresh out of divorces and they're entering into the dating world again. And these are guys with
00:59:36.880 huge business companies of a thousand employees. They've, they've, they've accomplished so much
00:59:41.580 in their life and we'll come up and say, well, how do I, how do I walk up and start talking to her?
00:59:46.700 Yeah. Like you, you, and it go back to, you know what it is. How do I not feel how I felt
00:59:52.300 in third grade when I told my buddies, I like Susan and they all went Brian and Susan sitting in a tree,
00:59:59.140 you know, and they shamed them. Yep. And that, that sensation is in like the core of their gut
01:00:04.580 that that that's what they're trying to work around. So I agree. It's your, our lives as adults
01:00:09.660 is managing and reorganizing those stories into what's true now, which is, that's just another
01:00:17.060 person standing there drinking coffee. I have, I'm more than welcome to go up and politely
01:00:21.760 engage in conversation with her. And there's nothing wrong with liking girls.
01:00:26.780 Right. Right. Well, I think that's the thread of, of, of your book, you know, and going through this is
01:00:32.860 putting yourself out there, taking risks, taking chances, uh, stepping into challenges,
01:00:41.520 because the more that we do that in every context, I think the better off we're going to be in the
01:00:46.020 easier things become, not because those things are easier, but because we're more adequately
01:00:51.180 prepared to handle those things physically, mentally, emotionally. And that's why I really
01:00:56.400 liked the concept of the book and the uncivilized life. It just makes total sense to me.
01:00:59.520 Thanks, man. It's, it's not life. It's not easy to be human. Stuff's going to happen.
01:01:06.340 Right. And there, there is no day. I think it was David data is like, there's no day when this
01:01:10.700 just magically stops being hard. When you just run, it's like, Oh wow, I'm 46. I'm a millionaire.
01:01:16.920 I've, I've done all the things I've climbed the mountains. Like my life's just going to be on
01:01:20.060 cruise control for the next 78 years till I die. That does not happen. And I think for most guys,
01:01:25.960 if they're honest, if it did it, like the two week point, I would be like chewing on the leg of the
01:01:31.600 table. I'm going to see how many pushups I can do next month. I'm going to figure out some way to
01:01:37.240 create a challenge. So if we can shift the focus away from challenge bad to, Oh, holy shit. Challenge
01:01:45.340 good. That's, this is it, man. Like I want to rub up against things. I want to, I want to learn.
01:01:51.680 And I want to have to ask that question. Like, Hey Ryan, I don't know how to do this thing. Do you
01:01:55.200 know how to do it? Beautiful. Yeah. I'll show you. I want to figure stuff out on my own. I want to
01:02:00.560 have, be like hands deep in life. I want it to be an adventure. Like that word, like guys used to be
01:02:06.180 seeking adventure all the time. I remember my dad saying he, he hiked across the Adirondacks for like
01:02:11.840 an entire summer. And I'm saying he like had a sickle and he like took the head off a rattlesnake one
01:02:17.600 time. And he told me that story as a kid. And I was like, he is the coolest guy. I think that
01:02:26.800 sense was like instilled in us, you know, books, books when we were kids were all about guys going
01:02:33.100 on adventures. Yeah. Huck Finn. And yeah, right. Well, I'll call the wild like stuff where you're
01:02:39.740 like, Holy shit. These guys, the last American man. I mean, there's so many amazing books of,
01:02:45.100 of adventure, but it's not an adventure without challenge guys. Like, it's not like I got in the
01:02:50.600 car and then I just drove super smooth and then I showed up. That's my adventure. Right.
01:02:55.680 Yeah. It's, it's the risk and it's the risk and the challenge and the heartache and the hardship
01:03:01.540 and the, and the valleys that actually make it meaningful. Cause if it didn't have that,
01:03:06.300 there would be no purpose or meaning to it. There really wouldn't. I mean, it might be nice
01:03:10.860 occasionally, you know, you win the lottery. You're like, cool. One lottery. I mean, I'm not
01:03:15.280 going to, I'm not going to say that wouldn't be a good thing, but at the same time, fighting for the
01:03:19.840 business and, and being in my financial planning practice for 10 years, almost before moving into
01:03:25.160 this and struggling for a couple of years and getting this off the ground. Now it's like, man,
01:03:29.600 there's a lot more significance in what I'm doing. Cause I created it, you know?
01:03:33.920 Hell yeah. I remember your post about, uh, like one guy came to my event, one guy showed up for my
01:03:41.020 thing. I led so many events in New York was like, you, you're the only person do a webinar,
01:03:46.860 like one woman and I'm sleeping with her, but she came to my webinar. There's one, like nobody shows
01:03:53.320 up. And now in hindsight, I'm so glad that every time I was like, F this, I'm quitting. My buddy was
01:04:00.540 like, do not quit. If you got, doesn't matter. Talk to anybody who's anybody who's anywhere.
01:04:06.600 And they're going to go back and tell you about those early challenges. But even for a guy,
01:04:10.900 like when I look up to you and go, Oh my God, it happened to forget. It's like, wait a minute.
01:04:15.820 He didn't just start a podcast and have them listen on the first week. He didn't just like, Oh,
01:04:23.620 he just moved to a house in Maine. It's crazy. That must've just been like where he's lived for. Oh no,
01:04:28.980 there's all of this, all of this struggle. I think we intuitively know that, but we just hide it
01:04:35.340 because we just, you know what? I think what it is, is it's an excuse. So for example, if I look at
01:04:44.540 your success and I think, well, you know, Traver's got all this stuff figured out and look how
01:04:49.320 successful he is with, you know, he did the Ted talk and now he's got this book and he's so successful.
01:04:53.920 If I can discount what it took for you to get it, then that lets me off the hook. Cause I'm really
01:05:01.900 not willing to do all that work you had to do. So if I can just say, Oh, he just had luck. Like
01:05:07.460 he was just in the right place at the right time. Then it discounts what I have to do. And, and also
01:05:12.980 at this point, I just have to wait. Like, I just have to wait to get lucky as soon as my ship comes
01:05:18.140 in. Then I'll be good too. And so it just has all the work and effort that's required to get some
01:05:23.720 level of success in our lives. Exactly. I hear it. It's a joke amongst public speakers where we hear
01:05:30.220 one of the most ubiquitous lines I hear is you're so lucky. You're a good speaker. Yeah. Like I have
01:05:35.940 masterminds. I have hired coaches. I have flown all over the world. I have thrown up behind backstage.
01:05:42.140 I have freaked out on, you have no idea how lucky I am to be a good speaker. Yeah. Go F off.
01:05:51.240 Yeah. Well, I think that's why it's really important that we'd be realistic about what
01:05:55.960 it's taken for people to be successful, but it's also an important reason why having
01:06:01.040 a successful people in your life, because they're going to paint a realistic picture for you.
01:06:07.220 For sure. We get it. We get into trouble. I think you actually talked about it somewhere in the book
01:06:10.640 about, uh, expectations. If I remember correctly, maybe it was another book, but you know, we, we
01:06:15.840 have these false sense of expectations. And then when our reality doesn't meet those expectations,
01:06:21.040 we're let down. It's like, well, it wasn't, it wasn't the thing that went wrong is your
01:06:26.740 expectations were wrong. That was the problem. Like you, from the premise, you set it up wrong.
01:06:30.960 If you had clear expectations about how long you'd need to do it, how many presentations you need to
01:06:36.360 give, how many actual hours you'd need to research and study and present, then you wouldn't be let
01:06:41.820 down as much. In fact, it would just beat your expectations and you'd probably exceed them as
01:06:45.520 well. Exactly. I despise the sort of coaching question of, you know, what would you do if you
01:06:51.340 knew you couldn't fail? And I tell people like, what would you, what would you do if you knew it was
01:06:56.240 going to take you about seven years of just grinding your face on rock bottom and getting kicked in the
01:07:03.320 dirt and taking two steps forward and five steps back? And then what, then what would you do?
01:07:09.620 Cause most likely that's the reality of this thing that you want to, you want to create if it's big.
01:07:15.700 And if it's important, then you're going to go through some hell. So why not sit? That's the
01:07:20.920 thing I want to know from people, not what would you do if tomorrow morning you could wake up and
01:07:25.700 boom, you'd have it all. Right. So what are you willing to suffer for?
01:07:29.860 Again, that's not reality, right? It's not even dealing in reality. Like what if everything was
01:07:34.660 magical and you lived in fairytale land? I'm just going to manifest this weekend.
01:07:40.060 Yeah. It's like, yeah, man, manifest it. Yes.
01:07:44.580 Traver, I appreciate you, brother. It's been a good conversation. I want to ask you a couple of
01:07:47.520 questions as we wind things down. Obviously like, dude, I don't even know if I got into anything that
01:07:52.080 I wrote down on the notes because there's so much to go through. Just go buy the book guys. Cause it's a
01:07:57.680 good book and you'll get everything that we talked about here and a lot more. Uh, the first question,
01:08:02.740 what does it mean to be a man? I'm not plugging your book, but it is all about sovereignty to me.
01:08:11.120 It is about a guy who says I have limited to the best to best to my ability, the input,
01:08:19.040 the, my relationship to the input, to the outside world. So I am okay on my own. I am whole on my own.
01:08:25.460 I am healthy on my own. I am leading in every area of my life. To me, that is what a man does
01:08:32.840 and that leading or consciously not leading, right? I have a bookkeeper. Why? Because I hired her
01:08:40.400 because I am not gifted with numbers, but that's very different than just hoping that my numbers
01:08:47.080 add up every month. Right. So to me, a man is a sovereign human. That is someone who is to the best
01:08:53.700 of his ability, is competent in a number of fashions, is strong, is present, right? Is clear,
01:09:02.440 knows where he's going, why he's going there and is also of service. It's not just, he's not just an
01:09:10.920 island. He's there for his family. He's there for his community. He's there for his country. He's there
01:09:15.220 for the world. If those are, if those are possible, right? I have a guy that has an autistic son.
01:09:22.000 That's his, that's his world. He doesn't need to be on Instagram. He doesn't need to be on Oprah,
01:09:27.140 but he's leading in every capacity of his life. And every moment of his life is of service.
01:09:33.040 That's powerful. I'm glad you said that. Cause I, one thing a lot of guys will say is
01:09:37.540 some guys with, uh, either injuries or, or illness or disease, medical conditions they're
01:09:43.320 dealing with is they feel inferior as a man. And according to what you just said, it's if you're
01:09:49.180 leading your domains, you don't have to feel inferior, even if you can't, you know, lift 400
01:09:56.120 pounds or whatever. Right. Lead in your domains. That's where you need to be. Amen. And you're
01:10:01.580 fighting in those men, you fight hurt, you fight in those domains. I say the same thing to guys. You
01:10:06.360 don't have to lift the weights. I do. And there are guys that I'm not going to come within a country
01:10:10.420 mile of outlifting yet. What's the mat. What matters is do you get up and go to the gym?
01:10:16.760 And if you're physically unable to go to the gym, what are you doing to make yourself stronger in
01:10:21.500 your head, in your heart and your spirit? Right on brother. Well, how do we connect with
01:10:26.080 you and learn more? And obviously we can pick up a, want to pick up a copy of the book. Where do we get
01:10:29.800 it? Beautiful. So I'm, I spend most of my time on Instagram, even though we kind of bashed it. I still
01:10:34.780 love it. I'm at Traver Bohm, T-R-A-V-E-R-B-O-E-H-M. And my book is at www.manuncivilized.com
01:10:44.340 forward slash the book. Excellent. We'll sync it all up. So the guys know where to go. I was
01:10:49.720 really looking forward to this conversation. The conversation did not disappoint. Thank you,
01:10:53.500 sir. Um, you know how you talk with some people and you're like, man, I really connected with that
01:10:56.600 individual. I feel like that was the case. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better and, uh,
01:11:00.760 just maintaining and building this relationship. So thanks for taking some time. Cheers. Thanks
01:11:05.200 for having me. All right, brother. Gentlemen, there you go. My conversation with Traver
01:11:10.240 Bohm. Uh, I hope you enjoyed the conversation. Uh, I really enjoyed the conversation. It was like
01:11:14.600 two friends talking. And I think that's the direction that I've tried to go with the podcast
01:11:19.040 is be a lot more conversational and let you guys join in the conversations that I've had with some
01:11:23.660 incredible men. Traver being one of those incredible men, uh, go pick up a copy of the book on
01:11:28.200 civil, excuse me, man, uncivilized. Uh, I think you're going to like the book in the format that
01:11:32.140 I had mentioned, uh, the way the book is written. You're going to enjoy it. Uh, what else connect
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