This is the Truth Network. Welcome to all you Joyriders out there. This is a fantastic show from the guys you know. I'm speaking of none other than the Band of Brothers. My name's Keith, producer for such fine Truth Network programming like The Masculine Journey and Masculine Journey After Hours.
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So sit back, relax, and enjoy the joyride. Hello Joyriders and welcome to the show. This week the guys discuss Hey, I got an idea. Hey Art, why don't you explain what the topic is this week? You could do a better job explaining it than I can anyway, right?
Yes, that's right. And I was at a store, a country type store, that had a device sitting on the counter to sharpen knives. And I ran my knife through it two or three times and it came out. A bit sharper than it had been. And, you know, it got me thinking, you know, I just had this belief, you know.
To be that I should be able to sharpen a knife, a man such as myself should be able to sharpen a knife, but I'm not. And so how much man am I? I mean, what defines a man? What do we mean when we say masculine journey? And what does society say about it?
What does our experiences say about it? And more importantly, what does the Bible say about it, which we'll get to next week.
Now, as far as what I think, well, my opinion on what defines a man has changed over the years. If you had asked me back into my childhood days, I'm talking the 80s in the land of pop locking and tall cans of hairspray. I would have said this is what it means to be a man. Yo Joe! We'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble.
G.I. Joe is there. G.I. Joe is an American hero. Of course I figured what's more manlier than saving the world with laser guns.
In the 90s, I was a little older and a little wiser. Boy somewhere my mom is rolling her eyes right now. But at the time, this is what I thought it meant to be a man. That's real I'm moving Dream act. Yeah.
Yeah, everybody liked Jordan.
Well, unless you were from Detroit or New York.
Okay, so by that time, I hadn't quite figured out what truly defines a man, but I was so sure that the answer was laser guns. Mank Williams Jr. says that You can skin a deer with your sharpened knife, and you can run a trot line, and a country boy can survive. That's right, yeah. And you've done that thus far.
I've done that, but with a dull knife.
So that's even harder. That would probably make you more of a man at that point, yeah.
Well, uh we are back to playing some clips.
Now, in the previous show, if you didn't get a chance to listen to it, go back and listen to it. But I'm gonna just sum up a couple things. Andy talked about growing up with a belief that you have to risk in order to be a man, that if you're not willing to step out and risk, that you're not really a man. And Robby talked about success, you know, looking at what defined success and how that looked when he was young and how it changed over time. Right, to what true success looks like.
And so we're going to look at a couple other aspects of things that we believed. And Darren, Art picked you for the next clip, so we will go with you. A real man picked me. Art made a real decision. He took a risk and made a decision.
He did. I would point out he's dull. Yeah. I am very dull.
So. Yeah, in this clip, it's interesting. You're going to meet two guys, and one's the son, one's the father. And the father is basically giving the son kind of a diatribe on what it is to be a father. Is James Earl Jackson in this one?
No, he's not. He is not. It's Danzel Washington. And James Earl Jones plays the same character in a Broadway production of this. Which I'm sure you've seen, Sam.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that. Right after the singing ones. That's right. They're called musicals.
Yeah, as soon as he leaves the ballet, he goes to the singing one time.
So from the Guy's a Masculine Journey, I'm Keith and we'll see you down the road.
