Yo, Elliott, what's one book on masculinity you would recommend me to read besides the Bible? I want to know what being a real man is about. There are really good books. There are lots of really good books. The best book is the open book of an actual masculine man, right? So before I actually give you literature, I just have to say for those listening that nothing beats having an alpha male father or uncle or grandfather, somebody in your life who actually carries that banner, fills that role and lives that life himself. Because reading books is intellectual, but as Robert Blie says in his book, Iron John, which is one I would highly recommend, Iron John, put that on your list. He says that when a young man is around older men and they're learning and you know, he's mentoring them, that there's in subconscious food, he says that there's a nourishment that passes from the father to the boy that doesn't happen through words. It doesn't happen through explanations. It only happens through presence, right? And I think I remember as a kid, like how that would happen with me when I would be working with my dad, either he's teaching, he's trying to show me how to do something or a lot of times my dad would be working on something and I just be near him and just hearing the way he talked to himself. Just listening to my dad breathe. I noticed I was strange, but when I was like 14, 15 years old, I would get grounded a lot. I would get my dad always ground me and one day he ground me and he put me in the basement. He's like, I had enough of you kid. I'm throwing you down in the basement. So I had a bedroom upstairs, but he threw me all the way down in the basement. The basement is where the weights were, right? I had a power rack and a barbell and plates. So he basically just like created my future. He's like, you're going to live down there with the weights. I was like, yeah, that's it. And you know what I picked up at that age? Weight lifting. So my life was never the same since he grounded me at one time, put me in the basement with the weights. Anyway, my dad trained too. He liked to lift it, but he would lift it like five o'clock in the morning. You get down there like 4'30 in the morning and I'd be sleeping and I remember he would be training down there. He wouldn't listen to me music, but he would breathe heavily. And I remember just sleeping and I hear my dad right across the room, right? Right across the room. And I would just hear the plates clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, and so there was some sort of energy like my father's energy was being breathed on me in that moment. I never forget that. It was a strange thing because I'd be in a like a twilight sleep. So before I get into books and I already gave you one, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for a young man to receive that subconscious food from the presence of older alpha male men. Man, nothing, nothing, nothing beats that. But while we're on the topic, books, I said iron John, let me tell you a little something about iron John. Iron John is definitely a book at the top of my list, but iron John didn't make sense to me as a man until after 35 because the book is about the journey, the entire life long evolution of a man. And when I was still a boy in my 20s or early 30s, some of the topic, some of the material within the book just didn't, it didn't resonate with me yet. It wasn't until my mid 30s where I ended up having a catalysis of sorts, a going down and a going in and a questioning of myself that all of the poetic references within the book started ringing true to me. And I will say this that it's probably the one book I've listened to an audio. I've read the book once, but then I put it on audible. I bought an audible. I must have list, I guaranteed I listened to that book more than any other book I've ever had. Iron John by Robert Bly and I will just let it play over and over and over and over again. And there's just there are more nuggets, there were more pieces. It would just start coming out. I'm not going to call it like the Bible, right? Because it's, you know, divine revelation versus a really, really good book. But the way it reads is like the Bible in that there are layers where you'll see something one time, but depending on where you are in your life and you go back and read it or listen to it, you could see something totally different. It's definitely one of those types of books and it's based on myth and poetry. And he speaks quite a bit about Jesus in an interesting way in there, right? He talks about Jesus as a wild man of sorts, meaning like he wasn't going with the flow. He was willing to step out and speak up and do what needed to be done as a man. And he uses him as a, as a good example of the man, except he also calls out the feminized version of Jesus, the meek and mild feminized version of Jesus that we see in a lot of churches today. So there's a lot of myth, there's a lot of religion, there's a lot of philosophy and a ton of, ton of poetry in that book. So if that's your, that's your bent. For a book to, like that, to resonate with you, you have to be a little bit in touch with your beta side, right? And that's something I'm probably going to talk about later on today. I think one of the questions required that I speak about how men also need a beta side. You know, all let's talk about alpha. I think it's cool because we need it because we become so soft, so blue pill, so weak and wishy-washy as men, that there's not enough alpha energy. There's, really, there's not enough father energy. That's really the issue. There's not enough father energy. So we don't know how to be alpha male men, but you can't be, you can't be all hot and no cool. And so with this book, it requires you to sort of soften up, open up your heart a little bit, and let it carry you. You know, it's a, it's a passive adventure in a way, as opposed to like a, a book that is nonfiction, a book that is like just straightforward and facts, and there are some of those that are pretty good. None of them that I think I resonate with too much in terms of these this topic. So I put Iron John at the top of that list, man. A few other books that are important for men to read. I think one, one that's really important to read because it gives you a global perspective on gender relations, intersexual dynamics, not from a tactical space, but from a helicopter view. And that is David Dita, the way of the superior man, the way of the superior man. I'll put that there. So let me put it, let me put it this way. I'll give you three books. And then you said, what one book besides the Bible? But I will say Iron John, the way of the superior man, and then I also want to say King Warrior Magician Lover, but really anything by Robert Moore, anything by Robert Moore, I really like it. And then there's one more book by Kennedy Hall, called Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity. Short little books, small little book, contemporary writer. I like his stuff. He's got some really good, he's got some really good YouTube videos out there, Kennedy Hall. He's Catholic. And when he talks about reclaiming Catholic masculinity, he's talking about that stoic, strong provider, protector, male at home, proper place for men and women, you know, for a man to really exercise his full masculinity. He needs to be in the presence of a feminine woman, right, or receiving passive woman, a woman who's willing to be led. And so it's another good book, Kennedy Hall, throw that out there for you. I'm reading some of your comments here in Tillman says, saved my marriage, right? And so that reminds me of one more book, I'll give you one more book, I'll just give you a bunch of books, I'm thinking of another book is defending marriage in a degenerate age, right? Or protecting your marriage in a degenerate age. That's a really good book. Man, there's so many, I think I'm going to stop there. Robert or there's another one I was looking at yesterday, a really like, Husbands and Fathers by Derek Prince. I bought a couple copies of that book. So I'm just giving you a whole lot, I'm giving you a whole lot. What are those of my favorite there, dude? And so definitely get those books on your list. Oh, Hard Times Creates, Strong Man, right? Steffan Arneo, another really good one. Just go scan through my recommended reading list for the King Transformation program and just start picking them, dude, picking them, reading them and they're all going to help you in some way, shape or form. Keep up the great work, bro. Keep reading the Bible too and keep going stronger. Talk soon, done. Yo, it's your bro Elliott. I hope you enjoyed that video. If you did, y'all to know that it was a clip from one of my most recent King Transformation classes with my students where, among other things, we get together about four or five hours a week and we speak on things as it relates to becoming Kings and Our Lives and Fitness, Business and with Women. That sounds like you and you want to join a like-minded group of men who are growing stronger every day in every way and it's the generate age, then it's real simple. Just follow me on Instagram and then DM me the word King, K-I-N-G and then me and my team will get back to the details to see if you qualify. I really hope to see you at the next meeting. Done.