Charles Bethea
speaker
280 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 31 Mar
Charles Bethea’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I rolled my own eyes as I said it, but like I should work on my own brotherhood a little bit.
Yeah.
So Trump loves to it's just it's so it's become increasingly clear, even in just recent weeks, how he loves to surround himself with people in his in his cabinet and beyond, I suppose, who are these kind of avatars of alpha males.
And interestingly, they don't have to be men.
Even you've got.
Tulsi Gabbard and you have Linda McMahon, who in their own ways have kind of signed on to this idea that like manly men and manly male challenges are like are things that we should be doing with our lives.
Tulsi Gabbard is interested in green beret tactical challenges, I learned.
But yeah, you have Hegses quasi pull-ups.
You have Kennedy doing his blue jean shirtless bench pressing.
All of this is just creating this...
To many of us, I think probably funny, but for others, like this idea of what we should be aspiring to as specifically as men, like these are successful people.
These are the leaders of our country.
They are avatars of alpha maleness.
And they don't even have to say it, right?
Like you get what they're representing just by looking –
at them and watching, you know, Kash Patel put his agents through UFC training as he did very recently.
It's like the stuff is just it's really on the nose and it's everywhere increasingly in this political administration, unlike any I think we've seen before it.
Thank you.
Warren Buffett's been a hero of mine since I was in college. And the super investor article he wrote back in 1984 was what got me so interested in value investing and also following his work.
And when I got out of government in 1993 and went back to the private sector and investment management, it was Warren Buffett who was, you know, my role model.
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