Elliot Ackerman

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151 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Dec

Elliot Ackerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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How do you, you know, you asked me why, you know, why do I dress nicely?

It's that same thing.

It's like making little decisions about how you're going to be in this world.

And those little decisions are cumulative, but we haven't been having much of a deliberate conversation with that.

And speaking or, you know, seeing, to use that word, are young boys for a while.

So I think the spirit of this is just to, like, see those young men by offering them little bits of advice.

And the series is titled, you know, A Man Should Know.

Because in my life, I had so many people teach me things.

At the end of giving my lesson, they're just like, no, you know, a man should know how to do that.

And that's all I'm saying is, hey, if you're a man, you should know how to do some of these things.

Oh, sure.

So this watch of mine, I've had this watch for 20 years.

I was on deployment in 2006 with the Marines, and we were in the Mediterranean Sea.

Israel had invaded Lebanon, and we were in charge of evacuating all of the American citizens out of Beirut.

That sounds a lot more exciting than it was.

It basically meant we were just sitting on the ships doing circles for a couple of months.

One of my friends on that ship was a fighter pilot.

If you or any of your listeners have met fire pilots, they're usually pretty reliably watch guys.

And he kind of got me into watches and looking at watches.

And I was, you know, I was making some money.

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