Paul C. Brunson

You know, we're in a day and age, and I've heard you speak about this, write about this, where we are in a loneliness epidemic, in particular men.

You know, in the research I was doing for this is you have 27% of men say they have no close friends.

You have many men saying that they have no one that they feel as if they can turn to to support them.

And what's interesting is that you have those stats.

Then you have Pete Wicks over here who has said that you were, what, an outgoing loner?

Is that it?

An outgoing loner.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

But yet you still have the friendship circles.

Yeah.

And that's critically important, I think, to our success and our mental health.

Number one source of death for men under the age of 50, suicide.

As long as you're doing the work and you're surrounding yourself with people who love you,

then it's going to happen for you.

It's no doubt.

It will.

It's just a matter of time.

And everyone's time horizon is different on this.

One thing that's always struck me about you is that you are vulnerable, I think, with people that you respect.