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Is this episode 18, or maybe episode 1 of a new season, who knows? Acie and Steve are trying to get back in the saddle. In this episode the guys talk about where they have been, why they were there (instead of here), and where they are going. They are also in the new studio and putting these out on video for the YouTube platform.

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Episode 17 is a great look at the guys in the past decade leading up to present. Acie has a great quote right out of the gate, "I stopped chasing happiness, and started living with joy." This episode bounces back and forth from a reflection of their forties to a volume of life experience and wisdom that was four decades in the making. As the guys take us through the past ten years they hit most, if not all, of the areas most men find important. Marriage, career, children, recreation, and coming to grips with the most formidable of all foes-themselves.

In episode 16 Acie and Steve take a look back at the decade that, they both agree, really shaped who they are today. In the conversation they break down some of the factors that made this a pivotal era for them, and they talk about the similarities that they see between their experience and a lot of other men. They also take some time to point out some things that they feel are easy to slip into during this very transitional decade. 

In this episode the guys start a series of episodes looking back into their early adult lives. This is a pretty comical look back into how truly ill equipped most young men are to be making the biggest decisions of their lives. Acie and Steve give a little insight into how they made some of those decisions, and what they were wearing and doing three decades ago. 

In episode 14 Acie and Steve have a conversation about masculinity. This is obviously a very big topic for a sub one hour podcast. The guys recognize this and do a sort of flyby of the topic for now. They discuss the huge swing of opinions and mixed messages in popular culture about what a real man should look and act like. Both Acie and Steve share glimpses of what has shaped their views on the subject, and how they have stayed the course in this world of ever-changing messages, and popular figures peddling their own truths about manhood.

In this episode the guys have a conversation about their struggle to harness two very powerful forces Fear and Failure. They discuss how when these two forces couple together, then they can paralyze us. Or worse yet they can cause us to take a defensive approach, rather than an offensive approach to things in our lives. Both Acie and Steve are transparent about times that they find themselves trying not to fail rather than trying to succeed.

Episode 12 is all about dreaming big. No matter where you are in life, the guys are encouraging you to keep dreaming. They discuss what it looks like to have things in your mind that are bigger than plans and goals. Things that you can't know if they will ever really happen, but you plan, train and live your life as though they will. They talk about the sacrifice and effort that it takes to achieve big things and the depth of character that the journey brings. A little longer episode, but worth a listen.

Part 1 of this look at the 99 For 1 project hike was a look at the where, when, and why that the guys found themselves hiking 60 miles on the Appalachian Trail in the Mountains of Tennessee.  In part 2 the guys spend the episode talking more about the gear that they chose, the food that they brought, and what they learned on this trip.