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“We're doing a theatrical-only run for 'Busboys' because you need to be in a room with people to really feel the comedy; it loses something when you're just scrolling past it on a phone.”

“What she thinks of all the alternate lyrics to Choosin’ Texas.”

“She talks about the stars she looked up to as she found her way in Nashville.”

“My whole thing is I want this issue to become boring. I want this issue to be mainstream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guys are falling behind. We've heard it. We know we're working on it. We've got it. I want people to say, well, that's why we've got this Office of Men's Health. And that's why we've got this big push on male teachers. We're doing it. What are you talking about?”

“We've got governors, Governor Newsom, Governor Whitmer, Governor Wesmore in Maryland, also Governor Spencer Cox in Utah. All of him have got pretty serious initiatives now to try and promote boys and men. We've got, as I'm speaking to you now, two bills have just been introduced to Congress to create a men's health strategy and office and to help men with their mental health after fatherhood, right? The Men Matter Bill.”

“I think I have to be honest that I felt like banging my head against the brick wall with Democrats until November 2024 and then there was an election, and then my inbox started filling up with Democrats. Because they saw how much they'd fallen behind with men, especially young men. I mean, they can read a poll. And there's no question that one of the things that happened in the 24 election was that Democrats lost men, and especially young men, in a very, very big way.”

“Activists are always psychologically reluctant to succeed. Because there's something about your identity and your purpose that is tied up to your own failure. If you succeed, you have to start saying, great, we've done it. Now I have to find some new identity. If you've actually wrapped up your identity in the sense that the whole of society is stacked against men, and then suddenly people do start caring about men, you've either got to say, oh, that's not true anymore, and change your identity, or say, no, no, that can't be true.”

“My whole thing is I want this issue to become boring. I want this issue to be mainstream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guys are falling behind. We've heard it. We know we're working on it. We've got it. I want people to say, well, that's why we've got this Office of Men's Health. And that's why we've got this big push on male teachers. We're doing it. What are you talking about?”

“Ella Langley is a country singer-songwriter from Hope Hull, Alabama.”

“We've got governors, Governor Newsom, Governor Whitmer, Governor Wesmore in Maryland, also Governor Spencer Cox in Utah. All of him have got pretty serious initiatives now to try and promote boys and men. We've got, as I'm speaking to you now, two bills have just been introduced to Congress to create a men's health strategy and office and to help men with their mental health after fatherhood, right? The Men Matter Bill.”

“Virginia is, if the new governor signs it, going to create the first commission on boys and men, to sit alongside the commission on women and girls. Now, it's just a government commission in the state. But what that means is that the issues of boys and men will be at the table in policymaking in Virginia in a way that they weren't before. And that will still be there five years from now if that happens. That's going to get a lion item. It's going to be real.”

“I realized that if I just tell people I'm struggling or that I'm feeling weird, it takes the power away from that feeling and suddenly everyone else says, 'Man, I feel that way too.'”

“The reason this medium works is because it's the only place left where you can actually have a human conversation that isn't being manipulated by some producer in a glass booth.”

“Activists are always psychologically reluctant to succeed. Because there's something about your identity and your purpose that is tied up to your own failure. If you succeed, you have to start saying, great, we've done it. Now I have to find some new identity. If you've actually wrapped up your identity in the sense that the whole of society is stacked against men, and then suddenly people do start caring about men, you've either got to say, oh, that's not true anymore, and change your identity, or say, no, no, that can't be true.”

“I think I have to be honest that I felt like banging my head against the brick wall with Democrats until November 2024 and then there was an election, and then my inbox started filling up with Democrats. Because they saw how much they'd fallen behind with men, especially young men. I mean, they can read a poll. And there's no question that one of the things that happened in the 24 election was that Democrats lost men, and especially young men, in a very, very big way.”

“Virginia is, if the new governor signs it, going to create the first commission on boys and men, to sit alongside the commission on women and girls. Now, it's just a government commission in the state. But what that means is that the issues of boys and men will be at the table in policymaking in Virginia in a way that they weren't before. And that will still be there five years from now if that happens. That's going to get a lion item. It's going to be real.”

“Ella joins Theo to talk about growing up in a hippie Baptist family.”

“Her new album Dandelion is out this Friday April 10th wherever you stream music.”