Toxic Masculinity, The Cocktail Party Effect & Why Every Man Should Learn to Dance with Ted Agon

Man Overseas
5 min readJul 7, 2023
Toxic Masculinity, The Cocktail Party Effect & Why Every Man Should Learn to Dance with Ted Agon

Ted Agon is a returning guest to the podcast. He’s not your average author & speaker.

He’s lived in seven countries and set foot on five of the seven continents. The man’s a global adventurer. Not to mention he served in the Vietnam War in the 1970s.

At 79 years young, he’s got incredible energy (& knowledge). He goes ballroom dancing five nights a week, calling himself a table-hopper. It’s how he met the love of his life, Julie.

My favorite part of the podcast is when he shares the pickup line that “worked” with Ms Julie — afterward thinking darn it, how come I didn’t think of that line decades ago. Haha! Amazingly, prior to meeting, he & Ms Julie had been single for 27 & 23 years, respectively.

He believes if you’re looking for love — you will not find it — it must be spontaneous.

Ok Ted, but some of us are going to go looking on that 7,243rd night going to bed alone. I kid, because Ted makes me feel that way sometimes. Lol (let’s see if he texts me asking what “Lol” means:)

Usually, he only texts me when he finds a Joe Rogan clip he thinks ridiculous or finds something that says men are dummies.

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Man Overseas

FIRE. Also write about self-development and culture. Visited 54 countries since 2015. Podcast + Blog + Pictures at ManOverseas.com