Men In Gorilla Suits

From a young age, we're conditioned to look at certain people and things in a larger-than-life way. These are the people we hope to become. Some are driven to succeed because of the people they looked up to, while many more fall short of their dreams. Sometimes heroes themselves "fail us." Is it even realistic for an adult to have a hero, or is it something that should be reserved for youth? Heroes are the topic of this week's episode of Men in Gorilla Suits. * * * We begin by chatting about who our earliest heroes were, and then jump to whether or not parents or other relatives ever held hero status in our lives. After that, we talk about how important heroes were to us when we were younger -- and why that was. We list off our heroes from childhood before discussing whether or not heroes are important to us today. Maybe we no longer have heroes -- just people we admire on some levels. We talk about that, and then move on to why the deaths of people we may have never met, but still admire, can affect us as th