Being a Man in 2025
Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast
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4.4 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Here's what you'll get in this one. Kevin and Sean press on the question "What is masculinity in 2025" and why the answer keeps changing. From aging mailers to modern medicine to how politics touches everything you do, they frame the conversation without wagging fingers. If you are tired of buzzwords and want straight talk, this sets the table. We pressure test today's masculine archetypes against work, family, health, and money. Think confidence versus control, security versus risk, and care versus performance. It is not a lecture. It is lived experience filtered through decades on the road and in boardrooms, gyms, rinks, and locker rooms. We also zoom out. Markets, gold fever, tariffs, and why "guaranteed" returns feel different when groceries climb. Creative control, royalties, and the corporate shell game show up as mirrors for how men measure value and status. The wrestling lens is a tool here. It keeps the theory honest. Culture check. GQ's stats on comfort, leadership, and stay at home fatherhood meet beard trimmers, GLP shots, TRT, and the quiet grind to stay useful. Sports habits, Florida Man vs Jersey Guy, and a pile of match stipulations add the fun. The live Q&A in the 11Soft Club pulls viewers into the ring. Bring a take. Expect a counter. Magic Spoon-Get $5 off your next order at MagicSpoon.com/KLIQ The Perfect Jean-F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code KLIQ15 at theperfectjean.nyc/KLIQ15 #theperfectjeanpod Get Blitzed-Save 15% at Get-Blitzed.com by entering the code KLIQ at checkout. Mando -Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code KLIQ at shopmando.com! #mandopod
00:00 Kliq This #171: What is Masculinity? 00:56 NYC Division of Aging Services 03:04 No Partisanship 04:10 High Inflation and low markets 07:12 Oliver in the hospital 11:52 TKO Royalty Fallout 20:16 age to be "Locked in" 21:52 BREAK MANDO 25:22 Sweat and body hair 25:52 Trimming a beard 27:39 50MIL+ views 28:20 National Guard in Portland 30:48 Dean Cain becomes an ICE agent 36:06 There was only one belt 38:02 Bret Hart has 2 weeks left 45:49 The Gold Standard 50:12 Rhodes and Rollins are perfect opponents 50:53 Could we see Cena vs Rock this year? 53:51 Coffee is on and bowl is packed, gonna have to fire up GTA5 for a few hours 54:25 echo chambers 56:54 Military funding 01:04:38 BREAK The Perfect Jean 01:07:23 KTTV 01:08:07 The dreaded Australian Street Fight 01:12:20 "Can you name 25 wrestling match stipulations" 01:13:48 GQ MASCULINITY ARTICLE 01:28:00 BREAK Magic Spoon 01:30:15 FL vs NJ 01:32:25 BREAK GET BLITZED 01:34:17 AI Wrestling 01:37:02 Coliseum Video 01:38:00 Scott Hall champion? 01:38:48 Training Differently for a match? 01:39:56 Where to be if US falls? 01:40:56 ICE Chicago 01:41:43 HH99 01:42:05 OUTRO
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| 0:21.6 | The following podcast contained mature language and adult discussions. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm going to be able to do you. You know, this day's You know, this day's kev, I, you know, this day's, Kev, I, that I vow, I'm going to get rid of my mailbox. |
| 1:03.2 | Because I know people that have done that. |
| 1:06.5 | And I feel like only good things can come of that. |
| 1:10.3 | What's the last good news you got in the mail? |
| 1:13.5 | I mean, anybody. |
| 1:17.1 | No one mails you good news. |
| 1:18.6 | I get checks. |
| 1:21.1 | That's true. |
| 1:21.7 | You get checks. |
| 1:23.6 | Outside of checks. |
| 1:25.8 | I go to the mailbox today. |
| 1:33.3 | Now, I see this state of New Jersey, Department of checks. I go to the mailbox today. Now I see this State of New Jersey, Department of Human Services. Now, I'm going to open it. I'm a human. |
| 1:36.3 | So this is for me, clearly. This is a department that is thinking about me in some capacity. |
| 1:41.3 | So I open this. |
| 1:43.3 | And right at the top, of course, the fucking... |
| 1:46.9 | This is from the Division of Aging Services. |
| 1:50.8 | Are you fucking kidding me now? |
| 1:53.0 | 52? |
| 1:54.2 | 52! |
| 1:55.2 | I'm getting... |
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