I love saying that America is a systemically oppressive place and that men are to blame and that masculinity is to blame.

You know, if you want to be a man, if you are assertive, if you're independent, if you display those characteristics that psychologists have associated with men for decades,

then you're contributing to the oppressive place that is America.

That just isn't true and it's time that we call out, and it's time that we say to young men in particular, we need you. We need you to be responsible. We need you to get a job, and you can make this country a better place by being who you were meant to be, and we should call them into that. Hey everybody.

Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. As always, I'm here with Nick Houseman. Nick, how was your weekend? How's Passover? Passover was great. I made the best brisket of all time in my grandmother's pot from the 40s. I was a little bit worried that was made out of lead, but it turns out it was really light. So I was like, it can't be lead. But I actually did some research, thanks to some help for people on Twitter. And it's aluminum. All right. So disaster reverted. Yeah. Yeah. But it was a terrific brisket. People came over. We had a great time. We people went ahead, had to deal with back in the day.

And, and we're, and we move on.

Well, so we're, we're going to have on the podcast in a little bit, Max Berger from More Perfect Union.

But before we do that, we need to talk about another group, Nick, that has gone through some real trials.

I mean, listen, you know, like some people who have like really,

really dealt with it. And that group, of course, Nick, are straight white men. Yes. Well,

we're familiar with them. We are. And before we begin, we have to ask, are men okay?

You know, we had, I don't know if I can answer to that question for you right now.

We have to pull us apart and figure it out.

Well, we do, and we need to talk about masculinity and crisis, Nick.

Bump, bum, bum, bum, giant music right now. You know, it's it's everyone who runs those stop signs that really

burns me up, man. So we we have this lawlessness. We have this focus group that we got to talk

about in a second from the New York Times. But listen, it would not be the Muckrake podcast.

If we did not talk about the advertisement that everybody, well, all the political sickos

anyway are talking about, which is a Tucker Carlson original. And you've seen this video at

this point, correct? I have. I have. Could you, if anybody at home hasn't particularly

seen this, maybe they saw it in passing, can you,

can you give it a quick little summary just from your mind? Like what do you remember? Because

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