Wait, you're saying, you said when you tighten the nuts.

You were talking about blue balls earlier, and now you're talking about tightening the nuts. I was saying, how do you turn it? I said you turn it clockwise. Is that how you tighten your nuts? Yeah. I mean, Nick understood it perfectly fine. Help me. They built empire, split the atom, and got so good at going to the moon, they even brought a woman this time. Men. Unfortunately, today there's a lot of misinformation

on masculinity. so good at going to the moon, they even brought a woman this time. Men.

Unfortunately, today there's a lot of misinformation on masculinity.

So to learn more on the subject, we brought in two men qualified to speak for men everywhere.

In one corner, representing the Roman Empire, low vitamin D, and the belief that both men and civilization peaked in the 1220s, Michael Knowles.

And in the other, representing tactical competence, facial hair and TikTok, Nick Fritas.

17 questions, one winner. This is face off masculinity.

Are we swearing off now?

I can't believe I'm representing TikTok. That is not true. The TikTok thing I completely reject.

I don't even have TikTok on my phone.

No, you're an analog guy, by the way.

As I should note, you have an actual book on paper with words printed on it that is, depending on when you're watching this,

either just about to come out or

out already, you need to either pre-order or order it right away. It is called the man book.

The man book, a point-by-point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done. Great, great title.

I wish I could steal the man book. I'm a sucker for a good

pun. And I'm excited to read the book. Oh, well, thank you very much. It was a lot of fun to write.

There was a lot of a walk down memory lane. Yeah, I tell people a lot of stuff I learned,

most of it the hard way over my time as a husband, father, soldier, elected official, all that good stuff.

I like what you're bringing to this is like the masculine pursuits of like shooting, killing the enemy,

protecting the country, lifting weights. And I'm bringing the other masculine attributes of playing ukulele, doing a little pot of burray,

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