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The WallBuilders Show

The Man Book Mindset - with Nick Freitas

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Masculinity is getting blamed for everything and then repackaged into something ugly, and a lot of young men feel stuck between shame and swagger. We sit down with Nick Freitas, a combat veteran, former legislator, and one of the clearest voices on culture, to talk about The Man Book and the bigger question behind it: what does God say a man is for? We get concrete fast. Nick explains why “share your toys” can accidentally teach coercion instead of generosity, and how small parenting habits ...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us today. It's, of course, a place where we take on hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. We're going to be doing that today with the issue of manhood. And what a great guy to have on.

0:21.5

Nick Fratus is going to be with us to talk about his new book.

0:24.1

It's actually called The Man Book.

0:26.4

David Tim, this ought to be fun, man.

0:27.9

This is one of those guys that we've all just kind of recently started getting to know

0:31.8

and just super enjoyable guy.

0:35.2

But what a track record.

0:36.4

Ten years as a legislator, doing a great job,

0:39.5

influencing things out there on college campuses, really somebody that we want kids to hear

0:44.6

from and learn from. Not just kids, us. Well, and to add to his resume, right, I'm a military

0:50.5

combat veteran with a green beret, lots of deployment. So all kinds of real world experience.

0:56.4

And also one of my favorite social media follows for people listening right now.

1:00.9

If you're not quite putting the face of the name, he's the one that always has the mug at the end.

1:05.8

He'll make a comment and drinks the bug to end it.

1:08.3

He's just one of the best.

1:09.6

Follow him on social media.

1:11.9

But he is somebody that is one of many of the voices that God has raised up.

1:18.5

We would argue strategically like in this kind of Esther thought for such a time as this.

1:22.9

And he's been able to get on college campuses.

1:25.1

God's expanding his horizons in many ways.

1:28.1

I think there's a lot of things yet to come for him and from him. But he is someone that

1:33.4

is now addressing one of the big issues. There's young men that are coming to faith. And yet,

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