Masculinity FACE OFF: Michael Knowles vs. Nick Freitas on Wild Facts

Wait, 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 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 walk down memory lane. 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 how you're bringing to this is the masculine pursuits of shooting, killing the enemy, protecting the country, lifting weights. And I'm bringing the other masculine attributes of playing ukulele, doing a little padaburet, sometimes a little soft shoe. And anyway, so together, we're completing masculinity is what I'm saying. Exactly, we now have the comprehensive version of it. It's great. All right, Ben, are we up? All right, you guys ready to suck it up and get started? Let's suck. This is how it's gonna work. I'll read a question. Each host has 30 seconds to scribble down their answer. And the loser, they must deliver a glowing 30 second pitch for the winner. Do you consent to these rules? I consent. I have informed consent. I'll do it. All right, here we go. Question one. What color is power steering fluid? Good luck, Michael. I'm gonna get completely demolished. All right, right, Toss. What do you have? I can't see it. It's not out. We are in these little tiny boxes. Blue. Shoot, I was gonna say blue, but I said green. Don't move me over. All right, here we go. I thought blue was too easy. The correct answer is red. Really? Oh, yeah. Whoa. Nick, is this all just for show? Are you secretly like a softy or something? Are you? As soon as you went into like auto mechanics, it was like, I'm screwed. Yeah, wow, okay. All right, I'll take it. We're tied. All right, here we go. Number two. What percentage of workplace deaths in the USA are men closest without going over? Closest without going over. Yes. All right, Michael. I usually strategize to go lower, but I feel confident enough. I'm saying 77%. I said 92. The correct answer is exactly 92%. Great job. Movin' ahead. Oh, man. That was a dagger. Someone's done some research for a book recently. If you had done, yeah, that's not fair. He just wrote a book on this. Like if we did a game about nothing, I might win, you know? Yeah. Well, I mean, in all fairness, I did used to occupy a job that was far more likely to get you killed on the job. So. That's true. All right, here we go. Number three. What is the colloquial term for a man suffering from epididymal hypertension? The word for a man or a word for the condition? The condition. See, I got it. It's like unbelievable what I have to put up with that he doesn't, he asks the wrong question that I have to try to figure out his thinking. So wait, what is the condition, not the man? What is the colloquial term for a man suffering from epididymal hypertension? For the man or for the thing he's suffering from? It's the thing he's suffering from. So it's not the man? It's not the man. No, it's the thing. That's a totally different answer. Okay, okay. Tell me what I put up with. This is why we can't have nice things. You're giving me hybrididymal hyperepidemic tension is what you're giving me with these questions. Say one more time. Now that I know what the question is about. If you're suffering from epididymal hypertension, what are you suffering from? I am suffering from it. Epidymal hypertension. Got it. I am absolutely certain. You go first. Yeah, you go first. Okay, gay. Is that it? I think it's gay. I almost don't want to show my answer because he's obviously getting the points. Is that high blood pressure? The correct answer is blue balls. That's the epididymal. There you go. So I guess it depends. Now depending on the environment you're in, I could be so be right. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, like back when we were a proper country and people just repressed themselves. Yeah, you're right. Wow. And you said did-a-ball, I would have understood that. But you said did-a-mal. Okay, all right. All right, here we go. How many current physical performance world records are held by women closest without going over? Now, just to clarify this would be like strength, endurance, swimming, those kind of things. Obviously not within the female-only category. Right, this is an absolute world record. But it could be any, it could be like crocheting. No, that's not, that'd be a skill. This is like physical accomplishment. So strength related. Yeah, well it could be long distance, it could be running, it could be swimming, like I said, it could be any of those kind of performance. Oh, okay, okay, some sort of physical activity. Help by women. The questions require end notes and paragraphs and disputations. Just give me a closest without going over, Michael. How many? What percentage? How many total or what percentage? How many total, give me a number of events that are held absolutely by women? Michael says zero. I assume zero. Right, like nothing. I said one, I was playing it close. So this is tricky, because for years I was told, long distance swimming, certain distances that can I think women perform better in, occasionally for absolute world records. Apparently that's not true. They'll just find some random new distance or some new canal and they'll be the first woman to do it. It's like, oh, the women's world record. But there is one currently, and Nick is right, there's only one. And it is consecutive days of running longer than 50 kilometers. And it's held by Candice Burt in 2023. She did 200 days straight. And the previous male record was 80 days straight. So until some guy gets bored and wants to do it, she does the record. The funniest one would have been, had it been the world record for curling, you know, the one where they like mop the floor, that would have been the fun. Okay, so it's the most days you run some arbitrary distance. Yes, consecutive days, 200 days straight of running over 50 kilometers. I was thinking there was gonna be some category having to do with like child birthing pain thresholds or something, but hey, I'll take it. Way to go Candice, way to go Candice. Good job, Candice. They're gonna clip that out of this show. Nick Freitas says, way to go Candice on the Michael and Olds show. It's gonna be a political scandal. Well, because the juice forced me to, that was it. That makes perfect sense. 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You're not in a relationship, which what percent of those men are not interested at all in getting into one? And because you said romantic partner instead of a lady, you're including the answer that Nick previously gave, which is the gays. No, I believe this is heterosexual. This is unbelievable how imprecise these questions are. What percentage? I didn't think you'd be breaking these down like this, man. I'm just trying to find interesting stats. Yeah, I just wish I knew the criteria. See, what percentage? Stop buying for time, Knowles. Let's go. I've already answered. You've already answered. What percentage of a heterosexual? Because you know the gays, they're all doing whatever. So what percentage of heterosexual single men don't want to find a lady? Correct. Highest for that going over. Young men. I said 8%. I said 32. Knowles for the win, it's 26%. Don't call it a comeback. Don't call it a comeback. I think it should just be closest. I think it should just be close. The problem is then you can have a tie. This is not the price of right. The price is right. I always argue for meritocracy here, but Michael's like, no, no, no, no, no. Meritocracy? What does that have to do with merit? That's just winning. I just can't get a. It's like we're speaking different languages on this show. It's not, we need a translator anyway. All right, I'll take my point. That's great. All right, what is the correct temperature to cook a steak? Give me the range. Stop, stop, stop. What is the temperature when it's complete? Just give me it. What's the temperature that you cook it at? Give me a temp in that range. OK, so when it's complete. You're talking about Ben. The question is what temperature is the meat? Or what temperature do you cook it on at? The meat. The meat when it's all done, you put a. Yes. Whatever thing in it. I'm so tired. What do they call it? A cooking thermometer? OK, Alisa uses that. I never use that. And then I burn my steak that way. So what is the proper? Does it give? Because look, I like. Michael's over here like a real man has his wife cook a steak for her. I don't even do the grilling. But it depends on the cut. Like a New York strip, you're going to do medium rare. A filet mignon, you're going to do rare. If you're Trump, you're going to have it burnt with ketchup. So you're saying for any steak. That's what's called a range. No, no, no, no, there is a range here. There is a range that is acceptable. And then everything else is unacceptable. And I'll give you what that range is after we answer. OK, all right, all right. I'm just throwing off that Michael uses a thermometer. Does an eyeball like a real man? No, I don't. I don't cook any of it. It's all Alisa. Because I'm actually bad at it. I only I cook to temperature. I cook to temperature. You do. Yeah, and it's so much better that it does come out much, much better when you cook to temperature. I am too lazy. But you never know what happens. You're you're whatever. Yeah, grill your oven, your big green egg. Yeah, those are so good. Nick, do you have a green egg? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I joined the cult, man. I joined. I remember first saw this thing. I'm like, why do what the heck is this? Why do I want it? And then the first time we got it started to cook with them, like, OK, I'm in the cult. I'm part of the little chats now. What's the green egg? We go from blue balls to green eggs. And I don't I don't know. Somehow it's getting even more confusing. It's a it's a lump charcoal grill that you use, but you can do everything with it. You can bake with it. It's awesome. It's awesome. This is the range. Give me your ranges here. I say it's one 10 to one 30. One 10. It's one 15 to one 25. Those are all all in the acceptable range. I'll take both of those. What did you have? It ends at 135. You just can't go 135 or it does not end at 135. Oh, the medium. You're going to accept medium. No, I'm saying medium. Medium rare temperature ends at 135. So I was like medium rare. I don't know what sort of commie came up with that. Yeah, I don't. It's 130. 135 is way too. Wait, that's sandwich meat. I don't know what kind of meat, too. Does it vary? Maybe if you're having some real, real trashy meat. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't go that high, but that was just that was the end of the threshold. OK, look, I'll take my point. The only thing I would cook at 135, and this is from survival school. This is from Sears school, which is survival, evasion, resistance, and escape. The only thing I would cook at 135 is a dead raccoon on the side of the road that's been there for at least a week. Anything else for six days? Anything else you're committing crimes against meat? Wow. All right, I feel very strongly about this. If it were Nick, if it were a dead raccoon that had been there on the side of the road for six days, would you like sous vide it or something? I feel like it's fine. Yeah, you would. Torture. You'd boil it. Yeah. You'd boil it. Yeah. Right. Well, for this next question, Michael, depending on what your day's been like, you might actually be partially the way here. What is the longest, reliably documented time that a human has stayed awake closest without going over? Yeah, I got to get my documentation in before we claim this prize. You could be halfway there right now. Yeah, there's a few people that have claimed certain Guinness records, but it's not been documented the same as the official. Consecutive, no micro-naps, no nothing. You're just up. Yeah, you have to be people watching the whole time, no micro-napping. Is this another one of those closest without going over? Yeah. Oh, yeah. OK, I'm going back to Ranger school right now. OK. All right, Michael, what do you have? I said 76 hours. I said 96. The correct answer is 11 days and 25 minutes. So Nick, pretest does take the win there. Nobody's been up for 11 days. Randy Gardner volunteered at age 19 just because. And then the University of Stanford came down and monitored him. And that was in 1964. Absolutely insane. You know, there are people. I remember. This is before energy drinks. I'm impressed. But it was after Coke, I assume. We don't know that he didn't have any help. But I remember when I was a kid, my father told me about some story about a medical condition where people can't fall asleep. They develop this condition, they can't go to sleep, and they die, basically, because you can. Yeah. They're not resting. And so I wonder if one of those guys would actually have the record. Well, that's why I saw that episode of House 2. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, again, it stopped doing this. They stopped even keeping track because they were so afraid of someone dying because most animals die after three weeks. And they thought some guy was going to go to par. Yeah. True story. In Ranger School, in Ranger School, they regulated sleep so much that you had a bunch of guys like, I will never forget one dude. We're in a patrol base at night in Mountain Phase of Ranger School. And all you hear is this ranger instructor calling out for the student. And all you hear is, here's Sergeant. Here's Sergeant. You hear clang, clang, clang, clang, clang. Here's Sergeant. Here's Sergeant. Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang. And then he gets it. And he shows up to Sergeant. And he's barely staying on his feet. And as Sergeant looks at his tie down and then picks up his rifle and hands it back to him, he had literally ran across the entire patrol base, dragging his weapon the entire way with him. You get tired. It's bad. That's bad. I've heard for a, was it a hell of a week with the SEALs? There's a certain amount of time they have to stay awake for that week. Do you know what that actually is, what they get up to? What? I don't know. I don't know if you do. I don't know. SEALs talk so much crap about what they do. Oh my gosh. Hey, you remember when Delta Force did the raid on Maduro? All of us were sitting around going, can't wait for a SEAL to write a book about it. Yeah. I heard this from a Green Beret buddy. It was just like, hey, how do you know if a guy is a Navy SEAL? You read about it in his book. I was like, oh, yeah. OK, fair enough. Well, playing his video game and watching his movie. All right, here we go. What's the score currently? Just to give us an update. I'm ahead by one or two. It's 4-2, Nick. All right. This question could change nothing. Yeah, exactly. On average, how long does it take before a man proposes in the United States after they start dating, closest to that going over? For millennials, it's like 15 years, I think. This is all across all generations. This is currently. Starting. Hold on, what do you mean it's currently? Oh, currently. This is so it's like my my epitomatic hypertension is going through the roof right now. This is across all generations. Now I think you want to go grab a cigar or something. Well, we wait to figure out what Ben wants to ask. We'll just ask each other questions, which are coherent and have obvious answers. This is like 1520 until 2026, Michael. Yeah, OK. All right. The final question is going to be, how many of these questions were completely made up on the spot and suddenly. Closest without going over 100 percent. Closest or that I win. OK, let's see. So what was what was the fifth version of this question you asked, Ben? How long does the average guy date before he proposes? I'm wondering if you think. Including like your grandpa or no. No, we're dating one girl, right? How long does he date one girl before proposing to her? OK, yeah. Before the girl gets married to. How long do they date on average? All right, I got it. Again, does this this includes like your grandpa in it or this doesn't? This includes modern day statistic. It's just dudes right now. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. The current average. Let's OK, we're back to the first version of the question. OK, got it. All right, I hope it doesn't change while I'm writing my answer down. OK, I'm looking at the correct answer. How about that? I have no confidence that whatever number is in front of you is correct. I'm going to say 22 months. What is that? I say 16. I say 16. 16. OK, the correct answer is two and a half years. Let's go. Michael wins. Let's go. All right, I take back all that trash talking. I had a question. It's getting tight, Nick. That's not right. All right, what does the term angels share refer to in whiskey production? Well, this is getting intense. Both guys thinking very hard on this one. And this is a study from 1220 until 2026, Michael. Thank you. I appreciate that. What was the institution? It's the learning institution. University of Bologna. All right, 10 seconds. I got it. Here, I'll just. Are you writing a Ben Davies question over there? Yes, it's evaporation. I said that, the part that evaporates. That is correct, gentlemen. Vaporated spirit lost during aging. All right, after installing a spare tire, what is the correct pattern for tightening the lug nuts? Is it A, clockwise in a circle? Is it B, counterclockwise? Is it C, star crisscross pattern? D, either counter or clockwise as long as you tighten one fully before moving to the next. I legit, I haven't changed a tire in 10 years or something. I did this one time with no instructions. I never was taught it growing up. And I had to do it on the side of I-75 heading to Atlanta in full traffic. And I didn't know you were supposed to put the car in park. Like, it would have the emergency brake on. So it rolled off, like, actually on the interstate, because I didn't have the emergency brake on. It was wild. You will notice that in my book, there is no chapter on car maintenance. And there's a reason for that. Yeah. I love, did you think you were like, OK, the first thing to do, I remember my dad teaching me, the first thing to do before changing a tire, turn on cruise control. And then just see. Well, see, emergency brake. I didn't know that. I always had it in park, but I didn't have the emergency brake on. Anyway, well, the first thing you do whenever you change a tire is you hurt yourself and throw something and then curse. Yes. Everybody knows that. Step one, repeat. All right, what do you got, Michael? Is it clockwise? I don't know. I got the crisscross. The correct answer is crisscross. How do you, what do you mean crisscross? How do you crisscross? You have to go opposite. It means you do this. Yeah. Oh. Because you want it to be stable. You want to be, like, balanced. Wait. I did not do that when I changed it on the inside of the interstate. Wait, you said when you tighten the nuts, you were talking about blue balls earlier, and now you're talking about tightening the nuts. I'm going to say, how do you turn it? I said you turn it clockwise. Is that how you tighten your nuts? Yeah. You're talking about how do you put them back on? Yeah. I mean, Nick understood it perfectly fine, Michael. I don't understand what. You said how do you tighten your nuts? Read that question again about tightening your nuts. I wasn't talking about righty, tiny, lefty, loosey. I want to hear the question. After installing a spare tire, what is the correct pattern for tightening the lug nut, the pattern for tightening lug nuts? Pattern. Look, I understood the aside. All right. Exactly. All right. One of us doesn't need excuses. Oh, that's so annoying. By the way, Michael and I are one in one, and game show wins. Hey, that's right. He beat me on the one he rigged, and then I beat him on the one that was fairly done. So this is the tiebreaker. Wait, so this is what the stakes on this. The stakes on the last one were the coolest gun that I will ever own in my entire life, that I almost don't want to shoot, because I just want to mount it on my wall. It's so beautiful. And then the stakes on this one are like a tweet of encouragement or something. That's all right. That's fine. I really came out ahead, I think, on these games. It's hard for some men to give compliments. I don't know how difficult this pitch is going to be for whoever loses. Number 11, what percentage of men say they never get into physical fights? Never. That they have never gotten into a physical fight, or that they never do it as a present matter? They have never. Close as a number. Interesting. They've never. Wait, wait, hold on. Oh, my goodness, great. Good night. See you guys tonight. And Nick, enjoy the rest of the show. I'll send you next week. It actually just says they never get into physical fights. So I don't know if they don't remember or whatever. It's just not. OK, well, they never. Like, I don't get into physical. I'm a 36-year-old father of 3 and 1 half. I'm not going out, getting into bar fights. But I was a child. So they never get into fight, or they never get into fights? It was a CDC behavioral risk survey. So. That in no way answers the question at all. That. People just don't get into fights. You know what? I got the answer right here. Ready? Here it is. Hold on. Before Nick. Before Nick. It's going to be. It's gay again. Gay. I'm going to walk over there and get one right now with Michael if I could just answer the question. I don't know what you're asking. Those are completely different questions. What percentage of men don't get into fights as a regular matter, or what percentage of men have never gotten into a fight, including on the fifth grade playground? Those are radically different answers. Yeah, no, I'm correct. I'm correct. It's never been in. Never been in a fight. Including you're 12 years old in middle school. OK. Never been in a fight. OK. OK. Like, I don't know. Because you may not count like you getting pushed on the, you know, the playground. I think it had to be like a real brawl for you to think about. Well, hold on. Oh, my goodness gracious. Are you? Do you count getting pushed on the playground? What is a fight? Like, what is it? That's Matt Walsh's next movie. Is that count? What is a fight? I think you got a swing. I think you need a punch for it to be a punch. I would say like landing an actual punch in someone's face would be maybe enough. Look, it's whatever that girl in fourth grade did to Michael when she took his lunch. Yeah. Whatever that word. It's called a swallowing actually. That was a legit fight. How did she end up in the boys' bathroom? I don't know. It was just right like that. OK. Close to that going over, what percent? So they've never been in this fight? 9%. I said 24% before. The correct answer is 77%. So Nick Ritzas. No, that's the pro. That must be. Never been in a fight? No chance. That must be how people don't regularly get into fights. Well, I mean, you were raised on the streets in the Bronx in New York next to AOC. A little north of you. A little. Slightly north with AOC. You know, from now on as a public service, I might just go around and start randomly hitting dudes to be like, there you go. Specifically kids at schools. I'm going to go around to the school yard and just say, kid, get over here. I remember the first time my daughter, when we home schooled for every year of her education, except for one. And it was fifth grade. And she had a girl that threatened to beat her up. And so I said, great, well, we're going to teach her how to fight. Well, the school won't let me fight. I said, I'll worry about the school. I want you to hit her until she stops moving. Yeah. That's who we trained for. I remember they, in elementary school, my mother was the Italian one. My father's English, Irish. My mother was Italian. Had that Sicilian kind of attitude. And I remember there was this big anti-bullying thing in school. And the big message was, if anyone ever hits you, you don't hit them back. You go tell the teacher whatever. And I mentioned that to my mother. And she was like, excuse me? The very first thing you do, the very first thing you do is you hit them back. Oh, OK. We all, I grew up in the generation if you don't start the fight, but you do finish it. Yes. That was the rule. That was the rule. So how old were you in your first fight, Michael? I don't know. I mean, in like first grade, I don't know. Like, I'm not saying I was like running a chain gang at Old Bedford Hills Elementary. I'm just saying kids boys fight. I don't know. Boys like punch each other and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Elementary school. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's cool. That's when they throw down, man. That's when they just get there. It's like, yeah, you take that Shelly. Yeah. Yeah. Not going to be a boys' name. All right, next question. What is the ideal humidity range in percent for storing cigars in a humidor? I know the actual answer to this. I don't know if that, if it agrees with your answer. But it gives me a range. We'll see if you fall in it. And there's the cited best according to whatever site this was. According to whatever site this is like. OK. Tell me what your personal preference is a humidor. It's not my personal preference. This is the objective answer. It's not even just my personal preference. Hold on. Does Nick have his den? I wonder if it's different than Nick's. I know Nick's got a few cigars. No, I don't. Really? I don't smoke cigars. You smoked on yes or no. You had a beautiful Mayflower cigar. No, not on yes or no. I smoked on when we presented the gun. Oh, it was the, oh, yeah. Yeah, it was the gun day. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, no, no. It was Reed Choi that smoked on. I mean, I know we look exactly alive. Yeah, I always. And he's, you know, you know what movie star you remind me a lot of. Davies was telling me this the other day. Denzel Washington, you know, it's like I can keep you guys apart. We're good. Yeah. You know what you went, Michael? You went right there because Denzel is my favorite revenge flick. Got man on fire. I we actually said this at the last game show that we did together where I said man on fire is like the perfect revenge flick because of my boy Denzel. You know, weird digression. I like Denzel Washington and I trained with the same acting teacher. And one of us had a slightly better career than the other. I won't say, I don't want to embarrass him. So I won't say which. Yeah. Okay. That's a digression. I have an answer. All right. What do you have? 69% nice. Nice. Like we have. I said whatever Nol says, but better. Because I have no idea. The correct answer is between 65 and 72%. So Michael gets the point and they say most common is 70, but 69 sounds. People say 70, 71. First of all, 69 is funnier, but also it's better. You people over humidify their cigars. It's better to go a little low than to go a little high. I like how excited are you about the proposition of us taking Cuba? Dude, I I've thought about this obviously for decades at this point. And what's going to be so magnificent, it's not even just that we get their cigars, which have been largely destroyed by the Chinese investment by communism. When I get there, nice tobacco and then I just start blending in a little bit of their tobacco, go down there, have a nice little mojito, hang on the shores of Pinar del Rio. I don't know whatever. It's going to be great. That's crazy. Oh yeah. It's crazy. It may happen in our lifetime. And speaking of lifetimes, what is the current average of life expectancy for men in the United States? Close without going over. Is this inclusive of infant death? I don't know. No, I was like, why are you laughing at infant death? What's the matter with you? It's sick. What is the average life? If you Google this, what is the average life expectancy of men in America? This will come up. What do you trust in Google? Yeah. Wow. OK. Google says, well, you mean like trans identifying men? Yeah. Yeah. It's trust Google. Google doesn't know what a man is. How can you even ask this incredible answer? I'm going to say 74. I said, oh, I said 78. Oh, Nick, moving back in the lead, 76.5. 76.5. What do you mean back in the lead? I was still in the lead. No, I think you were tied now. What was the score now? Oh, you're weighing the lead, 85, Nick. I didn't realize it was such a landslide just beat down like a guy in the middle school playground. How did we cast the host of this show? How did we cast the guy? I don't know what the scores are. I don't know what the question is. And I got all my answers from Tranny's at Google. OK. All right. OK. It helps with casting when you control the entire thing. You know? According to. I just think it seems to be hired a white guy. That just. Diversity. According to David Busse's famous 1989 study and follow-ups across 37 plus cultures, what was men's number one attribute they look for in a long term relationship? Is it A, physical attractiveness, B, being kind and understanding, C, emotional stability and maturity, or D, intelligence? This is for long term relations. I had a great dinner with David Busse and other people in Hollywood like 10 years ago. And when you said that name, it reminded me of that. I hadn't thought about that in a long time. OK. No one just has to remind us he was in Hollywood. No, I. Listen, I. You know, I hate to name. When I was acting. Yeah. You know, the only person who hates to name drop more than me is my friend, King Charles. Have you heard of it? No, I don't. I'm not. King Charles. OK, I say. Your friends with King Charles. I don't know. Only the Bonnie Prince, maybe not the not this one. Yeah. A. Attractiveness, right? I said the emotional stability. You guys are both dead wrong because it's B kind and understanding for long term relationships. For initial. For initial. Yeah, for initial interest, Michael's right. Attractiveness is still number one. And it's still. Yeah, yeah. This is still way higher in relation to where women went rink it, but it's still. Yeah, it's still not correct. Looking for emotional stability among that half of the human population. Is that that's sort of like looking for ice cubes in the Sahara? Is that I bet if it was just narrowed to like the younger generation, then just emotional stability would be like number one. But this is like we're brought. Well, no, I was thinking like when you're talking about a man looking for a woman for a long term relationship, emotional stability, which is to say not crazy. Right. There is a hot make. There is a hot crazy matrix for a reason. And I was putting emotional stability on the crazy axis. Well, then there's also it's like what should men look for and and what do men actually look for? And I bet those are different. It has changed. It was hard to find one with like enough data and enough people. This 1988, 1989 study was the most thorough. So I use that one, but it has changed. Like currently. So not one of us get a point on that. The crazy matrix is a little different now. Yeah. So neither one of us get a point on that one. Nope. So I'm still winning, Ben. I'm trying to confuse him like he doesn't know the scores. This is going to really confuse you then because number 15 is the quote big three refers to the three main compound lifts used in strength training and powerlifting. What are they? Is there a multiple choice on this? No. No, no. It's three big compound lifts. The lifts themselves. Yeah. What are the names of these three lifts? OK, I've got three the three compounds that I would. I got three compounds for this question. Carbon. What do you have? I have the H2O lift and the NACL lift and my favorite, the FULift. That's what I have. Fantastic. I have deadlift, bench, press and squat. That is correct. All three. That was my second guess. Excluding biblical accounts, Robert Wadlow is regarded as the tallest man ever recorded. How tall was Mr. Wadlow? All right. What do you have, Michael? I said eight foot six. Nick, I put nine foot eight. Michael gets the point. It is eight feet, eleven point one inches. Wow. How tall is the Kandahar giant? Nick, you would maybe know that better than. You would have been there. Is this the Nephilim we captured? Is that? Yes. He is at least a cousin of the Nephilim that we we breathe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I was I was watching the I was watching the episode actually last night. They did with Tim with Tim. Yeah. You know, the crazy thing with Tim, he will be talking for three hours and for like two hours and 15 minutes. I'm just I'm yeah, OK, I'm in. This is this checks out with my priors and my view of the world. And then he'll just come out with something so out there. I said, wait, now I have to rethink everything you've told me for the last two hours. It was a great it was a great episode. I really liked it. I don't know. I'd yeah, he is more younger, driest period stuff. I think he's the most frequent guest on that show. He's the only three P to think. Yeah. Did you did you ever come across stories about the Kandahar Giants? Yes. Yeah. Well, I heard about the one. Yeah, the one where it was like that we caught this guy in Afghanistan and he was like the Nephilim or descended in the Nephilim or yeah. Yeah, I heard something about it. I didn't serve in Afghanistan, though. But you surely have a personal for the Iraq Giants. They were like five, 11. Yeah. What are the. Yeah. Giant in Iraq. It's, you know, like the he's just like the guy at your local deli. He's like, wow, he's huge, you know. But did you OK? So when you hear these stories floating around the military of the Kandahar stuff, you don't you don't seem that convinced by them. I never heard that story until I was out and watching something randomly on YouTube. And I was like, what are these guys even talking about? Yeah, OK. And again, it was probably some Navy SEAL. Yeah, I brought off like Giants. Like, oh, yeah. That's what he really thought is I had one time behind my back. And I was just, yeah, OK. Yeah, I was fighting a giant. No, that was gonorrhea. That's what you were fighting their Navy SEAL. Like, calm down. I'm going to get letters from SEALs because of this because you're trash talking SEALs. Oh, like you think they can write. OK. They're going to have their ghost writer write it for. Ben, are you still there? Do you want to join the show? Yeah, you know, it was great. You know what SEAL stands for, right? No, no. Leap, eat and lift. That's what SEALs. No, a lot of them are in pretty good shape. Just like our the next topic here, Joey Chestnut, often regarded as one of the most dominant athletes of all time, holding 55 world records across 55 different foods. What is the world record for the most hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes by Joey Chestnut? Closest without going over. How many hot dogs did he eat in 10 minutes? It was something ridiculous. Closest without going over. In 10 minutes, I mean, I could eat like 42 and like it just sent me loose at Costco. So if you're a professional. Michael, there are so many inappropriate jokes I could make. I know I was I was holding back. And I want you to know that I am restraining myself. I am trying to be a good Christian example right now. You know, don't be a good example, how to be a man, you know, 10 minutes. Suck it up. 10 minutes. And then it's. He actually came out of retirement this past year and one again. Wow. Came out of retirement. I love that. What did you do, Grandpa? Well, I'm hanging it up. I'm hanging up my buns. OK, all right. Oh, anyway, no one's even close to Joey. Well, they regard as most dominant athlete of all time. Well, and they're all fit. That's the crazy part. Like you would think Bubba would be like dominating on these, but they don't. All right, no one's been here. Is Michael doing an equation out there? Is he drawing a hot dog? Is that what's going on right now? I'm drawn out. Yeah, I said 100. Thanks. I said 72. Well, the correct answer is 76. Goes to Nick. What a absolute just Michael Knowles in elementary school beat now. And that was that was the final score. 610, Nick. But hey, it doesn't have to be over because this is a gentleman's game and we can wager something here. Nick, you are the champion right now, but would you like to go for broke? Double or nothing? One last question to see who wins this. No, because this is no team putting together these questions. You asked a question about cigar humidity from a guy that sells cigars. Good. Suck it up with the man. Let's go. We're not going to. I highly doubt the next question is I would now like to discuss the intricacies of unconventional warfare. Yeah, that's not going to be it. I love this is really going to be some question about Thomas Aquinas. And so no, no, Michael just loses. This is Nick. This is the IQ test on this show because he does this all the time. Ben, he'll say, OK, well, now you won. But do you want to just lose for no reason at all? And half the time people say, yes, I do. Yeah, they feel obligated. I don't feel obligated. I have a certain degree of disagreeableness about myself. Yeah. I'm very comfortable with this stage in life. I was the right thing to do. That was the right. I'm so impressed. Nick, you're the very first guest that has ever not taken that bait. Great. So that's great. I mean, yeah, if I was losing, sure. If I was tied, maybe, but like, you know, I'm I've crushed this. I know how math works. Yeah, you are the Kandahar giant. Well, I'll save it for my pitch. So I got to say something nice about Nick. Yeah, you have 30 seconds. I was Michael, you have before when it comes to face off, Nick Fraidis is the Kandahar giant with double triple hyperthematic tension in his gullions. Just an absolute towering figure of brains, testosterone and general virility. And I accept my loss as being fair and square. And I'm in awe of his prowess. I also encourage people to learn how to be like Nick by getting the man book, a point by point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done. I'm sucking it up right now. I'm getting the job done by endorsing Mr. Fraidis. And the only thing that allows me to still feel masculine after this profound loss is the gun that Nick gave me, the beautiful ex-communicator. My gold Deus volt Catholic Jerusalem cross desert eagle, where, whereby, if anybody makes fun of me for losing this game, I'll blow your head off metaphorically. Well done. Yeah. Well, and I just want to say that when Michael talked about my prowess and virility, he meant that in the least gay way possible. Right. I just. Sorry. One last answer. Gay. Do you want to do the last one just because just because I already wrote it down? Just. Yeah, it's make Nick lose just. All right. Currently, what is the world record for bench press? This is not with the aid of a shirt or a lifting shirt. OK, this is the actual natural bench press world record. Follow up question. What is a lifting shirt? A lifting shirt allows certain human beings to lift more weight than any other movement in all of them, even more than squats or dead lifts at. I'm not going to give you the exact number, but it's a lot more. It's a special shirt to keep your shoulders from dislocating. And you can move like it looks ridiculous. It's not a real bench press. OK, I'm not doing kilograms because I'm an American and we got bombs. We do pounds the way got intended. Yeah. I think I know what it is. What is so no lifting shirt? No lifting shirt. This is just natural bench press. Michael was really curious because the lifting shirt would have changed my number. I'm going to say. All right. What do you have? Five hundred twelve pounds. OK, Nick. Next, I got to see that every morning. No, the natural shirtless record is seven seven eighty two point. Yes. So Michael would have actually got that. The the shirt world record is fourteen hundred pounds, which is absolutely insane. That's crazy. Yeah. OK, that's I must have been thinking about that. I wasn't making a distinction. I knew it wasn't five twelve. That's like, yeah. Yeah. No, yeah. I mean, Jim, I know I'm a spoke. I meant to say a higher number. I five twelve easy. It's totally I thought it was high. I thought it was higher that for a natural one because I was a I was looking up something the other day on what the highest female, the highest, I think female bench press is over five hundred pounds. Yeah. No, no, that's what I was thinking of because I do about seven ten. Maybe that was the shirt. Maybe that was the lifting shirt. It's got to be a lifting shirt. Well, there you have it. You haven't already go like you're cutting me off in the clothes, man. I said lifting skirt more like when it's a lady doing it. Oh, I was totally worth it. Thanks for that. Well, if you haven't already, go follow Nick at Nick J. Freetest and depending on when you watch this pre-order, get your copy of the man book of point by point guide to suck it up and getting the job done and drop a comment. Let us know who should we have on next and what topic we should tackle in the next face off. Get it. Join the 15,000 companies using Vantor to prove trust. Get started at Vantor.com slash com.