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

Summary

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

Date: April 11, 2026
Host: Ben Davies for The Daily Wire
Guests: Michael Knowles, Nick Freitas

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Episode Overview

This lively Face Off episode puts Michael Knowles and Nick Freitas head-to-head in a lighthearted, rapid-fire quiz show examining "masculinity" through trivia, friendly banter, and cultural commentary. The theme is both humorous and insightful, with discussions ranging from practical masculine skills and facts (like grilling steak and physical world records) to generational trends affecting men. The show is peppered with jokes, playful one-upmanship, and a satirical take on traditional masculine knowledge. The ultimate prize: bragging rights and a 30-second glowing endorsement from the defeated contestant.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Introduction: Setting the Stakes and Defining Masculinity

[01:10–03:12]

• Premise: Ben Davies introduces the competition: Knowles (representing old-school masculinity and tradition) versus Freitas (tactical competence and modern manliness).
• The Game: 17 questions, each answered in writing, closest (without going over) gets the point; loser must deliver a glowing pitch for the winner.
• Tongue-in-cheek humor around representing TikTok, facial hair, Roman Empire, and physical prowess.

Quote:

“They built empires, split the atom, and got so good at going to the moon, they even brought a woman this time.” – Ben Davies (01:10)

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2. First Rounds: Stereotypical "Manly" Knowledge

[03:29–07:58]

• Practical Skills:
  • What color is power steering fluid? (Answer: red; both wrong)
  • What percent of workplace deaths are men? (92%, Nick nails it, Michael: “He just wrote a book on this!”)
  • Colloquial term for "epididymal hypertension"? (Blue balls – after much confusion and joking)
  • Physical performance world records held by women? (Only 1, Nick right—running over 50km for 200 days)
• Recurring banter about question clarity and host's ambiguous wording.
• Self-deprecating jokes on traditional masculine shortcomings.

Quote:

"Men." – Michael Knowles, upon the achievements list (01:16)

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3. Cultural Trends & Social Commentary

[10:16–15:25]

• Stats on Modern Dating:
  • 26% of young single men aren’t interested in finding a partner.
  • Average time from dating to proposal: 2.5 years.
• Masculinity & Relationships:
  • Banter about modern dating, generational differences, and host's inability to clarify basic questions.
• Cooking/Grilling:
  • Proper steak temperature and grilling philosophy.
  • Nick passionately denounces cooking steak over 130°F:

    “The only thing I would cook at 135, and this is from survival school... is a dead raccoon on the side of the road that’s been there for at least a week.” – Nick Freitas (15:06)

• Lighthearted marital/cooking stereotypes (“I don’t even do the grilling, my wife does all the cooking.” — Knowles, 12:46)

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4. Endurance, Sleep, & Military Life

[15:27–18:31]

• How long can a human stay awake?
  • Record is 11 days, 25 minutes (Randy Gardner, 1964).
  • Nick recalls Ranger School sleep deprivation stories and Navy SEALs’ braggadocio.
• Military jokes and camaraderie:
  • Freitas: "Seals talk so much crap... can't wait for a SEAL to write a book about it." (18:06)
  • Knowles: "How do you know if a guy is a Navy SEAL? You read about it in his book." (18:17)

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5. Iconic Traditions, Physical Feats, and Skill Tests

[21:43–44:37]

• Auto Skills:
  • How to tighten lug nuts? (Crisscross/star pattern – Nick corrects Michael’s “clockwise.”)
  • Humorous confusion about “tightening your nuts” and blue jokes.
• Physical Confrontation:
  • Only 23% of men say they’ve ever been in a physical fight—a result both found shockingly high.
  • Anecdotes about schoolyard fights and parental advice on handling bullies:

    “You don’t start the fight, but you do finish it.” – Nick Freitas (27:57)

• Cigars and Humidity:
  • Ideal humidor range: 65–72% (Knowles adds, “69%...funnier, also better.” 30:03)
• Benchmarks of Strength:
  • The “Big Three” lifts: deadlift, bench press, squat. (Nick gets it.)
  • Tallest man (Robert Wadlow, 8.11'): Knowles closest.
  • Modern bench press record: 782.6 lbs shirtless (Nick and Michael both underestimate).
  • Joey Chestnut’s hot dog record: 76 in ten minutes (Nick wins).

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6. Masculine Preferences, Relationships, and Changing Ideals

[32:09–34:44]

• David Buss cross-cultural study: For long-term relationships, men value “kind and understanding” most—not physical attractiveness or emotional stability (as both guessed).
• Discussion on what men should look for vs. what they actually do.

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7. Results & The Final Humbling Pitch

[41:34–42:52]

• Nick wins decisively ("like a guy in the middle school playground," 40:15).
• Michael delivers a humorous, over-the-top 30 second pitch for Nick, referencing the "Kandahar Giant" and their ongoing in-joke about virility, blue balls, and guns.
• Nick: "He meant that in the least gay way possible." (42:54)

Highlighted Pitch:

“When it comes to Face Off, Nick Freitas is the Kandahar Giant with double, triple hyper thumotic tension in his gulions. Just an absolute towering figure of brains, testosterone, and general virility... The only thing that allows me to still feel masculine after this profound loss is the gun that Nick gave me... I'll blow your head off. Metaphorically.” – Michael Knowles (41:43)

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Notable Quotes & Banter

• On question ambiguity:

  "The questions require endnotes and paragraphs and disputations." – Michael Knowles (07:23)

• On tough-guy stereotypes:

  “You know what SEAL stands for, right? Sleep, eat and lift.” – Nick Freitas (38:18)

• Playful bravado:

  “You are the Kandahar Giant.” – Michael Knowles to Nick (41:34)

• On steak-doneness:

  “Anything else and you're committing crimes against meat.” – Nick Freitas (15:09)

• On fighting:

  “I grew up in the generation of, you don’t start the fight, but you do finish it.” – Nick Freitas (27:57)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:10] – Show concept & introductions
• [03:29] – First questions & format explained
• [04:39] – Highest percentage of workplace deaths
• [06:00] – “Blue balls” discussion
• [07:47] – Women and world records
• [10:18] – Modern dating stats
• [12:47] – Grilling steak: technique and temperature
• [15:27] – Fatigue and sleep records (military anecdotes)
• [21:43] – Lug nut tightening method
• [24:29] – Percent of men ever in a fight
• [27:54] – Parental/childhood fighting advice
• [30:03] – Humidity for cigars
• [31:12] – Life expectancy for men
• [32:09] – What men want in relationships (study)
• [35:35] – "Big Three" lifts
• [36:02] – Tallest man
• [38:46] – Joey Chestnut hot dog record
• [41:34] – Michael’s pitch for Nick

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Tone, Highlights, and Conclusion

The entire episode is steeped in quick wit, gentle ribbing, classic “guy” humor, and spontaneous digressions. Both Knowles and Freitas lean into and subvert masculine stereotypes—mocking both themselves and the quiz format.

• Audience Takeaway: It’s a celebration of friendly competition, an exploration of what we call "masculine" knowledge and tradition—with tongue very much in cheek. Listeners get a mix of trivia, cultural critiques, and personal anecdotes without political grandstanding.

• Standout moment: Michael’s hammy/earnest concession speech to Nick, cementing the “Face Off” as a good-natured, recurring bit.

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For more masculine banter, stats, and games, check out the next Face Off or grab Nick Freitas’ "Man Book – A Point-by-Point Guide to Sucking it Up and Getting the Job Done."

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Transcript

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[Michael Knowles]

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'm saying how do you turn it? I said you turn it clockwise.

[Nick Freitas]

Is that how you tighten your nuts?

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I mean, Nick understood it perfectly fine.

[Michael Knowles]

Help me.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

They built empires, split the atom, and got so good at going to the moon, they even brought a woman this time.

[Michael Knowles]

Men.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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. Seventeen questions. One winner. This is Face Off Masculinity.

[Michael Knowles]

Are we squaring?

[Nick Freitas]

I can't believe I'm representing TikTok. That is not true. The TikTok thing, I. I completely reject. I don't even have TikTok on my phone.

[Michael Knowles]

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.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, well, thank you very much. It was a lot of fun to write. There was a lot of. It was 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.

[Michael Knowles]

I like how what you're bringing to this is like 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 pas de bourre, sometimes a little soft shoe. And anyway, so together we're completing masculinity is what I'm saying.

[Nick Freitas]

Exactly. We now have the comprehensive version of it.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah. All right, Ben, are we up?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, you guys ready to suck it up and get started?

[Michael Knowles]

Let's suck.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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?

[Michael Knowles]

I consent. I have informed consent.

[Nick Freitas]

I'll do it.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, here we go. Question 1. What color is power steering fluid? Good luck, Michael.

[Michael Knowles]

I'm gonna get completely demolished.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, Freitas, what do you have?

[Michael Knowles]

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

[Nick Freitas]

said green me over. All right.

[Michael Knowles]

I thought blue was too easy.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is red.

[Michael Knowles]

Really? Whoa, Nick, is this all just for show? Are you secretly, like, softy or so. I don't.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Are you.

[Nick Freitas]

As soon as you. As soon as you went into, like, auto mechanics was like, I'm screwed.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah. Wow.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay.

[Michael Knowles]

All right, I'll take it. We're tied.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, here we go. Number two. What percentage of workplace deaths in the USA are men closest without going over?

[Nick Freitas]

Closest without going over?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yes. All right, Michael.

[Michael Knowles]

I usually strategize to go lower, but I'm. I feel confident enough. I'm saying 77%.

[Nick Freitas]

I said 92.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is exactly 92%. Break to us, moving ahead. Oh, man, that was a dagger. Someone's done some research for a book recently.

[Michael Knowles]

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?

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

That's true.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, here we go. Number three. What is the colloquial term for a man suffering from epididymal hypertension?

[Michael Knowles]

The word for a man or a word for the condition?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The condition.

[Michael Knowles]

See, I got it. It's like unbelievable. What I have to put up with that he doesn't. He asks questions. He asked the question. The wrong question. Then I have to try to figure

[Ben Davies (Host)]

out what he's thinking.

[Nick Freitas]

Exactly. So wait, what is for the condition, not the man?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

What is the colloquial term for a man suffering from epididymal hypertension?

[Michael Knowles]

For the man or for the thing he's suffering from?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's the thing he's suffering from.

[Michael Knowles]

So it's not the man?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's not the man. No, you wouldn't.

[Nick Freitas]

No, it's the totally different answer.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Okay, okay.

[Michael Knowles]

What I put up.

[Nick Freitas]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Michael Knowles]

You're giving me hyper didymol. Hyper epidemic tension is what you're giving me.

[Nick Freitas]

Say one more time now that I know what the question is about.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

If you're suffering from epididymal hypertension, what are you suffering from?

[Michael Knowles]

I. I am suffering from it.

[Nick Freitas]

Epididymal hypertension.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Got it.

[Nick Freitas]

I am absolutely certain.

[Michael Knowles]

You go first.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, you go first. Okay.

[Nick Freitas]

Gay. It's gay.

[Michael Knowles]

I almost don't want to show my answer because he's obviously getting the points. Is that high blood pressure?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is blue balls.

[Michael Knowles]

That's the epididymon.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

There you go.

[Nick Freitas]

So I guess it depends now, depending on the environment you're in, I could still be right.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Like back when we were a proper country and people just repressed themselves. Yeah, you're right. That the. Wow. If you said Dida Ball, I would have understood that. But you. You said Didamal. Okay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

Obviously not within the female only category.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Right. This is just. This is an absolute world record.

[Michael Knowles]

But it could be any. It could be like crocheting.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

No, that's not. That'd be a skill. This is like physical accomplishment.

[Nick Freitas]

So strength related.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah. Well, it could be long distance, it could be running, it could be swimming. Like I said, it could be any. Those kind of performance.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, okay. Okay. Some sort of physical activity help by women.

[Michael Knowles]

The questions require endnotes and paragraphs and disputations.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Just give me a closest without going over. Michael. How many?

[Michael Knowles]

What. What percentage?

[Nick Freitas]

Or how many what percentage?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

How many? Like total? Give me A number of events are held absolutely. By women.

[Nick Freitas]

Michael says zero.

[Michael Knowles]

I assume zero, right. Like nothing.

[Nick Freitas]

I said one. I was playing it close.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

So this is tricky because for years I was told, you know, long distance, swimming, certain distances, that kind of thing. Women perform better in occasionally for Absolutely. World. Apparently that's not true. They'll just find some, like, random new distance or some new canal, and they'll be the first woman to do it. And it's like, oh, the women's world record. But there is one currently, and Nick is right, there's one, 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.

[Michael Knowles]

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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yes. Consecutive days. 200 days straight of running over 50 kilometers.

[Nick Freitas]

I was thinking there was going to be some category having to do with, like, childbirthing pain thresholds or something, but, hey, I'll take it. Way to go, Candace. Way to go, Candace.

[Michael Knowles]

Good job, Candace. They're going to click that. They're going to clip that out of this show. Nick Freitas says, way to go, Candace. On the Michael Knowles show. It's going to be a political scandal.

[Nick Freitas]

Well, because the Jews forced me to. That was.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

That makes sense.

[Nick Freitas]

The only explanation, Michael. It's the only explanation.

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[Michael Knowles]

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[Michael Knowles]

All right, next one.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right. According to a 2026 Institute for Family studies report, what percentage of young men not in a romantic relationship are not interested in finding a romantic partner closest without going over? So you can't be in a relationship ra if you're not in a relationship, which what percent of those men are not interested at all in getting into one.

[Michael Knowles]

And because you said romantic partner instead of a lady, you're including the answer that Nick previously gave, which is the gays.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

No, I believe this is heterosexual.

[Michael Knowles]

This is unbelievable. How imprecise these questions are. You see what percentage?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I didn't think you'd be breaking these down like this, man. I'm just trying to, like, find interesting stats.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, yeah. I just wish I knew the criteria that you see. What percentage for time.

[Nick Freitas]

Knowles, let's go. I've already answered.

[Michael Knowles]

You've already 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?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Correct.

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Highest for that.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Going over young men.

[Michael Knowles]

I said 8%.

[Nick Freitas]

I said 32.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Knowles for the win. It's 26%. Don't call it a comeback. Don't call it a comeback.

[Nick Freitas]

I think it should just be closest. I think it should just be close.

[Michael Knowles]

The problem is, then you can have a.

[Nick Freitas]

No, wait.

[Michael Knowles]

No.

[Nick Freitas]

This is not the price of right. The price is right. This is great.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I always argue for meritocracy here, but Michael's like, no, no, no, no.

[Good Ranchers Advertiser]

Meritocracy.

[Michael Knowles]

What does that have to do with merit?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

That's just winning.

[Michael Knowles]

I just can't get. 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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right. What is the correct temperature to cook a steak? Give me, like, give me the range.

[Nick Freitas]

Stop, stop, stop. What is the temperature when it's complete? Just what's the temperature that you cook it at?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Give me a temp in that range.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay, so when it's complete, you're talking about.

[Michael Knowles]

Ben, the question. What temperature is the meat? Or what temperature do you cook it on?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

At the meat.

[Michael Knowles]

The meat. When it's all done, you put a. Whatever thing in it. I'm so tired. What do they call it? A cooking thermometer. Okay. 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.

[Nick Freitas]

Like a real man has his wife cook a steak for him.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

That's true. I don't even.

[Michael Knowles]

I don't even do the grilling.

[Nick Freitas]

But.

[Michael Knowles]

But you. 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. If you're trump, you're going to have it burnt with ketchup. So you're saying for any steak, that's

[Nick Freitas]

what's called a range. No, no, no. There is a range here. There is a range here that is acceptable, and then everything else is unacceptable. And I'll give you what that range is after we answer.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, all right, all right.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I'm just throwing off that Michael uses a thermometer and doesn't eyeball it like a real guy.

[Good Ranchers Advertiser]

No, I don't.

[Michael Knowles]

I don't cook any of it. It's all Elisa. Because I'm actually bad at it.

[Nick Freitas]

I only. I cook to temperature. I cook to temperature.

[Michael Knowles]

You do? Yeah, and it's so much better. It does come out much, much better. When you cook to temperature, I am too cooking fine.

[Nick Freitas]

You never know what happens.

[Michael Knowles]

You're.

[Nick Freitas]

Whatever. Your grill, your oven, your big green egg.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Dude, those are so good. Nick, do you have a green egg?

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I joined the cult, man.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I joined.

[Nick Freitas]

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 and started cooking with them, like, okay, I'm in the cult. I'm part of the little chats now.

[Michael Knowles]

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.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's awesome.

[Nick Freitas]

This is the range.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Give me your. Give me your ranges here.

[Michael Knowles]

I say it's 110 to 130.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

110.

[Nick Freitas]

It's 115 to 125.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Those are all. All in the acceptable range. I'll take both of those.

[Michael Knowles]

What did you have?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It ends at 135. You just can't go 135 or you're gay.

[Nick Freitas]

It does not end at 135. Oh, my. Medium. You're going to accept medium?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

No, I'm saying that's medium. Medium rare temperature ends at 135. So that was like medium rare ends at 135.

[Nick Freitas]

I don't know what sort of commie came up with that.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, I don't.

[Nick Freitas]

It's 130. 135 is way too. Wait, that's sandwich meat.

[Michael Knowles]

That's kind of weird. I don't know what kind of meat, too. Like, what? Does it vary? Maybe if you're having some real. Real trashy meat. I don't know.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't go that high. But that was just. That was the end of the threshold.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, look, I'll take my point.

[Nick Freitas]

The only. 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 135is a dead raccoon on the side of the road that's been there for at least a week.

[Michael Knowles]

What if it's been there for six days?

[Nick Freitas]

Anything. Anything else, and you're committing crimes against meat.

[Michael Knowles]

Wow.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right.

[Nick Freitas]

I feel very strongly about that.

[Michael Knowles]

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? Be like, it's fine. Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

You would Tartare. You'd boil it.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

You'd boil it. Yeah.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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?

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah. I gotta get my documentation in before we claim this prize.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

You can 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, like, the official consecutive.

[Michael Knowles]

Like, no micro naps, no nothing. You're just up.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah. You have to be People watching the whole time. No micro napping.

[Nick Freitas]

Is this another one of those closest without going over?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah.

[Michael Knowles]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay. I'm going back to ranger school right now. Okay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, Michael, what do you have?

[Michael Knowles]

I said 76 hours.

[Nick Freitas]

I said 96.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is 11 days and 25 minutes. So Nick, pretest does take the win there.

[Michael Knowles]

Nobody's been up for 11 days.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Randy Gardner volunteered at age 19. Just. Just cuz. And then the state university of Stanford came down, monitored him. And that was in 1964. Absolutely insane.

[Michael Knowles]

You know, there are people.

[Nick Freitas]

I remember this is before energy drinks. I'm impressed.

[Michael Knowles]

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't not resting. So I wonder if one of those guys would actually have the record.

[Nick Freitas]

Well, that's why I saw that episode of House too.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oh, gosh. Yeah. Guinness 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 gonna go too far. Yeah. True story.

[Nick Freitas]

In Ranger school. In Ranger school, they regulated sleep so much that you. You had a bunch of guys like, I will never forget one dude. We're in a patrol base at night in mountain faze, a ranger school, and all you hear is this Ranger instructor calling out for the student. And all you hear is, here, here's sergeant, here's Sergeant. And you hear, clang, clang, clank, clang, clang. Here's Sergeant, here's shark. Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang. And then he gets. And he shows up the sergeant, and he's like, barely staying on his feet. And his 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.

[Michael Knowles]

That's bad. That's bad.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I've heard for. Was it hell 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 like, what they get up to?

[Nick Freitas]

What?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I don't know.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, I heard this from a Green Beret buddy who was just like, hey, how do you know if a guy is a Navy seal? You read about it in his book. It's like, oh, yeah, okay, fair enough.

[Nick Freitas]

While playing his video game and watching his movie.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, here we go. What's the score currently?

[Nick Freitas]

Just to give us an update, I'm ahead by one or two.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's four. Two, Nick.

[Michael Knowles]

Wow.

[Nick Freitas]

All right.

[Michael Knowles]

This question could change nothing.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, exactly. On average, how long does it take before a man proposes in the United States after they start dating? Closest. Without going over.

[Michael Knowles]

For millennials, it's like 15 years. I think. This is across all generations. This is currently starting. Hold on, what do you mean it's currently?

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, currently.

[Michael Knowles]

This is so. It's. It's like my, my epidematic hypertension is going through the roof right now.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

This is across all generations

[Nick Freitas]

now. I think he's.

[Michael Knowles]

You want to, you want to go grab a cigar or something while we wait to figure out what Ben wants to ask us?

[Nick Freitas]

Ask each other questions which are coherent and they have obvious answer.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, this is like 15, 20 until 2026, Michael.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay.

[Nick Freitas]

All right, final question is going to be how many of these questions were completely made up on the spot and

[Michael Knowles]

suddenly closest without going over 100%. Closest without. I win. Okay, let's see. So what was the fifth version of this question you asked Ben?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

How long does the average guy date before he proposes?

[Michael Knowles]

I'm wondering if you think including like your grandpa or.

[Nick Freitas]

No, no, including only dating one girl. Right. How long does he date one girl before proposing to her?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Okay, yeah. Before the girl he gets married to, how long do they date on average?

[Michael Knowles]

All right, I got again. Does this. This includes like your grandpa in it or this doesn't. This includes only like modern day statistic.

[Nick Freitas]

It's just dudes right now.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, I mean, what's.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, we're back to the first version of the question. Okay, got it.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right.

[Michael Knowles]

I hope it doesn't change while I'm writing my answer down.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I'm looking at the correct answer. How about that?

[Michael Knowles]

I have no confidence that whatever number is in front of you is correct. I'm gonna say 22 months.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

What is that?

[Nick Freitas]

I say 16. I say 16.

[Michael Knowles]

16. Okay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is two and a half years, so I believe Michael wins.

[Michael Knowles]

Let's go. All right, I take back all that trash talking I had about your question.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's getting tight, Nick.

[Nick Freitas]

That's nuts.

[Michael Knowles]

All Right.

[Nick Freitas]

All right.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

What does the term angel's 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.

[Michael Knowles]

I appreciate that. What was the institution?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's a learning institution.

[Michael Knowles]

University of bologna.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, 10 seconds.

[Michael Knowles]

I got it.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, here, I'll just.

[Michael Knowles]

Are you writing a Ben Davies question over there?

[Nick Freitas]

Yes. Evaporation.

[Michael Knowles]

I said that the part that evaporates.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, that is correct, gentlemen. Evaporated 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.

[Michael Knowles]

I legit. I haven't changed a tire in 10 years or something.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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 I75 heading to Atlanta, full traffic. And I didn't know you were supposed to put the car in park, like, with the emergency brake on. So it rolled off, like, actually on the interstate because I didn't have the emergency brake on. It was. It was wild. The crazy.

[Nick Freitas]

You will notice that in my book, there is no chapter on car maintenance. And there's a reason.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah. I love. Did you. Did you think you were, like, okay, 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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Well, it's the emergency brake. I didn't know that. I always had it in park, but I had the emergency brake on anyway.

[Nick Freitas]

Well, the first thing you do whenever you change a tire is you hurt yourself and throw something and then curse. Everybody knows this.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Step one, repeat. All right, what do you got, Michael?

[Michael Knowles]

Clockwise? I don't know.

[Nick Freitas]

I got the crisscross.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is crisscross.

[Michael Knowles]

How do you. What do you mean, crisscross? How do you crisscross?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

You have to go opposite. It means you do this. Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, you want it to be stable. You want to be, like, balanced.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Wait, I did not do that when I changed it on this side of the interstate.

[Michael Knowles]

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'm gonna say, how do you turn it? I said you turn it clockwise.

[Nick Freitas]

Is that how you tighten your nuts?

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah. You mean you're talking about how do you put them back on?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, I mean, Nick understood it perfectly fine. Michael, I don't understand what you said.

[Michael Knowles]

How do you tighten your nut? Read that question again about tightening your nuts.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I wasn't talking about righty tighty tight. Read that question again.

[Michael Knowles]

I wanna hear the question.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

After installing a spare tire, what is the correct pattern for tightening the lug nut? The pattern for tightening lug nuts.

[Michael Knowles]

Pattern.

[Nick Freitas]

Look, I understood. I understood the assignment, all right?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

One of us doesn't need excuses.

[Michael Knowles]

Oh, that's so annoying.

[Nick Freitas]

By the way, Michael and I are one and one and game show like wins.

[Michael Knowles]

Hey, that's right.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

Wait, so hold on. 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. All right, that's fine. I really came out ahead, I think on these games.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

That they have never gotten into a physical fight or that they never do it as a present matter.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

They have never close without going.

[Michael Knowles]

Never. Interesting. They've never.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Wait, wait, hold on. That's.

[Michael Knowles]

Oh my goodness. Great. Good night.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

See you guys.

[Michael Knowles]

Good night. Hey, Nick. Enjoy the rest of the show. I'll send you a message.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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 okay.

[Michael Knowles]

Well, they never like I don't get into physics. I'm a 36 year old father of three and a half. I'm not, you know, I'm not like going out getting into bar fights, but

[Nick Freitas]

I never been in a fight or they never get into fights.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It was a CDC behavioral risk survey.

[Michael Knowles]

So that in no way answers the question at all that

[Ben Davies (Host)]

people just don't get advice.

[Nick Freitas]

You know what? I. I got the answer right here.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Ready?

[Nick Freitas]

Here it is.

[Michael Knowles]

Hold on, hold on. Before Nick. Before Nick.

[Nick Freitas]

It's got to be again.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yay. I'm about to walk over there and get one right now with Michael. But it just answer the question.

[Michael Knowles]

I don't know what you guys 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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, no, I'm correct. I'm correct. It's never been in.

[Michael Knowles]

Just never been in a fight. Including. You're 12 years old in middle school.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Okay.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, never been in a fight.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Okay, okay, like, I don't know, because you may not count like you getting pushed on the, you know, the playground. It had to be like a real brawl for you to.

[Michael Knowles]

Well, hold on.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Do you.

[Michael Knowles]

Oh, my goodness gracious. Are you. Do you count getting pushed on the playground?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

What is a fight? Like, what is it?

[Michael Knowles]

That's a net.

[Nick Freitas]

Matt Walsh's move.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Does that count?

[Michael Knowles]

What is a fight? I think you got a swing. I think you need a punch for it to be a fight.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, I would say, like landing an actual punch in someone's face would be maybe enough.

[Nick Freitas]

Look, it's whatever that girl in fourth grade did to Michael when she took his lunch. Yeah, whatever that was. It's called a legit fight.

[Michael Knowles]

How did she end up in the boys bathroom? I don't know, but it was just right like that.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Okay, close. Without going over, what percent say they've never been in physical fight?

[Michael Knowles]

9%.

[Nick Freitas]

I said 24%.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is 77%. So no, no, that.

[Nick Freitas]

Bro, 7% of dudes have never been in a fight.

[Michael Knowles]

No chance. That must be. How many people don't regularly get into fights?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Well, I mean, you were raised on the streets in the Bronx in New York next to aoc, so who knows how many.

[Michael Knowles]

A little slightly north with aoc.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

Specifically kids at schools. I'm going to go around to the schoolyard and just say, kid, get over here.

[Nick Freitas]

I remember the first time my daughter, when we homeschooled for every year of her education except for one, and it was fifth grade and she had a girl that like threatened to beat her up. And so I said, great, well, I'm just going to. We're going to teach her how to fight. Yeah, 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 what we trained for.

[Michael Knowles]

I remember they in elementary school, my mother was the Italian one. My, my father's English. Irish. My mother was Italian. Had that Sicilian kind of, you know, 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 him back. Oh, okay. All right.

[Nick Freitas]

I grew up in the generation of, you don't start the fight, but you do finish it.

[Michael Knowles]

Yes.

[Nick Freitas]

That was the rule. That was the rule.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

So how old were you in your first fight, Michael?

[Nick Freitas]

I don't know.

[Michael Knowles]

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, like, kids, boys fight. I don't know. Boys, like, punch each other and stuff. Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Elementary school.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

That's when they throw down, man.

[Michael Knowles]

That's when they get there. It's like. It's like, yeah, you take that, Shelly.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Michael Knowles]

Not gonna be a poison.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, next question. What is the ideal humidity range and percent for storing cigars in a humidor?

[Michael Knowles]

I. I know the actual answer to this. I don't know if that. If. If it agrees with your answer, but

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

According to whatever site this is like, so.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oh, tell me what your personal preference is as a human or.

[Michael Knowles]

It's not my personal preference. This is the objective. The objective answer. It's not even just my personal preference. Hold on. Does Nick have his down?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I wonder if it's different than Nick, because I know Nick's got a few cigars. No, I don't really.

[Nick Freitas]

I don't smoke cigars.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

You smoked on yes or no. You had a beautiful Mayflower cigar.

[Nick Freitas]

No, not on yes or no. I smoked on. When we. When we presented the gun.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oh, it was the.

[Michael Knowles]

Oh, yeah, it was the gun, dad.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

That's true. Yeah. No, it was.

[Nick Freitas]

It was Reed Choi that smoked on. I mean, I know we look exactly alike.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, I always.

[Nick Freitas]

And he's, you know.

[Michael Knowles]

You know, Nick, who You really. 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't keep you guys apart.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

We're good.

[Nick Freitas]

You know what? You win, Michael. You win right there. Cause Denzel is my favorite, favorite revenge flick Got, man.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

On Fire.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

You know, weird digression.

[Nick Freitas]

I look like him.

[Michael Knowles]

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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, what do you have?

[Michael Knowles]

69%. Nice.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Nice. Nick, what do you have?

[Nick Freitas]

I said whatever Knowles says, but better. Cause I have no idea.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

The correct answer is between 65 and 72%. So Michael gets the point. And they say Most common is 70, but 69 sounds.

[Michael Knowles]

People say 70. 71. First of all, 69 is funnier, but also it's better people over humidify their cigars. It's better to go a little low than to go a little high.

[Nick Freitas]

Like, how excited are you about the proposition of us taking Cuba?

[Michael Knowles]

Dude, I've thought about this, obviously for decades at this point. And what's gonna 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 their nice tobacco and then I just start blending in a

[Good Ranchers Advertiser]

little bit of their tobacco, go down

[Michael Knowles]

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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, it's crazy. Oh, yeah, it's crazy. It may happen in our lifetime. And speaking of lifetimes, what is the current average life expectancy for men in the United States? Close. Without going over.

[Michael Knowles]

Is this inclusive of infant death?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I don't know. Noel's like, why are you laughing at infant death?

[Nick Freitas]

What's the matter with you?

[Michael Knowles]

It's sick.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

What is the average life. If you Google this, what is the average life expectancy of infant men in America? This will come up.

[Michael Knowles]

What?

[Nick Freitas]

You're trusting Google?

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Wow.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay.

[Nick Freitas]

Google says. Well, you mean like trans identifying men?

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, yeah, let's trust Google.

[Nick Freitas]

Google doesn't know what a man is. How can you even ask a question? I'm going to say 74.

[Michael Knowles]

I said oh. I said 78.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oh, Nick moving back in the lead, 76.5. 76.5.

[Nick Freitas]

What do you mean back in the lead? I was still in the lead.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

No, I think you were tied. Now, what was this? What's the score now? Oh, you're way in the lead. 85. Nick. I didn't realize it was such a landslide. Just beat down like a guy in the middle school playground.

[Michael Knowles]

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 trannies at Google. Okay, got it. All right. Okay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It helps with casting when you control the entire thing. You know, according to. I just think it's nice that you

[Nick Freitas]

hired a white guy that just.

[Michael Knowles]

Diversity.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah. According to David Buss 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 relationship.

[Michael Knowles]

I had a great dinner with David Buss 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. Okay.

[Nick Freitas]

Knowles just has to remind us he was in Hollywood.

[Michael Knowles]

No, I, listen, I, you know, I

[Nick Freitas]

hate to name drop when I was acting.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah. You know the only person who hates to name drop more than me is my friend King Charles. Have you heard of him? No, I don't. I'm not friends with King Charles. Okay. I say.

[Nick Freitas]

Wait, you're friends with King Charles?

[Michael Knowles]

I don't know. Only the Bonnie Prince maybe. Not this one. A attractiveness.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Right.

[Nick Freitas]

I said the emotional stability.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

You guys are both dead wrong. Cause it's be kind and understanding for long term relationships. Yeah. For initial interest. Michael's right. Attractiveness is still number one. And it's still attractiveness is still way higher in relation to where women rank it. But it's still. Yeah, it's still not correct.

[Michael Knowles]

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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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 broad.

[Nick Freitas]

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 crazy matrix for a reason. And I was putting emotional stability on the crazy axis.

[Michael Knowles]

Well then. And there's also. It's like what should men look for and what do men actually look for? And I bet those are different.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It has changed. It was hard to Find one with, like, enough data and enough people. This 1989 study was the most thorough, so I used that one. But has changed, like, currently.

[Nick Freitas]

So neither one of us get a point on that.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Crazy matrix is a little different now.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, so neither one of us get a point on that one.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Nope.

[Michael Knowles]

So I'm still winning. Ben. I'm trying to confuse him. Like, he doesn't know the scores. I don't.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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?

[Michael Knowles]

Is there a multiple choice on this? No, no, no. There's three big compound lifts.

[Nick Freitas]

The lifts themselves.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah. What are the names of these three lifts?

[Nick Freitas]

No.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, I've got the three compounds that I would have three compounds for this list.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oxygen, carbon. What do you have?

[Michael Knowles]

I have the H2O lift and the NaCl lift and my favorite, the FU lift. That's what fantastic.

[Nick Freitas]

I have deadlift, bench press and squat.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

That is correct. All three.

[Michael Knowles]

That was my second guess.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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?

[Michael Knowles]

I said eight foot six, Nick.

[Nick Freitas]

I put nine foot eight.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Michael gets the point. It is eight feet, 11.1 inches.

[Michael Knowles]

Wow. How tall is the Kandahar Giant, Nick? You would maybe know that better than

[Ben Davies (Host)]

not have been there.

[Nick Freitas]

Is this the, Is this the Nephilim we captured? Is that.

[Michael Knowles]

Yes. He's at least a cousin of the Nephilim that we. We breathe.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I was, I was watching the, I was watching the episode actually last night they did with Tim.

[Michael Knowles]

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. Yeah, okay, I'm in. This is, this checks out with my priors and my view, and then he'll just come out with something so out there I say, wait, now I have to rethink everything you've told me for the last two hours.

[Nick Freitas]

It was a great, it was a great episode. I really liked it. I, I, Yeah, he is more younger Dryas period stuff.

[Michael Knowles]

I think he's the most frequent guest on that show. He's the only three beat, I think. Yeah. Did you, did you ever come across stories about the Kandahar giants?

[Nick Freitas]

Yes. Yeah. Well, I heard about the one. Yeah. The one where it was like that we cop this guy in Afghanistan and he was like the Nephilim or descendant of the Nephilim or. Yeah, yeah, I heard something about it. I didn't serve in Afghanistan, though. But you surely settled for the Iraq Giants. They were like 5 11.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, what are the giant in Iraq? You know, like the. He's just like the guy at your local deli. He's like, wow, he's huge.

[Nick Freitas]

You know?

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, so. But when you hear these stories floating around the military of the Kandahar stuff, you don't. You don't seem that convinced by them.

[Nick Freitas]

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?

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, okay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

And.

[Nick Freitas]

And again, it was probably some Navy seal. Yeah, I brought off like three giants. Like, oh, yeah, that's what he really fought.

[Michael Knowles]

I had one arm tied behind my

[Nick Freitas]

back and I was just.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, okay.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, I. I was fighting a G. No, that was gonorrhea. That's what you were fighting there. Navy SEAL. Like, calm down.

[Michael Knowles]

I'm going to get letters from SEALs because of this. Because you're trash talking SEALs.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, like, you think they can write?

[Michael Knowles]

Okay,

[Ben Davies (Host)]

they're going to have their ghost

[Nick Freitas]

writer write it for

[Michael Knowles]

Ben. Are you still there? Do you want to rejoin the show or not?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

You know, it was great because I love you.

[Nick Freitas]

You know what SEAL stands for, right?

[Michael Knowles]

No, no.

[Nick Freitas]

Leap, eat and lift. That's what SEAL stands for.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, a lot of them are in pretty good shape. Just like 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?

[Nick Freitas]

It was something ridiculous.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Close.

[Michael Knowles]

Without going over in 10 minutes. I mean, I could eat like 5, 42 and like, it just set me loose at Costco. So if you're a professional.

[Nick Freitas]

Michael, there are so many inappropriate jokes I could make.

[Michael Knowles]

I know I was holding back.

[Nick Freitas]

And I want you to know that I am restraining myself. I am trying to be a good Christian example right now.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Gotta be a good example how to be a man, you know?

[Michael Knowles]

10 minutes.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Suck it up.

[Michael Knowles]

10 minutes.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

10 minutes. He actually came out of retirement this past year and won again.

[Michael Knowles]

Wow.

[Nick Freitas]

Came out of retirement. I love that. What did you do, Grandpa?

[Michael Knowles]

Well, I'm hanging it up. I'm hanging up my buns. Okay, all right. I don't know the whole.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Anyway, no one's even close to Joey. That's why they regard it as the most dominant Athlete of all time.

[Michael Knowles]

Well.

[Nick Freitas]

And they're all thin. That's the crazy part. Like, you would think Bubba would be, like, dominating in these, but they don't.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, Knowles, what do you have?

[Nick Freitas]

Is Michael doing an equation out there? Is he drawing a hot dog? Is that what's going on right now?

[Michael Knowles]

I'm drawing a hot dog. Yeah. I said 106.

[Nick Freitas]

I said 72.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oh. The correct answer is 76 goes to Nick. What a absolute. Just Michael Knowles in elementary school beat down. That was bad. What's the final score? 6 10. Nick.

[Nick Freitas]

6.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

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.

[Nick Freitas]

No, because this is Noel's team putting together these questions. You asked a question about cigar humidity from a guy that sells cigars.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Suck it up and be a man. Let's go.

[Nick Freitas]

We're not going to. I highly doubt. The next question is. I would now like to discuss the intricacies of unconventional warfare. That's not going to be it.

[Michael Knowles]

I love.

[Nick Freitas]

This is really going to be some question about Thomas Aquinas. And so, no, no, Michael just loses.

[Michael Knowles]

This is Nick. This is the IQ test on this show. Because he does this all the time. Ben. He'll say, okay, 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.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Michael Knowles]

That was the right thing to do.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I'm so. I'm so impressed, Nick. You're the very first guest that has ever not taken that bait.

[Michael Knowles]

Right.

[Nick Freitas]

So, yeah, if I was a losing, sure. If I was tied, maybe, but, like, you know, I'm. I've crushed this. I know how math works. Yeah.

[Michael Knowles]

You are the Kandahar Giant. Well, hold on. I'll save it for my pitch. So I got to say something nice about Nick.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah. You have 30 seconds.

[Michael Knowles]

All right, let's go.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Michael, you have the floor.

[Michael Knowles]

When it comes to Face Off, Nick Freitas is the Kandahar Giant with double, triple hyper thumotic tension in his gulions. 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. Freitas. And the only thing that allows me to still feel masculine after this profound loss is the gun that Nick gave me. The beautiful excommunicator. My gold Deus Volt, Catholic Jerusalem cross, Desert Eagle, whereby if anybody makes fun of me for losing this game, I'll blow your head off. Metaphorically.

[Nick Freitas]

Well done.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, well done.

[Nick Freitas]

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.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I just.

[Michael Knowles]

Sorry, one last answer. Gay.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Do you want to do the last one just cause. Just because I already wrote it down.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, sure. Let's make Nick lose just in case.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Currently, what is the world record for bench press? This is not with the aid of a shirt or a lifting shirt. Okay. This is the actual natural bench press world record.

[Michael Knowles]

Follow up question. What is a lifting shirt?

[Ben Davies (Host)]

A lifting shirt allows certain human beings to lift more weight than any other movement in all. Even more than squats or deadlifts. 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.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay.

[Nick Freitas]

I'm not doing kilograms because I'm an American and we got bombs. We do pounds the way God intended. I think I know what it is.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

What is.

[Michael Knowles]

So no lifting shirt.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

No lifting shirt. This is shirtless bench press.

[Nick Freitas]

Michael was really curious because the lifting shirt would.

[Michael Knowles]

That would have changed my number. I'm gonna say.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

All right, what do you have?

[Michael Knowles]

£512.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Okay, Nick. Nick's like, I do that every morning. No, the natural shirtless record is 7.782.6. So Michael would have actually got that. The. The shirt world record is 1400 pounds, which is absolutely insane.

[Michael Knowles]

That's crazy.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Okay, that's. I must have been thinking about that. I wasn't making a single. I knew it wasn't 5:12. That's like.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

No guys in my gym that did 5 12.

[Michael Knowles]

I misspoke. I meant to say a higher number.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I.

[Michael Knowles]

512 is easy.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

I thought it was.

[Nick Freitas]

I thought it was higher that For a natural one, because I was. I was looking up something the other day on what the highest female the highest. I think female bench press is over £500.

[Michael Knowles]

Yeah, no, that's what I was thinking of because I do about 7:10.

[Nick Freitas]

Maybe that was the shirt. Maybe that was the lifting shirt.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

It's got to be a lifting shirt. Well, there you have it. If you haven't already. Michael, you're cutting me off in the clothes, man.

[Michael Knowles]

I said lifting skirt. More like when it's a lady doing it.

[Ben Davies (Host)]

Oh, that was totally worth it. Thanks for that. Well, if you haven't already, go follow Nick@nickjfretas. And depending on when you watch this pre order, get your copy of the Man Book, a point by point guide to sucking 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.

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[Nick Freitas]

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