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Josh Hawley's "Manhood"

🕑 Added 2025-03-31 11:47:23 +0000 UTC

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Andi Liebscher

I work as a landscaper, very heavy labour intensive work. I was digging a trench whilst listening to this episode. As per Peter's instructions I did google Josh Hawley and did laugh out loud imagining handing that man a shovel 😂

Annika Lewis

YANKEES AND MOUTHIES

Joy

I just returned to this episode again and why doesn’t Peter know that you fill a minivan up with gas

Erin Johnson

Relistening to this - love the beginning of Peter’s obsession with the village homosexual

Grace FR

An all timer for Peter. I did almost crash my car laughing

Soph Emm

“Leathery genitalia” really does craft a certain image doesn’t it

Shannon

This was amazing! Please do Good Energy next 🙏

Isabel

It is funny to me that when discussing how societies ritually construct manhood, the first example of a becoming-a-man ceremony they pulled was the bar mitzvah... when bat mitzvahs also exist and are almost identical to the male version, especially in non-orthodox communities. Like, I get why, but it's still funny to me that bar mitzvahs--essentially just a Hebrew school graduation--are the jumping off point for discussing like, adult circumcision and hunting an antelope.

Weed

hawley looks like the child of mr.hands and the horse

A.

Is Josh Hawley not just the living embodiment of Jonah from Veep?

Sarah Richardson

Or a good chunk of the straight ones are dating awesome poly guys ;)

Ernst schoen-rene

I think the connection between scarcity and definitions of manliness is interesting. In Ian M. Banks' Culture series, the civilization has nearly endless abundance. His take is, logically, that they abandon gender rules entirely, and characters are often transitioning between men and women and back again. That is inline with the section about gender roles in abundant societies that you discuss.

Kaitlyn Langley

them: “how are 34% young women single and 63% of young men single? “ lesbians: 👀

Nathan

I’m having the same issue.

Ellie

is today’s bonus ep only available to folks who subscribed through apple podcasts for some reason? I see it in the regular show feed (but can’t access it) but it isn’t here or in my bonus ep RSS in the podcast app.

unnumbered

I can't see it either :( Edit: it has appeared!

Nathan

Is anyone else’s Patreon feed not updating to see the two new episodes? I have tried and failed to troubleshoot this and don’t know where to ask for help.

david lister

I think he was overwhelmed by the sheer number of jokes he could make😂

Jake Anderson

Peter's pause after Mike mentions the dicksucking manliness ritual is so fucking funny

Jake Anderson

I believe it was one of the "worst takes" year end episode

david lister

Can anyone help 🙏 it's driving me mad.which episode did mike and Pete mention the phrase body tea .it was super funny.amyone???❤️❤️❤️

Fiddle leaf fig

Not a lesbian. Subscribe due to unfortunate Peter Shamshiri sex dream.

Frances Storey

Of course marriage is going down in the US. Throughout history, marriage was essentially a merger and acquisition, with the wife and her assets as a product portion of the transaction. Nowadays, women work full-time, manage the household, and still do more of the childcare. A good vibrator and a pet can do wonders for being single.

Jess A

He’s lowkey right about porn guys…

Laura Walker

Peter to "the Village Homosexual" is what Michael was to straight women's disappointing sex-lives in the Maintenance Phase Weight Watchers episode.

Ellis

daddy yankie

Nina VanHeeswijk

anytime i hear someone say a person can't be moral or virtuous without the bible, all i can think is that it sounds like a skill issue to me!

Noah Levin

With the amount of time Michael posts on Bluesky and how much he talks about Grindr I’d be surprised if he ever leaves the house

Spencer Mosley

The thing that stands out most to me is the “abundance” thing. Because, technically, couldn’t we be living in a time of abundance? But there is a bunch of people that need us in scarcity? Or maybe that’s the point. Idk.