Esquire’s EIC Michael Sebastian pens a great weekly newsletter, and while he touches on the incredible cover story on the legendary Denzel Washington (and by him, as it’s written by him himself), he also touches something so important here: male friendships.

“Male friendships can be built on seemingly vaporous foundations—a shared sports fandom, the recitation of lines from Wedding Crashers. Rarely do we delve into more personal matters: relationships, loss, mental health. But that doesn’t make the friendships less meaningful. We still get into the important stuff; it just might be under the cover of discussing a Wilco show we saw twenty years ago.”