I am a man with very many flaws. I have bad handwriting. I sweat when I am nervous. I get uncomfortable around big crowds. I am extremely gullible. The list goes on, and I won’t bore you with my shortcomings. 

Recently, I have been trying to become a better man by addressing one of my biggest flaws: I have never watched Entourage. 

Sure, like every other young male American who has lived in this decade, I have caught a couple episodes out of context, documenting Vincent Chase and the crew. It is hard to avoid such a prolific show when almost every other person I know with a Y chromosome knows the entire series backwards and forwards. But until this calendar year, I never really knew the story of the Entourage crew, like every young man should. I decided to buckle down and start from the beginning. For the first time in a long time, my friends envied me. I cannot tell you how many times the people around me told me how much they would like to be in my position. 

“I can’t believe you haven’t seen it,” they would say. “I would give anything to watch the whole series again with a completely blank slate.” 

After getting through six of the eight seasons, I get it. I finally get why people had been nagging me so long for never having seen the show. I absolutely believe every guy needs to watch Entourage. And you should not just skim through it. You need to pay close attention to every detail. You need to invest yourself in the characters and their problems. 

I have picked up many valuable lessons from Vinny and his crew. Even the lovable little Turtle, with his seemingly infinite collection of NY Yankees in almost every color, has showed me how I should be living my life. 

Every guy can see a little bit of themselves in each member of the crew. Whether it is E’s nonstop anxiety, or Drama’s blind confidence, or Vinny’s incessantly positive outlook, or Turtle’s love for laying back and doing absolutely nothing, we each have a little bit of each of the guys in us. Each of the guys in the crew represents an extreme point on a graph summarizing the characteristics of every guy. If you put them all together, you get your average guy. Some people swing way in one direction, but these four buds from Queens represent the makeup of today’s regular dude. 

You can learn a lot about a guy from knowing his favorite Entourage character. I imagine most people would ideally liken themselves to an Ari Gold, but maybe there are a couple of guys out there who have a soft spot for a guy like Ari’s humble desk attendant, Lloyd. 

My favorite character is Billy Walsh, the quirky, stubborn director of Queen’s Boulevard and Medellin. He’s a bit odd, and he has an anger problem, but I understand where he is coming from. I don’t want people messing with my work, and I have a problem being satisfied with what I produce. I don’t run around getting irrational tattoos like Billy would, but I get how he feels. 

There used to be a gaping hole in my soul. With each episode, I can feel it being filled by Vinny and the boys, and I appreciate it. To show my appreciation, I followed all the guys on Instagram. Now I feel like I am living their lives with them, which is tight. 

Now that I have regained some of my manhood by watching the show every man should watch, I have a proposition for every man in America come this June: watching the Entourage movie on opening weekend should be mandatory. It would only be fitting to the crew if their movie broke the astronomical numbers Vinny and James Cameron set with the Aquaman release.