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The Brett Cooper Show

Dana White Has A Hot Take On Mental Health. But is He Right?

The Brett Cooper Show

Brett Cooper

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Make mental health struggles a PROBLEM again. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2YLBDwgHHalgoBmti86plt Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brett-cooper-show/id1792925325 Join the Cooper Confidential Community to get Farm vlogs, Q&As, and ad-free episodes: https://cooperconfidential.com Silencer Shop: Make your shooting experience smarter, safer, and seriously more fun - Head to https://SilencerShop.com/Cooper Grand Canyon University: https://GCU.edu/myoffer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention all passengers.

0:04.2

The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.

0:10.5

Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.

0:17.9

Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.

0:22.6

Trains on Uber. Well, guys, you heard it here first.

0:24.6

Being part of the LGBTQ I-XY-Z community is out and being part of the ADHD,

0:31.6

Bipolar OCD anxiety depression community is in.

0:35.6

Which really, all jokes aside, does make me sad. Because

0:39.2

mental illness is a real thing. People struggle through their mental health on a daily basis.

0:44.0

But like all things in our modern culture, it has now become so widespread, so mainstream,

0:48.1

so normalized, so normalized, that now you can scroll through a 10 slide TikTok test to self-diagnose

0:54.1

and figure out if you are

0:55.5

actually bipolar. Plus, it is glamorized online. It's glamorized in TV shows like Euphoria that

1:00.2

young people are watching every single day. And so to that I say, let's remove the glamorization.

1:04.9

Make mental health struggles a problem again. Make them something that is serious, that you take

1:09.9

seriously, that you are actively working through, that, that you take seriously, that you are actively

1:11.1

working through, that you are fighting to overcome, that you are seeking solutions for, not just

1:15.5

moaning about on a podcast or in a 30 second TikTok video, and that, my friends, I think, is why

1:20.5

Dana White is saying that men should not talk about their feelings. So what made me want to do this

1:25.5

episode today was the fact that Dana White just got a

1:28.1

Time magazine cover. The majority of this cover profile was obviously about the UFC, the rise of

1:33.5

UFC's success, the upcoming fight at the White House. But he made one comment about masculinity and

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