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🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Scott Galloway about his new book "Notes on Being a Man"; the chilling stats behind the crisis in men; how big tech companies are rewiring young men into becoming "asocial and asexual"; how algorithms, dopamine hits, endless scrolling, porn, and gaming isolate young men from genuine relationships; how smartphones and AI-driven synthetic relationships are creating a generation unable to handle rejection or build confidence; how tech addiction is similar to tobacco and opioids; why loneliness a public-health crisis engineered by profit incentives; how AI algorithms push people to political extremes through shaming and fear of social expulsion; how likes and comments manipulate behavior more than we realize; why most viral engagement is meaningless, driven by bots and outrage incentives; why the future will divide between those who escape the algorithm and those trapped by it; why you should audit your personal addictions; explains why quitting Twitter dramatically improved his mental health; why young men must learn the skill or thriving through rejection; how men can build a meaningful life despite economic anxiety; why agency still exists and victim narratives from universities only breed helplessness; how young men can reclaim 8–12 hours a week from their phones and reallocate it toward fitness, work, and real-world community; why earning money, building confidence through rejection, and meeting people offline is more important than you realize; how a frictionless digital life erodes resilience, excellence, and relationships; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Men age 20 to 30 are spending last time outdoors in prison inmates. |
| 0:03.5 | 45% of men ages 18 to 25 have never approached a woman in person to ask her out. |
| 0:09.5 | Place people used to meet mates with school, work, and friends. |
| 0:12.5 | Now it's online. |
| 0:13.5 | And when you digitize the marketplace, everyone has access to everybody. |
| 0:16.5 | And the reality is if there's 50 men on Tinder and 50 women, |
| 0:20.0 | 46 of the women will show all their attention to just four of the men, which leaves 46 men fighting over four women. |
| 0:25.4 | And it destroys a man's self-esteem. |
| 0:27.7 | The most powerful companies in the world are slowly but surely sequestering people, especially young people, especially young men, from spending time at work, school, church, or other relationships. |
| 0:37.0 | They literally add $20 to $60 billion |
| 0:40.3 | in market cap. |
| 0:42.1 | Now that DOPA is on institutional supply. |
| 0:44.5 | To the most profitable companies in the world, unfortunately, are tapping into this basic |
| 0:48.1 | thing where our instincts have not cut up to institutional production. |
| 0:51.0 | It used to be the industrial food complex. |
| 0:53.1 | Now it's tech companies tapping |
| 0:54.6 | into rage, affirmation, mating opportunities. Do you think that there was any way to not get to the |
| 1:01.8 | point with technology that we are at right now? So while boys are physically stronger, they're |
| 1:06.8 | mentally and emotionally much weaker. The decline in wealth of people under the age of 40 is striking. |
| 1:11.8 | They're 24% less wealthy than they were 40 years ago. |
| 1:14.5 | People my age are 72% wealthier than they were 40 years ago. |
| 1:18.0 | I don't get to get what anyone says. |
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