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2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In this raw and unfiltered episode, Chris Burkett dives deep into men’s mental health, modern masculinity, and the dangerous shift toward victim mentality in today’s culture. Through real conversation and article breakdowns, this video challenges the mainstream narrative around depression, personal responsibility, and what it truly means to be a man in today’s world. From the impact of social expectations on men to the growing loneliness epidemic, you’ll hear bold perspectives on why so many men feel lost, disconnected, and stuck, and what they can actually do to change it.

This episode also explores deeper topics like emotional expression between men, the power of saying “I love you,” self-mastery through stoicism, and the importance of purpose, discipline, and brotherhood. Expect conversations around organic living, food consciousness, spiritual awareness, and the connection between mind, body, and environment. If you're looking for honest truth about masculinity, personal growth, mental health, and breaking free from societal conditioning, this is a must-watch discussion.

Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only. Opinions helped by our guests may not reflect our own. But we love a good conversation.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the show, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Chris. I am the host of one of the host of this. I'm here with my friend Dead Eye. We are going to be doing some article reading today. This has been a shift from Voice of the Broken and moving into, I guess, a new evolution of what it is that we do on this channel or what I do on this channel. You don't know this yet because you just sat down. We literally just kicked everything on. I have removed Voice of the Broken from everything on this channel. It is no longer that. This is just Chris Burkett on YouTube so that I can do whatever I want to do on this channel. If we want to read emails for Voice of the Broken, we can. If I want to play video games and stream it, can. Today we're going to be
0:37.7	going over articles. We may be doing conspiracy theory shit in the future. Like, I want to be
0:41.7	able to be all-encompassing and not confined by what this started out as. So what's going on up
0:47.8	there, man? Anything new? Anything new? Since the last episode?
0:55.4	Well, no, not really.
0:57.0	No.
0:58.2	No, I, we did a really good episode of the podcast last night.
1:03.5	Yeah.
1:04.2	It's a win.
1:05.0	That's a win.
1:05.7	Yeah.
1:06.2	That was good.
1:06.8	We jumped up about 200 followers.
1:08.7	Damn.
1:09.2	Over there on the Near Death Diary podcast. From a single episode? From that and a YouTube short. Gotcha. Yeah. It's awesome. Yeah. See that you did a couple of lives to your Patreon that were about plants. Mm-hmm. And our garden is finally coming back. All of my Meringa is coming back. My chaya is coming back.
1:28.7	All of my Katuk is dead.
1:30.1	I just ordered four more Katuk plants because those were done, done.
1:35.6	A lot of the other plants that we had, like, growing on the property had taken a huge hit.
1:40.7	My Kava is still alive, which is great.
1:44.0	It's Yucca. So we get the big roots from that.
1:47.2	Um, papaya trees. I think only two of our papaya trees survived, but a lot of the leafy things that
1:52.7	we eat, all the, you know, Okinawa spinach and the longevity spinach and the onions and the ginger and
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