The SHOCKING Truth About What Young Men Are REALLY Learning From the Internet! | Were Talking: Masculinity

We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

FlightStory

Relationships, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Paul sits down with three powerful voices - YUNGBLUD, Jordan Stephens and Big Zuu - for raw, emotional and deeply personal conversations that challenge outdated ideas of what it means to be a man. In this week's episode, We’re Talking MASCULINITY. They discuss identity, emotional repression, toxic male spaces, and what young boys are really learning from the internet. ◽️ YUNGBLUD opens up about rejecting shame, owning his masculine side, and why he worries for his 12-year-old cousin growing up online ◽️ Jordan Stephens dives into emotional literacy, homophobia, and the consequences of limiting male intimacy ◽️ Big Zuu reflects on being raised by a strong woman, embracing both feminine and masculine traits - and why young men need connection now more than ever (00:00) Intro (00:49) Yungblud on the Messaging That's Been Fed to Young Men Online (04:54) Jordan Stephens on Emotional Intelligence in Today's Men (11:47) Big Zuu's Advice for Any Men Who Are Feeling Lonely and Disconnected (17:55) Paul's Takeaways Support charities: Samaritans: https://g2ul0.app.link/qcJLJLhBjTb MIND: https://g2ul0.app.link/Ne9MpdtBjTb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to We're Talking. This week, I'm sitting down with some incredible men for what were some of my favorite conversations on the show.
0:09.4	Together, we challenge old ideas of what it means to be a man, what masculinity really looks like, and how we can support young men today.
0:18.0	Some of what you'll hear is tough. So we've included links to support charities
0:22.3	in the episode description. These conversations reminded me just how vital it is for men to have
0:27.8	safe spaces where we can be honest, show vulnerability, and lean on each other. So let's get into it.
0:35.3	Today we're talking masculinity.
0:51.1	Youngblood.
0:52.0	What is so incredibly sad is that whenever I see a violence happening with youth and it's
1:00.6	really it's a femicide, right, where you're seeing a young boy or young man taking
1:07.0	the life of a young woman, you'll find out inevitably that typically it's some type
1:12.4	of rejection that happened.
1:13.9	Yeah.
1:15.1	He was rejected.
1:16.3	She denied him.
1:17.4	She said, I'm no longer want to see you.
1:19.9	And he didn't know how to take the rejection.
1:22.6	No.
1:23.6	The hardest thing about being a young man, especially at the minute, have you not adhered to the trend,
1:28.0	you're a weirdo, you're a freak,
1:29.2	you kind of,
1:30.8	you're,
1:31.3	you're isolated.
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