Why Most Men Aren’t Toxic, The Real Mental Health Crisis Men Face Today

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

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

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This episode is a raw, unscripted deep dive into men’s mental health, toxic masculinity myths, anxiety, depression, fatherhood, money stress, and why modern mental health systems continue to miss men entirely. Using recent Psychology Today articles and peer reviewed research, the conversation breaks down what toxic masculinity actually is, how rare it truly is, and why buzzwords without clear definitions are doing more harm than good. You’ll hear real talk on why most men are not toxic, how anxiety often shows up as anger or withdrawal, and why many men feel misunderstood or dismissed by traditional therapy models.

You can expect honest commentary on male vulnerability, financial pressure, provider identity, SSRIs, plant medicine, trauma, fatherhood, and why men struggle in silence until things fall apart. This episode challenges pop psychology, questions mainstream narratives, and opens up a much needed conversation about what men actually need to heal, lead, and stay present for their families. If you care about men’s mental health, masculinity, relationships, fatherhood, purpose, or breaking generational patterns, this video will hit hard and make you think long after it ends

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.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/2-be-better--5828421/support.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	And I am back. It's just me tonight. Peaches is cooking dinner. Kids are here.
0:20.3	Carrie's here. A whole lot of
0:21.8	things are happening. I am bored. So I'm going to read articles and probably use it as content.
0:27.5	So with that being said, guys, there's going to be background noise. You're going to hear
0:29.8	cabinet. You'll probably hear kids screaming. You're probably here. I be barking. This is not
0:33.9	going to be typical content for us. This will just be some bonus stuff. So I found a website called Psychology Today
0:40.7	because IT guy, a member of our Discord,
0:43.1	posted something to Facebook,
0:45.0	and it was like 65% of men, mental health, blah, blah, blah.
0:48.5	Right?
0:48.8	I don't remember the verbatim of the thing
0:50.6	that was a week ago at this point.
0:52.8	But I wanted to actually get into some of the
0:54.5	articles on there because Peaches and I read an article on episode 13 of season four, and it was a
1:01.2	really good article. And it turns out that all the people who are submitting articles on this
1:06.2	website are, they have letters behind their names, almost all of them. I have found some that are like
1:11.2	authors, but I'm finding lots of doctorate type people writing articles on here. So it looks like a
1:18.1	pretty good site for us to read things that has, you know, real letters, like not just, you know,
1:24.7	coaching, but like actual doctorates. um i want to read some of these
1:28.9	and we'll discuss them i know that there's people in the chat i got you guys pulled up thank you for
1:32.7	being here i know it's friday i'm surprised that you guys aren't like doing something and you're
1:36.4	actually rocking with me but we're going to do the thing so this one says good news study shows
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Burkett, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Burkett and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.