Masculinity has become radioactive.

It’s one of the most polarizing forces in modern culture. Families fracture over it, politics feeds on it and entire online ecosystems monetize it. And no one seems to agree on what it is anymore.

If you’re a woman, you may feel fatigue from patterns that don’t seem to change. And if you’re a man, you may feel disoriented. Pulled between two extremes. Told you’re dangerous if you’re strong. Told you’re weak if you’re sensitive. Unsure whether to soften or harden.

For a moment, the phrase “toxic masculinity” felt like progress. It named real harm. But critique without construction creates a vacuum — and vacuums don’t stay empty.

When masculinity was dismantled without being rebuilt, something predictable happened. The pendulum swung back. The loudest voices reclaimed the conversation — charismatic, certain, and unapologetic. Offering simple frameworks for a complicated world.

And men of every age have been drawn in. Not because they’re villains, but because they’re searching for something solid.

So the question isn’t whether masculinity is broken. It’s whether we can define it — and live it — in a way that strengthens men, honors women, and becomes a healing force in the world.

That’s why we sat down with Terry Crews.

For more than two decades, he’s been one of the most recognizable figures in Hollywood. The star of major action franchises like The Expendables. A physique synonymous with strength. By every cultural measure, he is the prototype of the strong man.

But what makes Terry different is that he didn’t just perform masculinity. He lived its extremes. The rage, the control and the caricature of toughness.

And then — he dismantled it. Over the last decade, he’s been confronting what masculinity actually is. Because if masculinity is going to be rebuilt, it won’t be rebuilt in theory. It will be rebuilt by men who have embodied it — and are willing to offer a better story.

The cameras have followed Terry Crews for years.

This conversation is about what happened when the cameras were off.

CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 2:11 - The Kiss That Changed Everything 13:55 - “Toxic” Masculinity Is A Polarizing Term 27:17 - The Emergence of the Manosphere 48:05 - What Men Are Wrestling With 1:11:10 - Why Men Have So Much Anger 1:26:32 - When Terry Chose Not To Fight A Man 1:36:42 - The Ultimate Definition of Masculinity 1:53:26 - How Men Treat Women 2:05:41 - A Warning To The Manosphere

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Everywhere you turned in 2025, it was the same headline.

AI will replace 50% of jobs. 70% of jobs. White-collar work won’t survive the decade. If not now, then soon.

You were told your industry might disappear. Your skillset might expire. Your role might be automated. Even if you tried to brush it off, it still created a quiet kind of fear. Is my job safe? Is this overblown? Am I about to become irrelevant?

So now you wait and watch, trying to figure out what’s real and what’s hype. And you’re not alone. Everyone feels like they’re in a holding pattern — caught between a technological revolution and a narrative that may be moving faster than reality itself.

What most people don’t realize is that the same fears driving this conversation are also driving capital. Over the last five years, more than $1.8 trillion has flowed into AI.

Which raises a deeper question: are we watching the future unfold, or are we watching the most powerful hype cycle in modern history?

That’s why we sat down with Bill Gurley.

For decades, he’s been at the center of the biggest shifts in Silicon Valley — not watching from the outside, but inside the rooms where they were unfolding. As an early investor in Uber and billionaire, he built a reputation not for chasing trends, but for understanding how technology reshapes markets, labor, and incentives at their core.

In this conversation, he helps us separate what’s real from what’s exaggerated — and what it actually means for how we work going forward.

Think of this episode as a survival guide for the coming age.

Chapters 0:00 - Intro 2:17 - The Manufacturing of A.I. Fear 10:57 - The Truth About How A.I. Impacts Jobs 25:59 - Breaking Down Elon Musk’s Prediction 29:52 - Protect Your Future With This Strategy 48:38 - The Illusion of Any Job Being Safe 54:34 - Don’t Look At Other People As Competition 1:04:46 - The Unique Value Of People vs. A.I. 1:24:22 - A Final Word For The Coming Age

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For the last sixty years, psychedelics have been in exile. After the cultural fallout of the 1960s, serious research shut down. Funding evaporated, careers were quietly derailed and what had once been a legitimate scientific inquiry was pushed to the margins.

Labeled reckless, irresponsible, even dangerous.

And most of us inherited that conclusion without ever examining it. Psychedelics were party drugs— nothing more than a hallucination. A cultural mistake we took care of decades ago.

But over the last thirteen years, something shifted. Labs reopened, clinical trials restarted and peer-reviewed journals filled with data no one could ignore. Every substance went back under the microscope — psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, LSD, Ayahuasca and more.

And what researchers have found is seismic. In the coming decades, this will become one of the defining frontiers of science with implications that reach far beyond the lab.

At the center of this resurgence is Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris.

Film has the Oscars, music has the Grammys and sports has the Hall of Fame. However imperfect the comparison, in science, the closest equivalent is something called an h-index — a measure of how often a researcher’s work is cited by other scientists.

Robin’s is 95.

For context: 20 is good, 40 is outstanding, and anything above 60 is typically reserved for Nobel-level scientists.

Most researchers would dream to reach 95 by the end of a long career. Robin reached it at forty-five years old. One of the fastest rises in modern scientific history. So when it comes to the revival of psychedelic science, he hasn’t just participated— he has defined it.

And for that reason, TIME named him among the people most poised to shape the future. In today's episode, he’s here to lay out the truth, revealing why psychedelics have already changed millions of lives.

Because the fallout from this research is massive. People diagnosed with severe trauma suddenly breaking free. Treatment-resistant depression reversing course. Conditions once described as chronic, incurable and lifelong.

And that’s not the only disruptive part. In controlled studies, self-identified atheists are reporting experiences powerful enough to completely change their worldview — at rates that far exceed what we typically see inside traditional religious settings. It’s clear something big is happening, so it's time to get into it.

Chapters 0:00 - Intro 3:12 - Patient Zero 12:40 - The Explosion of Psychedelic Research 28:57 - Why Psychedelics Got A Bad Reputation 54:44 - How Psychedelics Transform The Brain 1:07:06 - Mystical Experiences & Other Dimensions 1:48:43 - The Differences Between Each Psychedelic 2:06:15 - Psychedelics On Cusp of Legalization 2:15:52 - Major Risks of Psychedelics