of the top health podcasts in the world, the huberman lab, and author and psychoanalyst doctor james hollisgentlemen, great to see you both. >> thank you very much. pleasure to be with you. >> doctor hollis, i want to start with you because you were a guest on doctor huberman's podcast, which topped spotify's wellness chart last year. and in that episode, you discussed many of the points we'll get to today. but broadly speaking, do you think there is a crisis of masculinity as some are trying to claim, especially in the subset of young men? >> well, i think there's a crisis of how we describe masculinity. the way the vice president was speaking about it was based upon, i think, antique notions of gender, gender roles, gender identity. and underneath all of that is a kind of assumption that this comes with nature or divinity, when in fact we know that gender is a human contrivance. gender is a human construct. sexuality is natural. it's part of our physiology. but the way we've defined what a man is supposed to do, feel, or act is related to each culture, each family, each nation and each hi