Brad Gage is a TV producer, podcast host and modern masculinity advocate who runs Real Feels - conversations exploring what it means to be a man today through vulnerability, humor, and honest dialogue.
Most men in their 30s can't name two close friends they could call in a crisis. Brad Gage treats friendship like a part-time job - from organizing monthly diner gatherings to planning his 20-year high school reunion. In this conversation, he breaks down why male loneliness isn't just painful, it's dangerous, and reveals the practical systems that keep him connected across decades and cities.
Expect to learn why treating friendship as essential rather than optional changes everything, the trauma-informed roots of social success and what being prom king reveals about connection, how to organize gatherings that actually bring men together consistently, the science of rough-and-tumble play in male bonding and child development, why American culture fundamentally misunderstands the necessity of male community, practical tactics for making friends as an adult from taking classes to complimenting strangers, how male friendship directly improves your romantic relationships, why bullying is actually misexpressed play and what that means for accountability and much more...
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