Josh Laura

I think like December 20th, I wrote The Year Men Broke, where I sort of tackled all of the discourse around men not reading and men not graduating and Scott Galloway and all of the articles that we've had about men.

Mm-hmm.

And I do think that with celebrities – so Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue this year, for those who don't know, every year Vanity Fair does an issue.

It's called the Hollywood issue and it's a collection of celebrities and they say this is what is important this year or in the coming year, right?

it was all men.

And I thought it was interesting.

So I did an analysis and I was looking at the careers of all of the men.

And I said, 2025 is the year of something about men that we were, we couldn't stop talking about men, but I was like, okay, it's interesting.

Jeremy Allen White, who is a character who was playing this very like sad man who has sort of risen to prominence being sad, right?

Paul Meskel, who has risen to prominence playing very sad man many times.

And I said, a lot of the men, so Riz Ahmed is,

is interesting because he is like beautiful and sad but he doesn't get the internet baby girl thing in a way that like this sort of term is reserved for like young white men yes and it is interesting how the internet sort of grapples with the idea of like the changing nature of masculinity right so I love Glenn Powell surprisingly for anyone who is a fan of me they're like really oh my god

Because Glenn Powell is innately charismatic and very interesting looking.

But he is someone who is sort of like, I am vulnerable.

I didn't hit it big until I was 35.

Like, I am very comfortable talking about failure.

I'm very comfortable being this like...

Yeah, and that's what I was saying.

It's like the marriage of this traditional mold because he is obviously like – he looks like a Hollywood star.

He looks like an action star.