You're listening to Boys Don't Cry with Russell Kane on Joe in partnership with Time to Change.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a live edition of Boys Don't Cry.

Now, this is a very special live edition. We're in partnership with Time to Change.

And Joe, of course, thank you, Joe.com, to UK.

We're talking about men and mental health tonight.

We're going to try and find some humour in it as well, because it's such a hilarious topic.

But we are going to hunt for that. There's going to be debt, revelation, sharing. Does that sound like fun?

I can see, you're not ready for my guest yet. You're going to take quite some fucking warming up.

So, why is this a subject in its own right? You know, why is it such a big thing? Men and mental

health? What's the different? Why do so many men go off the rails longer, harder, deeper and

older? Why? Now, I'm not saying that there isn't female mental health. Of course there is. We could maternity and stuff like that, post-natal depression, whole different subject. But let's face it, look at the stats, gentlemen, we go wrong, more, longer and older. Why? Girls, you do have your own shit, but girls tend to grow out. They've got one specific thing that holds them back to about the age of 25 called Attracted to Bastard Disease.

And it is horrific. It can hold them back till they're 30. Look at him. He looks like he might emotionally abuse me.

And it can hold them back for years. Do you want to buy me a drink? men in this room, listening, quite capable of being aged 40, living in a studio flat, masturbating

into a sock, birriani carton at the foot going, do you know what? I think I've lost my fucking way

here. Now, this isn't a comedy night, so I'm interested in asking, why? It's funny to observe it,

thank God, because if we don't have laughter, what do we have?

Well, I certainly wouldn't be able to pay my mortgage.

But why, gentlemen? What's different about us, apart from a few obvious, wobbly, biological differences with the same creatures?

We're all homo sapiens. What have girls got that we don't have, gentlemen?

And I'll tell you what it is. It's the reason why we're here.

Do you know what women have that men don't have gentlemen and I'll tell you what it is it's the reason why we're here do you know what women have that men don't have women have women have as simple as that they have a little network

around them you know you can pick up the phone to right now they form a protective circle around a girl

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