Iffy

Brennan gets into congestion pricing, his recent trip to the Met with Hamburger Helpless, NYC's health code grades, Dali's Crucifixion, AOC, capitalist verbiage, and "bleach blonde bad built butch body." 

Re-releasing this episode w/ Nicholas Jakola and Glenn Belverio (Glennda Orgasm) We discuss Glenn's wildly popular 90's Manhattan Cable Access show "Glennda and Friends".  We get into the neoliberal sentiment of Drag Race and Ru, his close friendship with Camille Paglia, gay 90s NYC activism, porn then and now, neoliberal parents, his time with Bruce LaBruce and Alexis Arquette...

Brennan gets into his recent trip to Florida. 

Eric Doce of the Hamburger Helpless podcast stops by to discuss, aesthetic vs substance, Stormy Daniels and Melania Trump, Hegel and Kierkegard, performative traveling, retired election shirts, Gregg Araki, Johnathon Schaech, To Wong Foo, gayness abundance in hiding, Russell Brand's baptism, and suspending belief in 90's teen comedies. 

Brennan gets into doing your own chores, high school social dynamics and popularity (now vs then), the film Jawbreaker, bad kids at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, clothes made in different countries, comedians covertly testing their material out on you, people ironically referencing 9/11, and investing in a laundromat. 

Stephen Adubato from Cracks in Pomo stops by to weigh in on free speech, Catholicism vs Pentecostalism, Cornel West and his campaign, Coleman Hughes, Slavoj Žižek and Christian atheism, Mariah Carey, idealism, Universities as corporations, and God.  Stephen curates the Cracks in Pomo publication.  He has been published in Newsweek, The New York Times, Nylon, Daily Beast, COMPACT Magazine, and Firs...

Brennan weighs in on the Columbia University protests, Courtney Love, a stalker, migrant fashion, being the "first of" anything, and that boy in Tulum. 

Brennan finally gets around to discussing his trip to Ukraine. 

Brennan gets into Palm Beach prices, Bret Easton Ellis adaptations, companies that benefited from the Holocaust, The Diddy debacle, Kardashian's health insurance, and the ridiculousness of intimacy coordinators. 

Brennan gets into when it's necessary to be a Karen, hot guys lacking dining aesthetics, the country music influx, gym/spa etiquette, solid nail beds, celebrity endorsements, Kat Williams, and a wasted 15 minutes of fame. 

Eric Dolce from the Hamburger Helpless Podcast stops by to discuss growing up in NYC and the city as it stands now, the Where in the World is Wendy Williams documentary, and using Tina.  *In the second half of this episode Brennan and Eric discuss using Tina and it is paywalled.  Available on Iffy's Patreon.  Iffy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theiffy Eric's Instagram: @hamburger.help...

Brennan weighs in southern masculinity vs northern masculinity, the dark world of advertising, light beers, the bizarre relationship that is Kelly Cutrone and Anna Delvey, hating Chelsea Handler, and the religion of psychoanalysis. 

Brennan talks about BPD (not ironically), the irrelevancy of step and repeats and limousines, seeing Cornel West speak, and the gay polaroid aesthetic. 

Welcome to season 3 friends.  Speaking On: Dog Ownership, Posting about Sobriety, Makeshift NYC vehicles, Wanting to own fish, Envy/Desire premiere at Sovereign House, Gays talking about pop stars and Housewives, Getting into a bar scuffle.

David Odyssey stops by again to touch on the cultural influence and metaphor of Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gay hookup culture and moral consideration, Welcome to the Dollhouse and Heather Matarazzo's performance, fantasy and fashion shows, Kanye's tweets revealing a larger conversation between Jews and black people, ambiguity, transcending trauma and metamorphosis, the issue wi...

(Patreon Only Ep) Brennan gets into a lover showing him a sexting conversation with another man, grappling with unfriending a friend within a friend group, Rosalía performing at the Louis Vuitton show, and the Schiaparelli show.  Link:    patreon.com/theiffy

Brennan weighs in on the George Santos (Anthony Santos, Anthony Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky....) debacle. 

Michael Sugarman is back to discuss quitting his job in fashion, being gay in Egypt, gays we like, Unter and fake raves, sperm donating and incest, transcending trauma, going to the circus, drugs and judgement, and the rest of what is in for 2023. 

Brennan gets into things we can axe in the new year, the New York Times article on offensive language ,  and the Thierry Mugler exhibition at Brooklyn Museum. 

The infallible Shawn Frank pops in to discuss ego, his suicide attempt, spending time in the Woodhull psych ward, his mother's suicide, the apocalyptic Bushwick nabe, AA vs NA, being a drug addict, his parents' gaudy rich expenditures, the mentally ill Jada Pinkett Smith, Lawng Island, loving and waring with women, Spice Girls, talentless people, the apolitical approach, dating trans peo...

Solo Episode. Speaking on Azealia Banks speaking on prep use and hoe-ness. Giving some insight on the Depp Heard trial. Got tested for the hiiiiv today. 

Dan Allegretto of the Dial Dan podcast stops by to discuss New York City living and nabes, gayness, Housewives ish, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard chaos, Debra Messing's blind spot, destination weddings, Will Smith's punishment, drag queens and Ru, getting older, the pitfall that is Bushwick, podcasting, and financial distress.  

Actor and filmmaker Ryan Czerwonko stops by to discuss acting, Paglia's blind spots, Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom , radical monogamy and other relationship styles, Sebastian Meise's post WW2 gay prison flick, Great Freedom , Rihanna's best album, and the word "queer". 

As Putin invades Ukraine, I spoke with my Ukrainian friend, Taras Matora, who lives with his family in Lutsk. He breaks down the current situation in his village; the airstrike alarms, the bomb shelter he just helped build, the preparation for possible gun battle, (his friend asks him for bullets during our recording), and why he doesn't believe outside military help is the answer.  He also s...

Solo Episode. Brennan breaks down brokedown Tulum, Mexico, and the dumb Whoopi Goldberg non-event.