Iffy

Brennan discusses the JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette series Love Story, Ryan Murphy, going to the Afters, Nowadays, Miami, his broadcasting voice, books on debt, friends hating your faith, job apps, Enzo, Duane Reade and nicotine gum, and the old romance of NYC. 

Brennan discusses being a bad godfather, fake fighting verbiage, violence as entertainment, Enzo update, hating seeing how food is food made, mania, and the dynamics of gossip. 

Brennan discusses Jeffery Self, McDonalds in the city vs suburbs, chatting in the Family Dollar, chatting with neighbors, Valentine's in Bushwhack, weird cruisers, people's faces confiscating appetite, working with a new coworker on Valentine's Day, insidious gays at dinner, and a hole competition. 

Brennan discusses nicknames, corporate women in hospitality, tote bags, truffle, mad gays on Sniffies, journalism,  and being vague. 

Brennan gets into the effects of nicotine gum, being non-apocalyptic, the tradition of off brand holidays, acting conservatories, the hell that is external speakers, and the heaven that is Family Dollar. 

Brennan gets into bodega cafes, the Grammys, NYC's business hours, snow storm review, Family Dollar disputes, Fetch's blind spot, performances with choirs, and visiting Bermuda. 

Brennan gets into his summer trip to fire island and staying at Michael Lucas' house, not preparing for an NYC storm, and cruising in gyms. 

Bren gets into a the visceral intimacy of phone calls, going to a gay sex club with Brian, chatting with a Trump couple, having to sanitize yourself before you enter a lover's apartment, and performative awe at Boiler Room djs. 

Bren gets into dying at pilates, for-profit-businesses grifting as community centers, gangsters blasting Taylor, reasons to keep a dollar on you, rodents in restaurants, sustainable restaurants, funeral and rehab fantasies, and nixing fabricated surprise on talk shows. 

Bren gets into the infamous men's 90's mall store Structure, author bios telling you where they live, Guys Gone Wild playing at a gay bar, Hasidic people's fear of dogs, political affiliation in dating app profiles, live models in mall store windows, the brilliance of GAP ads, and Abercrombie catalogs. 

Brennan gets into inhospitable hospitality, moving away, The Brutalist and The Last Showgirl, places to live, unending irony, dorm room construction, and Wendy Williams on The Breakfast Club.

Brennan gets into non-Christmas Christmas movies, the anger of gay mens' preservations of masculinity, visiting Trump Tower, UFC fighters not having health problems, the end of the step and repeat, Christmas in the big apple, and love for hispanic people. 

Dan stops by and chats with Brennan about NYC It Girls, 9/11, Housewives, Other podcasters, Girls we're leaving in 2024 or taking with us in 2025, politics, Red Scare, Chappell Roan, NYC, fighting, autism, and kind of making it. 

Brennan gets into his fight at the local bar over politics, Balenciaga's new Dr. Scholl's collab, Thanksgiving dinner on Long Island, and Wicked's incessant therapeutic press junket. 

Brennan gets into President-elect Trump, gloating in opponents' demise, Charlamagne tha god, the hot boy pivot, and Tom Homan's gayness. 

Brennan talks drug dealing, a psychological break, working the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Diddy's freak-offs, Girl Interrupted, locking people's bike to yours, and God's light. 

The vibe shift moves from hard angled neon rave brat cold aesthetic to crafty tacky diy warm lighting nautica polo lovey neighborly considerations. 

Brennan and guest Elliot Conrad get into Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?"

Brennan gets into Thora Birch, La Piscine and the cold devotion of love, Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie , Harrison Ford as a cultural cross reference and checkpoint for one's own life, pro/anti slavery debates in high school, giving Paris Hilton an infinite pass, and floating in space. 

Brennan talks about his trip to Westport for the Mars Review of Books affair and La Toya Jackson. 

Brennan gets into the ever morphing nabes of NYC, his reconciliation with longtime long lost friend Ryan, contending with your own delusions, male on male barbering, nihilism and touch, the soullessness of money-making-Manhattan, wiping things down at the gym and performance, the banality of traveling, and waiting for it to burn. 

Brennan gets into the summer Olympics, the confiscation of gayness, the luddite struggle, connection in leadership, and perhaps the dissolving of the dissident right if Trump wins. 

Brennan discusses people having passions you can't understand, his visit to the post-soviet doctor, people judging your cellphone, porn stars vs only fans stars, weird LA lingo, and the golden hour at NYC public pools. 

Elliot Conrad stops by to discuss church, acting class, Long Legs, Thora Birch, Brennan's last student female interest, and evil. 

Brennan gets into the hell hole that is downtown Brooklyn, judging ugly beautiful and beautiful ugly, Reinaldo Arenas, Christian Science Monitor's article on dissident conservatives, tourism, To Write Love On Her Arms, coddling your mental illness stigma, Christian bands, CNN flash docs, and displaced Citi bike power.