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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. 

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.