Macho Pod

Drew is the world’s biggest Kid Rock fan and he derailed this episode, which was supposed to be about Kid Rock’s alternative Super Bowl performance and his crazy workout video with RFK, by talking about how much Kid Rock’s early work, culminating in his Woodstock ’99 performance, kicks ass. We also talk about how the right wing’s love of AI slop videos is indicative of their larger worldview and o...

Is mankeeping a real thing? Is it just a thing that the internet made up as a way to prolong the “male loneliness crisis” discourse? Is it something that Emilie Friedlander did to Drew and Yannick to convince them to start Macho Pod? We recorded this episode over Christmas break but it feels like we recorded it 15 years ago, also I should probably tell you that mankeeping is basically what you cal...

Scott Adams was not the most extreme person we’ve covered on this podcast, but he was an important figure in the Macho Pod Extended Universe by being almost a bridge figure between the old manosphere and the new. The Dilbert guy was into “first principles”-style tech brain thinking, “just asking questions”-style racism, defending Our Boys Who Are Under Attack, taking ivermectin instead of real med...

Pop quiz hotshot, who’s the coolest guy. If you answered with any name other than Bill Ackman, you are INCORRECT. This episode is about the coolest guy in the world, who as we have established is Bill Ackman. We try to understand the mindset of the “activist investor,” why people think having a billion dollars makes them uniquely qualified to weigh in on stuff they don’t understand at all, and exa...

Yuri and Yannick were out for this episode, so Drew got to realize his dream of being an NBA podcaster with the help of harry of Nothing But Respect and ock sportello of Never Hungover . We talked about how Michael Porter Jr. and his brothers are like the Manosphere version of the Ball family, the myriad ways in which the Brooklyn Nets are the most disturbing franchise in the NBA, debate whether o...

This week we decided to do a book club about Jordan Castro’s novel Muscle Man . We were joined by our friend Chris Gayomali , a writer who edits at SSENSE and also writes the excellent Substack HEAVIES which you have to read or else you’re not allowed to listen to Macho Pod. Muscle Man is a very funny book about a college professor who’s distracted all day because he’s really hungry and imagining...

Derek Guy aka @dieworkwear is a guy named Derek who really likes to wear clothes good and also likes to dunk on guys who do not wear clothes good on X, The Everything App. A lot of the time those guys are in the Trump Administration and once Derek makes fun of the way they dress they stop being bad (haha jk). This episode is more about menswear as a phenomenon but we decided to frame it around Der...

SLIME! SLATT! CHEE! SHEESH! Young Thug is one of the best rappers of the past 25 years, the subject of a baseless show trial the existence of which is a perversion of the legal system, and also a man under siege due to mostly his own actions. As we at Macho Pod continue our quest to understand men who cannot get off the computer, we gamely try to appreciate Young Thug as a whole person. “The test...

Eminem made two really good CD’s and accidentally remade Bicycle Thieves in the form of 8 Mile , then got addicted to drugs went to rehab and reinvented himself as the technically goodest rapper alive. For this, the world has deemed him a cultural force on par with at least Elvis or somebody and now there’s a documentary about his fans called Stans which is the thing this episode is technically ab...

There are way too many dudes named Brian and/or Bryan Johnson (AC/DC guy, Liver King guy etc.) but the one we’re talking about today is the Bryan Johnson who tweets all day about the crazy science experiments he does on himself in the hopes of becoming immortal. We brought on our friend, the musician and technologist Mat Dryhurst, to talk about Johnson and his schtick. In the episode, Mat admits t...

A funny thing about Shure podcast microphones is that if you are talking into one, you automatically become an expert on whatever thing you happen to be talking about. This is important because it helps explain why we decided to talk very confidently about pro wrestling in this episode even though none of us are big pro wrestling fans. We are, however, generally familiar with Hulk Hogan, because h...

Long story short: Drew reviewed a 300-song Metallica reissue for Pitchfork and got so into it that he watched Some Kind of Monster then made Yannick and Yuri watch it too, and then demanded we all do an episode about Metallica. Turns Yuri thinks Lars Ulrich is the worst drummer in the world, and Yannick thinks Metallica is for dads. Neither of these opinions are necessarily untrue, but this did le...

I honestly don’t know how we made it to Episode 10 before we thought to do something on the Liver King. We talk about what makes a hypermasculine internet psycho benign or problematic, debate whether the Liver King is allowed to justify secretly using $11,000 worth of steroids per month for self-care reasons, and debate whether the “Liver King” character was steroid-free even if Brian Johnson was...

Maybe it’s just me but it really cheeses me out when people pronounce the word “ketamine” without the E on the end like it rhymes with the word “vitamin.” No it doesn’t. It’s drugs. Today’s episode is about the number one guy in the world who definitely pronounces it “ketamin,” his name is Elon Musk and he is your best friend. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard , and Yuri Rybak. Y...

It’s Father’s Day so we did an episode about dads. What are they? How does one become a dad? And who’s the worst dad between Elon’s dad, Anthony Kiedis’s dad, and Elvis? To help us answer these questions and more, we got our friend Elizabeth Thompson of the fantastic Tell Me About Your Father to come on the pod and educate us on all dad-related issues. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew m...

Hey this is Drew, I’m on vacation this week but it’s my job to upload the episodes so I’m gonna keep this short. This episode is about Ye fka Kanye and we talk about the super creepy interview he did with Akademiks/millennial nostalgia/mental illness/Dave Blunts/Jim Jones not being able to make a PDF/how the only guy who can bring Ye back from the brink is Dave Portnoy. That’s not all we talk abou...

Confession: I (Drew) was a very early No Jumper guest, yes we talk about it on this episode of Macho Pod no you’re not allowed to look up my No Jumper episode. Whatever, this episode is about No Jumper and its host Adam22, who is also a BMX guy/sketchy guy/porno guy/scion of New Hampshire Democratic royalty/wannabe interviewer of Chuck Schumer etc. We marvel at how Adam22 is the only person in med...

Today’s episode is about Adolescence , the only British TV show that American people have ever watched. Okay that’s clearly not true but whatever, it’s a popular TV show that people had Big Conversations about. But also, doesn’t is depict a society in which every institution (two-parent households, schools, “our lads,” etc.) is decaying before our very eyes, and the only thing holding it together...

Note: This episode starts with a six-minute piece of audio art from Yuri. It’s sick. Last time, our intrepid heroes looked back at Gamergate and how it sucked for a lot of people including Yannick who at the time worked at a website that Gamergaters were really mad at. We had so much fun that we decided to do another episode on how Gamergate came back. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, Drew M...

On today’s episode of Macho Pod, we examine one of the worst things that has ever happened on or to the internet. Big shouts out to Yannick, who was a firsthand witness to the ravages of Gamergate and did the lion’s share of the prep work for this episode. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, Drew Millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produced the episode and composed our theme music. This is a pub...

Den of Thieves is a movie-length cover of Michael Mann’s Heat , except it takes place in a fantasy version of Los Angeles where bank robberies occur every 15 seconds and mobile banking apps do not exist. Pablo Schreiber and 50 Cent play the guys who seem to do all of them? And Ice Cube’s son plays a nerd who’s helping them but is also being bullied by Gerard Butler, who plays a cop WHO DOES SHIT B...

This is the first episode of Macho Pod. It’s about Theo Von and why “adult baby” is both an effective interviewer persona and potentially a sign of deep psychological damage. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, Drew Millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produces Macho Pod and made the theme song. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...