Writer, editor and creator of @starterpacksofnyc Sasha Mutchnik joins the boys to talk about high-low moisturizer combos, Bella Hadid’s haters, Wegmans's Astor Place takeover, Starter Packs of NYC’s beginnings, meme-ing Biologique Recherche, Addison Rae, applying a masters in literature to shitposts, preventative versus maintenance skincare, Lee Pace, Cultural Fan Fiction, Jeremy Allen White, putting The Bear commentary to rest, Dirt.fyi and making friends while the mics are hot. Follow Sasha an...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Writer, creative strategist and filmmaker Emily Sundberg joins the fellas to chat about Rescue Spa loyalty, making out after applying P50, tanking Oatly’s stock, going viral via the NYT’s latest “Hot Girl” story, bimbofying Web 3, the Gossip Girlification of Dimes Square, defining “the ick,” Kin Euphorics, being silenced in Paris, Gardiner’s Island, working at Meta, developing an online bit, and much, much more. Follow Emily here: https://twitter.com/Emily_Sundberg https://www.instagram.com/emil...
Aug 06, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Boys Chat. Evan and Emilio get into Canadian skincare via Margin and Everyday Chemist, penthouse parties in Soho, Dylan O’Brien, Hailey Bieber for LA mayor, the NYT’s “Investing in Real Estate as Self-Care” story, the Guardian’s “End of Ambition” piece, depression, having children, eating the peach your wife was saving, Trump’s LIV Tour appearance, what happens when she meets the friend group and you’re not the leader, jokerfied sneakers marketed specifically for short kings, Evan getting his fi...
Aug 02, 2022•52 min
This week the fellas are joined by Hawthorne co-founder Phil Wong to talk the brand’s origin story and its success in the men’s personal care market. The gang also gets into Phil’s tea tree-packed skincare routine, oo35mm, dad brands, metrosexual bonding, getting pilled by the dermatologist, Hawthorne’s scent preference quiz, whispers of the brand’s next cover boy, the everything-ification of Dimes Square, the Clando-to-Le-Dive-to-Clando-again pipeline, Bella Hadid’s Kin, singular dating in NYC,...
Jul 29, 2022•58 min
The boys talk about the latest monkeypox news, jello skin, and how to lock in moisture while drying out on accutane, all before detailing the escape story of New York’s cloutiest whippet. We also get into lip masks, collagen production, gut health, sober skin, Nathan Fielder, Brad Pitt, Hunter Biden and a few of the manosphere’s most fucked up pickup-artist theories and tests.
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Chris Black, co-host of How Long Gone and founder of Done to Death Projects, calls in from a short stint in Vegas to drop his current skincare routine while evaluating his original indie sleaze era (and its current revival) and gracing the boys with some podcaster-to-podcaster wisdom. The show also gets into Black’s aversion to digital nomadism, Brett Easton Ellis, NYC’s restaurant aesthetics, working on Margin, shaving your head, tennis, muting the haters, exercise replacing addiction, taking H...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min
The fellas welcome Soft Services co-founders Rebecca Zhou and Annie Kreighbaum to the pod to discuss all things body-care. From breaking down the most common causes of body acne to discussing their approach toward marketing to men, the DTC pioneers walk us through their products, how their solutions could be worth a billion dollars, and their unique approach to creative development and packaging. The gang also gets into Annie’s ITG era, Biologique Recherche slander, insider scoops, stashing exce...
Jul 09, 2022•1 hr 21 min
The fellas digest a puzzling NFT week before answering some listener voicemails about hotel-soap breakouts, cleansers under $25 and the hype around Biologique Recherche. The hosts also chat about SPF failure, encountering Aesop's Queer Library, Thé Noir 29, hell’s itch, silk pillowcases, Agent Natuer, The Light Cream, carcinogenic cunnilingus, alienating your audience, "Pep" Guardiola Sala, and much, much more.
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 1 min
The fellas record poolside with Jolie founders Ryan Babenzien and Arjan Singh to discuss America’s clean water problem and its effects on our skin, hair and wellbeing. But before diving deep into water, the gang unpacks the founders’ Aesop and Kevin Murphy-heavy top shelves, Tiger Balm and what they’ve been up to at Camp Jolie in Amagansett. Listen to Ryan and Arjan break down their beauty company’s skincare-inspired filtered showerhead, proactive versus reactive skin and haircare approaches, th...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min
The boys welcome comedians and podcasters Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily to step through their top shelves while reminiscing on teen acne and grading semen consistencies against those of skincare products. From revealing Arca’s skincare secrets to imagining Kamala Harris as a beauty brand, discussing dermal dick filler (once again) to soft launching a boyfriend, beefing with a goddamn TikTok teen to rounding out the episode with the greatest ...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 16 min
The fellas are BACK. Topics this week: dating advice, Long Island MDW, glizzy guzzlin’, Monkeypox, Kim Kardashian’s skincare line SKKN, penile dermal filler, Emily Weiss’s stepping down at Glossier, the girlbossification shift, Chet hanks, Avatar 2, and much, much more.
Jun 02, 2022•57 min
The boys review Starface’s unreleased SPF and discuss intō wet’s Draper-ass product copy before diving into Pete Davidson’s Met-Gala spray tan, Jack Harlow’s alleged chin implant, The Liver King, testicle tanning, and the gd state of masculinity.
May 08, 2022•52 min
The fellas kick off a new way to podcast in their first-ever on-pod facial conversation with friend of the show and downtown esthetician Gill Mils (Gill Milberg) at Kristyn Smith’s Practise© studio. In this skincare-heavy ep, Gill drops some of her hottest esthetician takes, all while giving Emilio a god-tier facial. Listen to the boys get schooled on lactic acid peels, micro-needling, fine lines, seed oils, cow secretions, vitamin-A, Korean sunscreens, NUFACE, lymphatic drainage, budget face li...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 32 min
This week’s guest is one of Instagram’s most prolific and longest standing shitposters, Bianca Perez, aka @Yung_Nihilist. Bianca walks the fellas through her routine, consisting of Soap & Glory, Neutrogena and prescribed skincare, all before the gang prays for Madonna’s filler addiction and dives into @Yung_Nihilist’s “DJ foreskin” beginnings, sigma females, memetic magic, toxic independence, shitpost lectures at Brown, chronically online doomer tics, e-girl worship, the New People’s Cinema ...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 31 min
WE'RE BACK. The boys discuss their thousand dollars worth of recently gifted skincare products before litigating male lifestyle TikTok creators, hair restoration, semen retention, New York rent, micro-plastics, Jeremy Fragrance, Evan Mock and much, much more.
Apr 07, 2022•54 min
Emilio and Evan begin the show by dredging up last month’s vibe shift discourse before reviewing a $300 moisturizer and dogging on some busted dude’s “Normie-to-Playboy” style guide. They also get into Evan’s initial Jolie reaction, rare types of haircare guys, mesotherapy, Palmetto, the right way to apply chapstick, and much, much more.
Mar 01, 2022•52 min
Hot off of sending “Love & Life #2” to print, the fellas are joined by The Drunken Canal to talk romance, dating and Valentine’s Day expectations while teasing the contents of their latest newspaper issue (which is available now). The show kicks off with the ladies giving the hosts virtual tours of their top shelves, wherein Claire introduces the boys to VaniCream and sunburn “as an accessory” and Gutes reveals her current Tatcha and Youth To The People rotation. Later, the ladies unpack the...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This week, the boys are joined by actor Ryan Simpkins to talk the flaky-skin pitfalls of kissing dudes with facial hair, the Mario Badescu in Urban Outfitters industrial complex, skincare prep for self-taping glows, leaving men gayer post-breakup, the growing excitement within horror, un-ironic love for Twilight, Ryan’s upcoming role in Please Baby Please, Brendan Fraser worship, Che Diaz in And Just Like that…, our collective memory of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, and much, much more. Follow Ryan...
Feb 05, 2022•1 hr
Friend of the pod, integrated trainer and personal coach David Wenzel joins the fellas to chat all things fitness, nutrition and wellness, as the boys aim to develop and maintain healthy habits well into 2022. The gang gets into the details of intermittent fasting, antibiotics, chicken breast-indulgent gym bros, handstand pushups, transcendental Tabata, grocery shopping essentials, veganism, infusing taste and style into fitness media, curing eye twitches and much, much more. David also breaks n...
Jan 28, 2022•56 min
The fellas kick off their first episode of 2022 with the Curator of Cringe, Leia Jospé aka @favetiktoks420, wherein they ask, “who up playing with they ring light?” The gang digs into Leia’s exclusively Biologique Recherche routine before unpacking the “unintentional art” of her disturbing TikTok curation of e-boy thirst traps, lip-syncs and perverted POV scenarios. They also get into the definition of cringe, the TikTok-to-OnlyFans pipeline, types of e-boys, working on How to with John Wilson, ...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 23 min
This week, the fellas dedicate a huge chunk of the episode to analyzing Ghislaine Maxwell’s bathroom toiletries, which comes courtesy of TrueAnon’s Liz Franczak. The boys also drop their much-anticipated review of DJ Khaled’s skincare line, Blesswell, before pondering Machine Gun Kelly’s celebrity status and how he’s able to sell out a nail polish line when neither co-host can name a single song by the artist. The duo also gets into their favorite dick print-accentuating sweatpants, Jeremy Stron...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
In this week’s episode, NYC-based actor Annie Hamilton joins the pod to talk sobriety, skincare, and starving-artist grindset. Annie shares the details of her new skincare regimen while recounting the bathrooms of hookups and boyfriends past that surprisingly include La Mer and Barbara Sturm products. She also shares her thoughts on “offline boyfriends,” social media, and why actors should embrace the appearances of aging. The gang also gets into Annie’s French movie recs, getting caked up like ...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 8 min
The fellas preview their holiday gift guide while discussing some of this week’s biggest Black Friday sales in skincare. The duo also get into pore strips, Augustinus Bader, Thanksgiving faux pas, Kris Jenner’s Pete Davidson psy-op, and much, much more. If the listeners are able to bare Emilio’s god awful microphone quality then they’ll be graced with some spicy Dewy Do’s and Dont’s to round off the ep.
Nov 25, 2021•41 min
This week, the episode docket is STACKED. Tune in as the the fellas unpack Harry Styles’s venture into the beauty market, women over 40 pitting their aging up against Kyle Rittenhouse’s mom, and the feminine urge to thirst for some average ass-looking dude on the internet. The boys also get into e-boy hairstyles, the ramifications of yassification, dad-bod discourse, Kumail Nanjiani’s PR pivot regarding his journey towards beefiness, and much, much more. Read Danya Issawi’s “Thinking Hard About ...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 2 min
This week, the boys convene for a special no-nut November look into Hims, suffering from comatose cock, and the so-called “undiagnosed epidemic of erectile dysfunction among men under 40,” which comes courtesy of Jesse Barron’s “The Soft Sell” for New York Magazine. The fellas spend the top half of the show attempting to understand the controversy surrounding the failed-to-launch skincare brand RFLCT by Youtuber and gamer Valkyrae and its blue light-shielding promises, all before diving into tel...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 14 min
56. Gary V Swallows w/ Serena Shahidi The fellas are joined by comedian, influencer, socialite and host of the infectious self-help podcast, Let Me Ruin Your Life, Serena Shahidi, aka @glamdemon2004, to talk botox, alpha male qualities, Gary Vaynerchuk’s chewing gum-swallowing philosophy, TikTok, the Winklevoss twins, her disdain for Ryan Reynolds, and much, much more. Serena kicks off the ep by dropping her First Aid Beauty-heavy routine before she and Emilio launch into discussing their though...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Wherein the fellas reconnect to air out their New York grievances and ponder their futures in a city of perpetual grindset. Emilio teases his Snake Oil review before recounting his French pharmacy trip to cop five tubes of A313 while Evan loses it over rising rent prices. The boys round off the episode by diving into the logistics and consequences of Dr. Shahab Moubian’s height-lengthening surgery — a $75,000 operation that stretches short kings’ limbs up to 5.6 inches using magnetic nails.
Oct 08, 2021•48 min
This week, the fellas chat with comedian, writer, “fishfluencer” and entrepreneuse Caroline Goldfarb aka @OfficialSeanPenn. Caroline kicks off the episode by dropping her K-beauty-heavy skincare lineup, heaping the praises of baby botox and describing how oo35mm cured what her dermatologist couldn’t. She then walks the dudes through her recent entrepreneurial venture into seafood in co-founding Fishwife, a sustainable tinned fish company, and extolling its products’ health benefits. The gang als...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Hot off their Into the Gloss #ITGTopShelfie interview, the fellas revisit the burgeoning male skincare category to discover its, uhhh, unlikely newcomers. From cunnilingus refuser DJ Khaled to the smooth brains who named their brand “Layer” backwards (Reyal), the boys unpack the silicone valley skincare sickos looking to cash in on a segment that definitely, maybe, probably doesn’t exist. The dudes also get into the resurgence of Whole Milk, the Hot Girl discourse it spurred, and what it could m...
Sep 06, 2021•32 min
The fellas visit comedian and writer Kareem Rahma and his Russian-imported Sphynx cat, Kremlin, to learn how to slow the fuck down and revel in the inconveniences of New York life. In this two-part, vibes-heavy ep, the gang goes off on bidets and asshole upkeep; C*r*l*ne C*ll*w*y's Sn*ke O*l; pedicures; preventative testosterone; Bitcoin market psychology; abstaining from monetizing hobbies; identifying with the men of Sex and the City; and much, much more. UNLOCK all of Part B by subscribing to...
Aug 25, 2021•9 min
