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.