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Welcome to season 3 friends. Speaking On: Dog Ownership, Posting about Sobriety, Makeshift NYC vehicles, Wanting to own fish, Envy/Desire premiere at Sovereign House, Gays talking about pop stars and Housewives, Getting into a bar scuffle.

David Odyssey stops by again to touch on the cultural influence and metaphor of Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gay hookup culture and moral consideration, Welcome to the Dollhouse and Heather Matarazzo's performance, fantasy and fashion shows, Kanye's tweets revealing a larger conversation between Jews and black people, ambiguity, transcending trauma and metamorphosis, the issue with Yanagihara's A Little Life, and of course, astrology. David's Website: https://davidodyssey.com/David's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/david_odyssey/?hl=enIffy's Patreon: https://patreon.com/theiffy

(Patreon Only Ep)Brennan gets into a lover showing him a sexting conversation with another man, grappling with unfriending a friend within a friend group, Rosalía performing at the Louis Vuitton show, and the Schiaparelli show. Link:    patreon.com/theiffy

Brennan weighs in on the George Santos (Anthony Santos, Anthony Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky....) debacle. 

Michael Sugarman is back to discuss quitting his job in fashion, being gay in Egypt, gays we like, Unter and fake raves, sperm donating and incest, transcending trauma, going to the circus, drugs and judgement, and the rest of what is in for 2023. 

Brennan gets into things we can axe in the new year, the New York Times article on offensive language,  and the Thierry Mugler exhibition at Brooklyn Museum. 

The infallible Shawn Frank pops in to discuss ego, his suicide attempt, spending time in the Woodhull psych ward, his mother's suicide, the apocalyptic Bushwick nabe, AA vs NA, being a drug addict, his parents' gaudy rich expenditures, the mentally ill Jada Pinkett Smith, Lawng Island, loving and waring with women, Spice Girls, talentless people, the apolitical approach, dating trans people, his insta battle with an untethered fan, gayness, narcissism, choosing to love and understand folk, David Foster Wallace, Tim Dillon, body positivity and diminishing fantasy. @_theiffy_www.the-iffy.com 

Solo Episode. Speaking on Azealia Banks speaking on prep use and hoe-ness. Giving some insight on the Depp Heard trial. Got tested for the hiiiiv today. 

Dan Allegretto of the Dial Dan podcast stops by to discuss New York City living and nabes, gayness, Housewives ish, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard chaos, Debra Messing's blind spot, destination weddings, Will Smith's punishment, drag queens and Ru, getting older, the pitfall that is Bushwick, podcasting, and financial distress.  

Actor and filmmaker Ryan Czerwonko stops by to discuss acting, Paglia's blind spots, Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom, radical monogamy and other relationship styles, Sebastian Meise's post WW2 gay prison flick, Great Freedom, Rihanna's best album, and the word "queer". 

As Putin invades Ukraine, I spoke with my Ukrainian friend, Taras Matora, who lives with his family in Lutsk. He breaks down the current situation in his village; the airstrike alarms, the bomb shelter he just helped build, the preparation for possible gun battle, (his friend asks him for bullets during our recording), and why he doesn't believe outside military help is the answer.  He also speaks about the importance of retaining joy and invoking a sense of normalcy. 

Solo Episode. Brennan breaks down brokedown Tulum, Mexico, and the dumb Whoopi Goldberg non-event. 

Rodney Dailey pops by to chat about moving to NYC, crowd sourcing decentralized digital platforms, wikipedia's slay, Summer Walker's saga, aesthetic vs. art, Britney's pseudo freedom, Kanye's lack of fashion, fashion's functionality vs. art as ritual, NYC's affordability, Rodney's Paglia experience, Sexual Personae, divine aesthetic in Catholicism/Black AME churches, fake fascists, and a return to religion?

Michael Sugarman pops by to weigh in on the possible 2024 ticket, 90's nostalgia, the flick Fear, Trump's missed humor, overrated irony, Growing up in NYC and where to go from here, the "F" word, waging the fake culture war, Cat people, our brilliant Secretary of Transportation, the right's campy cable genius, Kamala's fakedom, Judaism experimentation, and Raves vs. warehouse parties. 

David Odyssey from  Nylon and the Luminaries podcast stops by to discuss the gay freedom narrative, his 2018 interview with Justin Vivian Bond, Drag Race's blindspots, Paglia's genius and faults, objectivity, identity and cruising, consent, Paris Hilton as America's greatest satirist, The Simple Life, Fran Lebowitz, Wendy Williams, Larry Kramer, money and creativity, Grace Jones, the contradiction of gay celebrity, Quentin Crisp, Dan Levy, Sandra Bernhard, and point of view and freedom. 

Elliot Conrad pops by  Hotel Indigo to weigh in on Kanye West, Christ, religion, spiritual conflicts, abortion, reparations, slave built universities, Quentin Crisp, Rome, the most controversial figure, openness to possibility, homosexuality and the Bible, the thorn in Paul's side, tradition, Azealia Banks, his relationship to gay men, procreation, and the possession of spirit. 

NYC born and bred aficionado Cassandra Paras stops by to weigh in on the fraudulent Patti Smith and punk rock music, NYC it girls from Vanderbilt to Sevigny, Brennan's drug fueled Christmas Eve, who deserves the keys to the city, Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction, Fuck Boys vs Soft Boys, Epstein's hotness, fillers, and a very Happy New Year.  

Sam Kriss's article on the depletion of desire in film, queer and capitalistic intersectionality, Eyes Wide Shut as the best Christmas film ever made, viable monogamy, porn and taboo, inoffensive incest, hookup apps and mystery. 

Stephen Adubato from the Cracks in Pomo podcast stops by to discuss Ye's latest interview, love for Paglia, Azealia Bank's pandering, Donda, Lauryn Hill, universities pushing a Rittenhouse consensus, Mariah Carey's bipolar diagnosis, and clown Cuomo. 

Comedian Casey Balsham stops in to break down her broken down honeymoon, standup during covid, a messy drag queen wedding, getting hitched on the side of the road, baby making efforts, cancelly comedy, unrelatable rich comedians, and going rogue. 

Brennan's brother Austin Vickery stops by to discuss his 5-month stint in a county jail in Central Florida. Jailhouse culture includes huge penises, daybed bunkies, commissary burritos, Bubba Gump, drug smuggling, failed drug programs, America's Got Talent, backroom blowjobs, sports as king, and Drift Away. 

Isaac Haldeman, former male model and divorcee, stops by to discuss the Big D, HBO's Scenes From a Marriage, and Male Modeling. 

Iffy's Associate Editor, Domingo Cornejo's cross country trip. Corn palaces, serial killers, malls, coastal elites, abortion, religion, the middle east, the simple life, dive bars, protesters, Dave's sushi, fake rich cowboys, germanic architecture. 

A very very very very very very poignant and amazing homo review of the Netflix docu Pray Away. (And Brennan's sort of coming out sich)

Cis Gendered in the Queer Club, Bell Hooks and All About Love, Abortion in Texas

Fourth of July ain't that bad, Britney Spears' Louboutin conservatorship, Sha'Carri Richardson as a style icon.

Proof of Vaccination, John Wayne Gacy, Chrissy Teigen, NYC Mayoral Race, Wendy Williams, Faux Capitalism