Sydney Sweeney
Added 2024-03-14 01:28:00 +0000 UTCThe gang somehow got sidetracked for basically the whole show on Sydney Sweeney. Brief discussion of my new publication NLRB Edge at the end.
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Liz just naming busty celebrities for five minutes is an All Time The Bruenigs Moment
Kevin C
2024-03-17 23:11:49 +0000 UTCI short circuited and had to Google what Adam Driver looks like because I kept picturing Adrian Brody
Joey Trimboli
2024-03-17 01:16:42 +0000 UTCInteresting I find skinnydriver equally hot
Molly McC.
2024-03-16 22:15:35 +0000 UTCGood point
Molly McC.
2024-03-16 22:15:13 +0000 UTCi could beat the shit out of adrian brody. adam driver is built like a fucking fridge. he has his skinny moments, which suck, but when he's actually bulked up and carrying some body fat, he's close to ideal.
The Bruenigs
2024-03-16 20:39:35 +0000 UTCis being a short gal maga-coded? because we appear dominable? or simply because tall goes with willowy and short goes with buxom?
Sarah
2024-03-16 18:07:07 +0000 UTCguy pretty like a girl, etc
Sarah
2024-03-16 17:54:12 +0000 UTCi can definitely hang with that sort in a painterly way but not husband material due to lack of upper body strength
Sarah
2024-03-16 17:54:02 +0000 UTCin the face yeah but adam driver could throw me across a room and adrian brody looks like he would weep if i asked him too
Sarah
2024-03-16 17:52:10 +0000 UTCExactly my thoughts!
luke buckmaster
2024-03-16 12:03:54 +0000 UTCOn the Adrian Brody vs Adam driver convo. I’m so confused because they are the same type. I mean the exact same
Molly McC.
2024-03-15 18:23:18 +0000 UTCSince it came up explicitly: yep: this ep went off. Great. They’re all great, sure. But this ep, specifically, was conspicuous and that conspicuousness was meaningfully to do with its being great. Thanks.
M
2024-03-15 17:16:17 +0000 UTCLike Liz I too am disgusted that I have to feel newly (even more so than before) like a potential terrorist target because the U.S. has gone so hard for Israel. We’ve legitimized their argument that Gazans voted for Hamas and therefore they’re also Hamas or whatever, so basically endorsing the mirrored position that we all voted for our string of shitty governments and therefore are ourselves legitimate targets. It’s pretty infuriating.
Joey Trimboli
2024-03-15 16:36:16 +0000 UTCsee! hentai is all about the huge tits!
The Bruenigs
2024-03-15 16:12:07 +0000 UTCWeird how the right wing always finds a way to say "my thing isn't allowed to exist unless the other thing is completely excused from public life"
Stinky Pete
2024-03-15 15:56:19 +0000 UTCIt brings me great pleasure to add this to the conversation: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2023-year-in-review
Andy in Iowa
2024-03-15 15:38:21 +0000 UTCLoved Liz's observation that the tiddy provokes such strong feeling men assume it must *~*MEAN*~* something. From Helen of Troy to frat guys in bar parking lots. Thus has it ever been.
KMB24
2024-03-15 12:43:43 +0000 UTCHas Matt ever considered going for the Business Cowboy look? Like a sport coat, no tie, boots, and a cowboy hat.
Tim Masterson
2024-03-15 07:27:26 +0000 UTCI unironically love how everyone thinks they can own their political enemies by talking about Sidney Sweeney’s chest.
Kyle Stokinger
2024-03-14 23:02:27 +0000 UTCWould love to hear matt’s thoughts on the menswear twitter guy given the fashion discussion in this ep. I feel they have a shared ethos re: posting, but… radically different values re: clothing
Ryan Reynolds
2024-03-14 21:27:06 +0000 UTC‘It’s all wins as long as the tock keeps ticking’ is the best parenting advice I’ve ever heard.
Alyssa Noth
2024-03-14 20:50:13 +0000 UTCthank you so much for the clarification <3
Deimy Chavez
2024-03-14 20:36:11 +0000 UTCEnjoyed the chat about attraction, though it's very depressing how all these ultimately low-stakes differences in aesthetic taste get instantly coded as political preferences. High school clique-ass approach to politics. As Comrade Matt has written, "Let a thousand flowers bloom."
Josh B
2024-03-14 20:25:22 +0000 UTCSeconded!
Christian Hunt
2024-03-14 19:56:53 +0000 UTCI was just arguing there are /good reasons/ to cover suicide (i.e., the coverage of suicides of trans kids) that the media already accepts, and therefore the attempted media blackout on bushnell on the grounds that coverage would encourage suicide is disingenuous. Matt argued that there's a difference between covering suicide and glorifying suicide, and I argued it doesn't matter if suicide coverage is glorifying suicide or not, it still has a contagion effect. (I appear to be correct: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m575) But that doesn't mean the media shouldn't cover it when there are good reasons to cover it, imho. That was the substance of the argument.
The Bruenigs
2024-03-14 18:33:56 +0000 UTCRe: Liz’s highly relatable yet distinct tastes in men and women, “I love the dialectic”
Sarah Camino
2024-03-14 18:29:53 +0000 UTCMatt, if your brain ever gets into that rut state again, where it doesn't have something to focus that big brain on, a reminder that you once suggested doing a series on the functional workings of the USSR. It would not be any kind of common socialist take on what was good or bad about the USSR, but just the working of it. How are resources allocated at each level of bureaucratic structure from ore extraction to machine tools to consumer items to housing to food, etc. I will also remind you that if you do this, I'm willing to pay a lot extra for it, either create a new tier, or sell it in its own. This is information I've collected over time, so I have some of it, but I need it all run through the Matt brain and then regurgitated.
JohnG
2024-03-14 17:46:32 +0000 UTCLove the Liz, Lilith Crane, pod voice. I want to be able to buy audiobooks in that voice. It's soothing. It's professional. It sounds authoritative and knowledgeable. Hearing that customer service, please a man, voice, makes me want to jump out a window.
JohnG
2024-03-14 17:33:49 +0000 UTCRe: suit chat, contemporary suit fashion is horrid for reasons Matt hits at, they're too tight. Ready to wear suits are too tight to wear but bigger guys can absolutely wear suits. You'd just need it to be tailored.
Christian Hunt
2024-03-14 16:43:20 +0000 UTCDisappointed there was almost an hour on Sidney Sweeney but no discussion of the meta commentary that boobs are conservative and ass is socialist
Jacob Stevens
2024-03-14 16:41:33 +0000 UTChttps://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/news/julia-foxs-revealing-look-turns-heads-at-2024-oscars-party/
Anthony Reiner
2024-03-14 14:59:30 +0000 UTCNo mention of pre-lib Sanna Marin as an ex-crush? Curious how/if the American mind handles European hotness.
Charles Sapienza
2024-03-14 14:16:13 +0000 UTCI'm a Sydney Sweeney child teeth truther now
KMB24
2024-03-14 13:43:02 +0000 UTCSolidarity to all us talls on the left. A political grouping historically dominating by dwarfs. Whenever there's an SNL discourse, I'm totally lost because I have never seen an episode.
Christian Hunt
2024-03-14 13:21:11 +0000 UTCPause.
Christian Hunt
2024-03-14 13:19:02 +0000 UTCLiz should read Bad City by Paul Pringle. A really entertaining true tale of a super-smart professor totally destroyed by horniness (tbh it's darker than that, but then again, these cases almost always are). Also a great heroic journalist vs. corrupt establishment-type story
Otto Laakso
2024-03-14 11:55:00 +0000 UTCTrying to imagine Matt in 7 inch inseam shorts lol
Orb
2024-03-14 11:49:49 +0000 UTCLiz's argument, mostly rejected by Matt, was that the claim that we shouldn't talk about the self-immolation because we should never talk about suicide because it will cause people to do it is hard to take seriously because we already talk about suicide a lot, e.g. there are articles about trans suicides all the time and nobody objects really.
The Bruenigs
2024-03-14 11:35:54 +0000 UTCRe: the suicide contagion discussion, a college of less than 5000 students in Wisconsin had 4 suicides in less than 2 months this past fall, and some public health officials at the school have suggested the contagion explanation https://www.wpr.org/education/higher-education/uw-river-falls-grappling-with-four-student-deaths-in-two-months
Orb
2024-03-14 11:20:35 +0000 UTC"Eva Mendes, as far as I can recall, has big tits" perfect, no notes
Otto Laakso
2024-03-14 11:00:36 +0000 UTCWe need to get Tunisia a robust welfare state stat ... in order for Matt to learn where it is (and how it is not Lebanon)
Norman X. Picklestein
2024-03-14 10:23:50 +0000 UTCOn the topic of “types”, I work a job that involves brushing shoulders with tech/Silicon Valley guys and there’s an inside joke that enjoys bipartisan popularity with my fellow zoomers that sates u can tell right wing from left wing dudes based on “physiognomy checks”. So the story goes, right wing dudes are more jacked with bigger pecs/shoulders and forearm girth is considered a “dead giveaway” whereas left wing dudes are more skinny fat wid curly jewfros. The new, hot zoomers in tech (that Marc Andreessen has been lovin’ on) are the “El Segundo boys”, they’re explicitly Christian as well as very right wing(they like 2 be edgy) and alotta them are built like the models on the covers of dark romance novels.
Azmarino
2024-03-14 10:20:26 +0000 UTCI'm with Liz, I don't know who likes those Brodies.
TS + KL
2024-03-14 09:26:28 +0000 UTCShocking that Mr Bruenig doesn’t wear linen shorts from osklen as a shout out to the ancient loincloth!
Azmarino
2024-03-14 09:02:44 +0000 UTCtfw your bruenig bill went from $5 to $13/mo and you’re not even mad about it
Michael Hoogenakker
2024-03-14 07:07:32 +0000 UTC“It’s like a ‘loh—kí- -repuhlsive’” beg.@~1:10:40 or so be an the utmost truth. +Respect —“ done signed y’all up “
K J
2024-03-14 05:09:02 +0000 UTCwasn't sure what matt + liz were getting at with the trans kids comment? is the idea behind it that trans kid suicide is inflated in the media/used as blackmail for pro-trans reasons, and thus its bs that people responded to that immolation by being Concerned about the media talking about suicide (I know the first part is a claim other commentators like singal have made)? no hate at all, was just confused as to what the claim was
Deimy Chavez
2024-03-14 04:36:11 +0000 UTCNo wonder his reddit history had him getting all bent out of shape over stuff like fatphobia
Caitlin Still
2024-03-14 04:33:09 +0000 UTCrip to a cool person
The Bruenigs
2024-03-14 02:07:07 +0000 UTCIt ain’t much but it’s honest work meme but it’s just Liz being sus
Jack Brownfield
2024-03-14 02:04:29 +0000 UTCSince trans kids and Aaron Bushnell came up in conjunction I will say that there's some evidence Bushnell was trans-adjacent. The self-immolation was streamed under the name 'LillyAnarKitty', lilly is a popular chosen name for trans women and the trans anarchist cat girl is a Contrapoints stock character. They also found Bushnell's reddit account was active in some trans subreddits, and posted 'One Day I hope to be like you' in response to an air force service member coming out as trans.
Surna
2024-03-14 01:57:10 +0000 UTCCan you get me her number?
NYCM&AHole
2024-03-14 01:53:04 +0000 UTCOverall she seems cool. Though I was wondering "who is this for?" when she did that music video with The Rolling Stones.
Nick Cee
2024-03-14 01:40:32 +0000 UTCApropos of nothing, my brother worked on Euphoria and said she was by far the most well-adjusted, nicest cast member.
TC
2024-03-14 01:33:03 +0000 UTCSydney's Sweeneys
TC
2024-03-14 01:31:15 +0000 UTCA controversial topic but it’s a conversation that needs to be had. Looking forward to listening
Tyler Sambucci
2024-03-14 01:31:04 +0000 UTC
