Macho Pod

Drew Millard, Yannick LeJacq, and Yuri Rybak
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A podcast about weird horrible guys on the internet. machopod.substack.com

  1. E19: Bill Ackman

    DEC 8

    E19: Bill Ackman

    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 examine some of the funniest L’s that Bill Ackman has taken in his quest to live up to his name, which he believes stands for “Billionaire Activist Man.” Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produces the pod and does our theme music + any and all sound collages you may hear. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 28m
  2. E18: Michael Porter Jr.| Brooklyn Nets (Feat. Harry Krinsky and Ock Sportello)

    NOV 28

    E18: Michael Porter Jr.| Brooklyn Nets (Feat. Harry Krinsky and Ock Sportello)

    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 or not sports gambling is tight, and Ock tries to figure out which Nets players voted for Cuomo (most of them). Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also does our theme music + any and all sound collages you may hear in our episodes. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 17m
  3. E17: Muscle Man (Feat. Chris Gayomali)

    NOV 14

    E17: Muscle Man (Feat. Chris Gayomali)

    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 himself on a manosphere podcast who then goes to the gym and does a woke denunciation. We talk about working out, dude-style autofiction, Tao Lin curing his own autism, etc. etc. etc. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also does our theme music + any and all sound collages you may hear in our episodes. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 15m
  4. Episode 16: Menswear (@dieworkwear diss)

    OCT 31

    Episode 16: Menswear (@dieworkwear diss)

    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 Derek because he represents a specific strain of thinking in mens’ fashion, but more importantly he likes to pop off online so maybe he’ll get mad at us and give us clout. Other topics discussed include the Cone Mills Decepticon, the ultimate collab (smoking weed x playing videogames), and how wearing clothes is and is not like posting. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also does our theme music and the sound collages you hear at the beginning of the episode. He usually produces the episodes too but he was out this week so Drew did it; all audio errors are his fault. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 11m
  5. Episode 15: Young Thug

    OCT 13

    Episode 15: Young Thug

    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 of a first-rate slime is the ability to hold uno dos cups stuffed at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Horses don’t stop they keep goin.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produced the episode, composed our theme music, and put together the sound collage you hear at the start. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 18m
  6. Episode 14: Eminem

    OCT 6

    Episode 14: Eminem

    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 about. But mainly we’re just talking about how good Eminem used to be and how much he definitely has not gone to therapy. This episode is not Eminem hagiography but does find us making fun of Eminem hagiography. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produced the episode, composed our theme music, and put together the sound collage you hear at the start. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 59m
  7. Episode 13: Bryan Johnson (Immortal Twitter Guy) feat. Mat Dryhurst (Mortal?)

    SEP 26

    Episode 13: Bryan Johnson (Immortal Twitter Guy) feat. Mat Dryhurst (Mortal?)

    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 that he’s “kind of a transhumanist,” then we talk about how everyone becomes a parody of themselves to get attention these days, consider whether it’s better to be trapped in an infinite life glitch that’s very boring or live a rich but normal-length life, plus some other stuff. Sadly Yannick’s audio cut off as he was talking about how sick it would be to get reincarnated as an octopus but the episode’s still good. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produced the episode, composed our theme music, and put together the sound collage you hear at the start. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 5m
  8. Episode 12: Hulk Hogan (R.I.P.)

    AUG 30

    Episode 12: Hulk Hogan (R.I.P.)

    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 he was one of the most famous Americans of the past 50 years, and he also got Peter Thiel’s help to sue Yannick’s old workplace so hard that it had to shut down. We talk about Hulk Hogan as a media figure, perpetual frontman for the machinations of extremely powerful men, and try to determine, once and for all, if pro wrestling is fake. Macho Pod is hosted by Yannick LeJacq, drew millard, and Yuri Rybak. Yuri also produced the episode, composed our theme music, and put together the sound collage you hear at the start. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple Podcasts and/or subscribing to us on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit machopod.substack.com

    1h 27m
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A podcast about weird horrible guys on the internet. machopod.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Drew Millard, Yannick LeJacq, and Yuri Rybak
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Drew Millard, Yannick LeJacq, and Yuri Rybak
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