Blahcast 25: Post-American Escape Plan w/ GLO

This week I got to sit down with

GLO

, author of The Pillars of Wisdom, which I read while vacationing with my Latina wife in Miami earlier this month.

I’ll be posting a full review of it in the coming weeks for which I will save the majority of my thoughts but I will say that it was one of the best books I’ve read in the last 5 years. Part philosophy tome, part handbook, the book serves as a repository of hidden information you can access to work through contemporary issues and ancient problemz alike. While it has plenty of lessons that can help you through the long-game of life, the main reason you should read it is that it’s funny, humor being the primary vehicle for shuttling both the cold truth and subversive thoughts into your mind whether in the U.S.S.R. or the G.A.E.

As GLO says in the introduction, “A decade of experience writing for young men has demonstrated that inflammatory, sexualized speech is the most reliable delivery mechanism to reach the masturbation-addled man.” And that’s what we bring to you here.

Topics discussed:

• Halloween gym transformations: Going from fat pumpkin to slutty devil/angel

• Mark Rippetoe and Starting Strength

• Early morning celibates running up in your mentions

• Making Andres Segovia teach you guitar

• Playing rhetorical footsie with Emma Horsedick and Chandra Hardy

• Rohan Ghostwind
  ’s juxtaposition of the social graph vs. the psychograph

• Hinge dating

• Accumulating social debt and the Goofy Schmoofy Cycle

• Paying for Richard Hanania's top surgery

• Arguments are about dominance, not truth

• The fast-paced world of gym management and membership sales

• Original Jacked3d

• All jacked bald guys are the same race

• Stone Cold Steve Austin

• Girl dinner and pilates MILFs

• Anal Codex 10