This week I sat down with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist. Jack is a public intellectual and podcaster who covers film, TV, fiction, nonfiction, perfume and culture.
Topics discussed include:
Early days of The Perfume Nationalist
Alex Lee Moyer's TFW NO GF
Pull-ups
Midsommar and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Kantbot and Tekwars
Being secretly based
Hippies are the bad guys
Talking to normies
Gen X gay guys
Disappointment normies
Did Trump make it hard to maintain friendships?
Are post-Covid friendships different from pre-Covid friendships?
Bernie Sanders supporters
Sympathizing with Palestine vs. Palestine protesters
Millennial exuberance
The communism of HRC
Rush Limbaugh
Is election season bad for honesty?
Complaining about fast food restaurants
The gentle oppression of HGTV and open floor plans
Cigarette and carpets
The allure of 1960's ranch houses
AP's crazy grandmother
Jack Mason's $7m dream house
Neoliberal architecture
Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Donald Trump
Georgetown aesthetics
1990's optimism
The load-bearing column that was the buddy-cop movie
Food Network as social technology
2000's mayonnaise controversy
Are participation trophies made up?
Asset inflation
Hotel work vs. the human spirit
Narcan + tipping culture
No one ever lets you leave New York
Overly-friendly bar staff
Liberalism makes you travel to cool places that let you pollute and abuse human rights
Anthony Bourdain as the patron saint of city-in-bio girls
95 year-old Bill Maher
How feminism underrates female excellence and overrates female mediocrities
Yellowstone
Frumpy women and chadly men
Girl jeans, American Apparel, and toxic masculinity
Did piracy kill the music industry?
Autogynephilia
Do conservatives fundamentally misunderstand homosexuality?
The social costs of chastising a woman
Disenfranchisement
Are men naturally subservient to women?
Hippies are the bad guys w/ Jack Mason