In this episode, Anthony is joined by Michael Pezzullo. Michael is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in gay men’s mental health. His YouTube channel Therapy for Gay Men has over 18k subscribers and counting.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Anthony and Michael explore body image and self-worth in gay spaces, whether "the scene" actually exists or is mostly a projection, and what really drives the fracture within the LGBTQ+ umbrella. They discuss conversion therapy, social contagion, false consciousness, and much more!

The boys also pull apart some of the most pressing, and avoided, questions facing gay men today. Why do so many gay men give up on love? Should you wait until you're "ready" to date? What actually makes a relationship work?

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Is Iran really trying to build a nuclear bomb? Why is the strait of Hormuz so important? What are some realistic best-case scenarios for this conflict?

In this episode Clay is joined by returning guest Alex DeVitry. to try and make sense of these questions and more.

Alex is a student at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where he is studying international conflict resolution, foreign policy and diplomacy, and the Middle East. He also writes a Substack that is well worth reading.

If you want to know more about Alex's truly fascinating backstory, check out his first appearance on Discourse Lab.

Mentioned in this episode:

• OSINT Defender
• The End of The World is Just the Beginning - Peter Zeihan
• “Why is Iran producing 60 percent-enriched uranium?” (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
• “This Isn’t Israel’s War. It’s America’s” - Haviv Rettig Our
• “This is How The War Goes Bad” - Niall Ferguson

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In this episode, the boys are joined by Lucy Biggers. Lucy is a journalist and content creator currently serving as the Head of Social Media for The Free Press. In her mid-20s, Lucy was an influential climate activist whose work for outlets like “NowThis” helped popularize apocalyptic narratives about global warming and bring the Standing Rock protests to national attention.

During COVID, Lucy began to seriously doubt the validity of the cause she was fighting for. She put her activism on hold and reassessed many of the things she believed about climate change. Last May, Lucy started posting again—only this time it was to debunk many of the claims she had once fervently communicated to the world.

Listen to this episode if you want to learn why Lucy isn’t even remotely concerned about CO₂ emissions, find out what Greta Thunberg is like in person, hear Lucy’s impression of a plant stoma, and much more!

You can follow Lucy on Instagram, X, and TikTok

Mentioned in this episode:

• Apocalypse Never - Michael Shellenberger
• Unsettled - Steven E. Koonin
• The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels - Alex Epstein
• Fossil Future - Alex Epstein
• Factfullness - Hans Rosling
• The Long Summer - Brian Fagan

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