#154 - Neal Brennan

Stavvy's World

Stavros Halkias

Comedy Interviews, Humor, Relationship, Advice, Comedy, Improv, Stand-up

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Neal Brennan joins the pod to discuss being the youngest of 10 siblings, conduct some high level media analysis, offer hope to incels, swear off food and temptation, advocate for a futuristic monastic lifestyle, explain why actors doing pods is a snake-eating-its-tail situation, and much more. Neal and Stav help callers including a guy who almost hooked up with a C-list celebrity, and a woman who seeks to make quicker intellectual connections with the men she’s dating. See Neal Brennan live and follow him on social media: https://www.nealbrennan.com/ https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://instagram.com/nealbrennan https://www.facebook.com/nealbrennanofficial/ ☎️ Have a question for a regular episode? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld

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0:00.0	Opa! Welcome everybody to Stavvy's World.
0:04.0	904-800 stop.
0:05.8	Call in. We'll solve your problems.
0:08.4	We're coming at you live from the Manhattan Studios, our permanent base here in the old CBGBs.
0:16.0	We took over the John Varvedo store that it's now in, in and now it's Stavey baby uh studios do you
0:23.8	have an issue with that when they like i'm just philosophically or i'm not like i'm not i'm like
0:30.4	kind of anti nostalgia i'm if it's like really historical sure cool yeah like if it's oh you know
0:37.3	over a hundred years old save it Do I have an issue with it? Like, I'm not saying it should be a, what's the right thing to do with this? If CBGB is no longer a viable business. Right, right, right. What's the landlord supposed to do? I own the building. Yeah. Yeah. And this club, which they didn't treat it great. Right, right, right. I don't know. Yeah. I wonder what that place smelled like. You know what I mean? How much? I don't think the landlord did a lot of like upkeep. No, no, no, no, no. It's like, what's supposed to happen?
1:12.3	Okay, that's a great question.
1:13.7	I think here's the issue there is once we,
1:17.6	landlord is very interesting point there,
1:19.2	because do I love the symbolism of something that's a cultural landmark
1:24.3	being turned over to a brand that does anyone give a fuck about John Farford? Like it'd be one thing if it was like something useful that people go to. I mean, even a fucking Chipotle on some level. It's like, you know, people go in and out of that place is going to get you. We're talking about. And also a great, very salty chip. Yeah. Oh, and they... An incredibly salty chip.
1:45.4	When you get the batch that's fresh and this fuck, and you get that translucent,
1:50.0	when you get the translucent chips completely, where the salt is stuck to it.
1:54.8	Go live on Instagram already.
1:56.9	Christ Almighty.
1:58.1	But here's the thing.
1:59.1	That's a brand.
2:00.3	Nobody gives a fun John Forbamos. And it's like stupid shoes and bullshit. And in fact, I would... He thought it was going to be the coolest. Yeah. Well, and I would venture to guess, because here's the thing about those stores, a lot of the places in somewhere like New York, like this is happening with the REI in Soho, right?
2:17.6	It's closing down.
2:19.0	And part of that's because it's unionizing.
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