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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Culture Catch-up: How to Fix Bravo & Summer House (w/ Dan Allegretto)

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Rhony, Tv & Film, Andycohen, Rhobh, Realhousewives, Bravotv, Vpr, Rhoc, Bravo, Popculture, Rhop, Pumprules, Bethennyfrankel, Lgbtculture, Rhod, Realhousewivesofnyc, Rhoa, Vanderpumprules

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by friend of the pod Dan Allegretto! Topics: why do bald men wear hats, becoming friends w/ Lena Dunham, boots on the ground w/ Bethenny, how to fix Bravo & Summer House, Carl Radke, Lindsay Hubbard, how The Real L Word & Vanderpump Rules lift the veneer off Los Angeles, the off-Broadway play “Becoming Eve,” Quentin Crisp, the camera work on Queer as Folk, Janeane Garofalo, Daria, the Hudson Valley & more!  


IG: @jessxnyc | @dan_allegretto | #DialDan 


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0:00.0

Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives and I am here with a man who self-described

0:20.2

done nothing with his life. Absolutely nothing. Yeah, I don't know why I'm here with a man who self-described done nothing with his life.

0:22.4

Absolutely nothing. Yeah, I don't know why I'm here. I've been begging to come on for months,

0:26.1

if not years. I'm here with Dan Aligretto. Your podcast is Patreon only. It is dialed at.

0:32.3

Yeah, but there's a lot of free episodes on Spotify and iTunes as well.

0:35.2

Your show is very like stream of consciousness. But the thing that I love that you do is you take questions from your Instagram followers. It's just like, hey, I'm doing topics. Ask me anything. And I will frequently interact with you that way. And I are the best question asker. We have. Thank you. I really owe you a lot. And so I want to go over some of those

0:57.1

questions. I want to really like, because I don't get a chance. You respond, but I don't get a

1:01.4

chance to ask follow-up questions. Right. Okay. And again, the questions are totally out of there.

1:06.9

They have nothing. They are apropos of nothing. and so something that was very top of mind for me

1:12.0

a few weeks ago is a question i submitted was why do bald men well and also why do bald men

1:18.5

and also men in general wear hats yeah i remember that i think i was offended actually i'm not a fan

1:26.5

of men wearing hats oh I'm a hair person,

1:30.2

so like I want to see her hair. And also, I gave you an example of Ian McAndrew is a Barry's

1:35.0

boot camp instructor. Just look him up on Instagram. He's a sexy looking guy. He's got full

1:40.3

tattooed arms. And he just has like a shave that. He lost his hair very young. And

1:46.3

he shaved his head and he just has like a little beard. And he's so cute. And obviously he's in

1:51.5

shape. So he doesn't wear a hat constantly. And I specifically, well, I'm out of shape. So for the

1:57.6

listeners at home, that is not what I look like. So yeah, let's start there. Why do men, specifically bald men, wear hats?

2:06.2

Well, I think there's like so many reasons. I feel like my head looks too small if there's not

2:12.7

anything on top of it. Like, it needs some visual weight, and I just look wrong.

2:18.1

Like,

2:18.2

I just feel more affirmed if I have a hat on.

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