E25. Josh Schollmeyer Talks the State of Masculinity Today

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Josh Schollmeyer, co-founder, and editor of MEL magazine, talks with Bridget about the meaning of modern masculinity in a changing world, constructively channeling your rage, and how kids movies are more traumatizing for children than adult movies. They also cover Josh’s years working in a lumber yard to learn the value of hard work, how he got access to Hugh Hefner’s private scrapbook collection when he was in college, and how learning to be fine with being humiliated is a crucial part of success. Josh covers his years working for Playboy, how he tried to be an agent for change but was also complicit at a time when the brand was giving in to its worst impulses, and how the chip on his shoulder over the events that forced him out of Playboy became fuel for his drive to succeed. Now with MEL, Josh discusses figuring out how to talk to men in the wake of #metoo and that one of the big problems he sees is not just a battle of the sexes, but that men are not talking to each other.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friend, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:34.4	This week we welcome Josh Scholmier. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Mel magazine,
0:40.3	a new men's lifestyle site that doesn't want to be like any of the old men's lifestyle
0:44.9	sites.
0:45.9	Previously, he dreamt up the popular Kincher site, Playboy SFW, and helped make the Chicagoan
0:51.9	a love letter to his hometown.
0:54.0	Josh also has edited many pieces of mine for Mel and he's a huge role model mentor.
1:00.8	He's a hustler, he was a hard worker, disciplined, and brilliant, brilliant,
1:07.0	genius editing skills and I've learned a lot as a writer from him. He always pushes me to dig deeper so I'm really excited to listen to a story and sit down.
1:17.5	Welcome to Watkins Welcome. Josh Ulmayer. Tell us who you are.
1:22.0	Well, I'm basically just another asshole who puts Josh called Mel magazine, MEL, all capital letters so as to make it look cooler and more
1:36.0	badass, I guess. What does it mean? Is it an acronym? It is. Men. Entirely learning.
1:43.7	Yeah, people used to tweet at us that it was men emulating Lenny
1:47.2	because we started as a newsletter, which was kind of funny.
1:50.7	It's a story, one of the other founders when we were searching for a name.
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