The Lou Perez Podcast with Isaac Simpson

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode of The Lou Perez Podcast. So special, in fact, that it’s not even an episode of The Lou Perez Podcast. No, it’s my appearance on Isaac Simpson’s podcast, The Carousel. Isaac was kind enough to have me on to take a deep dive into possibly the most important article to come out this year, Jean Garnett’s “The Trouble with Wanting Men,” as published in the New York Times. OK, it’s definitely not the most important article, but it’s damn entertaining and revealing about where and when some of us are. (It even tricked me into buying a subscription to The Times.) Isaac and I get all the way into Garnett’s 5,000 words to talk about Garnett’s heterofatalism and total lack of self-awareness. Dear, Jean: Maybe dating is hard for you because you’re so annoying and this is the breed of “man” you’re seeing: ‘He tends to signal, in various ways, his exemption from the tainted category of “men,” and it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to do so. It must be mildly embarrassing to be a straight man, and it is incumbent upon each of them to mitigate this embarrassment in a way that feels authentic to him.’ I hope you enjoy our straight, unabashed, and authentic convo and please subscribe to our Substacks. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Attorneys on Retainer https://attorneysforfreedom.my.site.com/signupattorneysonretainerus/s/?promoCode=LU51ZEZ324 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.5	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
0:05.7	I've ruled out uni because of my grades.
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0:30.4	That joke isn't funny anymore. Available on Amazon and everywhere.
0:39.6	All righty.
0:40.7	Hello, hello, hello.
0:41.6	We are here with another episode of the Carousel with special guest, author and comedian Lou Perez.
0:48.3	Yo, yo.
0:49.1	Thanks for having me, Isaac.
0:49.9	Yo, so we are going to talk about today an absolutely epic article in the New York Times called The Trouble with Wanting Men.
1:03.8	And I have to say, I have not had this much fun reading an article in a very long time.
1:11.7	It is just so insane.
1:14.2	It's so deeply,
1:15.7	deliciously insane in the perfect way.
1:19.2	And it's like actually kind of geniusly written in some ways and then just so
1:24.0	totally tone deaf and so totally lacking any self-awareness,
1:30.4	uh,
1:30.9	that it's just,
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