Mike Rothschild
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Wait, that's funny. Oh, my God. She's like, you're buying this?
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Yeah. Idris Elba, who was it a few years ago, is actually really a great pick. It's like, because he has a swag and he knows that he's sexy and has played into the idea of being sexy in various funny ways.
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I mean, half the guys on this list of past people, Sexiest Man Alive, were selling rom-coms or rom-droms at the time of their sexiest crowning. I'm looking at this covers through the years and I see Patrick Swayze. I'm like, yeah, like these were the guys that were like the swoony romantic leads. But it makes sense if they're selling a sexy movie to do that. And we have not as many of those.
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So it does make sense to me, sadly.
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But it's hard to deal with that because then you see across the whole internet memes about Jeremy Allen White, who I would argue that everyone's kind of like, he's not traditionally sexy, but he's so sexy. And I'm kind of like, we all agree.
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Yes. Ugh. I mean, I think because it's a visual medium, they're going for photos, they're going for a specific look, a specific traditional cover story.
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Here's how you get a sexy star. Put them in a sexy movie. All the guys that you're talking about, I can name a sexy movie they were in. I mean, Timothee Chalamet, call me by your name. It's written sexy. It's a very well-written, sexy movie. Barry, why is Barry a sex star? Because he full-frontaled in a movie.
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He got that title because he took a risk in a sexy movie. You know what I mean? Like then they're on the road to being contextualized like that. Also, they give you permission to call them sexy when they're in these sexy roles. And I think then we're very obsessed with, you know, like the idea of like not overstepping with –
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objectifying someone you know in this way we all want to be we all want to be doing the right thing so it's like when a star says I'm gonna go full frontal in a movie then I'm allowed to be like that's sexy you know like it's and it's fun and we're having fun and we're playing back and forth
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Yeah. I mean, People Magazine, they are going for daddies because they do love to be like, this father is a good father. They don't mean daddy in that way. That's what I'm saying is like, they don't even see that. Like, that's not a category for them in Sexy Man. They're saying like, we're just going for like someone who's a good family man. Right.
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Who's not daddy, but is a father. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, also, daddy is like gay terminology. And let's get some more gay guys on the list because guess who's going to love being called sexy and being objectified? That's right. A sexy gay guy.
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Jonathan Bailey, who's promoting Wicked. Where he at? Right, right. So if we're going to be like where the daddy's at, it's like, we're already talking gay guy. Let's just like get gay men on this list.
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How dare you be rude to Glenn Powell?
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But what's great about the internet and the kind of like flattening of everybody weighing in is that even just a tweet can convince you somebody is sexy. Because if it's about context, somebody could tweet a funny tweet about a Jacob Elordi being sexy in a certain way that gets you. It's like he always carries a book. That's sexy to me.
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And like all of a sudden my perspective on this actor who maybe wasn't my thing. Oh, he's too tall. Imagine saying that. Oh, he's too tall. All of a sudden he's sexy to me. Also, you have your short king. That's an internet. That's an internet creation. The short king. All right. Now Barry Keoghan, who's a little short, is now a short king. Now he's sexy. It's just like a turn of...
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Even a turn of phrase can do it. And that's why I think we're broadening because all I need to do is see a different context for somebody who I might not have liked before and all of a sudden I'm like fully on board, right? And it's just a matter of seeing that.
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Thanks for letting us objectify men on your podcast.