Jul 28, 2026 · 44 min · 11 segments
In a culture obsessed with optimizing appearances, what actually makes up an attractive man? In this episode, JT and Anthony dig into the looksmaxxing trend and what it reveals about a deeper hunger…
JT McCrawHost
Anthony FlemonsHostJonasPanelist
A little different for us because as I was thinking about it, you know, sometimes we need to... we need to be a little informative for what's going on in the younger generation to help dads and grandfathers, uncles, you know, have conversations and give them some street cred with some of the language that's being used amongst teens and twenties year old kids.
And, you know, sometimes I know, and I'll tell you where the genesis of this came from.
But I know that sometimes as a dad, I hear my girls talking and they use language that I'm like, what does that even mean? I don't even know what that means.
And we were sitting talking one night and one of them said something about, I can't even remember the word that came up.
And I was like, what is that? And then they started telling me about, okay, here's what maxing mean.
Here's what all these kind of language that's going in the culture right now in the younger culture.
I was like, okay, you're going to have to really explain this to me because I'd never heard it.
A little different for us because as I was thinking about it, you know, sometimes we need to... we need to be a little informative for what's going on in the younger generation to help dads and grandfathers, uncles, you know, have conversations and give them some street cred with some of the language that's being used amongst teens and twenties year old kids.
And, you know, sometimes I know, and I'll tell you where the genesis of this came from.
But I know that sometimes as a dad, I hear my girls talking and they use language that I'm like, what does that even mean? I don't even know what that means.
And we were sitting talking one night and one of them said something about, I can't even remember the word that came up.
And I was like, what is that? And then they started telling me about, okay, here's what maxing mean.
Here's what all these kind of language that's going in the culture right now in the younger culture.
I was like, okay, you're going to have to really explain this to me because I'd never heard it.
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