Mack
@wifeguy.org
@itschristmastown.bsky.social podcast executive producer. Founder of the Institute for Wife Guy Studies. My bookstore knows me by name. Aspiring data science guy. More ‘shit poster’ than ‘shitposter’. Your favorite Wife Guy’s favorite Wife Guy.
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Mack
@wifeguy.org
· Jun 12
You can tell a True Wife Guy then by the way he never *tells you* he’s a wife guy. This is really the truest distinction: if you can tell a guy truly loves his wife, then he’s a Wife Guy. If he has to tell you, then he’s a Wife Guy *eye roll*. Anyway, hope this helps 5/5
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If you repost this image Mr Pots will bless your family for three generations
December 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If you repost this image Mr Pots will bless your family for three generations
I don’t think enough people are talking about how, great as it is, Marty Supreme is like 20 minutes too long.
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I don’t think enough people are talking about how, great as it is, Marty Supreme is like 20 minutes too long.
Wife Guy tip of the day: internalize this concept. Your partner’s enemies are your enemies, and it’s important to hate them even more than your partner does. I keep a list of enemies and my wife’s enemies rank highly, and I’ve never met most of them.
I like this. It also fits nicely with my situation--hating my friends' enemies more than my own
My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
December 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Wife Guy tip of the day: internalize this concept. Your partner’s enemies are your enemies, and it’s important to hate them even more than your partner does. I keep a list of enemies and my wife’s enemies rank highly, and I’ve never met most of them.
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This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron
December 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron
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My debut novel, Debra Lee Won't Break, is 99 cents through the end of the year! Find links to your favorite retailers on my website: katherinepickettauthor.com/books/
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
My debut novel, Debra Lee Won't Break, is 99 cents through the end of the year! Find links to your favorite retailers on my website: katherinepickettauthor.com/books/
I enjoy reading people way more thoughtful than me talk about movies, and @eliasisquith.blog and @coreyatad.com have a good thread going here.
i don't actually think these two reads are incompatible, and in fact the implicit contrast is extra strong because it's Marty who brings it up and coaxes his friend to tell the story, as though he identifies with it. he *wants* to be that guy, and thinks he is.
December 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I enjoy reading people way more thoughtful than me talk about movies, and @eliasisquith.blog and @coreyatad.com have a good thread going here.
If I were a parent, my kids would have access to precisely one (1) personal computer screen and it’d be a hulking desktop situated in the family room. If it was good enough for millennials, it’s good enough for zoomers.
Since Australia this month barred children under 16 from using social media, parents around the world have been debating whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.
Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If I were a parent, my kids would have access to precisely one (1) personal computer screen and it’d be a hulking desktop situated in the family room. If it was good enough for millennials, it’s good enough for zoomers.
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For The Guardian, I wrote about the Spurs bringing intrigue back to this NBA season: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
The ascendant San Antonio Spurs are the gift the NBA needed
San Antonio’s takedown of Oklahoma City has revived drama, rivalry and joy in an NBA season that badly needed all three
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For The Guardian, I wrote about the Spurs bringing intrigue back to this NBA season: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
This Will Stencil person falls into the category of people that I have no idea who they are, only that they seem to make people ‘mad enough to post about it’ on the regular. I have no idea what it said, and don’t care, and I invite my friends, for their sake, to take up the flag of indifference.
December 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This Will Stencil person falls into the category of people that I have no idea who they are, only that they seem to make people ‘mad enough to post about it’ on the regular. I have no idea what it said, and don’t care, and I invite my friends, for their sake, to take up the flag of indifference.
To me, the movie that absolutely nails this kind of guy perfectly is Red Rocket. The entire time I watched it I was thinking ‘Jesus Christ, this is *redacted*; wtf was I thinking spending so much time with that guy.’
I really enjoyed Marty Supreme, but any time I see a movie with a character like Marty I’m reminded of a friend I had in my 20s and, looking back, holy hell did that guy fucking suck.
December 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
To me, the movie that absolutely nails this kind of guy perfectly is Red Rocket. The entire time I watched it I was thinking ‘Jesus Christ, this is *redacted*; wtf was I thinking spending so much time with that guy.’
I really enjoyed Marty Supreme, but any time I see a movie with a character like Marty I’m reminded of a friend I had in my 20s and, looking back, holy hell did that guy fucking suck.
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I really enjoyed Marty Supreme, but any time I see a movie with a character like Marty I’m reminded of a friend I had in my 20s and, looking back, holy hell did that guy fucking suck.
I may not have been ‘cool’ but my formative years hanging out in my friends basements, listening to music and just hanging out were great. Getting drunk and setting of M-80s in peoples mailboxes not required.
Not to be ‘that guy’ but just because the OP only had fun doing illegal shit doesn’t mean the only way to have fun is to do illegal shit. I LOL’d when he was like ‘because I had fun getting drunk in the middle of nowhere, drunk driving should be legal.’ How broken are peoples brains, jfc
I have a bunch of intersecting thoughts here but basically 1) excessive alcohol consumption is an urban activity, 2) we shouldn’t legalize drunk driving and 3) we should more heavily penalize parents whose kids abuse alcohol in such a drastic fashion.
December 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I may not have been ‘cool’ but my formative years hanging out in my friends basements, listening to music and just hanging out were great. Getting drunk and setting of M-80s in peoples mailboxes not required.
Not to be ‘that guy’ but just because the OP only had fun doing illegal shit doesn’t mean the only way to have fun is to do illegal shit. I LOL’d when he was like ‘because I had fun getting drunk in the middle of nowhere, drunk driving should be legal.’ How broken are peoples brains, jfc
I have a bunch of intersecting thoughts here but basically 1) excessive alcohol consumption is an urban activity, 2) we shouldn’t legalize drunk driving and 3) we should more heavily penalize parents whose kids abuse alcohol in such a drastic fashion.
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Not to be ‘that guy’ but just because the OP only had fun doing illegal shit doesn’t mean the only way to have fun is to do illegal shit. I LOL’d when he was like ‘because I had fun getting drunk in the middle of nowhere, drunk driving should be legal.’ How broken are peoples brains, jfc
All the weddings we used to go to are now being replaced with funerals, and I do not care for it.
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
All the weddings we used to go to are now being replaced with funerals, and I do not care for it.
I think that this is on the one hand true, but also ask anyone that watched the avatar movie a week from now to recount what they watched and find that ‘relevance’ is itself a bit of a relative term. Juxtapose that with anybody that watched Marty Supreme, and, my friends, they will have thoughts.
Avatar’s cultural relevance discourse is an expression of slop anxiety, the worry that most people don’t actually want something interesting like you do, and you know what? It’s fine if they don’t. Cool stuff still gets made and you get to enjoy it.
December 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I think that this is on the one hand true, but also ask anyone that watched the avatar movie a week from now to recount what they watched and find that ‘relevance’ is itself a bit of a relative term. Juxtapose that with anybody that watched Marty Supreme, and, my friends, they will have thoughts.
Wake Up Dead Man is a great movie, but I most appreciate it for the shots that require other actors to stand next to James Brolin showing precisely how tiny he is.
December 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is a great movie, but I most appreciate it for the shots that require other actors to stand next to James Brolin showing precisely how tiny he is.
I spent all the money and gift cards I was given for Christmas on things I absolutely do not need, which feels like the true ‘meaning for the season’ if there ever was one
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I spent all the money and gift cards I was given for Christmas on things I absolutely do not need, which feels like the true ‘meaning for the season’ if there ever was one
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I mostly liked the year-in-review Press Box episode but David Shoemaker wishing that podcasts were around in Frank Deford's time was completely brutal. I for one am glad we remember Deford for his writing and not as the host of the Frank Deford Show, a video podcast from Spotify and FanDuel.
December 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I mostly liked the year-in-review Press Box episode but David Shoemaker wishing that podcasts were around in Frank Deford's time was completely brutal. I for one am glad we remember Deford for his writing and not as the host of the Frank Deford Show, a video podcast from Spotify and FanDuel.
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Almost engaged with a Will Stencil post and then realized I could go to the grocery or send a text woman and go have sex.
December 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Almost engaged with a Will Stencil post and then realized I could go to the grocery or send a text woman and go have sex.
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I respect the hell out of Corey’s Takes game.
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imo, when the dust settles, Marty Supreme will be understood as a greater work than Uncut Gems
December 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I respect the hell out of Corey’s Takes game.
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imo, when the dust settles, Marty Supreme will be understood as a greater work than Uncut Gems
December 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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FWIW I spent 9 hours in a car today, I’ve earned this
Inadvertently gone on a Knives Out bender. (Watching two of the movies and inadvertently drinking an entire bottle of wine when I told myself I was just having a glass or two.)
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
FWIW I spent 9 hours in a car today, I’ve earned this
Inadvertently gone on a Knives Out bender. (Watching two of the movies and inadvertently drinking an entire bottle of wine when I told myself I was just having a glass or two.)
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Inadvertently gone on a Knives Out bender. (Watching two of the movies and inadvertently drinking an entire bottle of wine when I told myself I was just having a glass or two.)
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Here is a very good book I received for Christmas, which is not only informative and entertaining, but a good reminder that several prominent people who will suck in 2026 also were prominent and sucky in 1986
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Here is a very good book I received for Christmas, which is not only informative and entertaining, but a good reminder that several prominent people who will suck in 2026 also were prominent and sucky in 1986