This week on The Handsome Hour, Wes, Cody, and Stony attempt to write a dating constitution and get stuck litigating it's very first commandment: Don't be horrible. Is that actionable moral guidance, a useless tautology, or exactly the sign everyone in modern dating needs tapped directly in front of their face?

Before they can settle that question, Wes launches the show's first pledge drive with the help of new in-studio producer Rael. What follows is an impressively unsuccessful attempt to raise money for the Starfish Project, establish goodwill with women, explain human trafficking, and promote a second "sponsor" devoted to duck hunting and federal easement regulations.

Eventually, Cody proposes that "Don't be horrible" should become Rule Number 1 of the Handsome Hour Ten Commandments. Stony objects: sometimes the world needs a good horrible person to stop a bad horrible person. If someone blasts music on the subway, perhaps smashing the speaker would technically be horrible -- but also make civilization better. The guys debate cooperation, retaliation, virtue, blind spots, and whether the more useful rule might simply be: Remember that you're the problem.

That leads to Commandment No. 2 -- or at least a potential one: Don't be transactional. Stop treating romance like a vending machine where you insert dinners, favors, and strategic kindness until sex falls out. Do things because you genuinely want to improve another person's life, not because you're secretly maintaining an internal ledger. Naturally, this lesson arrives immediately after Wes admits the charity drive is partly intended to make women like the show.

Then the guys turn their attention to Rael, who reportedly thinks publicly committing to a girlfriend is "gay" and "low testosterone." What begins as big-brother dating advice becomes an even deeper conversation about freedom, responsibility, and Type Two fun. Everything meaningful -- children, marriage, employees, houses, difficult accomplishments -- restricts your freedom. But that restriction may be the source of meaning rather than its enemy. One more hookup delivers immediate stimulation; building a family or landing a SpaceX rocket requires years of work and produces something closer to durable fulfillment.

From there, the episode moves into delayed marriage, premarital sex, celibacy, abortion, "hoe phases," and why older generations imposed sexual norms that felt arbitrary to young people. The guys argue over whether some experimentation helps people understand what they actually want -- or merely creates damage they later expect a spouse to absorb. Stony also presents the engagement ring as an ingenious old-world solution to the problem now being addressed by "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" Facebook groups: a costly, public signal that one man has committed to one woman.

Then come the prenups. Billionaire lawyer John Morgan reportedly requires his children to sign one before marriage or survive on the crushing deprivation of only $1 million per year. The guys debate inheritance, alimony, divorce incentives, stay-at-home motherhood, and whether a prenup is prudent insurance or evidence that you already distrust the person you're marrying. Cody compares it to buying insurance against a Godzilla attack. Stony counters that even spaceships have shields because eventually somebody is going to shoot a laser at you.

Finally, Wes reflects on spending a week starting fights online for engagement. It worked -- but it also felt unbecoming. Cody connects that experience back to dating: never trade long-term, compounding virtue for short-term rewards. Don't perform merely to secure an outcome. Listen to feedback without surrendering your identity to it. And before sending a car for a demanding first date, ask whether that behavior reflects the relationship you actually want -- or merely the approval you hope to extract.

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This week on The Handsome Hour, Wes, Cody, and Stony promise that you will emerge smarter, more worldly, and possibly less employable. The discussion covers weight loss, perfectionism, Han Solo's moral philosophy, vigilante justice, OnlyFans, fake resumes, offensive comedies, digital reputation, novelty domains, and why Marie Curie and Julia Child may or may not be the same woman.

First, Wes celebrates losing ten pounds in twelve days, only for Cody to dismiss most of it as glycogen and water. This becomes a debate about sustainable weight loss, whether thinking harder burns more calories, and the background program misanthropy.exe permanently running in Wes's brain. Wes also explains his new commitment to publishing articles, even when some of them suck, because quantity of action beats waiting around for perfect work.

That same principle drives the latest Handsome Hour business ventures: overpriced, American-made "I AM GAY" and "I AM NOT GAY" hats, a search for a producer with a cofounder mentality, and a merchandising philosophy based on making customers spend enough that they feel obligated to wear the product. The guys also explain why reading another book, buying business cards, or listening to another podcast cannot substitute for actually doing the thing.

Then, the episode becomes a political philosophy seminar. Cody lays out Han Solo morality: the ideal of a self-contained man with his own code, operating beyond institutions without necessarily holding any coherent political ideology. The guys debate prisons, vigilante justice, cartels, permissionless organizations, city-states, and why a genuinely correct moral decision may be impossible to reduce to a universal rulebook.

Stony then brings in a business story that becomes a dating story. A prospective consultant had a polished LinkedIn profile, but almost no verifiable history before 2022. A reverse-image search appeared to uncover a hidden adult-content past, raising uncomfortable questions about identity, second chances, legal names, professional trust, and whether everyone should start background-checking their dates.

That leads into a darker conversation about OnlyFans and the transactionalization of intimacy. Are men paying for pornography, or for a simulation of personal attention? What happens when someone exposes herself permanently online and earns almost nothing? And will the future still contain boyfriends and girlfriends -- only with the emotional relationship explicitly mediated through an app and a monthly payment?

Later, Cody attempts to explain his deleted "2000's bigot" tweet and the cultural equilibrium represented by South Park: make fun of every group, take no category too seriously, and judge the actual person standing in front of you. The discussion expands into offensive humor, merit, group statistics, individual dignity, and why declaring one subject completely off-limits can make it dominate every interaction instead of receding into the background.

Finally, the guys pitch a post-AGI business empire built around domains like SalesBoner and other websites that publicly designate one winner and loser each day. They explain why Internet namespace may be the last form of real estate, why dating advice eventually becomes counterproductive, and why the show's real purpose may be less about telling you what to do than stabilizing your emotions around an insane dating culture.

The episode closes by returning, despite everyone's best efforts, to dating. Wes discovers that the woman he was seeing had previously dated multiple men in his extended network, prompting a discussion about Eskimo-bro degrees, how shockingly small the dating world is, and why your reputation follows you even when modern life appears anonymous. In the long run, ethical behavior may simply be the long-term greedy strategy.

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This week on The Handsome Hour, the Fellows talk cold approach, bad matchmaking, talking dogs, IQ gaps, AI girlfriends, oatmeal, and women's sports.

The episode starts with a riff on women's sports camera angles, athletic beauty, and why society is weirdly pro-porn but anti-athletic-aesthetic. This turns into pole vaulting, Olympic bulges, Vlad the Impaler, and the correct angle from which one may or may not film women running track (according to the EU).

Then the guys get into the new Justin McLoud / Hinge-adjacent dating app discourse and why most "AI matchmaking apps" are probably just dating apps with a slightly more flattering pitch deck. Wes explains why apps like Sitch fail: they ask too few meaningful questions, ignore core filters like kids, and then pretend a generic professional resume is a reason two people should date.

From there, it becomes a broader critique of professional matchmaking: Three Day Rule, 38-year-old tech executives, eggs on ice, and matchmakers who don't seem to understand what their clients actually want. The guys debate whether real matching requires uncomfortable honesty, whether everyone is trying to date 25% above their level, and why "better" means something different to everyone.

The middle of the episode gets deep on intelligence and attraction. Wes admits he doesn't need a genius wife -- "give me a beautiful mid" -- while Stony and Cody unpack why IQ gaps can make conversations feel impossible, why smart people can seem "eldritch" to people far enough below them, and why dating someone too intellectually mismatched can become painful fast.

Then, the episode swerves into whether dogs can talk, whether button-board pets are real or just pattern-matching, whether Koko the gorilla actually had a vocabulary, and whether most people are just LLMs and not conscious main characters like Wes Myers.

The core dating section is about cold approach. Wes and Cody tell the story of coaching a 17-year-old through talking to girls on Martha's Vineyard, where a guitar moment at a donut shop turns into two teenage boys unexpectedly wingmanning them as "sent from God." That leads into the real lesson: most people are bored, most guys are scared, and sometimes the only move is to walk over and say hi.

Finally they argue about pickup artistry, Neil Strauss, "indicators of interest," false time constraints, and whether socially awkward men need a rulebook -- or just more reps talking to actual people. Cody says the modern problem is that old courtship rules have vanished, the new rules are implicity, and the consequences for getting them wrong feel terrifying.

The episode closes with AI companionship, Nolan's Oddysey, live-show energy, Wes getting fat-shamed, fake autism centers, merch ideas, and the revelation that Wes now eats mostly oatmeal.