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fromSlate Magazine
4 days ago

He Was a Famously Anti-Woke Podcaster. Now He's Starring in A-List Movies.

Stand-up comedian Stavros Halkias moved from a cult, profanity-laced podcast persona into mainstream Hollywood visibility while maintaining left-wing political commitments.
fromVulture
1 week ago

The Stavvy Method for Saving Young Men

Halkias doesn't know why he, of all people, was cast in Bugonia, but he's aware that his presence offers some semiotic weight to the film's exploration of lost men who fall down the rabbit hole of dark online subcultures and conspiracy. In the film, Jesse Plemons plays Teddy, a young man whose life was ruined by capitalism and the pharmaceutical industry and who turns to YouTube with his questions; in real life, Halkias makes his living trying to offer such guys answers.
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