Other Men Need Help
Mark PagánOther Men Need Help
Welcome to Other Men Need Help, an award-winning podcast that playfully looks at how men present themselves to the world—and pulls back the curtain to reveal what's behind the performance. Hosted by Mark Pagán.
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Welcome to Other Men Need Help, an award-winning podcast that playfully looks at how men present themselves to the world—and pulls back the curtain to reveal what's behind the performance. Hosted by Mark Pagán.
All rights reserved
An anniversary, a memorial, and some updates.
A show that sifts through the human condition to find stories and insights that will help us define our most fundamental relationships: our relationship to our own emotions, and to each other’s.
An introduction to why other men need help and how Richard Gere ruined everything.
Mark reveals some issues he has with male rivals,…
Mark looks up and asks a former imagined rival, "what's the view like from there?"
Mark goes on a date and attempts to declare "I'M SECURE" with an unexpected Reagan-era discovery.
Mark looks back on a history of manual men in his life and talks to one of the old souls who saved him.
Mark discovers the link between male torsos, bach…
Mark examines his outdated views on male stoicism and discovers a wonderful life in the line at a pharmacy chain.
For this bonus episode, Other Men Need Help goes live with stories by some of our favorite women in radio including Mitra Kaboli, Jolenta Greenberg, and Joanna Solotaroff!
For this month's bonus episode, Other Men Need Help goes live! AGAIN! Featuring stories by Aparna Nancherla, Richard Cardillo, and Isaac Oliver!
Nas from The Gender Knot Podcast and Mark have some questions for you. Are you ready?
For this month's bonus episode, Other Men Need Help looks at the posters on your wall and asks what your mother has to say about them, featuring an EPIC story by Shalewa Sharpe. Special thanks to our friends at The Kraine Theater.
In this premiere episode of season two, Mark asks a group of fellow brown men to examine who they wanted to look like versus who they look like now. Warning - there will be singing.
After years of hiding behind clothes, Mark seeks out one of the leading authorities on Dandy-ism to ask for some pants and to share some secrets.
Your partner makes more money than you. What do you do? Mark meets a few men to learn about their economic insecurities and looks for some answers, as he fights to keep his own series of numbers a mystery. SPOILER ALERT - it does not go well.
Mark creates a weekly hotline with his friend Richard, as they chat about showing up late to the dating scene, taking a chance on new love after loss, and the necessary grooming rituals in middle age.
Mark goes on a quest through the beaches of Portland and Southern France to speak with two men and ask the question, "comment dites-vous 'a guy who still wants to be friend's with his ex-girlfriend's dad?'"
Mark asks if being the baby brother suuuucks by looking at his family where there were not one, but two little-wittle-baby-brothers-oh-you-so-cute-in-your-little-suit-with-your-little-girlfiend-stand-over-there-so-we-can-take-a-picture.
In this season two closer, Mark does the impossible - keeps his sanity while listening to all the hold muzak in the world, finding homes for 33 unclaimed vehicles, and answering a lifelong question of "are you my brother?"
In this month's bonus episode, our very own Rebecca Seidel shares a cautionary tale that makes Mark reflect on an ill-advised pickup routine from the past. Plus, we have the DELIGHTFUL Allison Leiby telling her own cautionary tale LIVE.
August’s bonus episode is all about HAIR, as Mark tags along with Isaac to get a haircut, and waxes rhapsodic about his own days as a salon boy. Plus, Jiji Lee shares a hairy tale of her own.
In this month's bonus episode, we're time traveling back to 2012, when a poorly recorded conversation with a personal hero in a diner, in a town with a confusing name, lit the fuse for Mark's exploration of men and connection.
Guess what? We've got a surprise bite-size bonus episode for you! On the anniversary of the death of one of our favorite screen hunks, Mark talks to four Pagán women in an attempt to solve a long-standing family mystery.
I Have to Ask...Again
WE ARE LIVE AND SO ARE YOU in this month's bonus ep. Join us onstage as we listen to secrets from our friends Karolena Theresa, Henry Alford, and Thirst Aid Kit at Caveat. Recorded live in October 2019.
Mark creates a weekly hotline with his friend Richard, as they chat about showing up late to the dating scene, taking a chance on new love after loss, and the necessary grooming rituals in middle age
In this follow up to Season 2's Boy talk, Mark and the team catches up with one of our favorite people, Richard Cardillo. We find out what's transpired in Richard's love life since last we spoke, check in as he plans to take the plunge, and ask what compromises he'll make for true love.
Other Men Need Help is back and we’re bringing a friend: YOUR best friend.
Some tunes as we stretch and gear up for wild second half to season 3.
Hugs, high fives, daps, brother slaps, and butt taps - we learn the secrets behind your special greetings.
This one goes out to everyone who lost a close friend to the Golden State.
Uncovering what may be the three hardest words.
Someone will eventually, and happily, pick up.
Who will pick you up when you arrive?
Don't let it happen to you.
Who do spiritual leaders turn to when they need some friendly advice - or just need to cuss a lil'?
When to ask "should we still be friends?"
What's your favorite memory of our friendship - and would you tell me what it is?
What did you give up to fit in as a boy?
Which '90s TV patriarch can make a grown man cry?
What happens to boys raised on a diet of mass murderers and VHS-era slashers?
A FAVORITE episode from one of our FAVORITE "sibling shows".
Other Men Need Help looks at the gift giving season.
Where OMNH asks, "That’s What I Look Like?!"
Season four starts out with some bald truth.
What do men get wrong about sex appeal?
What (dance) lessons from childhood are you still trying to make sense of?
Other Men talks sports.
Other men tries parenting.
In OMNH's final episode of the season, Mark investigates a wedding tradition that he’s been having an issue with.
7 years, 7 lessons on masculinity
What's in a title?
Softball, hot ones, and the fear of looking weak.
When a Jersey don was all we had.
I Miss You. Period.
August 12, 202031min 9sec
What three little words have Mark tongue-tied around his friends? They're not the ones you think. Mark goes to long-term and long distance BFFs Darnell and Dimetrius to puzzle out his fear of a certain phrase (calling on perspective from a chorus of Other Men) and hear what's made their friendship work for fifteen years.
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Original music by Fulton Street Music Group. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Episode illustration by Carmela Caldart.