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  1. Intro 
    1. Welcome and topics from pre show 
    1. Introduce panel 
  2. Schedule for podcast
    1. Week of Thanksgiving we will not have a show
    1. Every so often we will have 2 shows in one week. Patreon will have the same but Brief Tales are released as separate episodes. 
  3. Speedo movement
    1. One year anniversary 
    1. Cody – talk about new merch at the Speedo movement 
  4. Unb anniversar
    1. Blog is 12 this month 
    1. Thanks to everyone who made it possible 
  5. Main topic underwear pics
    1. How to take great pics
      1. Andy, Erik, and Stevie 
      1. How do you guys take the pics you take for IG?
      1. What phone do you use ?
      1. One tip for taking pics 
    1. Face vs. no face 
      1. Why do you guys show face or not 
      1. Why did you show face – Andy Stevie Ryan Cody 
      1. Reasons for not showing face – Tim and Patrick 
    1. Being an insta-slut
      1. Drop in with George  (will be up Monday 10/6 on One Drive or Google Drive)
      1. Why should it matter what we do on line with our professional life 
      1. #medbikini. https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/what-is-medbikini-movement-47658179
      1. You can’t be too big of a slut on it with the restrictions 
  6. Close 
    1. Guys social media 
    1. Patreon push 
    1. Unb info 

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The boys are back for another thong show! Andy, Erik, & Ryan are back this week talk about the beginnings of their love of thongs. They discuss: 

  • What was their first in-store thong purchase experience
  • Talk about their first time wearing a thong (under clothes)
  • Talk about their first time wearing a thong in public (visible to others)

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We are joined by Matthew, the guy behind the incredible brand MWear NYC. We have reviewed some of his pairs in the past but we talk to him about how he started in brand. What they are doing currently and that the future holds. Matthew is all business and impressed me. Listen to this interview! 

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Transcription:

00:00 UNB Tim  

Hi everyone, welcome to a very special edition of our brief tale podcast because we have a brand on with us today. We have Matthew who founded MWear. Welcome to the podcast. 

00:12 Matthew MWear  

Thank you, I’m happy to be here. 

00:13 UNB Tim  

Yes, it’s good to have you here. You’re one of the smaller brands out there and but you do have a nice loyal following. 

00:20 UNB Tim  

’cause everyone loves your thong. Many of our guys included. I love your thong and I’m not a thong guy believe it or not. 

00:27 Matthew MWear  

Well, we’re happy to convert anybody. 

00:29 UNB Tim  

Yes, yes yes, I agree, so we’ll get started in our interview. So what made you start your brand? What was it that you saw out there is like Hey, we need a brand. 

00:42 UNB Tim  

There it’s not. Meaning needs an. I’m gonna do it. So what means you start the brand? 

00:47 Matthew MWear  

Well, it’s almost exactly what you just said, as as with most products on the market, it was born out of a need. There was this gap in the Mens underwear market that affected people I knew, so I chose to fill that gap. I mean, imagine bras only coming in One Cup size. 

01:00 UNB Tim 

Yes,  

01:02 Matthew MWear 

and then also have parts of their body that aren’t uniform, especially in correlation to their measurement. So so MWear was born? 

01:10 UNB Tim  

Nice yeah it it was very good to see because I would see several guys promoting you online when you started. Joe would do it from Chicago and a couple other guys would constantly post your pictures. 

01:23 UNB Tim  

In and um Instagram once like trying to think of what it was. Uh, in other places and it was really cool to see you grow and sort of mature over the last step in two or three years. It’s been awhile. 

01:36 Matthew MWear  

But we officially, the website officially launched on June 1st of 2018, but I think the A lot of the social media posts happened. You know, maybe a year before that, so we were really only. 

01:48 Matthew MWear  

Selling via word of mouth on social media and and Whatnot. And that’s when business started to pick up. I realized, hey, I need to make this a real thing and I need to. I need to have like a proper website so that this is a much more streamlined. 

02:01 UNB Tim  

Yeah, you can make great gear. I will say I’ve tried the pride thong. Very nice, fits great, incredible. 

02:08 UNB Tim  

And I’m not a phone person an if I say that it’s gotta mean something and just telling you,  

Matthew MWear 

right.  

UNB Tim  

So did you? Yeah, it’s you know what everyone was talking about now when I tried it I was very happy. 

02:22 UNB Tim  

So did you enjoy underwear before you started making it, or was it sortof a brain that was like a need? What? What was it really that got you interested before then? 

02:34 Matthew MWear  

I did enjoy it or well rather I do enjoy it. Some people like to say that if you make a job out of doing what you love that it then becomes work and doesn’t. 

02:43 Matthew MWear  

Or maybe at least passion for it. I’m I’m thankful that I haven’t reached that point and I hope I never do because I I really do enjoy it and it’s exciting to see something you know, start out in in the studio and it’s it’s great to see it later on on somebody posting it on social media or sending in a photo saying. 

03:05 Matthew MWear  

Oh my gosh, you know I. I’m not going to put this on my social media because that’s that’s not the kind of content that I post, but here’s a photo of me just so that you know how much I’m enjoying it an and that’s. And that makes me enjoy what I do even more is those moments when people go out of their way to respond or reach out and say, Hey, this is really great. 

03:26 UNB Tim  

That’s cool, yeah, that’s, amazing that you’ve had such a great following in people, write in. That’s a sign you’re doing something, right? Yeah,  

Matthew MWear 

yeah, I agree.  

UNB TIm  

What makes your brand different from other brands out there? What’s some things that you know you focus on that. Other brands aren’t right now. 

03:45 Matthew MWear  

I’m actually I’m really excited to answer that question so. 

03:48 Matthew MWear  

There’s a few things and I’ll say that these few things are not necessarily exclusive to our brand, but I am. I am very proud to say that we offer all of them in tandem. So one thing is, we offer extended waist sizes and that sort of goes for both sides of the spectrum. You know it goes into the larger sizes and it goes down into the smaller sizes. 

04:11 Matthew MWear  

Um, I mean, we, we go from XS all the way up to three X, and you know, eventually we’d like to expand on either side of that. But I mean even where we started the range that we have, I feel like is already to very diverse comparatively to the other brands. The other thing is the ability to choose. 

04:31 Matthew MWear  

The pouch size of your underwear again on both sides of the spectrum. You know either people who have like smaller packages or larger packages for whatever reason, and you know, just just be ’cause. Like I said earlier, just because your waist is 1 size doesn’t necessarily mean that your package has some uniform size that other, like more traditional mainstream brands. 

04:51 Matthew MWear  

Tend to make for, so I mean the. The other thing is we do custom underwear and I think that there are maybe a couple, maybe a few other brands that I can think of that have sort of a custom division, but there’s really there’s really not many, and at least not any that I can think of off the top of my head so that and then like. Finally we. 

05:13 Matthew MWear  

All of our products are sourced in the US and they always will be. all of our all of our fabric. All of our elastic, all of the artisans that we work with to produce our work. They’re all in the US and you know, we’re sort of in the process of outsourcing production to like a on a factory scale. But you know, we. 

05:35 Matthew MWear  

We’re, we’re very adamant that we want to keep whatever that labor is inside the US because there are there are so many people you know here in this country, specifically in New York City, which is where we’re based out of that are incredibly capable of doing this. And, and I I certainly want to give back to to that community and to this country, to be honest when it comes to when it comes to production like that so. 

05:56 UNB Tim  

Nice yeah in New York  

Matthew MWear 

so yeah,  

UNB Tim 

a lot of people you could pull on for that and take on creating and sewing for you. Plus with it being in the US you have greater control over quality, which I’ve heard many horror stories from many brands about outsourcing. So when. 

06:16 Matthew MWear  

You say that I had. 

06:17 Matthew MWear  

Sorry, I originally thought you know, hey, why don’t why don’t I just see what the difference is an and see what what it would cost or what the process would be if I if I went to a factory that was in like South America or Eastern Europe o,r or in Asia an it’s, it’s super complicated. I mean there’s there’s A.Huge,  

06:39 Matthew MWear  

There’s a huge disconnect be cause the the quality is much less great when you when you get stuff made overseas and it’s and it might look great an and all of these things, but it’s it’s not gonna be as rated quality. I don’t think that it’s gonna last as long and to be honest the the most important part of the whole aspect of keeping it here in the US is. 

07:01 Matthew MWear  

You know there are so many people here in this country that are, are hungry for, for this work, and these jobs and the money that I’m willing to pay them. And if that means that I have to pay a little bit more t,o to get underwear made here in the US. And that’s what I’m gonna do. And it’s something that it’s something that I strongly believe in, and it’s something that will always be part of our Our foundation 

07:22 UNB Tim  

nice. Yeah, the brands I know that do outsourcing well have to have a very hands-on approach. It’s going to the factory. It’s managing the whole situation and you can do that. But that takes a lot more time when you have to go overseas as opposed to go down the street. 

07:43 UNB Tim  

You know, probably a lot of these people in New York know each other and know their reputations. Know their work.  

Matthew MWear 

Yeah, absolutely.  

UNB Tim  

It’s a lot of word of mouth. And you know, hey, if so, and so does it. It’s gonna be good. It’s not going to be cheap. It’s not gonna fall apart. So that’s a good thing about that as well. And I think you yeah, it’s great. 

Matthew MWear 

But sorry go ahead 

08:03 UNB Tim  

I mean, I think it’s great that you combine all these different pieces with the extended sizes, the smaller sizes, the pouch, everything all in one to make amazing underwear ’cause there’s so many people left out of the underwear world like myself that it’s amazing to see that ’cause I’m a larger. I’m currently at a 42 waist. 

08:24 UNB Tim  

Trying to get it down to 36 but Covid it’s not working for me, but it’s frustrating when it’s 36 is the largest. I’m like I can barely get that up my leg, so that’s great to see. 

08:35 Matthew MWear  

Sure, yeah, you’re you’re certainly not the only person that that has that that obstacle or that issue an and The thing is, is that that shouldn’t be an issue that people have like it should be. 

08:45 Matthew MWear  

It should be.Easy for someone to walk into a store or to to go onto a website and see things that they like and not have to wonder. Oh is this gonna come in my size? Yeah is This Is This? Is this actually going to fit main, you know for whatever reason, whether it’s like is is the pouch going to be big enough? Is the props going to be small enough? Is the way it’s going to be large enough? 

09:07 Matthew MWear  

You know their sizing issues and I guess body dysmorphia. If you want to call it that on, on both sides of the spectrum. 

09:13 UNB Tim  

Yeah, and that’s the one thing I like about your site is you list on your front page is underwear for everyone. We’re seeing a trend in the last, probably six months. People are going larger sizes up to 42 and beyond. 

09:27 UNB Tim  

So that’s really good to see the industry’s moving in that way. It sort of slowly getting there, but it’s moving and it’s not just. Boxer briefs and briefs. its bikinis and thongs and shocks. ’cause guys want somebody sexy and I’m like well I like bikinis but I don’t want a boxer brief ’cause they drive me insane. It’s too much material. 

09:51 UNB Tim  

Right like no, so it’s great to see and you really put put it on your website too that you have models of all different kinds on your website you have different colors, races, different sizes, everything. When you launch your website and that struck me really cool that. OK, here’s This person starting this company. 

10:11 UNB Tim  

Who speaks about inclusiveness of sizes, everything, and then you show it on your website as well. I think because not a lot of brands are doing that right now, . 

10:23 Matthew MWear  

Right? Yeah, it’s, it’s important and the easy answer is because everyone should be able to find something that they like in their size. Like I said a minute ago, but. 

10:32 Matthew MWear  

Also, it’s 2020 and the fact that most brands only offer sizes ranging from small to extra large is sort of pathetic. I mean, businesses need to wake up and realize that they’re not being inclusive. By doing that. I mean our tagline, like you said, is underwear for all men and all is in all caps and we take that very seriously. And I think that other. 

10:52 Matthew MWear  

Underwear clothing brand shirt as well. 

10:54 UNB Tim  

I think they’re starting to you. I think we’re seeing a move in that direction, but it’s not as it’s not as fast as I think. A lot of people want to see, but. 

11:03 Matthew MWear  

Right, right, right, right? I mean, I mean, I have several friends who are women and they have the same issue when they’re trying to find bras that fit. 

11:12 Matthew MWear  

And I’m like come on, come on really, there shouldn’t be an issue. 

11:17 UNB Tim  

Yeah it is. It’s ’cause we have guys. We do a reader survey with pouches and that’s the number one issue they have with underwear. Is it too big? Is it too small? Does IT support main? What’s the deal with the pouch? Why is it? 

11:32 UNB Tim  

Not doing this or that, or so that’s usually the biggest complaint outside of itchy tags, which comes in a close second usually. 

11:43 UNB Tim  

That’s a big one, but most brands now are doing away with itchy tags, but not all. But most are. But how to serve? It’s important to have different sizes and I think we’re starting to see that in some brands, but you were like one of The Pioneers that did it before the other brands are really caught on, which is very cool, and I think that’s a good selling feature for your brand. 

12:04 UNB Tim  

Yeah, ’cause I’ve seen it all out there and well, it’s, it’s an interesting I love the market and it’s interesting, but sometimes I wanted to move faster. 

12:13 Matthew MWear  

Yeah, no. I, I 100% agree. 

12:15 UNB Tim  

It’s a business and you go with what sales, but I won’t get sidetracked on that. So I have a question for you about the industry in general,  I got the pride thong. 

12:24 UNB Tim  

You from you couple of years ago amazing thong like I said it’s amazing it’s great. Not a thong guy but I recommend it. Go when he has it stock go get it you will, You will not be disappointed. Why do you think thongs have increased in popularity in the like last two years, as fast as it happened? Because it seemed like it came out of like nowhere. 

12:45 UNB Tim  

Everyone wanted thongs all of a sudden. 

12:47 Matthew MWear  

That’s a That’s a really good question. So to be honest, I have no idea, but I’m very thankful that they have because it’s giving me business. I do. I do have a theory though, so I think it has to do with thongs traditionally being seen as one of the more feminine styles. 

13:07 Matthew MWear  

And up until the past few years, men used to have like a a stronger desire to come off as masculine or or Butch. So they so they wore briefs, or Jock straps or whatever other style they wore. But I think now is the line between masculinity and femininity is slowly beginning to disappear. 

13:28 Matthew MWear  

And the definition of masculinity is evolving and becoming greyer. Those people are accepting thongs more and realizing there there’s this unique sexiness that only a song can provide and they’re falling in love and embracing that feeling. 

13:42 UNB Tim  

Nice, that is one of the best reasons for thongs. I’ve heard I will say. 

13:47 Matthew MWear  

I I relate that mostly too. 

13:50 Matthew MWear  

My own experience because you know when, when I became an age where like in my sort of early 20s, I guess I that’s when I really started. Just realize that I, I loved underwear. I love different styles of underwear. I mean, it probably wasn’t until I was God. 21 until I like bought my first jockstrap an 

14:10 Matthew MWear  

I was like, Oh my God, this makes it. This makes me feel like a man. much everyone’s dismay. I was a lady but I it took me a few years to really find something valuable and wearing a thong. And I don’t really know what it was. I don’t really remember the moment that I realized it. I want to say it was about the time that this whole. 

14:31 Matthew MWear  

Movement if you want to call it that. Over the past couple of years started when I was like, oh, I really do like wearing thongs. And, you know, a lot of it might have to be or might be influenced by what I’m seeing on social media, because really, that’s most of my exposure to them. But I mean the, the truth of it is that I think you know, with with most fads and, uh. 

14:53 Matthew MWear  

In any sort of fashion industry, you know, things come in. Things go and you know, maybe and maybe in five years there will be something else that everyone is obsessed with. And you know we’re going to. We’re going to bob and weave and we’re going to move along with that. 

15:05 UNB Tim  

So True, Yeah, but I think thongs, thongs are here to stay after this.  

Matthew M Wear 

Let’s hope so,  

UNB Tim 

because I don’t think they’re going anywhere anytime soon. 

15:14 UNB Tim  

It’s more than just a fad now. There are guys who that’s all they wear. Yeah, no matter what that’s there that we have a couple on the podcast that are like that. They are diehard thong fans. That’s all they want to wear either underwear to the pool. The beach wherever is. Like this is my style. Kind of like I am with bikinis. 

15:35 UNB Tim  

There that way, with thongs and another thing you said is the blurring of masculine and feminine is definitely going on right now because we’re seeing a lot of things that were kind of like look down upon four years ago five years ago now. Kind of like oh, lace the big one that’s come up. The guys are wearing. 

15:55 UNB Tim  

And now it’s kind of like OK, whatever before it was like what are you wearing now? It’s like, oh, that’s. 

16:01 Matthew MWear  

And that was even yeah, and that was even happening in the Queer community. Like it wasn’t just like like a straight against gay or straight against Queer thing that was happening. It was like even people within this sort of like Queer community were like, oh. 

16:16 Matthew MWear  

No, if you’re wearing a thong like. 

16:18 Matthew MWear  

You can be in our photo,  

16:21 UNB Tim  

Yeah, it’s amazing what’s happened that now the fabrics are changing from lace at and the non masculine colors like more pastels. More if those colors are coming in. 

16:36 UNB Tim  

The whole Men’s underwear world is like when I started the blog in 2008 has changed into 2020 to something much bigger, much wider and the straight guys are now involved because they love thongs. So they love least. They love everything. Really blown up in the last couple of years and I only see it getting bigger from here. 

16:57 UNB Tim  

So many more people in America to wear better underwear, God willing. 

17:01 Matthew MWear  

Right, and I think that there are there’s this thing that’s happening in our society where everyone’s desire for modesty is slowly slipping away like even, even, with even within a more conservative crowd. Like you, you can see that you know if you go. 

17:17 Matthew MWear  

If you go down to the beach and like I don’t know Texas or Alabama or whatever and you, you see people like straight people at the beach, you know even there like boardshorts are getting shorter.  

UNB Tim 

Yes,  

Matthew MWear 

and you know eventually. Maybe I, I don’t know. Eventually, maybe they’re going to continue to get shorter and it’s like people are gonna care less about. 

17:37 Matthew MWear  

Sort of that that Catholic shame thing that’s happening, and it’s an, you know. Hopefully it moves to a world that is more reflective of like European culture where you know people. Men, particularly in this case, are are less concerned about the amount of skin that they show. 

17:53 UNB Tim  

Let’s hope so. I’ve been preaching that for years. I’m like, come on. 

17:58 UNB Tim  

Get a swim brief. Get a swim brief? Get something. Get rid of the dork short.  

Matthew MWear 

If everyone would just see it my way, we’d all be happier.  

UNB Tim  

Exactly exactly. 

18:10 UNB Tim  

You get it. 

18:12 UNB Tim  

We’d have a much better place and it wouldn’t matter who wore what. That’s my point. Definitely, totally, uh, yeah. That’s that’s one thing I really like about your brand is. It’s always been. It doesn’t matter what you like, you’ve made it. You will make it and there’s no shame in it. ’cause I think a lot of guys kind of hide their underwear. 

18:33 UNB Tim  

’cause a lot of guys are into it, but they don’t really share it with other people which is changing. But it’s still like when I first got underwear when I was like about bikinis. When I was 13 ’cause I wanted them, it was like hiding them because no one could see them and that still goes on. Especially here in the US that needs to change because we always go. 

18:53 UNB Tim  

And straight guys ever talked about underwear. I know gay guys occasionally do, but do you ever say, Oh my God. I love this brief?  

Matthew M Wear 

Yeah, it’s still very taboo?  

UNB TIm  

I mean, even in even in gay circles to some extent. It’s like I’m not talking underwear. It has to be with the right guy.  

Matthew MWear 

Recently, oh totally. I recently had this, this person. This this guy reached out to me on like via a direct message. 

19:14 Matthew MWear  

On Instagram and he, I don’t know who he was talking to before, but someone directed him to to our page and they were like you know, whatever the issue you’re having with your underwear, does not fit. I think that MWear NYC can can fix that. So he reached out and he was like, hey, I’m like a really tall, really slim guy. 

19:35 Matthew MWear  

I think he said he was like 6 five an like 150 pounds like very, very slim and he’s like I have a really difficult time finding finding underwear that’s small enough for me like even the even the size smalls. When I when I purchased them from, you know, like a Calvin Klein or uh, whatever he’s like. It’s still a little baggie. It’s like I don’t really have much of a butt. 

19:56 Matthew MWear  

My my packages like average size and I was like, oh that’s perfect you you fit into an XS and you can just get like the standard medium pouch because like our XS is gonna like fit your butt perfectly and he so he ended up ordering a pair and he sent me a message. I mean he’s I think a lot more modest than I. I think that most of our. 

20:16 Matthew MWear  

Followers and customers are so like we we didn’t get a photo accompanied with his response, and that’s fine, but he he was like wow, this is fantastic. Like I had no idea. I mean he just bought like a pair of briefs like it wasn’t anything like super exciting and I think that briefs are probably what he normally wears. But you know, he was never able to find a brand that carried a size or a fit. 

20:36 Matthew MWear   

That worked for his body. 

20:38 UNB Tim  

That’s awesome. Yeah, that’s that’s one area that, well, there’s two areas we usually talk about that usually get no mention. It’s guys who are really small. You have really small waist bands and then the other one is like guys with butts. Because I was like Graced with that problem. I wish I did. 

20:57 UNB Tim  

But I don’t and that’s still one of those areas where guys it’s like I have a big butt an underwear. I have to be careful what I get and I think that’s why I thongs also grew is if you have a big butt anywhere thong you have to worry about it, that’s. 

21:12 Matthew MWear  

Because your butts not covered. 

21:13 UNB Tim  

Your butts are covered. It’s interesting to see I think we’re tackling issues. 

21:18 UNB Tim  

And we’ll see that more and more as we go. At least I hope so. That’s that. Seems to be where the industry is going. But you never, never trust you never know. Fingers crossed. But that leads me to one question. We usually ask a lot, either in our personal or on the main show is at our blog. We say good underwear gives you confidence. 

21:38 UNB Tim  

It could either be at work on a date, whatever. ’cause I always tell him that when I go on a date First Date, I usually wear my sexiest underwear ’cause it’s rarely people are going to see it on the first date. They have, but usually not always. It’s usually not the case.  

That’s another podcast.  

That’s a different podcast. 

21:59 UNB Tim  

But it has happened, but it’s like and I have friends who I don’t know. You don’t wear the sexy stuff on the first date. I’m like why? That’s when you need it the most when you’re need that boost of confidence on the first date. Nervous when someone you like. Do you feel the same way? It looked like through your business? That’s good underwear gives you great confidence an in life in general. 

22:21 Matthew MWear  

I think that the way you carry yourself has a lot to do with how you’re dressed, and that begins with a base layer or your underwear. If you feel confident when you look at yourself in your underwear in the mirror, you know, like when you’re in the early stages of getting dressed, then you’re starting at the most basic level of dress and you can. 

22:41 Matthew MWear  

Only go up from there or so yes I. I do believe it provides competent on some level. Obviously if you’re if you’re at the Beach at the pool at a club. Oh my God, remember clubs? Oh yes, in in in just her underwear or your swimwear an and you like the way it fits. It’s only going to increase your self confident and that’s the key. 

23:02 UNB Tim  

It’s just amazing that something so simple as a great pair of briefs or whatever you enjoy. Jog bone, right? Just makes you feel better. ’cause I know when I have bad underwear on, I just feel miserable all day.  

Matthew MWear 

That’s 100%  

UNB TIm  

I’ve reviewed appear once that hated. I mean, I had to take it off. I was like I’d rather go without underwear. Than wear this. 

23:23 UNB Tim  

That’s saying something 

Matthew MWEAR 

that’s not good. I certainly don’t want to be that underwear for anybody.  

UNB Tim 

Yeah, I doubt you will have that, but this one was just like I can deal. I’d rather free ball, and I love underwear. So no, no you make amazing underwear. I will say that’s everyone definitely needs to go check it out. 

23:44 UNB Tim  

Yeah, so your stuff was, he said his hand made and you’re an expanded to other people. How does being handmade affect your orders? I know some guys see will see that and go. Oh I’m gonna take forever but you really are good about making it quick and having it for guys. So how does the handmaid play into your brand? 

24:05 Matthew MWear  

So yes, all of our stuff is made by hand. I mean, it’s really the only way you can make underwear, but for the most part, our time frame for you know from the from the moment your order is placed at the moment you have it in, your hand is usually not more than two weeks, especially during normal times. When like when it’s. 

24:26 Matthew MWear  

When it’s not COVID, we we have a little bit of stock inventory and you know when. When we have downtime, we we fill that inventory so that you know when we get into a crunch and there’s like a bunch of orders in the queue. We can just pull from that and send those out just to get some stuff out the door. We’re actually in the process of finding a vendor. Like I said earlier, who can take over all of that production of our ready to wear? 

24:48 Matthew MWear  

So that I will say that I can focus on the business side of things and you know, I as a person in my in my personal life who does a lot of online shopping. Actually most, most all of my shopping is done online, especially when it comes to clothing. I hate having to wait more than a week to receive something in the Mail. I hate it so much. 

25:08 Matthew MWear  

Thank God Amazon gives Me 2 day delivery on the things that I need to buy from Amazon. , but you know when? When I was trying to figure out the best way to structure that when we first when we first launched the website like what, what timeline do I need to give our customers an you know I’m sort of starting at the longer end of things like 2 weeks. 

25:29 Matthew MWear  

Is the Max that I ever want anyone to have to wait for their underwear and I mean there have been cases where someone’s order has maybe taken like three weeks because you know a fabric ran out and we had to. It was back ordered from the vendor so we had to wait for them to get it done so that we could get it in and then make the underwear. And you know that those kinds of things are sort of unpredictable and I, I can’t really. 

25:49 Matthew MWear  

Relate those issues to that because you know those are sort of freak accidents, but I I hope to eventually get to a place where people don’t have to wait more than like a few days or a week to have something in hand when they when they place it. I mean with this whole e-com thing happening in the in the world like people want things instantaneously. 

26:10 Matthew MWear  

Like they they don’t want to wait for anything. Everyone’s impatient. Everyone wants things now and they want it. They want it yesterday, so , so I’m I’m trying. I’m trying to get to that point, but you know, because, because we are not yet outsourcing our work. Everything is more or less made to order. So from the time that somebody places their order, we start cutting. 

26:31 Matthew MWear  

And it usually you know couple of days and and their piece or pieces are are complete and we try and we try and get it out the door as quickly as we can. Um, and I’m. I’m thankful that we haven’t had anyone ever blow up and say Oh my God, this is taking too long. I want my money back or like this is stupid and like had a had a full meltdown and. 

26:52 Matthew MWear  

I’m I’m glad we haven’t come into that, but I know that as, as time goes by an every other every other e-com business is sending things in a much quicker way. Eventually people are going to get to that point and they’re not going to want to wait a week and a half or two weeks to get something in the Mail. So yeah, . 

27:12 UNB Tim  

well, I think your brand, which I agree I’ve never Heard a bad thing mentioned about your brands as you would shipping quality. Anything online and I usually hear from people about brands like this brand sucks, taken 8 weeks for this and blah they won’t do my return. Whatever I’ve heard it all with a ton of brands out there and yours is one of the few that nothing, nothing negative has ever been said. 

27:32 UNB Tim  

so that’s a good thing and I usually hear everything people are not afraid to share their opinions on DMS or emails, so that’s well,  

Matthew Mwear 

I’m I’m thankful that our name is not gotten any slander on the Grapevine.  

UNB Tim  

No one, no one’s reading you for filth yet, so you’re good. You’re very good. 

27:53 UNB Tim  

But I think also your brand with handmade an especially custom piece is expected to take a little longer ’cause you know the quality is going to custom. He says yeah it custom pieces and even your regular pieces that you know it’s OK ’cause it’s going to take a little longer and you’re going to wait a little bit for quality and you’re going to be happy with the outcome. 

28:14 UNB Tim  

I think if right yeah, and then if you’re tell them all along, like usually if you communicate with people with them now, it’s gone there usually fine, they’re like Oh OK, cool is usually when they don’t hear. They’re like man you’re driving me crazy, yeah,  

Matthew MWear 

I think I’ve only ever had like maybe a couple customers ever send in an email. 

28:34 Matthew MWear  

Or something and say Hey just checking on the status of my order are like you know it’s it’s been a little bit and then I always respond and say like hey, you know your your order is currently in the process of being produced. You know it should go on a couple of days and no one’s ever like had a freak out. They’re always very understanding and I’m very thankful. I’m very thankful for that, you know, because our our volume certainly isn’t at. 

28:55 Matthew MWear  

Like this crazy level where we have, like 40 orders coming through at once. So I’m never had that overwhelmed then if somebody. If somebody sends them an email and says. Hey, like it’s been 2 weeks or whatever since I placed my order. You know, I’ll I’ll do my best to push the order through this as quickly as possible, but you know, there’s there’s this like fine line between like. 

29:17 UNB Tim  

Pushing it through and it being sloppy and you know taking an extra day to make sure that like everything is perfect and there’s like not a stitch out of line. So yeah,  

UNB Tim 

no you you have a good rep and you have a good head on your shoulders. ’cause I’ve met a lot of people in who’s Come and gone in the industry who do the design side but don’t get the business side which is the important part to get. 

Matthew MWear 

Yeah totally 

29:38 UNB Tim 

 and talking to you, you get the business side. You know about growing, you know about production. You know about all the stuff you need to know as well as designing amazing underwear, so that’s great to hear, right? Because so many brands over the years have come and gone. It’s like where do they go? They were here for one collection and now they’re gone. 

29:59 Matthew MWear  

Right, yeah, yeah. we’re trying to be in it for the long haul. 

30:03 UNB Tim  

Well, you’ve been in it for a few years and I think you’ve got a lot more years to go and I’m excited for your expansion into outsourcing in New York, so that’s gonna be a big help for you. I know, and probably take a lot of stress off of you in the company like Oh, got it. 

30:19 UNB Tim  

Yeah, it’ll let me focus on the business side of it more an not have to focus most of my time on production and I can I can work on actually growing the business and and doing like development. All of that kind of stuff. So yeah, well, you’ve gotta. 

UNB TIM  

 Yeah Gotta Smart head on your shoulder so I think you’re definitely gonna go way far in the industry. 

30:40 UNB Tim  

It just takes time to grow and I think you’re growing at a reasonable rate. ’cause other times if you grow too fast that causes issues as well. It’s great to be popular, but when you get popular, you have to send the underwear out and it’s like where’s my order,  So yeah, so that’s perfect. I guess that’s all the questions I have for you. 

31:00 UNB Tim  

Um, I’m sure we’ll have you back on one of our shows very soon because you’re a lot of fun to talk to you. Where can people buy your underwear and follow you on social media?  

Matthew MWear 

We are exclusively online right now and our website, our Twitter, an our Instagram are all the exact same. It’s just MwearNYC obviously. 

31:21 Matthew MWear  

And that’s where we are. 

31:23 UNB Tim  

That’s definitely go check them out. They make amazing underwear. I have a pair. I’ve gotta get more. I’ve just been lazy and haven’t ordered any which I need to do specially during these times. But support your small businesses out there. Specially underwear, businesses, people. Thank you again Matthew, I really appreciate it. Thank you. I appreciate your time as well. 

31:43 UNB Tim  

Ann, everyone have a great week and we will talk to you very soon. Bye everyone. 

Main Show: We talked about the double standard in men’s underwear. How it’s perfectly acceptable to objectify a woman but not a man. How this includes society in general and on social media as well. It was a really in depth convo. 

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Our UNB Brief Talk Podcast has been so much fun to do lately. We have two different shows about to be three. The first is the round table talk where we pick a topic, and our panel of awesome undies guys chats about it; if you are a Patreon member, you get to hear our off the wall pre and post-show. You never know what we will talk about in this part of the show. 

The more audience participation is with our Brief Tale podcasts. We have sone these for years on the site, but they have been written. Now we are interviewing guys to share how they discovered their love of underwear/swimwear/gear. It is a guys origin stories (yeah kind of like a superheroes origin story) It’s a simple interview, and we ask all the guys the same questions, and sometimes we will throw in an additional depending on the guy and the conversation. 

The questions are: 

  • Tell our readers about you: 
  • When did you first discover underwear? 
  • What was the first pair of good underwear you bought? What made you buy that pair?
  • How did this first pair influence your journey into the world of men’s underwear? 
  • What are your current favorite styles? What style do you wear most? 
  • What are some of your favorite pairs in your underwear drawer? 
  • Are you open to friends or partners about your love of underwear? If you have a partner, do they encourage your love of underwear?
  • Has wearing great underwear boosted your confidence
  • Where can our readers find you on social media? 

These shows typically take about 30 minutes to record. We do them over Skype and Zoom. Although, I’m currently looking into MS Teams as well. After editing, these shows are put out to our Patreon members about once a week, sometimes more. Then we put out the Brief Talks to the general public 2-3 at time. We have released two volumes of them. 

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We are looking for guys who are gay, bi, or straight, any ethnicity, nationality, or country. Any size (from muscle guy to bear and everything in between), to come on the show and share about their love of underwear. 

We welcome guys outside the US! The only thing is time zones are hard for me. We will have to find out when it is best for both of us, but don’t worry, we can make it happen! It’s only a minor inconvenience. 

Just come on the show and be open and honest, share what you love! Don’t worry; we don’t have to use your real name. We can use a pseudonym. 

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I am joined by Andy and Erik, both now perm co-hosts! We break down the UNB Reader Survey about buying undies. We share how often we buy, when we buy, What’s a great sale, what we buy at full price, and a lot more. These boys are amazing!

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The podcast continues with the UNB Staff. I am joined by Michael, John and our newest writer Clay. We kick it off with some of the smaller companies we are loving. Then we talk about some of the previous reviews we have just completed. Plus a few of the upcoming reviews. Lastly, we announce our newest contest from Candyman! You can win 10 of your favorites styles from Candyman!

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We have another long and over due staff podcast. We talk about whats coming up with the site:

  • Exclusive content coming up
  • Magic Trade Show,
  • Some great reviews from Lifeizpantz, Tribe, Male Power and Bonewear.
  • Then we talk about some of the things we want to see in underwear in 2010.
  • Wes talks about his socks posting

Thanks for listening and stay tuned for more podcast soon!

We are joined on the podcast by model William Price. One of the great models from NorCalBodz. He’s been seen on our blog many times. The last time you have seen him was in our holiday guide! He’s been busy working on many things, including a spread for Playgirl! He was fun to talk too and hope you enjoy the interview! You can see more of William at www.william-price.com

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Baskit returns and we talk to Eric the Head Baskit Maker. They have had some really good things happen.

  • Increased World Distribution
  • Levi Johnston wore Baskit in his Play Girl Shoot
  • Sponsoring of two Ski Weekend
  • They have a few new products coming out so stay tuned
  • Excuse any editing jumps, we had some connection issues, but enjoy

Find Baskit at http://www.baskitwear.com! Remember to check out the $12 Tuesdays!

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We are joined by Timoteo and Joel from Timoteo. They were a lot of fun to talk too and we had our very first listener question. Learn more about their company and some of their plans. You can find Timoteo at http://www.timteo.net

Timoteo Ocampo is an American designer based in Los Angeles, California. He studied at California State University, Los Angeles and received a Bachelor’s degree in Art with an option in Fashion Design. During his studies he interned at such places as Richard Tyler, Moda Cad, Lori London Millinery.

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We are joined by Trent Kitsch from Saxx Apparel. Saxx is a new and innovative underwear line that is ergonomically designed to give you a little extra support while living an active life. That could be sports, work or anything. We talk a little about the company, the styles and whats in store for the future. You can find them at http://www.saxxapparel.com.

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We are joined by Sean Ashby from Aussiebum! He took time out of his schedule to talk to us. This we talked about the history of the band, the videos and advertising and a lot more! Listen and hear a podcast from one the favorites of guys all over the world! You can find aussieBum at http://www.aussiebum.com

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We are joined by Markus from Bend the Rules. Bend the Rules is a Luxury Boxer Brief Company. They have some really famous admirers. You will have to go to their site and see what the company offers. (http://www.bendtherules.com)

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We are joined by one of the models at NorCalBodz. He talked with us about his modeling, some about underwear and his goals. We definitely hope to see him on the cover of one of the fitness magazines soon.

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We are joined by Tory from NorCalBodz. We have teamed up with them on the blog and will be working on a few more things! Tory is new to modeling and this is a great profile of a model. He talks about how he got into modeling and also what some of his favorite underwear!

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We are joined by Baskit, the Head Baskit maker at Baskit Wear. We talk about what’s going on with Baskit, the infamous pink jockstrap and more! Baskit is doing some great things in swimwear which is new and innovative!

We also announce our giveaway with Baskit starting July 20, 2009 through July 31, 2009. We will be giving away from the new Pure line! We will have 4 winners that will receive one pair and a grand prize winner will win the entire line of Pure (Bikini Brief, Jock, Trunk and Low Rise).

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If you subscribe to our podcast, you may have noticed we had some problems over the weekend. The last two podcasts, from Disco Valante and JustUs Boyz disappeared! We had technical issues between our feed and iTunes. Those were resolved last night, I believe. So you should be able to download them without a problem. If you continue to have problems please let us know. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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We got the opportunity to talk to Mike and Phil at Justus Boyz. They spoke to us about how they founded their company, some of the new lines that are just about to come out, including some really cool car and cartoon designed ones, and a lot more. We also get them to tell us about what happens at a photo shoot and had a great time talking. To find out more information go to their website http://www.justusboyz.com.

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We are joined by Cass the ownder/designer of Disco Valante, a new underwear company doing great things with trunks/boxer briefs. You can hear Cass talk about the way the company was founded and what are some of the plans of the company for the future. You can find them at http://www.discovalante.com

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This podcast you get to hear from the guys behind the blog. Tim the editor and host of the podcast is joined by Wraith55 (Asst. Editor), John (Asst. Edtior) and Wes (Copy Editor) as we talk about some of the Trends in underwear. They range from pink undies, to enhancement underwear and a little bit of everything in between.

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We are joined by one of the owners and co-founders of Sweat Under Gear. They are a company based out of Vancouver, Canada. They have some new things planned that they shared with us, yes and we mean color.  Tal also covered the Sweat Club marketing concept, learn how the whole concept came about and where they are taking the club in the future. Find out what pair of Sweat Gear our reviewers here would love to get. And much much more!

We really thank Tal for taking time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Listen to the entire podcast!

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Underwear News Briefs  – Podcast 5

We have the pleasure of speaking to Diane from DMK Designs (http://www.dmk-designs.com). If you’re not familiar with DMK they are a fashion forward men’s underwear line. We have featured them many times on our site with some really sexy pictures of the current lines they do.

DIane tells us a little about the company, what they are currently working on and what they have planned for the future. Make sure you check out their site for the new lines coming out, and also the UnderGear site for the exclusive line she talked about on the podcast. As she mentioned the pictures are in a gallery on the main DMK site so you can see all the pictures taken by Peter Brown.

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