Serious Outcasts with John Livia

Serious Outcasts is John Livia's talk show, and the title is a fair description of the guest list. The people who come on are the kind mainstream outlets tend to keep at arm's length: OnlyFans models, Instagram models, and the man John calls in to argue the news. He speaks to all of them the way he would across a table, without much of a filter. It runs as a video channel as much as a podcast, and John signs off asking for likes, shares, and the notification bell.

The interviews are the heart of the catalog. Gianna Woods, an OnlyFans model in the Dallas area, talks about running an OnlyFans account alongside an ordinary life and about the strange requests that arrive from subscribers. John compares notes from other interviews, including a creator who does far more extreme content but refuses one specific request, and the conversation becomes a running inventory of where creators draw their lines. Veronica Vee, an Instagram model, gets asked how she makes content with a neighbor and what happens if she starts seeing someone. John tells his own stories back at his guests as freely as he asks for theirs. He introduces them as some of the most beautiful women on the internet, which tells you the angle.

A second kind of episode is the news roundup with Justin from Brooklyn. The two of them take turns reading out the stories they have been sending each other, serious first, then funny. One episode moves from the death of the OnlyFans owner at 43 to a Maryland shooting that has them asking how it was physically possible. Another starts with a string of attacks in the States and gets to a marathon in Los Angeles, where the runner from Kenya followed a motorcycle off course and John and Justin argue that the feel-good finish shown on television was not the whole story. The pair also weigh in on cosmetic surgery trends, in language that is not kind.

The third strand is John alone at the microphone. In 'Is the USA Israel’s puppet or are we just allies?' he frames both sides of the question, then plays clips from commentators he says he respects, including one arguing that the Iran operation is really aimed at China and Russia through their oil supply. He calls it a controversy and treats it as one.

The register is what a listener is really choosing here. Profanity is constant. Sex is discussed in specifics. Opinions on race, religion, and foreign policy are delivered as cold facts, and the charge of racism is waved off in advance. There is no softening for a general audience. What a listener gets in exchange is an unusually candid look at the online modeling world from the people in it, and news episodes that treat the grim and the absurd with the same shrug.