If you’re from LA, you have seen a shirtless man dancing up a storm, and that man is Jay Byrd and he is with us today. He tells us about growing up in Santa Clarita in an extremely preppy environment, having a jock phase, and how being bullied led to both an interest in martial arts and an overdevelopment of empathy. We discuss his compartmentalization of identity between work, family, fitness, and the goth scene (who is Jason White?), as well as the importance of male friendship in our scene and brunch with the boys (sometimes Vesta is one of the boys), and how Covid actually strengthened some friendships and our scene itself. Now that the world is back, Jay still goes out more than his 22-year-old sons, sweating on predators to keep our scene safe.
