Now open · Bay Area · Broadcast #041

The barbershop never closed.It just went digital.

ShopNoiz Media is an unfiltered men’s discussion platform built like a recurring seat at the shop. Health, relationships with women, sports, family, money — whatever the room pulls in. Less a podcast, more a place regulars keep coming back to.

Format
Weekly · ~60 min
Mics
4 in the room
Edit
Light, not polished
Since
Aug 2024
ShopNoiz Media — The Chair, podcast cover art

On the chair today

The things that actually come up between haircuts.

Six recurring rooms, and an open chair for whatever else walks in. Nothing is off-limits. Nothing is staged.

  • Men’s health
    Ep. 004 · 037
  • Relationships with women
    Ep. 011 · 022 · 041
  • Sports (and the days after)
    Ep. 008 · 019 · 033
  • Family
    Ep. 015 · 026
  • Money
    Ep. 003 · 029
  • Whatever the room pulls in
    Open chair

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Who runs the shop

Three voices. Same chair.

The room’s a small circle. The same faces come back to the same chair — these are the three you’ll hear most often, full name and one-line read.

MH
Co-host · The Saturday chair

Marcus Hale

Forty-eight, two kids, last physical a phone call he took in a parking lot.

DR
Co-host · The electric take

Devon Reyes

Trades electrician, half of the last year spent writing texts he never sent.

RB
Co-host · Sunday rebuild

Reggie Boone

Two-time regular, father of three, rebuilding on Sundays.

The show

Less a podcast. More a recurring seat.

In a genre crowded with incumbent shows and channels, ShopNoiz runs on community-anchored authenticity and a clean trademark lane. The shop itself is the product.

  1. 01 — The room

    A handful of regulars, no hosts.

    ShopNoiz is a small circle. The same voices come back. New listeners get the lay of the land in a single episode and can hear themselves in the room by the second.

  2. 02 — The cut

    A conversation, not a script.

    We don’t prep questions, we don’t punch up lines. A topic opens, somebody disagrees, the chair circles. The mics catch the parts people usually only hear between haircuts.

  3. 03 — The hour

    Roughly an hour, never polished.

    Roughly an hour per show, dropping weekly. No narrative arc, no closing monologue, no post-credit gag. The show ends when the shop runs out of chairs.

Become a Regular

Become a Regular

Get the room in your inbox every Sunday.

One weekly drop — the sharpest cut from the last show, a heads-up on the next drop's date, and a one-line read on what the room pulled in. Plain text, no tracking pixels, unsubscribe in any send.

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One Sunday email a week. Unsubscribe in any drop.

The drop

The shop, in something you can wear.

Standout moments get printed on shirts and mugs. Apparel carries the heavier margin. Mugs are the loss-leader that turns a listener into a regular. Everything ships print-on-demand, so the show stays the focus.

Print-on-demand
No inventory
Drops monthly
Shop the drop
Lines from the chair — open on Shopify
OPENCHAIREST. 2024

T-Shirt

Apparel · high margin

Lines from the chair

The sharpest cuts, the loudest disagreements, the callback jokes — printed on heavyweight cotton. Apparel is the engine: heavier margin, prints on demand so we keep pointed at the show.

A regular’s mug — open on Shopify
SHOPNOIZ

Mug

Drinkware · loss leader

A regular’s mug

Drink your coffee out of the shop. Mugs carry low margins on purpose — they’re the way a new listener shows up at the counter and stays. Stock the shelf, hit play.

Next in the chair

Pull up a seat. Or get on the mics.

New shows drop weekly. Booking, partnerships, and merch ideas come in through one inbox. Send a line and you’ll hear back from a regular.