Jack and Nora are joined by writer and educator Emily Garside to discuss #35 on Vanity Fair’s list of the 42 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time: Fire Island. In this episode, Nora is super into Pride and Prejudice, Jack is Captain Straight Man, and Emily gets nerdy about queer culture. Dust off your Speedo and don’t be late for the ferry — we’re going to Gay Disney World!

Topics include:

• Colin Firth
• The Bechdel Test
• Quibi

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Mysteries we still haven’t solved:

• How Will manages to be SO HOT— even when he’s throwing tiny ice cream cones all over the place.

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Content Warning: A quick heads up from us, in case you’d prefer not to engage with certain topics right now — this episode includes a brief discussion of revenge porn and nonconsensual filming of sexual activity (time stamp: 39:48-41:27). It also includes references to racism towards Asian Americans (16:27-17:04) and size discrimination and diet culture in the LGBTQ+ community (33:32-36:24). These topics are all brought up in the context of discussing plot points and themes from the film.

Where to find us:

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• Follow Jack at @thejackgregsonshow
• Follow Nora at @norassic_park
• Follow Emily at @emigarside

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