Why on earth are prices so high at thrift stores? A year after the killing of Charlie Kirk and taxpayers’ unwitting role in the slew of 2025 firings. AI scientists need an old school whupping, not for what they’ve created but for what they actually haven’t. Gen Zers fantasize about millennial optimism, but are we (two millennials) sure we remember that? Stay for Going/Not Going, starring a very chesty male (hint: it’s *shockingly* not Jeremy Camp).

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The Disappearers is a book of the decade, and we’re so glad to share our conversation with its author, Marlon James. Set in 1980’s Jamaica, this epistolary gay revenge thriller (yes, it’s all of those things), chronicles the lives of eight gay men following an attack. What does it mean for our culture to disappear us? How can people disappear, but not leave? This is a career-defining work, and you don’t want to miss this unruly and heartfelt conversation. Stay for our new version of the game, “Going/Not Going” at the end.

• Marlon’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• Buy The Disappearers
• The Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy

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In today’s world, we are always giving up our privacy for the promises of safety, connection, and convenience. But is the tradeoff worth it? In this episode, we explore how surveillance companies like Flock are actually making our neighborhoods more unsafe, why you just can’t seem to stop swiping (and paying for it!), and why nothing may have an actual price anymore. Stay for a revamped game at the end. We’re calling it “Going/Not Going” where we tell you what trend, person, or other aspect of culture is or isn’t getting us out to the party.

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
• GM, Ford CEOs Pressure Trump on Right to Repair Laws
• Tennessee Grandmother Jailed After AI Error
• Iyanla Reacts to Domestic Violence Rise in 2020
• Surveillance Pricing
• FlockHopper

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For this patreon-only conversation, we met up at a local favorite, Americano Lounge, to discuss the many forms catfishing takes in queer communities.

Both of us have been catfished more times than we can remember. Once you spend enough time on the apps, you of course develop something of a sixth sense when it comes to grainy, overcropped photographs and chatty blank profiles.

But we also recognize the pressures bearing down on us—the pressures to be fit, masc, white, and young in order to be deemed desirable and make connections. When we meet each other increasingly less and less in the real world, how do men who believe they’re #betterinperson meet other men?

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Member of the ‘Tennessee Three’ Rep. Gloria Johnson is an educator at heart. Sometimes, that means being a teacher voice in the legislature (read: asking her republican colleagues ‘if you can hear me clap once!’ ‘if you can hear me clap twice!’), but it always means standing in the gap for all Tennesseeans. Join us in this honest conversation about Gloria’s new podcast, Standing Tall with Gloria Johnson, and spilling a little sweet tea on corruption in Tennessee politics.

• Rep. Gloria’s Socials: votegloriaj | standingtallpod
• Standing Tall with Gloria Johnson
• Gloria Johnson, Knox News Sentinel

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There are at least three things that you’re likely to experience in a Rasheed Newson novel: 1) A feeling of period-correctness 2) A well-researched ethical dilemma 3) Sex — fortunately his latest book, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, is no exception. Our hosts talk with Rasheed about his career as a screenwriter and novelist, but also about the importance of letting historical figures be real people.

• Rasheed’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood
• My Government Means to Kill Me
• Diahann Carroll
• Sidney Poitier
• Bayard Rustin
• Andrew Goodman

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Flanked by a giant spinning wheel of party guests and all the extroverted energy they can muster, our hosts head to Nashville Pride! There, they talk to historian Sarah Calise of Nashville Queer History on just how not new Southern Prides are and how we can all become queer archivists. Listen as festival goers (maybe you?) spin the game wheel to decide if they’re going to the party or not and leave us with their Pride hot takes!

• Sarah’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• Jackie Shane
• The Jackie Shane Papers

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Sometimes not succeeding at things can be good, especially if we’re talking about gay conversion therapy. There’s no better person to reflect on this than Timothy S. Rodriguez, author of the recently-released memoir, Conversion Therapy Dropout: a Queer Story of Faith and Belonging (Broadleaf). Recounting his experience with gay conversion therapy programs and ministries such as Exodus International, and his work as a digital strategist for megachurches like Hillsong and Willow Creek Community Church, Timothy walks us through his path to a kind of freeing failure, and success at living his truth. Timothy joins the hosts for a game of smash or pass, Christian men edition.

• Timothy’s Socials: Instagram | Website
• Conversion Therapy Dropout
• Garrard Conley
• Church Clarity
• NASHVILLE PRIDE FESTIVAL

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