Talking Laughing Loving Breathing

Comedian Gwen Sunkel joins us to talk about her new album No More Tears, which is OUT NOW and already a literal best seller, can you imagine??? In this episode: nose picking, the extravagance of the daytime bath, and the state of terror you live in when you've kept a borrowed item for so long you become too scared to give it back. Consider this episode a little appetizer, the perfect amuse-bouche before you feast on No More Tears! Download 'No More Tears' wherever you find music Follow Gwen Sunkel on Instagram: @gwenderwoman Follow the unofficial Talking Laughing Loving Breathing Instagram: @gay_handle

Writers and it couple Christy DeGallerie and Brejai Evans are everything Haley and Murph WISH they could be - brilliant...hot...funny...in L...and on our pod this week. They bring some spicy takes and explain why, no, Marissa's mom is NOT just "being really mean." A former Tampa resident, Brejai gives us the cultural and geographical lessons we need to enrich our understanding of the text that is Tampa Baes, and Christy diagnoses the REAL problem with Haley and Murph's pool party: the food.

This is Tampa Baes through the eyes of our straight cis man consultant Carmen Christopher. Carmen is unblinded by horniness for Shiva and has some spicy and sobering takes on our fav silly billy boy and the rest of the Baes. This episode imagines a world in which straight people and gay people can look past their differences and come together in the face of one terrifyingly unhinged enemy: Murph. Watch Carmen Christopher: Street Special on Peacock Follow Carmen Christopher on Instagram: @carmenyescarmen Follow the unofficial Talking Laughing Loving Breathing Instagram: @gay_handle

Dear Mom and Dad, please send money - we don't have real jobs and we spend all our time watching entire seasons of vapid reality television because we find ONE person MODERATELY hot. Love, Your Baby Girl

Despite knowing that we only get one life, and that that life could end at truly any moment and we could unknowingly be down to our literal last hours to live, we've made the gorgeous, perfect decision to recap Amazon's incredible new program Tampa Baes - and this is the first episode. Can't stress enough that no one is making us do this! 'Scuse the audio hiccups, and eat up, babes.

This gorgeous little episode was recorded in September, but rest assured we're still the same girls we were back then - still terminally addicted to our phones, still horny for sponges, still scarred from our Catholic upbringing, and we still think, sometimes, in some cases, SOME cults...might actually be kinda tight.

This episode can't do the work FOR you, but it can help you explore why you feel the need to be self deprecating vis-à-vis Olivia Rodrigo. It can't tell you who the Rolling Stones drummer is, but it can give you tools to mask your ignorance. It can't build you an outhouse, but it can illuminate the ways in which you've brought capitalism with you into the forest.

*A medium-sized content warning: eating disorders; abortion.* Our grandmothers quilted so we could watch YouTube videos while we brush our teeth. Being the star of a tragedy remains an intoxicating fantasy. Forget what you heard about TV being bad - it's not the '90s anymore, babe! Ben Folds Five needs to get on the right side of history, like 311 is.

The most maligned food in history (pasta) is rewriting her own story. Carrie Bradshaw's midriff remains a cultural touchstone. We don't like who we were at high school cast parties. Bachelor in Paradise is an emotional anchor. The most beautiful gift one human can give another is pretending their computer viruses weren't caused by excessive porn use.

This week, we're singlehandedly destroying the rainforest with a new TikTok obsession. We're teaching ourselves to play poker to impress Shane McCutcheon. We're riding to the vape shop on Channing Tatum's handlebars. We're doing whatever it takes to get the part. We're writing 'Rosie O'Fucking Donnell' in our gratitude journals 100 times.

Angels, in place of an episode description, we're offering a *CONTENT WARNING* instead. We wandered into some dark territory regarding personal histories of eating disorders, and we did some healing and also even some laughing - what feels cathartic for us might not for you, and we invite you to skip this ep if that feels right.

This episode is a Chex Mix. It's a Munchies variety bag. It's like when you go to a candy shop and pick out your fave candies and you kinda mess around with trying different candies together and that feels dangerous. A few of our fave candies this week: a mini gay breakup. A YouTube cult leader. Black Widow as a feminist text. Sexy Beasts, the literal worst show that has ever been made. By the end of this episode, one thing is clear: we all need to go to the forest.

What you are about to witness is two girls, high on a USWNT quarterfinals win at the famed Olympic Games. Two girls, full of hope and on the brink of womanhood, who saw their lives unfurling before them, long and happy and uncomplicated. By the time you hear this, they have already been heartbroken by the subsequent loss to Canada in the semifinals, but for one glittering moment that summer...two girls DREAMED.

It was 2012 - everything was okay, and nothing was okay. We were trying out pocket squares and oxfords like we were gonna live forever. We had never heard of a GSA. We had hitched ourselves to Eve Ensler's wagon and we were riding it for all it was worth. It would be years before we'd have bedframes or find out that Amazon was bad. There was one name on everyone's lips: Sam Speegs.

Gossip girls here, and it looks like confessionals aren't the only thing The Bachelorette and the Catholic Church have in common. ABC and the Vatican are both jacked on masturbation practices. We're fearful. We're turning to self help books. We're considering joining the convent. xoxo, J & C

Our very first guest episode...CAN YOU IMAGINE. Long before Christy Degallerie was a writer, artist, and producer, she was just a little girl who dared to dream a gay little dream. And that dream? Involved Ellen. Hold onto your snapbacks, y'all, cuz no one's getting out of this episode without a huge crush on Christy and a new outlook on America's first cancelled lesbian.

Your favorite intellectuals are covering Cara Delevingne's Architectural Digest home tour, debriefing on parties we went to this weekend, and meditating on the close of Pride month. And in the end, we find that maybe, just maybe...lesbians aren't so scary after all.

Labeling is reductive, but you're either a soccer gay or a basketball gay. A Megan baby or a Sue baby. A butch elder or a millennial podcaster. A Kate or a Leisha, or in some cases even a Gwyneth. We're here to help you put yourself in a box. Welcome to Talking Laughing Loving Breathing, angels.

Many people don't know that the first Pride was a podcast. And that podcast? Was Talking Laughing Loving Breathing. Hosted by Crosby Fitzgerald and Julia DeLois, Talking Laughing Loving Breathing is a show about gay. But not just about gay! About other stuff too. We're two horny queers who have spent the last 10 years texting feverishly about lesbo life, pop culture, the internet, and all the other shit deadbeat white girl millennials talk about. One day we said, "You know who needs to hear this?" and the answer was a resounding, "All." Bon appétit, queers and allies.