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What's your favorite? Who's your favorite? Jes Tom and Tessa Skara sit down with their fave queer artists and comedians and ask them the essential question of our time: What's Your Favorite Way To Self Soothe? Photo by Bridget Bardore and poster by Jul

The Favorites


    • Dec 1, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 9 EPISODES


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    Episode 8: “Step Mom Island” (w/ Cole Escola)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 68:15


    Jes and Tessa talk with Cole Escola (Search Party) about the gay art of crochet, Mormon porn, playing straight at the grocery store, and the piss of Christ. 

    “The Dogs Are Innocent” (w/ Spike Einbinder)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 68:23


    Jes and Tessa talk with Spike Einbinder (Los Espookys) about using your partner as a weighted blanket, millennium fashion, Bo Obama, and how to love dogs when you're allergic to dogs.

    Episode 6: "Confidence Is An Illness" (w/ Nori Reed)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 67:18


    Jes and Tessa talk with Nori Reed (HBO Max, Raven's Home) about delusions of grandeur, transitioning to S-Corp, and what we're wearing at The End Of The World.

    Episode 5: "Boundaries with a lowercase b" (w/ Sydnee Washington)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 53:31


    Jes and Tessa chat with Sydnee Washington (Unofficial Expert, Bridesman) about stand-up vs. real life, restaurant industry PTSD, and her very private long-distance relationship.

    Episode 4: "Kawk: friend of the pod" (w/ Gara)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021 69:58


    Jes and Tessa have Gara (En(Ba)by Podcast) on the pod and chat astrology, Hitachi magic wands, the Millenial/Gen Z divide, and masturbation, masturbation, masturbation. 

    Episode 3: "My Wife Belongs In The Kitchen" (w/ The El-Salomons)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 69:14


    Jes and Tessa talk to married comedy couple Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini about getting kicked off of Yelp, Canadian entitlement, getting misdiagnosed with Covid, and a year without straight men. 

    Episode 2: "Horny For Self" (w/ Marcia Belsky)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 79:08


    Jes and Tessa talk to musical comedian Marcia Belsky about the compulsory heterosexuality of flats, the Myspace-to-TikTok pipeline, crossing the border to Hot Topic, lesbian movies with no chemistry, and revisiting adolescence in quarantine.

    Episode 1: Celeste Yim

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021 48:15


    Tessa and Jes kick off the first episode with Celeste Yim!

    Welcome To The Favorites!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2021 1:12


    What's your favorite? Who's your favorite? Jes Tom and Tessa Skara sit down with their fave queer artists and comedians and ask them the essential question of our time: What's Your Favorite Way To Self Soothe? Photo by Bridget Bardore and poster by Julia Rosenfeld.

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