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In our first politics episode of 2025, we welcome back friends of the show Mitch Lerner and Ross Godwin. This time, we're here to talk about perhaps the most dramatic makeover of all time - taking the Democratic Party from drab to fab. The boys talk about new media, rizz, trust and authenticity, and the need for nerds. Plus, we share some insights from listeners, and Ross introduces us to Project 2029. Let's put the party back in Democratic Party, and let's get that party started now!Get into the spirit by watching the 2003 intro to the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy!Check out Sidebar, Ross's podcast at the Washington Post!Follow Frank & Sense on Instagram and Bluesky! Sign up for the newsletter here!

Our guest on this episode is Carson Kressley—Emmy Award-winning TV personality, style expert, fashion designer, and New York Times best-selling author.   Carson became a household name in 2003 as one of the original “Fab Five” on Bravo's groundbreaking Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, revolutionizing the way we think about style, confidence, and self-expression. Since then, he's graced our screens on Dancing with the Stars, Celebrity Apprentice, RuPaul's Drag Race, The Traitors, and many more.   Beyond television, Carson is also a celebrated author, with books like Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big? A Cheeky Guide to Feeling Sexier in Your Own Skin & Unleashing Your Personal Style, helping readers embrace fashion with humor and heart.   We loved this conversation so much that we're bringing it back! Tune in as Carson shares his journey, style wisdom, and some unforgettable behind-the-scenes stories.

Adam and Dr. Drew open up the week by musing over how the people overly worried about Safety aren't piping up when it comes to safety and Gaza, Lily Collins, star of Emily In Paris, getting a surrogate for her baby when it was not medically necessary, and we revisit one of Joe Biden's greatest hits, Joe Biden talking about Airline Fees affecting the poor, and people of color.

In this episode I talk with Jerry Kolber, the creative mind behind hit edutainment shows like Brain Games and Brainchild. With a background in reality TV and a passion for making learning interactive, Jerry shares how he transformed passive viewing experiences into engaging, educational content. We discuss everything from his early days producing Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to partnering with Pharrell Williams on a Netflix show and launching the educational podcast Who Smarted?. Jerry also offers practical tips for teachers on using multimedia resources to enhance classroom engagement without adding extra workload. I Takeaways: Edutainment is the Future: Jerry Kolbert's shows like Brain Games and Brainchild prove that education can be both engaging and fun through interactive, multimedia experiences. Making Learning Relatable: Jerry emphasizes the importance of making educational content relatable to students' lives, whether through storytelling or personalized teaching methods. Lessons from Reality TV: Jerry's experience in reality TV taught him how to create compelling narratives, a skill he now applies to educational content. Support for Teachers: His Who Smarted? podcast and Brainchild show come with free resources and curriculum support, making it easier for teachers to bring new ideas into the classroom. Navigating Tough Topics: Jerry shares how his team reframed sensitive topics, like sex education, into more classroom-friendly discussions about attraction, making learning accessible to all ages. — Want to Learn more about Jerry Kobler? https://www.atomicentertainment.com/jerry-kolber https://whosmarted.com/ — Don't be shy come say hi: andrea@human-content.com and podcasterandrea.com Watch on YouTube: @educatorandrea Listen Anywhere You Podcast: Apple, Spotify, PodChaser, etc. — A Human Content Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ever noticed how the vibe can suddenly shift when a guy finds out you're gay? On this episode of Dear Bianca, I'm diving deep into the "Straight Guy Shuffle" – that awkward dance they do when their initial interest takes an unexpected turn. From the subtle cues to the more obvious changes, I'm sharing my candid observations on how some men react when their attraction goes from "interested" to "uh oh" just because they find out you're gay - weirdos!  Plus, we're chatting about uncertain stress of the holiday season and sending out happy holiday vibes to all! Oh, and did I mention the exciting launch of Saphyx Society – my elite community for sapphic women? I'll be sharing some of the juicy details on this exclusive club. Follow Bianca: @dearbiancapodcast Follow Saphyx Society: @saphyxsociety Have a topic you want me to cover or a story to share? Email me: dearbiancapodcast@gmail.com xx B

This week we welcome back a treasured friend of this show, renowned design guru and the heartbeat of the Fab Five, Bobby Berk!  It's been four years since we last talked to Bobby so we have a lot of ground to cover in this episode.  Bobby tells us about the designers like Michael Graves and Isaac Mizrahi who he drew inspiration from early in his career. He tells stories about his humble beginnings with retail gigs at stores like Bed Bath & Beyond and Restoration Hardware – maybe part of what makes him so relatable? – and how his career as a designer blossomed from there. And with the holidays upon us, we also take the opportunity to ask Bobby about how he celebrates (or survives) the holidays. He offers some great insights on instituting some personal boundaries to maintain sanity that are not too late to put into rotation this year. *** Thought-provoking Quotes: “At my grandparents' A-frame cabin in Colorado, every square inch was red, and I mean R-E-D shag carpet and it looked like a whole gaggle of muppets laying on the ground….and I think I liked it. I remember laying on the ground threading my fingers through the carpet.” – Jen Hatmaker “I loved going to my friends houses where it was just cool and calm and nothing to look at. But honestly that's not what I'm drawn to anyway. My house looks like a rainbow exploded. I have a kelly green velvet couch, a gallery wall that has every single color. I've got some bat shit wallpaper going on. I've decorated it like I've never seen the color gray.” – Amy Hardin “I'm drawn to spaces that have life in them, I like color – I like it when a room is even outrageous. Whether or not I would exactly do that thing, I think, ‘I like where your head is at'”. – Jen Hatmaker “You're the CEO of your own instincts and design and if you love it, it's going to work.” – Bobby Berk Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Eye_(2003_TV_series) Queer Eye - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Eye_(2018_TV_series) Queer Eye on Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/80160037 Series 26: Episode 02: Queer Eye's Bobby Berk on the Fire Inside Us All - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-26/queer-eyes-bobby-berk-and-the-fire-inside-us-all/ BobbyBerk.com - https://bobbyberk.com/ Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good for the Mind: An Interior Design Book by Bobby Berk - https://amzn.to/3A7TjXT When Jen met Bobby in Mexico - https://www.instagram.com/p/B5HMYkUASvc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==  Tripointe Homes Style Finder Quiz - https://bobby-berk.tripointehomes.com/style-finder/ Michael Graves - https://michaelgraves.com/ Michael Graves Target  Collaboration - https://michaelgraves.com/product/target-products/ Isaac Mizrahi Target Collaboration - https://www.target.com/b/isaac-mizrahi/-/N-s73qo Jen's master bathroom remodel - https://www.instagram.com/p/DB38zmHOrYU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Bobby at the 76th Emmy's - https://www.instagram.com/p/C__NYm2yz8G/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== RuPaul's Drag Race - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1353056/ Celebrity Holiday Homes on HGTV - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1519269/ Guest's Links: Bobby's website - https://bobbyberk.com/ Bobby's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bobby/ Bobby's Twitter - https://x.com/bobbyberk Bobby's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BobbyBerkOfficial Bobby's TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bobby Bobby's Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/bobbyberk/  Connect with Jen! Jen's website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen's Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmaker Jen's Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen's Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmaker Jen's YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

IT'S MEN'S HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH AND THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF GREAT INFO! Paul is a super straight guy who got into prostate massages and pegging and he called in to talk all about it. Why and how did he get into prostate massages? How did he wind up having a prostate orgasm? And, how did he then get his wife into pegging him? Tune in to hear all the details including how his erectile dysfunction started it all, the specific issues he was having and the different solutions he tried including vitamins, pills, exercise, hormones etc, to solve his issues and the results he found from implementing them, how are ED issues affected his d*** size, what he did to increase his “volume” as well as his performance time. how and why he then started doing his own prostate massages and how uncomfortable it was at first, his first prostate orgasms and what it felt like and why he then started chasing them, how and why he never told his wife about any of his issues or any of the things he was trying, how he brought being into anal action to her and how she reacted at first, how and why she eventually got down without and totally got into pegging, the toys he prefers/recommends for achieving a prostate orgasm and why, how prostate orgasms have increased his pre cum status and how his orgasms are now hands-free and can happen when he's not erect, how having prostate orgasms not only fixed his issues but also increased his size and girth, instructions on how to find your own prostate, what it feels like when you find it and own to achieve an orgasm through it plus a whole lot more. ORIGINALLY AIRED 10/23 **To see anonymous pics of my female guests + gain access to my PRIVATE Discord channel where people get super XX naughty + hear anonymous confessions + get all the episodes early and AD FREE, join my Patreon! It's only $7 a month and you can cancel at any time. You can sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/StrictlyAnonymousPodcast To Join SDC and get a FREE Trial! click here: https://www.sdc.com/?ref=37712 or go to SDC.com and use my code 37712 Want to be on the show? Email me at strictlyanonymouspodcast@gmail.com or go to http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com and click on "Be on the Show" Have something quick you want to confess while remaining anonymous? Call the CONFESSIONS hotline at 347-420-3579. You can call 24/7. All voices are changed. Sponsors: https://beducate.me/anonymous60 Get BEDucated! For 60% off PLUS a FREE 24-hour trial, click the link and use code: anonymous60 https://butterwellness.com/ Get 30% off your order from The Perineum Massager by Butter Wellness. Go to butterwellness.com and use the code “STRICTLY” at checkout for 30% off your entire order. https://www.magicmind.com/sac  You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases with code SAC20 at checkout Follow me! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/strictanonymous/ Twitter https://twitter.com/strictanonymous?lang=en Website http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com/ Everything else https://linktr.ee/Strictlyanonymouspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Caitlin V. is a sex and relationship coach who specializes in helping men navigate their sexual challenges, goals, and concerns. She's also the host of Good Sex on Discovery+, and today she joins Jeff to answer listener questions about sex, intimacy, and communication with men. Together, they explore how men can help their partners feel more confident in their bodies, why some men struggle to listen to what their partners want in bed, why the word "finish" should be retired from our sex vocabularies, and much more. It's an insightful episode that covers topics we don't always hear discussed.Listen to Jeff's podcast Big Dating Energy: https://wavepodcastnetwork.com/Keep up with Caitlin V. on YouTube and at CaitlinV.comSubscribe to Jeff's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyjeffJeff's TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/therapyjeff/Jeff's Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@therapyjeffDISCLAIMER: The insights shared in this podcast are for educational purposes only, and should not be seen as a substitute for professional therapy. The guidance is general in nature, and does not equate to the personalized care provided by a licensed therapist. The callers are not therapy clients.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Scott sits down with Karamo Brown, from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, to discuss everything from the struggles of coming out, especially coming from a religious upbringing, battles with acceptance, fatherhood and everything in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 856th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by Global Poker, Chad Holloway, Kyna England, and Mike Holtz are back at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about Robbi Jade Lew's appearance on the new reality TV show The Anonymous on the USA Network. Not only that, Chad chatted with Lew herself, and you can check out that interview in this episode. They then discuss Andrew Moreno's incredible call with just queen-high to win a tournament down at The Lodge, Dan Bilzerian's Las Vegas mansion hitting the market for $25 million (see pictures), and Stephen Song winning the 2024 EPT Barcelona.  Speaking of winners, the crew also highlights Angela Jordison winning her first MSPT title for a career-high score, Phil Laak taking down the Mega Millions for $380K, and Vegas Matt emerging victorious in the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) IV, good for $20,000. Speaking of that event, Haliey Welch, known for her viral moment as "The Hawk Tuah Girl," made her first-ever appearance in the poker world. Finally, Chad shares some details on the upcoming charity poker event by NBA Star Russell Westbrook in partnership with the WPT Foundation. A new PokerNews Podcast will drop weekly every Friday at 8a PT / 11a ET / 4p UK time. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you do not miss an episode! Time Stamps *Time | Topic* 00:11 | Welcome Kyna England & Mike Holtz 00:30 | Robbi Jade Lew on reality TV show The Anonymous 02:00 | Playing with Fyre Festival's Andy King 02:43 | Interview w/ Robbi Jade Lew 11:25 | Andrew Moreno makes incredible call with queen-high 20:00 | Dan Bilzerian lists Las Vegas mansion for $25 million 23:30 | Stephen Song wins EPT Barcelona 24:20 | Mike “Space Jammed” Stephen Song 26:03 | Stephen Song winner interview 28:58 | Angela Jordison takes down MPST East Chicago for career-high score 32:45 | Phil Laak wins Mega Millions Tournament at 'The Bike' for $380k 35:00 | Clyde Gaskins going to be on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy 35:50 | Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) Invitational IV 36:18 | Vegas Matt wins CPT event for $20,000 37:28 | Haliey Welch (AKA Hawk Tuah Girl) ventures into poker world 41:45 | Mike loves dogs 43:45 | NBA Star Russell Westbrook's Charity Partners w/ WPT Foundation

In this profound episode of Candid Conversations, Jonathan Youssef sits down with Becket Cook, author of "A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption" and host of The Becket Cook Show. Becket shares his powerful testimony of living a homosexual lifestyle until a radical encounter with Jesus transformed his life. Raised in a conservative Christian family in Dallas, Texas, Becket navigated the complexities of his identity and faith, eventually finding his true calling in Christ.Join us as Becket recounts his journey from Hollywood's elite circles to a devoted follower of Jesus. He offers insight into how the church can compassionately and truthfully engage with issues of sexuality. Becket's story is a testament to the redemptive power of God's love and the importance of unwavering faith.Don't miss this inspiring conversation, a story of transformation and a guide for churches and individuals to navigate conversations about sexuality with grace and truth.Connect with Jonathan and the Candid community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/candidpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/candidpodTwitter: https://twitter.com/thecandidpodTranscript:This transcript recounts Candid Conversations with Jonathan Youssef Episode 261: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption: Becket Cook[00:02] JMY: Today's guest is a very special guest. It is Becket Cook. Becket has written a book called A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption. He is the host of The Becket Cook Show, which can be found on YouTube. Raised in Dallas, Texas, Becket attended a Jesuit college preparatory school, lived the homosexual lifestyle until the Lord radically called him and drew him to Himself. And now Becket is out to help churches have the conversation about sexuality and help the church navigate. Becket, thank you so much for taking the time to be on Candid Conversations.[01:13] Becket: Thank you, Jonathan. Good to be here.[01:17] JMY: We've got to start with your story. It's profound and amazing. All salvation stories are amazing; yours is unique. I'd love it if you'd just give us a few minutes and navigate us through your testimony.[01:39] Becket: Yeah, I mean, I'm still in shock. I'm still in shock that this is my story after fifteen years. So, when I was very young I started to notice that I was attracted to the same sex, which was very a disorienting thing, especially at that time when it was very much taboo in Dallas and in my family. My family were Christians and of course, all of my peers and my schoolmates unanimously believed that, I mean, we didn't even have to say it; it was known that homosexuality was just wrong or bad or weird or sinful. And so I had this kind of dark secret. But I was very social in school. I even went steady with girls in seventh and eighth grade, and in high school, I dated three girls, seriously dated them. But it was all the while I knew I wasn't attracted to the girls. It was just like a social thing for me. And so in my junior year at Jesuit, I met a sophomore, and he was dealing with the same thing. He was dealing with the same-sex attraction. So when that happened, the floodgates opened because we became friends, and then like three months or six months, I can't remember how long into our friendship, we basically came out to each other one night at this club.And when that happened, we just started exploring gay life and gay culture in Dallas and going to gay bars. I was 15, he was 14. I don't know where my parents were, but by the time I was in high school, my parents were so checked out that I could be gone for three days, and they didn't even notice. God bless them, they're in heaven now.So we were going to gay bars in Dallas, not sure how we got into these bars, but we did, and then we were going to this one nightclub called the Stark Club. I mention this because it was such a seminal moment in my life. The Starck Club was very famous in Dallas, and it was designed by Philippe Starck, the French designer, and it was beautiful. It was just so, for lack of a better word, it was very chic. And so we started going to the Starck Club, and the first time I walked in, it was just very grand. There was this grand staircase with a red carpet that went up to these giant doors, and you walked into this beautiful space. And I walked in, and there were gay people, straight people, artists, trans people, drag queens—it's a whole mix of kind of the subculture, and the whole mix of artists.And so I walked in and it was like, ah, these are my people![05:28] JMY: You felt like you belonged.[05:29] Becket: Yeah, I belong here. And I started going. And we would go to Starck Club—it was open Thursday through Sunday, and we would go every night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night we would go. And sometimes I wouldn't get home until 5:00 in the morning. And one time my dad was up. My dad was a lawyer. He was up at 5:00 in the morning (he would always get up at 5:00), and I walked in the front door, and he walked past me and kind of looked at me, and I was like, “Hi, Dad.” He didn't even say anything like “Where have you been?” My childhood was very permissive, for better or worse.So then, when I went away to college, the same thing happened. I met someone at college who was same sex attracted and then we eventually came out to each other and again I had a confidant, I had someone to talk to because I still wasn't out, but at this point in my life, I wouldn't have described myself as “gay” because I just thought this was a phase. This was a phase that will probably go away and I'll probably get married to a woman and have kids.It wasn't really my identity for this whole time in high school and college until after college I moved to Tokyo with my best friend from college. And we moved to Tokyo because we didn't really know what we wanted to do with our lives. I was premed in college, and then I realized I didn't want to be a doctor, which was bad after four years of studying.[07:23] JMY: A lot of investment.[07:25] Becket: You know it was really upsetting. And so I applied to law school, and actually, then, as kind of a backup, I applied to dental school. And so I got into law school and dental school. I was kind of like, “I don't know if I want to do any of this.” So both of us moved to Tokyo to kind of have a gap year, basically, to figure out what we wanted to do. And it was when I was in Tokyo that his friend from Texas came to stay with us, we'll call him “Adam.” Adam was part of the Christo exhibition in Japan. Christo was a very famous artist who recently died, a French artist, but he and his wife used to do these dramatic art projects like covering the Reichstadt in fabric. And they did this thing in Japan where they lined parts of Japan with umbrellas, like yellow and blue umbrellas. They did it in California and Japan.And so anyway, this guy Adam was part of that exhibition. So he stayed with us for like a week in Tokyo. And it was weird, because when I first met Adam, I had no interest and didn't think anything of it, but by the time he left, we had fallen in love, quote unquote. And so that was the first time I'd experienced that rush of emotion, that romantic feeling. And then we got into a relationship, and it was my first real relationship with a guy.And so that was a game-changer, too, because that's when it became my identity, homosexuality became my identity. And I was happy to be gay. I was like, “This is who I am. This is immutable.” I was thrilled. And while I was in Japan, my sister wrote me a letter asking if I was gay because she had had her suspicions for a long time. And so I wrote her back and I said yes and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. By the way, p.s., don't tell Mom and Dad. I'll tell them when I get back home. And, of course, she told them immediately when she got my letter, which I was happy about because she did all the heavy lifting for me.[10:03] JMY: Softened the blow.[10:04] Becket: Yeah. So by the time I got home, my whole family knew. My family is very conservative, all believers, and so they, especially my siblings, were not happy about this. And my parents weren't either, but my parents' reaction was so loving and gracious. My mother, whom I was very close to, of course, was quite surprised, gay son, close mother, surprise, surprise. My mother cried. I walked into the kitchen that first night after I got back from Tokyo, and my mother just started crying, and I knew why she was crying.And I said, “Mom, what's wrong?” And she said, “I heard you're a homosexual.”And that's when AIDS was still kind of a death sentence, and so she was terrified, I was terrified about it, and so I just tried to calm her down.I said, “Mom, this is not a big deal. Don't worry about me.”The next day, my dad came up to me, and my dad is such a man's man; it surprised him to respond. Because he came up to me and he said, “Hey Beck, I heard you're a homosexual, and you know”—[11:32] JMY: Like he read it in the newspaper or something.[11:36] Becket: Yeah, and so he said, “Is there anything I did wrong as a father? Are you angry at me for this?” He listed three things, and it was basically—I can't remember what they were—did I not spend enough time with you? Did your brother beat you up or whatever, and I didn't intervene? Are you angry about that?And I was like, “Dad, no. This is not your fault. This is just who I am. It's not a big deal.”And that was kind of the end of the conversation with my parents. They never brought it up again. And what they did was so genius. Because I moved to L.A. So, when I got back from Tokyo, I realized I was not going to grad school; I was moving to Los Angeles because a lot of my friends moved here, and I was like, “I'm going to pursue writing and acting. And so I moved to L.A. My dad was so confused when I told him. It was like a couple of weeks before law school. I was enrolled in law school, and I was like, “Dad, I'm moving to L.A. tomorrow.”And he was like, “Huh?” He was so confused. And so I moved to L.A. and I had this group of friends that were brilliant in L.A. When I got here, I had this built-in group of friends because several of my friends from high school already lived here, and they all came from Brown and Princeton and moved with all their friends to the West Coast and to L.A. to work in Hollywood, in showbiz. My group of friends were so smart and funny and brilliant and ambitious. And they all were movers and shakers. All those people, guys, girls, straight, gay, the whole mix, the same people run this town now; they run Hollywood. So whatever you're watching on Netflix or whatever–[13:51] JMY: They're behind it.[13:52] Becket: And in fact, the Jeffrey Epstein whatever, Filthy Rich, was produced by one of my dear friends from back in that time. Anyway, so I had this great group of friends, I was out, and we all wanted to make it in Hollywood, which they were all—my friends were becoming huge stars or becoming huge directors or writers overnight. I mean, it was wild to see how quickly they became successful. Minnie Driver was a dear friend, and she did Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Suddenly, she was a movie star, and this was happening to all of my friends. Like Mariska Hargitay was Jayne Mansfield's daughter, but nobody really knew her, but then she got—I drove her to her audition for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and she's still on the show twenty-three years later. She's made a fortune on that show. Well, I won't tell that part about Mariska, but we're still friends.But this was happening to all of my friends. We all wanted to make it in Hollywood; we all wanted to find true love, and I cycled through five serious, serious boyfriends over the years in L.A., live-in boyfriends. And then we all wanted to have extraordinary experiences, which we were doing in spades because my friends were all in the business. And the guy I just talked about was Diane Keaton's producing partner. So we were always invited to everything—the Grammys the Oscars, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the afterparties, to movie premiers every week. I was kind of in the mix.I met everyone in this town, literally everyone. I mean, name the person. I had dinner with Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and many, many other people. Hung out at Drew Barrymore's, went to Prince's house where he performed a concert in his backyard for three hours, hung out with Paris Hilton at her house, and went to her wedding engagement. For years, this was my life.And then I was successful a little bit, and I acted. I was successful at commercial acting, and I did a couple of indie films, one was at Sundance, and that wasn't really taking off. The writing was difficult. I sold a couple of projects that didn't make it to series, so then I ended up becoming a production designer in the fashion world. I just fell into it with The New York Times Magazine because my friend was the editor for it. And so that became my career, doing fashion shoots, these super-high-end fashion shoots. And I did that for a very long time, probably twenty years, seventeen years, I'm not sure.And so after the years of all of this and years of going to all of these fun things and experiencing all these things, I just started to feel the law of diminishing returns and I just felt like, What is this all about? I can't keep going to these dinner parties and going to these events. And it all came to a head at Paris Fashion Week in March of 2009. I used to go to Fashion Week in New York and Paris and that particular week I had gone to a bunch of the runway shows and a lot of them had afterparties, and I was at this one afterparty in this club called Regine, in the middle of Paris, a legendary place. The owner just died recently. But I was there, and everyone from the fashion world was there.I was sitting with Rachel Zoe, who's a fashion girl and has a TV show, and her husband, Roger, and I just remember drinking champagne and looking out over the crowd, and everyone was dancing and having the best time of their life, and I just felt such an overwhelming sense of emptiness. I was like, whoa, where did that come from? So, I ghosted the party and went back to the apartment I'd rented in [unintelligible] and I was up all night in a panic about my future. I was like, what am I going to do for the rest of my life? This isn't satisfying me anymore. I can't just keep going to parties and fabulous things and traveling the world. Yeah, it was fun for a long time, but it's not doing it for me anymore. And I knew that Christianity was not an option because I was gay, so I can't pursue that, so what am I going to do? So I was very, very troubled.[20:07] JMY: Can I ask, did that thought enter your mind, the pursuit of faith? Was that a cognizant thought or was that just sort of part of the narrative? Did you sit there and take an account and think perhaps ...?[20:26] Becket: Well, no. I knew that from my entire life.[20:31] JMY: It was always there as a separation.[20:33] Becket: God's not an option for me. And by that time in my life I was a practical atheist. All of my friends were atheists (they still are, most of them, my old friends). And I just, by that time in my life, I really just believed or felt like the Bible was an ancient myth, like any other ancient myth. God was not real. It was weird. It was a weird kind of disconnect because I believed my family's faith was real, which was interesting. So when I would go home to Dallas, it was weird. They would talk about their faith, they would pray, and I could sense that it was real, but I just felt like it could never be something for me because—[21:21 JMY: It's like a compartmentalization, right? This works for you; that won't work for me. Interesting.[21:28] Becket: And so six months later in L.A. I was at a coffee shop with my best friend, who still is gay, although we're not nearly as close, in fact, we barely see each other, if ever, because of this. But I was with my best friend, and we were chatting, hanging out at our favorite coffee shop in Silverlake, and we looked over, and there was a group of young people with Bibles on the table. There were five physical Bibles on the table, which is a shocking sight to see in L.A. But not only L.A. but Silverlake, which is a super progressive part of L.A.We were stunned because my friend was an atheist as well. He was culturally Jewish, a secular Jew from New York, and it was just like we were shocked. But I was intrigued because of that night in Paris six months before. I was kind of intrigued about what this Christian thing was, and I wanted to explore it.So my friend said, “Talk to them. See what they're doing.”And I was like, “No, I don't want to talk to them!”And anyway, I ended up turning to them, and I always say this, it's like a Christian's fantasy come true when a gay atheist turns to you and says, “Tell me all about Christianity.” And so we got into this conversation for like an hour or two. It was a long conversation. And I said, “What is your faith? Like what do you believe? I don't remember. Just tell me what you believe.”And they were very competent with the Scriptures, and they knew what the Gospel was and were very knowledgeable. And they said they went to a church in Hollywood called Reality L.A., an evangelical church. And with my friends back in the day, evangelicals were the enemy. They were somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun. But it didn't bother me. So I, of course, get to the question and I ask them, “What does your church believe about homosexuality?”And I kind of expected this answer, so it wasn't shocking. They said, “Well, we believe it's a sin.” Of course, that was 2009. Now, who knows what people will say.[24:27] JMY: It's a grab bag now.[24:29] Becket: I wasn't surprised by their response, but I was surprised by mine because I just kind of accepted that, and I didn't protest. And it's because of that night in Paris. I was open to hearing something different. I was just open at that point. God, obviously, was working with me.So they invited me to their church the following Sunday and I said, “I don't know. Just give me the address and I'll think about it.”So I had a whole week to think about it. And it was kind of a big deal because if any of my other friends, all my other atheist, Hollywood friends, found out that I'd gone to an evangelical church, it would have been super embarrassing, and they would have thought I was crazy. So I was debating all week: Should I do this? What if nothing happens? What if it's just fake and what if it's not real?But that following Sunday I woke up and I just was like, I'm going to do this. And I got in my car, drove to this high school auditorium where it meets on Sunset Boulevard, and I walked in. Before I walked in, I put the idea of homosexuality as my identity in this imaginary white box and put it on an imaginary shelf before I walked in. It was kind of weird. I don't know how that happened.And then I heard the worship music, which kind of freaked me out a little bit a first because I was like, Oh my gosh, Christian music, because I just saw this True Blood episode where (it was an HBO show that was disgusting, but anyway they satirized evangelical Christian worship music. And so I was like, Oh, this is weird.[26:38] JMY: That's not hard to do.[26:39] Becket: Yeah, exactly. But then it was actually nice, the music's nice. And I sat down by myself, I found a seat by myself, and the pastor came out and started preaching on Romans chapter 7 for an hour, and that's when everything started happening. Everything he was saying, every word he was saying, every sentence he was saying was resonating as truth in my mind and my heart and I didn't know why. I was literally on the edge of my seat, totally riveted to the sermon and to him, his speaking. And I was just like, What? This is true. What is he saying? I remember thinking, “This is the Gospel? This is good news!”And then after the sermon there were people on the sides of the auditorium on the prayer ministry that you could go get prayed with, and after his sermon there's another thirty minutes of worship time. So I walked over to this guy, which I reluctantly walked over to this guy on the side because, again, I was embarrassed to do this because I knew the people who had invited me there were probably watching me. And so I walked over to this guy and I said, “Hey, I don't know what I believe, but I'm here.” And he said, “Okay, let me pray for you.”And he prayed for me, and it was so loving and caring, and I was like, How does this random straight dude care about me so much?[28:14] JMY: Right.[28:16] Becket: Anyway, I went back to my seat and everyone else in the auditorium (there were a thousand people in the auditorium) everyone else was standing and singing and worshiping. And I sat down because I was just so overwhelmed by the sermon, by the music, by the prayer, and as soon as I sat down, the Holy Spirit just flooded me. I mean, it was like a Road to Damascus moment. God revealed Himself to me in the most powerful way. It was like God said, in my mind, God said, “I'm God. Jesus is my Son. Heaven is real, hell is real, the Bible is true. Welcome to my kingdom.”And I just burst into tears. I was doubled over, heaving and crying and crying for twenty-five minutes. And it was the most cathartic cry I've ever had. Everything came out. I was crying over the conviction of sin, but also the joy of meeting the king of the universe, Jesus Christ. And then I got home after the service. I don't really know how I made it home because I was such a wreck, and I got into bed to take a nap. And again, God did it again. God was like, “Here, here's some more Bible.”And I just, again, I just immediately, it was so real. It was like God's presence was right—it was there. And I burst into tears again and I was bawling in my bedroom, jumped out of my bed and was like, “God, you have my whole life, I'm yours. I'm done.”In that moment I knew that homosexual behavior was a sin. I knew that it was wrong. I knew that dating guys was not my identity anymore and I knew that dating guys was not a part of my future. But I didn't care at all, because I had just met Jesus. And I'm like, I'm going with that guy, forget those guys.And that was September 20, 2009, and I've never looked back. And I've never felt like life is unfair. Because I'm single and chaste, and I've never felt like life is unfair for me or like I'm being cheated out of something. I just feel like I can't believe that God had mercy on me and I'm in the Kingdom of God. And I have, by the way, eternal life, which is cool to have. So yeah, that's the story.[31:09] JMY: Oh, it's such a wonderful story, just even the way you give us the snapshots of those moments of what you thought you knew what you wanted and you know now the Spirit was preparing you and doing the work of tilling the soil of your heart to culminate in that moment. But as we know, that's not the end of the story. Your story continues on. And so I wonder if we could just talk a little bit about your family, how your family interacted with you. So a number of our listeners will be people who have family members, friends who are near to them who are living this lifestyle and they don't know what to do, they don't know what to say. Do I say a lot? Do I say a little? Do I say nothing? Where do I go?And I know some of that will be kind of case by case, but I think it will be helpful to hear what was it that the interactions of your friends and family who were believers? How did they sort of walk this out with you?[32:35] Becket: Yeah. My family ... Well, first of all, you know, because I moved to L.A. I was very disconnected from my family. But my parents, I was very close with my mother. We talked on the phone all the time. She came out and visited many times. My family was just kind of very hands-off because there was really nothing they could do. I was an adult, I lived in L.A. What would they do, come hunt me down and drive me to church?My parents were just brilliant. I just loved how they responded to and dealt with it. Because I did this episode on my show where I recently discovered a typed prayer that my mother did. My sister-in-law sent me a text, saying, “Hey, I just found this prayer that your mother typed to God basically, and I found it in an old box from some of your mother's things.” And she sent me this prayer. And that's what my parents did. They just loved me and prayed for me.My mother and this prayer are amazing; it's like twenty-four points. And the first point, because my mother knew, I guess, which was shocking to me, she just knew instinctively that she wasn't going to convince me not to be gay. So, she went straight to the throne room of the grace of God. She knew it was a spiritual battle. I wish I had the prayer with me right now. She said, “In the all-powerful name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we come against the enemy with the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God.”And when I read this prayer recently when I got it, I was stunned because my mother was praying for me all this time, but she never told me. Because if she had told me, “Hey Becket, I'm praying for you,” it would have been a disaster because I would have been like, “Why are you praying for me? I don't need prayer. This is who I am. Stop praying.” It would have upset me, so she never said that. My dad never said that.My sister-in-law, who is in my book, Kim, the way she dealt with it was brilliant, too, because whenever I would go to Dallas for the holidays, she would call me. She's an evangelical Christian, and I knew where she stood on this issue, too, but she would call me all the time, which I was kind of like, Why is Kim calling me? Why does she want to hang out with me? She knows I'm gay and she's a super-conservative Christian. She would call me and invite me to coffee, and we would hang out. And I would talk about my boyfriends, she would talk about God and what was going on in her life, and she never once pulled out the Bible and said, “Hey Becket, you know in Leviticus 18 …” She never, ever once did that. She just loved me.And then she prayed, unbeknownst to me, she was praying this verse over me for twenty years. In Acts 26:18, when Paul is in front of King Agrippa, and he's talking about how God sent him to preach to the Gentiles, he says, “to open their eyes so that they may be turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. That they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those sanctified by faith in Me.”So she was praying for me, my family members were praying for me, I get the impulse for parents, family members, friends, the immediate impulse is “I want to fix this. I want to fix the problem.” That rarely, if ever, works. However, there is an exception, a caveat I'll get to. But the best thing you can do is just be diligent in prayer and go straight to God. Because it has to be a supernatural thing. The Holy Spirit has to convict a person. There's no other way. Otherwise, it's just behavior modification.[37:31] JMY: Praise the Lord. Praise God that it's His work and not ours because we'd screw it all up.[37:37] Becket: Yeah, exactly. However, because of this new sort of generation of social contagion of LGBTQ+, you know, Brown University 40 percent of the student body—this just makes me laugh—40 percent of the student body identifies as LGBTQ. I mean, that is laughable. When I was in college, it was about 1 percent.[38:05] JMY: Now everyone is.[38:06] Becket: Yeah, now it's super popular. So I came out as gay at the wrong time, and now I came out as Christian at the wrong time. [unintelligible]. But anyway, so with that aspect of it, when you're a teenager just suddenly claims, “I'm LGBTQ,” or “I'm pansexual,” or “I'm nonbinary,” “I'm queer,” I think in those cases there should be, there could be some pushback from the parents in terms of saying, “Look …” Because this happened with me with a young woman, a teenage girl who came up to me at a conference and said, “I'm pansexual and nonbinary.”And I said, “Why? Why are you?” She didn't have an answer for me, and I said, “Are you that way because you want attention, popularity, street cred? Why do you think you're... because when I was your age, there was no such thing, so why do you think you're this way?”And she just started welling up with tears, and she needed, I just sensed in that moment she needed to be pushed back on. And later that day she ended up breaking down, getting prayed for my somebody, and she came to Christ.[39:39] JMY: It was a crisis moment for her, not a … it had not become a true identity where she had been encapsulated in something. She seemed confused more than anything. I mean, obviously, you could make that argument for anyone.[39:55] Becket: Yeah, this young teenage boy was like, “Oh, and I'm asexual.” And I was like, “You haven't even gone through puberty yet.”So yeah, I do think that when it is this kind of contagion aspect, I've done episodes on this, and I talk about this. You can trace exactly how we got to where we are in the culture from obviously from if you've read Carl Truman, you can go back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but even going back to the sexual revolution in the Sixties or the gay movement that started in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, you can trace so clearly how we've become indoctrinated into believing the lies of the world. And it's just so obvious to me, and it's like, just the TV shows, Will & Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Brokeback Mountain and all these gay-themed shows and movies were so powerful in the culture, and it changed so many people's minds on this issue.Of course, I was thrilled at the time. When I was living that life, I was thrilled. I was friends with Sean Hayes on Will & Grace, and I was friends with many of the people who created these shows.[41:33] JMY: They were changing the narrative.[41:34] Becket: Yeah. And it was like Madsen and Kirk, the book After the Ball, they published. These two Harvard guys, graduates, published a book called After the Ball, and I wish I had it right here. Where's my copy? Anyway, the book was published in 1989, and basically, it was about how to normalize homosexuality in America. It was the subtitle of the book. And everything in that book has come true. Everything they said in that book has come true. Basically, it was like talking about homosexuality until it was thoroughly tiresome. That was one of their points. Another one of their points was to make heterosexuals feel like you are a victim, and they'll come to your side and to your aid.And so all these things have come to pass, and that's why, even in the church, people are falling for this and caving to it, caving to the culture and buying this lie. And again, I challenge people to, okay, would you be … would you be thinking this way fifty years ago? Would you be thinking this way a hundred years ago? So obviously, the culture—[43:16] JMY: Not critically thinking.[43:117] Becket: Obviously, like the culture has influenced you. Because some of my friends, some of my high school—I say this all the time—in my high school, everyone believed it was a sin, it was wrong, in the girls' school, in the boys' school. Now some of those same people are like allies, LGBTQ allies, and it's like, gee, I wonder what's happened over the last thirty years? Maybe it's the power of persuasion from movies and TV, which I get. It is very powerful.And so yeah, that's why I think with some cases, in some cases it is good to say, “Hey, why don't we walk through the last fifty years and see how it has shaped what we believe?” And so that can be helpful, too.[44:17] JMY: You're uniquely gifted, coming out of that world and into the Christian world, to have a voice to the church. We even laughed about the fact that some churches wouldn't even have you to come and speak because you're kind of against them.What are the things that you're putting in front of churches and trying to coach them through or equip them with? How do we deal with the culture? How do we deal with our young people who are falling into it or our children who maybe are saying and asking these questions? It sounds like there's a level of asking good questions and pushing back, as you've just given us examples. But what are some ways you're helping the church navigate all this?[45:27] Becket: There are so many different ways. But like Jesus was the master at balancing grace and truth publicly. I read through all four Gospels, not often, in one sitting, and I just watch what Jesus does and how He interacts with tax collectors, prostitutes, and sinners. And at the woman at the well, first of all, He's talking to a Samaritan woman, which is crazy for a Jewish man to do, and He's so loving and kind to her. And she, you know, He's like, “Oh, go get your husband.” And she's like, “Oh, I don't have a husband.” And He's like, “Yeah, you were married five times.”[46:17] JMY: “The one you're with now isn't your husband.”[46:19] Becket: “And the one you're with now isn't your husband.” So Jesus doesn't compromise the truth, but He also is super gracious and grace-full. That's what I see in the church is I see this happen all the time where parents when their kids come out, they love their kids—and I get it—like they love their kids so much that they suddenly change their theology and become [Overlapping voices] in their theology. And it's like, no, that's not the answer, because if my parents had affirmed and said, “Oh, Becket, you're fine,” I would not have respected them, number one.And my family when I got saved, the first people I contacted were my family because they never lied to me. I talk about this in my book, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; they refused to compromise God's Word by one iota. And they knew that they were going to go into a fiery furnace. They were not willing to compromise God's Word. And so that's my main thrust to the church is don't ever give up your convictions on this issue, but love your neighbor, your child as generously as you can, love them, love them. And the real key is to pray for them.The worst thing you can do is affirm them and say, “Oh, I don't think it's a sin anymore,” because that is leading them down a path of eternal destruction. That is the meanest, cruelest thing you can ever do to a child or anyone is say that to them. And so that's partly what I try to convey to churches. Also, I try to, sometimes, talk about what I go through; I spend a very long time going through every turning point in the history of the gay movement and how it has affected the culture and affected us.[48:48] JMY: I mean, just quickly if you've given that talk enough times, what kind of the high points of that? If you had to kind of—maybe you haven't prepped for that, but if you could just hit a couple of those high points for us.[49:02] Becket: The first high point was the Stonewall Inn in 1969, when police raided it. Because it was illegal to be gay in 1969 in the country. And so police raided the Stonewall Inn, which was a gay bar in the West Village in New York, and then there were riots, like three nights after that there were three nights of riots. That was June 28th. That's why Pride Month is in June. It used to be just one day, but now it's a whole month. Pretty soon it'll be all year, but that's a whole thing.[49:39] JMY: Perpetuity.[49:40] Becket: Yeah. And so that was a huge turning point because the year following, San Francisco, L.A., New York, I think Chicago had gay pride marches. That's when the pride marches started. They used to be called marches and now they're parades.[49:59] JMY: Like a protest.[50:00] Becket: Exactly, and that was a huge turning point of the gay movement. Then the AIDS crisis was a huge turning point because that's when the culture, right or wrong, the culture started to see gay men as victims, and so that was a huge, huge turning point. And there were so many movies, like Philadelphia, with Tom Hanks in that, and there were so many movies about that issue. And, interestingly, AIDS was something that propelled the gay movement forward. You would think it would do the reverse, but it propelled it forward. And so that was a big deal.And then in the Nineties—I mean, I'm skipping ahead of a bunch of stuff—but the Nineties, Will & Grace, Ellen, the sitcom with Ellen DeGeneres, she came out as a lesbian on the show, her character came out as a lesbian. And Will & Grace, it's like these guys are hilarious. I mean, what could be wrong with this? So—[51:22] JMY: Yeah, they're approachable,[51:23] Becket: They're cool. What could be wrong with this? And then a significant turning point was—oh, and then Sex and the City was a big deal in the Nineties. There was a gay character on that show. And Sex and the City was created by Darren Starr. I know Darren. And a lot of the writers on the show, the showrunner, is gay. Anyway, so what was interesting about Sex and the City is there were a lot of gay male writers on that show, and they were turning these women into gay men. The way these women had one-night stands and all this stuff. My friends and I would joke about it, like these are gay guys but in women's bodies. This is crazy. It's hilarious. So that show was a big game-changer.And then Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, that was major because that was the first time—I remember when that came out in 2003, I think, and it was five gay guys giving clueless straight guys makeovers. And that's when not only women and gay guys were watching, but that's when straight guys started watching because their girlfriends were like, “Oh my gosh, honey, you've got to watch this show; it's brilliant!”I remember telling a good friend of mine at the time, “This is going to change everything. This show is going to change everything.” And it did.And then you can skip to the, I mean, there were a lot of things, but you can skip to the legalization of gay marriage in 2015.[53:18] JMY: Yeah, Obergfell, sure.[53:19] Becket: That, of course, that's where we are now. And then now, of course, every city—So I lived right next to Beverly Hills, and Beverly Hills is very conservative because it's mostly Persian Jews who live in Beverly Hills. They're a very conservative group of people. They are very family oriented. And I was riding my bike the other day, and there was a pride flag painted on the sidewalk, in the middle of the street, an intersection, a pride, yeah, just like a pride thing. And I was shocked because I was like, wow, that's interesting that Beverly Hills would do this, because I know the mayor is conservative.But what I subsequently found out is that just like corporations have these rating systems where you have to be [Overlapping voices] you support—[54:24] JMY: Cities have them as well. Wow.[54:25] Becket: They get rated by I think it's the Human Rights Campaign, HRC. They get rated, so Beverly Hills doesn't want to lose tourism, so they will go along with it and put a pride flag on the street. And so now it's so ubiquitous, and I don't even know it at this point. I don't even know at this point how an unbeliever, or even some believers, can even believe that homosexual behavior is still a sin after all that's going on in the culture now. It's a rare thing, even for Christians now, to believe that it's still a sin.[55:15] JMY: it's almost like going back to first-century Christianity, where we're just so countercultural and so bizarre. How could you think there's only one God in Rome? And it's like we have all this plethora of gods? It is a sense of returning to thinking you're so backward and all this sort of thing.But the Lord's in control, and He knows what He's doing, and He's raised individuals such as yourself, and as we mentioned before, Rosaria and others, who are helping the church think critically and think helpfully and equipping and we're so grateful for the work that the Lord's doing in you. And so I want to say, Becket Cook, I'm so grateful for our time together and pray the Lord would bless your ministry.[56:24] Becket: Thank you, Jonathan. I appreciate it. And I'm really looking forward to coming to Atlanta and meeting you guys in person.[56:33] JMY: Absolutely. 

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She is a comms leader with 15 years of experience in creating and executing multi-dimensional internal and external communications programs, including executive thought leadership, business momentum, product and category innovation, third-party and influencer validation, and next-gen technology. Deep experience in B2B and B2C with a reputation for cross-functional collaboration aligned with business objectives.About VantaVanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate trust in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.About BravoBravo is a TV network like HBO or PBS. It's owned by NBCUniversal, and is known for reality TV shows like Top Chef, The Real Housewives franchise (Beverly Hills, Atlanta, Dallas, Dubai, etc.), Below Deck, and more. It's been around since 1980 and was originally dedicated to independent film and the performing arts. Now its target audience is 25-54 year old women and the LGBTQIA community. The network's first big show was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which launched in 2003. And that was a turning point that led the network to focusing on reality TV. According to Entertainment Weekly, “Bravo's quirky reality programming mixes high culture and low scruples to create deliciously addictive television."What B2B Companies Can Learn From Bravo:Take a multi-platform, multi-channel approach. Post content daily across social channels, on your website, blog, everywhere.  This increases brand awareness and keeps you top of mind for your audience while also giving them multiple chances to interact with your brand. Of Bravo, Erin says, “They've got BravoCon, which is in essence their user conference. They've got Watch What Happens Live. They have social. You don't just experience these characters and these stories once a week in a one hour format and then forget it. You're engaging with them all the time.”Connect your message to relevant and timely topics in the real world. By referencing trending topics, you strengthen the impact of your message, boost your search engine visibility and capture the interest and engagement of your audience. Erin says, “A lot of people falsely just assume that because something is interesting to them as a company or from a product that they're launching that it's going to be interesting to everyone. And the real magic happens when you marry it to the things that are going on in the world around them, and they can really feel that you're connecting that for them. That's really powerful.”Give your brand a spokesperson. This person is responsible for synthesizing your messaging as well as humanizing your brand. Ian says, “The synthesis of the information is oftentimes just as important in the presentation. Andy Cohen also acts as the calming, reassuring presence that brings consistency from show to show. Andy is the figure in the background waiting to come on to synthesize what you just saw. He's a huge part of building a portfolio of content, building out a network, building out consistency and brand voice and all that. A human being can do that way faster than you can do that by waving your magic brand wand.”Quotes*”Nobody's sitting around and thinking about us or waiting for our news. Especially as you're growing a company, and you're not sort of a tech behemoth or consumer behemoth that people sort of wait for these regular news cycles around. And so you do have to make sure that you're not only cognizant of the world around you and the things that are happening, the things that are top of mind for your customers or those that you're hoping to turn into customers. But how are you knitting that story together with the value that you're delivering with what you bring to the table?” - Erin Cheng“A big lesson for a lot of marketers and everyone in general is when to take honest stock of things and ask yourself, ‘Does this still work? Do we need to mix it up? Is this messaging still feeling compelling and relevant? Or is it not speaking to our audience anymore?' Being really nimble and responsive to what your audience cares about is important.” - Erin ChengTime Stamps[0:55] Meet Erin Cheng, Head of Communications at Vanta[1:50] What does Erin's role at Vanta entail?[3:28] Why are we talking about Bravo?[5:07] What is Bravo?[20:24] Why is Bravo remarkable? And what are marketing lessons we can take away from it?[43:35] What's Erin's content strategy?[46:37] How does Erin prove the ROI of content?[48:17] What new and upcoming projects is Erin working on?LinksWatch shows on BravoConnect with Erin Cheng on LinkedInLearn more about VantaAbout Remarkable!Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both non-fiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com. In today's episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Senior Producer). Remarkable was produced this week by Jess Avellino, mixed by Scott Goodrich, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK. Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise.

Tune in to hear a bunch of anonymous guy on guy action confessions plus get Kathy's take on them. What does bisexual mean? If a guy hooks up with guys every now and then are they considered bi? And, why are so many guys hooking up with guys on the down low? Tune in to find out ad hear from a guy who's wife divorced him due to the stigma surrounding guy on guy action, another guy who's wife knows he's into guys but doesn't know about all the seedy things he's actually doing with guys while bareback(?!,) another guy who is into hardcore guy on guy action that no one knows about, a guy who wound up accidentally sucking his high school bullies d*** years after high school, another guy who was never into guys but got drunk and wound up going all the way with a male stranger as well as a bisexual guy who came clean to his wife and she not only accepted it but she's now into it and they're living their best life. Plus Kathy discusses the stigma surrounding bisexual men and the stigma attached to it, condom usage, living a double life and why it's not worth it, why you dont want to “peak” in high school plus a whole lot more. **To see anonymous pics my female guests + gain access to my PRIVATE Discord channel where over 2,000 people get super XX naughty + get early access to all episodes + hear anonymous confessions, + gain access to my Discord channel, join my Patreon. It's only $5 a month and you can cancel at any time. You can sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/StrictlyAnonymousPodcast Want to be on the show? Email me at strictlyanonymouspodcast@gmail.com or go to http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com and click on "Be on the Show" Have something quick you want to confesss? Call the hotline at 347-420-3579. Want a private convo with me that won't be aired on the show? All calls are private, confidential and anonymous. Click here: https://calendly.com/strictlyanonymouspodcast/45min Sponsors: Have great sex with High Love THC Gummies used code: STRICTLYANON for 15% off plus FREE sleep gummies https://viiahemp.com/ Get 20% OFF your Butter Wellness prostate massager here, use code STRICTLY: https://butterwellness.com/  Want to have better S-E-X?! Who doesn't?! Use Promescent! https://promescent.com/strictlyanon Hear the hottest stories on Dipsea! 30 day FREE TRIAL https://www.dipseastories.com/strictlyanon Get 15% OFF Blewchew plus first month FREE use code STRICTLYANON here: https://bluechew.com/ Follow me! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/strictanonymous/ Twitter https://twitter.com/strictanonymous?lang=en Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/StrictlyAnonymouspodcast Website http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com/ Everything else https://linktr.ee/Strictlyanonymouspodcast Strictly Anonymous merch!:  kathy-kay-shop.fourthwall.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our adventurers can't escape the feeling of being watched. Will they make it to their destination safely? Dice and Desire is proudly sponsored by Tabletop Dominion, who specialise in handmade artisan dice boxes/vaults and high-quality handmade dice. This week's episode is brought to you by Tale of the Manticore. Come join us on social media, and leave a 5 star review on Podchaser Twitter Instagram Dweezil Vanzaphir Podchaser Ko-Fi The Dice and Desire podcast is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

Alex is announced as our newest regular YOB contributor, and we get right into analyzing his blogs! We start with discussing a reflection of last fall's YOBBERS retreat written by his mom and how this unique blog even came to be on our site. We also go behind the scenes and into greater depth with his recently posted blog about holding hands with his straight guy friends: one story in which a friend reached across a restaurant table to hold his hand, and another in which Alex extended his own hand toward a friend while walking with him in the park. How did fears of PDA impact both of these hand-holdings, and what other fears or insecurities did Alex wrestle with – both in the receiving and expressing of such open same-sex physical touch? COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE ➡️ Have you held hands with a male friend, straight or otherwise, in a public setting? What fears and/or triumphs have you experienced in the realm of physical touch with other men? LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE ➡️ Alex's 2023 retreat blog: "Renewing Hope and Forming a Liturgy for Brothers at the YOBBERS Retreat" ➡️ Alex's mom's 2023 retreat blog: "Impressions of the YOBBERS Retreat from the Heart of a Mom" ➡️ Alex's hand-holding blog: "The Healing Power of Holding Hands with Another Man" PODCAST EPISODE PAGE ➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2024/01/26/yob-convocast-079-alex-holds-hands-with-his-straight-guy-friends RATE/REVIEW US ON APPLE PODCASTS ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465 FOLLOW THE CAST ➡️ Tom's posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/tom/ ➡️ Alex's posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/alex/ GET IN TOUCH

This week on Kill Me Now, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" actor Jai Rodriguez joins Judy to talk about his fascinating life story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Podcast Episode 2 Show Notes: "Wesley Hamilton"Introduction: The last episode of the Just a Mom podcast captures the life story of Kansas City native Wesley Hamilton.  The episode explores Wesley's mental struggles, including battles with depression, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts amid a lack of mental health support. Wesley Hamilton's impactful foundation, "Disabled But Not Really," takes center stage in this episode. Founded to empower individuals with disabilities, the foundation prioritizes fitness, identity, and confidence-building. Offering a wellness center with specialized programs, Wesley ensures a space where physical disabilities don't limit self-perception and fitness goals. The foundation tackles the issue of inaccessible gyms by providing an inclusive environment with adaptive equipment and accessible facilities.Disabled But Not Really Foundation: Wesley founded the "Disabled But Not Really Foundation" to empower individuals with disabilities, focusing on fitness, identity, and building confidence. The foundation offers a wellness center with specialized programs to help individuals with physical disabilities improve their self-perception and fitness. Wesley's own experiences in inaccessible gyms and the lack of awareness in society influenced his approach to creating an inclusive space at his wellness center. The center is equipped with adaptive equipment, widened doors, and accessible facilities, striving to serve individuals with various challenges and disabilities. The foundation's programs not only focus on physical fitness but also on helping individuals with disabilities regain their sense of identity and confidence. Wesley's ultimate goal is to ensure that people of all abilities feel welcomed, empowered, and served by providing adaptive equipment and inclusive facilities. Wesley's Efforts for Accessibility: Wesley discusses the importance of creating accessible public spaces for individuals with disabilities. His foundation, Disabled But Not Really, aims to eliminate barriers in these spaces, allowing people to focus on their goals. Becoming a TV Star: Wesley talks about his unexpected experience of being featured on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Emphasizes the authenticity of the show and his continued friendship and collaboration with the cast. Family Support: Wesley acknowledges the crucial role of his mother and daughter in his recovery and healing. Highlights the strength and support of his mother during his journey. Words of Advice: Wesley's advice to listeners revolves around self-awareness, encouraging them to know themselves. He emphasizes that self-awareness is key to shaping one's reality. Mental Health Advocacy: Wesley shares his growing awareness of mental health issues, especially within marginalized communities. Discusses the importance of addressing mental health and seeking help when needed. Self-Care: Wesley outlines his self-care routine, which includes affirmations, morning gratitude, exercise, a healthy diet, journaling, and having a venting person and a confidant.Challenges in Accessing Mental Health Services: Wesley highlights the lack of mental health services and awareness in marginalized communities. Advocates for a more holistic approach to healthcare. The Value of Life: Wesley talks about how confidence in oneself allows for a fulfilling life, regardless of physical condition. Emphasizes the importance of valuing life and maintaining a positive mindset. Acknowledgment of One's Past: Wesley appreciates the depth of the conversation and the significance of understanding one's past to appreciate personal growth.Gratitude and Inspiration: The episode concludes with mutual appreciation, with Susie commending Wesley for his inspirational journey and positive impact through his foundation and advocacy.

It's been a decade since Thom Filicia, acclaimed interior designer and former co-star of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” served as a bone marrow donor for his brother, Jules, who had received a diagnosis of myelofibrosis. “It was a disease I knew nothing about, I'd never even heard of it before,” Filicia told CURE®. “So that, in and of itself, was a very unusual situation, to have to navigate that. … In (Jules') situation, we needed to move very quickly. And, in his case, the most appropriate (treatment) at that time, was a bone marrow transplant, so that's what we needed to do.” Myelofibrosis, as explained by the MPN Research Foundation, is a type of chronic blood cancer that involves the formation of excessive scar tissue in the bone marrow, impairing the patient's ability to produce normal blood cells. It is part of a category of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs. “Myelofibrosis is a challenge, because first of all, it's (a) very rare disease, we're talking about 25,000 people in the United States have this, maybe one in 500,000 people worldwide have this disease, so it's a very rare disease,” explained Dr. Andrew Kuykendall of the department of malignant hematology at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.  The presentation of myelofibrosis can also vary from patient to patient, as Kuykendall explained. “People can either present with just abnormal blood counts, they can present with painful abdominal pain or splenomegaly, where their spleen is enlarged or other organs can be enlarged, (or) it could be from having fevers, chills, night sweats, bone pain, a lot of symptoms that bring them to that healthcare,” Kuykendall said. “And so, it's one of those things where all those people could come with a variety of symptoms yet receive the same diagnosis. And I think that that's challenging because it doesn't necessarily present in one way. There's no kind of map. We often say, ‘The disease doesn't read the textbook,' and that's very true when it comes to myelofibrosis.” A decade after the bone marrow transplant, Filicia says his brother is in great health, and he looked back on the transplant process as a “pretty seamless” experience. “It was a good experience for both of us and a positive outcome, which is really great,” Filicia said. “I would say what it does in terms of (our relationship), we're blood brothers at a level that is very different than just being brothers because we now share the same DNA. And we've gone through this experience together, and it was a pretty impactful experience.” Filicia has now partnered with biopharma company GSK to launch the online initiative Mapping Myelofibrosis, dedicated to raising awareness about the disease with input from organizations including the MPN Research Foundation and MPN Advocacy and Education International.  The initiative's website, mappingmf.com, includes educational and informational materials as well as podcast episodes and stories from members of the myelofibrosis community of patients and loved ones, Filicia among them. “To be a resource or to be impactful in that situation, you really need information, and you need to know that you're not the only person going through it, you need to understand what other people are going through, you need to be able to connect with a doctor like Dr. Kuykendall where they can explain things to you in a way that you understand it,” Filicia said.  “And that gives you hope, and that gives you the ability to, I would imagine, move forward in a positive, thoughtful, empowered way where you feel like you're making the best decisions that you can make, for your situation, with the best guidance that you feel comfortable with.” Filicia and Kuykendall spoke with CURE®'s “Cancer Horizons” podcast about myelofibrosis, persistent misconceptions regarding bone marrow donation and the motivation behind the Mapping Myelofibrosis. For more news on cancer updates, research and education, don't forget to subscribe to CURE®'s newsletters here.

Paul is a super straight guy who got into prostate massases and pegging and he called in to talk all about it. Why and how did he get into prostate massages? How did he wind up having a prostate orgasm? And, how did he then get his wife into pegging him? Tune in to hear all the details including how his erectile dysfunction started it all, the specific issues he was having and the different solutions he tried including vitamins, pills, exercise, hormones etc, to solve his issues and the results he found from implementing them, how is ED issues effected his d*** size, what he did to increase his “volume” as well as his performance time. how and why he then started doing his own prostate massages and how uncomfortable it was at first, his first prostate orgasms and what it felt like and why he then started chasing them, how and why he never told his wife about any of his issues or any of the things he was trying, how he brought being into anal action to her and how she reacted at first, how and why she eventually got down without and totally got into pegging, they toys he prefers/recommends for achieving a prostate orgasm and why, how prostate orgasms have increased his pre cum status and how his orgasms are now hands free and can happen when he's not erect, how having prostate orgasms not only fixed his issues but also increased his size and girth, instructions on how to find your own prostate, what it feels like when you find it and own to achieve an orgasm through it plus a whole lot more. Get your Butter Wellness prostate massager here: https://butterwellness.com  **To see anonymous pics of my female guests + gain access to my PRIVATE Discord channel where people get super naughty + get early access to all episodes + hear anonymous confessions, + gain access to my Discord channel, join my Patreon. It's only $5 a month and you can cancel at any time. You can sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/StrictlyAnonymousPodcast Want to be on the show? Email me at strictlyanonymouspodcast@gmail.com or go to http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com and click on "Be on the Show" Have something quick you want to confesss? Call the hotline at 347-420-3579. Want a private convo with me that won't be aired on the show? All calls are private, confidential and anonymous. Click here: https://calendly.com/strictlyanonymouspodcast/45min Follow me! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/strictanonymous/ Twitter https://twitter.com/strictanonymous?lang=en Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/StrictlyAnonymouspodcast Website http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com Everything else https://linktr.ee/Strictlyanonymouspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rory drunk texts an old FWB and Laurie thinks his texts look like the one's straight men send her. Rory brags about getting recognized and Laurie gets a good squeeze courtesy of Kim Kardashian. Plus, a Dumb John update and Laurie needed to tell someone about a bizarre new character named ANNE. Subscribe and follow us at @superexcitedpod Follow Rory: @itsRORYjames Follow Laurie: @lalamartina_

Barbara Barna Abel is a multimedia communications coach, creative advisor, talent and executive development expert and will teach you how to craft an incredible presentation or speech, how to weave personal stories into a speech and how to express yourself authentically. Plus, she shares her story of building her own communications business.  Barbara's credits include Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, What Not to Wear, the RuPaul Show, and is the author of How to Get Your Foot In the Door: Television Hosting and Presenting.  Then, coach Melissa Llarena has tips for getting over imposter syndrome if you have a podcast. She just published the book Fertile Imagination: A Guide for Stretching Every Mom's Superpower for Maximum Impact; she is a coach, podcast host of Unimaginable Wellness bring tips  Did you love today's episode? 1. Take a screenshot and share it to your IG stories. Tag me @kimrittberg 2. Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! LINKS: -BONUS DOWNLOAD: 5 Tips to Shine on Camera click here -Follow host Kim Rittberg on Instagram & Subscribe to Kim's YouTube Channel to Make Better Videos that Convert -Barbara Barns Abel's company & Podcast

From Angel in RENT to the culture guide on Queer Eye, Jai Rodriguez has made his mark on pop culture. U Guys, this week's BroadwayWorld Recap has some crazy Bway news, provided by BroadwayWorld.com. Then I am joined by Jai Rodriguez to talk about his amazing career in the theater and on the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Jai holds the distinction of being the youngest person to ever play the role of Angel in RENT on Broadway, as well as performing in shows like The Producers and Spinning Into Butter. We talk about the realities of "reality" tv, and what it means to be a queer public figure in a world of adversity. He is set to return to the NYC stage after 17 years in his own show at 54 Below. U can catch Jai's one-man show, A Thousand Sweet Kisses, at 54 Below from October 26th-28th, featuring some incredible special guests like Claybourne Elder and Orfeh. Follow Jai on Instagram: @jairodriguez Follow the pod on Instagram: @ohmypoduguys, @jaykeworkman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've seen him in Bros, Uncoupled, and most notably as the "Culture Vulture" in the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy series, but now he's back in New York City taking on the iconic 54 Below. We are so pleased and honored to be joined by Jai Rodriguez. You can get tickets online HERE! Hope you can make it! Stay Queer!Enjoy early access and bonus content on our Patreon. LINK HEREWe want to hear from you!Instagram: @qi_podFacebook: qinsightpodEmail us: qinsightpod@gmail.com

Fela talks about Kvothe's reputation. We discuss whether Sim is flirting with Kvothe, tripping Kvothe, and get a very special letter. @pageofthewind pageofthewind.com Join the community on Discord at https://discord.gg/tCZc6kXQcg To support the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike as they battle for a living wage and decent working conditions, visit one or more of these links: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub https://entertainmentcommunity.org/ https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-snacklist-support-striking-workers

Dana Nielsen is a Grammy-nominated mixer, engineer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work with Rihanna, Adele, The Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, The Avett Brothers, Bob Dylan, and Kanye West. Nielsen also frequently works with music for picture, producing, recording, and mixing a growing number of film scores and soundtracks, such as Kristen Wiig‘s Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar (Lionsgate), Will Ferrell's Anchorman 2 (Paramount) and Casa De Mi Padre (NALA), as well as the Sam Rockwell/Olivia Wilde dark comedy Better Living Through Chemistry. Based in Los Angeles, Nielsen has amassed credits that run the stylistic gamut from Neil Diamond to Slayer and just about every style in between. Nielsen's work can be heard on albums by a diverse roster of artists. He worked as an engineer on Kanye West's Yeezus(Roc-A-Fella) and Rihanna's Loud (Def Jam), recorded Bob Dylan's Tempest (Colombia), and recorded Neil Young and Crazy Horse for their album Colorado (Reprise). As a composer, saxophonist, singer and programmer, Nielsen's own music and/or voice can be heard on countless TV commercials, as well as hit shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, America's Next Top Model, and the Duplass brothers' HBO series Room 104. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: Using the studio as a place of creativity and collaboration Knowing when and when not to provide input in a session Working with Rick Rubin Executing on the vision of a producer Being prepared for when creativity strikes The easiest way to work your way up the ladder in the world of production Getting a pro vocal sound How to deal with bleed when editing vocals Editing tools for vocals Melodyne vs. Autotune How to record vocals quickly Tracking through Autotune Why you should always start a mix by focusing on the drama first Using automation to make mixes more exciting The “slippery fader” trick To learn more about Dana Nielsen, visit: https://www.dananielsen.com/ For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit https://masteryourmix.com/ Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes? Check out my new coaching program Amplitude and apply to join: https://masteryourmix.com/amplitude/ Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/ Get your copy of the #1 Amazon bestselling book, The Mixing Mindset – The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/ Join the FREE MasterYourMix Facebook community: https://links.masteryourmix.com/community To make sure that you don't miss an episode, make sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or on Android. Have your questions answered on the show. Send them to questions@masteryourmix.com Thanks for listening! Please leave a rating and review on iTunes!

TV writer Brian Gallivan joins this week and helps the guys each figure out which Wayans brother they find the most crushworthy -- it's Damon Jr. for Brian, as made clear from his days writing for Happy Endings. Plus, #notmyspiderman trends after Tom Holland appears in a gay sex scene and people get mad? And the co-hosts commemorate the 20th anniversary of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and H. Alan still doesn't know what Jai did. @HAlanScott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this exciting episode, we are joined by the renowned TV personality Carson Kressley, known for his roles on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, How to Look Good, and as a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race. Unveiling a lesser-known side, Carson shares his recent experience taking over Ballard Designs' Instagram and showcases his top entertaining tips. Returning as a special guest, we dive into Carson's love for Ballard as we explore his stunning poolside oasis and dive into the art of entertaining in style. What You'll Hear On This Episode:  The best parties are when the host and hostess are relaxed and happy. What we can learn from a scary experience with Carson's flaming chicken thighs. How Carson approaches design in New York versus in Pennsylvania. Great design is all about tension, whether it's an outfit that you're wearing, or a space that you're designing, everything shouldn't be expected and match and be from the same designer or the same period. All about design for his second home, a farmhouse in Pennsylvania. The beautiful touches create a spectacular guest house including sheets, towels, utensils and much more. The pros of using seeded glass. Carson's Christmas party sounds like the most fun holiday party of the year. Tip - if you entertain a lot, have a rug that you can easily clean. Remember: confidence is key when hosting. Mentioned in This Episode: Ballard Designs @ballarddesigns Carson Kressley  The Holiday House Palm Springs 

Thom Filicia steps Behind The Rope. Having just had Jai Rodriquez on the Pod, we figured it was a great time to continue our trip down memory lane from the early days of Bravo and share this epic chat we had with Thom. Queer Eye For the Straight Guy. Bravo Royalty. Thom takes us back to the beginning of how he got cast for Queer Eye by getting stuck in an elevator. Thom talks about the behind the scenes filming, producer involvement, and what he thought about the finished product once the show aired. He talks about how life changed once Queer Eye came out and catapulted him into the public eye. Of course we discuss cast mates Carson Kressley, Jai Rodriguez, Ted Allen and Kyan Douglas. We discuss what Bravo was like in those early days, the evolution of the network, and Andy Cohen. Thom tells us stories from the vault about designing projects for celebrity clients such as JLO. Thom also chats RHOBH, RHONY and more Housewives! Of course, no discussion of Queer Eye would be complete without a nod to the current Netflix series and Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Tan France and Bobby Berk.  @thomfilicia @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef BONUS & AD FREE EPISODES Available at - www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope BROUGHT TO YOU BY: IQBAR - TEXT VELVET to 64000 (Get 20% Off All IQBAR Products Plus Free Shipping) ROCKET MONEY - rocketmoney.com/velvetrope (Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions & Manage Expenses The Easy Way) FACTOR - factormeals.com/velvet50 (Use Code VELVET50 To Get 50% Off Your First Box) BRILLIANT EARTH - brilliantearth.com (Check Out All Of Their Beautiful Pieces) ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - Please contact David@advertising-execs.com MERCH Available at - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/behind-the-velvet-rope?ref_id=13198 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm always getting chirped at by PC guys for using Apple. For the past 13 years the only tech help I've ever gotten from anyone online is "Stop using Mac." Usually the redditor telling me that is saying it while replacing his entire motherboard for the 30th time because it can't power all his RAINBOW LIGHTS properly and still ray trace Solid Snake's bunghole properly. It finally occurred to me though. I've been a BIGOT to these BRAVE people the whole time! It's time to heal relations between the Straight (Apple) community and the RGBTQ+ community. While Linus Tech Tips learns what a Hard R is (turns out, it isn't Marques Brownlee), I talk to James from the Pod Awful Cult about his tech-ual orientation. Big thanks to Emily from LTT for teaching me that the REAL Tech Tip was estrogen this whole time. https://podawful.com/posts/2366  VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFven3NyHAc  PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza  RSS FEED: http://podawful.com/rss  YOUTUBE: http://awful.tube   DISCORD CULT: http://podawful.com/discord    TWITTER: http://podawful.com/twitter    INSTAGRAM: http://podawful.com/instagram    DLIVE: http://podawful.com/dlive  ODYSEE: http://podawful.com/odysee  FACEBOOK: http://podawful.com/facebook   MERCH: http://podawful.shop    http://podawful.com  #podawful #pride #linustechtips Pod Awful Is an anti-podcast hosted by Jesse P-S

Award-winning TV writer and author Laura Belgray walks us through her debut book, “Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst”—a hilarious permission slip for living life on your own terms. We cover the joys of being a late-bloomer versus peaking in high school, non-linear careers, loser superpowers, and why midlife is the right time to embrace being “flawsome.” GenX bonus! We talk MTV, Moon Unit Zappa, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and sneaking into bars underage. Plus, is ChatGPT a copywriting killer app? Tune in to find out! SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT acertainagepod.com FOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn GET INBOX INSPO: Sign up for our newsletter AGE BOLDLY We share new episodes, giveaways, links we live, and midlife resources CONTACT US: katie@acertainagepod.comSee omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

Today we welcome back the lever action king PatRMG to discuss the FPC update, Ranger Point Precision, 38 special's body count, reloading, Chris Costa classes, Craig's firearms, thermals, Big Josh wants to eat Brandon, alligator snapping turtles, shooting geese, open carry in Tennessee, battle belts, and much more!!! Thanks for listening!!! If you'd like to … 76Tuesday Podcast 088 – BROWN EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY!!! Read More »

Kyle & Jackie O's 'Gay for Pay' is back for another round! What lengths will straight guy Peter go to for cash? Have a listen to hear how it went down!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thom Filicia rose to fame after his appearance on the breakout hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but his career began in the rarified world of New York's most prestigious design firms, with stints working for Parish-Hadley, Robert Metzger and Jeffrey Bilhuber. Though Filicia found success on TV, he never left the design world behind, and he's continued to take on projects, build a growing empire of licensed product, and open a to-the-trade showroom, Sedgwick and Brattle.In front of a live audience at High Point Spring Market, Filicia spoke with host Dennis Scully about his intuitive approach to business, taking design beyond the 1%, and why he's always relished ignoring convention and striking out on his own path.This episode is sponsored by The Shade Store and Loloi RugsLINKSThom FiliciaDennis ScullyBusiness of Home

Cultured eye with the Podcast Guys. This week we bring on Blair Boone-Migura. Blair life has taken him all over the world being a writer, a lecturer, a radio host in Hawaii, and founding the Art Song Preservation Society of New York. He was also one of the original cast on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. We discuss his full life, the balance, and doing gymnastics in front of a cop. Go to https://www.artsongpreservationsocietyny.org/ after listening to our show.   We also pack in a ton of nonsense into this episode.  Scott tells a story entitle "Big Peanut", Mike gets stuck behind a man shipping a cat head, and Mike absolutley loses it with an origin story about one of his unique neighbors.  Have a listen!

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