A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Writer Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya joins the show to talk about finding queer community and chosen family in a red state like Florida. Gabe shares his stories of growing up there and learns about the type of solidarity that can beautifully develop in adversity --- both with the weather and, you know, otherwise.

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Gabe’s old BuzzFeed coworker and writer Ash Perez joins the show to talk about his new rom com Speak Now. The duo catch up about transness, autism, and the wild paths their lives have taken. 
Speak Now is a queer rom-com about a rising-star chef who’s forced to confront her first love when she’s hired to cater her ex–best friend’s wedding, putting her career-defining opportunity at odds with unresolved feelings from her past. Set in the world of fine dining in Big Sur, it’s a funny, emotionally honest story about second chances and self-discovery. Speak Now is Ash's fiction debut! The audiobook features a full cast led by Jena Malone and Arienne Mandi.
Speak Now is available for preorder now wherever you get audiobooks, and publishes on March 31 (on International Transgender Day of Visibility). Link is here to preorder: https://bit.ly/3MiDUtm Woooo!
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Jesse, of Theater Workers For A Ceasefire, talks about the importance of theater in the political space, divesting from Israeli state-sponsored, colonialist and imperialist theater, and coming into anti-Zionism as a Jewish artist. 

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Reporter Madeline Peltz joins the show to talk about her years of covering Turning Point USA, the liberal journalists who suck up to Nazis, and how liberals and leftists focus on elections over building movements. Plus, the right's ability to embrace anyone who wants in, how right-wing women are losing faith in MAGA and why we keep not believing what the right is telling us straight up that they are doing.

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Author of "Cafe Hysteria" Madison Huizinga and Gabe talk about no longer media training celebrities, the sinister origins of trends, and why concerts have become so prohibitively expensive. Plus, every influencer is fake now. Even ones with like, five followers. 

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