Blocked on Youtube again--watch on Twitter!
We’ve got a great show tonight, but once again, Youtube has blocked us for allegedly violating copyright. This is not true, but copyright law is dead now in the US specifically because of Youtube. Guess who put in a copyright claim?
RuPaul’s Drag Race. You DEFINITELY want to watch what YT and RuPaul don’t want you to see. It’s genuinely astonishing.
Two options to watch:
1. Twitter/X. I have to take a picture of our account handle because typing the correct symbol breaks Substack’s user editor.
The show will start streaming there a little after 9 pm US Eastern. YES! There’s live chat there.
-Donald Trump has been convicted of. . . no one is really sure. No, not even the prosecutors are really sure. We are to believe that one of the richest men in America took the risk of "felony falsification of business records" 8 years ago over $130,000.
-The Month of Sacred Pride is upon us, and so are the heretics. Come with us to Seattle and St. Petersburg, both of which have launched manhunts to track down violent dangerous homophobes who left tire marks on pride "murals" painted on city streets.
-Potpourri Du Moquerie! Featuring the third understudy for Hellraiser's Pinhead, thriving menstruators at Canadian and American government offices, and Josh's new favorite restaurant.
OMG, Whoopie told on her side when she accidentally said DJT is a "confected" felon!
This one was a doozy.
Is anyone else a Sandman fan? That Austin councilwoman's smile looks like what's behind the Corinthian's eyelids.
And Josh's comment about his testerone levels reminded me of an ancient episode of This American Life aptly called "Testosterone." I can't remember all the details, but the members of the public radio station that produced the show all got their T levels tested. Among the men, the winner (as in he who had the highest level of T) was the sole gay man in the group (I can't remember his name, but he was a well-known writer who has since passed); his level was double that of the next runner up. There was an exchange between this man and the "loser" (the member of the group who had the lowest level, a straight man) that went something like this.
Low-T straight man: I could understand if I worked at SportsCenter, but I work in public radio.
High-T gay man: OMG, SportsCenter? Is that a place?
Low-T straight man: **audibly hangs his head**
I also thought of that episode when Josh discussed the school shooter Audrey Hale's identity as a trans man. In the piece, a woman who has begun taking male hormones describes her sexual attraction to a Xerox machine. She describes the **copy machine** in terms of its "gargantuan bulk heaving and humming". My point is that exogenous T is, apparently, a hell of a drug.
That sucks! I watched last night on Rumble. Great show. I’ve seen that clip of the gross and disgusting Ru Paul contestant on Matt Walsh on Daily Wire. Are they being sued? Doubt it very much. Ru Paul should delete that routine from his show. I’m difficult to offend. But, boy, was that offensive and just plain gross!