The Disappearers w/ Marlon James

The Disappearers is a book of the decade, and we’re so glad to share our conversation with its author, Marlon James. Set in 1980’s Jamaica, this epistolary gay revenge thriller (yes, it’s all of those things), chronicles the lives of eight gay men following an attack. What does it mean for our culture to disappear us? How can people disappear, but not leave? This is a career-defining work, and you don’t want to miss this unruly and heartfelt conversation. Stay for our new version of the game, “Going/Not Going” at the end.

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PCOS, Placenta Burps and the Pull & Pray

The Momcult is officially on YouTube! Join us as we chatted over zoom with Nicole Lim — Nashville based makeup artist turned director, screenwriter, and producer! Joy is feeling anxious about getting her shit together and Sarah is more at peace with baby #2.

For this first episode of Season Six, the gals discuss the hopes of expanding the Momcult Brand and Nichole shares everything from the pull and pray years, finding out you’re pregnant on Christmas morning, and pumping on a film set 3 weeks postpartum. We also got into the real stuff — what it’s like when your husband tours for weeks at a time and you have to build a shell to survive him being gone, then peel it back off when he walks back through the door. The kids change while he’s away. You change. And somehow you have to find your way back to each other every single time.

Nichole is the creative partner Joy met at the Nashville Film Festival last year, and together they’re developing Joy’s “I’m A Winner” short film into an episodic series.

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About our guest:
Nichole Lim is a Nashville-based director, screenwriter, and producer with more than fifteen years in the film industry. She began her career in the makeup department, eventually becoming an IATSE Local 798 Key Makeup Artist and working across studio features, independent films, television, and commercials before moving behind the camera herself.

Her films have screened nationally and internationally, including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Nashville Film Festival, and Defy Film Festival, earning recognition for both directing and screenwriting.

Nichole loves ensemble casts, female-driven stories, and complicated, imperfect characters. She’s endlessly interested in why people are the way they are, the things they don’t say, and the relationships that shape them, especially when it’s funny, awkward, heartbreaking, or somehow all three. She lives in Nashville with her husband and two kids, where she is usually writing something, making something, or standing in a room trying to remember why she went in there.


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Feels Like Somebody’s Watching Me: Surveillance Capitalism

In today’s world, we are always giving up our privacy for the promises of safety, connection, and convenience. But is the tradeoff worth it? In this episode, we explore how surveillance companies like Flock are actually making our neighborhoods more unsafe, why you just can’t seem to stop swiping (and paying for it!), and why nothing may have an actual price anymore. Stay for a revamped game at the end. We’re calling it “Going/Not Going” where we tell you what trend, person, or other aspect of culture is or isn’t getting us out to the party.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
GM, Ford CEOs Pressure Trump on Right to Repair Laws
Tennessee Grandmother Jailed After AI Error
Iyanla Reacts to Domestic Violence Rise in 2020
Surveillance Pricing
FlockHopper

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Let’s Talk About Catfishing [TEASER]

For this patreon-only conversation, we met up at a local favorite, Americano Lounge, to discuss the many forms catfishing takes in queer communities.

Both of us have been catfished more times than we can remember. Once you spend enough time on the apps™, you of course develop something of a sixth sense when it comes to grainy, overcropped photographs and chatty blank profiles.

But we also recognize the pressures bearing down on us—the pressures to be fit, masc, white, and young in order to be deemed desirable and make connections. When we meet each other increasingly less and less in the real world, how do men who believe they’re #betterinperson meet other men?

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Standing Tall w/ Rep. Gloria Johnson

Member of the ‘Tennessee Three’ Rep. Gloria Johnson is an educator at heart. Sometimes, that means being a teacher voice in the legislature (read: asking her republican colleagues ‘if you can hear me clap once!’ ‘if you can hear me clap twice!’), but it always means standing in the gap for all Tennesseeans. Join us in this honest conversation about Gloria’s new podcast, Standing Tall with Gloria Johnson, and spilling a little sweet tea on corruption in Tennessee politics.

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Standing Tall with Gloria Johnson
Gloria Johnson, Knox News Sentinel

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There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood w/ Rasheed Newson

There are at least three things that you’re likely to experience in a Rasheed Newson novel: 1) A feeling of period-correctness 2) A well-researched ethical dilemma 3) Sex — fortunately his latest book, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, is no exception. Our hosts talk with Rasheed about his career as a screenwriter and novelist, but also about the importance of letting historical figures be real people.

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There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood
My Government Means to Kill Me
Diahann Carroll
Sidney Poitier
Bayard Rustin
Andrew Goodman

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Live at Nashville Pride!

Flanked by a giant spinning wheel of party guests and all the extroverted energy they can muster, our hosts head to Nashville Pride! There, they talk to historian Sarah Calise of Nashville Queer History on just how not new Southern Prides are and how we can all become queer archivists. Listen as festival goers (maybe you?) spin the game wheel to decide if they’re going to the party or not and leave us with their Pride hot takes!

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Jackie Shane
The Jackie Shane Papers

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Conversion Therapy Dropout w/ Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez

Sometimes not succeeding at things can be good, especially if we’re talking about gay conversion therapy. There’s no better person to reflect on this than Timothy S. Rodriguez, author of the recently-released memoir, Conversion Therapy Dropout: a Queer Story of Faith and Belonging (Broadleaf). Recounting his experience with gay conversion therapy programs and ministries such as Exodus International, and his work as a digital strategist for megachurches like Hillsong and Willow Creek Community Church, Timothy walks us through his path to a kind of freeing failure, and success at living his truth. Timothy joins the hosts for a game of smash or pass, Christian men edition.

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Conversion Therapy Dropout
Garrard Conley
Church Clarity
NASHVILLE PRIDE FESTIVAL

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Who’s Gonna Be There Live Show

We’ll be at Nashville Pride on Bicentennial Mall from 11AM – 6PM this Saturday, June 27th! Stop by to hear interviews with special guests and for your chance to play the game with us (and maybe even be featured on the pod!)

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I Love Boosters x The Devil Wears Prada 2

In this episode, we look at the anti-capitalist afrosurrealist film I Love Boosters (Boots Riley), and the highly-anticipated anti-something The Devil Wears Prada 2 (David Frankel). We explore the common threads (sorry!) of fashion versus capitalism, the depictions of the right kind of billionaire, and the importance of soul sucking demons. Of course, we talk Marxist theory as it applies to fashion production (so, Karl by Karl Marx?) and which film embodies the world we’d like to live in.

Boots Riley
David Frankel
The Devil Wears Prada 2
I Love Boosters
Dialectical Materialism

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Moony – Warning High Cube

For some indeterminate amount of time I’ve had a tab open on my browser for Moony’s album WARNING HIGH CUBE. In the pantheon of alternative Nashville music, it’s an especially rare gem worth paying attention to. On its own, the record is a blend of electronic, hard rock, folk, sweeping strings, dance and plenty more. The genre blending can happen at breakneck speed; a softly picked acoustic verse explodes into a synth laden chorus that gives way to explosively crunchy guitars accompanied by emphatic screaming. If that sounds off-putting, I assure you it’s not. It’s certainly a journey but it’s not jarring in the slightest, it’s exhilarating.

Putting together an album of such diverse styles should be enough of an undertaking in and of itself but moony does not stop there. Along with the twelve track album, there is also a visual companion. All twelve tracks interpreted and performed across “three single takes in theatrical form.” The sets, costumes and dance of it is captivating. It’s a huge testament to the director and editor of this companion because it feels like a million bucks.

Somehow, incredibly, the body of work doesn’t stop there. WARNING HIGH CUBE is also accompanied by a deluxe edition EP (the [Full Lunar Cycle]) and a Live Set (I found God at a moony show). I’d say that these songs are some of my favorites from the collection but, truthfully, every bit of it is worth paying attention to.

If it sounds like I’m gushing, I am! moony (aka Seth Findley) has created something unique, interesting and immersive. Even if you don’t feel immediately compelled by the songs (start with “Infinity Idiot”, you’ll get it) you have to appreciate the scale of the work; the album, the performance, the video of the performance, the accompanying addendum album and the live versions. It’s wildly ambitious and, in my opinion, entirely effective.


Looking at moony’s Instagram – @sethismoony – it seems that the second album is on the horizon. It’s a shame I’ve neglected to write about the first one for so long but maybe it was perfect timing in anticipation for the second. The trailer for Album 2 is a massive evolution from WARNING HIGH CUBE, so my anticipations levels are high. Look for it June 1st, 2026.

The Cure for Blue Dot Fever

‘Blue dot fever’ happens when you look at a concert seating chart and see mostly unsold seats (blue dots). As the epidemic worsens with a flood of cancelled tours, our hosts explore archival live performances as a cure to blue dot fever. Join as they analyze style, scene, and technique in six recorded shows.

Patti LaBelle: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
Whitney Houston: All the Man That I Need
Beyonce: Daddy Lessons
Michelle Williams: Say Yes
Bruce Hornsby: The Way It Is

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