BONUS CROSS POD w/ Tender Subject: Video Drome

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Long live the new flesh. Kayte, Dave and guest Jake Flores dig into David Cronenberg’s weirdo masterpiece, Videodrome. We talk Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink and more! Media referenced: The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McCluhan and Quentin Fiore Rev Left Radio: episode on Marshall McCluhan & The Medium is the Message with Matthew Furlong. Listen here. Videodrome: The Slithery Sense of Unreality by Gary Indiana. Read here Jake is the co-host of Pod Damn America, Why You Mad (on hiatus but listen to the old eps!) and The Preacher and The Slave. He’s also a standup! Follow him on insta for dates. Dave is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party and hosts This is Your Afterlife Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here!

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0:00.0	I've got something who will be given.
0:23.9	I thought it was for sex, but it's to power everything for fucking pieces. I don't understand how this isn't considered terribleism. Thank you for the substance we received. Welcome to Tender Subject.
0:25.9	I wanted to make a little announcement.
0:28.4	After this episode, I'm heading to Pittsburgh.
0:31.9	I'm going to go star in Videodrome,
0:33.6	because as Debbie Harry said, I was made for that show.
0:39.4	I'm Kate.
0:41.4	My pronouns are she, her, or they, them, and I'm an artist in Philly.
0:46.5	And I'm joined by Dave.
0:48.1	Yeah, I'm Dave.
0:49.5	And I introduced myself my pronouns at a work meeting this way.
0:53.3	So I think I'm going to do this from now on.
0:55.0	I'm Dave.
0:56.1	I'm him.
0:57.5	And I live in Cleveland.
0:59.9	And I do comedy and experimental theater and performance art and that kind of stuff.
1:06.0	So yeah.
1:07.0	And we have a guest.
1:08.3	Yeah.
1:09.0	Oh, that tickled me.
1:10.2	I, he him like ever, you know, there's all this culture war stuff about like, oh, is it like kind of cringy and embarrassing to say you're full.
1:18.4	Just saying, I'm him has so much authority to it.
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