Bonus episode: "Fear, Pitied, and Honored"

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this bonus episode, Ben shares an essay he wrote for a Jewish/LDS inter-faith conference.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Questions from the Closet bonus episode.
0:09.5	So today I want to read an essay that I recently rediscovered that I wrote a year and a half
0:14.3	ago.
0:15.3	So I was asked to write an essay for this Jewish Larry St. Interfaith dialogue that
0:19.7	be what you hosted a year and a half ago and they wanted me to write to a Jewish audience
0:24.7	what's like to be a gay Larry St.
0:26.4	That's so fun.
0:27.4	Yeah.
0:28.4	It's really hard on this essay.
0:29.4	I presented it at this conference and then I forgot about it and then I've recently
0:32.4	re-found it and I liked it and so I wanted to share it and I thought this would be a good
0:36.5	way just to say, hey, this is what it's like to be for me to be a gay Larry St. and hopefully
0:40.8	this something that people will resonate with and maybe help a little bit.
0:44.3	So Ben's going to read his essay and then we're probably going to chat about it afterwards.
0:47.9	I've read it.
0:48.9	It's been a long time but I remember liking it and I'm curious to know Ben, are you nervous
0:54.3	to read in real time?
0:56.5	Reading in front of you and Mike into the camera, that's great, I recorded my audiobook
1:00.4	a couple weeks ago and it's so hard, like you stumble and I don't know, no pressure
1:08.4	or Ben, no pressure.
1:09.4	Well, here I go, very nervously reading my essay so it's called Feared, Pity and Honored
1:13.8	by Ben Shalatti and it starts out with a story that happened when I was 30.
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