Hello, listeners, it's your host, Pete Davis here.

I'm here to share that we just dropped a new episode over at the Bird Feed.

Today is the beginning of the NFL season, and because of that, we're giving all current

affairs patrons our current affairs take on football, from the only two members of the Masthead who know anything about football,

Amusements Editor Lita Gold, and Legal Editor Orrin Nimni.

I don't even like football, and it was one of my favorite episodes yet.

Topics discussed include the labor politics of football, the racial politics of football,

and of course, Leida's theory of how football is the inverse of drag. To listen, become a patron

at patreon.com slash current affairs. You give us $5 a month, and in exchange, you gain access to the bird feed, which has

all of our bonus episodes like this one. If you don't want to, no worries. We'll be back

next week with a main episode, but to tempt you, here's an excerpt from Orrin and Laita's

football conversation.

Yeah, inevitably, when you grow up in Michigan, you have to be a football fan.

It's required.

But the other thing, so this is actually, it's related to my love of drag race.

Okay.

I know this is confusing, but like, so drag is about an extreme expression of gender,

and it's a playful extreme expression of gender.

I feel like football is that only it doesn't know that's what it's doing.

It's completely unselfconscious about it.

Because it's just really like it's men performing masculinity in this really outrageous way.

And it's even in the outfits, I mean, like they're super broad shoulders and the tight little butts.

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