Wow. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to

understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender

detective Tuck Woodstock.

Hey everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there. I wanted to get this episode up

last week, but I'm recording this on Saturday and I'm really trying to take Sunday off because I haven't taken time off and it's 8 p.m. on Saturday and I have to go to work at 9 p.m.

So I haven't even scripted this episode. I'm just

going to try to improvise it and every time I've done that so far it's gone very

badly. So we're going to see where it goes today. I don't even have an outline, so it's going to be great.

If you are tuning into this show for the first time, because maybe you heard about it for Pride Month, or you heard about it from Life Kit or you heard about it from

you heard about me tweeting about the Portland protests.

Thank you so much for being here. This is not a normal episode. This is not how these episodes normally go.

So I would recommend going back to our episode with Alyssa Pariah, our episode with Morgan Givens,

or episode with Vidia Irvend, Danny Laverie, Cyrus Dunum, really anyone except this one would be great.

But if you have been around our show for a while then yeah here we are yike so I think you know

this by now but I've been working a few jobs for a while.

Most nights I go out around 9 p.m. to cover the nightly protests that go on in Portland and the

police brutality that usually accompanies those protests and I get home around

two or three a.m. and then I wake up at noon and then theoretically I would be working on this podcast.

But what I've been doing lately is working on some stuff for public radio

and trying to figure out how to like eat and also trying to process all the

things that I that I see at night and trying to catch up on messages about what

happened the night before and then before you know what it's time to go out again.

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