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Gender Reveal

Bonus: Sunny Zimmerman

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tuck chats with comedian Sunny Zimmerman (they/them) about LBJ: the Play, LBJ-inspired gender, moral ambiguity in politics, and the value of slapping around yr Conventionally Hot Cis Guy Friend onstage :) 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Oh, Mary!, Ronan Farrow’s pop single, The Power Broker, the Ship of Theseus, and a certain president’s huge hog :) :) 

Find Sunny at sunnyzimmerman.com and at @zimmer_down_ on Instagram and TikTok.

Come see us on tour in Washington DC, San Francisco, Portland(!!!!!) and Seattle! Tickets on sale now (and some are selling out just a heads up)!

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is.

0:21.5

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock.

0:33.2

Hey, everyone. Hope you're all hanging in there. Just up at the top, I want to say it's currently

0:39.0

feels like 8 degrees in New York, which means my radiator is running. And you will hear a slight

0:45.5

hiss from time to time in the intro and outro. That's just the way it's going to be. I've been

0:49.7

waiting for two days. It's never going to turn off. No worries. Anyway, I am sure that by now you are

0:54.1

aware of our other podcast, Gender Conceal, which we make exclusively for the patrons who for two days. It's never going to turn off. No worries. Anyway, I am sure that by now you are aware

0:54.5

of our other podcast, Gender Conceal, which we make exclusively for the patrons who make our work

0:58.9

possible. Today on the show, I am very excited to share an extended excerpt from last month's

1:03.9

gender conceal episode. But before we do that, let me give you some backstory on how this episode

1:08.2

came to be. So back in November, I went to a show at Littlefield in New York.

1:13.3

It was called L.B.J. The Play. It was created by the L.A. comedian, Sunny Zimmerman. And when I was

1:18.5

going into the show, I just thought this was a fun way to spend a Tuesday night. I didn't think I was at work.

1:23.4

But by the time the show ended, I found myself standing outside Littlefield, furiously typing like eight questions for Sunny into my notes app because I was just so eager to talk about what I had just seen.

1:33.5

Of course, I didn't know Sunny.

1:34.9

So when I got home, I emailed them and they generously agreed to chat with me for the show.

1:39.6

And we recorded what I genuinely feel is like such a fun episode.

1:44.0

I really wish I could share the whole thing with you, but that's just like not how it works.

1:47.9

So in this excerpt today, you will hear Sunny and I talk about the creation of LBJ the Play and how Sunny's gender ended up a little bit like infused with Lyndon B. Johnson's gender accidentally.

2:00.2

We also talk about, like, a big

2:02.6

philosophical question of, like, political morality, and then also, like, the Pod Save America

2:09.0

guys and TikTok pants influencers. So you'll get, like, a nice range of topics in here.

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