Hi, Joseph Fink here, and I am so excited and proud to bring you the newest podcast from Nightfail presents.

It's called Conversations with People Who Hate Me, and it is hosted by Dylan Marin, who you might know from his fantastic video work,

or you might know as the perfect voice of perfect Carlos the Scientist.

If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts,

and now I give you Dylan Marin.

Hi, I'm Dylan Marin, and welcome to Conversations with People Who Hate Me, a podcast where I have extended conversations offline with some of the people who have sent me the most negative or hateful messages online.

Now, before we begin, I should let you know. This podcast is not a debate, nor is it an attempt to epically shut down the people who have agreed to speak with me.

This podcast is also not a search for common ground.

On the contrary, some of my guests and I have no common ground other than the fact that work humans who have agreed to talk to each other.

Conversations with People Who Hate Me is an experiment to see what happens when two people with very different views of the world listen to each other.

Now, the final piece of business before we begin is, who is the me in the title? Well, hey, it's me.

I'm Dylan Marin, and I'm a writer, performer, and video maker, and almost all of my work exists online.

My videos focus on social justice issues and have gained a lot of support, but also have attracted a good amount of hate.

In 2015, I created a series called Every Single Word, where I edited down popular movies to only the word spoken by people of color.

The series was picked up by media around the world and shared widely.

In May of 2016, just as the trans bathroom bills were picking up steam, I created and hosted an interview series called Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, where just as the title suggests, I interviewed trans folks in the very spot where they were being legislated against.

The thing that really started happening was I would be in the women's room and get these double takes, and I would see women scared of my presence in there.

I do not look intimidating in any of my eyes. I know. I know. I see you, and I, right when you walked in, we all gasped.

I also make satirical videos. Like this one that celebrates the fictional holiday, Header of Sexual Pride Day, after a very vocal group of straight folks started asking why they didn't have a Pride Day for themselves.

Today's Friday, or Saturday, or Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or it's Thursday, which means it is Header of Sexual Pride Day.

Now, probably my most controversial series is Unboxing. You know the real Unboxing videos where YouTubers open up the latest electronic gadgets?

Well, I satirized them by making a series that unboxes intangible ideologies like Islamophobia, rape culture, and police brutality.

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