Defenestration with Rob Forman

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Writer and Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Writers Committee at the WGA West Rob Forman joins us to talk about the upcoming Pride Picket at the Warner Brothers lot on June 1. (Be there! Bring donuts!) Also: Succession, gay love on Ted Lasso, getting fucked out of a window on The Great, the formative one-two punch of Princess Leia and Buffy Summers, the moment that was the WB, grade-grubbing and its social implications, the spectrum of queer characters on The Magicians, and the importance of a strike boyfriend. For more information on the WGA strike, go to wgastrike.org, and for more info on the Pride Picket, follow Rob on Twitter and IG at @robsforman.

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0:20.7	Subscribe today as streamed on TV. Yeah. Matt, we have to talk. What's going on? Part one of the
0:57.0	Vanderbilt Rules reunion has just aired. I'm of course... I haven. Oh, you haven't seen it yet. Oh God. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm ashamed. Well, I would direct you to peacock because it's not you know bleeped there
1:13.0	But I just peacock because it's not, you know, bleeped there.
1:16.5	But I just, you know, as I attack this show from season 10 and then again from the very beginning,
1:19.7	I just feel like I want, we need to address DJ James Kennedy, what's going on there? Is he, uh, he might be the first AI reality TV participant. He's almost too irritating and evil to be real.
1:37.0	Yeah. He really is. I do feel like we are evolving as a species where like there are people who are born for
1:49.7	they are just are are born to be on reality TV and he's one of them right right you know in a dark way I mean I'm think
1:58.0	Michael's been watching selling sunset and that is just yeah I mean human
2:06.8	Oid creatures that don't look like anything I've ever seen before and I just have a way of looking and speaking and communicating and you know
2:17.0	generating their own storylines that is like that is a gift.
2:20.3	And in a dark way I think he has that gift.
2:25.0	That may be.
2:26.6	In the finale of the season, the way that he said cocky cock really made me doubt my own sexuality.
2:35.8	It's there's just there.
2:36.9	I'm running into troubles here.
2:38.9	I would like to see this through, but I truly don't know if I am going to be able.
2:47.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know it's a difficult times times but yeah do do watch the the reunion
2:55.5	are if you low-key have theories about this whole thing being like halfway ginned up
3:00.9	the behavior of every single person on the reunion will
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