Hey, wonderfuls. Welcome to episode 585 with my marvelous guest, Dr. John Paul, creator of the podcast, Fat Black Femm. And they're also releasing their first book, which you will hear us talk about, Black Fat Fem, Revealing the power of visibly queer voices in media and learning to love yourself. I had such a great time talking with

them. Listen, I've said this before, but you know, you just have those episodes that roll along on

those fabulous guests where you're like, this is why we do this. This is why I love the JV club.

And so this is definitely one of those episodes. Please enjoy it. Please support them and all they do.

And as we are rolling into the holidays, I'm going to be the one millionth person in the world to say it feels like we just had these holidays. Let me remind you to come visit, see, laugh, enjoy shows at SF Sketchfest. We have sponsor hotels. We have tickets still available for many shows.

A lot of them are selling out.

So check out sf sketchfest.com for all of that and more.

And I hope to see you in person.

In the meantime, please enjoy this conversation with Dr. John Paul. You said it had been a long week. I'm not going to pry. I try not to pry into people's present day lives.

But I hope it's only Wednesday is what I'm going to say to you.

So I hope that it gets smoother sailing and a lighter lift for the rest of the day.

Yeah.

You know, I think for me it's just I had made a joke online.

I said I can't wait to power down like an old

gateway computer for the holidays. And I just, you know, I really want to just, you know, you remember

when you like, would go in the setting, you know, you would go in and then you'd hit the shutdown.

And would all these windows pop up for you to be, like, like that's literally I feel like I'm running a million

different windows and so I just can't wait to be able to say you know after December 20th because I've

officially I've officially told my boss like look good December 23rd through January 2nd I ain't doing shit

good for you don't even ask me yes I'm telling December 23rd through January 2nd, I ain't doing shit.

Good for you. Don't even ask me.

Yes.

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