Ep. 261: Gendering with John Ross Bowie
Jordan, Jesse, GO!
Jesse Thorn
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2013
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | give a little time for the child within you don't be afraid to be young and |
| 0:05.2 | free onto the locks and throw away the keys and take coffee shoes and sex and |
| 0:09.8 | run you it's Jordan Jesse go I'm Jesse Thornton America's radio sweetheart |
| 0:14.1 | Jordan Morris boy detective you know what you know how I would describe the |
| 0:17.8 | weather today um overcast temperate okay it's surprisingly temperate my my |
| 0:23.8 | description was more clinical old old Jesse Thornton is purple prose yeah mine |
| 0:29.2 | was poetic I like to think of it as poetic okay I'm a Wendy Carlos Williams for |
| 0:34.4 | my time wait Wendy Carl William Carlos Williams I've I've conflated that the |
| 0:42.0 | famous poem the famous poet and the person the transgendered person who did |
| 0:48.7 | switched on Bach oh terrific mom the electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos I |
| 0:53.9 | don't know about that Wendy Carlos was transgendered John Ross Bowie we have |
| 0:58.8 | not introduced you yet oh my gosh I just introduced John or Ross Bowie how are |
| 1:03.1 | you sir I'm well thank you can baffled in my mind is |
| 1:05.6 | yes Wendy Carlos was one of the first famous transgendered people in the |
| 1:10.4 | United States really Walter Carlos I want to say was her original name really yeah |
| 1:15.3 | I got to go back and listen to that weird switched on Bach except that my |
| 1:18.3 | stepmom gave me to Curry favor in the early 80s with a whole new |
| 1:23.0 | perspective your stepmom had a really bad plan going into that she really |
| 1:27.1 | gave her a career bless her heart she really kind of whiffed that one yeah there's |
| 1:30.8 | some like there's some like classic getting to know the stepkids gifts |
| 1:34.9 | baseball mitts to Wheeler to her credit I guess what she was thinking is I mean |
| 1:39.6 | again recognize what time of the 20th century this was this was the early 80s |
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