Episode 134: Guy Branum

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and writer Guy Branum (Chelsea Lately; The Mindy Project) grew up in a conservative farm town with a family that liberally used the "F" word (the slur; not the cuss), and came of age in the 1980s during peak AIDS panic. WHAT A START! Guy talks about not looking like "what a gay guy is supposed to look like," and the prison-of-its-own-making aspect of gay male culture. Plus, a surprise cameo from Amy Klobuchar, and the sick Virginia Woolf burn that changed Guy's life!

Twitter and IG: @GuyBranum

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large. And who doesn't like a coming out story?
0:24.1	Yeah.
0:24.7	So for those of you who have been following the podcast for a while, you may recognize that.
0:29.3	That is not, in fact, Nicole's voice.
0:32.2	Nicole very recently produced a human being from her body.
0:37.7	She is at home now recovering from that.
0:40.9	She is on podcast maternity leave.
0:43.1	And so we didn't want to take off a bunch of time with the podcast.
0:46.8	So what we decided we do is that I would keep it going.
0:49.4	And I am going to have a variety of co-hosts, a revolving door, if you will, of past guests. So the voice,
0:57.2	the deep baritone, would you say your baritone? Yeah, yeah. I sound like a tenor because I'm so
1:03.5	gay, but it actually is a baritone, yeah. I gave you baritone. I gave you a bet for the dad. Yeah,
1:08.4	the baritone voice you just heard is none other than episode 41 guest, J.D. Barton, or as he is now known, Dr. J.D. Barton.
1:17.0	Yes.
1:18.2	That is true.
1:19.1	He officially, at the time you're on the podcast, you were a mere PhD student.
1:25.5	Amir Mr. He is now officially a doctor. He also recently won a quarter of a million student. I'm your mister. He's now officially a doctor. Yeah. He also recently won a quarter of a million dollars on who wants to be a millionaire. So he's at a very productive pandemic. That's true. Yeah. And that actually I got the email that I was going to be on who wants to be a millionaire the day after I defended my dissertation, and I was like, what a time to be
1:44.2	alive. Oh, JD. It's a big week. Yeah. And so, so now you're probably saying, why did Lauren
1:55.3	select J.D. Barton, aside from the fact that he is a delightful human being. Well, J.D. also
2:02.2	knows our guest today. We are here with comedian and writer Guy Branum.
2:09.3	Hello. Good to be here. Thank you. That was so professional. Guy is an author. He is the host and creator of Talk Show, the Game Show,
2:20.4	which you can now see on HBO Max, which recently dropped.
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