Episode 247: Nicole's Dad!

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

If you're a longtime listener of the pod, then you probably remember alllllll the way back in Episode 17 when Nicole's mom joined us to tell Nicole's coming out story from her own point of view as a parent. Well, it took us four-and-a-half years and 230 more episodes, but we've finally got a matching set of Pacents: today's guest is none other than Nicole's DAD! Paul Pacent discusses his Italian-American Catholic(ish) upbringing on Long Island, and how having (closeted) gay friends in the '60s helped normalize queerness for him. He speaks honestly about his family's less-than-stellar reaction when his younger sister (Nicole's Aunt Nina) came out, and how in many ways that prepared him for his experience with Nicole two decades later. Plus, we tackle the age-old question that spans all generations: what do you do when people are being ignorant asshats in the group chat??

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0:00.0	Oh, hey y'all.
0:08.2	Hi there.
0:10.1	Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:12.2	We are a weekly podcast where we have mostly queer folks on from all walks of life.
0:17.7	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:21.0	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:24.9	Today, we do not have a queer person on.
0:29.4	But we have a, an almost lifelong...
0:34.6	Queer adjacent.
0:35.8	A queer adjacent and queer ally, I may I may even say a a P-flag adjacent
0:44.4	parent my father the one and only all patient, God. This is so exciting.
0:54.9	This is so exciting.
0:55.7	If people are newer listeners, they might not know that way long ago.
1:01.6	Like, I don't remember the episode number, but very early on, we had on Nicole's mom.
1:07.1	And so this is like completing the set, basically.
1:10.6	It took us four and a half years, but we've got the other half.
1:16.0	Well, it's kind of like the biblical story about the marriage feast of Cana, saving the best wine for last.
1:23.4	I was just thinking that.
1:25.2	That was exactly where my mother went to.
1:26.8	Absolutely. We all agree. Your mother would exactly where my mother went to. Absolutely.
1:27.9	We all agree.
1:29.2	Your mother would not, but we all agree.
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